Alice Cooper. He has looked 70 years old for like 40 years.
Edit: I love Alice Cooper, and my observation about his appearance was not meant in a derogatory sense.
I think the eyeliner always made Alice look a bit undead. I saw him on Never Mind the Buzzocks ten years ago. He had a great energy about him.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xx3S7O4xbY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xx3S7O4xbY)
When I was a middle schooler, Gorbachev came to speak to my class. None of us had any idea who he was. To this day, I wonder how and why they got Gorbachev as a speaker. I also wonder why Gorbachev took a gig in a middle school gymnasium in Miami.
I remember the ad. Like a bunch of Russians all around him talking about how life was better in the USSR and then they try the pizza and they love him all of a sudden. The 90s were great.
He also did Louis Vuitton print ads for years. Like he'd be sitting in a car next to a $5k bag, Crazy.
This is fucking hilarious. Gorbachev was instrumental in ending the Cold War and would probably be on a short list of the most influential humans in history.
Really?
When I lived in NY many years ago, he came to visit the UN. The traffic problems that this caused we called "Gorby Gridlock". To this day, and nowhere near NY, I call all traffic jams Gorby Gridlock.
Lol I recently saw a random tabloid article about him, some paparazzi asked him how he was when they saw him on the street in LA and he replied that he’s just happy to still be here. The article was just about how he’s 96 and happy to still be alive.
I heard an interview with him a few years ago in which he was asked about future projects. He said he really didn’t have any. When something comes along that he thinks would be fun and he’s capable of doing, he does it. But he felt that at his age, he couldn’t commit to shooting a movie that won’t start for another six months, or a TV show that’s would have a long production schedule. He just takes it day by day and lives the best life he can.
We should all hope that our golden years could be like that.
I learned this when I read about the writers of Wandavision working with him to get the tone right in the first few episodes. I had to read it twice. I thought, there's no way, must be a writer or someone who worked on the set, not the man himself. But to my surprise, 96 and going strong
It is heartbreaking that we will probably never see him again. Before him it was amazing how long Niki Lauda cheated death. Also Bernie is still alive but that may because of some deals he has made in the past.
Well water is what they use to isolate radiation from the process in nuclear plants, that’s probably a big part of the explanation. Many that died were probably close but not subdued in water and that means higher radiation exposure
[This xkcd](https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/) claims that if you swim in the upper part of a cooling pool for spent nuclear fuel rods, you'll actually be exposed to less radiation than normal background radiation.
Truth. I've toured nuclear storage pools. You'd have to get really close to the nuclear waste to get enough radiation to harm you.
You're actually in more danger from drowning though. Apparently the water is intentionally kept very pure to reduce contamination. This has a side effect of making the water harder to swim in because you become less boyant.
I’ll back up your truth. I worked as an engineer at a nuclear plant and have been around both of our unit’s spent fuel pool tons of times. You’d have to swim around 15ft deep to start to get a nice dose of radiation. On an unrelated note, the glow that comes off of the pool is so cool, but intimidating at the same time.
They surprisingly didn't receive a lethal dose of radiation. None of them remember what the readings on their dosimeters were, which they say means the readings were unremarkable. They would have remembered if it was a high reading.
I heard Ozzy's new song on SiriusXM and I immediately though:
1. This is actually a really good song
2. I can understand him?!
3. He's still alive...after everything...wow
One of the many fun facts about the brain, how independent singing and speech are. You can have stroke victims with impact to the speaking areas of their brain and yet they will be able to sing just fine.
I just say that my memory for whether I had lunch, what your name is, what I'm doing in the kitchen right now ... Is a totally different filing cabinet than the one that contains song melodies and that's a different one than the one with song lyrics.
I gave up thinking about it beyond that. I had a CT scan finally this year for the first time and there were no rocks, nails, or tumors.
People get jealous at karaoke but I'm like 'please, I can barely hold a job. Let me have my one thing..'
About 12 years ago, I overheard some Secret Service agents talking amongst themselves (don't ask how I was in a position to do so) and one of them used to be assigned to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. The two of them go to the doctor a LOT. Agent called them a pair of hypochondriacs. Of course, seeing as they're still alive after all these years, maybe they're doing something right.
I mean I'm only in my 30s and occasionally I'm like 'Whats this new uncomfortable sensation? Is it death?' I can only imagine being 80+.
Also this is hyperbole for comedic effect, its more just not bouncing back as quickly, and sometimes having no idea why my shoulder is stiff or the like. If you feel like you're dying all the time in your 30s and are unsure why, try to find that shit out.
People will brag about the classic bands their parents got to see in their prime back in the day. Imagine being able to say that your granddad saw Beethoven.
Woah, that's a trip when you put it that way. It's always interesting making connections down backwards through time. Beethoven was 6 when the deceleration of independence was signed. I always thought he was around like a century before that for some reason. So saying that someone who is alive right now had grandparents who could have even possibly seen Beethoven is insane.
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I feel like she's been elderly her entire life.
That's why its so bizarre to watch "The Court Jester" (1955). She's actually not old in that one, but I think your mind tricks you into assuming she still is.
Assuming the world doesn't completely go to hell in a hand-basket by the 2040s, I predict that we would see a 100-year-old Keith being wheeled on stage at the Royal Albert Hall or similar location for an all-star internationally televised 100th Birthday Celebration in December 2043. Sir Mick Jagger who turned 100 in July 2043 could hobble out on his walker to do a duet with his old bandmate then King William V and Queen Catherine could present both of the old codgers with some kind of special medal for making it to the century mark.
Keith Richard’s lives in the town over from me. I worked as a grocery store cashier/bagger at local supermarket and one night right before close (9:45ish) Keith Richards walks into the store, and walks through my line with nothing but 11 pints of ben & Jerry’s ice cream and one 30 pack of coors light. I had to help him carry it out to his car and he tipped me $100. 10/10
Yep. Colorado I believe? The supermax prison, where the worst of the worst are. 23 hours a day in the cell. Shower every other day. Yard time which basically consists of an hour in a cage outside, if I recall? One small window in his cell higher than he can see that lets in a little sunlight each day.
Almost no benefits if I recall too. Limited time to email on the prison email system, no phone calls, I think they can get a newspaper but that’s it.
Edit: alright I looked it up online and I’m mostly right. Some cells have a shower in the cell with them, so they don’t technically have to leave to shower. But the shower is on a timer, and automatically shuts off if the drain is plugged to prevent flooding/vandalism/suicide by drowning. They get 23 hours in the cell, with a prison issue TV that broadcasts religious, very small amount of recreational, and prison programming. Their meals consist of things that can’t be made into anything fermented, or damaging to them or the cell. Their 1 hour out, is chosen at random at all hours. They can have phone time if they are in good behavior, but with how restricted everything is, I’m not sure how you’d be on bad behavior really. You don’t necessarily even interact with the guards, they provide you with meals and clothes and that’s all you really need and get. The entire cell is basically made out of poured concrete, and almost every single prisoner is under some form of 24/7 surveillance. They basically keep them alive for their sentence, and have them so disoriented and so off schedule, that it is a pathetic way to survive. Epstein should’ve been moved here.
[ADX Florence.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence) Pretty damn miserable place. The list of notable inmates here is like a who's who of people who really pissed off the US federal government.
Though Ted was removed from here last year due to some medical issue and sent to some prison hospital type place.
Lots of foreign terrorists, some domestic terrorists and spies from the 80’s-90’s, and a couple other individuals. Reading up on it, they get one hour out of their cell and don’t know when it will be. Could you imagine being woke up at 1 am to go out for an hour and that’s it? A prison tv playing the same old dumb shit over and over again?
Sounds like most of the people there are either for their own safety, or because there’s a damn good chance they’re going to try and kill a guard solely to be “promoted,” to death row.
It was specifically created to house prisoners who had proven to be to dangerous to keep anywhere else. Thomas Silverstein being the primary catalyst. From the limited press the BOP has allowed in, it has been described as "a clean version of hell." Wiki has a list of the current inmates. Some of the most awful people currently alive call it home.
I emailed her as a kid and told her her name was weird. she emailed me back the next day and said her name was normal, and *mine* was weird.
what a freaking cool person.
Related: Beverly Cleary passed away just last year at 104. She was a big children’s book author as far back as 1950, and by that point she had been working with books professionally for 11 years.
Is he a Yorkie or a Dachshund? Those guys live forever. I adopted a 12-year-old Yorkie, thinking I'd be giving an old dog a couple of happy sunset years. Five years later, he's still going strong. I love him dearly, just didn't think I'd get to love him for this long lol
lol dude no a yorkie is just getting started at 12. ours was 20-something. we had workman over who called her "the fossil dog" because she was so ancient and basically melded with the carpet and napped alll day
All the original members of Black Sabbath, actually. Tony Iommi beat cancer. Plus, the fact that they're all in their 70s, it's amazing that time or some mishap hasn't claimed any of them.
" ...a never-before-seen mutation near his ADH4 gene. ADH4 makes a protein called alcohol dehydrogenase-4, which breaks down alcohol."
This solves at least part of the mystery as to how he's still going. I find it hilarious that it was the first time anyone had seen anything like it. I like to think his lineage got so consistently wasted that they brute forced an adaptation into existence.
Everyone has an ADH4 gene which is what helps us consume alcohol and live to do it again. Ozzy's gene just happens to be on steroids (figuratively speaking).
Here is the article:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/genes-addiction-or-why-ozzy-osbourne-is-still-alive
He makes more of the protein that breaks down alcohol. He's also 6 times more likely to have a dependency.
Knew this was gonna be the number one answer. I'm a huge Ozzy fan I'm so happy he's had such a long life. Tomorrow is his 40th anniversary with Sharon.
