• @[email protected]
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    The guy in the photo was raised by black sharecroppers, a target of an assassination, a multimillionaire inventor/carnival worker, and lost it all only to finally find his rhythm after being homeless and destitute.

    You’d be gray haired too.

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      • @[email protected]
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        321 year ago

        My greatest comedies of all time:

        1. Airplane

        2. Naked Gun

        3. Blazing Saddles

        4. The Jerk

        Any of those 4, and you will cry laughing.

        • J'Pol
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          241 year ago

          You would also likely enjoy “Top Secret!”

          • @[email protected]
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            111 year ago

            It’s number 5 lol. I miss Val Kilmer. What happened to him is a damn shame. Life can really be a fucker sometimes.

          • Orbituary
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            101 year ago

            You ever been to a Turkish prison?

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            As someone who also loves that one and considered Airplane the best comedy, I concur. I’ll also add both Hot Shots movies to that.

        • @Num10ck
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          151 year ago

          we should start a new thread for all time comedies… what about Real Genius? Brain Candy? Better off Dead? Caddyshack? Something about Mary?

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        • @Donjuanme
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          21 year ago

          Ten years ago I would’ve added Idiocracy. 7 years ago it became a documentary.

    • @vivavideri
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      201 year ago

      He started graying mid '70s 🤷

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      He was also a philanthropist and donated a ton of money to stop cat juggling in South America.

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        41 year ago

        You just randomly picking on people? It’s not like you can flip through phone books anymore…

        • Baron Von J
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          31 year ago

          That’s why things aren’t happening for people now. We don’t have the spontaneous publicity of our names in print anymore.

    • @[email protected]
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      Dude no way, if he was 50 back then he’d be almost eigh— (checks wikipedia) — oh… oh no :(

      • @CitizenKong
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        151 year ago

        He looks like he’s in great shape though. It’s crazy that Martin Short is the younger of the two (by five years).

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      301 year ago

      I’m starting to worry that I look like Steve Martin in this picture but in my mind I look younger. I shall stay away from mirrors to ensure the illusion.

    • @MarigoldPuppyFlavors
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      181 year ago

      Seems like he was always silver haired too. I don’t remember him any other way.

    • @CurlyMoustache
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      191 year ago

      Two drinks and two packs a day will keep the youth at bay

    • @CADmonkey
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      Damn right.

      I have an aunt who has always looked about 15 years older than both of my parents, despite being my dad’s younger sister. Smoking, drinking, and tanning will age you quick.

  • @Son_of_dad
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    731 year ago

    Not only that, but a male star with an age appropriate love interest, that’s getting more rare now.

    • @[email protected]
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      411 year ago

      That was also pretty rare back then. Older male with younger female partner has always been the norm in movies and TV.

  • @[email protected]
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    451 year ago

    Slightly on topic, but yesterday I discovered that I’m the same age as Rishi Sunak, and it’s fucking with my brain that I’m the same age as the Prime Minister. Something about that just ain’t right.

    • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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      151 year ago

      Rob Ford was in his thirties when he was mayor of Toronto but if you look at pictures of him you’d never believe it.

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        Older age isn’t necessarily a negative factor in leadership, but I know what you’re saying. However, I can’t deal with the fact that I’m 43 and don’t feel like a grown up, so does that mean our Prime Minister feels the same way about himself? I can’t square that circle, y’know?

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          I don’t know about Sunak specifically, but generally the types of people who succeed at politics have way too much unjustified self-confidence to introspect that much.

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      I think it just something about public figures and that they can’t possibly live a life like us or something.

      I have the same thing, but opposite direction with the stranger things cast. Still can’t belive they’re the same age or older than me.

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        61 year ago

        I think it also ties in with the “olders and betters” mentality that we’re brought up with. There’s a sense of gravitas to the office of Prime Minister, and even if they’re doing stupid shit there’s a monkey bit of my brain that’s like “ah, but they’re old enough to know better than me”. But now the PM is only four months older than I am, and my mum worked for his dad for a few years, so we could have (theoretically) turned in the same circles*, and he’s up there in the highest office in the land, doing stupid shit and I’m looking at him and wondering who let this idiot kid be in charge.


        *We really couldn’t have though, he went to a very fancy school and was already married to a billionaire by the time my mum started working for his dad. His dad’s actually sound.

