Victorian women | Life in Victorian times | 108 year old woman | Money Go Round | 1977

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  • Опубликовано: 22 июл 2018
  • Joan Shenton speaks to Mrs. Florence Pannel born in 1868 speaks to about life for women in Victorian times, and also what it was like setting up a Beauty care business during those times including her life in Paris. This is the complete section of the interview that appeared in the show.
    First shown: 25/02/1977
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Комментарии • 23 тыс.

  • @TheNightWatcher1385
    @TheNightWatcher1385 4 года назад +24912

    Imagine being able to casually say, “if I recall correctly, it was 100 years ago.”

    • @wadel.2465
      @wadel.2465 3 года назад +579

      The Night Watcher I’ll be happy if I can say 80 years ago, lol.

    • @mimi-zz9nf
      @mimi-zz9nf 3 года назад +96

      That would be so funny 😂

    • @Melissab704
      @Melissab704 3 года назад +26

      Hahahahahaha

    • @3alaiyer
      @3alaiyer 3 года назад +89

      Wade L. I’ll be happy if I can say 20 years ago

    • @timidequinox1789
      @timidequinox1789 3 года назад +19

      I rather die today

  • @edu.33
    @edu.33 5 лет назад +17973

    Born 1868, made it to the internet

    • @noirblanque5324
      @noirblanque5324 4 года назад +601

      Unfortunately not, she died in 1980

    • @edu.33
      @edu.33 4 года назад +1409

      @@noirblanque5324 i mean she is on the internet NOW and forever. Well, until internet is taken from us for "security reasons"

    • @Doors067
      @Doors067 4 года назад +92

      hugh mongus it wont be pretty when that happens, very likely the end of civilization. I say this merely in the fact that not enough people will be able to adopt a pre technology lifestyle successfully and will lead to violence paranoia ect ect

    • @SadamYT
      @SadamYT 4 года назад +70

      @@edu.33 In this way, Vladimir Lenin is on the internet too.

    • @noirblanque5324
      @noirblanque5324 4 года назад +2

      hugh mongus oh

  • @bag3lmonst3r72
    @bag3lmonst3r72 8 месяцев назад +1630

    Florence Pannell. Born in 1868, the same year as Tsar Nicholas II. Older than Churchill by 6 years. France still had an Emperor. 18 when the Statue of Liberty came up, 21 when the Eiffel Tower was built. 35 when the first airplane flew, 46 when WWI started, 59 when the first TV broadcast was made, 77 when WWII ended, 89 when Sputnik orbited the earth, 101 when humans landed on the Moon, 111 when the Shah of Iran was overthrown, and died in 1980, the same year as John Lennon. She was the oldest person in Europe at the time of her death.
    What a ride.

    • @goldmund22
      @goldmund22 5 месяцев назад +75

      Top tier comment. Amazing to see that - already had lived 100 years and witnessed humans landing on the moon. Absolutely wild

    • @Web3Z
      @Web3Z 5 месяцев назад +21

      Now that’s perspective

    • @Samstar369
      @Samstar369 5 месяцев назад +9

      Feels like a Vsauce bit for his illusions of time. Such a fascinating timeline

    • @vapordreams983
      @vapordreams983 5 месяцев назад +1

      Older than fucking Vladimir Lenin, Calvin Coolidge, Joseph Stalin, Douglas Macarthur, and Mao Zedong

    • @user-tw3re9hg3j
      @user-tw3re9hg3j 4 месяца назад +3

      I know you are referred to her life and how she lived when you say"what a ride " but that phrase can also be picked up wrong depending on where you live 😂

  • @maxizac7
    @maxizac7 Год назад +4695

    Just remember that Florence was 48 years old when the first wold war, and 77 when the second. And she still lived 35 more years after that event. Incredible.

    • @ennatubic4897
      @ennatubic4897 Год назад +109

      your math aint mathing huh

    • @unholylemonpledge9730
      @unholylemonpledge9730 Год назад +3

      Ok

    • @floridadude9546
      @floridadude9546 Год назад +194

      If Mrs. Florence was 108 in the year 1977 that means she probably was born in 1869. World War 1 started in 1914 so she would have been 45 and then World War 2 started Sept. 1939 so she would have been 70.

    • @nitrowolf17
      @nitrowolf17 Год назад +112

      Her date of birth- 1868. And death is 1980. This is what the events she lived through- Ten years war (1868), Spanish American war (1898), world war 1, world war 2, even Korean and Vietnam war . Dang

    • @gamesvideo200
      @gamesvideo200 Год назад +57

      @@nitrowolf17 living during the victorian era was a war itself

  • @fayeritenburg568
    @fayeritenburg568 3 года назад +7890

    I am 82 years old, and when I was young, my grandfather told stories of young men waiting at street corners waiting to see a woman’s ankle when she stepped off the curb!

    • @ayeshapyesha7301
      @ayeshapyesha7301 3 года назад +924

      Oh my god!!! As a Muslim woman I find this hilarious for some reason :D

    • @subhadramahanta452
      @subhadramahanta452 3 года назад +368

      Please tell us more about your experiences and the war, before it and its aftermath.

    • @RA-ex7ir
      @RA-ex7ir 3 года назад +605

      LMAO imagine those men now , women now wear next to nothing . those men would have a field day in this era.

    • @happytofu5
      @happytofu5 3 года назад +978

      so no matter how conceiling the clothes, creeps will be creeps - . -'

    • @reinal7896
      @reinal7896 3 года назад +239

      Faye Ritenburg
      Oh how I wish they could see today ! Although, prostitutes always existed. Older eras really weren’t as naive or “prude” as we make them out to be lol

  • @craftingwithcarter2261
    @craftingwithcarter2261 3 года назад +7984

    she lived to be 112. imagine being 80 years old and still having another 32 years to live

    • @danieladams4561
      @danieladams4561 3 года назад +21

      😂

    • @drdr76
      @drdr76 3 года назад +46

      I am 62, that's what keeps me going, hope.

    • @jayray7230
      @jayray7230 3 года назад +120

      I'd rather not

    • @missjenny1953
      @missjenny1953 3 года назад +366

      Only if you have a sharp mind like her

    • @eajaros
      @eajaros 3 года назад +35

      That’s the goal!

  • @Chiffawndue
    @Chiffawndue Год назад +7024

    She passed away 3 years after this was made. She was 111 years old. That's absolutely wild. It's kind of sad to think she may have outlived any potential children though

    • @Mxyzptlksac
      @Mxyzptlksac Год назад +325

      That happens to a lot of elderly people. They outlive friends and family

    • @IgnoretheButter
      @IgnoretheButter Год назад +124

      I wonder if she ever got to fly

    • @beanceline
      @beanceline Год назад +475

      i once had a patient who turned 100 years old. i wished her a happy birthday and asked if she would celebrate. she said "with whom? theres no one left but me"

    • @laylajackson99
      @laylajackson99 Год назад +118

      @@beancelineawww so sad

    • @eman6940
      @eman6940 Год назад +26

      R.I.P. 🙏

  • @Raina430
    @Raina430 Год назад +6222

    Incredible. Her mind is lucid, her speech not only precise, but she’s a great storyteller with a great voice.

  • @jk.2464
    @jk.2464 4 года назад +19707

    imagine asking about the 60’s and then being asked which one

  • @snozer6966
    @snozer6966 4 года назад +10833

    For being 108 years old she actually looked pretty good

    • @angelinaduot1709
      @angelinaduot1709 4 года назад +730

      Ikr look she’s was actively movin and everything and u can actually understand her talking

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 4 года назад +22

      @@angelinaduot1709 is there any reason why you should not understand🤔

    • @etienneditolve1567
      @etienneditolve1567 4 года назад +526

      ​@@misscoutts6193 A lot of old people, even way younger than her, can't speak properly anymore, they can't put together a logical speech, or can't articulate words in a clear way etc.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 4 года назад +10

      @@etienneditolve1567 why!?

    • @nathanchung27
      @nathanchung27 4 года назад +241

      miss havisham The older a brain gets, the more it deteriorates.

  • @lisakay1006
    @lisakay1006 Год назад +2523

    Being 108, she looked good!! Her skin was healthy looking!! Her brain was youthful.She got to live to see a lot of change!! RIP

    • @nobody-qz1tg
      @nobody-qz1tg Год назад +104

      yea u would think she would look wayyy older , she honestly don't look 108 she looks good

    • @ltipst2962
      @ltipst2962 Год назад +73

      @@nobody-qz1tg She worked in beauty. That tells me one thing of the hundreds she used on her skin over the years may have been the answer. Maybe she did actually have the answer huh. Strong lady.

