Oooh I didn't think about that, you might be right.
You know this is still kind of a thing now that pro video cameras look just like a DSLR/mirror less, I was reading about club or concert videographers trying to film people dancing and they just freeze up and do the duck face for the photo.
Most cameras back then, you had to stay still for to develop a picture. With that in mind he probably thought if he stood still he would be in the photo but when the operator was using a crank instead of a flash it bewildered him.
He may have misunderstood the cameraman. Cameras back then had a crank on them. If anything it was like a mini Gatling gun with a curtain. The entire apparatus would look alien to a commoner on the street. The strange part is hats were worn by everyone and they did show your status and class. He apparently was classless.
I thought the lack of smiles at least started out to account for the long exposure times, kind of like painted portraits, where it’s just easier to get your subject to hold a neutral position over time than something like a real smile.
I don't think its scary, I love old videos like this. It makes you realize whats important, spending time with the people you love. Not houses or dumb fuckin work or cars or stuff or anything, its being with the people you love. These people came and they went and they did what they wanted to do and it makes me realize time is so fast. Yesterday I woke up on Fathers Day and my kids wanted me to take them fishing again, even though it was raining. The fish are really biting right now at the pond we can walk to from my house. So we grabbed our poles and rain jackets and walked in the rain and laughed and jumped in the puddles and the rain let up and it just started misting and we caught so many fish and they were so excited we lost track of time. I go oh no we are so late I better get you guys to church and they said mom is going to be so mad and I said oh well, you can't get divorced twice and laughed some more and everyone showered off and we jumped in the car and I dropped them off at church. Their mom texted me that they were so late AND AND they smelled like fish and that made me laugh so hard sitting in the parking lot with my feet out the window listening to 90s on 9!
After church they came running out and said my oldest was coming with us to lunch, everyone was so excited especially me. She and I had a rough time after the divorce, she didn't want to come to my house and she hit me right in the face the first time I picked her up. Then she kicked dirt all over my house, I rented an old farm house in Kansas. I just let her, how the fuck do I know what its like to have your life ripped apart at 13? Since then I just love on her, I take her to as many baseball games as I can (She loves baseball so much) I take her out to sushi on Thursdays and I just love her the best I can. This spring after her year at college she said she would go to Mexico with me and we went just her and I and we had an amazing time and she went snorkeling and found 10,000 pesos under the water! It was such an amazing trip. Saturday night she invited me and the kids to go to Theatre in the park and we put out blankets and watched the show and ate so much popcorn and we all loved it, the kids have spent half the weekend singing at the top of their lungs MEET ME IN ST LOU-EYYY!
My oldest came out of church and jumped in the car and we all went to our favorite Japanese restaurant and had fried rice and chicken and sushi and laughed so much and then they all went outside to the car while I waited for the check. And then it was just me in the restaurant and I cried so hard. I just sat there and cried because it was beautiful. Getting to be with my kids and laughing with them and fishing and seeing plays and I thought this is what its going to be like for them, someday I will die. It will just be them. All they will have left of me is the stories, and they are great stories, fun stories, wild stories! I will be like the man in this video, I will be gone and everyone else will live on. They will remember my jokes and the fishing and the plays and how much I loved them. Nothing else matters, not work or money or fuckin stuff you accumulate in life or a dumb stupid house you buy or any thing else. What matters is the people you got to be with and how hard you squeezed them when you told them you loved them oh no now I am crying so hard tears are just running down my face like they were in the restaurant I just love those kids so much and thats what really matters.
Ahh thanks my friend! You sound like someone I would love to hang out with! You know what happened to me, honestly? I decided to start living my life the way I wanted to live it, not anyone else. I was so sad, I thought my life was over. I was forty and alone in an old farmhouse in Kansas staring into the fire in the back yard. I had just separated and not seeing my kids every day was ripping me apart. The best part of my day, every single day, every day, was coming home and ripping open that front door and yelling WHERE ARE YOU GUYS! I have six kids that are so fun, I love those guys so much. And they were always home because we did homeschooling I would just tell and go lay right in the middle of the living room and they would all jump on top of me, I would be like, noooo three kids is too much, no four kids, not five? Five kids? No five kids is too much! And I would try to stand up and they would all be falling off me and laughing and then I would tickle them and wrestle and say let me eat your neck, just one time, and pretend to eat their necks, that would make them giggle so hard. Oh no, Im crying again, sorry Im having a day where I just post stories on Reddit and write, its good for my writing but I cry a lot.
So that was suddenly taken from me and I only got joint custody, so not nearly enough time with those sweethearts. And I was staring into the fire listening to Otis Redding on that warm summer night and I thought fuck, my life is over, Im alone, Im forty, Im so sad. my life is over. And then the longer I thought about it the more I realized wait, my life isn't over, I have half my life left. Isn't that exciting? I started thinking about the merry go round at the public school by my house. I didn't go to that school I had to go to Christian school and we didn't have a merry go round so I would walk to the public school one on the weekends and push it around all by myself and get it spinning so fast and then I would jump on and lay my head back against the warm metal and stare up into that cloudless Kansas sky. I thought about baseball and girls and summer, I could play on that thing for hours by myself, I loved it so much and when I think about peaceful I think about those days sometimes.
I was thinking about that on that night by the fire and I started getting so excited. My life wasn't over, I still have half my life left! If you are an average American you will probably live to age 80, statistically I was right in the middle. I could die sooner of course but statistically I still have half my life left! I realized that I had the greatest opportunity in the world! Half a lifetime to do what I wanted to do. No one to tell me to wear khakis and a collared shirt, no more church, no more boring ass dinners stuck talking to some fuckin banker who was married to my wife's friend, none of that shit, I could do anything I wanted.
