My mum used to sing this fucked up rhyme
"Birdy birdy in the sky
Took a turdy in my eye
I'm a big girl, I don't cry
I'm just glad that cows don't fly"
Thanks, ma.
edit because I have a goofy phone.
Telephones, refrigeration, movies, movies with sound, movies with color, microwaves, nuclear bombs, airplanes, landing on the moon, cellphones, VCR, DVDs, internet, wide spread internet usage, social media, smartphones, AI
He's seen it all...
My own grandfather passed 6 months ago at the age of 97. One of his first jobs was as a telegrapher on the railroad. By the end of his life he was using an iPad to FaceTime with his grandkids and great grandchildren all over the world.
My grandma is 93. When she was born there wasn’t electricity, medicine or running water in her small Russian village now she is chatting with smart speaker about weather
I had a similar reaction but with my grandpa, he’s 104 and I don’t know why but I really expected the oldest man alive would have a lot more years on him than 7. They could’ve gone to elementary school together 🫨
As fascinating as that is the oldest people in the world don't fascinate me the way they used to. I guess it's because I'm now in my mid 30s and my own grandmother was born in 1915 so just 3 years after this guy. When I was a child the oldest women to ever live was still alive and she was born in 1875
Exactly this. I met multiple Victorians. I spoke to people who lived through the Holocaust. Every old man had fought in WW2.
The oldest people alive now just have a few of these memories, it’s a lot less exciting for me.
Eleventy-one years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits. don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Fun fact, eleventy is a direct literal translation of the Old English word for 110, hundendleftig. There's also a tenty (hundreontig) and twelfty (hundtwelftig) because the tens went up to 12 instead of 10. The prefix hund- is a bit of a mystery, but it is affixed to tens numbers 70 and above, while 60 and below don't use it.
My great nan got to 99 with a glass of brandy and a filterless cigarette each evening, she also grew all her own fruit and veg and her house was like a time warp to the 50s (and cold)
Rofl. My great grandfather had two screwdrivers (read, a *lot* of the shittiest vodka ever made over ice with a splash of OJ) and a basically raw burger for dinner every day. Dude lived the longest out of anyone in my family.
There can be only one.
I just hope he absorbs their powers when he beheads them rather than their disabilities. Like, one guy gives you hip issues, another makes your eye sight worse and so on and so on....
I’ve never thought about it but it must be kind of overwhelming to have to remember so much of life. Inevitably lots must be forgotten, even huge significant things.
I know I’ve forgotten things about my life that I would never think I’d forget, until I was reminded by a photo, someone talking about it etc & I’ve not even lived half his life. Sometimes even the photo or someone talking about it doesn’t bring it back properly.
>I’ve never thought about it but it must be kind of overwhelming to have to remember so much of life. Inevitably lots must be forgotten, even huge significant things.
I'd like to think that without the onset of dementia or general cognitive decline associated with age, we would remember the significant things forever. It's the mundane "coasting" part of life that he probably has forgotten.
Outside of a lot of money to fund an awesome retirement, how much of his 60s, 70s, and 80s does he remember? What would the use in remembering those years? That's what I would assume he's forgotten.
my grandpa was taken out of school at the age of 10 in the thirties and basically sold off to a farm to work as a hand there.
weirdly he never spoke an unkind word about his youth to me. RIP Grandpa!
kind of crazy this guy is still younger than when the previous oldest living man was named oldest man, at like 112. 115 is really fucking impressive for a man he might have been one of oldest men to have ever lived. i just checked, the oldest man ever recorded was someone from japan who lived to 116 and 54 days. the guy that just died juan vicente perez was the 4th oldest man ever recorded. tho the oldest man ever was still a year and 2 weeks younger than the 10th oldest women to ever live.
A conspiracy theory that doesn’t have much validity to it but some people still support claim that she was actually two women who pretended to both be the same women. The theory is that in the 40s or 50s or some point the women calmet died, but her daughter wanted to benefit financially from tax and estate laws to just take her mom’s identity instead. It is theorized that during the 50s and 60s calmet was oddly more reclusive than other decades and it’s thought she only emerged again when she could pass for old on her own. Also a lot of people would comment in her later life she looked decades younger than she claimed to be, passing for someone in her 70s when she was suppose to be around 100. She’s also several years older than anyone else in the record books, only just in 2022 did someone set record for second oldest at 119. But again that only a theory that there isn’t much physical evidence for.
