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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:19:16 AM EDT
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It's the miles not the years.
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:19:26 AM EDT
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Hard vs easy life...
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:20:23 AM EDT
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Age, and perceptions of it, definitely seems to differ relative to looks these days.
I would say that 50 nowadays is the 30 from half a century ago. I dunno, just spitballin... |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:21:44 AM EDT
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Child labor laws were invented for this very reason.
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:24:14 AM EDT
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Better food and nutrition nowadays if you choose to eat right. Everybody smoked back then.
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:24:40 AM EDT
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Stress will age people. Jimmy Stewart flew
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:25:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ahnglw: Child labor laws were invented for this very reason. Child labor laws are ruining this country. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:25:45 AM EDT
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Dear God, yes. You don't even have to go that far back. Go rewatch just about any movie from the 70s-80s. The parents always look like they're at least in their 50s.
Perfect example----dad was 46 and mom was 40.  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:26:58 AM EDT
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Quoted: Watching "Rear Window" on BBC this morning. Got into a discussion with Wifey about how old Jimmy Stewart was, and how hawt Grace Kelly was. Wife remarked, "He was only 46. She was 28." I look younger, and I'm almost ten years older than he was. Do you guys think people aged differently back in the day? I remember 40-year-olds looked like they were 70, and 50 year olds looked like they were 90! Let me know if you still look young after you survive great depression II and WWIII |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:27:05 AM EDT
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I've noticed the same thing, OP.
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:27:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By w33b8t1: Hard vs easy life... Really is the case. That and adults seem to act a lot more childlike now then years ago. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:27:27 AM EDT
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It gets worse I’ve noticed, the older I get.
I’m seeing people 5+ years younger than me that I think I look younger than. Shrug. No idear. It’ll catch up with me soon enough. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:29:25 AM EDT
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Easier life.
That'll end soon. Greatest Depression next stop! |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:29:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Zardoz: Stress will age people. Jimmy Stewart flew B17s over Europe. I did remark on this with my wife. Said, "I never had to deal with flak and Luftwaffe fighters coming at me at 400 mph." |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:29:52 AM EDT
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I look MUCH older than I did in the mid-20th century.
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:33:13 AM EDT
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I was talking about this the other day. I saw a clip from the old Jimmy Dean show. It featured Hank Williams Jr. singing a song. If I were to guess on looks Hank looked to be about in his 30s. Nope, he was 14 at the time.
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:46:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TacticalGarand44: Child labor laws are ruining this country. Yep, 7 year olds need to be kept off factory floors, but in some states high schoolers can’t work on school nights or they’re limited in time and when they have to stop. But school sports can have them out later. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:53:14 AM EDT
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People don't smoke as much, they don't sunbathe as much, and things like the way people dress and carry themselves influences your perception of them.
Then there's the whole bit about perspective. Those are old people, they've always been old people, you're not that old until you look in the mirror. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:53:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ME2112: Yep, 7 year olds need to be kept off factory floors, but in some states high schoolers can’t work on school nights or they’re limited in time and when they have to stop. But school sports can have them out later. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ME2112: Originally Posted By TacticalGarand44: Child labor laws are ruining this country. Yep, 7 year olds need to be kept off factory floors, but in some states high schoolers can’t work on school nights or they’re limited in time and when they have to stop. But school sports can have them out later. It doesn't matter. Nobody is going to pay them $15/hr anyway. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 10:54:56 AM EDT
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Jimmy Stewart was a certified Billy-Badass in his day
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:02:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Zardoz: Stress will age people. Jimmy Stewart flew B17s over Europe. B-24, not B-17. Mike |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:02:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By M95Mauser: It's the miles not the years. Yep, Jimmy had lived through the depression and been on ?? combat missions at 46. What had you done at 46? ETA: Those B-24 bombers were NOT heated/pressurized and operated at 28,000 feet. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:02:20 AM EDT
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Missed it by a little, way fewer smokers and sunscreen used from a very early age.
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:06:31 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:12:01 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:14:49 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:21:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ironhandjohn: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/aa/fa/27/aafa27929c62f56ff5efabfa86c3e13e.jpg I miss him so much. Luckily I have a whip smart and quirky niece who naturally speaks with the same flow and cadence so I get my quasi-Mitch fix when she visits. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:27:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FOGeologist: I did remark on this with my wife. Said, "I never had to deal with flak and Luftwaffe fighters coming at me at 400 mph." Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FOGeologist: Originally Posted By Zardoz: Stress will age people. Jimmy Stewart flew B17s over Europe. I did remark on this with my wife. Said, "I never had to deal with flak and Luftwaffe fighters coming at me at 400 mph." Along with that, he later commanded an entire bomber wing. Commanding any amount of young, testosterone-fueled yahoos that are away from home for the first time is probably more stressful than the flak. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:28:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mike_c130: B-24, not B-17. Mike Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mike_c130: Originally Posted By Zardoz: Stress will age people. Jimmy Stewart flew B17s over Europe. B-24, not B-17. Mike Thanks for the correction, I'll edit. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:30:09 AM EDT
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Less sun, indoor and less physically demanding work, less smoking, hair dye, makeup, rogaine.