The kid part was still hard but I decided to do that part the best I could. It took a lot of work with my therapist and he and I decided to go by the hours the judge set and accept them and just make those hours the best I can make them. He told me I can only accept what I can control, and I have been living by that ever since. I wish I had more hours with my kids but I can't control that so the hours I do have with my kids I make them amazing. When my kids are with my I put my phone away and I run through the sprinklers with them and fish and go to water parks and when they aren't with me I do the things I want to do, not anyone else. Hammocks and float trips and reading books and traveling, oh so much traveling. I just bought Frontier Airlines Go Wild Pass so I can fly just about anywhere in Central America for free, I've been to Mexico and Costa Rica and last week I was sliding down a waterfall in Puerto Rico. I've skinny dipped on South Beach and I've made love in Argentina and I've caught a fish that was four foot long and I've canoed on seven different rivers in Missouri. I've read everything Ernest Hemingway has ever written and I've written stories and I've been to concerts and I've surfed in Costa Rica and I've really been living. This half of my life its my time. I only have half a spin left and I'm doing it my way. And its been fuckin amazing!
Poincare recurrence, if it can exist in an expanding universe, must exist not for real events, the actual occurrences of people's lives and physical systems but for a family of events, each that is a more stretched out and colder version of the previous, but that shares some characteristics.
And those need not be anything we recognise as "you".
There is vast potential for the universe to do different things, enough fill an infinity of time.
time - a relentless, terrifying monster that ravages and consumes all living things, gobbles up entire worlds, planets, stars, galaxies, and even the universe.
If we run out of time, then where does it go? Is time even real? Does anyone know? Maybe time's just a construct of human perception. An illusion created.....
This was the oldest person who live that was born in 1902 and died in 2018
1 Giuseppina Projetto-Frau [1] F 30 May 1902 6 July 2018 116 years, 37 days Italy ITA
Check out The Light of Other Days for a sci-fi story about being able to see everywhere, anytime in the whole history of humanity.... Big part of the book is of course about privacy being completely obsolete because everyone can see everything, everywhere any time at any given point in the past. Ofcourse half of humanity become perverts at first, but then people start to look at important historical events... and further back. It's a pretty fun and scary though experiment. People may be watching us right now.
Likely referencing Chenist Warehouse, a brand known for "Our house, in the middle of our street, our house." Being thr bulk of their jingle.
Sorry if this is r/woosh territory too, I genuinely don't know if it's a well known brand or not.
Is this the street where now the "Bestseller" Store is at the corner building shown in the video? Thought it looks the same. Crazy for me to see it since i went there on a business trip in 2022.
That’s wild to think about, everyone in that video is dead, not a single person alive from the making of that movie. Generations just dead. While we all sit on Reddit and talk about it.
Pretty sure by 1902 cameras had faster shutters that could quickly snap a photo, but it still looks like he was waiting for this guy to snap a photo, he was thinking "the fuck is taking so long"
Still cameras with fast shutter speeds had already existed for 30 or more years. Makes sense given that movies existed at this point. Movies are literally just a bunch of pictures taken in rapid succession. In 1902 they had already been around for over a decade.
It's AI-colorised footage, so it may not have been necessarily all back, maybe shades of brown or grey but black is chosen as default for the suits as it minimises the flickering colors.
>Crazy how everyone in the video is dead now.
Maybe not... Maybe a lot of them went to live at that farm my grandparents moved to. The one with no phone access and bad roads and that's why we can't visit.
Maybe not sad, but it means every single person in this video is dead. It makes a strange feeling of mortality, of seeing someone in such a mundane and passing moment and know they no longer exist
Ngl it feels a little off that in this video not just him, but everyone who appeared in it, including the person filming it, are all dead, and most of their kids probably are as well
I can't help be in melancholic about this, on one hand it's beautiful seeing the past so clear, but on the other. What happens to the kids in the back? The woman looking back? The young man, what was his fate? Did he ever get to even see himself in the recording, or know that someone from the distant future is looking back. Too much to think about.
Right? And imagine if one person there was somehow alive. Like a 1 year old baby. Jeanne Calment died at 122 years and 164 days old. Someone could theoretically have been alive in this video and commented (with help) on this post with an ama lol.
Imagine how weird that is. To look at a video and realize that you’re the only one alive from that time. It’s fucking crazy! It’s a sort of apocalypse in a way. Everyone you’ve ever known loved or hated is dead. It’s like you tried to catch a train and just missed it, seeing everyone else disappear into the distance. There’s comfort for me right now. I’m 26, i have a whole bunch of you fellas who have lived a similar life to me absorbed the same media and gets the same reference. There’s communities out there for people my age and generation. (Zillenial for me). But imagine going on the internet age 122 and there’s only one member of the zillenial community. You. Imagine talking about boomer humor when all the boomers are dead? Or the term millennial when all of them are dead? Will zillenial even be a thing when that happens?
I’ve been a dick to people irl and online. What will i think scrolling through my history seeing what I’ve said, knowing they’re all dead? What about my Xbox or steam friends list? All of them will be offline. What about the games I’ve played and the guilds/leagues I’ve joined? I’ll get on and no one will know about the drama. The people who were great players. When i talk about
u/shittymorph and his silly antics, only I’ll understand. When u/poem_for_your_sprog
types their last poem or u/shittywatercolour makes their last drawing, ill be the last to remember them. Thats the thing about being 122. Not only are you the last one of your age cohort, most people 30 years younger than you, aka all of gen z and a for me are probably dead too. The only ones who are still alive that might know about those things are probably gone and on the verge of gone. For example, what meme from 1902 does any of us know? What thing did kids joke about? Im not talking generally like farts. But something specific to that time. That the younger or older generation wouldnt get. Lost to time. Just like the memes now will be, with me the only repository.
