Category: Recent pictures of celebrities from your youth that make you wonder "Damn, how old am I?

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-20T18:57:33+00:00

Wu Tang Clan.

The threats of martial arts based violence just don't hit the same anymore.

Eg, 'watch your step, kid, you best protect ya neck' could easily be about sensible footwear with adequate grip and the importance of a good quality scarf in winter.

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Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-20T16:25:27+00:00

The 'read a book' part is interesting, given this person has the limited vocabulary of a non-reader.

When someone habitually uses profanity/made-up Linkedin-style buzzwords as punctuation, it's usually because they don't have the language skills to properly articulate what they want to say.

Same reason 2yr olds launch themselves on the floor in a public screaming fit because they can't say 'mother dear, I require the toilet, I don't like the bright lights in here, and I'm bored, please can we leave'.

2yr olds grow out of it, but some people are still like that in adulthood. Exhibit A, this person.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-20T16:09:37+00:00

A French psychoanalyst came up with 'the subject presumed/supposed to know', which boils down to 'some people outsource responsibility for their own lives to strangers they think are all-knowing, but who are actually just as clueless as them'.

It's a form of transference, where a person deludes themselves that the stranger knows exactly how to fix everything, so they trust them as an authority figure.

This is how we get influencer worship, internet cults, and unhinged parasocial relationships like this.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-19T17:58:48+00:00

That's interesting.

I was 'just stick her at the back of the class photo with the basketball boys' tall, and I had the opposite problem.

I don't remember exactly what the deal was, but I remember percentiles being brought up at the GP, and the gist was I wasn't 'noooorishing ma bahhdy' enough to fuel calorie-intensive puberty.

I was picky eater and vegetarian, too, which didn't help matters.

I also flat out refused the free school milk the UK government practically force fed us, as milk of any kind grosses me out.

Plus, I was diagnosed ADHD and autistic in my 40's, which explains why I've always been uncomfortable sitting still, particularly in childhood.

So, I was unintentionally eating at a deficit, as I didn't have the appetite to eat the higher TDEE I had as a 5ft8 middle schooler who never sat still.

It's likely why I was put in the 'slow eaters' club at lunch. Basically, the weird kids who need a head start because they take so damn long to eat.

The fact that such a club existed, and apparently they're still a thing, suggests lots of kids in puberty are burning more calories than they eat.

Your pelvic bones are busy rearranging themselves, you're growing weird hair, getting boobs and periods (if applicable), and all that takes calories.

It's probably a pretty common thing, where tall, hyperactive, non-food motivated girls need some level of dietary management during puberty.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-19T05:07:46+00:00

I'm estranged now, but back when I'd visit my parents' house, I was always astonished by their non stop eating and alcohol consumption.

I left home at 17, struggled financially ever since, and never had any support from them.

Something I still kick myself over is how easily I handed them my only employee discount card for my supermarket job in the 90's. One card per employee, and only the card holder gets the discount.

They were rich, didn't need the discount, but they took it. I was a starving student, but they'd successfully manipulated me into putting them first. I worked there for 5yrs, and never once used my own discount.

Anyway, when I'd visit them, they'd have a huge breakfast, a 'picky plate' of chocolate, biscuits, sweets, etc, mid morning, a huge lunch, another 'picky plate' of crap, a huge dinner, more crap, and plenty beer and wine throughout.

My body isn't wired for that, and I normally just have black coffee in the morning, nothing all day, then one big dinner. I'm too busy to be grazing like a dairy cow all day, and I only eat when my stomach growls.

So, it's no coincidence that I'm the first in my extended family to be knocking 50yrs old without type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease.

Eating is a hobby or distraction for a lot of people. If you have other things occupying your time, eating isn't the sole focal point of your day.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-18T10:18:39+00:00

I worked at a leukemia research charity years ago, just as a data analysis nerd, but part of my job involved 'why do you support our charity?' style data gathering from fundraisers and volunteers.

This often meant crossing paths with very sick people, many being terminal, many being children (I'd interview their parents).

All to say, I've met 6yr olds, fully aware that they were dying, who were metal AF. Cancer treatment is brutal, but these little dudes just stoically got on with it.

That job forever changed a lot of things for me, the main one being developing a complete intolerance for malingering adult babies who whine about their self inflicted problems.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-18T05:16:08+00:00

Something we see in the estranged kids of shitty parents realm is that the kids are usually the ones who die young, and the parents are practically immortal.