    • @danielrosin9072
      @danielrosin9072 Год назад +45

      Even her legs look like they belong to someone younger

    • @mindedchaos
      @mindedchaos Год назад

      nobody alive today born in the last 30 years will last that long now because technology it messed your brain up

    • @stellamartin1145
      @stellamartin1145 8 месяцев назад +17

      Yes I noticed her legs did look like from a much younger woman

  • @effyiew7318
    @effyiew7318 Год назад +2324

    "Mother, when I grow up, shall I have to be married?" To think that 130-140 years ago some little girl made that statement and never thought of it again but it survived for more than a century to be told in this video. That some little girl from the victorian era had a conversation and it still survives.

    • @redbirddeerjazz
      @redbirddeerjazz Год назад +137

      The scene she described was a cartoon in the magazine Punch. Although I’m sure many conversations like that were had!

    • @RisingFlag100
      @RisingFlag100 Год назад +54

      But when the internet is eventually lost even that will disappear. When the last traces of our civilization inevitably burn after some disaster or war, we all will be forgotten. Even the very species he belong to and planet we call home. So the value you find is temporary, but so is all things.

    • @KaliMaaaaa
      @KaliMaaaaa Год назад

      @@RisingFlag100 Or when oil runs out (coming soon) EVERY modern technology, transport and machine will no longer work. As everything relies on oil. 99.99% plus of all species that ever existed have gone extinct, and our species is also on the way out, we are currently DE-evolving as is obvious from listening to people from 100 years ago and more and more biological markers in humans are proving this true.

    • @RisingFlag100
      @RisingFlag100 Год назад

      @@buongiorno9714 Haha. Good stuff.

    • @rachelrowell1920
      @rachelrowell1920 Год назад +28

      @@RisingFlag100 everything is temporary yes, except out spirits, the real us. When we die out body will fade away but the real us will be alive on eternity. Just wanted to tell you that Heaven and Hell are real eternal destinations for every human spirit, and that Jesus Christ said 'I AM the Way, the truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father but by Me'. For God so loved the world (us) that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but receive eternal life. God didn't send Jesus to condemn the world, but that through Him we might be saved.

  • @brigadierharsh1948
    @brigadierharsh1948 4 года назад +16036

    Imagine being old enough to be skeptical of airplanes back when they “first came out”

    • @politereminder6284
      @politereminder6284 4 года назад +592

      She was 35 yo by their invention date.

    • @DiceDecides
      @DiceDecides 4 года назад +719

      I wouldn't blame them for being skeptical, many people died in planes in the beginning.

    • @yae5063
      @yae5063 4 года назад +178

      @@DiceDecides and people still do die

    • @cezarykozminski
      @cezarykozminski 4 года назад +233

      I was sceptical about phones with touch screen when they first came out, because normal keys seemed faster when writing SMS... lol

    • @lylecosmopolite
      @lylecosmopolite 4 года назад +133

      For several decades, airplanes could not fly safely at night. Had no cabin pressurisation. Were not very fast. Had a poor safety record. Before the DC3, no airplane made a reliable profit. The first models that clearly showed that aviation was fast, comfortable and profitable were the DC6 and the Lockheed Constellation. Before 1946-50, one had a right to be a bit sceptical of civilian aviation.

  • @TweedSuit
    @TweedSuit 4 года назад +24624

    She's recalling a 100 year old memory from her childhood. I cant remember last week.

    • @LumenP1023
      @LumenP1023 4 года назад +775

      at 108 years old, and to be coherent? You can bet her level of wit and intelligence was unmatched when she was in her prime.

    • @handavid6421
      @handavid6421 4 года назад +194

      I heard as you get older you remember better of time when you were young

    • @mrsfahrenheit
      @mrsfahrenheit 4 года назад +68

      househansa of course not because after our childhood nothing really rememberable happens any more.. at least not every week like it used to back then

    • @ReturnOfTheJ.D.
      @ReturnOfTheJ.D. 4 года назад +28

      I can remember a few things from when I was 7, but only very few. Visiting my grandfather in hospital - just seeing someone going from being quite robust to lying in a bed still complaining and then suddenly, no longer around. Also remember an argument with a girl in school when the teacher got a bit involved - all this was in 1979. It's quite hazy before that - I remember only a few things before that.

    • @blacklight310
      @blacklight310 4 года назад +30

      i disassociate most of the time so i’m sure when i’m old i won’t remember much either lol

  • @CarolinaMartinez-hc1if
    @CarolinaMartinez-hc1if Год назад +2693

    My grandparents were born in 1900 and 1902. They would tell us stories about how people their parents' age reacted when they first heard about trains. They called them moving worms made of steel. Then when planes came out, they called them flying birds made of steel. Everyone was terrified of both events

    • @user-tv1xj5ji6x
      @user-tv1xj5ji6x Год назад +19

      Hello Carolina, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??

    • @chrisandrea4963
      @chrisandrea4963 Год назад +42

      @@user-tv1xj5ji6x
      Safe from the vaccines

    • @candyghosty
      @candyghosty Год назад +11

      THAT'S SOUNDS SO AMAZING AND WONDERFUL!! 😭😭🥺

    • @BrasilNacionalista0001
      @BrasilNacionalista0001 Год назад +10

      @@user-tv1xj5ji6x They're dead , the oldest person alive now was born in 1904

    • @user-tv1xj5ji6x
      @user-tv1xj5ji6x Год назад +3

      @@BrasilNacionalista0001 Okay. Hope you’re having a nice and a wonderful day today??

  • @Tiago211287
    @Tiago211287 Год назад +830

    "Nothing is the same. Everything is changed". She is a real life time traveler. Let that sink in for a moment.

    • @jaffa3717
      @jaffa3717 Год назад +15

      Well by that logic, we're all technically time travelers

    • @Crgather
      @Crgather Год назад +37

      @@jaffa3717 When she says that it’s obviously because she was born sometime after the First Industrial Revolution and was giving that interview at the beginning of the globalization in the middle of the Cold War… That’s a journey we would never be able to understand

    • @crmay72
      @crmay72 11 месяцев назад +14

      Imagine being born three years after the Civil War in the United States ended and living to see Star Wars come out! Absolutely incredible!

    • @stephentresca3536
      @stephentresca3536 7 месяцев назад

      Yes your right.

    • @shameon_us
      @shameon_us 6 месяцев назад +3

      Same thing with us. Our technology is moving way too fast...Imagine saying in 1977 that everything is changed.

  • @jasmynjohnson4346
    @jasmynjohnson4346 4 года назад +8421

    “In Paris, nothing mattered” How grand

    • @Lea_Kaderova
      @Lea_Kaderova 4 года назад +165

      Sad THAT Paris is gone for good...

    • @Lostouille
      @Lostouille 4 года назад +43

      @@Lea_Kaderova ...no. ?

    • @jasmim9194
      @jasmim9194 4 года назад +19

      @@Lea_Kaderova wdym?

    • @GangeHrolfr
      @GangeHrolfr 4 года назад +104

      @@Lea_Kaderova No worries Lea, I went to Paris for the first time recently and I saw quite a bit more than ankle on those splendid Paris streets. So whether you wanna dress light or you just wanna look at hot girls, no matter, still no such thing matters in Paris!

    • @ALeaud
      @ALeaud 4 года назад +100

      @@jasmim9194 She means that it's full of non-white people now.

  • @kasper7194
    @kasper7194 3 года назад +7866

    Imagine having 100 years of memory. No wonder old people want to tell stories.

    • @margo-pl1ww
      @margo-pl1ww 3 года назад +368

      And here I am, legit can't remember what I did last week.

    • @0r0r0
      @0r0r0 3 года назад +157

      Always listen to an elder's story if they want to share.

    • @yvonnewalesuk8035
      @yvonnewalesuk8035 3 года назад +137

      It's a privilege to listen to them.

    • @DragonQueenThalatte
      @DragonQueenThalatte 3 года назад +38

      And I'd be there to listen to her

    • @elizabitty213
      @elizabitty213 3 года назад +49

      I love conversing with the elderly community they are magical with their stories 😍

  • @JasonParmenter
    @JasonParmenter 6 месяцев назад +408

    She mentioned "Punch". "Punch" was a British weekly magazine of humor and satire that ran from 1841 to _2002._ It played a significant role in the development of the British sense of humor and is often cited as a landmark in the history of humorous magazines. It is largely forgotten nowadays.

    • @crowbar9566
      @crowbar9566 6 месяцев назад +11

      A bit of a bold statement to claim that one publication played a significant role in the British sense of humour. I suspect our dry wit has been this way for centuries before Punch ever published it's first edition - it's just a quirk of our culture.