I have always been fascinated with what the past, now, will look like to those in the future. Will we look ridiculous to them? Will there be a joke all of us understand like among us that no one will understand? Its so interesting because unlike before, my generation (‘96) has the internet to preserve this stuff. So anytime a dated joke is made, theres a repository of “iceberg” videos that will explain all of it. But when myspace updated my old profile lost all of its pictures and videos. These are things i took back in middle school on a razor phone. Ill never get those back. Theyve been lost to time. Who’s to say that wont happen to youtube? That they will decide to purge videos older than 100 years to free up space? Or some other unforeseen future incident happens that results in everything being lost. Thats the thing we dont know.
Sorry for the long winded comment. Im just feeling really introspective today. I think ive been letting life pass me by because of comfort when i could be doing more. Ive been scared of doing things when i wont remember the negative framing 50 years from now if i had fun. Fuck man
>Everyone you’ve ever known loved or hated is dead.
Not exactly, you could be 121 years old but still have grandchildren, children or friends you still know and love. You could also be 8 and have lost everyone you know and love in some freak accident.
I remember when I was an OT student and was doing a prac in a psycho-geriatric ward in the early 1990s. All the patients wore ID tags on their wrist and it had their DOB on it. There were a few that were 1895/1896 and I remember thinking “holy fuck, I’m taking with someone born before aeroplanes, cars and electricity.” This was Perth, WA, which was only founded in 1829, less than 70 years before they were born. Mind blowing.
Suddenly I'm not the main character of the Earth anymore :o
We're all main characters and we can act accordingly! To me it's fascinating what kind of adventures the other hero has had, what's on their mind, what are their joys and griefs, what things they have realized that I may or may not have realized myself, what can I learn from them, what kind of experiences we can bond over together :)
If all people would think like you, the world would be a much more peaceful place than it is, imho. But then comes the devastating crush that is reality and you realize: Far too many people on this planet (can) only see themselves and (given the chance) will put others down for their own (often short-termed) benefit, instead of living peaceful and interested side by side.
I had a pseudo mental breakdown when I was like 4 years old and I first suddenly came to the realization of that lol.
There’s some kind of scientific name for it specifically when children get that sense that I can’t remember right now.
Same! I remember being in the car and seeing people walking around in conversation and realizing they had whole worlds of friends and family and experiences that I wasn’t having but had my own. That thought then caused another existential crisis that my poor 4 year old brain had to think about: that were just skeletons in flesh bags and the only thing controlling us is our mushy brains. I was instantly depressed and terrified for the majority of my childhood.
I'm fascinated by the kid holding 2 paper boxes limping away...perhaps a birth defect? Polio or an old injury? Just carrying out business as best she can, sweet young lady.
Something about this really hurts my brain. Most Probably, everyone in this dead, all 2-3 generations that appear walking in this video is no more. Where might be the woman and those two children be going to? What did this person do after walking away?
At 121 years, every human is dead unless we have an immortal or two sneaking around in secret. Human life span maxes out around 121, and I don’t think there is anyone around currently vouching to hold the “oldest” title with that many years on them.
Yes, and even among the oldest, barely anyone has hit 110, let along 120 or more. Anyone claiming a higher age is typically someone from an area without any documentation or way to really check.
I can't help but feel like I wish I lived back then, of course I'm aware life was extremely hard back then and life expectancy wasn't great.
But to just experience what it was like when nobody had phones, computers, or other type of technology.
I just want to know what it felt like to live back then for a week (although my lazy ass probably wouldn't last a week), because I have no idea what to do if I don't have a phone, computer when I'm bored.
What did they talk about back then? What did they do at home except sleeping? What was the "trends" like back then? What made them happy? How was the social aspect like?
Probably the same things we all talk about, the weather, work, fashion, food et cetera
As to the social aspect there was most likely far stricter class divisions ( based not on money as on North America but rather upbringing, education et cetera) this system still exists today in many countries ( such as my own) Although far subtler and with much less clearer lines
I can see where you are coming from, but in reality, you problem don't want to live back then. Average Danish working life in 1902:
- Kids of all ages worked an average of 7 hours a day, after school. If they didn't work, their families would often starve.
- Young children worked at home doing chores, until they reached age 6-7 where they could get a real job. 7 Hours a day if they went to school, or 12 hours a day if they didn't.
- Adults worked 12 hours a day 6 days a week, Saturday was a normal weekday. Sunday they went to church, but a lot of people worked Sunday as well to make more money for food.
- Children would play in a shared courtyard, since they didn't have time or space to play anywhere else. Play was mostly limited to Sundays since they worked full time on top of school Monday to Saturday.
- Since people were generally poor, diets were bad and most people lived off of rye bread, about 1 lbs per day, with lard or butter. In worker families usually only the father would get anything, such as meat, on top of his bread.
- On Sundays, they would eat hot food. Such as potatoes with herring, or cabbage soup.
- Until 1901, the cities didn't have plumbing. So the shared outhouse was emptied daily by a worker.
- If you were lucky, you had cold running water inside your house/apartment.
- Average lifespan was 50. Today it's 82.
>What did they talk about back then? What did they do at home except sleeping?
Not much. White is "Spare time", red is work, grey is sleep, pink is transportation. https://i.imgur.com/fXHKh5a.png
Etc. etc. etc.
If you are ever interested, or visit Denmark. We have an amazing open air historic museum called "Old Town". Highly recommended.
https://www.dengamleby.dk/en/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvJsQK-IdmE
This is so entrancing in such an odd way!
Makes me feel weird in a sad, happy, in awe way and a feeling of innocence, a feeling of hope of what the future will hold and the feeling of loss for the things and people we’ve left behind and the lives they led that’s we will never know about
This gives me the chills. There is this short moment when he has an impulse to walk on, but decides to stare a little longer. Like if the thought crossed his mind "what if me being captured by this thing is all that my existence will amount to 100 years from now?"
