Old Man Heads

HerrScheisse

Did any of you ever notice that if you look at historical archive photos from about 100 years ago with young people in them, I am talking of kids of 8 or 9 years old, that they all have old man heads on them. Not kid heads at all.
Like a scaldy old head on a young body.

What is that about???

Fr_Dougal

Probably because there was very little childhood obesity back then.

Femme_Fatale

Or under-21 footballers who looked about 45.

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Probably because there was very little childhood obesity back then.

No I think they mean old-looking, not thin.

My name is URL

And nobody smiled for photos back then either... that's how it should be

The Backwards Man

Everybody all had big sour faces. They were probably pissed off because everything was in black and white.

HerrScheisse

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Or under-21 footballers who looked about 45.

Their bodies grew but they still had the scaldy old man head.

smurgen

Old men seem to have giant ears. Alot of 'em look like rashers stapled to the side of their heads!

BBDBB

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Everybody all had big sour faces. They were probably pissed off because everything was in black and white.

and everything around them was all fields so there was feck all to do

anncoates

It's just because they all dressed the same. If you look at pictures of crowds of men like football terraces, it's just a blur of dark suits, shirts and hats.

Dyr

Country needs to be bring back hats in anyways

and not in the hipster sense of a hat

.jacksparrow.

Ever notice how southside kids have better hair skin, just general better features than northside ones?

Mint Aero

Or women in their 20's, pic from 1950's they look like aul biddys LOL LOL!!!

Sam Kade

smurgen wrote: »

Old men seem to have giant ears. Alot of 'em look like rashers stapled to the side of their heads!

It improves their hearing

Sulla Felix

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Ever notice how southside kids have better hair skin, just general features than northside ones?

Tallaght vs Howth?

I think you'll find that kids from areas of socio-economic prosperity will have "better hair skin, just general features" than those of relatively poorer areas. Not really a question of geography once you scratch the surface.

Yellow121

How come scumbags have scumbag heads and posh people have posh people heads?

nc19

Sulla Felix wrote: »

Tallaght vs Howth?

I think you'll find that kids from areas of socio-economic prosperity will have "better hair skin, just general features" than those of relatively poorer areas. Not really a question of geography once you scratch the surface.

Nah, defo a north/south thing

Irish Guitarist

The term 'teenager' hadn't been invented yet. You were either a child or an adult. There was no such thing as rock and roll or teen idols. The only people that children looked up to were adults so they tried to adopt the mannerisms of their elders.

NuckingFacker

Kids were expected to grow up fast and be useful, unlike now, when they are expected to play x-box well into their twenties and act the eejit. Life was more harsh too. Kids now are big babies well beyond babyhood. I even see it with my own, compared to my childhood which was harsh they are a bunch of cissies. I am oldish. Compared to my old man I was a milksop and compared to me mine are milky-double-sops.

At 14 my old lad had left home and was working full time in a slaughterhouse. I got till 16 and a building site. My 16 year old is a.unemployable due to intense laziness and b. a big blooming baby-headed xbox playing cissy-pants woosy. So now.

diomed

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Everybody all had big sour faces. They were probably pissed off because everything was in black and white.

They had to stay still for a long time for the photo because if they moved the image was blurred. Photos were expensive so it was important to get it right.

Irish Guitarist

It wouldn't have been long after the industrial revolution either and kids would still have been working in factories.

http://gizmodo.com/5950207/the-way-kids-used-machines-100-years-ago-is-shocking-compared-to-today

Femme_Fatale

NuckingFacker wrote: »

Kids were expected to grow up fast and be useful, unlike now, when they are expected to play x-box well into their twenties and act the eejit. Life was more harsh too. Kids now are big babies well beyond babyhood. I even see it with my own, compared to my childhood which was harsh they are a bunch of cissies. I am oldish. Compared to my old man I was a milksop and compared to me mine are milky-double-sops.

At 14 my old lad had left home and was working full time in a slaughterhouse. I got till 16 and a building site. My 16 year old is a.unemployable due to intense laziness and b. a big blooming baby-headed xbox playing cissy-pants woosy. So now.

Neither extreme is great - there's a happy medium. Although I'd prefer the world your son has grown up in to the one your father grew up in.
Your son has a much longer life expectancy anyway, so 16 is only childhood yet.

Sam Kade

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Neither extreme is great - there's a happy medium. Although I'd prefer the world your son has grown up in to the one your father grew up in.
Your son has a much longer life expectancy anyway, so 16 is only childhood yet.

So you prefer the life of a couch potatoe.

Femme_Fatale

Sam Kade wrote: »

So you prefer the life of a couch potatoe.

Strange interpretation. I prefer the life of a 16-year-old today to the life of a 14-year-old 50 years ago who had to go out and do tough labour because education wasn't an option.

wazky

Yellow121 wrote: »

How come scumbags have scumbag heads and posh people have posh people heads?

How come people have heads at all?, all they do is make your neck sore.

Sam Kade

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Strange interpretation. I prefer the life of a 16-year-old today to the life of a 14-year-old 50 years ago who had to go out and do tough labour because education wasn't an option.

