That is a very positive way to say "the oldest person in the world died"
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Oldest man. IIRC the oldest woman is a few years older.
Just looking at Wikipedia the top 50 people are all women and it doesn't have anyone beyond that on the list.
That is very interesting. Never really thought about that.
Oh I see, you are right, thanks.
Another one bites the dust!
I was just watching this show on Netflix Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones where they visit villages where there are many so called Centenarians and they look at the different studies which try to figure out why so many people in those areas live that long. It's quite interesting. But you can see that very fiew of them are men, it's mostly women who they can interview.
I think about this tweet a lot. Pretty sure If I am fortunate enough to live to 100, I'm gonna try it.
Why, yes, I would eat a pinecone on even days and a small thumbtack on odd days, but only during years ending in 1, 3, 7 or 9. The remaining years it would be reversed, except for sundays in which I'd eat two big acorns.
“You either live long or you live short, and you can’t do much about it,”
Smart man
The idea of being alive at that age is mad. He'll have likely retired at 60-65, and has been retired for as long as he's been working. He's also likely been thinking for the last 40 years that he's in his twilight years.
good point, but don't you worry, they'll keep raising the retirement age to stop lazy moochers like this from just sitting around when they could be generating revenue!
He killed off all the others?
/s
There can be only one!
There can be only one!
I think there is a Monk episode on this
Jeez....
Who died and gave him that title?
Seems like that award is cursed
👏 I hope more people appreciate your joke. It reminds me of Norm!
He doesn't look a day over 110.
He doesn’t look over 85 honestly
He doesn't look a day over old as fuck
He looks pretty good for being the world’s oldest man
He doesn't know half of us, half as well as he would like - and he likes half of us, half as well as we deserve.
Omg yes Good association
That's nothing my grandma was born the same year. But she already died. That must be some feeling to know that every human bourn that same year you were bourn is now gone.
For all those people who don't want to have to open the article to find out, he was born on August 26, 1912.
Hey hey spoilers, damn
He said “If you drink too much or you eat too much or you walk too much; if you do too much of anything, you’re going to suffer eventually.”
Sounds like a boring 111 years
Sounds like a smart way to live, instead of being high as a kite and completely missing on what makes life special.
You can have fun doing all sorts of things without doing them in excess. If you're preoccupied with doing something in excess while missing other opportunities, that is truly boring...
Luckily there are so many things to do that you can always switch it up.
If he was American we'd have to elect him to be President or at least to the Senate.
He put the work in, and after a lot of persistence and effort he claimed the title. Asked if he'd be back to defend his title, he announced he would be retiring, saying "it's a young man's game"
His heart will go on.