U 40 yrs ago were "hot". Now I know "Meh". Anyone?!1 n/t

[UTUSN]

[UTUSN]

1. Huh?!1 n/t

[Ptah]

2. I Just Don't Look Good Naked Anymore

[mak3cats]

3. I'll field this one....

I comforted myself as a chubby teenager thinking that when we were old, all the really pretty girls would be not so pretty anymore, but I would still be smart. Guess what? that actually happened. I'm over 50 and feel more comfortable in my skin than I've ever been.

[RebelOne]

4. Yes, 40 years ago I was "hot".

Now, I cannot stand to look in the mirror anymore.

[taterguy]

5. 40 years ago I wasn't old enough to be hot

Scorching now in my not so humble opinion.

[seveneyes]

19. The recursive scorching reflection

Where every particle is confined to an ever constant reflection of its past and future ...

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[LynneSin]

6. Depends on who is judging me

Criteria changes over the decades

[Sherman A1]

7. Nope

never was "hot" .... never made that grade. Oh, well.....

[IrishEyes]

8. 40 years ago I was nonexistent.

Unless I was reincarnated.

[NewJeffCT]

9. 40 years ago

I was 8.

Maybe 20 years ago I was good looking, and 10 years ago still not too bad.

[Skittles]

10. well, you can no longer bounce a quarter off my ass

maybe a dime

[KMOD]

11. We're playing quarters at Skittles house tonight.

[jakeXT]

12. wine ?

[DFW]

14. If they ever make a movie of my book......

I want that to be on the soundtrack!

[jakeXT]

26. Inspiring the next generation of physicists ?

A Physicist Is Building a Time Machine to Reconnect With His Dead Father

..

He built his first time machine in the basement of the Altoona, Pennsylvania, home where his mother moved him and three younger siblings from the Bronx after their father’s death plunged the family into poverty. He was 11 and had just read “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells. The odds and ends he slapped together didn’t work. He knew he would need the science.

He was miserable much of the time growing up, depressed and isolated. He was an average student. Electronics, English and math were the exceptions.

Mallett graduated from high school and signed up for U.S. Air Force training, figuring the GI Bill was his only way to college. In 1963, he was assigned as a computer technician for Strategic Air Command at Lockbourne Air Force Base outside Columbus, Ohio. He took the night shift so he could have time alone to read and study physics. He also devoured the popular television science fiction of the day, “Twilight Zone” and “Star Trek.”

...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-27/a-physicist-is-building-a-time-machine-to-reconnect-with-his-dead-father

[DFW]

27. Of course, he's been at this longer than my book has been out

And his intention was to build a time machine from the beginning, where my main character got his by pure accident.

Even so, very freaky.........

[Kaleva]

13. 40 years ago my testicles hung evenly.

Now my wife says to me "You really ought to get that checked out! That doesn't look right!".

[DFW]

15. I was NEVER "hot." However......

My wife more than made up for it:
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[In_The_Wind]

16. That would be me. 40 years ago I was 26.

I wore bell bottom jeans with a gauze shirt.

Dressed sorta like this in college.

I still have two or three vintage jeans and skirts made from jeans.

[Quantess]

17. 40 years ago I was a child

[seveneyes]

18. Reaching for the sky just to surrender

He was searching for a manger just as any stranger ...

[NightWatcher]

20. 40 years ago I was just a little Squirt

I'll be 40 this October.

[WinkyDink]

21. Me to the proverbial "T"! 25 then; 65 now. Was "The Sh*t"; now, "Look like sh*t"!

[underahedgerow]

22. Oddly, I'm better looking now than when when I was a teenager, and I still look very much the same

but with of course much better fashion sense and self sense and better cheekbones.

It's a strangely amortal thing that a couple of my friends and I have in common, we simply haven't aged. I have an ex bf that moved to Europe about the same time I did, and we dated some 25 years ago and reconnected on FB. We were both struck by the fact that we haven't changed whilst our friends have changed and aged significantly.

One of my dear friends who is some 10 years younger than me looks much older and she lives a very clean lifestyle. No one believes me when I tell them I'm 55, they put me about 15 years younger. I weigh the same as I did in my 20's.

It's all very strange, but I am not complaining! I do what I can, eating reasonably but very enjoyably. When the trousers get tight, I cut back on intake a little bit. I do facial exercises and massage every day to keep my neck and face smooth. I walk an awful lot, but I also rest a lot and try to enjoy each and every moment possible. I hate the age spots on my hands though, so I do cover those up with makeup now and then. I also have vigorously stayed out of the sun my whole life, that helps, and a lifelong habit of good quality sunglasses has helped keep the eye wrinkles away. Another odd thing is that I have no grey hair. Still a natural medium blonde. My eyebrows are very pale though, so I dye them every couple weeks to add definition.

The big thing I found was that while going through menopause battling the weight gain was really hard. Once past the age of 30 our metabolism drops by 5% every year. We must adapt our food intake and movement habits accordingly. I can't eat 3 huge meals now like I did when I was in my 20's. Usually now it's a light breakfast of toast, some random snacks and then a main meal around 4 pm, and light snacks in the evening. This balances any social indulgences that come up.

[DebJ]

23. Have either you, or your ex bf, had children? n/t

[underahedgerow]

24. I have, he hasn't. My offspring turns 22 next month. I had her as a single mum from the get

go, making a tough choice at the time, but with the relative commitment well thought out. Best thing I ever did, she kept me young, I swear! She's brought me so much fun and enjoyment, best thing I ever did. It was mainly for her that I decided to move us to Europe, to get her away from the toxicity of the US education system. We had traveled Europe when she was 10 and she never stopped talking about it. The schools here are just so much better, and the lifestyle. She just moved back to LA in September though, wanting to know it as an adult, and she is really doing awesome!

She's a good person too... extremely funny, literate, sweet, sensitive and determined. People love being around her and she always proves her worth. I'm a lucky momma....

[olddots]

25. I may have looked cool 40 years ago

us codgets didn't use the term Hot because that wasn't cool ,but who knows cause I'm old .