    • @joneskind
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      I am the same age as Emmanuel Macron and it hurts too

  • Sagrotan
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    I can’t get that old, ever. I am 45 next year, and it’s like Oscar Wilde had said: “The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young” and you have to show that. Starting with jiu jitsu next month. Let’s roll!

    • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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      Oh see I love my forties. I’m almost 50 and I like that too. It rocks!

    • @DV8
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      51 year ago

      BJJ will keep you mentally young but your body will start feeling a lot older. Upside is that it’ll be able to do more cool stuff.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Only if you let it. Treat every injury as a sign to rest and recover, don’t overdo it, and don’t fight a submission you already lost.

        I’ve been doing it for 17 years and I feel great. Had a few injuries over the years and I always take time off and do active recovery instead while I’m injured.

        • @DV8
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          Oh I know not to fight when something is lost, but in nogi my shit just gets wrecked superfast because it’s so explosive and people treat your neck like it’s a handle.

          I’ve been doing martial arts in general for almost 30 years now, and I definitely was too careless when I was young. Bad advice about injuries where I got sent to a chiropractor instead of a surgeon meant I already had to get hip surgery before I had turned 40. (Bad FAI angles aggravated by trying to break through the pain, for over a decade, since I believed everyone I was being lazy and soft) I’m luckily more careful now, but there’s still days where I’m in pain just from walking or driving my car.

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            That sucks, chiros are a scam. Surgery used to be pushed hard too, when rest and appropriate PT is usually the best option. Unfortunately people ignore the PT far too often and just focus on the rest part, and end up even worse off due to not being able to maintain stabilizer muscle.

            Active rest and PT really keeps a body healthy, especially as one gets older.

            • @DV8
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              Yeah, I get surgery sometimes is pushed unnecessary but in my case my femur head made me have a FAI angle of only 35 degrees. Which caused physical damage to the point of oedema, osteoporosis, a cyst and shredded connective tissue. No PT is going to solve that. Recovery took over a year but at least I can now train 4-5 times a week again when before I was lucky if I could go once every two weeks.

              And fuck chiropractors. I’m still angry at my former physician for referring me to a quack who cracked my neck for something that literally was a congenital problem with my femur head. I suppose I should have gotten a second opinion but I brought this up from when I was twenty untill in my thirties. It was only spotted when I got a full body RX for something else.

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      Im 43. Im still riding motorcycles, touching my wife inappropriately in public, and it only hurt for a couple of hours when I fell off my longboard the last time.

  • @[email protected]
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    Change their clothes and hair style and this is exactly how 45 years old look like… Steve Martin has a baby face, even with gray hair.

  • Polar
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    I am confused? I see plenty of 45 year olds that look like this. Just like how I see 18 year olds that look like they are 30 year old dudes, and also 18 year olds that look like they haven’t even reached 13.

    How old do Rhett and Link look? They are about this age. Link is pretty grey.

    • @CptInsane0
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      Yeah they look about 45 (a few years older than me) to me. I think that’s about right. 80’s 45-year olds look like they are in their 50’s.

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    I see two rather young looking faces framed by grey or white hair (I’m a big fan of natural greying) and with terrible outfits that make them look much older. So to me it seems that finally we have a better fashion.

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    He was 50 and she was 49 in 1995. Not too far off.

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    Was watching an old episode of The Twilight Zone, main character was supposed to be 25, I swear he looked 40+ easily.

    • The Gay Tramp
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      The first season of The Sopranos, James Gandolfini was only 36 or 37 when they were filming it. He looked 50 easily

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        I wonder if Dawson Casting is quite right though. I’m thinking here of an actor playing a man in his mid 20s, but looking much older. Whether he was or not, I’m not sure, but flipping through Wikipedia’s transcripts of the opening narrations of the first season episodes, I see:

        E21 has Vera Miles playing a 25 year old when she’s 30.

        E31 has George Grizzard playing someone in his “youthful 20s” when he’s about 32 and looks it.

        Seems similar, but also different: older actors playing younger people.

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      They wore clothes that looks 40+ years old since they were from a different time.

      The actors aren’t.

  • @Cruxifux
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    What? Isn’t that what they are supposed to look like now?

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        Damn… Ouch… Shots fired

      • @Cruxifux
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        Haha I get it man. When I watch Seinfeld now I get annoyed because I’m like “how am I older than George costanza