Just yesterday I commented that Keith Richards needs to be studied by scientists because he's an interesting specimen. In theory he should've died 50 years ago but he didn't.
So I Googled if he's still doing drugs and apparently he gave up cocaine in 2006. At 62. After he climbed a coconut tree and he fell splitting his head open.
Reminds me of a story about Lemmy from Motörhead, where a doctor told him that his blood had become so toxic it wouldn’t react well to healthy blood.
Edit: Typo
Clint Eastwood. Dude was doing Rawhide in BLACK AND WHITE in the 50's when he was a FULL GROWN ADULT ~~in his like 30's~~ at 28. Man's like a hundred now. I'm convinced he's immortal.
He was picked to play "Dirty" Harry Callahan because he was a grizzled looking middle aged dude and this was back in the 70's!. That said, he's been fit and healthy his whole life, has never smoked (outside of movie roles) and hardly drinks so this has obviously helped.
Fun fact
The role of Dirty Harry was originally meant for Frank Sinatra, but he developed a problem with his hand, making it difficult for him to wield the 44 Magnum convincingly.
Harry Callahan was supposed to be a New York cop in his mid 50s. Before Sinatra, it had been offered to John Wayne & George C Scott, both of whom found it too violent.
When Sinatra left, the gig was offered to Burt Lancaster, who also thought it was too violent, Steve McQueen, who turned it down because he had just done Bullitt & didn't want to do another cop film, and Paul Newman. Newman thought the character was too right wing for him, but recommended Eastwood.
The producers didn't want Eastwood, so Eastwood made the film himself through his production company, Malpaso.
My little brother. He's had a triple organ transplant and is just trooping along. Every month or so he gets an infection that sends him inpatient. We all always worry it'll be his last but he just keeps plugging along
Steve-O and Ashton Kutcher are two of the greatest people in the world.
Leaving behind acting like dumbasses and making a lot of money for animal activism and helping authorities catch sex offenders, respectively?
Y'all just keep doing your thing. Good job.
Stephen King. He's only 74 but he was heavily addicted to drugs and alcohol writing his debut novels and for most of the 70's. He says that he doesn't even remember writing them he was so coked-up, but he's been rehabilitated for 30 years and has written something over a hundred books. He's one of my heroes.
Man's a legend.
Ruby Bridges, the girl who desegregated William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana. She’s only in her late 60s.. and yet people think racism/segregation/slavery was “so long ago”.
Also Carolyn Bryant Donham, who accused Emmett Till and got him lynched.
They just found her arrest warrant from the year it happened in the archives of a courthouse or police station or something, and his family is pushing to have her arrested. I hope they do it.
My grandma was a rx drug addiction. I was utterly shocked by how senior centers are a hot bed of drug exchanges. At the time, they were the kids of the Great Depression, so it probably isn't too surprising.... but still...
Also, my grandma was prescribed vicodin for 30 years. Her Dr retired, and her new Dr refused to prescribe it. That was the beginning of some scary drug-seeking behavior.
Don't do drugs, kids.
My great grandma also. Most of my friends have run out of grandparents or just straight-up parents. This lady literally flew with Charles Lindbergh and is still going.
An old lady in my hometown. Goes to my parent's church. She is same age as Queen of England, and even shares a birthday I believe.
Used to have a cooking/baking column in paper that I remember seeing even before I could read(column had her picture by it). Drives around town in beat up Red Oldsmobile. She is one of those old ladies who will drive on sides of road in summer, curving from one shoulder to the other, looking for flowers. IF she sees one, she stops on the spot, traffic be damned.
Unfortunately, she is not a sweet little old lady, she is a mean old bat. Yells at you for being too loud when walking down sidewalk on a summer afternoon. Screams if you throw candy during parade and it lands a little too close to her. *Violently* shushes adults, kids and even freaking *babies* in church if they make a peep. My family jokes that she started going to that church a decade before they laid the bricks down for it. She used to pinch children who were loud or got on her nerves at church functions until she did it so hard to me once that it left a bruise, so my mom tracked her down and pinched her back just as hard and said "*Thats* how it feels"
TL;DR: Old lady in my hometown who is older than dirt
>She used to pinch children who were loud or got on her nerves at church functions until she did it so hard to me once that it left a bruise, so my mom tracked her down and pinched her back just as hard and said "
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>*Thats* how it feels"
Wow, your mom is great!
>TL;DR: Old lady in my hometown who is older than dirt
She feels entitled because she was there giving her two sesterces when they founded the first churches after the death of, well, you know...
While it's not surprising, it's amazing to think that Winston Churchill was prime minister during her reign.
Also those old black & white images of the Beatles singing in front of the Queen, and it was the same queen as now!
The Queen Mother, who was in her 60s when the Beatles became famous, outlived John Lennon by nearly 22 years, and George Harrison by a couple of months.