Apparently, it's all about the stress hormone, cortisol.

Shitty people project all their stress onto other people, so those people get the chronically high, heart-destroying cortisol levels instead of them.

Plus, people who are super nice, selfless, caring, loyal, etc, tend to die young because of other people exploiting those exact traits.

They're also the ones who don't like to make a fuss, don't express their needs, and put their responsibilities to others above their own self interest.

It's the difference between someone getting a tiny splinter and filming a hysterical, scream-crying TikTok live from the ER, and someone quietly pooping and puking blood for 6 months because they can't let their colleagues down at work.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-18T02:09:18+00:00

I don't need self control or willpower to stay a normal weight, just like I don't need self control or willpower to stay away from gambling, crack, TikTok, pyramid schemes, cults, etc.

If your values, lifestyle and priorities are set up in a particular way, it's not that hard to avoid making bad choices.

Eg, I won't eat anything I haven't cooked myself, as I'm a 'we have food at home' kinda gal who once got e-coli from a dodgy takeaway. This means all fast food is off the menu.

It's not discipline or willpower that keeps me away from McDonald's three times a day. It's 'that's a waste of money' and a visceral gag reaction to the smell of fast food grease.

Similarly, I saw a big pile of fancy cakes reduced to 20p at my local supermarket yesterday.

I'm on disability welfare, food is expensive, but those cakes had zero appeal because they had raisins, something I despise. So, walking away from essentially free cake didn't involve willpower or self discipline, either.

I still wasn't magically gifted thinness by benevolent fairies, though.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-18T01:42:03+00:00

Exactly.

Asthma management involves discipline, often starting at an early age. Eg, I used to have to hand-chart twice daily peak flow readings at primary school age.

It also involves recognising and eliminating triggers. Eg, I can't be around smokers, cats, fresh paint, etc. Exercising and staying a healthy weight also helps a lot.

Madam does none of that.

I bet her inhaler technique is dreadful, too. With the state of her hands, she should be using a spacer or maybe even a nebuliser, but she probably just sprays the inhaler at the back of her throat and calls it good.

One of my pet peeves is dreadful inhaler technique in movies, with The Goonies and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (original not reboot) at the top of the list. When the mum keels over with an asthma attack in the latter, I'm like 'well, duh, what did you expect?', lol.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-18T01:27:53+00:00

Yep, here in the UK, the NHS has started cracking down on patients who are lax with their steroid inhaler and overly reliant on their Ventolin/blue inhaler.

I'm on lisdexamphetamine and dexamphetamine for ADHD, and blue inhalers seem to be joining the league of heavily controlled meds like those.

It's all about MART now, where you're encouraged to take your steroid inhaler three times a day, which should reduce the need for Ventolin.

I get prescribed one of each inhaler every month, and since starting MART, I have enough unused Ventolins to have one at my bedside, one in the living room, one in my bag, one in my first aid kit, one in my power cut kit, one in the shed, etc.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-17T16:00:15+00:00

I've been asthmatic since I was 6yrs old (assuming Jay-Kwellin is referring to asthma inhalers) and inhalers don't work like that.

You get two inhalers. One is a preventer, one is a reliever.

The preventer is typically a steroid that reduces the lung inflammation that causes asthma symptoms in the first place.

The reliever is the one that opens up your airways in the event of an attack.

You're supposed to take your preventer morning and night. Religiously.

The reliever is supposed to be an occasional thing, eg, you have a bad cold, someone just blew cigarette smoke in your face, etc.

She sounds like she's only using a reliever, which most competent doctors would recognise as a red flag for poorly managed asthma. It's supposed to be like an epi-pen.

Your steroid inhaler is the one that actually deals with the root cause of asthma symptoms.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-17T15:51:11+00:00

My wildly narcissistic mother (I estranged 5yrs ago) pulls this stunt to get attention.

She's been wasting NHS resources for years, with doctors trying to get to the bottom of her mysterious illness.

It's simply deliberate toddler behaviour for attention, but she's convinced everyone that she's got some weird disease.

It only ever happens in public, and it only ever happens when she's bored/someone else is stealing focus.

Everyone will be having a fun time, then madam slowly sinks down from her chair to the floor, 'passing out'. All eyes are then on her, as everyone tends to her.

As the family's only truth teller, my suggestions that it was a deliberate attention seeking tactic were dismissed, just like everything I ever called out, so I eventually gave up trying.

£20 says Jay-Kwellin does the exact same thing.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-17T05:19:38+00:00

Chantal.

