This can't be true

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Want to feel older? The series was made in the previous century.
- Well yeah, but so was I.
  
  The centennials.
He looked the same filming Dune at 43. Heck, even in his 30s he looked late 40s.
- He has barely aged since!
Patrick Stewart would've been 46-47 when filming the first season of TNG, and Wil Wheaton is now 53, so yeah quite a bit older
- 6 years is quite a bit older?
  
  Those years hit especially hard.
  
  An eighth of one's lifespan up to that point, seems a fair bit to me but then I'm a bit younger than either of them 🤷
Patrick Stewart definitely looked older than he was, what with the gray hair and significant baldness. It worked for him for sure, though
- I mean... I don't know, he was in his late 40, kinda looked like he was in his late 40s.
  I think the part that trips people up is that, like many people who go bald young, he kinda just looked the same for a long time. Plus he got surprisingly fit in his 50s, which helped. So you remember him looking in his late 40s, or at least looking just like he did in TNG, by the time he showed up in X-Men, when he was 60.
- Back then people kinda owned it. Nowadays they just get a shit ton of work done on their face and dye the hell out of their hair. People in their 50s trying to pass for characters in their 30s.
  
  Nah people still put shit tons of product in their hair back in the day. Spray on hair was particularly popular for a really long time. There were stories in the 80s of peoples hair just lighting up under hot lamps and shit cause too much stuff in it.
- So you're saying that if 14 year old Wesley would have shaved his head, he would have looked older and wiser?
  That if we all shaved our heads we would look older and wiser?
  Where are my shears?
  
  I'm definitely not saying this. Patrick Stewart had a unique set of features for sure. Bald Wesley would look like a bald 15 year old
Patrick Stewart is like that joke about Japan living in the year 2000 since the 80s
Ooof. Ouch. My feelings.
Also, my back. Ouch.
Shut up Westley
- As you wish
  
  Farmboy‽
Let's see, Wheaton was around 14, Stewart in his forties back then if I recall correctly, it's bee a few decades…yeah that math about adds up.
I do feel a bit older now, but that's to be expected, I'm now in my 50s so it kinda goes with the territory. I know I'm supposed to act shocked at these sort of things, but they generally just make me shrug and remind that getting older is better than the alternative.
- getting older is better than the alternative.
  There's an alternative‽
  Nobody tells me anything!
  
  The trick doctors don't want you to know about, how to never age!
  
  I'm always the last one to find out!
- I'll feel old when anyone reaches Guinan's age
  
  well there's that gay turtle. maybe a grove of trees or some mushrooms, but it's less anyone and someones there
- Youth is still very much wasted on the young
- getting older is better than the alternative.
  Disclaimer: ymmv
worse, this was actually true before covid-19
this is one of those cool "Cleopatra was closer to the moon lander than the construction of the pyramids" except nobody is alive today where that fact could hurt them.
it's not fair.
"want to feel old?"
my brother in christ, it is the year of our lord 2025. my 1st grader feels old.
Yeah, but that's because of all the time dilation from travelling at relativistic speeds.
He's even older than Wesley Crusher
- Not that hard, given that Wesley is currently -323 years old.
Shut up, OP!
Shut up Wesley
Yeah, you know what's worse? SO AM I.
What do you expect me to do, look that up myself? We need links!
- Here you go.
  
  well, now I could have seen this same meme dozens of times. it's impossible to tell.
Wil*
Yeah.. I'm that old
No thank you
"Shut up, you-now-older-than-me-Wesley!"

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