What did you use to look like? Old photos.

My sister just sent me this (mid-80s ish) one of her and I:

https://oi1091.photobucket.com/albums/i389/cryptosicko/jerin_zpsyiiurcfw.jpg

i <3 that gleeful photo of honor society dee

A friend e-mailed this today: high-school basketball team, 1978.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/gdhs.JPG

Pete Maravich was my favourite player; you can take it from there. I wish I could say "bad hair day"--I can't. The school finally dropped the Rebels moniker two or three years ago (not that any of us gave it a second thought in 1978).

carbine clemenza!

Love how without looking at who started this thread the pics in the first post are obviously Tuomas.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjhxI0VXsAIxB4v?format=jpg&name=900x900

me and my brother looking typically 70's council estate 2nd gen Irish Immis in Deighton, Hudds in 1978 with our mum and our red setter Dylan being photographed by my late dad who was a complete cunt who I never mourned tbh!

Then me in 1990 at the age of 16 trying to look rebellious with a cigarette and a can of carling black label, it still me on ilx now but with a more rapidly retreating hairline and stronger booze and much closer to the scrapheap of life (lol).

Me and my dad about to watch Scotland get knocked out of their last ever World Cup in 1998.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50421910267_e9964ac0bf_c.jpg

My father passed away last week at the age of 67. He had been sick for years; we knew this was coming, but I'm still not sure I have completely processed it. Probably won't for a long time. He was a university track and field coach of considerable renown within the world of Canadian university athletics; an athlete he coached competed in the 2016 Olympics in Rio (she came in fourth in her race) and he got a shout-out by the announcer on NBC during the introduction of the athletes, something I still cannot quite believe happened. 2020, man.

This is us probably around 1980 or '81. Friends and former athletes of his that I hadn't seen in years (or in some cases may never have met) could not stop remarking, at his funeral, how much I look like him, and that was with a mask covering half of my face. They also could not stop telling me that he was the kindest, most encouraging, and generous-spirited person they had ever known, something that I can confirm on my end as well. I will miss him every day of my life.

https://ik.imagekit.io/kh7l6k3pso/IMG_1166_IXuqOm1BN.jpg

<3

I'm sorry for your loss, crypto.

Thanks. Believe it or not, even something as minor as posting an old photo of us on a message board helps.

I believe it. I'm glad it helps ease the loss a bit. He's further away now, but he'll never be gone from you.

Condolences <3

nice <3

sorry for your loss, crypto.

Condolences--great photo.

Sorry for your loss, Crypto. Great photo.

So sorry crypto, awful news

Not me, but a newspaper ad for the opening night of the local movie theatre where I worked as an usher my last year of high school. March 2, 1979--almost positive I would have been either working or at least there that night.

https://phildellio.tripod.com/cinema.jpg

Summerdog? I have zero recollection of this film.

We were opening with a two-year-old film.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280128/

George Costanza's mother is in it.

also, Halloween in march.

https://i.ibb.co/JpyTjJM/PXL-20220123-180821322-2.jpg

hanging out with weasel the one-toothed cat, late 90s. first night after we adopted him, he sat on our pillows and purred so loudly all night long that we hardly slept a wink. have a point if you can id the records

i see ganger

indeed it is!

me being traumatized by the Rock-a-Fire Explosion (please post some of your own, old school kid pix are the best)

https://i.ibb.co/0F2RtdS/278607001-10159040435572981-1999666717804284028-n.jpg

inspecting an f-16, c.1992

https://i.ibb.co/31zhwjj/IMG-4104.jpg

Time for a reprise:

Me with a little neighbor kid in 1972, I was aged ~17.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/5084741255_e856c93c64_b.jpg

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Me and my brother rocking suits. I'm on the right. I'm thinking we were maybe four (me) and two (him)?

https://i.postimg.cc/hGFj5gHM/2017-10-28-19-29-26.jpg

Did you see the drummer's hair?

https://i.postimg.cc/wxy05F3Y/hair.jpg

My sister finally found the VHS of family photos my dad had (with good intentions but a little shortsightedly) transferred from old slides. Unfortunately, the one photo I really, really wanted to unearth--me before Neil Young's 1978 show at Maple Leaf Gardens--is not on there.

THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE

https://i.ibb.co/9gM2xHP/FB-IMG-1696002943643.jpg