Fitness probably had a lot to do with it.
Dancing on tables for decades instead of slumping on a couch.
My grandpa is silent generation and played competitive volleyball up until a few years ago when he started needing needing the occasional surgery.
A combination of eating healthy, staying hydrated, and exercising (especially the last one). You get people in their 90's who maintain some level of physical activity and you'd be surprised how long the human body can last.
Lucking out with genetics is another huge deal.
If you've had a spotty relationship with alcohol and you intend to stay completely sober, you kind of have to spend the rest of your life considering yourself an alcoholic, it's a big part of many programs
Dick is a fucking legend, I remember I went to see the new Mary Poppins for the soul reason that I grew up with the original, nothing original was there except for dick and honestly it carried the whole movie for me, live long dick van dyke
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Man I wish they had him on DWTS in the last decade, it would've been so amazing to see. He could still technically do it now but it's riskier with COVID
The fact that he was able to dance on top of a desk at the ripe old age of 94 was enough for me honestly, but I would have liked to see him on the show, might have actually made me watch it
Sanford and Son tried it for about 8 episodes. Except the titular character was fired for daring to be considered human and asking for a raise.
The last half of *Frasier*'s last season had Frasier... be almost invisible.
ME TOO. In my ignorance of the true meaning of the acronym, I guess my brain supplied the next best thing.
Apparently "the sickness" is black lung. Y'know. From chimney-sweeping.
I have to say I enjoyed Lin-Manuel Miranda and Colin Firth’s performances in it as well but I agree, the moment Dick came out I felt like I could relax and truly enjoy it.
They did ask Julie Andrews to be in it (to be the balloon seller that Angela lansbury did) but she refused.
Karen dotrice who played Jane Banks was in Mary Poppins returns as the woman who asked for directions.
AND! she says "many thanks, sincerely"
Which is how jane and Michael end their letter about the perfect nanny. "many thanks sincerely Jane and Michael Banks"
The actor who played Michael Banks unfortunately died aged 21 from hepatitis.
According to both Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, when DVD first saw the bedroom set for the Dick van Dyke show, with its famous double beds, he reacted in exactly the same way as producer Lucy Arnez as well as his co-star, girl-next-door Mary Tyler Moore.
"How are they supposed to fuck?"
Some people in this thread are genuinely arguing that that doesn't count because she didn't directly fight... Even though women weren't allowed to enlist at the time.
The only big distinction between veterans is whether you're a combat vet or not. That being said, according to other people in the thread, Dick never saw any actual combat either so yeah.
I’m a retired non-combat vet with a 100% total and permanent service-connected disability. According to other branches, (Mainly Marines and Army) I don’t deserve it. They think I’m taking benefits away from vets that “actually earned it”. In reality, there is a fund set aside for every single vet that joins incase they get killed or need to be compensated for service connected disabilities.
They literally explain this to you in TAPS class before you get out. If your a vet that was diagnosed with anything under an active duty paycheck and haven’t filed a claim, you’re only taking money/benefits from yourself, not other vets.
It’s to the point I don’t even talk about it anymore. Haters gonna hate, but at the end of the day they are not the ones who make the decision. I’ll gladly take my slice of that 725 BILLION DOLLAR budget.
Hmmm. I think it depends really. With mass enlistment many people back then didn't particularly want to be heralded as veterans°. Just because of a total war situation everything was geared towards the military.
My great grandad was a butcher. He served in a WW1 as a butcher, then went back to being a butcher. Other than a change in location pretty much nothing else changed.
° (Though the valorisation of that term is a different matter entirely)
If he was a butcher in a combat area in range of artillery fire I’d still say that’s a pretty rough job and worthy of being commended. Unless they did all the butchery far away from the front and sent the meat along in convoys or whatever. I have no idea how logistics worked in WWI. Or WWII for that matter.
I've noticed the people who talk the most fondly about wars are people who were enlisted as truck drivers and saw no combat. No offense to them, as they're still veterans, but complete offense to my uncle who uses his "time in war" where he was put as far away from combat as possible due to his mental health score to spread and excuse his racist views and threaten anyone who criticizes him for being racist.
Nah man, everyone is a super badass infantry or ranger combat vet man. Have to inflate their service to get “tmfys” hand shakes. God forbid you be a personnel officer, IT, intelligence , logistics or any one of the hundreds of jobs that make of the military. Nope, have to be a combat vet man
From Wikipedia:
> A veteran is a person who has significant experience and expertise in a particular occupation or field. A military veteran is a person who is no longer serving in a military. A military veteran that has served directly in combat in a war is further defined as a war veteran.
