This stuff's been going around, I see. My friend shared this a few weeks ago. This was Season 1 of Cheers.
Oh no, I'm older than everyone except Coach.
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People just looked a lot older than they were back in the day
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Oh no, I'm older than everyone except Coach.
Tom Cruise and the kid from Top Gun, then and now. Seem so strange.
Jerry Maguire.
Ohh just saw that movie on the plane and wondered how old she was. I found her very attractive, she surely doesn't look like 58
Most points are valid, and genetics play a huge role. My 98 year old great aunt looks like early 80s , still wear high heels and contemporary style. Most of my colleagues are in their 40s and look their age mostly because of balding, i m on the small side so look younger than my 47 years, also have hairs left and none really grey
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God I need to see this. Feels like it is coming back around though.
That's the kid from Maguire, he's 31 now. The other man is McQuarrie.
Tom Cruise and the kid from Top Gun, then and now. Seem so strange.
There was also no kid in Top Gun. I think you had an error in your humor detection script.
That was supposed to be a joke? You never know with what people actually believe these days LMAO.
Ford was likely 34 in that picture (depending on when filming was).
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There are also people who smoke everyday and don't get lung cancer. Health isn't a matter of do x and y will happen it's a matter of changing probability based on behavior. Most people who use sunscreen will look younger as the sun can do a lot of damage to sun (health and looks).
Yes I know, I was disagreeing with Morrigan on what age he looks.
I'm too lazy to look it up but the perceived ages of the students in the Karate Kid series stood out to me vs the original movies cast quite a bit.
Nahhh well I wasn't at the table alone... And the other guy wasn't carded ..
I CAN'T STAND ITThis is a photo of my Dad and I from probably 1980. He would have been 25 here.
I KNOW YOU PLANNED IT
There's a woman in the drive through of our local Hardees that could be anywhere from 20 to 45. She always smiles at me and half her teeth are broken, her eyes and cheeks are wrinkled. She looks like she had a drug problem in the past. It's so weird because she puts off young vibes but has this thousand yard stare and the voice of a 50 year old southern grandma with a smoking problem.
Someday I'll ask her because she may be older than or she may be old enough to be my daughter.
Someday I'll ask her because she may be older than or she may be old enough to be my daughter.
This is wild lolHope you don't mind. I decided to test the theory that it was grooming and style that younger generations code as "old" is what ages up our parents in old photos and made this:
Hair/grooming does so fucking much
I think the kids from Malcolm in the Middle are now older than those Cheers characters, it's nuts.
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Sebastian Shaw was about 77 when he filmed this
Reminds me of Ian McDarmid as Emperor Palpatine, who was a mere 39 when he first played the role in Return of the Jedi. He then basically aged more realistically into it when he was asked to come back for the role in Phantom Menace 16 years later - which was of course a prequel and paradoxically depicted a younger version - and then further on in Rise of Skywalker 33 years after.
Obviously, the pancakes of makeup and prosthetics help the illusion, but it's still interesting. You don't often see that kind of thing, a younger man portraying a much older man and then reprising him many years later closer to the actual age of the character.
Yeah we've become a youth obsessed culture in the last 2-3 decades. For men, the ideal look is now around 28 - 35 and for women it's 18-24.
Before in the 60s - 70s, generally the ideal look for men was 42 - 52. Basically a couple years shy of retirement. And for women it was around 26 - 35. Women have always had it tougher but the ideal look back then was middle-aged or just shy of it. They weren't counting wrinkles like they do nowadays.
Second hand smoke was still a huge problem, go to any bar or pub prior to the smoking bans and you were breathing in almost as much smoke as the smokers. Dedicated smoking areas are little help since the smoke spreads everywhere indoors.
With the years that coincided with my teens, I'm thinking "I hate these people" while the ones before and after don't give me that effect. The damage is long lasting.
Nope. The only one in her 50s was Rue McClanahan. The rest were already in their 60s when the show began. Not sure why that image keeps getting shared.
Second hand smoke is absolutely a health problem, but if a person was hanging out in bars and pubs in the 90s enough that the second hand smoke would prematurely age them then they've probably got other issues. I'd imagine the drinking would cause that a lot faster.
I remember as a kid, family restaurants had smoking sections. It's pretty amazing looking back on how much smoke there was as a kid.
This is really interesting seeing how young people's dress seem to change so much over a span of 40-50 years. 70's and 80's attire and hair as them look pretty old for their age and then the minute the 90's hit it becomes so much less formal. Everyone seems younger.
Courtney Cox as Sophia in the reboot.
I decided to give the Golden Girls a makeover with more modern hairstyles for women in their 50s, though the clothes still date them.
I look a decade younger than my dad did at my age. He smoked regularly since his early teens while I never touched the stuff.
This video confirms 80s hairstyles just made people look super old
I don't pay much attention to football but holy shit.
He looks about 10 years older than his actual age at least.
They really do. The kids in the 70s looked young, but as soon as the boys had mullets and the girls discovered hairspray and perms, they all just rocketed forward ten years. Then they start looking young again in the early 90s and revert to being kids by around 1997.
You weren't wrong. I guessed his age and was exactly 10 years off.
only 1 of the Golden Girls was in her 50s. Rue McClanahan was born in 1934. so she was 51.
Betty White was born in 1922. so she was 63 in 85. so was Beatrice Arthur. And Estelle Getty was born a year later in 23.
