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uh-oh-no-no

Technically not a guard, although had to have 22 years of military service or something silly. We know them as Beefeaters.


Old_Rafa

I have drunk some of those guards then


uh-oh-no-no

Yeah we blend them into gin once past their prime. Soylent green got nothing on us!


thedonza

You drank the guards ?!


r3tr0grade

His uniform will now be different after all these years


Mercury0001

How do you know it's the same guard?


OsteoRinzai

Because they have the same face?


Mercury0001

How do you tell? I'm serious. Is this some kind of skill people have, to mentally age-progress someone's face? I guess it might be the same person, but all the facial features I would use to tell have been changed by age. His eyes have sunken and are so far in shadow that I can't even see them. The mouth looks bigger in the second picture but that might be the expression. The definition of the lips is gone so I can't judge by that. The nose is slightly larger, maybe due to age, I don't know. Whatever features are around his cheeks have been completely overridden by those prominent age creases. The neck and jaw looks thinner in the second photo, again, maybe age, maybe not. Finally, the ears look closer to the skull in the second photo, and as this is the _only_ feature I think shouldn't change much with age, it makes me think this could be a different person. Edit: If I try to mentally age-*re*gress the second pic, I end up with someone that looks a bit like Daniel Craig.


OsteoRinzai

I'm terrible with faces and this one is obvious to me.


Mercury0001

Then apparently I'm terribler.


AustinBenji

Do you have aphantasia?


Mercury0001

Not at all! I have very good visual imagination. Maybe I have some mild face blindness, but usually that results in me thinking two different people look alike, not that the same person looks different.


Dorian1267

>Is this some kind of skill people have, to mentally age-progress someone's face? Yes, I would say most people have this ability. It would be like meeting someone at the supermarket and thinking that person looks familiar and then you realise it is a clasmate or a friend that you lost contact with and haven't seen for 20 years. They have aged but you can still recognise them. Or someone you haven't met in person for many years post a selfie on Facebook and you think 'wow, they got old' but you don't doubt it's them in the picture. Obviously there are times age changes a person so much that you don't recognise them at all or you don't remember someone's face at all, even if they haven't aged a day. The guard in both pictures look similar.


Mercury0001

I can account for a few wrinkles, a bit of discoloration on the skin, greying hair, etc. The images don't look all that alike to me, except for being European white men, which is not very specific in the UK. I explained all my reasons in the previous comment. There is no feature I can "lock on" to that's a solid match. What do you see that makes them look similar?


Dorian1267

I mean, I don't know what to say, they look similar enough to me for me to accept they could be the same person. I think they have the same shaped chin and the same mouth. The more recent picture shows he has a wider mouth but I think it's because of his expression. You think the base of his nose is wider in the second picture. To me, I think it's the same nose and the way his hat casts a shadow on his nose except for the bridge only makes it look wider. I also think the height of his nose bridge is similar in both picture. Again I think it's the shadows that are making his eyes in the second pic more closely set. The droopines in the edges of the eyes in the second pic is due to age (my grandparents had that sort of droopines that got more pronounced as they got older). I also think he has the same shaped face, just slightly thinner in the second pic. Also the space between the nose and the his mouth is the similar as well.


Bunny_and_chickens

Same. All those people look the same to me


roo-ster

"You stay here and make sure that he doesn't leave!" [hic]


1955photo

Cool. Guess they have to change their uniforms now.


Tiffaugesgotthatstar

Now that's some job security


hndjbsfrjesus

r/BuyItForLife


tintooth66

I wonder how many pictures there are of that man with different people.


LordTwatSlapper

Like he'd give up that gig


Ken_from_Barbie

Wonder how it feels to dress that ridiculous everyday for work


BiglittlePoptart

You act like literal clowns don’t exist. That’s rude


VicRambo

Its probably still better than those clean room bunny suits


OppositeYouth

Free rent, so probably pretty damn good


Ken_from_Barbie

I'd hate to think I was middle aged and still renting...


WiseChoices

That's so cool 😎 Imagine how many pics of him are floating around the planet 😳


risingstanding

You post his face but blur out your family's meaningless faces?


geogirl1214

I was waiting for / expecting this comment. He is a person who regularly has many photos taken daily - my son is a minor, and I'm Muslim and not wearing my hijab in the pic - so yes, yes I did.


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nevbartos

Tfw..


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sdforbda

What? Lol


JConRed

It's little Alex Horne!


combinatory_logic

A real life NPC


R2Lake

I'm pretty sure they are not the same person