This is a thread for ILXORS IN THEIR 50's

momus is almost 50

There's a Guided By Voices song about this.

nED AT THE SOCKHOP OH MY GOD

I really, really don't know how to react to this.

weve all reacted by blotting it out

Well I know that you're in love with him,
Because I saw you dancing in the gym
You both kicked off your Keds.
Oh, I dig that rhythm and Ned!

(I thought JBR's suggestion at first was an age progression of ILXors into their fifties and was thinking "oh it won't take much to imagine some of that.")

Ned, all you have to do is put on the socks. That's all. And we need a hardwood floor, and XTC's "Life Begins At The Hop". Now who will film this????

did you at least smoke a lot of pot?

I think the first time I smoked pot was roughly summer of 1970. Didn't do much for me. My friends included several 'heads', but I was just a dabbler. My older brother was into it pretty far by 1971. He still tokes up now.

I didn't really get launched as a pot smoker until college, where I spent most of 1974 stoned. Made my own bong from a glass lab beaker. I quit entirely around 1977 or so. I can't say I miss it.

and at least know a kid like trip fontaine?

Hard to say, because I don't have a clue who trip fontaine is. I did know a lot of druggies and hippies in the 70s. They were as common as daisies back then.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3Pgo2kaznFU/RqsBjrRCKMI/AAAAAAAAARs/7wAJzhaYC3A/s1600/964.jpg

that link 404'ed me

(xxpost) Trip Fontaine is a character from the book/film "The Virgin Suicides"

Start at about 3:30 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_smJP8oRnE

Btw, Frank Kogan, who posts to a couple of the rolling genre threads on ILM, is 54.

Also:
Most of the time I dwell in a state of unreality, where I have amazing superpowers. And I am 50 years old.

-- Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, February 5, 2007 12:29 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

Our cohort is few, but mighty.

abbott being a sexy cold war scientist

OH MY GOD WHY WAS I NEVER THAT

I remember Howdy Doody.

and i thought i was old for remembering leaded gasoline!

madonna, michael jackson, prince and ME -- i am now 50 and 1/2.

sept 1968 was like the gayest time to enter high school

everyone cool in those days were entering college

there is truth lurking here -- people in our sub-generation have a complicated relationship w/our older sibs, the 60s baby boomers. this usage of "gay" is uhm, anachronisitic, or something. (I entered HS in 72 FWIW.)

anachronistic! edgy, you mean!!1!

so is bimble part of this exclusive club?

I didn't expect to get shoulder and back hair this late in the game.

ha was wondering what you meant in the 40s thread

what's up y'all

had a cardiologist call me at 7am to cancel my appointment (snow)

this morning the dentist said that my teeth with metal fillings will all eventually need crowns; seems legit, the youngest of those fillings is 40+ years old

i went to the dentist for lots of work this past year, first time since forever, and it was all space aged nano whatever shit and i think the dentist and his assistant were legit smirking at my one old iron ore filling from when i was a teenager, fifty years ago, in an eastern bloc nation

oh hi, I'm 54 now

peeing takes a long time

backache is a thing

(knocks on wood)

As hinted above, I have a cardiologist now! My primary doctor, who has pretty amazing raw skills -- like hearing -- apparently, thought he heard a murmur in my heartbeat last month. GREAT!

It turns out I have an "unconcerning" prolapse which is a "2" (not a 3 or a 4), so it just has to be checked every year from now on.

Aging is a motherfucker.

all the best morbs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murmur_(album)#/media/File:R.E.M._-_Murmur.jpg

i am two years older than william hartnell in this picture :D

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1920x1080/p01hg14p.jpg

(obviously i have regenerated several times: also did not grow up in poverty etc)

He got paid five times more per ep than Anneke Wills was, to make up for the poverty stricken childhood!

what a feelin'

mainly feeling it in my lower back today

Rapidly approaching Sammy Hagar milestone.

Minutemen?

Can you hear me, Dr. Mu

Imagine my surprise

Just realized that the “ordinary guy” in Pavement’s “Stereo” is maybe a reference to “Dr. Wu.” I still got it!

Oh wait

I just went through all the tests you are supposed to do when you get to 50, only 7 years late.

Anyway, all passed 100%, so hey!

I guess that lower back pain is gonna go in the "what do you expect at yr age?" cart.

Thanks for reminding me. I just did the same with one test, the biggest of all, remaining to be done in the next few months. If the news is bad I will speed post my remaining backlog of screennames.

I was Big C diagnosed about five months after turning 50, so maybe i didn't get the other tests.

(i'm mostly OK now, just medicated)

He got paid five times more per ep than Anneke Wills was, to make up for the poverty stricken childhood!

― calzino

for two months and then he got sacked. quintessential "being in your '50s" experience tbh

Definitely another bummer about being in your 50s. If you lose your job, you can't necessarily bounce back. You might never have a salaried position again.

Definitely another bummer about being in your 50s. If you lose your job, you can't necessarily bounce back. You might never have a salaried position again.

HI DERE. Raise your hand if you have been rendered depressed, rudderless, and without direction because you've structured your life around a eight-hour, salaryman working schedule for so long that when you were inevitably disrupted out of your career you've become addicted to the anxiety and panic of not being able to focus. oops TMI

raises hand

in my case it took several years to work through the trauma of being ejected and to figure out other ways to live ... I won't trivialize the difficulties involved, but now the only thing I miss from my salaryman days is the income

*high-fives Tracer, in a careful, non-bone smashing way*

Careful you don't pull a shoulder muscle either.

lol. everything hurts.

This week I listened to an R.E.M interview whilst wearing new-ish hearing aids and had a sentimental cry. Later I fell over in the shower and bruised my arm (and my dignity). I feel *peak 50s*.

lol and also ouch. The R.E.M. gushing has been nice, I have to say. I've especially enjoyed hearing from a lot of people about how much they meant in the South in particular.

saw someone online today who was perplexed that a double-LP set would have sides 1 & 4 on one record and 2 & 3 on the other

we are losing our vinyl lore

TBF that never made sense to me either. But I never owned one of the turntables that would make that useful.

but you get it

it was originally developed for 78 records, so you could listen to a whole piece of classical music with minimal interruption and no changing! you'd stack like 4 of them up together.

#old

My dad's turntable had a stacking spindle when I was a kid, but we weren't allowed to use it because Dad said it was bad for the LPs. (Don't know if that's true, but something he heard or read.)

I think it is! I would def believe that.

Yeah there was this plastic arm that would hold the stack in place, which can't have been great for the grooves. And then each one would plop down CLACK which can't have been good either

We currently have no heating and a fucking realestate agent refusing to fix it, so the cold is making my knees hurt.

https://y.yarn.co/84a630e2-9c78-4153-8145-3d39f572aced_text.gif
Its like GREENLAND in here.

let's trade

my cat is kinda bitey but it'll be good

2 months out from crash-landing in this thread

any psychic guidance welcome, i had a pretty good 40s but it all feels like it is turning to dust in the face of FIFTY, a big number

Well, fifty is the threshold of the Mortality Zone, but plenty of people make it to sixty anyway.

According to the US social security agency, males born in 1974 live an average of an additional 32 years. Females live an average of another 35 years. So congrats 50 is still young :)

Trayce that is hideous, is there a tenants' union who can get on the case for you? Legal Aid?

Well theres Tenants Vic and VCAT sure but theyre backlogged to the wazoo. We have a heater on, but its a shitty panel heater that is using thrice the electricity :(

There may also be laws that heat only has to be on in certain months, I know that’s the case in Virginia. Oh and welcome to the best decade of your life, Tracer.

yesterday morning i woke up to excruciating pain in my shoulder. i can’t raise my left arm more than a few inches. wtf is this shit

When I had that type of pain it was frozen shoulder. It was bad, like, tears welling up when I reached for a glass from the cabinet bad. Took about three months of PT to work through. Now I can easily get glass and pour myself some wine whenever I want. Being over 50, all beer that's not Miller Lite is gross.

yep, I have also had frozen shoulder, PT is the only thing that works

i saw a PT but he was like 24 and did not have a diagnosis. he did dry needling and rubbed it a lot but i don't know that that did anything. i guess i will go see a real doctor :(

do you have trouble reaching into the opposite back pocket of yr pants? or rolling down car windows? those were my cold shoulder giveaways

i haven't had any trouble doing anything until the wee hours of yesterday morning when i woke up in excruciating pain. i can't raise my arm forwards or to the side, but actually i can reach in my back pocket okay.

might be the same thing but with the calcium deposits in different parts of the joint, yeah go get checked

While in my 40s, I woke up with screaming left shoulder pain in the wee hours. Googling said it probably wasn't a heart attack, which was good because we had tickets to Sonic Youth that night. Plus meeting some ILXors for sushi beforehand. I kept that arm in a sling and slept on oddly arranged pillows for months, because I am stubborn. Eventually I could use that arm again. Until 15 years later when suddenly I couldn't reach out to or pick up my coffee cup one morning. When I finally got it checked out, that searing pain had been a separated shoulder. Most likely from getting my left shoulder subducted under Mr. Jaq and trying to turn over.

Tl;Dr it's better to get sudden pains checked out