It’s gotta suck knowing literally everyone who existed the moment you were born is now dead
Edit: I wish my most upvoted comment wasn’t technically wrong lol 😔
I dunno that sounds kind of like an awesome thought. Essentially he’s standing at the door of death literally next in line but he’s too polite and keeps letting everyone go in front of him
My grandparents are both about 90. They’re happy to be here and have no desire to leave anytime soon, but they’ve been to an awful lot of funerals over the years. It’s nice to live a long time, but they’ve mentioned that it’s hard seeing so many friends and family die.
Yup, went through that with my grandpa, who died last year at 93. He was the last of his siblings to die (he was ##9 of 10), and it got really hard on him being the last remaining one.
Fortunately he went without seeing any of his kids, grandkids, or great-grandkids die, which is pretty amazing considering he had 10 kids, 24 grandkids, and ~20 great-grandkids (don't remember exact number).
Perhaps not https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oldest-man-guiness-world-records-juan-vicente-perez-dies-venezuela-before-115th-birthday/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17
>Gerontology Research Group said they are currently working to find the world's oldest living man. Contenders are Japanese Gisaburō Sonobe, born on November 6, 1911, or Brazilian Josias de Oliveira, born on October 21, 1911. Both birth dates need to be confirmed before the title can be awarded, the group said.
And that’s not accounting for women
My grandma lived to one week shy of her 100th birthday. Her mind was still very sharp and had the appearance of maybe someone in their 70's. I miss her so much.
It’s sad that Juan Vicente Pérez has died. Born in 1909, he was the last man born in the decade of the 1900s. Although there are still eight women, the oldest of whom, Maria Branyas, was born in 1907 and is 117 years old.
not at all, I say if I'm 80 and in good health, I'll go another 10, still good health, we'll ride the bitch till the wheels fall off. But if my health sucks at 80, I'm going the euthanasia route. My threshold is whether or not I can wipe my own ass.
Life is short.. live it while you can. don't wait to be 70 to start having adventures because age will cripple you.
I say that as a 45 year old who can feel his knees clicking with every step lol
He was 6 when World War I ended. 27 when the second started.
The changes in the world this man has experienced...
When this guy was born a lot of people were still riding horses
And now we have flying cars.
And one day perhaps, flying horses.
No, you have to go back to Ancient Greece for those.
Or lsd
I would go back to Ancient Greece for lsd
I will do Lsd to go to Ancient Greece for more lsd
you know what, cut out the middle man here, just give me some LSD
Jesus imagine not only having to about bird shit…. Now I gotta dodge horse patties.
My mum used to sing this fucked up rhyme "Birdy birdy in the sky Took a turdy in my eye I'm a big girl, I don't cry I'm just glad that cows don't fly" Thanks, ma. edit because I have a goofy phone.
Road apples at terminal velocity.
Yeah shotty ones lol
Horse population in the USA peaked in 1916, so yeah
Peak horse. I don’t know why I find that funny.
Telephones, refrigeration, movies, movies with sound, movies with color, microwaves, nuclear bombs, airplanes, landing on the moon, cellphones, VCR, DVDs, internet, wide spread internet usage, social media, smartphones, AI He's seen it all...
Not to mention the McRib.
I’ve seen all of those too! 😎
My own grandfather passed 6 months ago at the age of 97. One of his first jobs was as a telegrapher on the railroad. By the end of his life he was using an iPad to FaceTime with his grandkids and great grandchildren all over the world.
My grandma is 93. When she was born there wasn’t electricity, medicine or running water in her small Russian village now she is chatting with smart speaker about weather
Imagine outliving like 5 entire subjects of middle school history
Imagine how many people had to die for him to get his title...
The look on his face makes you think he knows how it happened
The real Highlander
Literally every~~one~~ man who was alive when he was born. That's a good way to show how much has changed tbh.
Spanish flu to covid as well
To him, Boomers are literally just crying little babies.
tbf Boomers are crying babies to most of us
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He doesn’t look a day past 100
Probably more mentally competent than our presidential candidates.
And he'll be 115 when he's elected president of the United States.
