What did you use to look like? Old photos.

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Oh you're so cute! :-)

― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Monday, 29 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Me at 5, obviously a wicked child:

http://www.theilliterate.com/archives/illiterati/jaq5.jpg

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 29 August 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm buying a scanner shortly so might get another pic up here.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

where's the ghetto lucy pics i've been waiting so long to see?

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

wee stacey
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b339/dahling007/baby.jpg

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm about 18 months old here - in the entry with Mum, brother and my uncle's Hillman Imp. Spring 1970.

http://photos30.flickr.com/36229320_cd0a3a88ac.jpg

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

MJ's pics are astonishingly good - and how on Earth have I never seen those magical Madchen shots before?!

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

I love Madchen's pictures; that saturated red was a big colour in Jubilee year (though I don't actually believe Madchen was around in 1977).

60-4! They were reeling!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

They were in one of Mum and Dad's albums. I brought them back to Glasgow on the sly - don't tell! The note on the back says they were taken on 7th June 1977, hence the fancy dress.

Stacey, I will dig out the most evil gangstamadchen picture I can find for you.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

I love this thread.

My favourites are the black and white one of Tuomas that looks like it's directed by Eric Rohmer or something, teeny teeny in glasses, mindinrewind rocking that housedress pattern... and my new favourite patriotic Madchen!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

wow your mum has some hair there mj! is the scarf holding keeping it from floating away? i wish i could get my hair that big...

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

Child of the 70s alert:

http://photos33.flickr.com/38557682_d433480e7d.jpg?v=0

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

omg are you high on Tixylix or something?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

The Jocky Wilson Years
http://www.boyled.f2s.com/Britain/settee.jpg

The highlight of my musical career
http://www.boyled.f2s.com/Britain/guitar.jpg

Before I gave up smoking
http://www.boyled.f2s.com/Britain/yorkspeech.jpg

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Arch, I like the b/w photo too, except that I had the silliest hairstyle imaginable back then. But my friend looks good, she's really beautiful in real life too.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

omg that first pic of dave b..... awwwww

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

I'd lost a lot of weight by that point.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

I can just seeing Kevin Rowland singing in front of that picture.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v192/doglatin/atypicalsulkingteen.jpg

at about 15.

Jeez, I've changed so much in the last year - saw a photo of myself of only last summer and I'm shocked by how much sitting in an office and doing fuck all exercise has made me look.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that hair style is sooo early-to-mid nineties! I remember when everyone had a hair like that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

The shoegaze years:

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/jamiefake/venicejuly91.jpg

Me in Venice, 1991.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

I'll try again:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/jamiefake/venicejuly91.jpg

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

dave the scary thing is, I knew it was you after the first photo!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Here are my brother and I in Florida:

http://photos21.flickr.com/28202853_0795e52545.jpg

― The Popish Plot (dymaxia), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

I've posted this before, but..

me and my sister before an aunt's wedding c.1981, I'm on the right

http://photos16.flickr.com/22807806_ce798f47d6.jpg

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

haha, course it's not chris, it's me

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

Earliest I could find whilst at work, in a sweaty basement in London somewhere.

ihttp://www.skippyscage.com/geigercounter/geigph08.html

― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

It would make me happier to believe that was a photo of Chris.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

Vicky, you look like mini Dianas. Had you swapped hats?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

I would like Vicky's last comment stricken from the record.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

I think we must have swopped hats, then swopped them back, as my hat matched my outfits at photos from the wedding.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

I have posted these before I think.

Me aged 12(?), on the left.
http://www.aliki.co.uk/aliki_imagelibrary/sw_pics/gallery_bton/images/AS0602SW.jpg

Me aged 10/11 doing some Acting.
http://www.aliki.co.uk/aliki_imagelibrary/sw_pics/gallery_bton/images/AS0798SW.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

psst, Stevem, you're a mod, you can delete Vicky's post-pic-post...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

That's me in the big race. I'm on the left.
http://davidmorrison.typepad.com/sed_contra/images/sperm-thumb.jpg

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

i was staring at that photo for about five minutes trying to work out how on earth that could be chris. amusingly baffling. not so funny anymore. (although you are a cutie there vicky, obviously)

― michael grant (michael digby grant), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

as you still are, of course.

*kicks self in foot, arse, etc.*

― michael grant (michael digby grant), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

ten years ago, aged 20. oh dear god.

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/MeWithTab1995.jpg

nine years ago. yes, i really used to wear that. holy shit.

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/MeWithShirt1996.JPEG

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

(for the sad among us, that second pic was taken with an apple quicktake 100. coo ur.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

You posed with a fag in a photo booth.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 September 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

(that is more amusing than that shirt, I think)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 September 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

You posed with a fag in a photo booth.

yes. i was 20 years old. i listened to nothing but joy division, the kitchens of distinction, early human league and OMD (and, heh, momus). i was so far up my arse i could look out of my mouth. the level to which i took myself seriously was in direct inverse proportion to how everybody else saw me.

with these facts in mind, m'lud, posing in a photo booth with a fag seems perfectly understandable behaviour.

when alba invents his time machine, i'm going right back there to punch myself in the bolls. and rip up that fucking shirt.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 1 September 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

this is a bad plan. Grimly-Past will break down in mirth at the state of Grimly-Present, especially if the moustache is on, and you'll be so ashamed at being laughed at by someone wearing that SHIRT that you won't have the heart. So then Grimly-Past will suggest some boooze ... and when you refuse he'll punch you in the bolls.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

no, not at all. grimly-past will be awesomely gobsmacked that he turned out so grate and topp, and all he will be able to do is stand and gawp. plus: he'll be massively, massively stoned, and won't really have much of a clue what's going on. so i can wham him in the bolls, then get back in alba's time machine, go back to 1987, and sort a couple of things out at a school disco too.

hang on: i might be doing this in the wrong order. shit.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

I just love all of these pictures! I wish I had the picture of me with spaghetti sauce all over my face to share. There are at LEAST two of them, because apparently I couldn't manage to eat correctly as a child!

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Gotta have sauce for those NOODS.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh, the teenage angst! The hair! IM SO SKINNY.

http://www.memorygongs.com/skinnykid.jpg

(me, early 1988 age 16 I guess?)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

I guess so, Ally! Except I think the sauce MISSED the noods and hit the wall instead. Plus, no noods back then. Just a white bowl cut. Maybe I should learn to eat like that again! I bet it's EASY.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

You could make a short film.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I would ever make a short film of that. That's just asking for someone to blackmail me! Which I love, but only when reading about it in books written for 13 year old girls where the blackmail involves copying homework or sharing a milkshake with a nerd.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/2001.jpg

2001, cookie's 23rd birthday?

actually, perhaps it was 2002 and his 24th

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

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