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Fading Good Looks

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  • 15-11-2018 11:51am
    #1
    Lillybloom
    Site Banned Posts: 75 ✭✭


    To those of you who were good looking, and have begun losing your good looks, have you noticed people treat you differently?


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    #2
    D3V!L
    Registered Users Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    I recently found a pic of me from my early 20's . Didn't realise how good I had it back then.


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    #3
    FortuneChip
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    32 now. Just starting to enter my George Clooney years - so OP doesn’t really apply to me.


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    #4
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    First they called me 'Kid Handsome' , then it was Kid Ugly'. Eventually I was just 'Kid Moe'.


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    #5
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    harry Bailey esq wrote: »
    First they called me 'Kid Handsome' , then it was Kid Ugly'. Eventually I was just 'Kid Moe'.
    Get it right!

    Kid Gorgeous,
    Kid Presentable,
    Kid Gruesome,
    Finally Kid Moe.


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    #6
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    I'm a 36 year old guy and I have to say that I've aged well.

    Get far more female attention now than I did in my early 20s.


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    Goodshape
    Registered Users Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    Bianca Fat Conductor wrote: »
    Get it right!

    It's CHOWder!


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    #8
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    FortuneChip wrote: »
    32 now. Just starting to enter my George Clooney years - so OP doesn’t really apply to me.
    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    I'm a 36 year old guy and I have to say that I've aged well.

    Get far more female attention now than I did in my early 20s.
    The fading looks thing doesn't start until long after your ages. Thought the George Clooney years were 40s onwards.


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    #9
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,175 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I'm 46 and like fine whiskey, the older I get the more attractive I am. I'm your tall, well-built, ruggedly handsome type. Somewhat but not entirely tangentially, I think a lot of women benefit greatly from a few laps on the clock and a little lining and wrinkling, gives 'em lovely, attractive character.


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    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Bianca Fat Conductor wrote: »
    The fading looks thing doesn't start until long after your ages. Thought the George Clooney years were 40s onwards.

    Depends on the person. I know 25 year olds how look absolutely haggard, male and female

    Speaking of ageing well des bishop looked so good on rte last night. I never thought he was attractive before and he looks so different now but way better with a bit of ageing, definitely suits some people and others not so much


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    #11
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    I've always been a minger.


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    #12
    northgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,434 ✭✭✭northgirl


    Yes. Starting to regain my confidence but it's slow.


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    #13
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Here, who's deciding they are good looking?

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #14
    D3V!L
    Registered Users Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    Feisar wrote: »
    Here, who's deciding they are good looking?

    You know you are when you pass a mirror and do a double take :cool:


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    Kevin Finnerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Kevin Finnerty


    I've got the looks of a 35 year old and the body of 45 year old. Pity I'm still only 23.


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    #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    It's like when you graduated with my Diploma in 2000: This "Badge of Honour" is now quite faded. Looked "Young & Innocent" then, I'm still happy with my Looks though.


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    #17
    Lillybloom
    Site Banned Posts: 75 ✭✭Lillybloom


    northgirl wrote: »
    Yes. Starting to regain my confidence but it's slow.

    Did people treat you differently?


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    #18
    Spleerbun
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭Spleerbun


    Lately I've been called ugly, pug ugly, fugly, pug fugly...but thankfully never ugly ugly


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    #19
    Kevin Finnerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Kevin Finnerty


    D3V!L wrote: »
    You know you are when you pass a mirror and do a double take :cool:

    Who's that handsome bastard? These heels don't suit me.


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    #20
    Rootsblower
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭Rootsblower


    They say men age like wine and women age like milk!!!


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    #21
    AlphabetCards
    Registered Users Posts: 410 ✭✭AlphabetCards


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    I'm a 36 year old guy and I have to say that I've aged well.

    Get far more female attention now than I did in my early 20s.

    I am 32 and I know what you mean! Myself and the mrs had a bit of a split a few months ago and it was unreal, I really had it good on the dating scene. Even found myself having occassional flings with colleagues. Just more attention from women in general.

    Completely different to my experience of my early to mid-twenties. Mind you, the irish accent in the UK helps too.


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    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    AlphabetCards wrote: »
    I am 32 and I know what you mean! Myself and the mrs had a bit of a split a few months ago and it was unreal, I really had it good on the dating scene. Even found myself having occassional flings with colleagues. Just more attention from women in general.
    It;s been my general observation that if a guy doesn't go to seed, or started out pretty seedy, his 30's are his "peak" of overall attractiveness to women. The point where he has the most choice and range. I couldn't get arrested in my teens and twenties, :D, but my thirties were a total game changer. Like a switch was flicked. Mad. Hell my forties were streets ahead of my twenties.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #23
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Au contraire, I seem to be going the other way, getting better with age!


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    #24
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    Rootsblower wrote: »
    They say men age like wine and women age like milk!!!
    "They" are idiots.


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    #25
    northgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,434 ✭✭✭northgirl


    Lillybloom wrote: »
    Did people treat you differently?

    Not sure. Alot of my hair fell out. I felt invisible. It's growing back now and I'm starting to feel better about myself and consequently putting more effort into how I look day to day.

    It could be my perception that may not be reality.

    I've been told I look 10 years younger than I am so that's a bonus.


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    #26
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    I think I’m getting better looking as I get older. I definitely feel better, but some of that might be to do with finally walking out on a loveless and sexless marriage. Don’t want to boast, but ladies in their 30’s seem to love a confident silver fox. I’ve the springs worn out on my mattress from all the riding I’m doing.


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    #27
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users Posts: 17,503 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    I was too ugly to show my face outside so I became an internet forum moderator


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    #28
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,358 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    My wife found a picture of me from 21 years ago , the year we met and stucy it on the fridge door.
    I was tanned , with a mop of dark hair and no beer gut.

    I stuck a picture of her in her twenties beside it and she threatened to knife me.


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    #29
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    corner of hells wrote: »
    My wife found a picture of me from 21 years ago , the year we met and stucy it on the fridge door.
    I was tanned , with a mop of dark hair and no beer gut.

    I stuck a picture of her in her twenties beside it and she threatened to knife me.

    This is the best thing I have ever read on Boads. I wish I could thank this twice.


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    #30
    [Deleted User]
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    I don't get the thread really. do you notice people treat you differently because you used to be attractive? how would this play out? is it to imply that you are now taken seriously being less attractive? or are you now passed over in a bar, were once this was not the case? or do friends smile to your face but laugh behind your back because you no longer make them feel bad about themselves?


    In what context OP??


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    #31
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    rusty cole wrote: »
    I don't get the thread really. do you notice people treat you differently because you used to be attractive? how would this play out? is it to imply that you are now taken seriously being less attractive? or are you now passed over in a bar, were once this was not the case? or do friends smile to your face but laugh behind your back because you no longer make them feel bad about themselves?


    In what context OP??

    I think the OP is a woman and implying that people treat young attractive ladies differently to ladies of a less asthetically pleasing variety

    Because they do.


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