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Old 27-08-2016, 11:47
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Gaahh .. i've done it again. I keep forgetting that everything is a lie unless DS says so.
Really? Throwing your toys out of the pram. I didn't think you were that fragile tbh.
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Old 27-08-2016, 11:56
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If this is true it would be absolutely amazing, but I'm not sure it is....
The article mentions 2 people who are/were 163 and 171 apparently
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Old 27-08-2016, 12:07
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The proven limit of 122 years would have seemed incredible at one time.
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Old 27-08-2016, 12:23
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I've certainly made no suggestion this should be accepted as fact, but either way it doesn't change the fact that there are very many people on DS who seem to take great delight in immediately denouncing something as untrue based seemingly on the fact that they said so.
Not only that but automatically calling you a liar or fantasist if you post anything anecdotal.
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Old 27-08-2016, 12:23
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Suspect he's using his father's or grandfather's ID documents and passing them off as his own. Probably the family involved, hoping to get some cash from the press.
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Old 27-08-2016, 12:25
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Suspect he's using his father's or grandfather's ID documents and passing them off as his own. Probably the family involved, hoping to get some cash from the press.
Hmmm - there should be some degree of confirmation from the dates of birth of his children, grandchildren, great grandchildren etc. Needs carefully looking into before dismissing it.
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Old 27-08-2016, 12:29
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Lots of elderly people are ready and waiting to die, when you've lost all your close people/family before you get there I can imagine life gets a bit lonely.
Not that my late mum was ever lonely but i often heard her use the expression, "i'm ready to meet my maker" whenever she heard really bad news on television. I think it's an expression of resignation. They've been through a lot of life, some leading more fuller lives than others but basically 'done it all'.
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Old 27-08-2016, 12:30
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If it's true, it'd be interesting to see what his diet consists of.
Probably
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Old 27-08-2016, 13:00
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Boom Boom!
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Old 27-08-2016, 13:15
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Gaahh .. i've done it again. I keep forgetting that everything is a lie unless DS says so.
Yeees... the very same article you posted mentions a 171-year-old Nigerian.

Perhaps he doubles-up as that deposed Nigerian prince called Fortuitous Goodluck who keeps emailing me wanting to rest $25,000,000 in my bank account for just a few days?

PS. I'm currently selling a very limited quantity of magic beans. Contact me privately if you'd like to buy them...

Not only that but automatically calling you a liar or fantasist if you post anything anecdotal.
No, when you post something that doesn't sound credible based upon anecdotal evidence.

Do you understand why people who claim to have been abducted by aliens or were Napoleon in a previous live are seldom believed?

Conversely, you can post on these forums that you've heard a "rumour" (in other words, you just made it up) that a celebrity is gay or is a nasty person in real life, or was born a man and it's just mindlessly accepted and repeated.
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Old 27-08-2016, 13:19
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Poor Gazza, looks rougher than ever.
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Old 27-08-2016, 13:25
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This is what a daily diet of special k and bananas can do...

I think we should run some hoax like this, but say it is possible on anchovies or something horrible. And just watch, for our entertainment.
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Old 27-08-2016, 13:26
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No, when you post something that doesn't sound credible based upon anecdotal evidence.

Do you understand why people who claim to have been abducted by aliens or were Napoleon in a previous live are seldom believed?
Nothing is accepted as credible for some.
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Old 27-08-2016, 13:31
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Nothing is accepted as credible for some.
Exactly, for some - conspiracy theorists.

For normal people, it may sound credible that Simon Cowell secretly dyes his hair whilst labelling the claim by a Nigerian that he is 171-years-old as hokum.

What's wrong with that? It's what used to be called common sense in the pre-millennial era.
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Old 27-08-2016, 13:58
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when he dies, they can saw his leg off and count the rings
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Old 27-08-2016, 14:24
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lol of course he is not 145!

I could say im a person who was born in the UK in 1870, the documents of my birth exist and confirm it, correct?
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Old 27-08-2016, 14:36
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lol of course he is not 145!

I could say im a person who was born in the UK in 1870, the documents of my birth exist and confirm it, correct?
Yes and no. Of course he isn't 145, but...

At the risk of sounding like a Millennial's sterotypical racist social injustice warrior kind of thing, I'd like to think that if you applied for a British passport and sent your grandfather's birth certificate as proof of the date you wrote on the form, Our boys & gals in the Passport Office would throw your application out like a nutter during the first round of Britain's Got Talent. Whereas their counterparts in Malaysian offices... ???

Mind you, it makes me wonder what would happen if this person travelled into the UK on that passport. Would our border control people in airports just let him go through either because they were obliged to trust the passport or because he was too old to be a dodgepot. Or would they notice the date and detain hum until the matter was fully investigated by authorities in both countries?

And that's before you contemplate the same situation for the 171 year old Nigerian.
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Old 27-08-2016, 14:56
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Really? Throwing your toys out of the pram. I didn't think you were that fragile tbh.
I've told you a million times, do not exaggerate ..

Not only that but automatically calling you a liar or fantasist if you post anything anecdotal.
Oh you do have to countersign anything you post with a 15 point disclaimer, complete with documented proof that you're only talking anecdotally or even conversationally and that you're not actually making any kind of statement of fact or attempting a gag
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Old 27-08-2016, 16:53
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Actually, if he really is that old, it would be very interesting if his DNA etc could be examined after he does eventually die, to see what it might reveal about longevity.
Why do they need to wait for him to die to examine his DNA? Won't he agree to a sample being taken?
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Old 27-08-2016, 18:11
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Why do we never hear of anyone in the UK living this long?
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Old 27-08-2016, 18:15
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Why do we never hear of anyone in the UK living this long?
Because they know no one would believe it.
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Old 27-08-2016, 18:38
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Why do we never hear of anyone in the UK living this long?
Because by the late nineteenth century almost everyone in this country had verifiable birth certificates so any outlandish claims would be quickly disproven.
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Old 27-08-2016, 18:59
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when he dies, they can saw his leg off and count the rings
I was gonna post something similar but you beat me to it! Nobody can live to 145, It's simply not possible yet, unless the guy is an Alien or something.
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Old 27-08-2016, 19:36
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Lots of elderly people are ready and waiting to die, when you've lost all your close people/family before you get there I can imagine life gets a bit lonely.
I was just making a bluff lead in joke (and a pretty bad one I admit), upon seeing the first several posts claiming this story to be false. I'm actually all for him thinking whatever he likes, although I would personally want to make it to 150 if by some miracle I lived to that close.
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Old 27-08-2016, 20:08
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The Nigerian is only 171?

Meh.

I know a bloke who is 324 - he smokes 120 Capstan Full Strength and drinks a bottle of whiskey a day.

Buses don't run him down he runs them down.
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