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Your true age vs how old you look.

  • 20-09-2011 2:28pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Do you look your age?

    I still get asked for ID the odd time when entering clubs, buying alcohol etc, yet I'm 35 years old. I do look 'about 20', so I'm suprised that it still happens.
    Everyone in my family looks younger than they are. My mum is almost 60 but doesn't look a day over 40. My gran is 86 and barely looks 60.
    Nice to have at least some good genes!!

    So, do you look like you've found the fountain of youth, do you look your age, or do you look like you should be in a senior citizens home?

    Do you look your age? 335 votes

    I look younger than I am.
    0% 0 votes
    I look my age.
    56% 188 votes
    I look older that I am
    22% 75 votes
    I look like dr.bollocko after a 2 day drinking session.
    21% 72 votes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    Do you look your age?

    I still get asked for ID the odd time when entering clubs, buying alcohol etc, yet I'm 35 years old. I do look 'about 20', so I'm suprised that it still happens.
    Everyone in my family looks younger than they are. My mum is almost 60 but doesn't look a day over 40. My gran is 86 and barely looks 60.
    Nice to have at least some good genes!!

    So, do you look like you've found the fountain of youth, do you look your age, or do you look like you should be in a senior citizens home?

    I've been prematurely grey for about 15 years. I think at this point I'm now maturely grey.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    I'm 22 and I look about 22.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    I'm pretty sure I look about right for my age. Hard to tell though, if there weren't any pictures of me as a kid to compare it to I'd swear I've looked this way for the last 20 years.


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Lachlan Dazzling Hoagie


    I'm nearly 26. I'm getting fed up of being told I look 17, being given student tickets, etc etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Do you look your age?

    I still get asked for ID the odd time when entering clubs, buying alcohol etc, yet I'm 35 years old. I do look 'about 20', so I'm suprised that it still happens.
    Everyone in my family looks younger than they are. My mum is almost 60 but doesn't look a day over 40. My gran is 86 and barely looks 60.
    Nice to have at least some good genes!!
    So, do you look like you've found the fountain of youth, do you look your age, or do you look like you should be in a senior citizens home?

    Your ma is actuallly your sister and your granny is actually your ma...shame you had to find out like this.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    LOL
    everyones voting

    I look younger than I am.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    How can a 35-year-old pass for 20? I don't believe you.

    Post a pic and let us tell you how old you look.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    I'm 32.5 today :D

    I only think I look about 31.75 though :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    I think I look my age, never been told I look older anyway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    I'm 22 and I often get asked for ID for cigarettes and once for a lotto ticket, nearly always for alcohol though it has gotten a bit less frequent. And my brother is six years younger than me and one of his friends recently asked him if I was his little sister. Though he is about half a foot taller than me so I'll forgive the "little".


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    I'm 30 but look older. It's the baldness you see. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I look my age, pretty much bang on nearly 30.

    Which is actually a good thing, I spent the last ten years being told that I look much older than I am. Great when I was 17. Not so much at 25.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭VW 1


    22 and constantly get ID'd on nights out, I even got asked for ID in a bookies in England last year, much to the amusement of my mates


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Am 30, pass for 20. Get asked for ID but don't carry any, I tend to find "I don't carry ID, I'm 30" is much more readily accepted than "I'm 19! I swear!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Do you look your age?

    Yore ma does :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    i am 22, i look like a 22 year old.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭SlimCi


    Yep my family on my mothers side are all the same, we look younger than we are. And we shouldn't really considering we've all been smokers!! Sometimes when I see other people my own age I nearly faint and ask my husband "do I look as old as that"! He tells me not, but then he would wouldn't he?:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    I look in or around my age if I don't shave. But once I shave I look about 7 or 8 years younger :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭HeisenbergBB


    I'm a guy, I'm 23 and I get asked for ID when buying drink maybe 50% of the time and people often tell me I have a baby face! I suppose I look around 19/20. I'm quite tall so would probably look even younger if it wasnt for that.

    I hate it! I get really embarrassed when people talk about it. I'm sure I'll be greatful in say 10 years time but its an inconvenience when buying drink. When I was single it was a right pain in the ass when trying to meet women on nights out. Also, I work in a large company and I think people who I haven't met before dont take me as seriously as they think I'm only a young fella or just a student on placement.