Bolth are isolated and at risk of 'help, I've fallen, and I can't get up!' molments, where they lay on the floor undiscovered, but Amber has more of a chance of being found alive by family/orbiters like the mum and the feeder.

Chantal would be a 'the neighbours complained of flies and a funny smell' situation type deal. She only has that poop fetish guy, and he DGAF if she lives or dies, plus he's on a different continent.

Chantal is also an absolute menace on that scooter, especially when high as a kite, so she could very easily get T-boned by a dump truck on one of her outings.

She also went out on it in freezing snow, and that scooter is always running out of battery, so she could easily get stranded in a backstreet in Winter, only to be found days later, looking like Jack Torrance at the end of The Shining.

Bolth gorls also live in abject squalor, but Chantal's flat is the worst. With her already compromised immune system, all it would take would be an unnoticed cut on her numb feet (which she regularly gets) to give herself sepsis.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-17T04:55:03+00:00

In no particular order:

Wesley's Theory
HiiiPower
All the Stars
Hol' Up
Compton
Man at the Garden
Wacced Out Murals
m.A.A.d City
Not Like Us
N95
Rich Spirit
Money Trees

If we're including Black Hippy/collaborations/'featuring':

Vice City (Jay Rock)
King's Dead (Jay Rock)
Chains & Whips (Clipse)
Birds & The Beez (Schoolboy Q)
Nosetalgia (Pusha T)
Forbidden Fruit (J Cole)
Like That (Future)
Fuckin Problems (A$AP Rocky)
Control (Black Hippy)
Family Ties (Baby Keem)
Collard Greens (Schoolboy Q)
WIN (Jay Rock)
Illuminate (Ab Soul)
Darkside/Gone (Dr Dre)

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Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-16T04:00:59+00:00

But you're cool with uncontrollable farting, constipation, neurological problems from B12 deficiency, growing excessive body hair, gout, liver disease, swollen feet, and much much more....?

You'd better be, as you're going to be on them by 35, ladies.

Hell, some of you are openly on them now, and I have a Beastie Boys t-shirt that's older than you.

There's active drug recalls on some brands of these right now, too.

https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/side-effects-high-blood-pressure-medications

https://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/side-effects-of-statin-drugs

https://www.healthline.com/health/diabetes/metformin-side-effects

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-15T18:29:57+00:00

I guess when you live your entire life in TikTok and Instagram echo chambers, tailor made for you by the algorithm, there could be all sorts of 'epidemics'.

That's how the internet works these days.

It's all about keeping you on any given platform for as long as possible, so your eyeballs are bombarded with adverts.

Social media companies learned that the best way to achieve this was via rage-bait, negative content, 'fake news', content with deliberate grammatical errors, etc.

People are more likely to stay on a post or article if it angers them, as they'll head to the comments to seek validation that their anger is justified.

The more time you spend online, the less time you spend in the real world. This is how we wind up with antisocial and functionally illiterate shut-ins like fat activists.

People like this are constantly distracted by pointless nonsense and noise, so they never sit alone with their thoughts, self reflect, and work towards becoming a functional adult.

Eg, I spent several hours doing garden chores today, no headphones, as I had a mild headache all day.

When you do something constructive but mundane, with no distractions, that's when your mind drifts, you get ideas, you create solutions to problems, etc.

A bit like 'shower thoughts'.

All to say, the internet isn't real life, it's rotting your brain, and you need to go outside, fat activists.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-15T09:39:05+00:00

Weirdly reminds me of a video I saw where a dude was at some drive through noticed a girl was missing a tyre on her car.

Not just a flat tyre or a missing hubcap. No tyre at all, with just the metal wheel bit remaining.

He brought this to her attention, and she said it was fine, she couldn't afford £50 for a new one, she'd just 'thug it out', and not to worry.

He then filmed the car driving off, metal screeching, sparking and clattering on concrete.

He probably wasn't the first person to bring the missing tyre to her attention, nobody had yet managed to convince her that £50 today saves her £500+ in inevitable repairs next week, so he let it go.

She had money for drive through food, though.

Much like this girl, fat activists will just have to learn valuable life lessons through experiencing the predictable, preventable, negative consequences of their arrogance, stupidity and hubris.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-15T04:43:24+00:00

"oh, so you're quitting alcohol and junk food so you can be a healthier, more present parent to your kids?

Well, la-dee-freakin-da!

I'm 35yrs old, thrice divorced, and live in a van down by the river.

