This is a thread for ILXORS IN THEIR 50's

I think it's more you forget how much of a struggle the next day was, when you were 20, even then.

just realised i am older than jean luc picard at the END of ST:TNG

(show was '87-'94, stewart was born in '40)

Hello. Today is the day.

My wife turned 50 two months ago which mentally prepared me. Not another option really. Keep on keepin' on.

Welcome to the suck

La Dolce Vita

Being 50+ is awesome. (One piece of semi-heartening news: apparently the surveillance state doesn't quite have me as pinned down as I thought, as I have yet to receive anything from the AARP in the mail. My understanding was that they pretty much sunk their hooks into you on your 50th birthday.)

The old boy may be barely breathing.

The old boy may be barely breathing.

The old boy may be barely breathing.

WTF? Sorry. Anywhere in less than a year I will darken the door of this thread no more.

- Huey Lewis and the Blecchs

My wife was traumatized by the AARP mailing a couple weeks before her birthday in July but nothing for me so far.

Some chronic pains/conditions aside, I really am feeling very lucky. A lovely spouse, professionally/financially doing well, theoretically wiser.

It's been a good spot, honestly.

Welcome to the club! I just ticked past 53 last Friday, one of those indeterminate years but one where it really very much feels like I'm "in my 50s."

- Huey Lewis and the Blecchs

I am happy to be Blecch with you

I only realized I was getting old when I was 38. I still feel uncomfortably 14.

my GF signed me up for AARP last year when we went to Utah so we'd get some kind of travel discounts on our trip to Utah

The magazine features many of my contemporaries: P-Diddy, Matthew McConaughey, Kathleen Hannah, etc.

That was my reaction to my wife's first AARP mailer: do you at least get a museum discount?

Goddamn right I'm going to take advantage of every senior discount at civic facilities - the nice pool at the Duarte civic center, the golden eagle passports that get you in to all the national parks, etc...

35 cent bus/train fares (off hours)!

First colonoscopy - lots of polyps and I have to do it again in two years. *sigh*

I've had two (I started in my 40s becz of some mild family history), probably due for another one next year. They were OK, the propofol worked as advertised. Tho it is a singular experience to wake up from a nap to some chatty cathy showing you pictures of your innards.

haven't had that yet.. I'm with a cheap HMO and they just ask me to crap on a piece of wax paper, take a swab, and mail it back to them. It even comes with a little 'biohazard' bag lol

My parents are super nervous about any kind of anesthesia, so when my dad had his first colonoscopy he insisted on just getting local anesthetics and staying awake for the whole thing. His description of the ensuing discomfort persuaded me to never ask for that. (And he never did for subsequent ones either.)

I've had two, plus a surgery to remove my secum (?!) and appendix, since the tissue there was too thin to burn the polyp off

... and it's time for another, lol. I always think of crut's immortal thread abt barium shakes "if I hear the word I will barf"

it me now.

happy birthday!

hbd and congrats on leveling up

congratulations with your quarter bicentennial

nice one Ledge, I will be here in three weeks time also.

I wish all of you well. Hope these years go better for you than they have for me.

Happy birthday!

Welcome welcome

ty all, i've been fortunate to get this far with only minor eyesight degradation so the slow bodily collapse still to look forward to.

Around here, we don't make too many long-range plans.

i just turned...........................................................................................55. i don't even know anymore.

happy birthday, ledge!

40 was the depressing one for me.

i was 35 when i first started posting here. that iz craycray.

Gosh, I would have been 29! That's a long haul when I think of it that way.

tells us about the onion on your belt grandpa--was it really the style? oooh ooh and trucker caps

hb, and stay well olds

55 too and also (approx) 35 when I first posted. Big up the 55/35 club.

Welcome to the club, ledge.

I didn't think you were older than me, Scott. I'll be 52 in December and I celebrated my old-ness by giving a career talk to students at the local high school yesterday.

yeah approx 35 for me too. i just think that i started ILB 20 years ago? and that was pretty early on for me.

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55 too and also (approx) 35 when I first posted. Big up the 55/35 club.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, October 18, 2023 4:35 PM (eight minutes ago)

looks like a club that i am part of as well.

I'm 53, and I was a month away from my 31st birthday when I first started posting here.

I guess I was… 24 or 25 when I started posting here? I’m 46 now.

54 next month for me

Happy Bday Ledge!

jesus, we should start a bluegrass group or something. buncha fogeys.

I started ilxing in um 2004 or 2005, so maybe 33ish? I am now 52.