Jessie Gallan, 109: The Secret To A Long Life Is No Men
[guest post by Dana]
So, what’s the secret to a long, long life? According to Scotland’s oldest living woman, 109-year old Jessie Gallan, it’s fairly simple:
‘My secret to a long life has been staying away from men. They’re just more trouble than they’re worth.
‘I also made sure that I got plenty of exercise, eat a nice warm bowl of porridge every morning and have never gotten married.
Gallan also has a positive outlook on life:
I’ve never had to depend on anybody. I’ve had my ups and downs, many. But I’m thankful.
I read that news of Gallan’s no-men-allowed code resulted in some fun jabs at misandry:
THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF MISANDRY. HT @brandon_weigel http://t.co/0SLYAVtNHH
— anna walsh (@annamccachren) January 20, 2015
But of course, that’s not what real misandry looks like. This is:
And with all due respect, I so disagree with Ms. Gallan’s view on men. Frankly, I think they are more than worth all that trouble!
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (8e74ce) — 1/25/2015 @ 5:54 pmI suspect that 100 year old men feel the same way about women. All I can say is that they have caused me a lot of trouble. But it was worth it. I think
Mike K (90dfdc) — 1/25/2015 @ 6:03 pmMike K,
I think both sexes bring their own travel bag of troubles, but I can’t imagine making the journey alone.
Dana (8e74ce) — 1/25/2015 @ 6:11 pmAs someone who has been married 4 times (successfully at last)I would say that women have caused me some trouble. However, I was most certainly was not a day at the beach. Truth be told, I wouldn’t change a day of it because I ended up here. And I like it.
Gazzer (00500e) — 1/25/2015 @ 6:16 pmWell, no offense but it’s prolly been a cinch doing without men for the last half century.
No one was looking in her direction.
DNF (9bf551) — 1/25/2015 @ 6:51 pmworst thing about Januaryjones’s screed is that 4,290 “liked” it. I can only hope that none of them ever enter my life. I deal with enough idiots as it is.
kishnevi (294553) — 1/25/2015 @ 6:53 pm6. Life is new every morning.
DNF (9bf551) — 1/25/2015 @ 6:59 pmTeh oldest woman
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/25/2015 @ 7:12 pmlives to prove adage that Scots
tight with ev’rything
those men in their kilts
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/25/2015 @ 7:15 pmfailed to blow up her wee skirts
Angus don’t get none
I have to say that after I stopped pursuing women, my fortunes turned better.
I became calmer, more relaxed and was able to make good decisions based on the facts
with no outside influence distorting or denigrating my choices.
I’ve been happier and less fearful or fretful of the future and enjoy every day.
Even more enjoyable has been that I do whatever I want and what I do is for my
enjoyment and for my reasons.
So, back at you Jessie!
jakee308 (f0aa61) — 1/25/2015 @ 7:17 pmAlan King had a comedy bit about “survived by his wife”.
seeRpea (1d44c7) — 1/25/2015 @ 8:01 pmBy the time a man gets married, he knows the true meaning of happiness. Of course, by then it’s too late…
Gazzer (e8a86f) — 1/25/2015 @ 8:12 pmOh great, so Kagan and Sotomayor are going to be on the Court for the next 50 years? Let’s hope neither of them are eating porridge.
JVW (60ca93) — 1/25/2015 @ 9:29 pmI would rather die tomorrow than not have lived with my wife for the past 30-something years. Just saying.
OK, 36 years. I looked at my wedding ring. Mansplaining.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 1/25/2015 @ 10:36 pmI am blessed to be with my wife for37 years.
mg (31009b) — 1/26/2015 @ 12:10 amI will do anything for her. I love sundays as we spend that day doing things together.