    • @TPH250290
      @TPH250290 5 месяцев назад +5

      @@crowbar9566 Yeah, I think Punch reflected British humour (and adapted to it) rather than developed it.

    • @Boy-pf3cm
      @Boy-pf3cm 5 месяцев назад

      @@crowbar9566 True. Otherwise how would a publication like Punch even come into existence it beggars belief.

    • @PanthraxIV
      @PanthraxIV 5 месяцев назад +1

      I'm guessing that's where "punchline" comes from?

    • @crowbar9566
      @crowbar9566 5 месяцев назад

      No, a punch line is the conclusion of a joke after being set up by misdirection.@@PanthraxIV

  • @sally1111100
    @sally1111100 Год назад +1370

    I wish this was longer. I wanna hear everything this woman has to say about her life and the people/world around her.

    • @chimmichurri6940
      @chimmichurri6940 Год назад +51

      fucking cheers to that

    • @LionhartPsychology
      @LionhartPsychology 9 месяцев назад +45

      I was thinking the same thing. Video cut out so quickly :/

    • @user-xz6qh5ec7t
      @user-xz6qh5ec7t 5 месяцев назад +11

      I feel the same. I just wanted to hear her keep talking and telling us stories.

    • @olapyza
      @olapyza 5 месяцев назад +3

      i wanted to hear about the business.!

    • @PoisonelleMisty4311
      @PoisonelleMisty4311 5 месяцев назад +5

      Florence Pannell's tales. The transformations she's witnessed are truly mind-boggling! 🚀

  • @margo6433
    @margo6433 3 года назад +3378

    Imagine being born in the era of queen victoria and living enough to watch star wars like bruh tf

  • @rumpelstilzchen
    @rumpelstilzchen 4 года назад +5542

    Only 1860's kids will remember

  • @k10batmama
    @k10batmama Год назад +667

    This is an incredible interview. My great great aunt who died at a 104 back back in about 1999 remembered Titanic sinking. She would say I was just a child then but I remember people crying in the streets hadn't seen anything that bad until the great depression came.. She then proceeded to tell us a story about how she watched a man go withdraw most of his savings out of a bank throw all of his money out on the street and then shoot himself in the head. Died right there. She was a hard ass and a quiet little old lady at the same time. When she died, she passed with a bullet hole lodged in her shoulder. Been there since 1939 she would say and then mutter some curse words about her old ex husband. Once she also told a doctor to piss off because she wasnt explaining why she had that bullet in her and she was 99 and not going to psychical rehab (she broke her hip slipping) and also not going to do anything else she damn well didn't want to do. It was hilarious. I really miss her

    • @blowurn0se
      @blowurn0se Год назад +21

      Thanks for sharing that

    • @goldenari295
      @goldenari295 Год назад +15

      wow lol seems like someone id like to have met myself ❤️

    • @rustyhoughton50
      @rustyhoughton50 Год назад +5

      Love her ♡

    • @michellewinestein1792
      @michellewinestein1792 Год назад +9

      She remember the titanic ,wow!!!!

    • @samtotty5498
      @samtotty5498 Год назад +5

      Plot twist - she held the gun and made him withdraw the money?

  • @thejudge-kv2jk
    @thejudge-kv2jk Год назад +479

    I love how I was born 118 years after this woman yet I can completely understand her and would easily be able to hold a conversation. She saw massive change in her lifetime.

    • @unholylemonpledge9730
      @unholylemonpledge9730 Год назад +26

      Ye people could speak english 118 years ago. What a shock

    • @Robert_Daniel
      @Robert_Daniel Год назад +36

      she was Born in 1868 when the Titanic sunk she was 44 years old the fact that we can even see a video in color of her speaking is mind blowing and remarkable it shouldn’t be possible but it is.

    • @x66Hawk66x
      @x66Hawk66x Год назад +4

      It's pretty mad, however we may be lucky to experience the same level of change in our lifetimes.

    • @Taima
      @Taima 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@unholylemonpledge9730You crackhead. Clearly they're referring to how little our language has changed in the past ~150 years. If we were to have this woman talking with someone her age in this video when she was say, 10 years old, they would have been born in 1771. There's a greater difference in language between 1771 and 1879 than 1869 and 2023. Basically every century you go back the change is more dramatic

    • @wedemgoyz7678
      @wedemgoyz7678 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@Robert_Danielit wasnt titanic though, it was replica Olympic afaik it was planned to kill big names before going to Usa look it up

  • @Candried
    @Candried 3 года назад +7255

    She was 44 when the titanic sank.. crazy

    • @bwabymafia
      @bwabymafia 3 года назад +57

      You got that right for sure. Amazing

    • @bwabymafia
      @bwabymafia 3 года назад +16

      @Zip Zappa ok smart ass. Social media we can be flexible with the English language thank you.

    • @mrmusi4512
      @mrmusi4512 3 года назад +3

      @Zip Zappa you don't have to be so English perfect. You're acting like the pupil who said 'please miss, she never said please"

    • @bwabymafia
      @bwabymafia 3 года назад +3

      @Zip Zappa aww some1 gettin all sensitive n dat, spekin English on social media we need to speak in proper English before zippy zapper here will get offended.. awww don’t cry, here’s a tissue. we shall all write in full sentences for your pee brain to understand, don’t u worry.

    • @claudethesilentman7841
      @claudethesilentman7841 3 года назад +1

      @Zip Zappa I must say you’re the loser who is part of the Nazi Grammar and Spelling police

  • @natchosm4320
    @natchosm4320 4 года назад +9216

    3mins isn't long enough. I need to hear at least 5 Hours of everything she has to say

    • @krusty5558
      @krusty5558 3 года назад +203

      Not 5 hours act her whole life out to us while she telling her life story

    • @examichelle
      @examichelle 3 года назад +266

      I would listen to her for whatever time necessary. And still i would want to hear so much more.

    • @pam3482
      @pam3482 3 года назад +18

      Same!

    • @w-ha624
      @w-ha624 3 года назад +39

      As long as it takes!

    • @scarybutnotscared6307
      @scarybutnotscared6307 3 года назад +26

      Same I could listen to her for hours.

  • @whoislenka
    @whoislenka Год назад +514

    So I'm currently 16, I have this rare heart disease and doctors have recently told me I probably have 3-4 years of time. Watching these kind of beautiful and heart-touching content makes me cry a bit. I'd do literally anything to have more time on this Earth, but you can't change your fate, they say. This lady is very inspirational and I hope she enjoyed her long life. Rest in peace

    • @rghaw
      @rghaw Год назад +76

      I'm sorry you have to watch the time count down. I hope you will be able to lay in the house of the Lord once you're gone. That is much much much better than having to be on this earth. I'll pray for you.

    • @themoocher3029
      @themoocher3029 Год назад +32

      Wow so sorry god is with you spend as much happy memories here on earth as you can keep smiling 🙂

    • @whoislenka
      @whoislenka Год назад +61

      @@rghaw Thank you for your kind words. I suppose, I won't suffer that much when it happens, so it makes dying a little bit easier. I've had very active and productive life, I've enjoyed it. I hope, that my soul will be finally at rest and if there is any afterlife, I'll make sure, that I throw a hell of a party when I'm there.

    • @whoislenka
      @whoislenka Год назад +45

      @@themoocher3029 Dying is something you'll never fully accept. However, I've made peace with it. I've had very active and productive life and I will continue doing it until my last breath, of which I don't have that many unfortunately. I'm smilling as much as I can, because some dying people can't enjoy their lives. I don't have that much time. My dreams are like a clouds, that I could never reach. My deepest dreams are basically destroyed. Whereas, I'll try my best not to spend my final years worrying about it so much. Life shouldn't be something taken for granted, it's not. That is fate, that is unchangable. Thank you for your kind words, stay positive, which is the key to everything.

    • @rghaw
      @rghaw Год назад +18

      @@whoislenka You are very wise. You are completely right. No one can prevent it if it's destined to happen. Obviously, miracles can happen, but that doesn't mean that it is certain they will. You're doing a very wise thing by accepting it and being positive about it.