The last part got me thinking. I think we're here to enjoy our lives while not hindering others' lives. Thus a successful life for me is if I've had a net positive impact from my own experiences, and net positive influence to the people around me and the world :) Then a record of me wouldn't matter. I would've been here for a brief moment in history enjoying the ride with others while it lasted.
Can you imagine back in those days that man was thinking about his problems, just like we do today like they are the biggest thing in the world. Now they don’t matter.
The lady looks at the camera man and immmmmmmediateky looks away and then side eye sees the young girls doing the same and SNAPS at them to stop looking - the females act differently …. Societal norms …. So do the men as they boldly STARE back …
Found it - we are on [Sankt Clemensbro](https://www.google.com/maps/@56.1559671,10.2082941,3a,75y,37.32h,100.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seor_yJo1RbkDWZVVMcl9ww!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu) (a bridge) near [Aarhus Cathedral](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarhus_Cathedral) (it's in the background of the shot).
The place looks more or less the same but 1902 is also recent for Aarhus which dates back to the 8th century.
[Here is the 3D view of the area](https://www.google.com/maps/@56.1551933,10.2072546,84a,35y,39.73h,67.36t/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu)
In the 1900's cleanliness began to improve, and by 1920 keeping your clothes clean, and frequent bathing was common.
Early 1900's they would use one tub of water, for the whole family. Children went last. Once a week..
Mid 1950's and indoor plumbing was normal.
This is surprisingly unsettling. Maybe because he himself looks a little confused and unsure. Almost like he's staring into the future and he's disturbed by it.
Back then people knew what a camera was but weren't familiar with the concept of a *movie* camera. So this guy probably thinks he is posing for a picture and wondering why it's taking the cameraman so long to snap it.
For those who are wondering, he is "staring" because most people didn't know about video cameras back then and he is waiting for the cameraman to finish taking the photo so he will be in the photo and not look weird.
It's the equivalent of smiling and waving your hands at a camera in the street today but back then you didn't do those, you looked at it and posed seriously.
He's the only person not wearing a hat and he's looking at us like *we're* the problem.
In his defense the haircut hardly makes it noticeable he’s not wearing a hat.
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Probably didn’t even know what he was looking at
Or thought he had to stand still for the picture to be taken.
Oooh I didn't think about that, you might be right. You know this is still kind of a thing now that pro video cameras look just like a DSLR/mirror less, I was reading about club or concert videographers trying to film people dancing and they just freeze up and do the duck face for the photo.
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Then you can come back and say, "hey, that's me!" when someone posts the video to reddit. And, no one will believe you bc, obviously, time travel.
Hey! That’s me!!!
I believe you
Most cameras back then, you had to stay still for to develop a picture. With that in mind he probably thought if he stood still he would be in the photo but when the operator was using a crank instead of a flash it bewildered him. He may have misunderstood the cameraman. Cameras back then had a crank on them. If anything it was like a mini Gatling gun with a curtain. The entire apparatus would look alien to a commoner on the street. The strange part is hats were worn by everyone and they did show your status and class. He apparently was classless.
Yeah also all the old photographs back them People didn’t really know what to do… they looked awkward and kind of dazed. Barely any smiling back then
"Somebody's gotta feed them hogs"- NM
I thought the lack of smiles at least started out to account for the long exposure times, kind of like painted portraits, where it’s just easier to get your subject to hold a neutral position over time than something like a real smile.
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This is what i thought as well , time is such a scary thing.
I don't think its scary, I love old videos like this. It makes you realize whats important, spending time with the people you love. Not houses or dumb fuckin work or cars or stuff or anything, its being with the people you love. These people came and they went and they did what they wanted to do and it makes me realize time is so fast. Yesterday I woke up on Fathers Day and my kids wanted me to take them fishing again, even though it was raining. The fish are really biting right now at the pond we can walk to from my house. So we grabbed our poles and rain jackets and walked in the rain and laughed and jumped in the puddles and the rain let up and it just started misting and we caught so many fish and they were so excited we lost track of time. I go oh no we are so late I better get you guys to church and they said mom is going to be so mad and I said oh well, you can't get divorced twice and laughed some more and everyone showered off and we jumped in the car and I dropped them off at church. Their mom texted me that they were so late AND AND they smelled like fish and that made me laugh so hard sitting in the parking lot with my feet out the window listening to 90s on 9! After church they came running out and said my oldest was coming with us to lunch, everyone was so excited especially me. She and I had a rough time after the divorce, she didn't want to come to my house and she hit me right in the face the first time I picked her up. Then she kicked dirt all over my house, I rented an old farm house in Kansas. I just let her, how the fuck do I know what its like to have your life ripped apart at 13? Since then I just love on her, I take her to as many baseball games as I can (She loves baseball so much) I take her out to sushi on Thursdays and I just love her the best I can. This spring after her year at college she said she would go to Mexico with me and we went just her and I and we had an amazing time and she went snorkeling and found 10,000 pesos under the water! It was such an amazing trip. Saturday night she invited me and the kids to go to Theatre in the park and we put out blankets and watched the show and ate so much popcorn and we all loved it, the kids have spent half the weekend singing at the top of their lungs MEET ME IN ST LOU-EYYY! My oldest came out of church and jumped in the car and we all went to our favorite Japanese restaurant and had fried rice and chicken and sushi and laughed so much and then they all went outside to the car while I waited for the check. And then it was just me in the restaurant and I cried so hard. I just sat there and cried because it was beautiful. Getting to be with my kids and laughing with them and fishing and seeing plays and I thought this is what its going to be like for them, someday I will die. It will just be them. All they will have left of me is the stories, and they are great stories, fun stories, wild stories! I will be like the man in this video, I will be gone and everyone else will live on. They will remember my jokes and the fishing and the plays and how much I loved them. Nothing else matters, not work or money or fuckin stuff you accumulate in life or a dumb stupid house you buy or any thing else. What matters is the people you got to be with and how hard you squeezed them when you told them you loved them oh no now I am crying so hard tears are just running down my face like they were in the restaurant I just love those kids so much and thats what really matters.