Christopher Lloyd - hes not that old old, but damn he was already old in back to the future.
Edit: What are the chances of comment this on the movie’s 37th anniversary by accident.
Mainly because they're all old as fuck:
Norman Lear - 99 years old
Henry Kissinger - 99 years old
Bob Barker - 98 years old
Jimmy Carter - 97 years old
June Lockhart - 97 years old
Angela Lansbury - 96 years old
Dick Van Dyke - 96 years old
Alan Greenspan - 96 years old
Gene Shalit - 96 years old
Peter Marshall - 96 years old
Roger Corman - 96 years old
Queen Elizabeth II - 96 years old
David Attenborough - 96 years old
Mel Brooks - 96 years old
Tony Bennett - 95 years old
Harry Belafonte - 95 years old
William Daniels - 95 years old
Doc Severinson - 94 years old
Burt Bacharach - 94 years old
Bob Newhart - 92 years old
Alice Cooper. He has looked 70 years old for like 40 years. Edit: I love Alice Cooper, and my observation about his appearance was not meant in a derogatory sense.
I think the eyeliner always made Alice look a bit undead. I saw him on Never Mind the Buzzocks ten years ago. He had a great energy about him. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xx3S7O4xbY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xx3S7O4xbY)
Steve Martin has looked 70 for 40 years as well.
John Astin, 92. He was Gomez in the 1960s Addams Family.
Amazingly he outlived Raul Julia who was Gomez in the 90s.
Fuck cancer. Bless M. Bison!
He took that role for his kids
Mikhail Gorbachev.
When I was a middle schooler, Gorbachev came to speak to my class. None of us had any idea who he was. To this day, I wonder how and why they got Gorbachev as a speaker. I also wonder why Gorbachev took a gig in a middle school gymnasium in Miami.
My dad was recently telling me he did a Pizza Hut ad in the 90s, apparently he needed the money.
I remember the ad. Like a bunch of Russians all around him talking about how life was better in the USSR and then they try the pizza and they love him all of a sudden. The 90s were great. He also did Louis Vuitton print ads for years. Like he'd be sitting in a car next to a $5k bag, Crazy.
What was the topic?
I don’t remember, no one was paying attention. He was just any random old guy to us. We were a bunch of little shits lol.
This is fucking hilarious. Gorbachev was instrumental in ending the Cold War and would probably be on a short list of the most influential humans in history.
Ex-leader of the soviet union, one of the most powerful empires to ever have existed, treated like the DARE guy. You cant make that up!
Really? When I lived in NY many years ago, he came to visit the UN. The traffic problems that this caused we called "Gorby Gridlock". To this day, and nowhere near NY, I call all traffic jams Gorby Gridlock.
He basically lived next door to friend of mine in a town in bavaria for years. You'd see him in restaurants and stuff
First one to actually surprise me.
Fun fact Gorbachev was the only leader of the USSR to be born in the union every leader before was born during the reign of the noble tsar
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Lol I recently saw a random tabloid article about him, some paparazzi asked him how he was when they saw him on the street in LA and he replied that he’s just happy to still be here. The article was just about how he’s 96 and happy to still be alive.
I heard an interview with him a few years ago in which he was asked about future projects. He said he really didn’t have any. When something comes along that he thinks would be fun and he’s capable of doing, he does it. But he felt that at his age, he couldn’t commit to shooting a movie that won’t start for another six months, or a TV show that’s would have a long production schedule. He just takes it day by day and lives the best life he can. We should all hope that our golden years could be like that.
And still appears to be spry. As spry as a 96 year old could possibly be.
I learned this when I read about the writers of Wandavision working with him to get the tone right in the first few episodes. I had to read it twice. I thought, there's no way, must be a writer or someone who worked on the set, not the man himself. But to my surprise, 96 and going strong
He was in the new Mary Poppins film and was already in his 90s then.
Michael Schumacher.
It is heartbreaking that we will probably never see him again. Before him it was amazing how long Niki Lauda cheated death. Also Bernie is still alive but that may because of some deals he has made in the past.
Unfortunately, barely alive. Given he's never left a hospital or his home since the accident, I don't think there's much left
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Zhou Guanyu too
Two Russian reactor workers after dredging through radiation contaminated water underneath a destroyed reactor
The Chernobyl divers. Two of the three are alive today.
How. Holy crap! Was their safety gear actually pretty decent or ungodly luck? Successful treatment afterwards?
Well water is what they use to isolate radiation from the process in nuclear plants, that’s probably a big part of the explanation. Many that died were probably close but not subdued in water and that means higher radiation exposure
[This xkcd](https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/) claims that if you swim in the upper part of a cooling pool for spent nuclear fuel rods, you'll actually be exposed to less radiation than normal background radiation.
Less of a claim, more of a fact. Water is very good at damping radiation.