  • @novaparadoxx9043
    @novaparadoxx9043 9 месяцев назад +354

    From 1868-1977. She witnessed the Victorian age, the Industrial revolution, the Titanic, invention of the Teddy Bear, the first tour de France, the first modern Olympics in Greece, invention of the Airplane, Hawaii joining America, Pluto's discovery, invention of the US national anthem, the first FIFA World Cup, WW1, WW2, MLK, Malcolm X and the Civil Rights movement, the Korean independence and the Korean war, the Vietnam War, JFKs assassination, the birth and death of Elvis Presley, the Hippie movement, Michael Jackson, Invention of the Compter.. What a life

    • @Ellis-zr1qd
      @Ellis-zr1qd 7 месяцев назад +36

      More than that.. She probably didn't witness American stuff so much, had more important things to witness

    • @francoisdaureville323
      @francoisdaureville323 7 месяцев назад +28

      A lot of those things are american movements that had very little relevance in britain Who is malcom x??

    • @haphazard_traveller
      @haphazard_traveller 7 месяцев назад +13

      uhh hawai'i did not join america. they were a sovereign nation that was overthrown. they are still, understandably, upset.

    • @chrisstucker1813
      @chrisstucker1813 7 месяцев назад

      She’s British lmao. The fuck would she care about Hawaii joining America

    • @r903_1
      @r903_1 6 месяцев назад

      **very eurocentric (even more american) comment**

  • @drdkirk
    @drdkirk 4 года назад +8052

    Her brain has more memory than Windows 2000.

    • @Wandrative
      @Wandrative 4 года назад +91

      The majority of the world does dear.

    • @skunkie110
      @skunkie110 4 года назад +69

      Wandrative but a majority of the world isn’t 108 years old 😉 it’s amazing really.

    • @huolong437
      @huolong437 4 года назад +46

      Windows 1860 is amazing

    • @n.al-n.7580
      @n.al-n.7580 4 года назад +3

      Looool 😂😂😂

    • @Shamnolya
      @Shamnolya 4 года назад +4

      My favorite comment here so far ^^

  • @binghamguevara6814
    @binghamguevara6814 4 года назад +4499

    Interviewer: "What's the biggest change you've seen?"
    108-year-old woman: "EVERYTHING!"
    Quote of the century

  • @bewysse3140
    @bewysse3140 Год назад +214

    It's remarkable to know this woman lived to be 111 years old.

    • @KingJackson11355
      @KingJackson11355 Год назад +20

      There was a lady last year that lived to 119 and another recently that lived close to 119. I believe living very long will become more common.

    • @poster5887
      @poster5887 Год назад +4

      @@KingJackson11355 Yes

    • @JosemariacelestinoGutierrezJoj
      @JosemariacelestinoGutierrezJoj 5 месяцев назад

      @@KingJackson11355 if your healthy

    • @es4086
      @es4086 2 месяца назад

      I think she lived to 112

  • @pinokodayo
    @pinokodayo Год назад +377

    Honestly even at the age of 30 right now I get such an ominous feeling about how much things have changed in the last few decades. So many things in life feel different. I can’t imagine how much more so it must feel when looking at change over the span of a life lived for over 100 years

    • @Zenovarse
      @Zenovarse Год назад +2

      What has changed? Nothing has changed in these couples of decades imo.

    • @Zenovarse
      @Zenovarse Год назад +1

      Things like personal computers and such we've had them for ages.

    • @humblefolk1499
      @humblefolk1499 Год назад +58

      @@Zenovarse idk, in 30 years alot has changed. fashion, smartphones, political ideas, pop culture, price of life, and even some values don't hold up anymore in many places, or there's new ones, or evolved. not to mention what personal individual changes come through such times

    • @MrMirco003
      @MrMirco003 Год назад +29

      @@Zenovarse Nothing?
      Are you even out of your bed? Biggest change? EVERYTHING Where should i start. Smartphones? Internet is getting huge AF. Finance crash. The massive dying of the great barrier reef and a lot of more to the World and climate. I can talk on and on

    • @MannyBrum
      @MannyBrum Год назад +10

      I feel like technology is accelerating, and people like me who were born around the time this lady died will see more change in our lives than she did if we haven't already.

  • @averylle8574
    @averylle8574 3 года назад +7550

    no one's gonna talk about how shes still strong and talk clearly like shes in her 80s?
    [edited] everyone thank you sm for the likes! ^^

    • @michaeltnewyorknights8413
      @michaeltnewyorknights8413 3 года назад +306

      Thank you..and how she's still attractive at 108!!?!

    • @jordanfuller5732
      @jordanfuller5732 3 года назад +483

      Her skin is phenomenal for 108!

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 3 года назад +205

      Yes, she is extremely well preserved. Grand lady.

    • @eccremocarpusscaber5159
      @eccremocarpusscaber5159 3 года назад +66

      Michael T. Your comment is a bit creepy.

    • @michaeltnewyorknights8413
      @michaeltnewyorknights8413 3 года назад +186

      @@eccremocarpusscaber5159 There is nothing "creepy" about my comment. However, your immature interpretation of my comment is quite telling.

  • @karthik7282
    @karthik7282 3 года назад +8976

    Imagine listening to the actual voice of a person from 1977,who was born in 1869 and listening to it in 2021.

    • @mickyeverton
      @mickyeverton 3 года назад +92

      Exactly what I was thinking!! 🙋

    • @fridrichrotman1385
      @fridrichrotman1385 3 года назад +82

      150years

    • @user9
      @user9 3 года назад +47

      1868*

    • @mariemiller456
      @mariemiller456 3 года назад +35

      That's what makes this so effing cool!

    • @overdozze1226
      @overdozze1226 3 года назад +58

      Imagine reading this comment 30 years from now even cooler

  • @kareemmohammad5221
    @kareemmohammad5221 8 месяцев назад +8

    This is the real “Back in my days...” that really hits

  • @mountainmama6398
    @mountainmama6398 Год назад +26

    I love that she said she’s more adventurous now that she’s 108 ❤

  • @chloel.8007
    @chloel.8007 5 лет назад +5670

    She was alive when Jack the Ripper was considered the 1st serial murderer

    • @jaymeehoffstar2621
      @jaymeehoffstar2621 5 лет назад +249

      I realized that, imagining her in Ripper times London, she was in her 20s even then, whoa

    • @suckmydingledong
      @suckmydingledong 5 лет назад +20

      Jaymeehoffstar;) But who would suspect such a fine young lady?

    • @TrailNation
      @TrailNation 5 лет назад +47

      @KoivuTheHab germany was formed in 1871

    • @genericname34
      @genericname34 5 лет назад +14

      he’s still considered the first serial killer, but get what you mean haha

    • @jaymeehoffstar2621
      @jaymeehoffstar2621 5 лет назад

      @@suckmydingledong har har 😜

  • @santiagopardosserrano9127
    @santiagopardosserrano9127 4 года назад +4503

    This woman was already 46 when WW1 started, Jesus...

    • @l.aw.t9727
      @l.aw.t9727 3 года назад +83

      It's crazy to imagine lol

    • @S0n0fCh4d
      @S0n0fCh4d 3 года назад +40

      @@mrtraa2639 Or even a great grandson

    • @keicbell
      @keicbell 3 года назад +5

      @@mrtraa2639 in WW1 even!

    • @Terric90
      @Terric90 3 года назад +8

      WW1 started in 1914 you dumbfuck.

    • @Terric90
      @Terric90 3 года назад

      And dont moan our godfather Jesus!

  • @daniellefield7604
    @daniellefield7604 Год назад +16

    My great Nan died around 1997. She made it to 108! Amazing!

  • @mattlufcy1254
    @mattlufcy1254 5 месяцев назад +10

    I love her precise speech, with the rolled "R"s. Very formal, enunciating every word. I wish we still cared about our speech this way.

  • @ABC_DEF
    @ABC_DEF 5 лет назад +16146

    Someone should have spent a week interviewing this woman. A couple of minutes is not enough.

    • @aprilmoore2917
      @aprilmoore2917 5 лет назад +318

      Hear, hear!

    • @dankhnw8
      @dankhnw8 5 лет назад +82

      Ikr!!!!

    • @mabel8179
      @mabel8179 5 лет назад +314

      Yeah I was just thinking that. More specific questions too.

    • @pneron2032
      @pneron2032 5 лет назад +407

      @@mabel8179 The interviewer's questions were so moronic.

    • @louiselill1528
      @louiselill1528 5 лет назад +242

      I totally agree I could of spent a long time in her company listening to her . I still remember some of the stories my nanny told me as a child not many sadly .

  • @callumwells
    @callumwells 4 года назад +5693

    She was literally in her mid-twenties when Jack the Ripper was around.

