Worlds oldest person dies

[tribalsurfer]

https://news.sky.com/story/worlds-oldest-person-di...

Can't help but feel someone born in 1900 wasn't the last known survivor of the 19th Century.

[wildoliver]

On the positive side the position was instantly filled by a new world's oldest person.

[Dr Jekyll]

tribalsurfer said:

https://news.sky.com/story/worlds-oldest-person-di...

Can't help but feel someone born in 1900 wasn't the last known survivor of the 19th Century.

Interesting question.

If you regard 1900 as the first year of the 20th century, then 100 was the first year of the 2nd, so 1BC was the first year of the 1st century AD.
If you regard year 1 AD as the first year of the first century, then 1901 was the first year of the 20th.
Unless of course there was a year zero.
When did people first start using the AD year numbering?

[Zetec-S]

tribalsurfer said:

https://news.sky.com/story/worlds-oldest-person-di...

Can't help but feel someone born in 1900 wasn't the last known survivor of the 19th Century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century

wikipedia said:

The 19th century was a century that began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Dr Jekyll said:

Unless of course there was a year zero.

Only in Cambodia.

[mattyn1]

Zetec-S said:

tribalsurfer said:

https://news.sky.com/story/worlds-oldest-person-di...

Can't help but feel someone born in 1900 wasn't the last known survivor of the 19th Century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century

wikipedia said:

The 19th century was a century that began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900.

Does that mean we celebrated the millennium on the wrong night?

[Moonhawk]

According to some estimates - the "worlds oldest person" dies, on average, every 6-9 months........

[anonymous-user]

Moonhawk said:

According to some estimates - the "worlds oldest person" dies, on average, every 6-9 months........

I don't know, it just seems cruel to keep resuscitating her.

[Moonhawk]

fblm said:

Moonhawk said:

According to some estimates - the "worlds oldest person" dies, on average, every 6-9 months........

I don't know, it just seems cruel to keep resuscitating her.

Maybe she's just a crap stand-up comic who only takes occasional gigs

[TTwiggy]

wildoliver said:

On the positive side the position was instantly filled by a new world's oldest person.

They should keep the new one under close scrutiny as someone is clearly bumping them off with impunity.

[AJL308]

mattyn1 said:

Zetec-S said:

tribalsurfer said:

https://news.sky.com/story/worlds-oldest-person-di...

Can't help but feel someone born in 1900 wasn't the last known survivor of the 19th Century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century

wikipedia said:

The 19th century was a century that began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900.

Does that mean we celebrated the millennium on the wrong night?

Yes.

[Moonhawk]

TTwiggy said:

They should keep the new one under close scrutiny as someone is clearly bumping them off with impunity.

The 6-9 month serial killer

[anonymous-user]

Moonhawk said:

TTwiggy said:

They should keep the new one under close scrutiny as someone is clearly bumping them off with impunity.

The 6-9 month serial killer

I've seen enough CSI to know that serial killers stick to their own race so probably asian and the lack of suspicious circumstances would suggest poisoning so also a woman. That should narrow it down a bit.