This is a thread for ILXORS IN THEIR 50's

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

that's right

Redd Foxx was 49-54 during Sanford and Son

The Big One!

I measure my years against John Nettles. Bergerac is behind me, I can barely remember The Liver Birds, and I'm in a voice-over trough atm before I enter my Midsomer Murders phase in 2022.

I had a folder of writing and poetry to which I had stopped adding things in 1992, and just tucked in the back of the cupboard as I moved houses several times.
Today I was organising papers and I decided to take a look, expecting that I would realise what a talent I had put aside to go on with the rest of my life and be overwhelmed with remorse. And then I read it and pretty much every page made me either wince or actually gasp out loud at how bad it was. Don't think I will be starting a novel.

Not quite 50 yet, but I started doing a similar thing last year, reading old essays I had written at university. The ideas were dubious but the writing was quite well-done; for some reason, I had expected the opposite.

I knew this existed. Search needed the apostrophe.

I can never find.

Although I suppose I won’t need in a few years

Last year I turned 50 and hosted a pub quiz to celebrate. It was so much fun. I think it might even have been fun for other people too. I haven't seen my brothers since. Stupid covid.

hi y'all

things are great so far, tbh

Almost there, lurking in this thread with interest and trepidation

Welcome!

Soon. (Eight days.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1q2F_18cjg

hello all. it's nifty for now (53) but there will be some uh, tests v soon because uh, ppl have questions.

heh yeah I had a chunk of appendix and related area removed around a year ago due to polyps, my first major surgery (pretty minor as far as full anesthesia operations, but still)

Ah thete it is. I searched 'fifties'

A few more months and I will trade this thread for another. One non-COVID health scare this year, but I think I'm the clear for the near future, at least.

Wondering if somebody should use their magical mod powers to add (fifties/50s) to the thread title, or if we should leave it de-indexed as it were.

We should also have a thread for people stuck in the '50s, sitting around all day watching Happy Days reruns and listening to doo-wop.

ayyyyy *thumb up*

Only HOOS
Can make this world seem bright
Only HOOS
Can make his steen drive right

Happy Days was about the 70s; so was MASH (non controp)

I'm still not yet 50, but I remember having a discussion with someone whether they preferred the "70s 50s" e.g. Happy Days or the "80s 50s" e.g Stray Cats.

Lol

Only HOOS
Can make this world seem bright
Only HOOS
Can make his steen drive right

Saw someone who may now be in their 60s tweet about how he used to feel like the “weird uncle “ here when he was posting more here circa 2004 I guess

The day after my 50th late last year, I had to deal with a Rû$$iän R@ns0mwäre attack, then a couple months later a HBP event that sent me to the the ER, and then a month after that, I slipped on the ice and broke my radius/ulna, putting my drumming/guitar playing home fun therapy on hiatus for a while. That 'ol 'check engine' light comes on at 5-O, can't ignore it anymore.

3 years into the 50s.
3 years of unemployment.
no complaints as not having to worry re job/commute/office chaos in last 12 months have been an absolute blessing.
that and having mk2 (17 yrs, nearly 18) at home all this time has meant we have had a very different last era of my parenting groove than normal.

Hi!

could you repeat that Ned? my tinnitus is acting up

I said NICE WEATHER WE'RE HAVING

Aw, seeing Bimble and Morbs in this thread :(

One thing about being in my 50s is the accumulating weight of all the people I miss who are no longer here. I am aware that this becomes more and more of a thing, the presence of absence. I don’t like it.

Hello to the same decade as me, Ned.

For all of one week.

i have cancer now, as of last thursday. nobody knows but my partner and one friend and uh, now the internet. just don't let my 90 y/o mom find out, srsly. i'm good.

(i keep thinking of teh room when the mom says "it's official-- i definitely have breast cancer"

tbf, i don't have breast cancer.

So sorry to hear that. Hopefully there will be good treatment.

ty. this one is not so bad usually. 🤷🏻‍♂️

good luck Hunt3r