    On the bright side I do get student rates in Barbers and Cinemas without question.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭gargleblaster


    Youth is wasted on the young.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,844 ✭✭✭py2006


    I look older to some and I hate it as I go for younger women!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Karona


    I'm 24 and I think I look 24.:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    I'm 32. I dunno, probably look it. Acting it is another thing.



    >_>


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    I'm 23 and often get told i look 18/19 and even less on the odd occasion. Seems to happen a lot less when i grow a bit of stubble though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    I'm 26 and on holidays recently was told by 2 different couple I looked 22 at most. My friend was with me and I asked how old they thought he was and they said 26 :D.

    I reckon I look younger if I shave but I have very light facial hair anyway. I never get asked for ID though, except in Tesco by one particular girl who looks about 17. She's just being over careful I reckon, or wants to know my name....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    I guess I look my age. Feel about 100 some days.

    Am I the only centenarian using boards?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,596 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    Got asked for id on my stag in january, i just turned 32 last week, i think i look my age but others mustnt


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭diamondp


    im 33 and asked my oh the other day how old do i look his reply was "you look your age" if only i had gun when he said that :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 Handsum bazturd


    hairyslug wrote: »
    Got asked for id on my stag in january, i just turned 32 last week, i think i look my age but others mustnt

    If this was facebook I would like that
    Pp


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    I'm 22. I think I look my age but last week in college when I mentioned that it had been 5 years since I'd done the Leaving Cert, a lady in my class spun around in her seat and said, "You finished school when you were 12?!"... So I guess some people think I look younger.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    I'm 32 next week. I used to always be told I looked younger than I am but I haven't heard that in a fair few months now I think about it..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    I was 18 about 2/3 weeks ago, and I haven't been asked for my ID once yet. Been really disappointing, I was all excited to show it off aswell! (Took out my passport just in case, lost it!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    How can a 35-year-old pass for 20? I don't believe you.

    Post a pic and let us tell you how old you look.

    Several people here know me off-boards and can verify.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    brummytom wrote: »
    I was 18 about 2/3 weeks ago, and I haven't been asked for my ID once yet. Been really disappointing, I was all excited to show it off aswell! (Took out my passport just in case, lost it!)

    Wait a few weeks, you'll start to relax and not bring it you and then bam you'll be asked :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    I look like a bald child so I dunno


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    I look like a bald child so I dunno

    Is a bald child not....a baby? You basically look like a baby then. I'm so jealous right now....

    I'm 31, people say I look younger but they're just trying to butter me up. I look like a 31 who looks after herself and moisturises and eats her veg.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    py2006 wrote: »
    I look older to some and I hate it as I go for younger women!

    Explains the women issues ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11 Realityhits


    Im 22 and alot of people tend to think I look younger than I am. Don't get asked for ID in pubs or clubs but think that is due to people knowing or recognising me. Was actually asked for ID to buy a video game in Argos afew months ago though :o People also tend to express shock that I am older than my brother though his being taller than me may be a factor :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    I look a lot older than my age.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    I'm 61 and I look about 62.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 544 ✭✭✭Cerocco


    Im 34 and was id'd twice in the last few months. Without my makeup I look young when I have the auld slap on I look my age. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    26 in a few weeks. I look older, but in a ruggedly handsome sort of way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭jubella


    I'm 21, and have been mistaken for 15. :/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,224 ✭✭✭✭Marty McFly


    Im 27 and most peole will tell me i look my age maybe one or two years in the difference but never far off. Although am starting to get a few breakout greys im not liking that thank god for gel hiding it:), still dont act 27 though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    Im 25 and have been told on many occasions i only look about 16 or 17, i take it as a compliment though.

    Frequently asked for id also if the bar/off licence isnt one i usually go to :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    I'm 26 and most people think I look younger than I am though I may or may not always be asked for ID depends. I am often asked but not always. Other's think I either look my age or say I look older as a joke!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭astonaidan


    Im 25 but Ive had people guess my age usually around the 18-19 mark, I dnt really get id in the pub or club as I know both guys who run the places, But at christmas I was buying a game for my brother when I was asked for id was shocked but was even more shocked when I saw the game was over 16's, My theory the girl was scoping me out nothing else adds up


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,191 ✭✭✭✭Shanotheslayer


    I'm 19 and look 19


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭joshrogan


    17, look 12 however my height helps.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    joshrogan wrote: »
    17, look 12 however my height helps.

    You shouldn't be posting here without your parents permission. This is no place for kids.

    :p


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