This has been floating around lots lately. "People are good looking even though they're old nowadays", is what is being said. Unlike the older generations of V, U and T most of Generation W (baby boomers) and the majority of Generation X look pretty damn good by comparison as they age.

My grandfather had a frail look about him like a skeleton that I remember and my grandmother shank from 4' 11" to 3' 10". My grand parents went through the great depression and my grandfather was in the first world war. I wouldn't call them not good loing but a little worn.

My uncles and aunts who were in and around during war war two were good looking in my opinion. Some of them were fat and looked older then their years. Compared to the old timers they seemed less brutal looking. My parents and those their age look more healthier than those who are older.

Those of my family who are still around from the baby boomer generation look a little better than those who came before if you call "Healthy' better looking. Which I believe is what people are calling "good looking" instead of what they mean "Healthier".

Thing like them figuring out you need to wash your butt crack with soap and watter to prevent you getting a dirt rash that makes it itchy along with other hygen made people more health and increase life exspectoncy. Drit was the reason for the typhoid sped because they'd scratch their butt crack and touch food and such without washing their hands.

People have a better diet today than back when as well. During the 1940s and 1950s there was a lot of food studies that came about. The nutrition problems that happened in the decades before which caused the deaths of many people was a goal of many to prevent. Also the destruction that came about from the world wars that cause famine.

Constant physical labor and safety regulations were addressed over the years as well. My aunt Lou had to start working in a hat factory at age of 10 and my uncle Hick was working in a meat packing processing plant at age of 12 (my grandmother's kid brother and sister). This has reduced the ware and tare on a person's body drastically.

This is my thoughts on, "Older people are better looking nowadays". As for Generation X? Well, when I was 18 people were telling me I should be a male model. I never really wanted to do such a thing.So I never reskedrauled the appointment I had when it was canceled. Now I'm 50 you can judge for yourself if I still look okay or not.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder....


*warshing your butt crack is good too...

When I was a child (more than 50 years ago now) there were ten ancient looking women for every one old man. Somebody aged fiftyish had spent about forty years of hard labour and long hours in a factory and was worn out. I think it's the absence of this that has improved longevity and appearance in the elderly as much as anything else in my opinion.

I agree. People worked 6 days a week and some 12-14 hrs a day. On their day off they had to go to church a few times and I believe weren't allowed to do XYZ cos it was 'the lord's day'. Not enough food, or not enough healthy food, also a couple of WWs that did a lot of harm.
No birthcontrol so often too many kids to feed and dress etc.

I think this is behind why people now are healthier and better looking. Although I also think the chit that's in our food now has to do with some of that, including us getting taller.
4,11 is really rare over here, I think it was even in the days of my grandparents even though people were shorter then than now.

In any case, I think much of people being better looking also comes from having more freedom. Holidays, weekends, days off, so you can do what you like, explore and grow as an individual.
We don't have to follow in the footsteps of our father and grandfather, mother and grandmother anymore, we don't live in a close knit community that watches and controls and dictates everything we do.
We have more freedom. Not nearly enough, but a helluva lot more than in the beginning of the 20th century. And I think that makes most of the difference, as beauty is not just the state of the physical vessel but also the light in someone's eyes, their radiance and happiness.

One may btw wonder what is to come as we easily say our food is better than in the past, but it's not. We got GM chit, pesticides, food grown on soil that's exhausted and holds no nutrients, animals that are bred in stressful circumstances and fed all kinds of growth hormones and antibiotics.
Our air and water are badly polluted and on top of that we're exposed to all kind of waves (WiFi, G5 coming up fast) that affect our brain and body.

None of this was the case in the time of my parents and grandparents etc.

Topic: Good Looking People




Great!
Now the ugly people are gonna feel left out.

Start The Ugly People thread then?

This is true I've notice the younger generations are growing taller smarter and overall faster which is weird to have a 12 yo just about the same height as you and I'm 6'2 freaky

People are living longer too ;)… Now you could look at all the styling we have all the skin products and hair styles to create some caliber... I notice people of any generation are just as smart as we were back in the stone age... We spoke a different language is all... The English language probably won't last forever... And then what we decide to become? Is simply human... Powerful than we ever dreamed...

It also depends where you look. Some places still produce 'worn out' looking people, and other places healthier looking specimens.
Socio-economic factors, and where you live makes a difference, eg. the abundance of clean healthy food and water. The east side, or the west side. Up-town, or boon docks.
The grannies closer to the equator, with a slight tan look better (to me) than the pale spotty wrinklies in cooler regions.

Then again, look at junkies these days, they look worse than ever, due to the nasty stuff they take these days.

And politicians rarely look 'good', despite their makeup artists, personal stylists, and spin doctor speech writers.

Supermodels still look super, and under nourished.

True, in locations where warlords and other major corruption prevents people from have a decent environment along with the ability to learn proper ways of taking care of themselves plays a big part on health. Weather does have an impact on your skin as well in these areas.

Yeah, I seen some footage of the junkies out in California and Seattle. The synthesizing of Junk those people are using is really tearing them apart. The one show I watched was on how they can make the place better by turning old prisons into hospitals to get people of drugs. Then keep feeding them methadone and other stuff for the rest of their lives'.
Those people have brain and nerve damage from the way they looked. Even if they get clean they're going to be messed up. Them using these people to suck money from tax payers to just keep them on drugs seems like they're aren't doing anyone any favors to me.

Politicians? The old story books said that the corrupt insides of a person turns their bodies all twisted and deformed. You've got the Capitalist types who want the Imperial Technocracy Complex and the Communists who want the Dictatorial Socialist State fighting it out.

I don't much care for the emasheated boney look of supermodels. I prefer a woman to have some meat on her bones and not be a skeleton.

Sintasided chemicals and other pollutants are messing up people more then what came before. Cancer wasn't a big thing before the 1950s as it is today along with other problems we have.
People are abusing medications like penicillin and preventing their bodies from building up immunities by using sanitizing cleaners. The saying, "A child needs to eat a pound of dirt" refers to this.

People are abusing medications like penicillin and preventing their bodies from building up immunities by using sanitizing cleaners. The saying, "A child needs to eat a pound of dirt" refers to this.

I agree with that statement. I've had enough tetanus shots to last me until I'm 150 years old. People tell me I should get flu shots every year, yet I've yet to get a case of flu since they started it. I've avoided the common cold for the last five years, just by not touching my nose or face while out in public. Of course, I do wash my hands often during those outings. A cut? Slap a bandage on it, don't bother with antibiotic. I'm still here.

Point is, you can sanitize yourself so much, that you invite bacteria to invade. I use echinacea, that's a natural immune boosting herb. You'd be surprised how well that works.