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 (eleven months ago) link
happy birthday!
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 09:56 (eleven months ago) link
hbd and congrats on leveling up
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 10:34 (eleven months ago) link
congratulations with your quarter bicentennial
― StanM, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 11:40 (eleven months ago) link
nice one Ledge, I will be here in three weeks time also.
― Ste, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 12:00 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
Happy birthday!
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 12:44 (eleven months ago) link
Welcome welcome
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 12:45 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
Around here, we don't make too many long-range plans.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 15:14 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
54 next month for me
Happy Bday Ledge!
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 16:58 (eleven months ago) link
jesus, we should start a bluegrass group or something. buncha fogeys.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 16:58 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
57 now, started posting at age 38?
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 17:30 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 17:43 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
i definitely got here via the Fake Matador Bulletin Board.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:21 (eleven months ago) link
I remember the TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE days
― StanM, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:23 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
the sandbox!
I found ILX googling "Charalambides"
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:49 (eleven months ago) link
i am the same age as i was when i got here
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:57 (eleven months ago) link
mark s. is eternal. and justified and ancient. mooooooooooo moo.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 19:00 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
49/27
― Ste, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 20:17 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
36 when I started posting here. I turn 58 in twelve days.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 22:09 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
You mean they're supposed to be over? I still get that when I log in on my phone!
― keen reverberations of twee (collardio gelatinous), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 23:59 (eleven months ago) link
one thing I've noticed is how quickly a year passes now... I picked up a card my stepmom sent and it was from August 2022. And it's basically been on my kitchen table for over an entire year (no I'm not a hoarder, I was using it to block my laptop's cam lol)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 19 October 2023 00:01 (eleven months ago) link