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
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 15 December 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
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.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 15 December 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
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
― sleeve, Thursday, 15 December 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link
... 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"
― sleeve, Thursday, 15 December 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
it me now.
― behold the thump (ledge), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 09:07 (eight months ago) link
happy birthday!
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 09:56 (eight months ago) link
hbd and congrats on leveling up
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 10:34 (eight months ago) link
congratulations with your quarter bicentennial
― StanM, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 11:40 (eight months ago) link
nice one Ledge, I will be here in three weeks time also.
― Ste, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 12:00 (eight months ago) link
I wish all of you well. Hope these years go better for you than they have for me.
― The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 12:14 (eight months ago) link
Happy birthday!
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 12:44 (eight months ago) link
Welcome welcome
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 12:45 (eight months ago) link
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.
― behold the thump (ledge), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 14:08 (eight months ago) link
Around here, we don't make too many long-range plans.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 15:14 (eight months ago) link
i just turned...........................................................................................55. i don't even know anymore.
happy birthday, ledge!
40 was the depressing one for me.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 15:19 (eight months ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 15:46 (eight months ago) link
tells us about the onion on your belt grandpa--was it really the style? oooh ooh and trucker caps
hb, and stay well olds
― i'd meet u where u are, but that place really sucks (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 16:04 (eight months ago) link
55 too and also (approx) 35 when I first posted. Big up the 55/35 club.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 16:35 (eight months ago) link
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.
― read-only (unperson), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 16:37 (eight months ago) link
yeah approx 35 for me too. i just think that i started ILB 20 years ago? and that was pretty early on for me.
x-post
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 16:39 (eight months ago) link
― stirmonster, Wednesday, October 18, 2023 4:35 PM (eight minutes ago)
looks like a club that i am part of as well.
― mark e, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 16:44 (eight months ago) link
I'm 53, and I was a month away from my 31st birthday when I first started posting here.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 16:49 (eight months ago) link
I guess I was… 24 or 25 when I started posting here? I’m 46 now.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 16:53 (eight months ago) link
54 next month for me
Happy Bday Ledge!
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 16:58 (eight months ago) link
jesus, we should start a bluegrass group or something. buncha fogeys.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 16:58 (eight months ago) link
I started ilxing in um 2004 or 2005, so maybe 33ish? I am now 52.
― The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 17:12 (eight months ago) link
I will be 54 next month and I've been on here since at least 2001.
― Bruce Hornsby–Big Stick 3:15 (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 17:13 (eight months ago) link
57 now, started posting at age 38?
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 17:30 (eight months ago) link
Seem like Gen Xers feel comfortable here, we don't have to eat Tide pods or lip-sync to Dua Lipa songs
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 17:42 (eight months ago) link
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 17:43 (eight months ago) link
56/34 is same enuf
― i'd meet u where u are, but that place really sucks (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:04 (eight months ago) link
i think i came here because frank kogan told me to..........i can't remember. some connection like that. the steve forbert thing. i don't even remember what i mean by the steve forbert thing. i barely knew frank. just one of chuck's wack pack. i think dow and i are the only ones left from that.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:11 (eight months ago) link
55/35 here too. Can’t even remember how I ended up here, it’s all murky.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:13 (eight months ago) link
I got here via the Fake Matador Bulletin Board, I think?
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:16 (eight months ago) link
I turned 58 this year. I guess I've been posting here for going on two years, which surprises me.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:16 (eight months ago) link
i definitely got here via the Fake Matador Bulletin Board.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:21 (eight months ago) link
I remember the TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE days
― StanM, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:23 (eight months ago) link
and when we had to move to that weird nether-board that time. that was scary!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:24 (eight months ago) link
the sandbox!
I found ILX googling "Charalambides"
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:49 (eight months ago) link
i am the same age as i was when i got here
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:57 (eight months ago) link
mark s. is eternal. and justified and ancient. mooooooooooo moo.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 19:00 (eight months ago) link
i got here cos i registered ireallylovemusic as a domain and then looked at alternatives.
― mark e, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 19:47 (eight months ago) link
49/27
― Ste, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 20:17 (eight months ago) link
I wish I could remember how I got here. Welcome to your 50s!
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 20:18 (eight months ago) link
I was in my 40s when I found ILX. I will level up to the very selective 60+ age bracket next year. Not sure it’s a club I want to join but better than the alternative.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 20:20 (eight months ago) link
First post I can find was in ‘03, when our daughter was three, our son two, and I was 38.
Now she’s 23, he’s 22, and I’m 59.
Yeah I’m getting older too.
― keen reverberations of twee (collardio gelatinous), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 22:05 (eight months ago) link
36 when I started posting here. I turn 58 in twelve days.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 22:09 (eight months ago) link
I never posted in this thread when I hit the five-o? Weird. That was back in 2021. Diabetes, bad knees, worries about how to keep paying rent whe I'm old and not working... fun. I was told life after 40 would be a free blast but that was bullshit imo.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 22:56 (eight months ago) link
I'm 54/33, so pretty close to the 55/35 club. We've been in this car a long time!
HBD ledge. The 50s are fine I guess. For me I'm at that dreaded point of dealing with kids-turning-into-adults and parents-suddenly-being-very-old, both of which require a lot of attention. The good side of which I guess is that it doesn't give me a lot of time to think about being in my 50s. By the time things settle down one way or another I'll probably be almost ready for the 60s thread.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 23:55 (eight months ago) link