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The ravages of age

Posted: 2003-10-29 03:46am
by Darth Wong
OK, you all know what I look like today. For those who have forgotten:
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But it wasn't always this way. Once upon a time, I looked like this:
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It's no fun growing old. And this is me at Whistler Mountain:
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Ah, we were all young once.

Posted: 2003-10-29 03:51am
by Utsanomiko
Well, at least the missus is still quite the looker. :wink: :mrgreen:

Posted: 2003-10-29 03:56am
by Dalton
Your wife's 'fro is as big as my mom's!

Posted: 2003-10-29 03:56am
by Frank Hipper
Darth Wong wrote:Ah, we were all young once.
At 36, I can still pass for 26.
Well, kinda.8)
Anyway, nyah, nyah, nyah. :D

Posted: 2003-10-29 03:58am
by Shinova
Actually Wong looks pretty good for a...how old? Whatever, not bad anyway.

Posted: 2003-10-29 04:25am
by InnerBrat
Well, I think you look better for having filled out some. Must be from having two kids... :)

Posted: 2003-10-29 04:25am
by Vympel
I am one of the lucky few whoose face is *smaller* now than when he was younger (due to considerable weight loss).

Re: The ravages of age

Posted: 2003-10-29 04:28am
by BoredShirtless
Darth Wong wrote:OK, you all know what I look like today.
I don't think so old man. The kids in your "today" photo are one or two years younger then the kids in this photo: http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... 770#782770. And with no reference that birthday could have been another year ago. So come on, you got a digi cam, what do you look like today? :)

Posted: 2003-10-29 07:22am
by Colonel Olrik
wear contacts and start mountain biking (my father started at age 42, because he got jealous of me, and he's now leaner than he was at age 30). You'll be back to your 20's shape in no time. Nothing to be done about the hair, though. But since I'm 24 and already notice too many white hairs, I'm not going to feel sorry for you. :P

Vympel: I'm one one those too. You wouldn't believe it is me in some photos from my early, mid teens.

Posted: 2003-10-29 09:57am
by Lagmonster
I'm rather tall, and used to be very lean, with heavy muscle on my shoulders and thighs (dancer's build). Then, somewhere along the way, I turned into a thin version of my dad - somehow wider-looking without actually BEING wider, with vast quantities of hair evacuating my entire body and the formerly clearly defined muscles becoming larger, stronger, and yet and at the same time resembling NOT muscles, but large wads of PLAY-DOH stuffed under my skin by a blind seamstress.

It's the oddest thing in the world to wake up on the tail end of your twenties, look at yourself in the mirror, and exclaim, "THIS isn't my body! This body CLEARLY belongs to Yul Brenner!"

It'll happen to YOU. Oooooo *waggles fingers*

Posted: 2003-10-29 10:55am
by aerius
Frank Hipper wrote:At 36, I can still pass for 26.
Well, kinda.8)
Anyway, nyah, nyah, nyah. :D
Reminds me of this cute babe who came to our bike shop on a regular basis. I was about to hit on her and try to pick her up...and then I found out she was 37 and married. :shock:
I figured she was maybe 24 or 25 at the most back then, little did I know. A 3 year age difference is fine, but 14 is way more than I'm comfortable with, that is assuming she was single.

Posted: 2003-10-29 01:58pm
by Gil Hamilton
Ah, the joy of being 21. :lol:

Posted: 2003-10-29 02:00pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Gil Hamilton wrote:Ah, the joy of being 21. :lol:
Bleh, speak for yourself.

I'm 21 and I've felt at least 45 since I was 16...

:P

Posted: 2003-10-29 02:05pm
by Gil Hamilton
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Bleh, speak for yourself.

I'm 21 and I've felt at least 45 since I was 16...

:P
Sounds like you don't go to the right parties. :)

Posted: 2003-10-29 02:06pm
by Utsanomiko
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Gil Hamilton wrote:Ah, the joy of being 21. :lol:
Bleh, speak for yourself.

I'm 21 and I've felt at least 45 since I was 16...

:P
...And acted 75.

"Damn bastard kids get offa my yard! Your parents are a buncha goddamn fornicators!" :mrgreen:

Posted: 2003-10-29 02:09pm
by Oberleutnant
I've lost about ten kilos since 2001 and the trend is still fortunately continuing.

I have to admit that very often, especially on those mornings, I do feel like an old man (I'm is 19), but it's nothing what a short exercise doesn't fix.

Posted: 2003-10-29 02:49pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Gil Hamilton wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Bleh, speak for yourself.

I'm 21 and I've felt at least 45 since I was 16...

:P
Sounds like you don't go to the right parties. :)
I don't go to parties, period.

Posted: 2003-10-29 03:24pm
by Rye
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Gil Hamilton wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Bleh, speak for yourself.

I'm 21 and I've felt at least 45 since I was 16...

:P
Sounds like you don't go to the right parties. :)
I don't go to parties, period.
Well that sux0rs t3h anu5. Parties are fun, if you're in the right mindset.

As for me, i'm still young, so:

Me now:

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Me just under 20 years ago:

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and, from another perspective.

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:D

Posted: 2003-10-29 03:29pm
by Zac Naloen
i feel younger than i am, weird isn't it?

Posted: 2003-10-29 07:12pm
by Hotfoot
Me at my high school graduation (18)
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Me today (21)
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Ah, the folly of youth. ;)

Posted: 2003-10-29 07:19pm
by 2000AD
Snooch-to-the-mother-fucking-dooooooo

Posted: 2003-10-29 10:16pm
by kojikun
Mike, I think you're cuter now then before. You're cuuuuute in that intelligent kickass way. And then you're just cute, so.. :)

Posted: 2003-10-29 10:21pm
by The Kernel
Look at the bright side Mike. At least you got over your unhealthy obsession with denim :P

Posted: 2003-10-29 10:26pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Not really much of an obsession when it's the same jacket in both pictures. ;)

Posted: 2003-10-29 10:29pm
by The Kernel
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Not really much of an obsession when it's the same jacket in both pictures. ;)
Yeah, but he's Canadian. Canadian's all have unhealthy obsessions with Denim. :lol: