He looks like he was pretty happy enjoying his birthday cake.
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 20 January 2019 11:28 (five years ago) link
that mouth would definitely terrify children and possibly dentists and anyone with an aversion to staring into oblivion.
― calzino, Sunday, 20 January 2019 11:52 (five years ago) link
https://www.scotsman.com/news/133-year-old-man-buried-in-scotland-could-be-oldest-ever-1-533494
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 February 2019 08:54 (five years ago) link
Aye, right.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 22 February 2019 12:05 (five years ago) link
i feel ppl aren't not working the "typo on the gravestone" angle hard enough
"yes i know it says he died aged 76 -- the stonemasons made a mistake, he was actually 876"
― mark s, Friday, 22 February 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
i found out about that guy watching an episode of weir's way - my gf got me the complete boxset on dvd for xmas.
episode focused on leadhills, lanarkshire. surprisingly, as part of the lowlands, the second highest village in scotland (neighboring wanlockhead the highest). also the birthplace of William Symington, who built the the Charlotte Dundas, which was the basis of later steam powered boats.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 February 2019 18:36 (five years ago) link
No change, but Kane Tanaka officially recognised as oldest living person by Guinness World Records.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/09/japanese-woman-116-named-worlds-oldest-living-person
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 9 March 2019 11:17 (five years ago) link
Keeping an eye on koogs's list of the top ten oldest living people at the start of 2019, Shimoe Akiyama also died at the end of January at age 115 years, 255 days, making two of that ten now gone.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 9 March 2019 12:59 (five years ago) link
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-47744752
Mr Weighton said the most common question he was asked was about the secret of his longevity.But his only advice on the matter was "to avoid dying", he said.
But his only advice on the matter was "to avoid dying", he said.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 March 2019 23:02 (five years ago) link
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/456ae75d-c218-4721-9847-0c25bf260e9b
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 30 March 2019 10:01 (five years ago) link
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
The observation of individuals attaining remarkable ages, and their concentration into geographic sub-regions or ‘blue zones’, has generated considerable scientific interest. Proposed drivers of remarkable longevity include high vegetable intake, strong social connections, and genetic markers. Here, we reveal new predictors of remarkable longevity and ‘supercentenarian’ status. In the United States, supercentenarian status is predicted by the absence of vital registration. The state-specific introduction of birth certificates is associated with a 69-82% fall in the number of supercentenarian records. In Italy, which has more uniform vital registration, remarkable longevity is instead predicted by low per capita incomes and a short life expectancy. Finally, the designated ‘blue zones’ of Sardinia, Okinawa, and Ikaria corresponded to regions with low incomes, low literacy, high crime rate and short life expectancy relative to their national average. As such, relative poverty and short lifespan constitute unexpected predictors of centenarian and supercentenarian status, and support a primary role of fraud and error in generating remarkable human age records.
Kane Tanaka turned 119 on Sunday. Not that long now for her to pass Sarah Knauss's 119 years 97 days, but it still feels such a massive stretch to match Jeanne Calment.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/03/worlds-oldest-person-celebrates-119th-birthday-in-japan-nursing-home
― brain (krakow), Monday, 3 January 2022 11:49 (two years ago) link
^ RIP
― StanM, Monday, 25 April 2022 11:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/kane-tanaka-oldest-person-death-age-b2064718.html
― StanM, Monday, 25 April 2022 11:42 (one year ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucile_Randon : 118
― StanM, Monday, 25 April 2022 11:44 (one year ago) link
2019
1 Kane Tanaka 116 years, 5 days Japan2 Maria Giuseppa Robucci 115 years, 293 days Italy3 Shimoe Akiyama 115 years, 233 days Japan4 Lucile Randon 114 years, 330 days France5 Shin Matsushita 114 years, 283 days Japan6 Maria Vikentyevna Kononovich 114 years, 225 days Belarus7 Lessie Brown 114 years, 107 days United States8 Maggie Kidd 114 years, 30 days United States9 Jeanne Bot 113 years, 358 days France10 Shigeyo Nakachi 113 years, 340 days Japan
today
1 Lucile Randon 118 years, 73 days France2 Tekla Juniewicz 115 years, 319 days Poland3 María Brañas Morera 115 years, 52 days Spain4 Casilda Ramona Benegas de Gallego 115 years, 17 days Argentina5 Fusa Tatsumi 115 years, 0 days Japan6 Anonymous of Hyōgo 114 years, 361 days Japan7 Sofia Rojas 114 years, 255 days Colombia8 Bessie Hendricks 114 years, 169 days United States9 Mila Mangold 114 years, 162 days United States10 Irene Dunham 114 years, 130 days United States
she's the only one from 2019 top 10 who is still alive. also, happy birthday Fusa!
