h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Have you seen my h2g2 photo gallery? F119314?thread=421977

Would you like to join us?



az

Thanks for the offer. However, I feel inclined to decline -- and at present I shall have to anyway, since I have no facilities for taking photographs in, or converting them into, digital form, and I think the University would get upset if I used theirs for such frivolous purposes. In any case, having spent ample time explaining to people in real life that I really am several years younger than I look (one of the things I remember most about Freshers' Week was the number of people asking me, 'Are you a mature student?'), and that it's Marfan Syndrome that makes me so tall and slender, I've grown quite to like talking to people without their knowing what I look like. So... thanks for asking; maybe in a few years, but not right now.

Oh that's okay. Part of the thing about participating on this sort of site is one's anonymity, which I do respect. I have actually been very surprised at the amount of people who *do* want to have their photos in the album.

How old are you? I remember when I was 15 I looked 20 and stayed looking about 20 till I was maybe 25. But it's all been downhill since then!

Well, if you like, you can always check out the photo gallery to see how others look.



az
ps - love your tag, very funny, yes *where else would you hear them?*

I'm glad you like the tag. It is interesting to see what these people look like.

I'm about 19-and-a-half now. I could pass for 18 at 15; I don't know whether I could have passed for 20 at that age. A lot of people now seem to think on first meeting me that I'm somewhere in my 20s; several have asked me whether I'm a mature student, and at least one person assumed I was a postgrad. I hope I'm not going to look 40 before I get close to it...

damn! my last reply to you got lost!

I asked if you were a Capricorn since they tend to look older when they are young and younger when they are old.

It seems I looked about the same age for about twenty years! When I was 40 people thought I was 30. When I was 20 they thought I was 25. But now, at age 47, I seem to have caught up with myself.

The only thing I miss about being 19 is having very slender upper arms!

az

I'm not quite sure what the appeal of slender upper arms is; then again, being slender all over (and male, if that has anything to do with it), I possibly wouldn't.

I'm actually a Sagittarius, so no luck there.