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:31:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Zardoz: Along with that, he later commanded an entire bomber wing. Commanding any amount of young, testosterone-fueled yahoos that are away from home for the first time is probably more stressful than the flak. Yes. No General Order #1 in WWII. Remember the British complaint that the Americans were over: sexed, paid, here! 
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:31:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TacticalGarand44: Child labor laws are ruining this country.  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:32:03 AM EDT
[#33]
A lot of them went through a depression, a world war, and smoked. That'll age you.
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:35:07 AM EDT
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Quoted: ...I remember 40-year-olds looked like they were 70, and 50 year olds looked like they were 90! Yeah, but how old were you then? 
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:35:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By raven: A lot of them went through a depression, a world war, and smoked. That'll age you. Stress wears on you, that is for sure. I am in my mid (soon to be late) 40s. Up until about 5 years ago people often mistook me for being a decade younger then I am. In the last 5 years I have seen job loss, death of a loved one, near death of another, financial issues, dealing with trying to stand up a business and now all the fallout from this stupid China virus. Appearance wise, I aged 15 years in the last 5.
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:37:08 AM EDT
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Does being a morbidly obese piece of shit make you look younger?
 If it does we got the youthful look thing on lockdown. 
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:37:40 AM EDT
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Sean Connery @ 32 years of age.
Looks like a typical 50 year old now 
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:39:24 AM EDT
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Fashion has a lot to do with it. The hairstyles, the clothes, the glasses, etc.
It's not just confined to the mid-20th century. I know a lot of women who in their 30s-40s looked like real-life Peggy Hill in the 1990s but were far more attractive or looked younger in their 40s-50s in the '00-'10s. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:40:00 AM EDT
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Quoted: Watching "Rear Window" on BBC this morning. Got into a discussion with Wifey about how old Jimmy Stewart was, and how hawt Grace Kelly was. Wife remarked, "He was only 46. She was 28." I look younger, and I'm almost ten years older than he was. Do you guys think people aged differently back in the day? I remember 40-year-olds looked like they were 70, and 50 year olds looked like they were 90! Yes. Smoking is a hell of a thing. Go pull a 40 year old soccer mom out of the suburbs and a 40 year old grandma out of the trailer park and compare. Soccer mom doesn’t smoke, eats organic food and uses sunscreen. Grandma numbs the hopelessness with pain pills, excessive booze consumption and picking up a fresh pack of cigarettes on the way to the laundromat/tanning salon in the middle of January. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:44:08 AM EDT
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Smoking.
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:46:10 AM EDT
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Allot of it is your perception of age as related to clothing and hair styles and the age of the pictures and film.
If you did your hair and makeup just like someone from 1950 and also wore the same outfit and had a pic taken with the same style camera and showed it to someone they would think you looked 20 years older. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:50:11 AM EDT
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How old was Andy Griffith and how old was his character
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:50:35 AM EDT
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John Ashton was 36 when they filmed Beverly Hills Cop. He looks late 40s in the movies at best.
 Attached File |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 11:50:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 2manytoys: I was talking about this the other day. I saw a clip from the old Jimmy Dean show. It featured Hank Williams Jr. singing a song. If I were to guess on looks Hank looked to be about in his 30s. Nope, he was 14 at the time. I remember the first time I watched “Rebel Without a Cause” and the original “The Blob”. Both James Dean and Steve McQueen looked like my high school teachers pretending to be teenagers. Fast forward to the last 30 years when you have late-20’s and 30 year olds pulling off those high school student roles easily. For all the obesity, as a culture we still tend to have better health information than they had 70 years ago. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 12:11:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Stress will age people. Jimmy Stewart flew  |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 12:16:27 PM EDT
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Weird double tap
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Posted: 5/10/2020 12:16:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By woodsie: John Ashton was 36 when they filmed Beverly Hills Cop. He looks late 40s in the movies at best. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/178958/20200510_114842_jpg-1409605.JPG Who looks older in this pic.  
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Posted: 5/10/2020 12:19:28 PM EDT
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George Lazenby was 29 when he portrayed Bond. He looked significantly older.
My dads senior photo looks like me now, in my 30s, but my hair line is a bit receded. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 1:22:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 2manytoys: I was talking about this the other day. I saw a clip from the old Jimmy Dean show. It featured Hank Williams Jr. singing a song. If I were to guess on looks Hank looked to be about in his 30s. Nope, he was 14 at the time. Hank aged in dog years. Beer...no, Vodka...no,Whiskey...no, Speed is a helluva drug.  I know the guys I started flying with at TWA were in their late 40’s to late 50’s. They looked like they were 70+. Wrinkles all bald or white hair. Most smoked their whole life and partied rock stars the first 20 years of their careers. A few of them saw combat in VN. But they weren’t the oldest looking. TC |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 3:28:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mayday: Sean Connery @ 32 years of age. Looks like a typical 50 year old now https://c8.alamy.com/comp/W78750/sean-connery-dr-no-1962-W78750.jpg The hairpiece is a giveaway, too. Today’s 32 year olds either go bald and keep it close-cropped, or full-on shave their heads and make it up with a goofy beard. |
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