― koogs, Monday, 25 April 2022 11:54 (one year ago) link
On 16 January 2021, Randon tested positive for COVID-19 in an outbreak at her retirement home in Toulon that saw 81 out of the 88 residents there infected with the disease. Randon did not have any symptoms and on 8 February, just days before her 117th birthday, it was reported that she had recovered, making her the oldest confirmed person to have both been infected with, and survived, the virus.
― StanM, Monday, 25 April 2022 12:16 (one year ago) link
Aw, sad about Kane Tanaka, she seemed cool.
She did just surpass Sarah Knauss in the end, so was the second oldest person ever to have lived.
― brain (krakow), Monday, 25 April 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
Not good enough.
― pplains, Monday, 25 April 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
where is jeff i need his scorn
― mark s, Monday, 25 April 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
I think I've softened in my old age.
However when I myself become the world's oldest person, I'm going to come to this thread and scorn myself.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
i'm satisfied enough with having been the world's youngest person
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
nun had a good runhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/centenarian-nun-thought-worlds-oldest-person-dies-118-rcna66227
― StanM, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 06:36 (one year ago) link
I appreciate ciderpress’ perspective on this
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 06:39 (one year ago) link
Lucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre when she joined a Catholic charitable order in 1944...
...when she was FORTY.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 14:48 (one year ago) link
living really long doesn't seem quite as impressive a trick since the last ones born in the 19th century died off.
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link
Being the world's oldest person almost seems like a bit of a poison chalice at this point
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
The Curse of Being the World's Oldest Person - how many of them are still alive, eh?
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
Ashwatthama, the superhero of the Mahabharatha, is said to be over 6,000 years old and still alive.[citation needed]
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link
Myrtle Dorsey, born in 1885, was the oldest person on Jan. 1, 2000.
Sarah Knauss, born in 1880, was the oldest person before Dorsey, but died on Dec. 30, 1999!
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
Either way, I'm never going to see any tri-century folk again.
Anna Eliza Williams was born in 1873, 100 years before me, and died in 1987.
2087 is a very tall order on my end.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
Hey, let's not be negative here, 2087 here you come!
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
I'd have to get through 2077 first with all of its glitches.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
Old poepl!
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
it always blows my mind that in one's lifetime you could go from not having penicillin to being able to order it from a tiny electronic device and have someone else drive it to your house.
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
my great grandmother lived to be 100 - she was just always old the whole time I knew her (about 20 years) and pictures of her from the 70's were old too - it's like after 68 you are just OLD and if you keep living you are just PERMA_OLD
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
sounds bad
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
i'm cool w/ getting to 55
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
i can't drive etc
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
pictures of her from the 70's were old
Well hell, pictures of me from the 70s are now old too!
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
my grandma looks old in pictures from the 70s, even though she was only in her 50s. it's the wrinkles and the perm, nobody born after 1930 ever had a perm like that.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
my great-grandmother was born in 1889 and died in the early 90s.. but she was still writing me mostly legible letters right to the end
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
Oh and in third grade, my afterschool babysitter's husband was a WWI vet - the only one I've ever met (that I know of)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
I'll check the obituaries sometimes and see some suave tan mfer wearing a polo shirt and pastel jacket from 1984. I'll think, how can this guy have been 85 years old? Picture should be in black-and-white with him wearing a straw hat or something?
Then I'll realize that he was in his mid-40s 40 years ago, and think, damn, I remember when old people were much older.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:20 (one year ago) link
I remember when people my age looked like Wilford Brimley and wore tweed hats
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
Lol
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:37 (one year ago) link
Now those assholes are in their mid-30s, drinking IPAs at the boutique bowling alley.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
"shoes? we aren't actually HERE to bowl. it's about the ambience, the rich history of bowling."
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link