    • @SirVoltz
      @SirVoltz 4 года назад +440

      Now he's just found in the stripclub and is now known as jack the stripper

    • @Princess2Warrior
      @Princess2Warrior 4 года назад +207

      *And Jonathan Joestar.*

    • @therealdoctorwho942
      @therealdoctorwho942 4 года назад +6

      Creepy

    • @adamamaru4535
      @adamamaru4535 4 года назад +64

      @@Princess2Warrior What If she's actually just Erina joestar

    • @thehound3202
      @thehound3202 4 года назад +2

      wow of all the things that's what I thought about too

  • @wickedchild8501
    @wickedchild8501 10 месяцев назад +44

    This is amazing... 108 years old and she speaks with such clarity and confidence in her voice. I'm very proud of this lady and amazed by how much story she must have lived

  • @williecoulter1091
    @williecoulter1091 Год назад +9

    How lucky are we, to be able to see this beautful lady's interview still in 2022!

  • @bunnylikesgingerale
    @bunnylikesgingerale 3 года назад +7987

    Her voice is gorgeous. Something you’d hear in a old Disney film.

  • @nickstonehenge
    @nickstonehenge 4 года назад +1550

    Face and hands: 108 years old
    Legs: BRAND NEW

    • @user-qz9zu1fq9k
      @user-qz9zu1fq9k 4 года назад +71

      Legs always covered from sunlight and the elements.

    • @sharicola8870
      @sharicola8870 4 года назад +88

      Its definitely the stockings. My grandmother died at 102 and she always wore stockings and they made her legs look perfect

    • @bobchapline8212
      @bobchapline8212 4 года назад +11

      She could definitely get it

    • @jamie25288
      @jamie25288 4 года назад +4

      Wear sunscreen people

    • @syrus3k
      @syrus3k 4 года назад +6

      You've taken this to worrying new places

  • @ajofmars2579
    @ajofmars2579 6 месяцев назад +15

    My grandmother died last year, in her nineties, and now I’m finally starting to realize, the questions I asked her about things changing over her lifetime was a terribly difficult question to answer. *Everything!* But the essence of our struggle and suffering, will last as long as we have brains. My grandmother was a geneticist and doctor, the kindest and most intelligent person I’ve ever met, and suspect will ever meet.
    Long life, and best of luck to everyone out there!

  • @fluffythebluepersian4888
    @fluffythebluepersian4888 7 месяцев назад +17

    I wish this interview were much longer. She was bright, so interesting and so charasmatic. They could've made this at least a half hour, she had so much to share with us.
    My great grandma was born in 1898, my grandma was born in 1929. Both lived to their mid 90s. My grandma just passed away last month at 95. Sadly she lived in a nursing home for 9 YEARS, she should've never been moved there with nearly a decade of life left, and lost both her mind and physical abilities shortly after moving there. Was essentially a living vegetable her last 5 years.

  • @eliegbert8121
    @eliegbert8121 4 года назад +4574

    "I'm a bit more adventurous now."
    Says the 108 year old

    • @billiev8705
      @billiev8705 4 года назад +81

      That was my favorite part! Feisty old lady. :-)

    • @JohnBolender
      @JohnBolender 4 года назад +67

      "Adventuresome." I love that word.

    • @trickface
      @trickface 4 года назад +45

      Venturesome*
      Brilliant. Going to use that more myself.

    • @deadaccount3533
      @deadaccount3533 4 года назад

      Eli Egbert stolen comment

    • @silverdragon710
      @silverdragon710 4 года назад

      yeah freaking amazing haahaha

  • @Dana-xv9ru
    @Dana-xv9ru 3 года назад +5282

    Did anyone else feel really disappointed when the video ended, I could have listened for hours

    • @80SivaD80
      @80SivaD80 3 года назад +155

      YES! Such a shame! They should have hours and hours of this woman’s stories preserved for posterity! I googled to see if I could find more on her. It said; this is all that is known of her “live interview” wise...so sad. An amazing lady!

    • @judithcallejasmeza6491
      @judithcallejasmeza6491 3 года назад +1

      X2

    • @justmilfy
      @justmilfy 3 года назад +181

      The reporter though lol...the lady was giving such informative commentary of societies of her time and the reporters just like ok yeah have you been on a plane though?

    • @blackdiamond860
      @blackdiamond860 3 года назад +4

      I felt exactly the same

    • @citytrees1752
      @citytrees1752 3 года назад +7

      I want more.

  • @AuntieMamies
    @AuntieMamies Год назад +20

    Her capacity to converse and her lucidity is incredible

  • @idiotic1021
    @idiotic1021 Год назад +19

    She was born in 1868. Just a year after Queen Mary who was Queen Elizabeth II’s paternal grandmother.

  • @samwalsh8299
    @samwalsh8299 3 года назад +3188

    She was 72 when WWII started. That’s unbelievable!

    • @labelledamedumanor4876
      @labelledamedumanor4876 3 года назад +177

      She lived through both World Wars, AMAZING!

    • @dreamthedream8929
      @dreamthedream8929 3 года назад +25

      Are you crazy? How come that is unbelievable? Of course there were people around that age and older when the war started! It didn't affect only young people for goodness sake!

    • @samwalsh8299
      @samwalsh8299 3 года назад +66

      Dream TheDream89 it’s crazy to think about. No need to get so logical.

    • @JAF1323
      @JAF1323 3 года назад +8

      She was 70 when World War II started and 71 when America entered the war.

    • @rich-qk7dc
      @rich-qk7dc 3 года назад +19

      @@dreamthedream8929 You completely missed the point, actually talking to someone who was that age and lived through it

  • @xxxxxx5868
    @xxxxxx5868 4 года назад +2957

    When you've only been dating for 3 years
    And she flashes her ankle

  • @cheeto0o
    @cheeto0o 7 месяцев назад +11

    it is really, and i mean really amazing that we have this footage. she was literally walking history and we are lucky to be able to watch this interview even though it's kinda short

  • @Maw0
    @Maw0 Год назад +16

    This woman was already 30 before the 20th century even began and we are seeing her clearly speaking and in a relatively clear video. I enjoy watching these videos of people from the 1800's. They've seen history change the most out of anyone in my opinion.

  • @Chicken_Consumer
    @Chicken_Consumer 5 лет назад +11121

    This lady lived through Tchaikovsky AND the Beatles
    Damn

    • @mrcheckhammmer
      @mrcheckhammmer 5 лет назад +260

      she probably didnt know anything about/ didnt care about the beatles

    • @rmilrta
      @rmilrta 5 лет назад +162

      Wagner and Bowie even. Berlioz and post-punk at the greater extreme...

    • @sageantone7291
      @sageantone7291 5 лет назад +83

      And the sex pistols.

    • @aprilmaaarsters
      @aprilmaaarsters 5 лет назад +78

      And there to see the beginning of the Jackson five, sadly not there to see the rise of Michael Jackson (little Michael as she may of known him by)

    • @Caladras
      @Caladras 5 лет назад +40

      And Black Sabbath.

  • @spectralv709
    @spectralv709 3 года назад +3914

    “Everything has changed”
    Imagine being born in the age of horse and buggies, steam power, corsets, Victorian dresses, men in full suits, operas & marching bands and living to see the day of men walking on the moon, satellites sent to distant planets, miniskirts, t-shirt and jeans, the Sex Pistols and disco. I can’t imagine make sense of a technological and cultural leap that massive

    • @Mandaxx25
      @Mandaxx25 3 года назад +106

      Exactly! I'm sure they thought the world would soon end.

    • @spectralv709
      @spectralv709 3 года назад +149

      Kris Ferrero
      Or living in a time when people still believe the Sex Pistols were real....they were an example of early CGI, created in a studio by George Lucas

    • @margheritazappoli9856
      @margheritazappoli9856 3 года назад +52

      I once asked my mother about that. She is only sixty, but when I think of how things were when she was a little girl, and how things are now, I see a huge difference in society, technology, international politics, etc. She told me doesn't feel the change, and only looking back and reflecting on the past she feels like things have changed, but progress is not a leap, it is more like a continuous process.

    • @littlemothbigwings6765
      @littlemothbigwings6765 3 года назад +14

      @Kris Ferrero that’s a discussion for another time

    • @Heopful
      @Heopful 3 года назад +10

      imagine just missing out on twerking!

  • @jahleelmonet6002
    @jahleelmonet6002 Год назад +18

    Wow! Her memory and ability to carry herself the way she did. Remarkable. Love her proper accent.

  • @andrewfields8556
    @andrewfields8556 5 месяцев назад +10

    Her accent is not at all like the English accents we hear nowadays. So vintage and classy sounding, she even R-r-r-r-r-rolls her R's sometimes. An awesome piece of history.

    • @edithbannerman4
      @edithbannerman4 4 месяца назад

      @Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

    • @andrewfields8556
      @andrewfields8556 4 месяца назад

      @@edithbannerman4 good n u?