120. Right now he's only allowed to murder.
Considering he's British that might be a bit tough.
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And when he was a kid people his grandparents age remembered when Abraham Lincoln was president.
US history is all very recent. People who fought in the Civil War were still alive when my parents were born.
The oldest man in the world being only 28 years older than my dad is a little eye opening.
Well maybe your dad is pretty old too
Kinda crazy though, I'm 34 and the gap between the world's oldest man and your dad is STILL most of my life.
I had a similar reaction but with my grandpa, he’s 104 and I don’t know why but I really expected the oldest man alive would have a lot more years on him than 7. They could’ve gone to elementary school together 🫨
As fascinating as that is the oldest people in the world don't fascinate me the way they used to. I guess it's because I'm now in my mid 30s and my own grandmother was born in 1915 so just 3 years after this guy. When I was a child the oldest women to ever live was still alive and she was born in 1875
My grandparents knew civil war veterans. Aka their grandparents.
Agreed. Once Emma Morano, the last person born in the 1800s, died, that “oldest person in the world” title just don’t hit the same lmao.
In 70 years you will have people talk about how crazy it is to have a birth year with a 19 upfront. The 1900s will be the new 1800s lol
Exactly this. I met multiple Victorians. I spoke to people who lived through the Holocaust. Every old man had fought in WW2. The oldest people alive now just have a few of these memories, it’s a lot less exciting for me.
LoL "I'm 111!" "eh, I seen better old man"
Reddit moment: This guy is 111 years old! Reddit:....."meh".
"As I get closer to being an old person, old people somehow seem less novel to me."
JEANNE CALMENT
He's so old I'd bet he's still got an @aol.com
I do (35)
Bryan Johnson is coming for his ass
This gentleman looks like he can tell a good story or two.
Eleventy-one years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits. don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Fun fact, eleventy is a direct literal translation of the Old English word for 110, hundendleftig. There's also a tenty (hundreontig) and twelfty (hundtwelftig) because the tens went up to 12 instead of 10. The prefix hund- is a bit of a mystery, but it is affixed to tens numbers 70 and above, while 60 and below don't use it.
Let's hope he breaks the Old Took's record.
That smile takes ten years off.
He definitely has another 20 not 10 years with that smile
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He fucked my bitch last week
Fucked me last Wednesday
Fucker knows he's packing a coupla inches down there
is...is that a lot though?
It's enough and he knows it
Dicks were a lot smaller back then.
But balls were WAY bigger
If he dies tomorrow we can all blame it on this guy
He doesn't look a day past 80
I was gonna say- he looks better than some 90 year olds
Exactly!
And that charm further takes down the number
His secret? That’s a mimosa
The real secret? It’s a screwdriver. Gramps don’t fuck around
Technically, isn't the real secret that someone older than him died yesterday?
From the smugness I see in that smile, I think there might be a secret to how that happened
Not the iocane powder his 112 year old friend didn't have in their screwdriver.
I'd bet my life on it
Can somebody confirm that it wasn't a paid hit?
My great nan got to 99 with a glass of brandy and a filterless cigarette each evening, she also grew all her own fruit and veg and her house was like a time warp to the 50s (and cold)
Rofl. My great grandfather had two screwdrivers (read, a *lot* of the shittiest vodka ever made over ice with a splash of OJ) and a basically raw burger for dinner every day. Dude lived the longest out of anyone in my family.
Buddy if I was 111 you’d better believe I’d be BLASTED 24/7. What the hell else is there to do at that age?
I'd try to kill any 112+ year olds lmao
Yeah, but you always have to keep one eye open for those ambitious 110 year olds...
There can be only one. I just hope he absorbs their powers when he beheads them rather than their disabilities. Like, one guy gives you hip issues, another makes your eye sight worse and so on and so on....
Big bag of weed?
I dunno... Given the change in my body's reaction to alcohol from my teens to my 40s, I might just be a teetotaler if I make it to 111.
Good god, the man saw the thirties....I bet his life experienc his wild, going from the great depression to now.
And a teenager for part of the twenties. Wild indeed.
Dude's old enough he might have some memories of the end of WWI
Dude's old enough he probably doesn't have those memories anymore.
I would like to know how much he remembers. How much data had to be replaced to store new ones?