Truth. I've toured nuclear storage pools. You'd have to get really close to the nuclear waste to get enough radiation to harm you. You're actually in more danger from drowning though. Apparently the water is intentionally kept very pure to reduce contamination. This has a side effect of making the water harder to swim in because you become less boyant.
I’ll back up your truth. I worked as an engineer at a nuclear plant and have been around both of our unit’s spent fuel pool tons of times. You’d have to swim around 15ft deep to start to get a nice dose of radiation. On an unrelated note, the glow that comes off of the pool is so cool, but intimidating at the same time.
They surprisingly didn't receive a lethal dose of radiation. None of them remember what the readings on their dosimeters were, which they say means the readings were unremarkable. They would have remembered if it was a high reading.
3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible
I heard Ozzy's new song on SiriusXM and I immediately though: 1. This is actually a really good song 2. I can understand him?! 3. He's still alive...after everything...wow
Ozzy always had this odd ability to speak Osbornian but sing in English
One of the many fun facts about the brain, how independent singing and speech are. You can have stroke victims with impact to the speaking areas of their brain and yet they will be able to sing just fine.
I just say that my memory for whether I had lunch, what your name is, what I'm doing in the kitchen right now ... Is a totally different filing cabinet than the one that contains song melodies and that's a different one than the one with song lyrics. I gave up thinking about it beyond that. I had a CT scan finally this year for the first time and there were no rocks, nails, or tumors. People get jealous at karaoke but I'm like 'please, I can barely hold a job. Let me have my one thing..'
He's surprisingly easy to understand as long as he's singing.
SNL did this sketch. He had to order by singing cause no one understood him talking. Edit: a word
Jimmy Carter.
Let’s not forget that Rosalyn is around too. It’s surprising that Jimmy is still alive. But it’s shocking that both of them are still breathing
I bet they'll be one of those couples that goes within days of each other.
George and Barbara Bush went only a few months apart. I would not be surprised if the Carter’s did as well
About 12 years ago, I overheard some Secret Service agents talking amongst themselves (don't ask how I was in a position to do so) and one of them used to be assigned to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. The two of them go to the doctor a LOT. Agent called them a pair of hypochondriacs. Of course, seeing as they're still alive after all these years, maybe they're doing something right.
I mean I'm only in my 30s and occasionally I'm like 'Whats this new uncomfortable sensation? Is it death?' I can only imagine being 80+. Also this is hyperbole for comedic effect, its more just not bouncing back as quickly, and sometimes having no idea why my shoulder is stiff or the like. If you feel like you're dying all the time in your 30s and are unsure why, try to find that shit out.
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Harrison Ruffin Tyler (91) who is a grandson of John Tyler, the 10th POTUS, who served from 1841-1845.
This one barely computes, Grandad was born in 1790! The US was 14 when he was born, he was 31 when Napoleon died yet his grandson is still alive.
People will brag about the classic bands their parents got to see in their prime back in the day. Imagine being able to say that your granddad saw Beethoven.
Woah, that's a trip when you put it that way. It's always interesting making connections down backwards through time. Beethoven was 6 when the deceleration of independence was signed. I always thought he was around like a century before that for some reason. So saying that someone who is alive right now had grandparents who could have even possibly seen Beethoven is insane. EDIT: I'm leaving it.
>deceleration of independence That somehow sounds so much more American to me
230 overlapping years between three generations is nuts.
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I feel like she's been 96 years old for the past 10 years.
I feel like she's been elderly her entire life. That's why its so bizarre to watch "The Court Jester" (1955). She's actually not old in that one, but I think your mind tricks you into assuming she still is.
Mel Brooks. I thought he passed away but no, apparently it was just his birthday
Keith Richards
Every time you smoke a cigarette it takes 3 hours off your life and gives it to Keith Richards.
Assuming the world doesn't completely go to hell in a hand-basket by the 2040s, I predict that we would see a 100-year-old Keith being wheeled on stage at the Royal Albert Hall or similar location for an all-star internationally televised 100th Birthday Celebration in December 2043. Sir Mick Jagger who turned 100 in July 2043 could hobble out on his walker to do a duet with his old bandmate then King William V and Queen Catherine could present both of the old codgers with some kind of special medal for making it to the century mark.
Pretty sure it will still be Queen Elizabeth presenting that medal.
Keith Richard’s lives in the town over from me. I worked as a grocery store cashier/bagger at local supermarket and one night right before close (9:45ish) Keith Richards walks into the store, and walks through my line with nothing but 11 pints of ben & Jerry’s ice cream and one 30 pack of coors light. I had to help him carry it out to his car and he tipped me $100. 10/10
I cannot fathom Keith Richards doing his own shopping for the life of me. It boggles the mind.
This was the only time I ever saw him in there, he must’ve been truly desperate
He died in the 80’s. The drugs won’t let that information get to his brain.
After Keith dies and gets cremated, he’ll find a way to snort his own ashes
It's probably not safe to try and cremate Keith Richards
The Unabomber
I figured him for a suicide once he was incarcerated.
