WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON!!!!

I always thought there was something a bit shifty about those eyes. And she badmouthed V van Gogh, nah deffo fake!

This is a better story.

And it’s hilarious that, making up a story about meeting van gogh, she decided the thing to do would be to trash him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xh0KqhgNvw

the only good record

(also if you google her, the first option that isn't just her is "jeanne calment diet" -- which was chocolate, olive oil, cigarettes and cheap red wine. so it's important that this story not be false at all)

I think she just meant a wee noggin of red wine as opposed to finishing off the bottle and then some, but I want to believe as well.

one bottle of red for every bottle of olive oil, works for me

this was actually always my favourite part of the story:

In 1965, at age 90 and with no heirs, Calment signed a contract to sell her apartment to lawyer André-François Raffray, retaining a life estate.[13] Raffray, then aged 47 years, agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs (€381.12) until she died. Raffray ended up paying Calment the equivalent of more than €140,000, more than double the apartment's value. After Raffray's death from cancer at the age of 77, in 1995, his family continued the payments until Calment's death.[13] Calment's comment on this situation was reported to be, "In life, one sometimes makes bad deals."[6]

i know a lot abt her bcz i'm a music journalist

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Geert_Adriaans_Boomgaard_op_100-jarige_leeftijd_-_J.G._Kramer_%281888%29.jpg/320px-Geert_Adriaans_Boomgaard_op_100-jarige_leeftijd_-_J.G._Kramer_%281888%29.jpg

Geert Adriaans Boomgaard at the age of 100, in 1888, convincing few, i feel

Living from 1875 to 1997 seems ridiculous.

I could imagine some ill-fed gang of cheeky little gap toothed scamps hooking that syrup off his head with a fishing rod, and then holding it hostage.

until they died, while he watched on and laughed

another supercentenarian story i like wz abt a woman who'd been put in an asylum by her asshole husband in her 30s, and then outlived him by like 50 years. asked late on how she felt abt it all she said, "it's been nice here, it's peaceful and i've done a lot of knitting"

^ people who seem to have figured out how to live

"According to the July 20, 1876 edition of The New York Times, a man arrested in Newark, NJ named Colestein Veglin claimed to be 615 years old and to have 6 wives, all living."

quick thinking there

another supercentenarian story i like wz abt a woman who'd been put in an asylum by her asshole husband in her 30s, and then outlived him by like 50 years. asked late on how she felt abt it all she said, "it's been nice here, it's peaceful and i've done a lot of knitting"

― mark s, Wednesday, January 2, 2019 5:47 AM (eighteen minutes ago)

you're probably thinking of Carrie White, whose title was revoked after it came to light that she was only 102 when she died (though she really did spend 75 years in an asylum):

https://en.everybodywiki.com/Carrie_C._White
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1990-11-18-9002260315-story.html

In 1909, her husband, a blacksmith, took her to Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee, a mental facility, complaining that the 35-year-old woman was showing her arms inappropriately and saying that somebody was out to harm their twins. The couple apparently had no children. She also threatened to do harm to herself.

That was the last time anyone at the hospital, including Carrie, saw or heard from the husband.

For the next 75 years, the pretty, brown-haired piano teacher would be locked away in an institution that eventually would be investigated by the state for brutal and inhumane patient abuses.

ok that version of the story is less pleasing possibly

Maybe she was talking about her arms?

per the guinness book of records (break-out 1970 edition) the world's oldest ever no-longer-living person when i was a kid was a french-canadian tailor who had lived to the age of 113

on the internet today i can find no record of his even having existed (it wd probably help to remember his name but i don't)

Li Ching-Yuen or Li Ching-Yun (simplified Chinese: 李清云; traditional Chinese: 李清雲; pinyin: Lǐ Qīngyún) (died 6 May 1933) was a Chinese herbalist, martial artist and tactical advisor, known for his supposed extreme longevity.[4][5] He claimed to have been born in 1736, while disputed records suggest 1677, implying an age at death of 197 and 256 years, respectively. Both far exceed the highest verified ages on record.

