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)
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Monday, 22 February 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
Ah thete it is. I searched 'fifties'
― Mark G, Monday, 22 February 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Monday, 22 February 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
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.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 February 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Monday, 22 February 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
ayyyyy *thumb up*
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Monday, 22 February 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
Only HOOSCan make this world seem brightOnly HOOSCan make his steen drive right
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 February 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
Happy Days was about the 70s; so was MASH (non controp)
― illumi-naughty (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 February 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 22 February 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
Lol
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 February 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 February 2021 18:21 (three years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 February 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
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.
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 22 February 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 25 February 2021 19:21 (three years ago) link
Hi!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
could you repeat that Ned? my tinnitus is acting up
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
I said NICE WEATHER WE'RE HAVING
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
Hello to the same decade as me, Ned.
For all of one week.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
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.
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 23:41 (three years ago) link
So sorry to hear that. Hopefully there will be good treatment.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 00:30 (three years ago) link
ty. this one is not so bad usually. 🤷🏻♂️
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link
good luck Hunt3r
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 02:30 (three years ago) link
All the best. I'm sure it's a super stressful thing, but glad it's a not-so-bad one.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 02:45 (three years ago) link
Indeed, hoping all turns out well!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 04:35 (three years ago) link
All the best of luck, Hunter, I hope you'll get good treatment and get through this <3
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 08:22 (three years ago) link
oh hunt3r! good luck with your treatment - hope you're through it all as quickly as possible and hope you're not laid up for too long in the meantime!
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 09:04 (three years ago) link
srsly i don't know why i would ever do blurt that, but i do appreciate very very much.
*considers personal history*
i think i'm destined to crash out, ridiculously. doing something else. it think i've got plenty of time. it'll never get me.
*envisions cancer-tombstone (carved in old.css: Original ILX2 Live Stylesheet)*
"damn. it got me. :-("
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
Did my warranty just expire? I pulled a muscle in my chest, which makes coughing XTREEMLY painful. And last week my dentist put a temporary filling in one of my molars; she can't do a permanent filling until I get my wisdom teeth extracted. The first available consultation date won't be until the end of this month.
*jaw starts hurting again LAMF*
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 12 March 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link
40th High School Reunion coming up next month. Pinch me.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 May 2021 23:57 (three years ago) link
Yikes. That’s me next year.
― that's not my post, Friday, 28 May 2021 02:31 (three years ago) link
This is my 40th h.s. year too, but I haven't been to any reunions since the 10th. Hate those things.
― In my house are many Manchins (WmC), Friday, 28 May 2021 02:42 (three years ago) link
I went to the 50th for my middle school four years ago. At least one strange experience too inside-baseball to detail here.
― clemenza, Friday, 28 May 2021 02:48 (three years ago) link
I don’t per se hate reunions but like WmC only ever attended my 10th. 33rd is this year.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 May 2021 02:49 (three years ago) link
Something is compelling me to go. Pandemic? My own kids in HS? In any case, recently waded into our designed friendbook page. One guy had a picture of himself with Scott Miller, because he was in a band with Miller’s wife at the time!
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 May 2021 03:05 (three years ago) link
I just turned 50. Feel about the same as I did last week.
The only reunion I went to was the 20th. 30th didn't happen, either because of apathy or COVID. (I graduated in 1989, but I think no one got anything started in 2019; there was some talk about doing a range of adjacent classes. Then the world stopped.)
Because I already talk to my actual HS friends with some frequency, there's not a lot of urgency to meet up with the people who hated me (or vice versa)
― balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 28 May 2021 11:01 (three years ago) link
I'm now older than Roy Orbison ever got to be.
Schoolfriends... I guess I'm in vague social media contact with one or two, but none who stayed in my hometown. Never went to a reunion, never even heard about one, though I suppose Xmas Eve at the Hotel Vic in New Brighton in '90s was almost that :) Still pals with a couple of undergrad-era ppl. But it's mostly another world.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 28 May 2021 13:19 (three years ago) link
I don’t mind HS people, am always happy to run into them, but was never that friendly with them to begin with, had a long commute so didn’t hang out too much after school, except on the subway! Also my high school was huge, so much so that I only know a fraction of the people who were in my class, even forgetting about someone in my neighborhood who went. Actually know a lot more people from my rival high school and socialize with them regularly. College is yet another story. I didn’t remain friends with most of the people I knew when I was actually in college, although I did start hanging out with and talking to my old roommate in recent years. But, due to one or two other friends, especially one I knew before college, I know lots of other people who were there at the same time that I hadn’t known.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 May 2021 13:40 (three years ago) link
This went a lot better than expected
― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 June 2021 03:44 (three years ago) link
I think the 7, 8, 9 years of a decade can hang heavy as you consciously or unconsciously prepare to move into another decade. I turn 57 in 2 months time - and this has felt the fastest decade so far.
A new set of concerns looking ahead: what's life going to be like when I stop working, how ready am i to live on a smaller income, can i afford to stay in London, where could I move to, what will I actually do to fill the time? Not coming up with any firm answers, and it seems to me impossible to know how the future me will feel. But one thing I've learnt so far is that comparing my situation with other people isn't a good idea. One of my friends of a similar age has just inherited, and is about to sell, a £1.5m house. Some comparisons will just make you unhappy if you dwell on them.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 20 June 2021 11:40 (three years ago) link
Get your shingles vaccine everybody!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 9 December 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
Thanks. Was just discussing that the othe day whilst discussing the Merrychef oven. #OneThread
― Raw Like Siouxsie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 December 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
I had chicken pox pretty bad in my mid Twenties, so I'll need to get this.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 10 December 2021 01:32 (two years ago) link
Friend had postherpetic neuralgia and told me “don’t even consider fucking around with this, get the shingrix as fast as you can.” So I signed up and waited like 8 months, but yup.
― antebellum tension fatigue (Hunt3r), Friday, 10 December 2021 05:04 (two years ago) link
Got mine almost immediately after I turned 50
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 December 2021 06:02 (two years ago) link
You don't invited to have the shingles vaccine until you are in your 70s in the UK.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 10 December 2021 11:02 (two years ago) link
*get
I had shingles at 48. Not sure if had postherpetic neuralgia - but I couldn't sit back fully in a chair for ages afterwards without unpleasant irritation (I wouldn't call it pain though.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 10 December 2021 11:04 (two years ago) link
If you've already had shingles will the vaccine do anything for you? I had it all up and down my right arm and in a few spots on my back a couple of years ago.
(I turned 50 just about two weeks ago.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 30 December 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
shingles can recur and even become chronic, so I'd go with the vaccine ... I got it a couple of months ago along with flu and TDAP vaccines and didn't notice much of a reaction besides a sore arm
― Brad C., Thursday, 30 December 2021 23:19 (two years ago) link
Yeah definitely get the vaccine. My mom had a case of it some years back and she was vehement about its awfulness. As soon as I turned 50 in March I arranged to get my shots.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 December 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link