i just want to see abbott as a sexy cold war scientist is all
― deeznuts, Friday, 22 August 2008 02:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I am a 53 year old ILXor in the Naughties. Does that count? My only time in the 50's occured when I was aged 0-5, from November, 1954 until Dec. 31, 1959.
― Aimless, Friday, 22 August 2008 02:46 (fifteen years ago) link
did you see ned at the sockhop
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 22 August 2008 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link
NO
― deeznuts, Friday, 22 August 2008 02:48 (fifteen years ago) link
The sockhop ended some time before I entered high school in Sept. 1968. I was not inconsolable over this happenstance. I was a rotten dancer.
― Aimless, Friday, 22 August 2008 02:52 (fifteen years ago) link
sept 1968 was like the gayest time to enter high school
everyone cool in those days were entering college
u cursed by the stars aimless
― deeznuts, Friday, 22 August 2008 02:56 (fifteen years ago) link
everyone cool in those days were entering college WAS GETTING DRAFTED TO 'NAM
― get bent, Friday, 22 August 2008 02:58 (fifteen years ago) link
yep -- that's where my pops was in '68 -- sent there two weeks after i got borned! booh hooh.
--a sometime ilxor in his 40s
― Mike McGooney-gal, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:00 (fifteen years ago) link
everyone cool in those days were entering college WAS GETTING DRAFTED TO 'NAM WAS NOT ME, BY ANY STRETCH OF IMAGINATION! Skinny, geeky 13 year old, I'm just sayin'.
― Aimless, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:01 (fifteen years ago) link
nED AT THE SOCKHOP OH MY GOD
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link
aimless serious q did you at least smoke a lot of pot? and at least know a kid like trip fontaine?
if not you have destroyed any reason i have to respect actual early 70s HS kids
― deeznuts, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I am 10 years shy of 50 but this thread is making me feel old.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 22 August 2008 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link
momus is almost 50
― get bent, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a Guided By Voices song about this.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I really, really don't know how to react to this.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link
weve all reacted by blotting it out
― deeznuts, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
(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.")
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:31 (fifteen years ago) link
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????
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Friday, 22 August 2008 04:13 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Friday, 22 August 2008 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3Pgo2kaznFU/RqsBjrRCKMI/AAAAAAAAARs/7wAJzhaYC3A/s1600/964.jpg
― jaymc, Friday, 22 August 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
that link 404'ed me
― Aimless, Friday, 22 August 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
(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
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
'Super Whitening Russian', you mean
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 23:27 (one month ago) link
really that should read:
"dental care/insurance is imho the starkest example of class differences in the US"
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, May 7, 2024 9:29 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
When I first went to my current dentist, it was for a dental emergency (filling fell out) AND I didn't have insurance. They were super nice about it and apologetic about charging me the cash rate, but then when we got insurance again through my wife's job suddenly they were VERY happy to see me because I was worth a lot more money to them. It's all so weird, what a dumb system we have.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 23:33 (one month ago) link
whenever I go in for for a cleaning, I get a statement from MetLife - 'THIS IS NOT A BILL: You dentist billed $234 - we paid out $179 - you owe nothing'
It's all such a weird racket
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 23:38 (one month ago) link
My dentist has a weird scheme where they make me sign a sheet of paper listing what they're are going to do, how much insurance will pay and how much I need to pay. So I sign it and pay them then within a week I get a bill for, usually, around $500. I call them and they always say, oh don't worry about that. Umm okay.
― Esteemed character actress (sunny successor), Friday, 10 May 2024 13:25 (one month ago) link
this sooo true. also i hate making the extra effort to sit thru 15 minutes of phoneapp disclaimers and releases and pay obligations, being told "this pre-process will save u time!" then getting there and having to like, do what appears to be the same shit all over again.
this is not an olds thing tho. in a way it is i guess, because i am here on the olds channel just complaining like a fucking old. topicality is where u find it.
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Friday, 10 May 2024 13:59 (one month ago) link
Thanks to Facebook I just found out I’m almost 10 years older than The Beach Boys when they released/filmed Kokomo. I thought those fools were in their 70s when that came out.
― Esteemed character actress (sunny successor), Saturday, 11 May 2024 13:23 (one month ago) link
Spiritually, yes
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 May 2024 14:01 (one month ago) link
I was lucky enough to see Blondie this past week. My 13-year-old son was with me. It struck me that I have had a crush on Debbie Harry since I was his age, which was . . . forty-five years ago.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 11 May 2024 17:53 (one month ago) link
Thanks to Facebook I just found out I’m almost 10 years older than The Beach Boys when they released/filmed Kokomo. I thought those fools were in their 70s when that came out.― Esteemed character actress (sunny successor)
― Esteemed character actress (sunny successor)
i see this as an unqualified victory
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 11 May 2024 18:41 (one month ago) link
Yeah i was at blondie and my 20 y/o muso super nerd son loved it even more than I. With his youth insistence he dragged me up to about 10 ppl away from stage. that was useful.when i was reminded post hoc she’s 78 i was pretty— i dint know how to be, tbh. I felt pretty god damned ancient.
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Sunday, 12 May 2024 17:09 (one month ago) link
Finally got that first shingrix shot this morning, definitely feel it. Just a little funky, like the onset of a cold. I hear the 2nd one is worse, I’ll find out in October.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 7 June 2024 18:11 (one week ago) link
They felt about the same to me but yeah, they were definitely more addling than the COVID shots ever were.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 June 2024 18:19 (one week ago) link
i got one at the same time as a covid shot. that was dumb
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 7 June 2024 18:41 (one week ago) link
#2 was way worse for me, barely noticed the first
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 7 June 2024 19:45 (one week ago) link
I was bummed to learn they don't last forever, maybe a decade
well hello all of you
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 June 2024 20:04 (one week ago) link
I realized that I'm getting more choked up and teary-eyed over really sentimental, even mawkish things, I'm afraid I'm just gonna get more weepy as I get older
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 7 June 2024 20:07 (one week ago) link
I was braced for my second Shingrox to be bad, but nothing. Makes me suspect I’m not really immune.
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 7 June 2024 20:09 (one week ago) link
That’s my problem, I got the off-brand knockoff
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 7 June 2024 20:13 (one week ago) link
Hi Tracer! Welcome in.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 7 June 2024 20:17 (one week ago) link
Tracer, man of a half century. Or something.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 June 2024 20:21 (one week 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 (three 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 (two hours 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 (two hours 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 (one hour ago) link