111 year old owes longevity to never drinkin alcohol!!!

[MilwaukeeMike]

Ok, so this 111 year old Japanese man says he owes his longevity to never drinking alcohol. :eek:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070618/wl_nm/japan_oldest_dc

While, I cannot fathom never drinking or living to 111 years old; I would rather have had all the good times Ive had "with" alcohol than live a life of sobriety. I don't think I could watch a football game without a Miller in my hand.

So would you, JREF member, give up a life of alcohol and any other vice that "may" reduce your life to live to be a crotchety old man who can't remember something from 5 minutes ago.

Or live life, enjoying its many pleasures... Thats not to say you have to go through life like Chris Farley and John Belushi.

Just to add a bit more to this, is our society built around getting drunk and stupid whenever we can. Or is that just a guy thing.

[shecky]

Somebody put that poor old man out of his misery.

[MelBrooksfan]

I don't drink anyway and have a very low chance of living to such a shriveled overripe age..

[BPSCG]

"I don't drink alcohol -- that is the biggest reason for my good health..."
And you know this because...

[pchams]

Exactly BPSCG.
Everytime I hear one of these people answer as to what contributed to their old age, I have to say, how would one know.
There is no control. Even a twin may have different environmental circumstances.
Dumb statement.

[billydkid]

All this time I thought it was yogurt that did the trick.

[Morrigan]

Good for him. I hate alcohol myself.

[Tony]

Didn't another centarian recently say that his long life was attributed to his drinking a beer a day?

[casebro]

I don't know who said it, but a pertinant quote is:

" It's not how many breaths you take, It's how many times you have been breathless. "

[geni]

To be fair he has to give some answer to the "why aren't you dead?" question. The media are not going to be pleased with "pure fluke".

The content of the answer isn't really too relivant. The media will be just as happy with "by doing everything in moderation" as "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women — and a good sense of humour" (Henry Allingham britian's oldest person).

[nimzov]

I would rather have had all the good times Ive had "with" alcohol than live a life of sobriety. I don't think I could watch a football game without a Miller in my hand.
Personnaly I do not drink and I don't think I need alcohol to experience good times in life. :cool:

nimzo

Maybe I should change my avatar though. ;)

[sackett]

Let's recall that old man, also from Japan, who at one time was thought to be 120 years old when he died. (He may not in fact have reached that age; these matters are often unclear.) He drank EIGHT OUNCES! of samshu EVERY DAY! That wasn't longevity, that was simple preservation in alcohol.

[pgwenthold]

I'll drink to that!

[thaiboxerken]

Wow, 111yrs old and never ever partied. That's over a century of boredom.

[Bob Klase]

My grandfather used to say "Eat healthy, exercise, don't drink, smoke, or do anything to excess and you'll live to be 110... if you call that living".

He made it to 99.

[Rasmus]

So would you, JREF member, give up a life of alcohol and any other vice that "may" reduce your life to live to be a crotchety old man who can't remember something from 5 minutes ago.

"A life of alcohol"? I do not life a life of alcohol, but I am certainly not abstinent, either.

Also, I feel the need to ask how reliable is the claim that he never once consumed alcohol if he can't even remember what he did 5 minutes ago?

Seriously, though: If you could guarantee me n more years if I obstained from certain things for the rest of my life I'd start thinking. (Assuming no accidents, etc. of course.) I am not sure what conclusion I would reach, though. Imagine for every single drink, piece of chocolate, etc. you'd have to ask yourself "Is it worth 5 years?" (And then go through the process of estimating how many other pieces of chocoalte you could also have once you had the first, of course.)

I whish I could say that my answer would be to have a glass of beer.

More realistically, I can't tell the future, but a slice of pizza now is a slice of pizza now.

[Tsukasa Buddha]

Getting drunk is really just part of our society. I'm going into college and they don't bother telling us not to drink, they just tell us not to let our drinking get us into trouble.

I prefer not to ingest intoxicants. I find that they taste gross and am against the idea of getting high. However, to think that he could prove that this is the reason that he lived so long is rather ridiculous.

If I lived that long, I would say it was due to cute puppies :p .

[BPSCG]

To be fair he has to give some answer to the "why aren't you dead?" question. The media are not going to be pleased with "pure fluke". Candidate for the Top Ten thread in humor - top ten smartass answers to "why aren't you dead yet?"

Masturbate every chance I get;
Sleep no more than 45 minutes each night;
Waiting for $ylviaBrowne to accept Randi's challenge;
Floss at least four hours every day;
Knock the bottom out of your wife every chance I get;
Daily massages from my faithful manservant, Hector;
Ten Big Macs a day / Keep the Grim Reaper away...;
Go bar-hopping every night, take someone home, bite him/her on the neck, drain his/her blood;
Oh, 111 in decimal? Well, that would make me only seven years old...;
Whoops, it's time to masturbate again.

