Gods I think I'll never understand how the most highly educated middle-aged men/women/whatever don't have a nervous breakdown-level cognitive dissonance event when they look at themselves in the mirror steadily turning into broke down ghouls and goblins  I can't fathom going week after week after week letting it all become months and years until you're looking THAT NASTY. JFC.  It seems to indicate a horrific lack of taste.  All these Americans who can look themselves in the mirror and go "yeah, that looks good, THIS is how I want to present myself to the world" have automatically qualified themselves as gormless fucking dipshits.  "Gormless" because a man with any perceptiveness would realize DarkSydePhil's chinstrap looks hideous and would never model their own facial hair on it.  Likewise with a woman and some Tumblr creature's undercut. Case in point: my parents have doctorates and only recently has my mother actually started eating a calorie deficit---and she still has the horrid fashion sense of before.