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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I'm fifty. My wife is 49, her friends and my life long friends are around the same age and they definitely include a few grandmas. In 2023 fifty does not look like fifty did when I was a teen. The amount of smoking hot women in their fifties that pass for later thirties and early forties is incredibly high.

EDIT: Case in point, Marisa Tomei as Aunt May. Why Aunt May ever looked like an octogenarian is beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

smoking hot women in their fifties

Coincidentally, the decline of smoking probably had something to do with this.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never thought of it, but you're probably right. Most everyone I know has quit smoking by around 2003.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And lead in the air. That dropped off significantly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

now we gotta get folks to realize alcohol is shit and poison like nic

at least curb the superiority complex people seem to have over drinking large amounts of poison to feel the same as a couple bong rips with 10x the internal damage

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

Why Aunt May ever looked like an octogenarian is beyond me.

The protagonist was a 27 year old actor playing a schoolkid so I have to assume that everyone in the Raimi universe ages about 75% faster than we do

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The actress who played Mrs Kintner in Jaws was only 45 when they filmed. She looks mid 60s by today's standards.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

those were a rough 45

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fucking Richard “I’m bald and greying” Dreyfus’s was only like 35 in Jaws.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

He aged 20 years between American Graffiti in 1973 and Jaws in 1975.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and it's only going to get better

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I ain't complaining. Google Photos gave me an album from 2008 and my wife looks exactly the same (hair dye is magic). Sadly, I look like I'm pushing seventy and dating a woman half my age. Nevermind... I'm ok with that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah as a 29 year old I was flirting with a woman I thought was only a bit older than me, then after a bit of making out we were chatting and learned her daughter and I are the same age…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And then they had threesome.

That's what you wanted to hear, right?