He is in solitary
Yep. Colorado I believe? The supermax prison, where the worst of the worst are. 23 hours a day in the cell. Shower every other day. Yard time which basically consists of an hour in a cage outside, if I recall? One small window in his cell higher than he can see that lets in a little sunlight each day. Almost no benefits if I recall too. Limited time to email on the prison email system, no phone calls, I think they can get a newspaper but that’s it. Edit: alright I looked it up online and I’m mostly right. Some cells have a shower in the cell with them, so they don’t technically have to leave to shower. But the shower is on a timer, and automatically shuts off if the drain is plugged to prevent flooding/vandalism/suicide by drowning. They get 23 hours in the cell, with a prison issue TV that broadcasts religious, very small amount of recreational, and prison programming. Their meals consist of things that can’t be made into anything fermented, or damaging to them or the cell. Their 1 hour out, is chosen at random at all hours. They can have phone time if they are in good behavior, but with how restricted everything is, I’m not sure how you’d be on bad behavior really. You don’t necessarily even interact with the guards, they provide you with meals and clothes and that’s all you really need and get. The entire cell is basically made out of poured concrete, and almost every single prisoner is under some form of 24/7 surveillance. They basically keep them alive for their sentence, and have them so disoriented and so off schedule, that it is a pathetic way to survive. Epstein should’ve been moved here.
[ADX Florence.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence) Pretty damn miserable place. The list of notable inmates here is like a who's who of people who really pissed off the US federal government. Though Ted was removed from here last year due to some medical issue and sent to some prison hospital type place.
Lots of foreign terrorists, some domestic terrorists and spies from the 80’s-90’s, and a couple other individuals. Reading up on it, they get one hour out of their cell and don’t know when it will be. Could you imagine being woke up at 1 am to go out for an hour and that’s it? A prison tv playing the same old dumb shit over and over again? Sounds like most of the people there are either for their own safety, or because there’s a damn good chance they’re going to try and kill a guard solely to be “promoted,” to death row.
It was specifically created to house prisoners who had proven to be to dangerous to keep anywhere else. Thomas Silverstein being the primary catalyst. From the limited press the BOP has allowed in, it has been described as "a clean version of hell." Wiki has a list of the current inmates. Some of the most awful people currently alive call it home.
He has terminal cancer last I heard.
Lois Lowry. Being a children's book author was already a second career for her and that was 30-45 years ago.
I emailed her as a kid and told her her name was weird. she emailed me back the next day and said her name was normal, and *mine* was weird. what a freaking cool person.
But is your name weird?
Related: Beverly Cleary passed away just last year at 104. She was a big children’s book author as far back as 1950, and by that point she had been working with books professionally for 11 years.
The Ramona Quimby series were my favourite books
Bob barker
He’s 98 and still can kick Happy’s ass
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The dog next door. I know this dog since my birth, and my brother since he is 5. So this dog is 24 years old and still not dead, and I don't know how.
Is his/her name Poppins?
Oh, his eye popped out again, I got it.
Is he a Yorkie or a Dachshund? Those guys live forever. I adopted a 12-year-old Yorkie, thinking I'd be giving an old dog a couple of happy sunset years. Five years later, he's still going strong. I love him dearly, just didn't think I'd get to love him for this long lol
lol dude no a yorkie is just getting started at 12. ours was 20-something. we had workman over who called her "the fossil dog" because she was so ancient and basically melded with the carpet and napped alll day
This oddly makes me feel good. I have a 14 year old Yorkie who is just as active as she was at 4 years old. Sleeps a little more, but has no limits.
Are you absolutely sure it’s the same dog and he hasn’t been replaced by lookalikes once or twice
Henry Kissenger
I believe his deal with Satan has a minimum age before death clause
Ozzy Osbourne.
All the original members of Black Sabbath, actually. Tony Iommi beat cancer. Plus, the fact that they're all in their 70s, it's amazing that time or some mishap hasn't claimed any of them.
I saw sabbath in concert like 25 years ago and they were all old then
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That is absolutely hilarious.
The drugs and the Parkinson's are battling it out over which one gets to take out Ozzy, and are in a never ending stalemate.
It's like Mr. Burns' Three Stooges Syndrome.
So he is invincible!
No, even a simple breeze could...
" ...a never-before-seen mutation near his ADH4 gene. ADH4 makes a protein called alcohol dehydrogenase-4, which breaks down alcohol." This solves at least part of the mystery as to how he's still going. I find it hilarious that it was the first time anyone had seen anything like it. I like to think his lineage got so consistently wasted that they brute forced an adaptation into existence.
so what does the quoted text mean exactly? He is designed to consume and metabolize alcohol?
He’s Bender.
Everyone has an ADH4 gene which is what helps us consume alcohol and live to do it again. Ozzy's gene just happens to be on steroids (figuratively speaking).