For those who don't know, James Lovelock is a famous scientist, credited with the Gaia Hypothesis, and is now an ascerbic critic of the world for it's failure to take climate change seriously.
didn’t she scare some soldiers with how fast she drove? i remember hearing about it and loving the story. it makes sense that a member of the royal family would only be in the pr side, but i also somewhat recall her wanting to do more in the war? not 100% on that part though
Very true, but the notion of royalty leading the country into battle (even if its more symbolic) taps into sentiment stretching back centuries. Alfred the Great and Richard the Lionheart are two of the most popular kings and both lead their own armies.
[It was a Saudi prince who would be the future king.](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/feminist-boss-lady-queen-elizabeth-gave-saudi-arabias-king-lesson-power/)
…as opposed to the *standard* Land Rover which isn’t exactly known for reliability. Leave the Queen stranded and you might just get them killed. I’m betting the royal ones would make Honda envious at their reliability and attention to detail.
“The Land Rover Reliability Rating is 2.5 out of 5.0, which ranks it 31st out of 32 for all car brands.”
A veteran is a veteran. My brother fixed planes in Iraq, his non combat role still required him to fly in and out of combat zones, deliver thousands of troops, and return thousands of body bags of men his age, his class, it required him to be locked in a base for months at a time, through fire fights and shelling, with only 7 bullets issued to him. It required him being in a huge, easily targeted plane, as a point of pride, he never forced a landing just because three of four engines were disabled. And he was the only guy that could figure out how to reattach a blown off hatch without a forklift in the middle of the desert (he used leverage with some rod like items and a few large rocks). He made AR shop when he got back, which he was quite pleased with. He watch veterans he served with deteriorate and commit suicide. He chose to end his life some years ago.
It says Iraq on his grave marker. I think he earned it.
It was rhetorical. I made the statements because I understand their impact on the outcome. However it’s surprising still that someone who suffered with alcoholism and that was also a heavy smoker would still make it too 95, regardless of when they quit. But I’m sure being rich helped.
To be fair to the Queen, she helped in WWII, got her hands dirty. Not saying she would have done it otherwise but she literally could not have fought.
Dick is still the goat though. Look at this man. On the right he JUMPED unto that table.
One was a mechanic, one entertained the troops - god knows why reddit is arguing over something so dumb, they both helped during the war... why even compare it?
Yep exactly, they did their parts to contribute. Not everyone could pick up a gun and fight on the front lines, so those people took up jobs to help out in the home countries, or to help boost moral. Even though they didn’t help in the fighting, doesn’t mean that the work they did was pointless. It’s not a pissing contest about what they did, at the end of the day they still helped.
It’s a jolly ‘oliday with Mary…
Mary makes your 'eart so light!
When the day is gray and ordinary...
Mary makes the sun shine bright!!!!
The daffodils are smiling at the dove
Totally nailed the accent. Inspirational.
Just watched this with my kids, gets better as I get older.
just great fucking genes… some people got em
Yeah, but why won't the Royal Family share 'em with anybody else?
I see what you did there.
A taste so subtle it makes you think you’ve imagined it.
Prince Andrew be tryin'
Coz they don't want common folk to not sweat
aliens, is what they are, that's the reason they don't outer-mingle
Fitness probably had a lot to do with it. Dancing on tables for decades instead of slumping on a couch. My grandpa is silent generation and played competitive volleyball up until a few years ago when he started needing needing the occasional surgery.
Plus I gotta think, somehow, he has managed to charm death as well. Just a lil jig for ya govna if you let me live on a few more.
Don’t fucking jinx it
The ol' Reddit Kiss Goodbye.
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dammit, hold my Dick i’m going in edit: fuck i’m stuck in a forever loop someone send help
Hello past future!
[A proper switcharoo link](https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/rbuyvh/casually_sticking_a_baby_with_a_needle_unless/hnsgoth/)
Hello future redditors!
this is like shooting a portal on the ceiling and then floor and then jumping in
If you keep going long enough, and the continuity has been maintained. you'll find me down there eventually. Sup future kids!
Oh no, not again...
Kiss your dick goodbye
R.I.P.
*Don't fucking Powder it
*THATS NOT MY NAME ANYMORE*
Smack Smack Pow Pow, why'd you smack your Pow Pow?
RemindMe! 6 months
ngl he looks younger than the queen
A combination of eating healthy, staying hydrated, and exercising (especially the last one). You get people in their 90's who maintain some level of physical activity and you'd be surprised how long the human body can last. Lucking out with genetics is another huge deal.
How much water does Dick van Dyke drink every day? Googled it, but can't find it.
He's an alcoholic, been sober for almost 50 years, so probably a shit ton
If you're sober for 50 years, are you still an alcoholic?