  • @scourge3593
    @scourge3593 4 года назад +4771

    Imagine remembering something that you saw 100 years ago, that's nuts

    • @MyMProductions3
      @MyMProductions3 4 года назад +70

      I can't remember my life from 10 years ago

    • @wiktoria499
      @wiktoria499 4 года назад

      @Urso Ursidae SAME

    • @aestaeticedits7998
      @aestaeticedits7998 4 года назад +8

      Then there’s me, I can’t even remember what I was doing yesterday 😂

    • @37thraven
      @37thraven 4 года назад +7

      Only the highlights. And apparently your favorite cartoons ;)
      Look at dementia, more recent knowledge disappears first. It's the childhood stuff that sticks around in the back of your mind

    • @sippintea723
      @sippintea723 4 года назад

      Urso Ursidae 💀 why is this so relatable

  • @imme4810
    @imme4810 5 лет назад +7904

    That old victorian accent😍😍

    • @vickygi2197
      @vickygi2197 5 лет назад +226

      Yes...i like very much.

    • @vickygi2197
      @vickygi2197 5 лет назад +41

      @@bekkerz7789 yes.its thrue.

    • @zweij
      @zweij 5 лет назад +44

      sound a lot like John Hurt, the late actor

    • @youknowsnow1452
      @youknowsnow1452 5 лет назад +3

      Oh yes yes

    • @MeanOldLady
      @MeanOldLady 5 лет назад +45

      @@bekkerz7789 - & the Brits rag on the Americans now for preserving that R in many dialects...

  • @irinamordavchenko2031
    @irinamordavchenko2031 9 месяцев назад +10

    Florence Pannel is just awesome. It is sad we know so little about her.

  • @heyhey439
    @heyhey439 9 месяцев назад +17

    Such an invaluable clip. I'm so grateful to live in an age like this. To hear stories of people I'd never have known otherwise.

  • @Doors067
    @Doors067 4 года назад +19574

    being that aware at 108 is literally a miracle of biology.

    • @greenorpurple7566
      @greenorpurple7566 4 года назад +1297

      especially being able to talk and have a sharp mind

    • @renuhazari544
      @renuhazari544 4 года назад +429

      My grandma is 106..and lives with us

    • @rcche3778
      @rcche3778 4 года назад +459

      And very alert with great recall. I would love to see a longer interview with her. I have so many questions.

    • @natlisan
      @natlisan 4 года назад +404

      @@renuhazari544 My great grand mother lived to 107. It's funny because she had to dye her hair grey because it was growing back black!

    • @renuhazari544
      @renuhazari544 4 года назад +38

      @@natlisan ohh wow ...my grandmas hair turned greay just few years ago and thy are really well now..like atoesst she is not bald now

  • @jackwatson3944
    @jackwatson3944 5 лет назад +4666

    "have you ever been in an aeroplane"
    "when they first came out I didn't fancy them".

    • @gjdud12
      @gjdud12 4 года назад +131

      sounds like electric cars

    • @TimSlee1
      @TimSlee1 4 года назад +27

      @@gjdud12 True, I find their technology fascinating but most petrol heads could care less about them.

    • @gjdud12
      @gjdud12 4 года назад +4

      @@TimSlee1 im one of those, but I am also a tech head so i have mixed feelings...

    • @TimSlee1
      @TimSlee1 4 года назад +7

      @@gjdud12 What also fascinates me is the speed and acceleration of electric super cars, they perform just as well as petrol cars in those departments.

    • @plazmica0323
      @plazmica0323 4 года назад

      Tim Slee Not in range and acceleration... at least yet

  • @Kairensclass
    @Kairensclass Год назад +15

    1:13 "There was a woman crossing the road, holding her dress up, showing her ankle to there!"
    "Tut!"
    Oh this is so precious, truly a relic of a bygone era. Imagine those gentlemen now if they were to walk through Shoreditch on a Friday afternoon in summer, they wouldn't know where to look 😂😅

  • @sweepingdenver
    @sweepingdenver 8 месяцев назад +7

    There are two ways of thinking about this video. One is that it is incredible how much changed since she was born. But the other is to consider how modern 1868 actually was. Quite a bit of modern science and technology was already going strong at that point and would see a lot of progress even before the end of that century.

  • @freqeist
    @freqeist 5 лет назад +7322

    she was born 26 Dec 1868 and died
    20 Oct 1980
    111 years, 299 days

  • @naelyneurkopfen9741
    @naelyneurkopfen9741 5 лет назад +14461

    I wonder what she'd think if she knew I was sitting in my car on my lunch break at work, watching her on a phone in my hand in 2019?

    • @CarissaConti
      @CarissaConti 5 лет назад +933

      Just saying "2019" to somebody who was used to dates starting with "18" for the first 32 years of their life would probably seem really trippy!

    • @tomaskacerovsky3366
      @tomaskacerovsky3366 5 лет назад +258

      Dont you think that moon landing was a bigger deal?

    • @pile333
      @pile333 5 лет назад +233

      She would say that if you have it in your hand now, it is mostly because of people born in 19th century. We should all thank them.

    • @mrsrunningmommy
      @mrsrunningmommy 5 лет назад +156

      My sentiments as well!!! My daughter and I are watching in the car on her lunch break at school. What would she make of my sending this video to my 85 year old Aunt, who will watch on her iPad. I wonder what the world will be like when we are centurions (hopping that we will be so fortunate)? Here’s to Enjoying lunch in our cars with technology!:-D

    • @ArizonaFerrets
      @ArizonaFerrets 5 лет назад +5

      I am.doing the same lol

  • @mariabjorkdahl5166
    @mariabjorkdahl5166 8 месяцев назад +4

    I wish people had that same excellent enunciation today, so very easy to understand what Florence is saying.

    • @c.rutherford
      @c.rutherford 8 месяцев назад +2

      I had to look up her phrase "in punch" what that meant, and I never really found a definition anywhere.

    • @mariabjorkdahl5166
      @mariabjorkdahl5166 8 месяцев назад +4

      I believe she's referring to a British magazine named "Punch"@@c.rutherford en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_(magazine)

    • @c.rutherford
      @c.rutherford 8 месяцев назад +3

      @@mariabjorkdahl5166 I would never have guessed that. She said it several times so she must have been a fan of it. Glad to sort that out!

  • @JokeriPokeri17
    @JokeriPokeri17 6 месяцев назад +7

    Imagine, she would be 154 years old today as she was born in 1869. This was one outstanding interview!

  • @NemeanLion-
    @NemeanLion- 4 года назад +9656

    This woman had lived through the most breakthroughs in world history. Imagine seeing it all. She was a child before the lightbulb was ever invented and was eventually able to see men walk on the moon.

    • @amiqai
      @amiqai 4 года назад +142

      Damn.

    • @develynseether4426
      @develynseether4426 4 года назад +616

      Boer War, 2 World Wars, Russian Civil War, Easter Rising, 6 British monarchs, light bulb, radio, airplane, zeppelin, moving pictures, cars, colour photograph, zipper, television, atom bomb, space rockets, Coca-Cola, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, women's votes, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Titanic, Hindenburg, San Francisco earthquake, JFK assassination.....the list goes on!

    • @helostcontroll
      @helostcontroll 4 года назад +122

      holy shit, i got goosebumps for real!

    • @develynseether4426
      @develynseether4426 4 года назад +38

      @kolo guilty

    • @gaviriak
      @gaviriak 4 года назад +12

      Not in History. Just in modern History

  • @charliemaine9304
    @charliemaine9304 4 года назад +4804

    She's so old, she might have heard stories about Napoleon from her grandpa.

    • @logui113
      @logui113 4 года назад +687

      She probably knew someone who was alive during the french revolution

    • @randomkidwithnofriendslive
      @randomkidwithnofriendslive 4 года назад +212

      One of the top comments talked about how she could of watched the star wars movie it’s seems so crazy she was born when there were no light bulbs and airplanes and now should could watch a star wars movie in a Movie theater or on a tv at home it’s seems so crazy the time difference and how technology has evolved so much over the years I mean think if she was alive now she could watch shows on giant flat screen TVs or do vr or something ahhhh it just seems so crazy

    • @luzernerschutze7564
      @luzernerschutze7564 4 года назад +82

      @@randomkidwithnofriendslive When you think that a human life is about 80 years, and there have always been people who turned 100 or more, we’re not that many human lifes away from the middle ages. Literally 8 people away from the crusades.

    • @Thomasuki267
      @Thomasuki267 4 года назад +44

      She could have grown up with people born into slavery in the USA, and could have spoken to people who were slaves in England. Could have spoken to people who were at the last hanging, drawing and quartering in England.

