(xxpost) Trip Fontaine is a character from the book/film "The Virgin Suicides"
― snoball, Friday, 22 August 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Start at about 3:30 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_smJP8oRnE
― jaymc, Friday, 22 August 2008 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― jaymc, Friday, 22 August 2008 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Our cohort is few, but mighty.
― Aimless, Friday, 22 August 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
abbott being a sexy cold war scientist
OH MY GOD WHY WAS I NEVER THAT
― Abbott, Friday, 22 August 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember Howdy Doody.
― M.V., Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:34 (fifteen years ago) link
and i thought i was old for remembering leaded gasoline!
― get bent, Saturday, 23 August 2008 05:57 (fifteen years ago) link
madonna, michael jackson, prince and ME -- i am now 50 and 1/2.
― m coleman, Saturday, 23 August 2008 10:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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.)
― m coleman, Saturday, 23 August 2008 11:00 (fifteen years ago) link
anachronistic! edgy, you mean!!1!
― J0hn D., Saturday, 23 August 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
so is bimble part of this exclusive club?
― m coleman, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't expect to get shoulder and back hair this late in the game.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
ha was wondering what you meant in the 40s thread
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
what's up y'all
― sleeve, Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
had a cardiologist call me at 7am to cancel my appointment (snow)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
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
― Brad C., Thursday, 4 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
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
― j., Thursday, 4 January 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
oh hi, I'm 54 now
peeing takes a long time
― WilliamC, Thursday, 4 January 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
backache is a thing
― mark s, Thursday, 4 January 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
(knocks on wood)
― sleeve, Thursday, 4 January 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
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.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
all the best morbs
― mark s, Friday, 26 January 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murmur_(album)#/media/File:R.E.M._-_Murmur.jpg
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 26 January 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Saturday, 27 January 2018 10:58 (six years ago) link
He got paid five times more per ep than Anneke Wills was, to make up for the poverty stricken childhood!
― calzino, Saturday, 27 January 2018 11:36 (six years ago) link
what a feelin'
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 July 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
mainly feeling it in my lower back today
― Brad C., Monday, 2 July 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
Rapidly approaching Sammy Hagar milestone.
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 July 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
Minutemen?
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 July 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
Can you hear me, Dr. Mu
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 July 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
Imagine my surprise
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 July 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
Just realized that the “ordinary guy” in Pavement’s “Stereo” is maybe a reference to “Dr. Wu.” I still got it!
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 July 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Monday, 2 July 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
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.
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
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)
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
― calzino
for two months and then he got sacked. quintessential "being in your '50s" experience tbh
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 01:13 (five years ago) link
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.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 01:23 (five years ago) link
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
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
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
― Brad C., Tuesday, 3 July 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link
i need the med coverage
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 03:10 (five years ago) link
As mentioned on the other thread, in January I was made redundant 7 days before I hit 50.my skills are probably no longer in demand (manual software tester) due to an increased focus on automated testing, and to be honest, I think I have had enough of software/corporate culture.The last few months I have been a stay at home dad, and will probably remain so while mk2 goes through his teenage trials and tribulations (3 more years).The very idea of being the Office New Boy at the age of 50 fills me with dread, and I know it would bring on a lot of stress and anxiety.I am in a 'fortunate' position in that due to life insurance, I have no mortgage and get a small occupational pension from BH so will not be made homeless or starve, but coming to terms with a very different financial outlook is still the big stumbling block.That and daytime TV.Thank goodness for 'Walter Presents .. '.
In other news : re lower back pain.Having sat on my arse in an office for 30 years the last 2 years were very problematic re my back.My solution : swimming.I have started swimming 4 times a week (roughly 1km each time), and the change has been very noticeable.
― mark e, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 06:19 (five years ago) link
Slightly overlapping with what I said on the Forties thread, but I was made redundant at 51, also due to having skills which are no longer in demand. My partner has always earned a lot more than me, so we were OK - but then he was made redundant last year, at 58. Thankfully his skills are still in demand, but he refuses to re-dose himself with the poison of corporate culture - so it's taking a while to sort things out, and we are having to be careful with money, for the first time since our twenties.
I cover my monthly outgoings with DJ-ing (a weekly gig and a monthly gig) and Discogs selling (I inherited a rare and valuable collection, and am being ruthless with my own). We also have a lodger, for the first time in nearly thirty years - a good friend, also in his fifties, going through a divorce and coming to terms with being on the gay side of bi. He hates his job and wants to change back to his old career, but it would involve a precarious salary drop, at least to begin with, which isn't great timing when you're getting divorced.
Despite this difficulties, my net life satisfaction level is still hugely in credit. I feel busy, fulfilled, and grateful for all I've got. But I can't deny the presence of a persistent low-level background hum, which says "You are uniquely unemployable. Everyone else can get jobs, but you haven't got what it takes." It's bullshit, but it's there.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 09:53 (five years ago) link
Fuck those cry baby under 50s in that other thread. Here's to getting Saga Holiday ads and people ringing me to ask if I want to cash in my pension and/or release some equity from my home and to being told I can't increase my life insurance because YOU R 2 OLD.
― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 20 September 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
Also I just put up a desk, not too shabby eh? I'll be paying for it tomorrow mind.
― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 20 September 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
it doesn't start getting real until you can't remember your 40s
― Brad C., Friday, 20 September 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
xp Incidentally my pension is not worth the paper it's printed on so who's laughing now Mr Random Cold Caller?
― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 20 September 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
it gets really real when your pathetic gig income and Obamacare fast-track you to bankruptcy
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 September 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
what a feelin'― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, July 2, 2018 8:55 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, July 2, 2018 8:55 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Right in my knees.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Friday, 20 September 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
oh hi, I'm 54 nowpeeing takes a long time
― WilliamC, Thursday, January 4, 2018 12:24 PM
Seven weeks shy of 56, but I found the secret: constant impotent rage keeps me young.
― WmC, Friday, 20 September 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
Tracer! Welcome!
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Saturday, 8 June 2024 00:37 (one week ago) link
Welcome, Tracer. On the 40s thread, they talk about discovering Steely Dan. On this thread, we've been talking about D-Day and how you couldn't get away with doing that these days.
― pplains, Saturday, 8 June 2024 04:25 (one week ago) link
*high-fives Tracer, in a careful, non-bone smashing way*
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 8 June 2024 07:31 (one week ago) link
Careful you don't pull a shoulder muscle either.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 8 June 2024 08:11 (one week ago) link
lol. everything hurts.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 8 June 2024 08:23 (one week ago) link
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*.
― djh, Sunday, 16 June 2024 14:10 (two days ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 16 June 2024 21:04 (two days ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Monday, 17 June 2024 20:27 (yesterday) link
TBF that never made sense to me either. But I never owned one of the turntables that would make that useful.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 17 June 2024 20:45 (yesterday) link
but you get it
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 June 2024 21:04 (yesterday) link
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.
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 17 June 2024 21:04 (yesterday) link
#old
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 17 June 2024 21:05 (yesterday) link
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.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 17 June 2024 21:07 (yesterday) link
I think it is! I would def believe that.
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 17 June 2024 21:07 (yesterday) link
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
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 June 2024 21:22 (yesterday) link
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.gifIts like GREENLAND in here.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 02:31 (two hours ago) link
let's trade
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 02:35 (two hours ago) link
my cat is kinda bitey but it'll be good
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 02:36 (two hours ago) link
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
― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 02:50 (one hour ago) link
Well, fifty is the threshold of the Mortality Zone, but plenty of people make it to sixty anyway.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 03:10 (one hour ago) link
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 :)
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 04:25 (twenty-one minutes ago) link