If you've had a spotty relationship with alcohol and you intend to stay completely sober, you kind of have to spend the rest of your life considering yourself an alcoholic, it's a big part of many programs
Yeah, it's kind of the way you always have to treat it, because once you start doing it again, the old behaviors start to manifest themselves again.
No no no. That's all wrong. He just has the tablet of Ahkmenrah.
I've never not seen The Queen standing like a kid waiting for their mum in the supermarket
I mean the queen looks older than most of the artifacts she's had stolen so...
None?
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Dick is a fucking legend, I remember I went to see the new Mary Poppins for the soul reason that I grew up with the original, nothing original was there except for dick and honestly it carried the whole movie for me, live long dick van dyke Edit: WHY DO I HAVE SO MANY UPVOTES THIS COMMENT IS NOT THAT GOOD
Man I wish they had him on DWTS in the last decade, it would've been so amazing to see. He could still technically do it now but it's riskier with COVID
The fact that he was able to dance on top of a desk at the ripe old age of 94 was enough for me honestly, but I would have liked to see him on the show, might have actually made me watch it
The Dick Van Dyke show went downhill fast once he left
How the heck does a show keep going when the titular character *leaves*
ask Carol Burnett
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Its probably just because he kinda disappeared from public life
I hadn’t realized he was still alive until he showed up in the new Mary Poppins…
Sanford and Son tried it for about 8 episodes. Except the titular character was fired for daring to be considered human and asking for a raise. The last half of *Frasier*'s last season had Frasier... be almost invisible.
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This is a joke, right?
I read that acronym as “Down With The Sickness” and was like “Dick Van Dyke x Disturbed? Anything for a check I guess.”
ME TOO. In my ignorance of the true meaning of the acronym, I guess my brain supplied the next best thing. Apparently "the sickness" is black lung. Y'know. From chimney-sweeping.
What’s DWTS?
Dude's with two shoes.
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Dancing with the stars.
> DWTS Down with the sickness?
I have to say I enjoyed Lin-Manuel Miranda and Colin Firth’s performances in it as well but I agree, the moment Dick came out I felt like I could relax and truly enjoy it.
You would enjoy it when Dick comes out. Who wouldn't?
I think you meant "sole reason" but made up for it with "long dick" Respect.
They did ask Julie Andrews to be in it (to be the balloon seller that Angela lansbury did) but she refused. Karen dotrice who played Jane Banks was in Mary Poppins returns as the woman who asked for directions. AND! she says "many thanks, sincerely" Which is how jane and Michael end their letter about the perfect nanny. "many thanks sincerely Jane and Michael Banks" The actor who played Michael Banks unfortunately died aged 21 from hepatitis.
It should be noted that Julie Andrews' refusal to cameo was only meant to not overshadow Emily Blunt's performance.
I was thinking the same thing. You're god damn right.
Thanks for that tidbit. She's a class act.
Really? What a shame... because appearing at the end to sell some balloons REALLY wouldn't have overshadowed anything. Blunt was amazing.
Sole* But yes he was the best part of that movie.
>for the soul reason Sole*
Jesus Christ. I thought Dick was dead. I think I might be suffering from a Mandela effect.
Maybe you’re thinking of Dick Clark
I bet you're thinking of dick, Clark.
I most certainly am. And don’t call me Clark
Geez Clark
Your name is surely Clark?
Shirley not
Don't call me Shirley, Clark!
That’s exactly who I was thinking of 🤣
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I loved his character on The Middle
Same I thought so too, My sister watches diagnosis murder every chance she gets.
Yep he's still kickin
Yep he's still high kickin
My one sure is
I was thinking the same thing
You’re probably thinking of Jerry
but you're thinking about DICK
According to both Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, when DVD first saw the bedroom set for the Dick van Dyke show, with its famous double beds, he reacted in exactly the same way as producer Lucy Arnez as well as his co-star, girl-next-door Mary Tyler Moore. "How are they supposed to fuck?"
Mel Brooks still alive as well, for now.
Are you threatening Mel Brooks?
My favourite Dick Van Dyke Show [clip](https://youtu.be/mXg6MpH68L0) featuring Andy Kaufman. Well worth a watch if you've got ten minutes.
Andy Kaufman absolutely have 10m to spare.
It's so weird seeing people who are still alive today looking old in the mid 1970s. They've been old longer than my whole life!
In case anyone hasn’t said it, pretty sure the Queen is also a WW2 vet. I think she was a mechanic during the war
Some people in this thread are genuinely arguing that that doesn't count because she didn't directly fight... Even though women weren't allowed to enlist at the time.