    • @randomkidwithnofriendslive
      @randomkidwithnofriendslive 4 года назад +3

      Thomasuki267 yeah it seems crazy

  • @jazzed5039
    @jazzed5039 7 месяцев назад +6

    Nothing is the same, everything has been changed. I've been witnessing this for the past few years and how things and people have changed around can't even imagine what she must have felt like.

  • @PoisonelleMisty4311
    @PoisonelleMisty4311 5 месяцев назад +8

    Absolutely fascinating! Her clarity of mind and storytelling skills are truly remarkable. It's heartwarming to witness someone with such a rich history share their experiences. She lived through an era of immense change, and her perspective is a treasure. 🌟

  • @elizagaskell7957
    @elizagaskell7957 3 года назад +4630

    108 years old and still her mind is sharp as a tack.

    • @onlyniceviar
      @onlyniceviar 3 года назад +38

      They were focus enough (with the moments infront of them) unlike us we spent too much time here on the Internt..

    • @user-lf5pq2bd9e
      @user-lf5pq2bd9e 3 года назад +53

      @@onlyniceviar Boohoo phone bad

    • @cutebunny6690
      @cutebunny6690 3 года назад +26

      @@onlyniceviar neoboomer

    • @cutebunny6690
      @cutebunny6690 3 года назад +51

      @@onlyniceviar btw
      On the internet you can choose between watching 5 minute crafts and reading scientific literature. It's your will that makes the difference

    • @xoranginho
      @xoranginho 3 года назад +8

      @@cutebunny6690 you know they only do dumb shit without utilizing the potential of the internet. they're just projecting it onto others.

  • @Malboja
    @Malboja 3 года назад +3908

    So she was 19 when Jack the Ripper was terrorising London

    • @TrialByDance
      @TrialByDance 3 года назад +297

      Oh god oh fuck

    • @tonidewonderful4187
      @tonidewonderful4187 3 года назад +474

      That's when she thought I'm heading to Paris mate

    • @Saules_meita
      @Saules_meita 3 года назад +12

      oh damn

    • @emrys3368
      @emrys3368 3 года назад +24

      @@amelcamel858 lmao.

    • @anonymousmobster2444
      @anonymousmobster2444 3 года назад +101

      She was around when Jack the Ripper came about and died as Ted Bundy's rampage came to an end.

  • @flashtrash7830
    @flashtrash7830 Год назад +14

    At the end when she says everything has changed that brought back a memory. In Ireland in 1984 I met a 90 year old man who was near this women's age who could not express enough how every single thing around him had changed. He kept saying it was unbelievable. It must have been quite a thing to live through the C20th century.

    • @negy2570
      @negy2570 Год назад +2

      I may be wrong but it seems to me that 20th century was a rollercoaster compared to previous times. A lot of bad things happened and at the same times a lot of positive changes happened and changed our lives, both practically and mentally. And yet this start of 21st century seems less interesting, it reaks of cultural stagnation and political back walking.

    • @flashtrash7830
      @flashtrash7830 Год назад +3

      @@negy2570 I would disagree. The greatest transformational century in history is undoubtedly the C19th. That is the way we thought about life changed, (e.g. by the end of the C19th everyone arranged their day by clock time. Just this alone was a profound change from a past where a day was just one thing, not divided into hours or even for most into activities) However the C20th delivered on the C19th thinking into lots of small improvements in people's domestic lives. So it felt like new gadgets or behaviour was a consistent flow but the thinking was all from the C19th and still is.

    • @jay-nb6mf
      @jay-nb6mf 4 месяца назад

      imagine how surreal it would have been for them if they also got to see the present day

    • @moaningpheromones
      @moaningpheromones 2 месяца назад

      she lived through no cars to moon landing. checkmate@@flashtrash7830

    • @simondresner6541
      @simondresner6541 2 месяца назад

      @@flashtrash7830 I once read a biography of Sir Sanford Fleming (1827-1915), who invented time zones, and it made the same point. The Industrial Revolution was the biggest material change in human society in ten thousand years, the switch from farming to industry as the mode of production. Fleming was born as the Industrial Revolution was getting started, just before the invention of the railway and the telegraph, and died in a world with telephones, film, cars and aeroplanes. But I would say that Florence Pannell witnessed a lot more changes in society and in technology in everyday life. She was born before the torrent of inventions in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, most notably the telephone, the gramophone, the incandescent bulb, the car and film. She ended her life in a world with jet airliners, colour television, the contraceptive pill and the first personal computers. When she was young, women had far less rights than men, married women were effectively the property of their husbands and a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. The 1970s saw the permissive society, the Women's Liberation Movement and the Sex Discrimination Act. I love that this Vctorian woman who'd survived to 1977 took down the Victorian Age with humour and made it clear she was on the side of Women's Liberation.

  • @Supernova1.980
    @Supernova1.980 4 месяца назад +8

    British English is so elegant, wonderful accent to hear

  • @R_C001
    @R_C001 4 года назад +2701

    in her 40's when the Titanic went down

  • @TheOGDominic
    @TheOGDominic 5 лет назад +2941

    As far as 108-year-olds go, she wasn't having any trouble speaking.

    • @cormacmacsuibhne2867
      @cormacmacsuibhne2867 5 лет назад +223

      I was also suprised with that fact and the fact she could hear so well.

    • @gerardcollins6621
      @gerardcollins6621 5 лет назад +193

      Same. She was spectacular looking for 105+, still could move well and only had to lean in to fully hear. Most centenarians who reach that age are decrepit.

    • @mattw4496
      @mattw4496 5 лет назад +32

      Or remembering

    • @chloel.8007
      @chloel.8007 5 лет назад +52

      She speaks so nicely

    • @mahmood03
      @mahmood03 5 лет назад +42

      Hearing is very much genetic dependent. One of my patient whom I saw couple of weeks ago was 103 years of age with moderate hearing loss. The patient's memory was also excellent.

  • @Jolpe
    @Jolpe 6 месяцев назад +7

    Hearing this from a 108 year old woman almost 50 years ago
    and yet my grandma (who is 83 now) says the same thing. Since her youth EVERYTHING changed.
    It's incredible, but also a bit frightening HOW fast the world actually changes these days

  • @lindastarr4699
    @lindastarr4699 Год назад +19

    Most major inventions happened during her time. For thousands of years things were pretty much the same. My dad who was born in1918 and my grandparents in late 1890s would say the same. My grandfather didn't learn to drive or care for cars, but my dad loved everything about them (new generation for cars). It reminds me of the kids now with all the knowledge of technology. I ask my niece about so many things. I wish we could hear more stories from this lady.

    • @johnhoney5089
      @johnhoney5089 11 месяцев назад +1

      Change has always occurred, albeit more gradually.
      Often I research the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, and one thing that intrigued me was how the whole civilization became completely unrecognizable to how it started, from small wooden huts to giant city-states and elaborate palaces like those at Babylon and Ur.

  • @BudderB0y2222
    @BudderB0y2222 5 лет назад +4918

    She was:
    Born 3 years after slavery was abolished in the U.S.
    35 when the airplane was invented
    46 when WWI happened
    71 when WWII started
    101 when the moon landing happened
    And the U.S. was less than a century old when she was born

    • @RikudoMadaraUchiha
      @RikudoMadaraUchiha 5 лет назад +106

      Brendan Berney And more than 2 centuries old when this interview was conducted

    • @Kaganath
      @Kaganath 5 лет назад +280

      Imagine going from the invention of the airplane, to watching man step on the moon. I would've loved to ask her what she thought of it.

    • @unknowndeoxys00
      @unknowndeoxys00 5 лет назад +8

      Pin this comment yo

    • @isla2202
      @isla2202 5 лет назад +97

      Why are you comparing a great british lady like this to that ignorance filled shithole the US

    • @chamade166
      @chamade166 5 лет назад +28

      I slap chickens Not everyone in the US is ignorant and uncultured, although most people outside of a fee select areas are.

  • @rebeccapetty1k390
    @rebeccapetty1k390 2 месяца назад +2

    I get good energy from this lady I don’t know why.. she’s so endearing.. rip sweet lady

  • @TA_33
    @TA_33 Год назад +3

    I so wish this was longer! I could listen to her for hours.

  • @ikkim1985
    @ikkim1985 4 года назад +4503

    Watching interview of lady born in 1868, broadcasted in 1977, in 2019. Wow.

    • @k1ller000
      @k1ller000 4 года назад +75

      And reading your comment in 2092!

    • @hermanpops
      @hermanpops 4 года назад +47

      @@nicklessincage Deep as fuck bro

    • @blazer666del
      @blazer666del 4 года назад +6

      Mind blown.............