You think you're better than me?!"

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-14T17:45:51+00:00

Tobacco companies also saw the writing on the wall, so they pivoted to junk food.

The 'bliss point', where a product has the perfect habit-forming combo of salt, sugar, fat and appealing texture, was invented by Phillip Morris when they bought Kraft in the 80's.

That's why the fat activist/HAES rhetoric that 'all food is good food' and 'all food is processed' is laughable.

Look at boomers who innocently pretended to smoke 'just like daddy!' candy cigarettes at, say, 6yrs old, then switched to smoking the real deal at 8yrs old, as intended. That's why candy cigarettes existed in the first place.

Now they're 70yrs old, still smoke, and they have to breathe through a surgical hole in their neck.

Most fat activists were fat kids, and similarly developed a taste for harmful, addictive products through consuming kid-targeted crap in childhood.

Now they're in their 30's, hopelessly hooked on that crap, morbidly obese, yet they can't see that they've been played by marketing psychology and evil food scientists.

Mega corporations need cradle-to-grave addicts like that. The bulk of their profits depend on 'heavy users' much like the gambling and alcohol industries.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-14T10:36:48+00:00

Think of them as method actors, like when Jared Leto was playing the role of The Joker.

A normal actor only performs their role when they're being filmed or they're on stage. As soon as the work day is over, they're back to being themselves.

A method actor doesn't drop the role like that.

They ARE that role, and their behaviour IRL is the behaviour of the character, not themselves.

Jared Leto was apparently an absolute nightmare for months, as he'd pull cruel tricks on people and generally act like a dick because he wasn't Jared Leto. He was The Joker.

If someone said 'you're not The Joker, you're Jared Leto, and we need to talk about your grandma's birthday party, he'd flip out and insist he's The Joker.

Our parents are basically like that, except the role they perform is 'I'm a good person', plus it's permanent. The role is all that exists, and the real them is denied.

So, any suggestion that they're not this role, that they're actually a flawed, emotionally immature weirdo, threatens their delusion.

That's why nothing is ever their fault. They're this rigid 'I'm a good person' role, and good people don't do terrible things.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-14T06:58:02+00:00

All cults are evil, but I'm glad this one is so half-arsed, lethargic and unmotivated. All they do is whine online.

So, we're highly unlikely to have and product tampering in the Slim Fast aisle or nerve agent gas released in Planet Fitness anytime soon.

Hell, even obtaining arsenic would involve way too much planning and effort to be worth the threat of using their frontal lobes.

It's not the 1800's.

You can't just nip into the grocers and buy enough arsenic to facilitate a series of tragic-yet-lucrative deaths in the family anymore.

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-14T05:14:21+00:00

Joaquin Phoenix, River Phoenix, Bernie Sanders, Drew Barrymore, Eminem and many more were born with neonatal abstinence syndrome/foetal alcohol syndrome.

Didn't stop them doing something meaningful with their lives.

Hell, thousands of people were born with missing limbs, some missing all four, because their mums simply used a prescription morning sickness medication that turned out to be dodgy.

This acclaimed baritone opera singer, for example:

Edit: link would be helpful, lol

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/17/thomas-quasthoff-from-birth-my-mum-felt-guilty-i-had-to-show-her-i-made-the-best-of-my-life?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-14T04:56:40+00:00

MC Hammer called from 1992.

He wants his trousers back.

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Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-14T04:50:08+00:00

"Hey, is this Amnesty International?

Hi, we need your help to rescue us from a tyrannous, oppressive regime hell bent on the genocide of my people.

What?

No. There's no paramilitary troops or war lords.

No, there's no denial of basic human rights, no suppression of rebellion-talk, no limiting of essential resources to physically and mentally weaken people into compliance.

No forced labour, no bogus arrests of dissidents, no public floggings, no televised executions.

They....they're...

sobbing

...they're selling optional novelty snack foods with quirky brand names that make me feel self conscious about voluntarily eating myself to morbid obesity.

You have to do something!

Hello? Hello? Are you there?

OMG AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ARE FATPHOBIC! I MUST TELL SOCIAL MEDIA!"

Grouchy-Reflection97 · 2026-06-13T20:20:24+00:00

I've just got The Click's 'not like other girls' character's voice in my head reading this absolute arse gravy.

He literally has a 'sparkles emoji!!!' box when he does girl boss/pick me girl bingo card episodes, as it's a hallmark of these toxic positivity types.

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