From what I’ve heard it’s largely from less smoking and more sunscreen
and a shitty diet and no exercise.
Are you saying that makes you look younger…?
yes the thing that changed was lead posioning from gas and chain smoking cigs starting at 12
Also pesticides were even more unregulated than they are now. Remember how they just sprayed DDT everywhere in the 40’s till the 70’s. Even on directly on people. Shit had multigenerational consequences, even grandchildren of people who had a high exposure to that stuff are being affected.
I smoked from 15 to 30 drank every weekend in the same time. 40 now and I look more like the one on the right
Recently watched The Seven Year Itch (1955) and the man claims to be 37. He looks like a young 50. Cigarettes.
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
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! 😎
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.
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
The one in the left married at 23 and his 4 kids.*fix his=has
That explains a lot, what with the sleep deprivation and drastic lifestyle changes brought on my most kids.
Ugh married his 4 kids too that’s sick
In addition to people not smoking anymore, direct Sun exposure has dropped dramatically too.
Guy on left can afford nice shirt.
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 (finasteride) 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.
Great example of how stress ages you
Not stress, smoking, drinking and no sunscreen does that to you.
I don’t think stress is any less, but actually more than in the 90’s
Few people are as consistently stressed as Tony Soprano. Sure, he’s got the big house, the big car, the ridiculously understanding wife, but he also has had to kill a few family members and more friends than is usually healthy. Once, he got a good friend indebted to him then burnt down his restaurant. All this while trying to keep two steps ahead of the feds. That lifestyle would age anyone.
None of that was real though lol.
To be fair, I don’t know much about James Gandilfini.
Jim Gandalfini? Yeah I knew him. I knew him when he was a young, unshaven actor, before he fell, and spent forty years battling the foul Morgul stench. He emerged from that an aged man, his stubbled chin showing hints of grey, body and mind exhausted in spite of a great victory over the dark side. He took to wearing nothing but bathrobes, and rested heavily on his staff when he had to walk. His recovery was heavily reliant on resting his mind with the weed leaf, and rejuvenating his mind amongst the gardens and feasts of middle America, off the beaten track, as aeons passed him by. Soon, the great evil mustered its strength once more, and he again took to the battlegrounds of the Midwest, or as it was then known, middle earth…
Neat TIL
Wouldn’t it be great if that was true
I’m talking more about the 90’s in general
All due respect, you got no fuckin’ idea what it’s like to be Number One. Every decision you make affects every facet of every other fuckin’ thing. It’s too much to deal with almost. And in the end you’re completely alone with it all.
Edie Falco in one of the later seasons gave one of the most impressive and stunning acting performances that I have ever witnessed on TV.
When she screams at Tony to get out of the house, she could shatter hearts with that voice.
Just came to think of it seeing as this is a shitpost or whatever.
Yeah, she really was incredible when the writers gave her something to do.
Gandolfini was also an addict too
Awful example. The 90s had WAAAAAAAAY less stress than today.
Yeah but we didn’t know that!
Yep, It’s not only cigarettes, but air pollution too.
And the gabagool
What is gabagool? Looks like some kind of salted meat.
It’s New Jersey Italian-American for capicola. Kind of like prosciutto
Sounds like the name of the ghost in a horror movie.
Or a 60s horror-themed band name…
Tony and his Gabba-Ghouls
Listen to their greatest hits: Oh Poor You! (Wish The Lord Would Take Me)
At an Irish Bar In Hell
Beware Three o’ Clock
Got No Spleen, Gene!
It’s nothing but fat and nitrates!
And the gobbledygook
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.
It’s the micro plastics
Liquid Plastic Surgery in a Bottle
The bottle is your testicles.
Every time an old tells me something is unhealthy, mostly an old salt I do treework with, I tell him his generation is the reason why I have plastic in my nutsack and to keep his pack a day health advice to himself.
There weren’t microplastics in their bodies to speak of, this is like 95% just in the past two decades.
Yeah the micro plastic is a preservative.
Ha ha ha, sorry my bad. Don’t give the American Chemistry Cunts (edit: chemical industry trade group,) any ideas, they will pay our lawmakers to say that shit for real.
There was a real missed opportunity to have a picture of Jason Alexander (who was in his 30’s during most of Seinfeld’s production) instead of James Gandolfini.
Still true tho