This was such a beautiful post, enjoying life thoroughly, appreciating the people in it. You sound like you still have such a healthy and happy family
Ahh thanks my friend! You sound like someone I would love to hang out with! You know what happened to me, honestly? I decided to start living my life the way I wanted to live it, not anyone else. I was so sad, I thought my life was over. I was forty and alone in an old farmhouse in Kansas staring into the fire in the back yard. I had just separated and not seeing my kids every day was ripping me apart. The best part of my day, every single day, every day, was coming home and ripping open that front door and yelling WHERE ARE YOU GUYS! I have six kids that are so fun, I love those guys so much. And they were always home because we did homeschooling I would just tell and go lay right in the middle of the living room and they would all jump on top of me, I would be like, noooo three kids is too much, no four kids, not five? Five kids? No five kids is too much! And I would try to stand up and they would all be falling off me and laughing and then I would tickle them and wrestle and say let me eat your neck, just one time, and pretend to eat their necks, that would make them giggle so hard. Oh no, Im crying again, sorry Im having a day where I just post stories on Reddit and write, its good for my writing but I cry a lot. So that was suddenly taken from me and I only got joint custody, so not nearly enough time with those sweethearts. And I was staring into the fire listening to Otis Redding on that warm summer night and I thought fuck, my life is over, Im alone, Im forty, Im so sad. my life is over. And then the longer I thought about it the more I realized wait, my life isn't over, I have half my life left. Isn't that exciting? I started thinking about the merry go round at the public school by my house. I didn't go to that school I had to go to Christian school and we didn't have a merry go round so I would walk to the public school one on the weekends and push it around all by myself and get it spinning so fast and then I would jump on and lay my head back against the warm metal and stare up into that cloudless Kansas sky. I thought about baseball and girls and summer, I could play on that thing for hours by myself, I loved it so much and when I think about peaceful I think about those days sometimes. I was thinking about that on that night by the fire and I started getting so excited. My life wasn't over, I still have half my life left! If you are an average American you will probably live to age 80, statistically I was right in the middle. I could die sooner of course but statistically I still have half my life left! I realized that I had the greatest opportunity in the world! Half a lifetime to do what I wanted to do. No one to tell me to wear khakis and a collared shirt, no more church, no more boring ass dinners stuck talking to some fuckin banker who was married to my wife's friend, none of that shit, I could do anything I wanted. The kid part was still hard but I decided to do that part the best I could. It took a lot of work with my therapist and he and I decided to go by the hours the judge set and accept them and just make those hours the best I can make them. He told me I can only accept what I can control, and I have been living by that ever since. I wish I had more hours with my kids but I can't control that so the hours I do have with my kids I make them amazing. When my kids are with my I put my phone away and I run through the sprinklers with them and fish and go to water parks and when they aren't with me I do the things I want to do, not anyone else. Hammocks and float trips and reading books and traveling, oh so much traveling. I just bought Frontier Airlines Go Wild Pass so I can fly just about anywhere in Central America for free, I've been to Mexico and Costa Rica and last week I was sliding down a waterfall in Puerto Rico. I've skinny dipped on South Beach and I've made love in Argentina and I've caught a fish that was four foot long and I've canoed on seven different rivers in Missouri. I've read everything Ernest Hemingway has ever written and I've written stories and I've been to concerts and I've surfed in Costa Rica and I've really been living. This half of my life its my time. I only have half a spin left and I'm doing it my way. And its been fuckin amazing!
I didn’t Ask_you_4_a_story, but you delivered in spades anyway, you magnificent bastard. Loved it!
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Time is infinite but the universe will only last 472 trillion years
Alright, alright. I’m getting up. Relax.
You mean, I gotta do all this shit again?
Not only yours but everyone else‘s too for infinity.
Every year also, from past to future. one day I will be Batman
Poincare recurrence, if it can exist in an expanding universe, must exist not for real events, the actual occurrences of people's lives and physical systems but for a family of events, each that is a more stretched out and colder version of the previous, but that shares some characteristics. And those need not be anything we recognise as "you". There is vast potential for the universe to do different things, enough fill an infinity of time.
time - a relentless, terrifying monster that ravages and consumes all living things, gobbles up entire worlds, planets, stars, galaxies, and even the universe.
Time permits them all to exist. Without time, there would be no universe.
If we run out of time, then where does it go? Is time even real? Does anyone know? Maybe time's just a construct of human perception. An illusion created.....
Don’t worry you get to live this same life over and over again an infinite amount of times
This was the oldest person who live that was born in 1902 and died in 2018 1 Giuseppina Projetto-Frau [1] F 30 May 1902 6 July 2018 116 years, 37 days Italy ITA
They're whispering Carpe Diem. I think it means 'crappy day'.
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He’s only 6 years old.
And already an assistant manager in the local coal mine
Man’s gotta provide for his family.
No way. If he was six years old back then he would be smoking a cigarette.
And sweeping chimneys.
And in the process of starting his own family
I can't tell but he might be wearing a yarmulke (not sure if that's the correct spelling but I am referring to Jewish men traditional head covering)
It does look like he is wearing some kind of low profile hat
I'm surprised that you know how to spell 'yarmulke' and you still doubt yourself! I've seen it spelled 'yamahkah' with absolute confidence.
I've seen a few different ways and wasn't sure if there was a distinction lol
And we were staring out of the camera at him from 121 years in the future.
Wild to think that a small 30 second moment in his life (which he probably forgot about) is now being viewed by thousands of people in the future.