His true date of birth was never determined, and his claims have been dismissed by gerontologists as a myth.[6] While his claims have never been verified, they have been widely circulated as an Internet hoax.[7]

this guy was also 7 feet tall, reportedly

chinese have smaller feet tho

He claimed to have been born in 1736, while disputed records suggest 1677

"i'm 197!"
"lol don't be ridiculous, i think you'll find yr 256" *flourishes records*
"i dispute those!" *dies*

in 1928 the new york times went there and talked to old men who claimed they knew him as a child, and he was an old man back then

per the guinness book of records (break-out 1970 edition) the world's oldest ever no-longer-living person when i was a kid was a french-canadian tailor who had lived to the age of 113

on the internet today i can find no record of his even having existed (it wd probably help to remember his name but i don't)

― mark s, Wednesday, January 2, 2019 11:18 AM (forty-six minutes ago)

ha, this is another debunked case. a 19th century researcher conflated French-Canadian bookmaker Pierre Joubert (1701-1766) with his son Pierre Joubert Jr. (1732-1814), resulting in a "113-year-old man" who only existed on paper. Guinness stood by the finding until the mix-up was discovered in the 1990s.

https://www.demogr.mpg.de/books/odense/6/04.htm

a "113-year-old man" who only existed on paper.

strong mood

i think some of these people who get mixed up with their parents are just confused

https://lifeandbuilding.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/methuselah.jpg?w=700

xp v def a strong mood

"old parr's head" still a name you see for pubs:
https://strangeremains.com/2018/01/02/dissecting-the-true-age-of-old-tom-parr

strong horny mood:
"When he was 105 years old, he was forced to do penance for adultery in a “sheet of bastardy” at his parish church"

Goodness knows those two had to be the only Pierre Jouberts in Quebec.

exhaustingly deep dive on this very topic aka "validation of extreme longevity cases in the past: the french-canadian experience":
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/books/odense/6/04.htm

Li Ching-Yun's advice for a long life was “keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon and sleep like a dog”

good news: the first person that will live to be 1,000 years-old has already been born
bad news: it's lord custos

thinking that me ilx deadpool could just be this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_living_people

then realised it might be interesting to see how it changes in, say, a year.

1  Kane Tanaka                   116 years,   5 days 	Japan
2  Maria Giuseppa Robucci        115 years, 293 days 	Italy
3  Shimoe Akiyama                115 years, 233 days 	Japan
4  Lucile Randon                 114 years, 330 days 	France
5  Shin Matsushita               114 years, 283 days 	Japan
6  Maria Vikentyevna Kononovich  114 years, 225 days 	Belarus
7  Lessie Brown                  114 years, 107 days 	United States
8  Maggie Kidd                   114 years,  30 days 	United States
9  Jeanne Bot                    113 years, 358 days 	France
10 Shigeyo Nakachi               113 years, 340 days 	Japan 

(5 of the top 100 oldest ever people died in 2018)

I think you'd actually owe points at the end of the year though.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/01/12/how-madame-calment-worlds-oldest-person-became-fuel-russian-conspiracy-theory/

Russia!

I believe the report anyway. Living to 122 is absurd, she is like four years older than the next in line.

It's a solid theory on the face of it but it requires the complicity of an entire village.

The thing that made it plausible was the disruption in the town during world war 2

checking my list above ( WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON!!!! )

Lessie Brown has died

World's oldest living man, Masazo Nonaka, dies at age 113 years and 179 days.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/20/worlds-oldest-man-masazo-nonaka-dies-in-japan-at-113

they could have found a more flattering picture ffs

He looks like he was pretty happy enjoying his birthday cake.

that mouth would definitely terrify children and possibly dentists and anyone with an aversion to staring into oblivion.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/133-year-old-man-buried-in-scotland-could-be-oldest-ever-1-533494