This is a thread for ILXORS IN THEIR 50's

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.

Also I just put up a desk, not too shabby eh? I'll be paying for it tomorrow mind.

it doesn't start getting real until you can't remember your 40s

xp Incidentally my pension is not worth the paper it's printed on so who's laughing now Mr Random Cold Caller?

it gets really real when your pathetic gig income and Obamacare fast-track you to bankruptcy

what a feelin'

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, July 2, 2018 8:55 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Right in my knees.

oh hi, I'm 54 now
peeing 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.

momus is almost 50

He’ll be 60 in February.

Fuck those cry baby under 50s in that other thread.

They're just coming to grips with their ultimate mortality, poor dears. Be kind to them.

I’m 55 and having a pretty good time.

I seem to have rediscovered my mojo this year: got serious about my job, holidayed in Japan, rekindled my interests in art and photography, good clothes (lost 40lb weight which helped), and the joy of short breaks by Eurostar.

eyoooooo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBlB8RAJEEc

Yeah, I got there this year lolsob

Yep, 50 now. No acknowledgment from any of my family or anyone other than people on Facebook.

Aw, Happy Birthday Christine! Welcome to the club!

(I actually got a video greeting of my favourite rock star singing happy birthday to me so I can't complain it was forgotten (but Covid put paid to the really super amazing plans I did have but hey))

Been there since July 25. Hate it.

lol u softies, it's been 4 years for me now and I had my first serious surgery in May

I've been there for quite a while now and it only gets, um, it only gets, um, never mind.

I better post in this thread while I ca

Lol

bookmarked this thread yesterday and not sure how i feel abt it haunting me there at the top of the page

half century club

come on in, the water is nice. i've been in for a few years now

i'll catch up in the later 2020s presuming they exist (and i do) (and ilx does)

I joined in April - my daughter turned 18 a week before. For her, it was pretty sad not to be able to celebrate under lockdown. For me, separated, terminally uptight about how to be around my "ex" wife, what a godsend not to have any expectations of a party or anything. Being 50 seems OK, although being Australian, the government acknowledged my birthday by mailing me a container to defecate in. That didn't really enrich the experience.

Today I became the father of an adult child.

This whole thing is zipping by so fast.

\m/

My sense of time is completely out of whack at the moment. I worked for 30 years before Covid lockdown, yet the months since March seems to have lasted forever and the years before them are now like the distant past.

I totally understand how you could feel that way! But at the same time, I’m having the opposite problem? Time is absolutely rushing past, how are we in October already? What the hell happened to September? Did we even have a July this year?!?!!

Yeah, my wife and I are both wfh since March and we both find M-F feels more like T-H used to.

57 next month
ask me anything don't ask me anything

My sense of time has gone through various gravity-bending events during lockdown so yeah.

Does T-H mean Tuesday to Thursday?

Hey gang!

Howdy!

Since I officially left this group in May, I have started How did I get here?? (Thread for ILXors in their 60s)

I’m still 16 months away. Oh the joys of youth.

(oops wrong thread, can't tell my 5's from my 6's anymore)

I was born in the age of Aquarius and turned 50 in the age of stupidity. Fuxk 2020 forever.

I have 5 months left in this thread

cue David Bowie

carroll o'connor was 47 when 'all in the family' started and 54 when it ended

I refuse to hear this

is it just that we had fluoride? idgi

Fewer three-martini lunches or three pack a day smoking habits.

yeah, smoking. but damn

And of course Wilford Brimley was only 50 in Cocoon.

I’m 51 now but have not officially posted in this thread before, so hey.

52 and never officially posted either but tbf i don't feel a day over 55

55 when the daleks first hove into view ppl:

https://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/persons/76723/76723_v9_ba.jpg

*checks notes* i mean 900