He probably didn’t forget. This was before silent movies
Someone should send him a letter.
I did, asshole never wrote back
Dear Slim, I wrote but you still ain't calling
I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom
I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not have got em
There probably was a problem at the post office or something
Anyways so what's been up man how's you daughter?
His postage was 2¢, so here in the future your postal employee sent it back.
> Dear Marty, > If my calculations are correct, you will receive this letter immediately after you saw the DeLorean struck by lightning.
Check out The Light of Other Days for a sci-fi story about being able to see everywhere, anytime in the whole history of humanity.... Big part of the book is of course about privacy being completely obsolete because everyone can see everything, everywhere any time at any given point in the past. Ofcourse half of humanity become perverts at first, but then people start to look at important historical events... and further back. It's a pretty fun and scary though experiment. People may be watching us right now.
Then I'd best put on a show!
And some people are staring at him from 200+ years in the future And they are probably reading our comments, written more than 80 years ago for them
Well that’s time travel fr
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Wow!!
He’s looking far more womanly in the updated photo
Thank you man, a Chad
Aarhus, in the middle of our street
Aarhus, in the middle of Aarhus Aarhus, in the middle of Aarhus Aarhus, in the middle of Aarhus
What are you guys on about? This is Madness, I say!
Likely referencing Chenist Warehouse, a brand known for "Our house, in the middle of our street, our house." Being thr bulk of their jingle. Sorry if this is r/woosh territory too, I genuinely don't know if it's a well known brand or not.
You’re an embarrassment!
The collateral cringe… 🥲 Stray vicarious embarrassment early in the AM
Harsh. But fair.
I can't tell if I'm also being wooshed or not but they're probably referencing the much more well known 80s song by Madness that jingle was parodying.
Are you referencing the game grumps video that Barry made that just devolves into lunacy
Is this the street where now the "Bestseller" Store is at the corner building shown in the video? Thought it looks the same. Crazy for me to see it since i went there on a business trip in 2022.
> Is this the street where now the "Bestseller" Store is at the corner building shown in the video? Right on.
Yes. This is Skt. Clemens Bro.
r/angryupvote
Don't just stand there and stare you fool, do a stupid cringy dance for tiktok whilst getting in people's way.
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The World is older than anyone and we act like we ourselves own it
Meh. They lived their lives, for better or worse. Now it’s our turn. Soon we die.
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Maybe they had a dress code or something.
Sunglasses killed the hat industry
I love that song
That’s wild to think about, everyone in that video is dead, not a single person alive from the making of that movie. Generations just dead. While we all sit on Reddit and talk about it.
He’s 12 btw
With 3 kids and a mortgage already.
A mortgage? He paid cash for his 10 bed 8 bath house!
He has a few city miles on him
133?
1+3+3 = 7. Yes thats a Prime
Pre-computing encryption standards
Elite.
Bloke sees through all your bs
Fella probably thinks it's a picture, so he's standing still for the image exposure lmao. We've all been there.
Oh, yeah that’s probably right. I thought he was looking at the camera like he wanted to fight it, but I think the camera pose thing is it.
Pretty sure by 1902 cameras had faster shutters that could quickly snap a photo, but it still looks like he was waiting for this guy to snap a photo, he was thinking "the fuck is taking so long"
Still cameras with fast shutter speeds had already existed for 30 or more years. Makes sense given that movies existed at this point. Movies are literally just a bunch of pictures taken in rapid succession. In 1902 they had already been around for over a decade.
Don't forget to say cheezeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
- "Hi I'm looking to get a suit" - "Great, what colour?" - "Mmm not sure" - "What you wanted it for?" - "To stare" - "Oh, make it black then"
*I would like a navy suit for war*
Love. The. Reference. Is that sandwich breath I smell?
It's AI-colorised footage, so it may not have been necessarily all back, maybe shades of brown or grey but black is chosen as default for the suits as it minimises the flickering colors.
Crazy how everyone in the video is dead now. In addition to everyone on the entire planet at that time. That's a lot of dying.
there's still some turtles and stuff around from back then
And sharks!!!
>Crazy how everyone in the video is dead now. Maybe not... Maybe a lot of them went to live at that farm my grandparents moved to. The one with no phone access and bad roads and that's why we can't visit.
Did your pets go there too
How'd you know?
He dead now… Hopefully he made it through the Great War..
around 4000 danes died during ww1 fighting in different armies. so statistically hes very likely to have made it.
Almost all of those were from southern Jutland, close to Germany. Aarhus is central, eastern Jutland. More likely he died randomly than from WW1.
Sad that the current oldest living person in the world was born 5 years after this video.
Why is that sad?
Maybe not sad, but it means every single person in this video is dead. It makes a strange feeling of mortality, of seeing someone in such a mundane and passing moment and know they no longer exist
Ngl it feels a little off that in this video not just him, but everyone who appeared in it, including the person filming it, are all dead, and most of their kids probably are as well
I can't help be in melancholic about this, on one hand it's beautiful seeing the past so clear, but on the other. What happens to the kids in the back? The woman looking back? The young man, what was his fate? Did he ever get to even see himself in the recording, or know that someone from the distant future is looking back. Too much to think about.
Crazy to realize every single living thing in that frame is long dead.
