WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON!!!!

I've never smoked at all, and had to light a prop cigarette in a play I was in, and I tried to light it in my hand rather than in my mouth.

Wasn’t the French lady who claimed to have met Van Gogh a fraud though?

there was a campaign to debunk her yes -- only 99 when she died, added her mum's life-span onto hers and co-opted mum's stories -- but it has not been decisive and the record still officially holds afaik

the debunker made the mistake of being a bit of a dick

weirdly just read about her a day ago. yeah, it was 'suspected' but never explicitly proven.

hard to prove with people born in 19th century for a variety of reasons. hell, my great grandfather born in 1898 (died in 1992) and my parents argued over what her actual birthdate was as she had no birth certificate.

*grandMOTHER

All she had to say about Van Gogh was something really shrill and judgemental like he stank of booze and he looked like his brain was gone. I thought at the time she was lacking a bit of centenarian gravitas and wisdom for saying some shit like that!

Just the opinion of a judgemental teen!

van gogh cancelled, followed immediately by jeanne calment

perhaps by the time you are 110 (or even faking it) you give up with elucidations like: well I was young and quite a little shit at the time!

technically the atoms that make up our body are probably much older than our physical age so we are even older.

68 is the new 62

i found an article where her unkind comments on vvg are quoted ("he was ugly") and this is the headline they went with: jeanne calment: the supercentenarian who met van gogh and lived to see tony blair elected PM

All she had to say about Van Gogh was something really shrill and judgemental like he stank of booze and he looked like his brain was gone. I thought at the time she was lacking a bit of centenarian gravitas and wisdom for saying some shit like that!

Maybe he did stink of booze and look like his brain was gone though? As well as being ugly.

old is just older than me

when you are old and have interesting old memories that have been stewing in your brain for a century, at least try and be a bit less facile and more broadly descriptive when chatting shit about them to national newspapers. That seems a reasonable enough request, says I - who'd probably say something just as shit if I lived that long, lol.

idk i bet what keeps these people alive so long is minimal reflective engagement, as it is a well known fact that too much brain energy is bad for longevity

well Van Gogh certianly stinks now

in van gogh's era the most popular drink among artists was absinthe which can definitely rot your brain

Just think in 100 years some centarian will say "I was alive to meet (fill in some astounding personality) "

But who? WHO!?

WHo indeed

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

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I love how scammy this thread title looks

the most popular drink among artists was absinthe

I'm glad it's now legal in the U.S., so everyone can see what a mediocre beverage it really is

thread title should probably read LIVING oldest person -= I don't know who the oldest dead person is

most drinking Americans don't care about how 'good' a drink is, quality wise

you could piss in a cup and mix it with coke and tell people it's Jack and diet and they'll just shrug and say "seems legit" and chug it

in van gogh's era the most popular drink among artists was absinthe which can definitely rot your brain

Strindberg's "Inferno" suggests as much.

shocked to discover that some late 19th century painters were frequently getting pissed on absinthe in Parisienne cafes.

Relevant to our interests here. The tips for a good life idea is obviously a well-worn cliche, but it's interesting to hear from and see such a broad range of possible future contenders for WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON!!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/18/100-centenarians-100-tips-for-a-life-well-lived

reading the entries of the folks who died between interview and publication and sadly moving their suggestions from the good column to the bad

I noticed some gray hairs this morning. Pretty soon I’ll be posted about here I guess.

Who is the oldest person on ilx

robert christgau

Dick Van Dyke, but he posts under a display name you wouldn't expect

CerebalCaustic?

no that's Jordan Peterson

Who is the oldest person regularly posting on ILX?

The world's oldest living man is now a britisher. It's the fish & chips that do it.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/05/briton-says-becoming-worlds-oldest-man-at-111-is-pure-luck

That’s a good old person!

John Alfred Tinniswood, who was born in 1912 – the same year the Titanic sank – insist the secret to his long life is “pure luck”. He obtained the title of world’s oldest man after 112-year-old Gisaburo Sonobe, from Japan, was confirmed to have died on 31 March.

actually, Grauniad, the chronology was more like

-March 31: the world's second oldest living man, Gisaburo Sonabe (112, Japan), dies, never having made it to the #1 spot (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Lucky_(Daft_Punk_song)#Commercial_performance)

-April 2: the world's oldest living man and fourth oldest man ever, Juan Vicente Pérez Mora (114, Venezuela), dies. his death is announced later that same day

-April 4: Sonobe's death is announced. later that same day, Guinness rushes to John Tinniswood's nursing home to award him the title of world's oldest living man

retired British-Indian marathon runner Fauja Singh, whose claimed 1911-04-01 birthdate would make him more than a year older than Tinniswood, sighs and jogs another lap around his couch

Let's organise a fight to the death between these two to settle the issue. On December 31, 2026.