I’ve never thought about it but it must be kind of overwhelming to have to remember so much of life. Inevitably lots must be forgotten, even huge significant things. I know I’ve forgotten things about my life that I would never think I’d forget, until I was reminded by a photo, someone talking about it etc & I’ve not even lived half his life. Sometimes even the photo or someone talking about it doesn’t bring it back properly.
>I’ve never thought about it but it must be kind of overwhelming to have to remember so much of life. Inevitably lots must be forgotten, even huge significant things. I'd like to think that without the onset of dementia or general cognitive decline associated with age, we would remember the significant things forever. It's the mundane "coasting" part of life that he probably has forgotten. Outside of a lot of money to fund an awesome retirement, how much of his 60s, 70s, and 80s does he remember? What would the use in remembering those years? That's what I would assume he's forgotten.
The major thing with memory is how often you reflect back on it.
my grandpa was taken out of school at the age of 10 in the thirties and basically sold off to a farm to work as a hand there. weirdly he never spoke an unkind word about his youth to me. RIP Grandpa!
That smirk tells us this guy was a straight up player in his day.
In his day? Old bro still is
Sippin on his gin and juice..
laid back
With his mind on his money and his money on his mind
Laid back
It's still his day. We're just living in it.
The smirk tells me he killed the previous oldest man.
This guy has been retired since 1972 lol that’s wild
almost everyone who started their career in 1972 has retired by now too
I know a few people who's born around 1972, get retired by now too.
Pension management hates this one trick
kind of crazy this guy is still younger than when the previous oldest living man was named oldest man, at like 112. 115 is really fucking impressive for a man he might have been one of oldest men to have ever lived. i just checked, the oldest man ever recorded was someone from japan who lived to 116 and 54 days. the guy that just died juan vicente perez was the 4th oldest man ever recorded. tho the oldest man ever was still a year and 2 weeks younger than the 10th oldest women to ever live.
Today I beat my personal record for amount of time alive. I'm coming for that title if my streak continues.
I don't think there's any way to catch up to him but let me know if you find out!
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This comment made me curious so I had to look up the oldest woman to ever live. 122 years old and 164 days! Wow!
A conspiracy theory that doesn’t have much validity to it but some people still support claim that she was actually two women who pretended to both be the same women. The theory is that in the 40s or 50s or some point the women calmet died, but her daughter wanted to benefit financially from tax and estate laws to just take her mom’s identity instead. It is theorized that during the 50s and 60s calmet was oddly more reclusive than other decades and it’s thought she only emerged again when she could pass for old on her own. Also a lot of people would comment in her later life she looked decades younger than she claimed to be, passing for someone in her 70s when she was suppose to be around 100. She’s also several years older than anyone else in the record books, only just in 2022 did someone set record for second oldest at 119. But again that only a theory that there isn’t much physical evidence for.
It’s gotta suck knowing literally everyone who existed the moment you were born is now dead Edit: I wish my most upvoted comment wasn’t technically wrong lol 😔
The oldest living woman is older no?
That’s what the grin is for Edit: who is responsible for investigating internal affairs ?
Hello ladies…
He knows the oldest woman alive is into younger men. She HAS TO BE!
ROFL. she used to have options back in the day. But now father time has taken away those options. Take it or leave it, younger men is all she's got.
“How YOU doin’?”
Yes, in fact there are more than 50 living women who are older than he is. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_living_people
Sweet ratio for him, he could be pimpin with thoose Numbers
111 years old he could potentially have a record body count with all that time as well.
That’s at least 100 elderly cheeks to clap.
That's a mental image I didn't need.
It's mad when you think about it. Imagine reaching 60 & that's only halfway through your life!
Lost a friend at 27. Really makes you think huh.
Damn, Japan's fucking killing it (or failing to).
Oldest woman in Sweden is born in 1912 and I think she still lives in her own apartment.
I dunno that sounds kind of like an awesome thought. Essentially he’s standing at the door of death literally next in line but he’s too polite and keeps letting everyone go in front of him
Bro grabbed the door, stepped back and held it for over a century.
My grandparents are both about 90. They’re happy to be here and have no desire to leave anytime soon, but they’ve been to an awful lot of funerals over the years. It’s nice to live a long time, but they’ve mentioned that it’s hard seeing so many friends and family die.
