This is a thread for ILXORS IN THEIR 50's

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Spiritually, yes

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.

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)

i see this as an unqualified victory

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.

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.

They felt about the same to me but yeah, they were definitely more addling than the COVID shots ever were.

i got one at the same time as a covid shot. that was dumb

#2 was way worse for me, barely noticed the first

I was bummed to learn they don't last forever, maybe a decade

well hello all of you

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

I was braced for my second Shingrox to be bad, but nothing. Makes me suspect I’m not really immune.

That’s my problem, I got the off-brand knockoff

That’s my problem, I got the off-brand knockoff

Hi Tracer! Welcome in.

Tracer, man of a half century. Or something.

Tracer! Welcome!

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.

*high-fives Tracer, in a careful, non-bone smashing way*

Careful you don't pull a shoulder muscle either.

lol. everything hurts.

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*.

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.

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

TBF that never made sense to me either. But I never owned one of the turntables that would make that useful.

but you get it

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.

#old

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.)

I think it is! I would def believe that.

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