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

i have already planned my walking stick.

https://www.swordsdirect.com/wooden-stick-swords.html

(a replica, without the actual sword bit)

(zatoichi-style cane sword, minus the sword)

ha! the walking with a concealed sword is so Sharper Image 1988

I bought a cane in australia in 1995 when I cracked open my heel.. it's hanging on the back of the closet door and I was just noticing it yesterday, thinking "Just you wait, my old friend.. you'll be working again at some not-too-distant point.."

when I cracked open my heel

Blew out your flip-flop, stepped on a pop top?

I have a cane from a past injury and the brand is Hurrycane.

When my mobility goes I'm skipping canes and going straight to a Rollator. I can't wait to get off my feet completely (by choice).

I want one of those wicker wheelchairs, with a plaid blanket on my lap and a monocle

pulled in a chariot by dogs

I saw a photo of a cross stitch that said "All my favorite things give me carpal tunnel" and it's true, why do we need our hands and feet for EVERYTHING? They're over-worked.

I used to worry about that a lot. I mean, I probably type about a million words a year. So far I'm OK, though.

I've noticed some problems in my fingers lately, so I've been using collagen peptides powder, and it seems to make a difference.

can't wait for my MODOK years

ॐ

Back on the pain merry-go-round, this time its a back/hip sciatic nerve fuckery that the physio is saying is likely a disc bulge. Sitting is uncomfortable, I've been told I have to get up and walk round every 20 mins which just isnt practical but also the getting in/out of my chair is the most painful part. Christ I hope this flareup eases off bcs even with strong painkillers it is not very bearable.

Does heat help? When my sciatica made my other muscles spasm I would stand as long as I could to make my coffee and then throw myself on a heating pad or tie it to my leg with tension bands (that I got from doing PT the last damn time).

I felt like it did but she told me icing it was a better idea (and I have read recent reportage that suggests the thinking is now ice rather than heat for some things). So I'm trying that now to see if it does anything. I got dry needling done this morning so I have to remember that sometimes when thats done it can feel worse for a bit before it settles.

Anyway. owwww :(

Oh and in a double whammy at the same time my GP's told me I cant take any NSAIDs because my last bloods showed some kidney issues, which is a real nuisance as those do help. The GP's making me get more bloods and an abdo ultrasound this week just to make sure this pain isnt something else like pancreas/gallbladder, which I'm fairly confident it isnt but hey, best to be sure and it doesnt cost anything to check.

The sciatica pain is inflammation which is better treated with cold, but something about the sciatica also made certain muscles (maybe compensating ones?) go into spasm, and that hurt worse than the sciatica, and THAT required heat. :( Super sorry, Trayce. It suxors.

Ugh, so sorry. Bulging discs and accompanying pain can be brutal, I know from friends and family. And yes, also know from the same that ice packs are frequently deployed. Bodies huh? Hope the pain resolves soon!

Geez when I saw this thread revived I thought "I should just post, fuck this awful sciatica" so I am 100% with you Trayce. My great sadness is I'm afraid to sneeze, which is often otherwise a relief!

lol yes, my sneezes are often followed by tiny screams

That kind of back pain is so debilitating. Not being able to sit comfortably is awful. I remember when I had my spell of bad back pain, travelling into work on the train and having to say to the person next to me "I'm going to shout now because I have to stand up and it's going to hurt, so don't get a fright."

Oh, sympathies to all.

An advantage of my current age and condition is being a connoisseur of different kinds of pain, and being able to at least rule out some causes immediately because of what it does and doesn't feel like.

Cervical disc pain is a phantom silvery-blue and is accompanied by weakness; that it shows up someplace other than the disc is bonkers. Gout is a dark orange and is there in the morning. Lyme arthritis is an angry red and comes with sweat and bad dreams. A sinus infection has a totally different urgency than a migraine.

With you trishyb on warning others: "I am going to say ouch in a moment, do not be alarmed."

My house is 87 years old and I identify with it so hard: something is always creaking and when one leak is fixed there's another waiting in the wings.

As I get older I've learned the importance of staying active but especially stretching, not just to stay in shape but also to be better in tune with my body, to focus on exactly what and where hurts on any given day and either work around it or work toward a remedy. I've luckily avoid chronic pain and injury thus far, but I've become a convert to those massage guns, which really help with muscle aches.

I think I mentioned it upthread but I got one of those pull-up bars for a door by the bathroom... I don't really do pull-ups but I do dead hangs pretty much every day, for just like 10-20 seconds... you can just feel the vertebra stretching out as well as the muscles & tendons. Best $19 I ever spent

i bought an app called "bend" to remind me and walk me through some brief stretching every morning. It's amazing, now I can even do it without the app! But also I don't always do it. But I try to remember to.

I need to take up Tai Chi. Changed my father's life and he's even older than I am.

there's a group of older people I see every morning that do some kind of Tai Chi.. but with swords! They have some mystical music playing on a little speaker

Everything's better with swords.

Tai Chi but with swords

Karaoke with swords

Banking with swords

I like the hang bar idea! And it’s hard to thrash myself up the hill behind our house but I feel better on the days I start that way

what's that joke? Getting killed on a medieval rack would suck, but the first few seconds were probably amazing