This a spinoff from the current “Long Ears of the Buddha” thread.
So we’re sitting around at the Seder, and my know- it- all brother, after I tell him what I learned from Cecil about those Buddha ears–see, fighting ignorance–says that our ears and nose never stop growing, which we sometimes notice that old people have big ears.
I called screaming bullshit, and unsurprisingly he didn’t budge. I told him I was going to sic the SD on him.
So: Bullshit?
I don’t know the details, but certain facial bones do keep growing, and the pattern is different in men versus women. An artist once showed me how simple it is to age a boy’s face into a man’s, by widening his chin bone (on a very simple sketch, like a cartoon). He then aged it into an old man by widening it some more, and adding the lines from nose to corners of the mouth.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that ears keep growing as well.
I don’t know about noses, but ears definitely keep growing, at least in my family . . . lots of big-eared uncles & aunts, compared to photos taken when they were younger.
Some people say penises also grow longer. I’m still waiting for that to kick in.
Shit. Are you telling me my brother was right?
I hate that when it happens.
Hopefully Puberty will help with that.
There may be some normal growth of the nose later in life, but it’s minor.
In the condition called acromegaly, there is growth of the nose (and mandible) and here’swhat the nose looks like. Definitely not like normal growth.
your hair looses body as you age. it doesn’t spring out so much, it lays flatter.
ears and nose stays the same. hair shrinks.
Maybe it’s just that future generations are being born with smaller ears and noses?