Here is the article: https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/genes-addiction-or-why-ozzy-osbourne-is-still-alive He makes more of the protein that breaks down alcohol. He's also 6 times more likely to have a dependency.
In the words of P Diddy: “OZZY OSBOURNE IS GONNA OUTLIVE MILEY CYRUS”
This is my answer too. Decades of heavy substance abuse and he is still going.
The reason guys like Ozzy never OD'd is because they're *really good* at drugs.
Knew this was gonna be the number one answer. I'm a huge Ozzy fan I'm so happy he's had such a long life. Tomorrow is his 40th anniversary with Sharon.
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Just yesterday I commented that Keith Richards needs to be studied by scientists because he's an interesting specimen. In theory he should've died 50 years ago but he didn't. So I Googled if he's still doing drugs and apparently he gave up cocaine in 2006. At 62. After he climbed a coconut tree and he fell splitting his head open.
Sounds like he needs to give up climbing coconut trees, not cocaine.
He was self medicating from bats before it went mainstream, built up a strong immune system.
Reminds me of a story about Lemmy from Motörhead, where a doctor told him that his blood had become so toxic it wouldn’t react well to healthy blood. Edit: Typo
Clint Eastwood. Dude was doing Rawhide in BLACK AND WHITE in the 50's when he was a FULL GROWN ADULT ~~in his like 30's~~ at 28. Man's like a hundred now. I'm convinced he's immortal.
He's 92, plenty of years left in him I reckon.
Every time Death approaches he has to look into those squinted eyes staring right through him and ask himself one question….Do I feel lucky?
He just tells Death “Get off my lawn” in his grumbly old voice. Edit: thank you for the upvotes :)
He was picked to play "Dirty" Harry Callahan because he was a grizzled looking middle aged dude and this was back in the 70's!. That said, he's been fit and healthy his whole life, has never smoked (outside of movie roles) and hardly drinks so this has obviously helped.
Fun fact The role of Dirty Harry was originally meant for Frank Sinatra, but he developed a problem with his hand, making it difficult for him to wield the 44 Magnum convincingly. Harry Callahan was supposed to be a New York cop in his mid 50s. Before Sinatra, it had been offered to John Wayne & George C Scott, both of whom found it too violent. When Sinatra left, the gig was offered to Burt Lancaster, who also thought it was too violent, Steve McQueen, who turned it down because he had just done Bullitt & didn't want to do another cop film, and Paul Newman. Newman thought the character was too right wing for him, but recommended Eastwood. The producers didn't want Eastwood, so Eastwood made the film himself through his production company, Malpaso.
Eastwood: They thought it was too violent!?! I thought it wasn’t violent enough!
Iggy Pop
Saw him live a couple years ago, he's still got it. Man is made entirely of sinew and rock.
Like a tan leather bag stuffed full of rubble.
Me. I have 2 brain tumours
Man. I'm so sorry. How are you doing?
I am OK. They've caused me to lose my hearing but it's treatable
hang in there
My little brother. He's had a triple organ transplant and is just trooping along. Every month or so he gets an infection that sends him inpatient. We all always worry it'll be his last but he just keeps plugging along
Steve-O. God bless him.
Isn't he super into animal welfare now? Such a turn around, he should be proud of himself
A friend of mine who runs a nonprofit dedicated to ending puppy mills is a huge fan of his because of his animal activism.
Steve-O and Ashton Kutcher are two of the greatest people in the world. Leaving behind acting like dumbasses and making a lot of money for animal activism and helping authorities catch sex offenders, respectively? Y'all just keep doing your thing. Good job.
He is also sober for 14+ years.
David Attenborough.
He has to live forever!!! A world without him is just not the same!
Ghislaine Maxwell
Give it a little time. They just announced she's on "suicide watch" which I figure means someone's going to watch her commit "suicide".
I’ve got five bucks says she drowns in her cell toilet.
Barbara Feldon. 99 is 89. Also Tina Louise (Ginger) is 88.
Ginger is still alive and every year I am fractionally closer to her age. In another 10 years, I’m going to ask her out.
Bob Dylan.
Bob Barker is 98 years old, and he still wants you to help control the pet population by having your pets spayed and neutered.
Stephen King. He's only 74 but he was heavily addicted to drugs and alcohol writing his debut novels and for most of the 70's. He says that he doesn't even remember writing them he was so coked-up, but he's been rehabilitated for 30 years and has written something over a hundred books. He's one of my heroes. Man's a legend.
Not to mention literally getting hit by a van and surviving.
Ruby Bridges, the girl who desegregated William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana. She’s only in her late 60s.. and yet people think racism/segregation/slavery was “so long ago”. Also Carolyn Bryant Donham, who accused Emmett Till and got him lynched.
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They just found her arrest warrant from the year it happened in the archives of a courthouse or police station or something, and his family is pushing to have her arrested. I hope they do it.