    • @ausmurray9437
      @ausmurray9437 4 года назад +26

      Now she’ll be immortalised on the internet.

    • @YT-mb5od
      @YT-mb5od 4 года назад +9

      All I need to do is write this reply and my words are immortalised in the internet

  • @teddysundin2992
    @teddysundin2992 4 года назад +49552

    Imagine being born when everything was horse and wagon and then live to see people walk on the moon

    • @daffers2345
      @daffers2345 4 года назад +1939

      I like how she says she "didn't fancy" planes "when they first came out" and she truly could say such a thing! I think it's awesome that she was over 100 years old and said she was "more adventurous."

    • @marygillard2359
      @marygillard2359 4 года назад +314

      Teddy Sundin my grandmother would talk about going from travel of the ox and cart, to men landing on the moon.

    • @marygillard2359
      @marygillard2359 4 года назад +54

      🌟༻🅹🅰🆈🅵🅰༺ ✓ • 5 years ago ha ha, I love it!! (But you know, it’s the only place you can get green cheese !)
      (She was born in 1889.)

    • @thebodyofchrist56
      @thebodyofchrist56 4 года назад +108

      Fact: there was no moon landing. Let the Bible be the authority in all matters. God tells us through His written word that the earth is fixed and cannot move, the sun is the one rising and falling, and there is a see through firmament above us(and water behind it,WHICH IS WHY THE SKY IS BLUE). Under the firmament in our sky is where the sun, moon & stars are located. Goodness, Satan has really deceived those who don’t read their bible! Pretty easy for him to do so. Hopefully Satan didn’t turn you away from believing in Jesus as our only means to get to heaven too!

    • @tomcoombs
      @tomcoombs 4 года назад +623

      ​@@thebodyofchrist56 sorry it's no longer 12AD go away

  • @psychshell4644
    @psychshell4644 7 месяцев назад +4

    My great-grands were born in 1898 & 1901. They told me stories of their youth and of both great wars. So blessed to have had them in my life

  • @fallendaisy1
    @fallendaisy1 Год назад +3

    What a treasure. I want this interview to be so much longer❤

  • @srilankarelaxation5889
    @srilankarelaxation5889 3 года назад +3612

    Imagine her finding out that 5.5 million people watched her on a device that fits in your pocket has a camera and the ability to access an endless encyclopaedia

    • @dougieboxell6505
      @dougieboxell6505 3 года назад +200

      And lots of photos of very pretty ankles

    • @jalpat2272
      @jalpat2272 3 года назад +101

      yea but average iq on the device users would be less than her age.

    • @johnsmithington6950
      @johnsmithington6950 2 года назад +43

      she lived through more radical changes than that id say.

    • @lI-tm2pn
      @lI-tm2pn 2 года назад +14

      And can also make fart noises

    • @DV-zv4ox
      @DV-zv4ox 2 года назад +63

      Imagine telling a 10 year old Florence in 1878 that in 2021, people will be watching her talk about her life on a touch screen device that allows you to instantly communicate with someone on the other side of the planet.

  • @user-vp5py5eo8x
    @user-vp5py5eo8x 3 года назад +5148

    Interesting note: Her husband died in 1905, when she was 36, and she had a son who was living and around 78 at the time of this interview. She ended up outliving her husband by 75 years.

    • @hasanmuhammad6651
      @hasanmuhammad6651 3 года назад +20

      (°○°)

    • @takaishima_24
      @takaishima_24 3 года назад +134

      That's why she lived so long (jk)

    • @NeroSparda99
      @NeroSparda99 3 года назад +11

      @J M he gave her a son, so probably not lol

    • @NeroSparda99
      @NeroSparda99 3 года назад +24

      @J M good friends during your teenage years and a love you shared a child with is a bit different, I imagine she looked back on him with fond memories

    • @NeroSparda99
      @NeroSparda99 3 года назад +10

      @J M I understood fine.

  • @muizrahim861
    @muizrahim861 5 месяцев назад +3

    She looks amazing for a 108 years old lady...

  • @Galdorik
    @Galdorik 5 месяцев назад +5

    Remarkable woman and testimony. The stored knowledge, what her eyes have seen and the way she brings her recollections to life with such vivid expression : I could listen to her for hours! Thank you for this

  • @Akumutiba
    @Akumutiba 3 года назад +2537

    Imagine: This Video/Interview is also 47 years old !!!

    • @stuartyd77
      @stuartyd77 3 года назад +22

      Same age as me.

    • @hanphilnoffz8827
      @hanphilnoffz8827 3 года назад +11

      Or she 43 year dead

    • @Akumutiba
      @Akumutiba 3 года назад +128

      @@hanphilnoffz8827 No, she died in 1980 with 112 years

    • @daisymay6505
      @daisymay6505 3 года назад +34

      Holy moly, good for her though, wow I’ll be happy if I can just reach 80 😌

    • @wbnxd5856
      @wbnxd5856 3 года назад +39

      Daisy May true idk how old you are, but I am 16 rn, and I would be 80 years old in 2083, so if We live that long, I think we’ll have extraordinary events between those years, i mean 2020s started off crazy, I think we’ll have a lot to tell our grandkids about this year and the years to come, but I also hope to live up to 80 years of life, if I live up to 100, the year would he 2103, I wonder what type of events ill have if I live that long 😬

  • @professionalcommenter
    @professionalcommenter 5 лет назад +10790

    I can't imagine being present during both world wars, the invention of cars, planes, telephones and machines to mass produce products. Mind boggling.

    • @bovinestool1681
      @bovinestool1681 5 лет назад +436

      My Great Grandmother was born in 1887 and died in 1991 aged 104. Her lifespan covered the Boer War ( Started 1889) right through to the First Gulf War (1991). She lost 2 brothers in the Great War, which she never talked about. I wish now that I had spent more time talking to her and asking about her past. Something I will always regret now that it's to late.

    • @nicholas1130
      @nicholas1130 5 лет назад +10

      @@bovinestool1681 cool

    • @introspectivethoughtproces7184
      @introspectivethoughtproces7184 5 лет назад +176

      The sad part is even though people live through such large events, they'll just go 'meh' and forget until some up-and-coming reporter prods them for a historical segment far in the future :/

    • @blueshark7385
      @blueshark7385 5 лет назад +49

      shame she didn't see the internet

    • @Elvenpath
      @Elvenpath 5 лет назад +58

      I can't imagine being alive in the times of Tsaikovski and Black Sabbath's Paranoid. 😂 For me (born in 1994), they seem to be worlds apart and both being ancient history to me, but they can be fit in to a life span of one woman.

  • @RatsPicklesandMusic
    @RatsPicklesandMusic 7 месяцев назад +3

    The way she said "everything" has changed with such confidence because she firsthand knows it's true!
    When she was born you could barely have a picture taken! Lightbulbs weren't yet a thing. No video. No radio. No cars.
    Wow. She basically saw it all just up to cassette tape recording!

  • @Shalikali
    @Shalikali 5 лет назад +2089

    She looks INCREDIBLE for 108. She could genuinely pass for a woman in her 80s.

    • @catia4908
      @catia4908 5 лет назад +125

      @Redblade what the fuck

    • @wordswritteninred7171
      @wordswritteninred7171 5 лет назад +31

      She didnt lie when she said her makeup would keep you young. Lol

    • @violet-wq7wt
      @violet-wq7wt 5 лет назад +2

      @Redblade that's a little strange....

    • @marywatkins9438
      @marywatkins9438 5 лет назад +41

      Her mind was a steel trap, too. And very good hearing for that age.

    • @bigdoggaming7438
      @bigdoggaming7438 5 лет назад

      @Redblade hahahahahahh...good shitt

  • @robiking011
    @robiking011 4 года назад +3213

    There's an african proverb that says ''When an old person dies, it's library that burns down to ashes''.

    • @arous22
      @arous22 4 года назад +126

      isn't like 80% of Africa illiterate?

    • @zddxddyddw
      @zddxddyddw 4 года назад +210

      @@arous22 Doesn't mean people don't have tales to tell or knowledge about certain things.

    • @warmaathgabriela8435
      @warmaathgabriela8435 4 года назад +21

      @@arous22 says who?!

    • @chocolexii
      @chocolexii 4 года назад +197

      ​@@arous22 So I guess the only exposure you get to Africa is from the commercials on TV asking for 1 cent a day, huh? That's a whole fuckin continent you're joking about, my guy.

    • @texasred2702
      @texasred2702 4 года назад +7

      I thought it was from Borges the Argentinian writer.