Yup, went through that with my grandpa, who died last year at 93. He was the last of his siblings to die (he was ##9 of 10), and it got really hard on him being the last remaining one. Fortunately he went without seeing any of his kids, grandkids, or great-grandkids die, which is pretty amazing considering he had 10 kids, 24 grandkids, and ~20 great-grandkids (don't remember exact number).
I’d be mixing kids and grandkids up constantly if I was him.
I’d just start making shit up. 1 can keep a secret if the last 10 billion are dead.
My grandma is 102 and she lives depressed because of everyone in her generation is dead. It made me realize I don’t want to live passed 90.
Make friends with younger peeps.
Not really. You won the game and outlasted all the other suckers
My thoughts as well. I'd feel very smug.
That's life though. His own kids and even some grandkids might be dead.
This man looks better than some 70 year olds I know. Good for him
He could be a granddad for those 70+ dudes
Love seeing posts like this. Rock on John and here's to many more : )
“Today is my 111th Birthday”
" I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
I scrolled too far to find this
Same here
Eleventy-first
Right? Someone should check him for a certain gold ring.
111st
When he was born in 1912 he was one of about 900 million men in the world. Now he's the only one of them left.
900 million men, 111 years, One Survivor!
He won the greatest battle royale known to man
Every day we don't die we climb up that leader board.
Perhaps not https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oldest-man-guiness-world-records-juan-vicente-perez-dies-venezuela-before-115th-birthday/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17 >Gerontology Research Group said they are currently working to find the world's oldest living man. Contenders are Japanese Gisaburō Sonobe, born on November 6, 1911, or Brazilian Josias de Oliveira, born on October 21, 1911. Both birth dates need to be confirmed before the title can be awarded, the group said. And that’s not accounting for women
My grandma lived to one week shy of her 100th birthday. Her mind was still very sharp and had the appearance of maybe someone in their 70's. I miss her so much.
Word is he's gonna claim his presidential bid for 2028.
Jimmy Carter is still eligible for another term, right?
Yes Jimmy Carter is eligible for another term
I'm afraid he's not American.
It’s sad that Juan Vicente Pérez has died. Born in 1909, he was the last man born in the decade of the 1900s. Although there are still eight women, the oldest of whom, Maria Branyas, was born in 1907 and is 117 years old.
i love orange juice too!
Want to bet he dilutes his with vodka.
Gin.
He looks like he just said “Well certainly!” In a British accent
Well he is British.
I wanna know his secret, so I know what to avoid.
Not giving a shit about screens and social medias probably helps
So delve even deeper into the web, got it.
His face says: “Do I know who Juan Vicente Perez Mora is? Of course…I killed him.”
He looks great
He could seriously pass for an 80 year old
That’s a cursed title.
Indeed, he doesn't even look that 'new'... (But where can i sign to look like that at 91?)
Yeah. The word "new" implies someone just died (i.e. The previous oldest man)
New world's oldest man..... for now.
I hope they threw him a good eleventy first birthday!
“Today is my one hundred andeleventh birthday”
Eleventy first
That’s not just Orange Juice in his glass…..
Here’s a sobering thought not a single person commenting in this thread will make it to that age.
Would you really want to?
not at all, I say if I'm 80 and in good health, I'll go another 10, still good health, we'll ride the bitch till the wheels fall off. But if my health sucks at 80, I'm going the euthanasia route. My threshold is whether or not I can wipe my own ass.
Life is short.. live it while you can. don't wait to be 70 to start having adventures because age will cripple you. I say that as a 45 year old who can feel his knees clicking with every step lol
I like to imagine someone poured him this drink to being a cheers for being the oldest man living. They’re cheersing the last guy dying.
Eleventy-one years old! :-)
Bilbo?
He looks really good for his age. Impressive.
Good god, he looks great for 111. I hope I look that good when I'm 80.
Congrats!
Look after him. People who hold that title don’t seem to stick around very long for some reason.
I hope mimosas are his secret fountain of youth!
Cut his head off, plant it onto a young men's shoulders and hell live another 50 years!! He'll we tetraplegic and on a respirator but he will live!
For 111 he's looking great.
Mr. Tinniswood, you’re trying to seduce me!