Would You Be Freaked Out By A 70 Year Old Who Looked Like A 30 Year Old?

[WhyNot]

@For You

“Gelfling”? Is that a juvenile Genetically engineered life form?

Gelfings are a race from a 1982 fantasy film called The Dark Crystal. A plot line revolves around the repulsive wrinkly bad guy drinking “Essence” (think, liquid life force) of a gelfling to artificially restore his youth.

The Dark Crystal

[Wesley_Clark]

@AHeinrich

You meet a man and by default think he’s somewhere in his late twenties to early thirties but are then told then told (with proof) that he is actually 70 - would you be freaked out? Suspicious?

I would assume they had a lot of plastic surgery. I have met people in their 70s who looked like they were in their late 40s or early 50s, but not like they were in their 20s or 30s. So yeah, I’d be suspicious. They would have to have a combination of great genetics, great lifestyle, plastic surgery and taking various precautions (sunscreen each day, etc).

[Nawth_Chucka]

Don’t worry, OP, that’s how plenty of people react to Bruce Jenner nowadays.

[ralph124c]

Dick Clark still looks good…how old is he?

[WhyNot]

@ralph124c

Dick Clark still looks good..how old is he?

Dead a year. Does silicone decompose?

[Dr.Strangelove]

This isn’t quite what you wrote, but I’ve met both 30 year olds and 70 year olds that looked like they were 50. If I found out an old-looking 30 year old was really a youthful 70, I would be surprised but not shocked.

[deltasigma]

@NoClueBoy

I would want to see his portrait.

Or at least a reflection. :eek:

[Polycarp]

@NoClueBoy

I would want to see his portrait.

No, you wouldn’t. Ir’s all done in gray… the kind of gray pigment they get from Doria.

[AncientHumanoid]

@Polycarp

No, you wouldn’t. Ir’s all done in gray… the kind of gray pigment they get from Doria.

[chizzuk]

I would assume he was pulling my leg. Like the 30-ish guy behind me at airport security today who jokingly told the TSA agent he was a 75-year-old man who took really good care of himself, because 75-year-olds don’t have to take off their shoes to go through the scanner.

[AaronX]

You met Nicholas Cage?

@Polycarp

No, you wouldn’t. Ir’s all done in gray… the kind of gray pigment they get from Doria.

Oh, and this pigment is used in different intensities? To make it lifelike, they have to divide it finely into many levels? Just 10 or 20 won’t cut it, it has to be something like… 50?

[stui_magpie]

Wooden stake time.

[Flywheel]

@Justin_Bailey

What proof could this person offer?

Cut him open and count the rings.

[Bricker]

@Justin_Bailey

What proof could this person offer?

Driver’s License? Fake
Birth Certificate? Belongs to someone else
Photographs? Photoshop

Matching fingerprints on an arrest record from 1961?

[Justin_Bailey]

@Bricker

Matching fingerprints on an arrest record from 1961?

OK, I like it. OK OP, was your dude arrested in 1961. Is he possibly a time traveler who attempted to save Kennedy and got caught up in a bad way with an orange-haired weirdo obsessed with his previous fluids and impure thoughts?

[Lukeinva]

Happy birthday Paul McCartney. He might not look late-20’s or early 30’s but he hardly looks 70 either.

[Colophon]

@Lukeinva

Happy birthday Paul McCartney. He might not look late-20’s or early 30’s but he hardly looks 70 either.

True enough. He looks like a sixtysomething with a dodgy dye job.