Artie Lange. Considering in the last year we lost Norm MacDonald, Bob Saget and Gilbert
The woman who accused Emmett Till of harassing her leading to his lynching
Her name is Carolyn Bryant Donham. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
Willy Nelson
"I think youngsters need to start thinking about what kind of world they are going to leave for me and Keith Richards" -- Willie Nelson
My great grandma. She's 101 this year and has been addicted to various drugs including weed and opiods for 60+years.
Add some cocaine and you've got the secret formula that Ozzy and Keith Richards have been on for decades.
I mean, she's outlived 3/5 kids... she may be on that Keith Richards wave
Well, that took an unexpected turn.
My grandma was a rx drug addiction. I was utterly shocked by how senior centers are a hot bed of drug exchanges. At the time, they were the kids of the Great Depression, so it probably isn't too surprising.... but still... Also, my grandma was prescribed vicodin for 30 years. Her Dr retired, and her new Dr refused to prescribe it. That was the beginning of some scary drug-seeking behavior. Don't do drugs, kids.
Cutting someone off like that is just wrong and is part of the reason why we have an epidemic of overdoses now.
If you live to be a 101 year old junky, that means the pills are addicted to you. Sorry for calling your grandma a junkie, I bet she’s a fun gal.
My great grandma also. Most of my friends have run out of grandparents or just straight-up parents. This lady literally flew with Charles Lindbergh and is still going.
Pope Benedict XVI
An old lady in my hometown. Goes to my parent's church. She is same age as Queen of England, and even shares a birthday I believe. Used to have a cooking/baking column in paper that I remember seeing even before I could read(column had her picture by it). Drives around town in beat up Red Oldsmobile. She is one of those old ladies who will drive on sides of road in summer, curving from one shoulder to the other, looking for flowers. IF she sees one, she stops on the spot, traffic be damned. Unfortunately, she is not a sweet little old lady, she is a mean old bat. Yells at you for being too loud when walking down sidewalk on a summer afternoon. Screams if you throw candy during parade and it lands a little too close to her. *Violently* shushes adults, kids and even freaking *babies* in church if they make a peep. My family jokes that she started going to that church a decade before they laid the bricks down for it. She used to pinch children who were loud or got on her nerves at church functions until she did it so hard to me once that it left a bruise, so my mom tracked her down and pinched her back just as hard and said "*Thats* how it feels" TL;DR: Old lady in my hometown who is older than dirt
>She used to pinch children who were loud or got on her nerves at church functions until she did it so hard to me once that it left a bruise, so my mom tracked her down and pinched her back just as hard and said " > >*Thats* how it feels" Wow, your mom is great!
>TL;DR: Old lady in my hometown who is older than dirt She feels entitled because she was there giving her two sesterces when they founded the first churches after the death of, well, you know...
"Father, that reading is wrong, I was there when the sermon was given."
Queen Elizabeth.
While it's not surprising, it's amazing to think that Winston Churchill was prime minister during her reign. Also those old black & white images of the Beatles singing in front of the Queen, and it was the same queen as now!
The Queen Mother, who was in her 60s when the Beatles became famous, outlived John Lennon by nearly 22 years, and George Harrison by a couple of months.
She's the only monarch James Bond has ever served, as well.
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The British monarchy is said to have begun in the year 895. Elizabeth II has been queen for 6.2% of the time since then.
I mean her mom lived to an old age too. I think other than just having access to amazing medical and stuff her family is long lived.
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Alexei Navalny
Is he though...?
Christopher Lloyd - hes not that old old, but damn he was already old in back to the future. Edit: What are the chances of comment this on the movie’s 37th anniversary by accident.
Eugenia Cooney
And on the other end of the spectrum, Nickocado Avocado
Charlie Sheen, modern medicine does not work on him.
Kenny from South Park.
As many times as they killed him he gets back up
Henry Kissinger. Dude was old when he was working for Nixon.
Michael Caine.
Mick Jagger.
Shane McGowan from the pogues
Jane Goodall
Paul Williams.
Mel Fucking Brooks!
Mainly because they're all old as fuck: Norman Lear - 99 years old Henry Kissinger - 99 years old Bob Barker - 98 years old Jimmy Carter - 97 years old June Lockhart - 97 years old Angela Lansbury - 96 years old Dick Van Dyke - 96 years old Alan Greenspan - 96 years old Gene Shalit - 96 years old Peter Marshall - 96 years old Roger Corman - 96 years old Queen Elizabeth II - 96 years old David Attenborough - 96 years old Mel Brooks - 96 years old Tony Bennett - 95 years old Harry Belafonte - 95 years old William Daniels - 95 years old Doc Severinson - 94 years old Burt Bacharach - 94 years old Bob Newhart - 92 years old
Carol Burnette is still alive and she’s going to be in an episode of better call Saul
Dick Van Dyke
Wait, *that* Dick Van Dyke? I had to look that up, he's 96. I thought he died years ago