Just watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Nicholson was 38 during filming. I thought he looked 50 too.

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.

When I was a kid, restaurants still smelled like tobacco.

Didn't really stop until early 2000's

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.

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.

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

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

Also having kids.

And that nobody has AIDS.

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 .

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

Awful example. The 90s had WAAAAAAAAY less stress than today.

And the gabagool

Liquid Plastic Surgery in a Bottle

There weren't microplastics in their bodies to speak of, this is like 95% just in the past two decades.

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.

I have the body of the left but the clothing of the right.

Must be a Nazi-loving stoner.

Lawsuit intensifies

And weed.

As a 30+, that's so sweet, and so wrong :p

He was actually 41 in the show. In real life Frasier’s actual age was 38 so Hollywood went backwards and casted a younger person then the character. Cigarrettes had such a massive effect on people’s looks back then.

I'm from the shtreets! I dress shrtreet! If you don't like it, you can come rip these clothes right off my sexy naked body

Tony was 41 per the pilot script but the actor was 38.

AJ is now 41 in 2026.

George Costanza was in his 30s throughout the run of seinfeld

After a few seasons yeah

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.

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.

Too bad the lead singer turned out to be a Nazi.

The opening to Cowboys from Hell sounds like when my air conditioner's motor run capacitor started leaking and the motor would kinda ramp up at first and then just get stuck semi-stalling.

Fuckin' nazis.

• Ride My Rocket
• All Over Tonite
• Hot And Heavy

Treat yourself to some hair metal era Pantera 🤘

Forget about it.

I'm going to dress like grunge is still at it's peak until I die

Maybe we should simply mature as a species and realize that we shouldn't judge people on clothing beyond basic standards of modesty and hygiene. It's just cloth. I don't want to have to work with someone of any gender that's not wearing tops and bottoms. But as long as your groin is covered and your bare chest isn't showing, we shouldn't care what someone wears, as long as its clean and well kept.

The entire idea of "professional" clothing in the first place is to separate people into artificial social classes to make them easier to divide and conquer. If the guys in the office and on the shop floor are both wearing jeans and t-shirts, it's easier for them to feel solidarity with each other. Are you a factory owner? Make the guys on the shop floor wear coveralls while the guys in the office wear suits, and now you've separated your employees into two distinct camps you can play off against each other. And if you make it so "the professionals" who make the decisions are visually distinct from the common laborers, it cements their position of authority and encourages obedience.

"Professional attire" has always been about control. Nothing more.

Fuck that, I wanna be comfortable, and I can't afford the tailoring for "sophisticated or professional" clothing to look good on me

Fuck that, I’m not a trained animal (or any animal of any kind. Definitely 100% human.) and I refuse to live my life performing for others. Outside of the necessary things (work, rent, etc…), don’t do things you don’t like. Nothing is more childish than thinking there are rules for being an adult.

nah that's classist shite.

Professional clothing in my free time? No thanks.