Scots, what hae ye? And why didn’t you show it to Jesse?
nk (dbc370) — 1/26/2015 @ 1:37 amshe’s probably not adding enough butter to the porridge
happyfeet (a037ad) — 1/26/2015 @ 5:43 amI don’t see how the Januaryjones twit(sic) is misandry, though. It’s perfectly correct. Like the Sun and the Moon, women are only a reflection of men. Women only have what men have allowed them to have; they are only what men want them to be. Men should take care of women because we need them to propagate the species and … well, you know, and they are not capable of doing it for themselves. It’s reality. Without the Sun, nobody would even know the Moon existed. Without men, women would be hiding naked on the treetops munching leaves and hoping a leopard would not climb up to get them. And men definitely should not act like little b***es with vaginas; those kind of “men” are not necessary to anything.
nk (dbc370) — 1/26/2015 @ 5:47 amNaturally Jessie, due to her age, is taken as the Voice of Authority on all things male. But the odds are that conversely, she was no day-at-the-beach as a women either. It’s a two was street Jessie.
Ipso Fatso (10964d) — 1/26/2015 @ 5:50 amOops, two way street Jessie.
Ipso Fatso (10964d) — 1/26/2015 @ 5:51 amThere’s some they do and some they don’t
And some you just can’t tell
And some may will and some may won’t
With some it’s just as well.
Poor Jesse. Let’s not be too unkind to her; Nature was cruel enough.
nk (dbc370) — 1/26/2015 @ 5:59 amWhy is a post on this site reprinting that drivel from Twitter? Why give it the attention?
Georganne (e37667) — 1/26/2015 @ 6:17 amsomeone’s in a phase
happyfeet (a037ad) — 1/26/2015 @ 6:23 am“I’ve never had to depend on anybody.”
Except maybe for:
pst314 (ae6bd1) — 1/26/2015 @ 6:32 am– a welfare state created and funded largely by the labor of men?
– heat from coal dug by men
– appliances, cars, buses and trains build of iron and steel mined by men
– books and magazines made of wood pulp logged and manufactured by men
– radio and TV invented and built by men
– medical technology largely invented by men
– man-hating message delivered thanks to technology made by men
“I suspect that 100 year old men feel the same way about women.”
It depends on the woman…and the man. I know a few elderly men who love their wives very much. One old vet says that her love and care saved his life when he returned from the war.
pst314 (ae6bd1) — 1/26/2015 @ 6:34 amA man without a feminazi is like a fish without a bicycle.
Or maybe like a fish without a lamprey eel.
pst314 (ae6bd1) — 1/26/2015 @ 6:36 amWomen who don’t like men are not necessary to anything, either.
nk (dbc370) — 1/26/2015 @ 6:39 amThis garbage is getting tiresome as I think many of the comments here show. For decades this sort of dig was chuckled over because , well, women, but now days there is a steady drumbeat of this crap while at the same time we have to hear about all the pitiful women and their horrid lot in life at the hands of men. Its not amusing anymore.
Mark Johnson (77a382) — 1/26/2015 @ 7:15 amWithout one man Jessie Gallan wouldn’t be available to interview. After 109 years, maybe that inconvenient fact is beyond recall.
LTMG (94c4c3) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:23 amThere I was, stumbing around the yard like a half wit/
Am I the dumb a$$ cuz wimmins can get me top do yard work?
I din’t notice any wimminz out there. Just saying.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/26/2015 @ 3:03 pm“He took a hundred pounds of clay
And then He said “Hey, listen”
“I’m gonna mold a wee lass today”
“Because I know what’s missin’ ”
Then He rolled his big sleeves up
And a brave new world began
He created Scots woman and-a
real cock-blocker for the man
Whoa-oh-oh, yes he did
With just a hundred pounds of clay
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/26/2015 @ 3:33 pmHe made a Scot’s worst nightmare
And they will thank Him every day
cuz now they drink without care
And a different lass every night
just their hand, first the left then the right
And He did it all with just a hundred pounds of clay
Yes he did, whoa-oh, yes He did”
Two old ladies are sitting together in a nursing home. One says, “It’s Saturday night. There was a time when boys would be calling me to go dancing. Do you remember the minuet?” And the other says, “Honey, I don’t even remember the ones I screwed”.
Jesse is 109 years old. She could have had five husbands, eight kids, forty grandkids, 150 great-grandkids, and only remembers the bowl of warm porridge she had this morning and the walk the nurse took her around the nursing home grounds.
nk (dbc370) — 1/26/2015 @ 4:07 pm“women are superior” but these superior women don’t want men
el polacko (cc2ccb) — 1/26/2015 @ 5:13 pmto “act like little bitches with vaginas” ??!?
talk about cognitive dissonance !