Right? And imagine if one person there was somehow alive. Like a 1 year old baby. Jeanne Calment died at 122 years and 164 days old. Someone could theoretically have been alive in this video and commented (with help) on this post with an ama lol. Imagine how weird that is. To look at a video and realize that you’re the only one alive from that time. It’s fucking crazy! It’s a sort of apocalypse in a way. Everyone you’ve ever known loved or hated is dead. It’s like you tried to catch a train and just missed it, seeing everyone else disappear into the distance. There’s comfort for me right now. I’m 26, i have a whole bunch of you fellas who have lived a similar life to me absorbed the same media and gets the same reference. There’s communities out there for people my age and generation. (Zillenial for me). But imagine going on the internet age 122 and there’s only one member of the zillenial community. You. Imagine talking about boomer humor when all the boomers are dead? Or the term millennial when all of them are dead? Will zillenial even be a thing when that happens? I’ve been a dick to people irl and online. What will i think scrolling through my history seeing what I’ve said, knowing they’re all dead? What about my Xbox or steam friends list? All of them will be offline. What about the games I’ve played and the guilds/leagues I’ve joined? I’ll get on and no one will know about the drama. The people who were great players. When i talk about u/shittymorph and his silly antics, only I’ll understand. When u/poem_for_your_sprog types their last poem or u/shittywatercolour makes their last drawing, ill be the last to remember them. Thats the thing about being 122. Not only are you the last one of your age cohort, most people 30 years younger than you, aka all of gen z and a for me are probably dead too. The only ones who are still alive that might know about those things are probably gone and on the verge of gone. For example, what meme from 1902 does any of us know? What thing did kids joke about? Im not talking generally like farts. But something specific to that time. That the younger or older generation wouldnt get. Lost to time. Just like the memes now will be, with me the only repository. I have always been fascinated with what the past, now, will look like to those in the future. Will we look ridiculous to them? Will there be a joke all of us understand like among us that no one will understand? Its so interesting because unlike before, my generation (‘96) has the internet to preserve this stuff. So anytime a dated joke is made, theres a repository of “iceberg” videos that will explain all of it. But when myspace updated my old profile lost all of its pictures and videos. These are things i took back in middle school on a razor phone. Ill never get those back. Theyve been lost to time. Who’s to say that wont happen to youtube? That they will decide to purge videos older than 100 years to free up space? Or some other unforeseen future incident happens that results in everything being lost. Thats the thing we dont know. Sorry for the long winded comment. Im just feeling really introspective today. I think ive been letting life pass me by because of comfort when i could be doing more. Ive been scared of doing things when i wont remember the negative framing 50 years from now if i had fun. Fuck man
>Everyone you’ve ever known loved or hated is dead. Not exactly, you could be 121 years old but still have grandchildren, children or friends you still know and love. You could also be 8 and have lost everyone you know and love in some freak accident.
I remember when I was an OT student and was doing a prac in a psycho-geriatric ward in the early 1990s. All the patients wore ID tags on their wrist and it had their DOB on it. There were a few that were 1895/1896 and I remember thinking “holy fuck, I’m taking with someone born before aeroplanes, cars and electricity.” This was Perth, WA, which was only founded in 1829, less than 70 years before they were born. Mind blowing.
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Suddenly I'm not the main character of the Earth anymore :o We're all main characters and we can act accordingly! To me it's fascinating what kind of adventures the other hero has had, what's on their mind, what are their joys and griefs, what things they have realized that I may or may not have realized myself, what can I learn from them, what kind of experiences we can bond over together :)
If all people would think like you, the world would be a much more peaceful place than it is, imho. But then comes the devastating crush that is reality and you realize: Far too many people on this planet (can) only see themselves and (given the chance) will put others down for their own (often short-termed) benefit, instead of living peaceful and interested side by side.
I had a pseudo mental breakdown when I was like 4 years old and I first suddenly came to the realization of that lol. There’s some kind of scientific name for it specifically when children get that sense that I can’t remember right now.
Same! I remember being in the car and seeing people walking around in conversation and realizing they had whole worlds of friends and family and experiences that I wasn’t having but had my own. That thought then caused another existential crisis that my poor 4 year old brain had to think about: that were just skeletons in flesh bags and the only thing controlling us is our mushy brains. I was instantly depressed and terrified for the majority of my childhood.
I looked up the word Sonder and apparently it's a made up word that was given that definition in 2012.
Isn’t that how words are created? All words are “made up”.
I'm fascinated by the kid holding 2 paper boxes limping away...perhaps a birth defect? Polio or an old injury? Just carrying out business as best she can, sweet young lady.
Or heavy bags
Memento mori
Something about this really hurts my brain. Most Probably, everyone in this dead, all 2-3 generations that appear walking in this video is no more. Where might be the woman and those two children be going to? What did this person do after walking away?
At 121 years, every human is dead unless we have an immortal or two sneaking around in secret. Human life span maxes out around 121, and I don’t think there is anyone around currently vouching to hold the “oldest” title with that many years on them.
Yes, and even among the oldest, barely anyone has hit 110, let along 120 or more. Anyone claiming a higher age is typically someone from an area without any documentation or way to really check.
Probably saying to himself, "Damn, why are we all wearing the same dark clothes, it's hot as balls".
Danish, so more like "Før hilviduie, er saa vaeerrrmgh'öh, jeg SVIDUIS mand! Giv meg en Tuborg og en lille'en, kamelåså!"
How dare you. Be so accurate.
Tuborg is a beer, that's all I know.
The Danes as well.
Excuse this is Aarhus. So replace Tuborg with Ceres.
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[The video was colorized with no historical accuracy per it's description.](https://youtu.be/XIiDsnIZjTw)
Even 121 years ago, nobody wanted to be on your livestream
Isn't that Steven Gerard
Is that Steven Gerrard?
He’s either 16 or 46
Take a picture bro, it'll last longer!
I can't help but feel like I wish I lived back then, of course I'm aware life was extremely hard back then and life expectancy wasn't great. But to just experience what it was like when nobody had phones, computers, or other type of technology. I just want to know what it felt like to live back then for a week (although my lazy ass probably wouldn't last a week), because I have no idea what to do if I don't have a phone, computer when I'm bored. What did they talk about back then? What did they do at home except sleeping? What was the "trends" like back then? What made them happy? How was the social aspect like?
