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Original poster

to think there's something creepy about a middle-aged man who never left puberty?

55 replies

KatyTheCleaningLady · 27/01/2013 14:06

(lighthearted)

I'm talking about Leonardo DiCaprio. I could understand, sort of, why girls thought he was cute 15 years ago. I always thought he was too baby-faced and boyish and figured maybe he'd improve with age.

Only he hasn't, really. He's never really grown up. he just sort of ages and goes squidgy around the edges of his teenage face. He's like one of those supermarket pears that goes from unripe to rotten without ever being good to eat.

It's weird, isn't it??

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AnyFucker · 27/01/2013 14:40

I think his role model is Jack Nicholson

It's not a good thing

ClairesTravellingCircus · 27/01/2013 14:41

I like your way of thinking Hecate!

Can I subscribe to that?Grin

HecateWhoopass · 27/01/2013 14:42

Of course.

It's the only logical way of determining it Grin

IncognitoIsMyFavouriteWord · 27/01/2013 14:47

Leo isn't middle aged but Michael j fox is and he doesn't seem to have aged despite the parkinsons

HyvaPaiva · 27/01/2013 14:48

Yeah Leo, you and your face Grin OP, what's he meant to do?!

Lilithmoon · 27/01/2013 15:08

Hec :)

eggsy11 · 27/01/2013 15:14

40 is middle aged. 30 isn't 'youth' either... I don't know any thirty year olds that don't have stable jobs and most of them have families. I class youth as 25 or below.

I bloody love Leo though :D

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KatyTheCleaningLady · 27/01/2013 15:25

What's he meant to do? He's meant to score all the hot Brazilian model pussy he wants and not give a shit what I think of him.

But, he is middle-aged and he does look squidgy.

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3monkeys3 · 27/01/2013 15:34

I never really got why people fancied him and I was in the prime territory of being around 14/15 during the Romeo and Juliet/Titanic era. I think he looks a bit crap now.

I joke that my dh is middle aged at 35! He hates it Grin but he jokingly says many things just as bad to me. I always thought middle age kicked off at around 40-45.

3monkeys3 · 27/01/2013 15:36

That said, my parents are in their early 60's and I don't consider them elderly, so I guess they must still be middle aged! Maybe it's 45-65?

bigmouthstrikesagain · 27/01/2013 15:36

I know plenty of people blokes in their thirties living in flatshares (sorry warehouse live /work spaces) buying trainers, tinkering with bikes, doing gigs not settling down in suburbia with 2.5 kids! So imo middle age is a very stretchy concept these days. I feel middle aged when I am in a busy bar surrounded by noisy pissed 20 year olds but most of the time I still feel relatively young at 38.

bigmouthstrikesagain · 27/01/2013 15:42

I have always found L DC profoundly unnattractive, he hasn't aged particularly well but not everyone does, Jonny Depp for instance, is unnatural in his youthful beauty (and so are some of the things I would do to him [fans self]!)

BegoniaBampot · 27/01/2013 15:54

I never found him attractive, too baby faced. He hasn't aged that well though but I do think he has progressed well from teen heart throb to a respected actor. Liked him best in Blood Diamond, only time a saw him as being kinda hot, maybe it was the accent.

RandallPinkFloyd · 27/01/2013 16:07

He annoys me intensely. It's irrational but true.

Something about his face pisses me off and I always imagine he's rubbish, but then I think about it and remember that he's actually a really good actor who's been in some really good films.

Annoying.

MarshaBrady · 27/01/2013 16:11

lol poor guy and the pear.

Men with baby faces do this, trying to think of more.

AThingInYourLife · 27/01/2013 16:15

He's a great actor.

Middle age begins around 43.

Pagwatch · 27/01/2013 16:18

I think he's fab. I watched J Edgar last night and he wa just brilliant.
He also did the best ever portrayal of a person with Asd in 'what's eating Gilbert Grape'.

ErikNorseman · 27/01/2013 16:29

He was stunningly gorgeous in his early 20s, to teenage me anyway. His face hasn't lent itself well to early middle aged gravitas. But he is actually a bloody fantastic actor (blood diamond, Romeo and Juliet, Gilbert grape)

MarshaBrady · 27/01/2013 16:35

He is a very good actor.

Then you have someone who has always seemed to exist in middle aged good looks, George Clooney.

RandallPinkFloyd · 27/01/2013 16:39

Gilbert grape is one of my all time favourite films. He's just perfect in it.

Viviennemary · 27/01/2013 16:41

It is a shame when somebody is handsome when they are young and then not so much when they're older. Is it just me or does he look a bit like Eamon Holmes on that last photo. And 38 isn't middle aged. Shock at the very thought.

MrsMeeple · 27/01/2013 16:43

I'm fairly sure that when you're a famous actor with bucket loads of money, the brazilian models aren't too concerned about your looks...

Definitely liking some of these calculations on "middle-age". Grin

Pagwatch · 27/01/2013 16:46

Yep Randall
The scene where johnny depp falls asleep while he is in the bath makes me weep every time.
I ran a bath for ds1 once and in a fog of knackeredness forgot to check it. He sat in a cold bath for about 20 mins before i realised.

BegoniaBampot · 27/01/2013 16:55

Oh Pagwatch, we've all had those moments. I still feel guilt about something stupid I did with DS when he was a newborn. He was absolutely fine but I still feel guilt and beat myself up about it.

Catchingmockingbirds · 27/01/2013 16:57

Middle age is around 40ish surely, if life expectancy is around 80.