Is it a good or a bad thing that people look younger than they should be when they're an adult?

[Colon capital V]

Was looking at the Jack Doherty thread and saw that this nigga is apparently 20

For reference this is what a 20 yo man looked like in the 1900s

Should it be okay that men are still looking like little children? How should we fix this? War?

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

I'm in my thirties, and it's a coin toss whether I get carded for cigs or booze (though if I shave it's more often that I get carded). I have been told by some people that I look like I'm in 20s; I've also been told that I look like I'm in my early 40s. I think that it really depends on who's looking at you. A younger person is going to see all of the features that make you look older, while an older person is going to think you look young.

I still remember to this day a time when my grandpa asked me to go get him lottery tickets while we were at the local grocery store. I was 19 at the time. The woman at the counter asked for my ID; I gave it to her. She looked at it, and then she looked at me, right in my eyes, and then apologized. Because according to her, my eyes said I was old enough. That was the first time I ever felt like an old fuck. It was certainly not the last time though.

Usually, I get away with it, if the person at the till/checkout/counter looks somewhere in their 20s, but if they look old enough to be a parent or grandparent of mine, then I make sure I can whip out my I.D.. Some of the 20 something to very early 30 something year olds like to make sure for some reason. And, sometimes, it depends where you go.

For instance, I tried to buy some wine from a place called Morrison's, and they have a 'Look Under 25?' thing. The girl at the till looked somewhere in her... early 20s(? - She was Pakistani/Indian/Bangladesh etc., and those type of women tend to stay decently young-looking, provided they don't have a intergeneration's worth of kids, but, anyway, back to it...), and she asked for my I.D., which could mean three things:

1.) She was new-ish, and didn't want to get in bother.

2.) It's store policy.

3.) The checkout lady next to her looked old enough to be my grandma (or mum, if she had me somewhere in her 40s).

And or, it was probably all of those things, to a degree.

I forgot to mention, that time, I didn't bring my I.D., 'cos I suppose I busy in general, or some shit.

@Colon capital V Who's that in the black and white picture? Sort of looks to me like either Siegfried Sassoon, Harold MacMillan, or (unlikely) Winston Churchill, in their formative years. Hell, it could even be Franklin D. Roosevelt, for all I know.

He looks manly, though, in comparison to Jack Doherty. It's definitely the difference in hair: The geezer with the suit doesn't look like a fat kid.

 

[Night Crawler]

I was thinking about this a while back because of that video I watched on YouTube. I watched another one about Neanderthal and apparently, they didn't age like modern humans. They tended to look younger than they actually were. This left me wonder if this was caused by the small amount of Neanderthal genetic data is found in a lot of people. But you would think it would have had an effect on people even back then. Like I said I watched a video where they would compare pictures of people from the current day to people in the past and they did look much older. People in their 30's looked like they were 10-15 years older than they were. I also watched a video someone uploaded of their last day in high school in 1989 and these people did look older. Not a lot older but they all looked like they were in their mid 20's. But these were high school students.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

I literally cannot relate. I've looked the same ever since I turned 7, the only difference being height and facial hair, which didn't even start growing until I was in my early 20s.

 

[Not a bee]

From what people said about me, I look like I belong in high school. They also said that my speech is older though, I will be honest I don't know what they mean by that but I didn't question them further. I'm gonna guess mannerisms or whatever.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

no problem champ

 

[parsnip]

I think it's fine, and probably a product of less difficult lives and advances in nutrition. I got ID'ed into my mid-thirties, and used to get really dirty looks and occasionally a nasty comment when I was out with my children. I was done having kids by the time I was 28 but apparently looked about a decade younger, so people I guess thought I was a teenager with kids. Annoying, but I'd rather have that problem than look ten years older than I am. My sisters also look a lot younger than they are, so it's probably partially genetics, although we've all never worn make-up and we protect ourselves from the sun.

 

[Broseph]

Why would you want to look older than you actually are? I'm in my mid 30's but I often get mistaken for still being in my early-mid 20's. I guess it's because I'm chronically baby faced since I can't grow a full beard? I don't buy alcohol very often but the rare odd moment when I buy something that requires being carded it's always a coin flip as to whether or not I do. One time I was buying the game Fallout 3 at Gamestop when I was like 22 or 23 and this dipshit kid working the counter actually carded me despite the fact that he looked like he was 15 years old. I said "You really think I'm under 17? You don't even look old enough to be working here" and he was "I'm just doing my job man". It always pissed me off whenever I got carded by some idiot who looked even younger than I do.