[Mojo]

Ok, so this 111 year old Japanese man says he owes his longevity to never drinking alcohol. :eek:


He hasn't really lived that long; it just feels as if he has...

[MilwaukeeMike]

Personnaly I do not drink and I don't think I need alcohol to experience good times in life. :cool:

nimzo

Maybe I should change my avatar though. ;)

Yah but it sure makes a good time even better!!!:)

[MilwaukeeMike]

Wow, 111yrs old and never ever partied. That's over a century of boredom.

Or laid, since we all know alcohol increases the chances of that. :cool:

[MilwaukeeMike]

"A life of alcohol"? I do not life a life of alcohol, but I am certainly not abstinent, either.

Also, I feel the need to ask how reliable is the claim that he never once consumed alcohol if he can't even remember what he did 5 minutes ago?

Seriously, though: If you could guarantee me n more years if I obstained from certain things for the rest of my life I'd start thinking. (Assuming no accidents, etc. of course.) I am not sure what conclusion I would reach, though. Imagine for every single drink, piece of chocolate, etc. you'd have to ask yourself "Is it worth 5 years?" (And then go through the process of estimating how many other pieces of chocoalte you could also have once you had the first, of course.)

I whish I could say that my answer would be to have a glass of beer.

More realistically, I can't tell the future, but a slice of pizza now is a slice of pizza now.

And maybe if you ate enough chocolate, you could eat yourself out of existence?

[MilwaukeeMike]

[QUOTE=BPSCG;2699877]Candidate for the Top Ten thread in humor - top ten smartass answers to "why aren't you dead yet?"
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Oh, 111 in decimal? Well, that would make me only seven years old...;

Or dog years, so he is actually like 700 years old.

[Miss Anthrope]

I'd be willing to bet tea and fish can certainly help.

[nimzov]

Yah but it sure makes a good time even better!!!:)
Certainly not the morning after. :p

nimzo

[krazyKemist]

Personnaly I do not drink and I don't think I need alcohol to experience good times in life. :cool:

nimzo

Maybe I should change my avatar though. ;)

Yeah, good thinking... Maybe you could pick, oh, I dont know, Nicolas Sarcozy ? :D

[Irony]

The most sensible reply I heard from some 100+ year old about their longevity was on a talk show (Leno I think).

Leno: So What's the secret to living so long.
Old Guy: Don't die.

[roger]

In the picture he looks like the most miserable person in existance.

Kids! Drink alcohol, or you'll end up like this poor old guy.

[Silly Green Monkey]

Ethanol would certainly make me that miserable. Blech.

[Zep]

Ok, so this 111 year old Japanese man says he owes his longevity to never drinking alcohol.He inhaled it.

[Schneibster]

A bon mot from Lenny Bruce appears appropriate here.

A guy goes to his guru and says, "Guru, I wish to live forever. What must I do?"

The guru says, "My son, you must never drink, never smoke, and never sleep with any bad women."

The guy goes, "So, guru, if I never drink, never smoke, and never sleep with any bad women, will I live forever?"

And the guru replies, "No, my son, but it will seem like it."

[SoBitter]

I can't say I've had any experiences while drunk that I wouldn't give up to live longer. Especially if I could live longer as a teenager or in my 20's. Unfortunately that's not how it works.

As Dick says in 3rd Rock From The Sun...

Someone else: Don't you know that smoking takes years off your life?
Dick: Yes, but that's at the end of your life, and those years are crappy anyway.

[Cain]

On a video added to youtube James Randi either says he does not drink or has never had a drink -- his reasoning being that he does not want to consume drugs that will impair his rationality. I've never consumed alcohol, and my twenties have been relatively uneventful (except for the one time I killed a hobo in Pico Rivera).

I think that guy who lived to be 114 in Boston (maybe he's still alive) had a daughter who owned a bar. I bet he drank. I also recall an old, abrasive woman attribute her long life to smoking, drinking, and cussing every day.

[Sir Robin Goodfellow]

Do some people actually think that it's impossible to enjoy life without booze or smokes? Can't have had fun if you can remember it? That kind of thing. I know folks like that, and they seem kind of pathetic to me.

[joyrex]

If I'd think that, I would see myself as pathetic. It's more like a meme that most agree upon with a blink in their eye. I'm perfectly capable of attaining enjoyment without intoxicants. Maybe it's a brain chemistry thing too.

[MilwaukeeMike]

Oh, I'll enjoy a good run or a relaxing day on the beach without booze. But if I have the option of staying in on a Friday night, or going out to the bar, Im going to go to the bar almost every time.. Unless Im sick. Its not that I get blackout drunk, I do get drunk though, its that its a way to loosen up with people and mingle and meet new and interesting people you (at least me) most likely would not have met... Now Im not talking about your hole in the wall bars. I go downtown to the nice bars, like Moe's Irish Pub or . For any of you from the Milwaukee area.