Lots of very important things, but mostly the smoking.
But it isn’t? It’s crazy how Lemmy just overconfidently states this multiple times even it’s actually sun exposure that aged people so much back then .
Yeah the sun back then was really something.
Also having kids.
And that nobody has AIDS.
Wait. I know that drugs control symptoms, but is AIDS now cured?
You won’t die from it anymore, and I’m pretty sure that as long as you’re medicated, you won’t transmit it either.
Oh i didn’t know that someone can’t transmit it if medicated, that’s pretty cool. Guess it explains why you don’t hear too much at all about others socially demonising those with aids anymore
From what I’ve heard it’s largely from less smoking and more sunscreen
Also waaaaaaaay less drinking
My brother is an early 70’s born gen x, I’m a late 80’s born millennial. From what I’ve seen drinking and smoking being publicly accessible and socially acceptable made them way more prevelantly indulged in.
and a shitty diet and no exercise.
Are you saying that makes you look younger…?
Yes, but the hair loss is real.
ever since i found out about this a few years ago i’m telling everyone i meet: there’s fantastic medication against hair loss, and it even causes side effects! such as mild boob growth
note that only some meds to that, while others do not.
In rare cases it also causes permanent erectile dysfunction, so probably isn’t the best thing to be recommending everyone takes.
Guy on left can afford nice shirt.
I’m 40 and I look like the second picture
I have the body of the left but the clothing of the right.
The gabagool has a hold on you
true. i saw some people who were 80 and looked like 250. like walking corpses. incredible. probably waaay too many sunburns, etc.
When I was in my twenties people thought I looked older. Now I’m in my fifties, and people think I look much younger.
Yeah, around that age is when the accumulated damage of poor choices start becoming more evident, IMHO.
I have a friend who doesn’t sleep, has ADHD, drinks and smokes a lot, uses vyvanse, and he still looks fine as fuck, despite being a little bit overweight. He’s on his late 30s though, good appereance genes for sure.
I guess I’m just perpetually middle-aged looking. Mainly, I’ve gained belly girth, and lost hair, but my skin’s still pretty good because, despite using nothing but soap on it, I stay out of the sun.
I stay out of the sun.
Whoever said there is no advantage for us being forum nerds, there you go! (joking ofc, but not really if you think about it…)
As Jim Gaffigan said, “I’m what you call ‘indoorsy’”.
This is the best news I’ve gotten all week. I look like a less balding 90s 30. That’s great for being 45.
Does anyone else tell themselves all the other dads they meet are actually much younger than you?
Water, sunscreen. I feel like it was more common in the past to cast a far older person than the age of the character they were playing too on screen. There is also makeup, style choices and clothes that can influence a view quite a bit.
This gives a pretty good explanation of the psychology
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Wow I’m in this pic and I don’t like it.
Well except the Pantera thing. Fuck promoting Phil Anselmo at this point.
too real
Forget about it.
Recently watched The Seven Year Itch (1955) and the man claims to be 37. He looks like a young 50. Cigarettes.
It isn’t cigarettes. It’s being outside in the sun a lot more that really ages. Cigarettes are can but don’t age people nearly as much as UV does.
Just watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Nicholson was 38 during filming. I thought he looked 50 too.
Nah he looks 38 lol
No, he definitely looks well into 45+
I’m just a few months behind that… no he does not.
I’m 38. He does not look 38.
He does. Its just the hairstyle
And the creases.
You mean wrinkles?
Yep. English and their 100 case-dependent meanings.
Well he doesn’t look 50 that’s for sure. His hairline isn’t great, but people in their 20s can have a fucked up hairline.
As I get older, the more I agree
Maybe a ripe 32 if you ask me.
16 going on 35.
Bottom half looks 38. Top half looks 48.
Recently did a watch of Rear Window (1954), and yeah, there’s a scene in the beginning where the main character’s nurse calls the main character “young man”. Main character (Jimmy Stewart?) was 46 at the film’s release.
Wild.
That’s called acting. ::smug face::
They cast people younger and older than their character role because the actor’s age is secondary to they’re ability to play the character. ::smugger face::
Just uh … don’t look too much into what roles John Wayne and others played when it came to race, back then. They uhhhhh…had different standards back then. It was a different time, you see. It wasn’t…it uh…it wasn’t looked at the same way back then. Ok gtg byeeeee
When I was a kid, restaurants still smelled like tobacco.
Didn’t really stop until early 2000’s
I remember this on older busses and coaches as a child, and the ashtrays on the back of seats. Mustve been wack in the 1990s with how much indoor smoking was still accepted.
I don’t know what it peaked, but by the 90s presence of smoking was trending downwards
There were still smoking sections in restaurants for a bit.
It took government regulations in the US to slow and stop this practice
Sunlight is the big factor in premature aging of the skin and especially face. Cigarettes are said to be a big factor too, as is hard liquor to excess.
My years of being a basement virgin devoid of sunlight, are paying back 100x. Ohhh yeaaaaah! 😎
