What did you use to look like? Old photos.

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Child of the 70s alert:

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

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

omg are you high on Tixylix or something?

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll try again:

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

as you still are, of course.

*kicks self in foot, arse, etc.*

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

(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 (eighteen years ago) link

You posed with a fag in a photo booth.

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Gotta have sauce for those NOODS.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

You could make a short film.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

That doesn't count as an 'old' picture! I'm sure all three of you in it look exactly the same now, at least.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

tuomas posted photos from 2003 and 2004, at the start of the thread!

I think I look very different, now--I have been having an image crisis, for the last 13 hours (I was asleep for 9 of them)

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Well ok, admittedly I haven't really met you, just the other two.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

: )

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

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