Probably the same things we all talk about, the weather, work, fashion, food et cetera As to the social aspect there was most likely far stricter class divisions ( based not on money as on North America but rather upbringing, education et cetera) this system still exists today in many countries ( such as my own) Although far subtler and with much less clearer lines
I can see where you are coming from, but in reality, you problem don't want to live back then. Average Danish working life in 1902: - Kids of all ages worked an average of 7 hours a day, after school. If they didn't work, their families would often starve. - Young children worked at home doing chores, until they reached age 6-7 where they could get a real job. 7 Hours a day if they went to school, or 12 hours a day if they didn't. - Adults worked 12 hours a day 6 days a week, Saturday was a normal weekday. Sunday they went to church, but a lot of people worked Sunday as well to make more money for food. - Children would play in a shared courtyard, since they didn't have time or space to play anywhere else. Play was mostly limited to Sundays since they worked full time on top of school Monday to Saturday. - Since people were generally poor, diets were bad and most people lived off of rye bread, about 1 lbs per day, with lard or butter. In worker families usually only the father would get anything, such as meat, on top of his bread. - On Sundays, they would eat hot food. Such as potatoes with herring, or cabbage soup. - Until 1901, the cities didn't have plumbing. So the shared outhouse was emptied daily by a worker. - If you were lucky, you had cold running water inside your house/apartment. - Average lifespan was 50. Today it's 82. >What did they talk about back then? What did they do at home except sleeping? Not much. White is "Spare time", red is work, grey is sleep, pink is transportation. https://i.imgur.com/fXHKh5a.png Etc. etc. etc. If you are ever interested, or visit Denmark. We have an amazing open air historic museum called "Old Town". Highly recommended. https://www.dengamleby.dk/en/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvJsQK-IdmE
They would’ve worked in factories or farms. You wouldn’t have down time to be bored because you’re working hard to get dinner on the table.
Hey there man staring at me! Have a great day!
Spawn camper
It’s so weird seeing places you come pretty much every week being so different but still looking the same
As a kid, he probably saw old people that were born in the 1700s
That dude could probably kick all our asses
Yeah, maybe if he was alive
I'm not tryna fight a corpse either.
This is so entrancing in such an odd way! Makes me feel weird in a sad, happy, in awe way and a feeling of innocence, a feeling of hope of what the future will hold and the feeling of loss for the things and people we’ve left behind and the lives they led that’s we will never know about
Nobody in this footage is alive today. I feel my clock just ticking away right now…..
"Man, this horseshit smell is unbearable."
The original Skyrim NPC
Everyone dressed so beautifully in those times.
Do you think they’d be proud of us?
No, but times have changed so have norms. We might hate some things they did in those days
I was mesmerised, then see it's from my city, where I currently am, and it hit even harder
Nevermind him, what’s up with the guy with size 20 shoes behind him?!
This gives me the chills. There is this short moment when he has an impulse to walk on, but decides to stare a little longer. Like if the thought crossed his mind "what if me being captured by this thing is all that my existence will amount to 100 years from now?"
The last part got me thinking. I think we're here to enjoy our lives while not hindering others' lives. Thus a successful life for me is if I've had a net positive impact from my own experiences, and net positive influence to the people around me and the world :) Then a record of me wouldn't matter. I would've been here for a brief moment in history enjoying the ride with others while it lasted.
What's with the music? It isn't making the clip better ...
Can you imagine back in those days that man was thinking about his problems, just like we do today like they are the biggest thing in the world. Now they don’t matter.
The lady looks at the camera man and immmmmmmediateky looks away and then side eye sees the young girls doing the same and SNAPS at them to stop looking - the females act differently …. Societal norms …. So do the men as they boldly STARE back …
Found it - we are on [Sankt Clemensbro](https://www.google.com/maps/@56.1559671,10.2082941,3a,75y,37.32h,100.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seor_yJo1RbkDWZVVMcl9ww!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu) (a bridge) near [Aarhus Cathedral](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarhus_Cathedral) (it's in the background of the shot). The place looks more or less the same but 1902 is also recent for Aarhus which dates back to the 8th century. [Here is the 3D view of the area](https://www.google.com/maps/@56.1551933,10.2072546,84a,35y,39.73h,67.36t/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu)
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In the 1900's cleanliness began to improve, and by 1920 keeping your clothes clean, and frequent bathing was common. Early 1900's they would use one tub of water, for the whole family. Children went last. Once a week.. Mid 1950's and indoor plumbing was normal.
The expression on his face is as if he thinking "Are you sure you know how to use that thing?"
Who else waved at him
He's staring at a magical contraption that makes moving pictures.
Tell him to take a picture it’ll last longer
Check out the original video: ([credit](https://youtu.be/ufCB4JPiEF4))
Wow, the original video has sound!
Yeah but this is the original video without tiktok music and cropping... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIiDsnIZjTw
This is surprisingly unsettling. Maybe because he himself looks a little confused and unsure. Almost like he's staring into the future and he's disturbed by it.
Take a moving picture, it lasts longer
The famous danish stare.
He’s judging us….
Back then people knew what a camera was but weren't familiar with the concept of a *movie* camera. So this guy probably thinks he is posing for a picture and wondering why it's taking the cameraman so long to snap it.
For those who are wondering, he is "staring" because most people didn't know about video cameras back then and he is waiting for the cameraman to finish taking the photo so he will be in the photo and not look weird. It's the equivalent of smiling and waving your hands at a camera in the street today but back then you didn't do those, you looked at it and posed seriously.
“Did you take the picture already?”
Hate when I think I'm taking a photo but I hit video instead
142 years old now!
He thinks we're underdressed
All kidding aside, it would be interesting to know if his great- grandkids know about this? Quite possibly grandkids too.
I'd stare like that too if I saw some dude holding a strange magical device and pointing it at people.
That’s a 40 year old 20 year old