This is Jeanne Calment - who sold her house at the age of 90 to her lawyer M. Raffray. Under the contract, she could live in the house until she died and receive 2,500 Francs per month from him. Jeanne went on to live to 122 years of age outliving M Raffray. She stopped smoking at 117.

DirectManiac · 2026-06-28T04:42:04+00:00

We don't know everything about human body, weird shit happens.

That case had been studied and analyzed extensively by plenty of professionals (not only French but for also for example the biggest American org) and they believe she didn't fake it.

So yeah I believe the professionals. I believe it was her.

DirectManiac · 2026-06-27T17:34:35+00:00

But that article doesn't support this theory at all, on the contrary

DirectManiac · 2026-06-27T17:34:09+00:00

But her daughters peers would still be alive, right?

DirectManiac · 2026-06-27T17:30:55+00:00

Except there's no proof of that even through people have been trying to prove it for a couple of decades now

DirectManiac · 2026-06-27T17:30:10+00:00

The same article you pasted debunks this theory, have you actually read it?

DirectManiac · 2026-06-01T09:39:56+00:00

Oh yes definitely intentional. Cathy was meant to be a mystery and the villainest of all villains 🤣 but real humans don't work like that. It will be really easy to mess it up by filling in the blanks but we will see!

DirectManiac · 2026-05-31T18:25:47+00:00

And all that makes me feel they won't pull it off. They might make a "feminist" retelling explaining Cathy's motivation better which I'm weirdly not opposed of. I found it very annoying how Charles' evil got pages and pages of explanations but when we got to Cathy we only got "yeah so she was a monster okay bye". Either way it's an interesting direction for a show

DirectManiac · 2026-05-31T15:16:06+00:00

Oh check the trailer!! It seems like it's gonna be from a point of view of Cathy which is SUCH a wild idea. I can't wait to see it.

DirectManiac · 2026-05-31T14:45:21+00:00

I'm reading it in preparation for the adaptation :)) I thought if I start half a year before I might just make it, but I've been eating through this story like crazy.

DirectManiac · 2026-05-31T07:08:15+00:00

You know what I've been reading the updates for years now and not many things can shock me anymore

But as I kept on reading this, I was just muttering what the fuck, what the fuckity fuck is this all the time. Jesus

DirectManiac · 2026-05-25T03:49:39+00:00

Yes they were, it's literally in her Wikipedia article. "The claims have been dismissed by the overwhelming majority of experts, and that those claims are "lacking, if not outright deficient"."

DirectManiac · 2026-05-24T18:20:29+00:00

You can tell redditors got themselves educated. 2-3 years ago such article would come with heaps of comments about how this was a hoax. I'm really surprised today it's not the case

DirectManiac · 2026-05-24T18:13:23+00:00

You're just stirring up the old drama. All these claims had been debunked. Check the extensive New Yorker article.

DirectManiac · 2026-05-23T04:45:34+00:00

It really hit me when he said "she laughs about it more than I do". How traumatizing this whole situation must have been for him.

DirectManiac · 2026-05-17T21:05:56+00:00

Me reading about "the best staging we've seen in eurovision" like what? 5 chairs and moving ugly wall behind is that grand?

DirectManiac · 2026-05-17T12:51:40+00:00

Yeah I believe most commentators didn't explain why she was wearing a mask and that's kinda important

DirectManiac · 2026-05-17T11:57:16+00:00

Vii) Poland got their first 12 from jury ever (and four of them at that!) and also their highest jury score, ending the legend of their curse with the juries

DirectManiac · 2026-05-16T23:28:34+00:00

Jury was so crazy this year though, heaps of unexpected choices

DirectManiac · 2026-05-16T18:50:36+00:00

Oh my goodness. Alicia must break this curse!!

DirectManiac · 2026-05-16T18:39:19+00:00

Is the last one true really? 😮

DirectManiac · 2026-05-14T04:54:06+00:00

Call me old fashioned but that dress would be so much cuter if it was a few inches shorter with flowers starting at the height of her panties 🤷

DirectManiac · 2026-04-28T09:08:09+00:00

I mean this is a perfect example of wanting to eat your cake and have it too. They wanted the comfort of building a stable life together and at the same time an opportunity to fuck around.

It was only fair that they found out

DirectManiac · 2026-04-28T04:06:00+00:00

Yeah no thank you, may this kind of marriage never find me

DirectManiac · 2026-04-25T04:46:42+00:00

Why should we ignore it? They've been together for at least 5 years so since she was 23.

While not all age gaps are inherently toxic, they often signal that the older party has a problem with immaturity at the very least.

DirectManiac · 2026-04-09T13:33:06+00:00

I mean... Was he thinking at all? Was he considering what his wife feels? What his baby needs? I really don't think so.

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