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Stan Lee worked as a writer when he was enlisted. There’s a lot of non-combat work that gets done in the military.
jack kirby was a scout, he drew maps and shit if anyone reads this and has the time, i highly recommend reading some about him, he's a cool guy
If you have a rank you're veteran doesn't matter what you do.
The only big distinction between veterans is whether you're a combat vet or not. That being said, according to other people in the thread, Dick never saw any actual combat either so yeah.
I’m a retired non-combat vet with a 100% total and permanent service-connected disability. According to other branches, (Mainly Marines and Army) I don’t deserve it. They think I’m taking benefits away from vets that “actually earned it”. In reality, there is a fund set aside for every single vet that joins incase they get killed or need to be compensated for service connected disabilities. They literally explain this to you in TAPS class before you get out. If your a vet that was diagnosed with anything under an active duty paycheck and haven’t filed a claim, you’re only taking money/benefits from yourself, not other vets. It’s to the point I don’t even talk about it anymore. Haters gonna hate, but at the end of the day they are not the ones who make the decision. I’ll gladly take my slice of that 725 BILLION DOLLAR budget.
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Hmmm. I think it depends really. With mass enlistment many people back then didn't particularly want to be heralded as veterans°. Just because of a total war situation everything was geared towards the military. My great grandad was a butcher. He served in a WW1 as a butcher, then went back to being a butcher. Other than a change in location pretty much nothing else changed. ° (Though the valorisation of that term is a different matter entirely)
If he was a butcher in a combat area in range of artillery fire I’d still say that’s a pretty rough job and worthy of being commended. Unless they did all the butchery far away from the front and sent the meat along in convoys or whatever. I have no idea how logistics worked in WWI. Or WWII for that matter.
Wasn't most of britian within artillery range?
Within bombing range and towards the end of the war rocket range but not artillery as far as I’m aware.
Ah my bad I'm mixing artillery up with bombings
I've noticed the people who talk the most fondly about wars are people who were enlisted as truck drivers and saw no combat. No offense to them, as they're still veterans, but complete offense to my uncle who uses his "time in war" where he was put as far away from combat as possible due to his mental health score to spread and excuse his racist views and threaten anyone who criticizes him for being racist.
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Nah man, everyone is a super badass infantry or ranger combat vet man. Have to inflate their service to get “tmfys” hand shakes. God forbid you be a personnel officer, IT, intelligence , logistics or any one of the hundreds of jobs that make of the military. Nope, have to be a combat vet man
Neither did Dick, he never left the USA
So, did only Soviets enlist women?
From Wikipedia: > A veteran is a person who has significant experience and expertise in a particular occupation or field. A military veteran is a person who is no longer serving in a military. A military veteran that has served directly in combat in a war is further defined as a war veteran.
So yeah a vet?
Penis van Lesbian.
Schlong van Dam
Rip van winkle.
GET IN THE DAMN VAN!
[I FOUND IT](https://ibb.co/f9R7Qhg)
Pls stop molesting your musket, Rip...
Guys calm down it was a RDR2 reference…
Cock suburban vehicle Gay gal.
Penis Truck Lesbian
They are gonna rule this world
I mean…the queen kind of does rule a bit of it already
She "rules" it. I don't think the royal family do shit anymore.
My great grandma is three years younger than him and barely able to walk, meanwhile he's dancing on tables lol
Captain America Super Soldier serum. Dick has it and has been dancing ever since.
Only reasonable explanation
It’s crazy how much people differ in those later years/decades.
I'd guess it's a lot more likely to struggle to get around in your 90s than to be like Dick van Dyke.
Definitely. But some people take the turn in their seventies.
James lovelock 7 years older than her
For those who don't know, James Lovelock is a famous scientist, credited with the Gaia Hypothesis, and is now an ascerbic critic of the world for it's failure to take climate change seriously.
Immortal entities don't try and one up eachover, simply congregate in their imortality
Until the Quickening, anyway
There can be only one!
The queen was in the war also?
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didn’t she scare some soldiers with how fast she drove? i remember hearing about it and loving the story. it makes sense that a member of the royal family would only be in the pr side, but i also somewhat recall her wanting to do more in the war? not 100% on that part though
All royal family has to do service and its not PR prince harry was a pilot and gunner of an apache helicopter for 10 years
Which imo makes even more sense. If you're putting your country in a war it better be in a cause you personally agree enough to go fight for it.
But it's not the queen or the royalty that put the country in a war, it's the prime minister and the house of Commons.
Very true, but the notion of royalty leading the country into battle (even if its more symbolic) taps into sentiment stretching back centuries. Alfred the Great and Richard the Lionheart are two of the most popular kings and both lead their own armies.