Nothing wrong with a bit of though labour, 16 year old's today expect to be waited upon.

fussyonion

How come all the women in the Victorian era had big noses and piggy eyes?
Like Natalie Cassidy.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Smiling hadn't been invented back then so they all looked sullen and dull. Smiling was only invented around the same time as colour TV's and colour photos.

coolhull

And if you watch old newsreels, wasn't it amazing how fast people were able to walk in the old days?

OhHiMark

Sam Kade wrote: »

Nothing wrong with a bit of though labour, 16 year old's today expect to be waited upon.

In what way is tough labour better than having the chance to get a higher education?

whatdoicare

Breaks my heart to see those poor babies, and thats all they were, working in dangerous conditions barefoot and filthy. Makes me wonder if they lived to see adulthood and with all their limbs??
My dad was working with my grandad doing hard labour on farms when he was just ten, his hips and knees have been ****ed since his 20s because of it ( kneeling on wet or frozen ground for hours) and now his shoulders are seizing up. His sisters are the same from dragging carts of coal around the city.
My own back and hands are shagged from working in a factory when I was young and theres burn marks all over my arms from working in fast food.
I never want to see those days back again!! Who in their right mind would??

NuckingFacker

OhHiMark wrote: »

In what way is tough labour better than having the chance to get a higher education?

You're forgetting Hipsters here right? Hipsters breaking rocks??? Or Emos laying rail-track? Eh? Eh? Or Goths digging a canal by hand?? Still asking your question now are you????

BillyMitchel

Because kids back then actually went out and played and were scruffy dirty. Parents weren't sending them for hair cuts every 2 days either.

gobnaitolunacy

Mint Aero wrote: »

Or women in their 20's, pic from 1950's they look like aul biddys LOL LOL!!!

Not always

Woman Americay 1928.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BbClwsYbhMU/T064YVhh32I/AAAAAAAACCs/FLvISHxctFw/s1600/Flapper+Our_Dancing_Daughters_1928_.jpg

Women Galway almost 30 years later.
http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Galway-Women.jpg?1291732459

KyussBishop

Why should people work their ass off younger, when our economy allows a comfortable life without having to do that?

Less arduous work (and in general less work - meaning more time for learning/leisure) is good - the old protestant work ethic (which is just a massive dose of insecurity), that people have to break their balls working to prove themselves, is outdated/old-fashioned, and long in need of retirement.

Balmed Out

If you had to stand still for ten minutes to get a photo taken how happy would you be?

Herb Powell

Sam Kade wrote: »

Nothing wrong with a bit of though labour, 16 year old's today expect to be waited upon.

OhHiMark wrote: »

In what way is tough labour better than having the chance to get a higher education?

I think it's just a "If I had it shiit, everyone has to have it shiit" kind of thing. Ironic coming from someone claiming to be mature :pac:

cantdecide

Yellow121 wrote: »

How come scumbags have scumbag heads and posh people have posh people heads?

That's why you need to make your kids eat their veg- so people will think your kids are posh.

Andrew_Doran

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topper75

NuckingFacker wrote: »

Kids were expected to grow up fast and be useful, unlike now, when they are expected to play x-box well into their twenties and act the eejit. Life was more harsh too. Kids now are big babies well beyond babyhood. I even see it with my own, compared to my childhood which was harsh they are a bunch of cissies. I am oldish. Compared to my old man I was a milksop and compared to me mine are milky-double-sops.

At 14 my old lad had left home and was working full time in a slaughterhouse. I got till 16 and a building site. My 16 year old is a.unemployable due to intense laziness and b. a big blooming baby-headed xbox playing cissy-pants woosy. So now.

We don't do that stuff no more in educated Ireland. You can't very well leave home today as a teenager and work as a Java developer or Pharma QA Manager.

jimgoose

topper75 wrote: »

We don't do that stuff no more in educated Ireland. You can't very well leave home today as a teenager and work as a Java developer or Pharma QA Manager.

Every tinsel-brained thicko assumes he/she can be a Java developer or a Pharama QA manager, and this is why the insects will win.

Duggy747

I randomly saw this picture on reddit of a man's wife who looked like a 60 year old when she was a kid :pac:

jimgoose

Duggy747 wrote: »

I randomly saw this picture on reddit of a man's wife who looked like a 60 year old when she was a kid :pac:

Jaysis! Murder She Wrote! :pac::pac::pac:

kowloon

Ah, the good old days, when life revolved around 'de wurk' and lengthy rants about how terrible everything is. My Grandmother always used to go on about the virtue of suffering it up for Jesus, she was quite wealthy but couldn't let go of the need to persuade everyone that she lived like Peig.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Sam Kade

OhHiMark wrote: »

In what way is tough labour better than having the chance to get a higher education?

I don't recall saying tough labour was better than a higher education

Femme_Fatale

Duggy747 wrote: »

I randomly saw this picture on reddit of a man's wife who looked like a 60 year old when she was a kid :pac:

Yeh was looking at old family photos with aunts and stuff recently - picture of my aunt when she was 14, she looked about 50.

She looks way more attractive now, at 60-odd.

DERICKOO

Scabies and lice which were very prevalent at this time