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« on: August 04, 2008, 10:38:04 pm »
Look at any of Chesu's mug shots pictures, and two things are quickly apparent:
1. Chesu has a huge beard.
2. Chesu is balding.
Okay, start on the beard. That's a pretty big beard. And since facial hair grows at about the same rate as hair elsewhere on the head, that's a good... year, year and a half's worth of growth? At least. Bearing in mind that net hair growth slows as the mass gets longer (it's true, but I can't be bothered to explain) it could even be as much as... three, four years of growth there?
I know different people reach "maturity" at different times, but out of all the guys I know, at my age, 18, maybe... three in a hundred have the capability of growing the foundations of a beard that could eventually become like that. I definitely could not grow a beard like that right now.
Given that, it seems most likely that Chesu's beard started growing at an age of at least 20. Add on the projected couple of years, and you'd expect him to be at least mid-20's, if not slightly older than that.
Ah! But Chesu claims he's only 22. Hmmm. Improbable, but not impossible.
Now, for Part II!
Chesu's balding. And quite significantly. His hairline's receded... quite far back, and behind the hairline, the hair's definitely thinning. Personally, the only guys I know who are that bald are in their late forties or fifties, but most even older than that.
Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I decided to look up on Wikipedia statistics about balding; only 25% of men start balding before age 30. Even given that Chesu is one of these 25%, it seems unlikely that balding would even start at age 22. Let's be generous, say he started balding at age 25 and that roughly 25% of his hair is already gone. Average hair loss is 100 hairs a day, and the average number of head hairs for a guy of Chesu's hair colour is 110,000. 25% of that is 27,500 - which should take a measley 275 days to lose. Less than a year, yes, but still skews Chesu's likely age upwards.
Other factor's - like Chesu's facial appearance and build also suggest that he is older than his twenties. In a short survey I conducted, none of the participants believed Chesu was younger than the "late thirties" category - all responses concurred that he appeared to be 35+.
So, unless Chesu is the real-life version of Robin Williams' title character in Jack, it seems most likely that he is older than his supposed age.
Now, the important question: why is a man, who appears to be in his thirties or forties, visiting a Zelda fan forum, mostly visited by young men in their mid-teens? Is he a gay pedo? I refuse to comment, but Jack Thompson had this to say: "Almost definitely yes."
But then, we can never trust Jack.