I also went to high school with this hillbilly kid who seriously looked like he was in his mid 30's despite being a teenager because that's how fucking old he looked. I'm sure by now he must look like he's in his late 40's or even his early 50's.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

@Night Crawler Looks like I take after my Neanderthal ancestors, then, and do 'em "proud" (Type-1 Diabetes, hairy toes, bad temper, anxiety, depression, high sex drive (I think that's a trait, but I could have some Asiatic/Mediterranean genes at least, on my dad's dad's side (born during the last two years of WW2, and once you take away all the horrible, traumatising shite, for a lot of guys, it was like a long lads' weekend)), for all I know - that's actually a positive)).

@Broseph It depends on the person, and or, genetics/bad luck/lifestyle/whatever, which sort of goes back to my point about the theory I found about individual lifespans/aging rates varying wildly every now and then. But here's a picture of David Janssen, at most, in the year he died (it was probably more halfway/back end of 1979, that picture. He was 48 when he died, and my dad told me that my Grandad Brian, his old man, was around 46 when he died, and the final time he saw him, not long before he pegged it, he said he looked approximately 70, due to a lifetime of drinking, most likely, and this was an 'andsome lad in his prime, despite not being arsed with his appearance):

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

People still guess me to be mid-20s, especially since I keep in shape like I'm still 18. It's pretty nice.

 

[Mutthole]

The chemicals turning the frogs gay are also preventing sexual differentiation, physical maturation, and all the other factors that make men grow up into strong, bulging killing machines. Now you're getting boy-men who couldn't even kill their own dinner if they had to. They look like children because they are!

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I think a lot of what your experiencing to is that the zoom zooms got the broccoli cut. Sure there’s always been twinky late 20 year olds and such but this guy has probably the most cringe cut you can get out there right now. I don’t know anyone who has a broccoli cut and doesn’t look punchable.

My nephew has that haircut and I've considered punching the broccoli off his head.

A dentist asked if I needed an excuse from school. I'm old enough to remember Toon Disney. She thought I was in high school.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

People still guess me to be mid-20s, especially since I keep in shape like I'm still 18. It's pretty nice.

How old are you?

@Agent Abe Caprine You're a good uncle. Those are few and far between.

@Bri'ish Teef https://youtu.be/KGAAhzreGWw?si=GsdF1uqJYfeBIkyE ...And: https://youtu.be/9JRLCBb7qK8?si=1fXxJIMMNV6sMo7x

 

[Lidl Drip]

Men whose face stays baby mode into adulthood tend to look unfortunate. Like that kid from the sixth sense. In women a baby face as an adult is considered attractive tho.

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

How old are you?

Late 30s. Still have people guessing me at least a decade younger like I said, but it’s given me some nice compliments and ego boosts as well so I cannot complain.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

I more or less look my age, unless I shave, then I look like a teen

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Late 30s. Still have people guessing me at least a decade younger like I said, but it’s given me some nice compliments and ego boosts as well so I cannot complain.

I've known people your age who look like dogshit. They, comparative wise, look like a more miserable, weathered version of me dad (56), and my uncle (dad's brother: nearly 55. Both of have got a vaguely Mediterranean complex, which makes them appear quite youthful at a distance). I think it tends to be a mentality thing, where people get to a certain age, when they're still in their prime, and piss and moan about it.

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

I've known people your age who look like dogshit. They, comparative wise, look like a more miserable, weathered version of me dad (56), and my uncle (dad's brother: nearly 55. Both of have got a vaguely Mediterranean complex, which makes them appear quite youthful at a distance). I think it tends to be a mentality thing, where people get to a certain age, when they're still in their prime, and piss and moan about it.

It definitely is a mental thing. What's really funny is I'm not hiding on various threads on the Farms my life isn't the best right now, but I've always kept pushing myself physically and between that and the compliments, physicality is the ONE thing I always have confidence in and it keeps me feeling good even when everything else is rough. It's been a lifesaver.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

It definitely is a mental thing. What's really funny is I'm not hiding on various threads on the Farms my life isn't the best right now, but I've always kept pushing myself physically and between that and the compliments, physicality is the ONE thing I always have confidence in and it keeps me feeling good even when everything else is rough. It's been a lifesaver.

I've found that physical motivation goes in tandem with mental motivation.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

I more or less look my age, unless I shave, then I look like a teen

Same. I could probably easily find work as an extra on some American teen based drama. I'm only 10% kidding. I mean, look at the geezer who was Monty in 13 Reasons Why: I seem to remember he was born in 1986 - ten years older than me, for fuck's sake. Bryce is very similar to age, an all.