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Why did people in the 60-70s look like they were in their 40s in their 20s?

Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:22 pm
Posted by fr33manator
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:22 pm
Buddy of mine sent me this (great Stan Rogers song) and it struck me how middle aged they all look even though they are in their 20s at the time.




Is it that our young people these days look younger, or did people back then just look older?


Posted by Frac the world
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:23 pm to
Idk fricking know but nobody talks like that anymore either
Posted by fr33manator
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:26 pm to
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nobody talks like that anymore either



Oh, you mean no one talks in the style of an 18th century shantyman? In a video from 50 years ago?

Any more brilliant insights?
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:27 pm to
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Why did people in the 60-70s look like they were in their 40s in their 20s?
I was told there'd be no math
Posted by Jdiggy
Member since Nov 2016
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:27 pm to
I did not approve of anyone video taping my Memorial Day weekend this year. Please remove this link.
This post was edited on 5/25/25 at 10:30 pm
Posted by Swamp Frog x
Member since Nov 2024
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:28 pm to
Think we have had these threads before. Short answer is drugs and smoking in general will age you. A lot more of that back then.
Posted by nes2010
Member since Jun 2014
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:29 pm to
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Think we have had these threads before. Short answer is drugs and smoking in general will age you. A lot more of that back then.
. Being half bald doesn't help either.
Posted by The Boat
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:30 pm to
Saw a picture of my dad from 1988 today. He’s younger than me in the picture but looks like he’s 45.
Posted by kciDAtaE
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:31 pm to
Bc people are pussies now.
Posted by OWLFAN86
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:31 pm to
did they just smack talk America?

wait til Trump gets em
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:31 pm to
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I did not approve of anyone video taping my Memorial Day weekend this year. Please remove this link.



Y'all sound great but you have GOT to undo that cravat
This post was edited on 5/26/25 at 10:53 pm
Posted by StringedInstruments
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:33 pm to


Vsauce has a good video on the subject.
Posted by fr33manator
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:33 pm to
I didn't know this until now but Stan Rogers (the bald one) died in a plane fire on the tarmac when he was only 33.


Sad.
Posted by OWLFAN86
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:35 pm to
Ive been on a tarmac
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:36 pm to
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Ive been on a tarmac



Have you written any sea shanties?


Coulda been you
This post was edited on 5/25/25 at 10:37 pm
Posted by AtlantaLSUfan
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:42 pm to
Testosterone is being systematically reduced.
Posted by OK Roughneck
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:43 pm to
Posted by Btrtigerfan
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:47 pm to
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Why did people in the 60-70s look like they were in their 40s in their 20s?


Rubbin dirt on broken limbs.
Drinking out of the hose.
Riding in the bed of pickup trucks.
Pulling your uncle's finger.
Cig smoke during parent's card games with the aunts and uncles.

In all seriousness, the 40's was a rough time for all Americans. It was rougher for new moms and newborns.
Posted by hansenthered1
Dixie
Member since Nov 2023
677 posts
Posted on 5/25/25 at 11:02 pm to
We have perpetual young 20s now. It's sad really. People use to dress and act like...adults. Now it's just what the market wants, youth culture is sold to us. We dress down and act like teens in our 30s
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
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Posted on 5/25/25 at 11:05 pm to
By the time a child reached his twenties, he had spent hundreds if not thousands of hours in the sun, had several childhood diseases that have been largely eradicated, had one or more broken bones, been bitten by at least one stray dog, been doused repeatedly with DDT and been exposed to radioactive fallout from above ground nuclear tests. All that shite ages you.
This post was edited on 5/26/25 at 5:33 am
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