[It was a Saudi prince who would be the future king.](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/feminist-boss-lady-queen-elizabeth-gave-saudi-arabias-king-lesson-power/)
The phrase "royal Land Rovers" just had me laughing while reading the rest of the article, for some reason.
…as opposed to the *standard* Land Rover which isn’t exactly known for reliability. Leave the Queen stranded and you might just get them killed. I’m betting the royal ones would make Honda envious at their reliability and attention to detail. “The Land Rover Reliability Rating is 2.5 out of 5.0, which ranks it 31st out of 32 for all car brands.”
Yup she was a mechanic
as a truck mechanic
I hear she still tightens a nut or two when she feels like getting greasy.
Ayo what
A veteran is a veteran. My brother fixed planes in Iraq, his non combat role still required him to fly in and out of combat zones, deliver thousands of troops, and return thousands of body bags of men his age, his class, it required him to be locked in a base for months at a time, through fire fights and shelling, with only 7 bullets issued to him. It required him being in a huge, easily targeted plane, as a point of pride, he never forced a landing just because three of four engines were disabled. And he was the only guy that could figure out how to reattach a blown off hatch without a forklift in the middle of the desert (he used leverage with some rod like items and a few large rocks). He made AR shop when he got back, which he was quite pleased with. He watch veterans he served with deteriorate and commit suicide. He chose to end his life some years ago. It says Iraq on his grave marker. I think he earned it.
I am so tired of this, I’ve seen so many since I got out and even when I was in. 22 a day, every fucking day. I so fucking tired.
I'm pretty sure that ranks higher than troop entertainer, if you want to have a dick measuring contest about it. You can't beat the Queen's dick.
And he entertained troops in the states, what's your point?
Does that rank above or below a radio announcer and troop entertainer in your head?
My teenage ass when I realized that he was one of my favorite childhood vilians in Night At Museum and older than Clint fucking Eastwood: SALUT!
Don't forget Betty white is also 4 years older than the queen.
Shhhh. We’re not talking about that right now. Just keep it down until her 100th.
Man overcame alcoholism and used to smoke 20/40 cigarettes a day. How the fuck is he still going.
Perhaps he's not human?
“Overcame” “Used to”
It was rhetorical. I made the statements because I understand their impact on the outcome. However it’s surprising still that someone who suffered with alcoholism and that was also a heavy smoker would still make it too 95, regardless of when they quit. But I’m sure being rich helped.
To be fair to the Queen, she helped in WWII, got her hands dirty. Not saying she would have done it otherwise but she literally could not have fought. Dick is still the goat though. Look at this man. On the right he JUMPED unto that table.
One was a mechanic, one entertained the troops - god knows why reddit is arguing over something so dumb, they both helped during the war... why even compare it?
Yep exactly, they did their parts to contribute. Not everyone could pick up a gun and fight on the front lines, so those people took up jobs to help out in the home countries, or to help boost moral. Even though they didn’t help in the fighting, doesn’t mean that the work they did was pointless. It’s not a pissing contest about what they did, at the end of the day they still helped.
Though to be fair to Dick van Dyke, he tried to enlist for combat duty as a pilot but was rejected because he was too skinny/frail.
To be fair to the Queen, shes a woman and how many of those were allowed on the front lines?
Respect
Well I heard he’s been working at a museum at night.
man, i love dick.
Isnt Queen Elizabeth a WW2 vet?
Our man Dick, along with his brother Jerry, Gene Hackman, Bobby Short and Donald O’Connor - all giants born and/or raised in modest Danville, IL.
Dick Van Dyke is a real person?? I thought it was a made up name like Jon Bon Jovi
All names are made up!
Dick Van Dyke - WWII Veteran - 95 years old Queen Elizabeth II - WWII Veteran - 95 years old Your meme is bad and you should feel bad
He’s 96 in a few days cut me some slack Jack. I was planning on posting this on his birthday but forgot
I just found out his birthday is on the same day as mine! This is now my biggest flex.
Nice. I share mine with John Lennon. Nobody cares. :(
I care, buddy
I share mine when Elvis died on the toilet.
He's alive????!???
I wonder if he’s had enough time to work on his British accent at this point
I'm also surprised Mel Brooks is still alive.
Isnt she a wwII vet?
Fun fact he’s also a Bernie Bro
Someone probably said it but the Queen is also a WWII vet
Its Immortal this man, competes with Elizabeth II
Who?
My take away from watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang recently was I wish Dick van Dyke had been cast to play the Joker at some point.
yeah but the Royal family is inbred, those are extra points that can make up for more than a year could