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[–] [email protected] 144 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I mean, to be fair, I'm 10 years older than Connery in that picture, and he still looks older than me. Dude was born old.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago (10 children)

He was born in 1930. Not exactly a great time to be an Englishman.

[–] erusuoyera 70 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sean Connery has never had a great time as an Englishman, given he is a Scotsman.

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[–] CidVicious 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

And the other dude has a baby face, but looking closely I can see that he's older.

Half the difference here is the fact that modern actors have a better skincare routine. Connery probably smoked, too.

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 3 days ago (3 children)

People do seem to have aged more rapidly until a few decades ago. Perhaps all the cigarette smoke weathered them.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also probably time spent in the sun.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't forget the leaded paint and asbestos.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Don't worry ... the layers of lead paint protected them from the asbestos underneath

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Vsauce did a video on this. it's cultural context. eg wearing clothes that old people wear makes you look older. a dude in like 1920 was wearing a tshirt and aviators and ppl thought he was a time traveler

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Are the winkled forehead, crows feet around the eyes, and full-on retreating hairline part of his clothes?

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sean Connery and Patrick Stewart looked like they were 55 between the ages of 25 and 85. Conversely, Paul Rudd and Joseph Gordon-Levitt looked like they were 15 between the ages of 15 and 40.

Aging is weird.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It was interesting when I realized that Patrick Stewart was my age in the first season of Next Generation.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ don't say that ..... you just made me look it up and realize how true this statement was for myself as well .... what have I done with my life?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

What, you're not the captain of a starship yet? Loser!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm a character stuck inside a transporter buffer that will never materialize .... I exist but will never appear :(

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And alcoholism.

And cocaine.

And being outside more by default.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Wear. Sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago

Arch Linux. Not even once.

[–] archaicpixels 48 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Connery photo is natural lighting and properly exposed for his skin tone. The newer photo is artificially lit, much brighter for the skin tone and could have been retouched to blur the skin some. The photo on the right may have also had makeup on, vs on the left not likely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

All true, but, that's a fucking very aged looking 34 regardless.

[–] kambusha 60 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I forgot the punchline but your mother's a whore Trebek

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"I'll take schwards for 100 Alex."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

“I’ll take ‘Le tits now’ for $800”

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

When "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" was shot, Harrison Ford was 47. Sean Connery was 59 and played the father of Ford's character.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Let's not body shame 12 year old dad's now.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Me, a classical student of principia statisticalia and an avid disciple of reasoning: 'hmm, yes the UK has at least 2 (two) actors, one could infer'

What else are we supposed to get from this? I might be little tired.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Left could pass as 50, right could pass as 13 yet they are both 34

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Those mf start smocking at 12, by 35 they look 50 already.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

All my homies love wearing a loose dress to age up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Are you s'mocking me?!?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I’m 34 and people think I’m 20 🤷🏼‍♂️ As this post shows, aging is fuckin’ weird.

I tell people it’s all the preservatives in Taco Bell that keep me lookin’ young lmfao

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

It doesn't really work to compare a human with a fae, does it?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

No need to call out Sean Connery for his early-onset twink death.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

https://starkcenter.org/2020/11/remembering-sean-connery-as-a-bodybuilder-and-athlete/

Holy crap, even when he was 18 and in phenomenal shape he looks like a well maintained 50 year old!

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