This is a thread for ILXORS IN THEIR 50's

*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

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.gif
Its like GREENLAND in here.

let's trade

my cat is kinda bitey but it'll be good

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

Well, fifty is the threshold of the Mortality Zone, but plenty of people make it to sixty anyway.

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 :)

Trayce that is hideous, is there a tenants' union who can get on the case for you? Legal Aid?

Well theres Tenants Vic and VCAT sure but theyre backlogged to the wazoo. We have a heater on, but its a shitty panel heater that is using thrice the electricity :(

There may also be laws that heat only has to be on in certain months, I know that’s the case in Virginia. Oh and welcome to the best decade of your life, Tracer.

yesterday morning i woke up to excruciating pain in my shoulder. i can’t raise my left arm more than a few inches. wtf is this shit

When I had that type of pain it was frozen shoulder. It was bad, like, tears welling up when I reached for a glass from the cabinet bad. Took about three months of PT to work through. Now I can easily get glass and pour myself some wine whenever I want. Being over 50, all beer that's not Miller Lite is gross.

yep, I have also had frozen shoulder, PT is the only thing that works

i saw a PT but he was like 24 and did not have a diagnosis. he did dry needling and rubbed it a lot but i don't know that that did anything. i guess i will go see a real doctor :(

do you have trouble reaching into the opposite back pocket of yr pants? or rolling down car windows? those were my cold shoulder giveaways

i haven't had any trouble doing anything until the wee hours of yesterday morning when i woke up in excruciating pain. i can't raise my arm forwards or to the side, but actually i can reach in my back pocket okay.

might be the same thing but with the calcium deposits in different parts of the joint, yeah go get checked

While in my 40s, I woke up with screaming left shoulder pain in the wee hours. Googling said it probably wasn't a heart attack, which was good because we had tickets to Sonic Youth that night. Plus meeting some ILXors for sushi beforehand. I kept that arm in a sling and slept on oddly arranged pillows for months, because I am stubborn. Eventually I could use that arm again. Until 15 years later when suddenly I couldn't reach out to or pick up my coffee cup one morning. When I finally got it checked out, that searing pain had been a separated shoulder. Most likely from getting my left shoulder subducted under Mr. Jaq and trying to turn over.

Tl;Dr it's better to get sudden pains checked out

'are you giving me the cold shoulder or do you have cold shoulder?'

It could be a rotator cuff injury, my mom had that.

Hello friends. Joining this thread a year too late and seems an appropriate place to say that I've just bought a ticket for up and coming act PAUL MCCARTNEY at the O2 Arena.

Enjoy Macca. I saw him about a decade ago, it was a legitimately great show.

Big news here is some new glasses with a slightly stronger prescription. One thing I find with progressive lenses is that with each new set I have to readjust all over again because they're always different enough from the previous ones that it takes a little time for my eyes to find the sweet spots. Getting new frames is fun, tho — get to change up my face every few years.

my varifocals seemed to be ok after a couple of weeks and then got bad again. i think the problem is that most of my use isn't reading distance, or tv watching distance but laptop distance. and the bottom of laptop screen and the top are in different zones, both can't be in focus at the same time.

I’m 56 and got to here not needing readers at all, I can still read Zing easy at 12”. So I’m v spoiled I know. BUT, oh fuck is this changing now, my sight is changing fast and bad— both focus and lighting issues generally. I’ve always been nearsighted since 16, I had glasses until lasered at 42ish— I’m v comfortable, even tho unhappy, w specs, and they’ll be back soon.

Yeah the eyesight thing comes on pretty quick

Having worn glasses since I was four or so, for me it was the shift to two pairs that was the trick. (Tried varifocals briefly, frankly sucked, and my eye doctor said 'Yeah let's just go for two pairs,' and it's been gravy since.)

I’ve always been nearsighted since 16, I had glasses until lasered at 42ish

This was me exactly although they told me in the laser recovery room that I would need readers going forward "because of my age". 12 years later still only on +1s but I think I could go up one and not think they were worse.

Approaching 56, never had glasses but I've been struggling with eye fatigue in the last six months; picked up a pair of +1.25 readers from the pound shop. They make my phone look like an upgrade. I can read it from 25cm away (without: more like 40cm). Useless for anything else, but the fatigue has subsided anyway, possibly because it's actually daylight for the entire working day and I cannot get ambient artificial light levels right in my miserable little back bedroom office.
I only wear the readers for minutes at a time but they're like a superpower for microscopic label details.

Obv everything else is falling apart.

I've just bought a ticket for up and coming act PAUL MCCARTNEY

Sorry to inform you but PAUL IS DEAD. We know this because at the very end of the song "Strawberry Fields" you can hear a voice say very plainly "I buried Paul." Also, on the cover of the Abbey Road album, Paul is pictured barefoot, which is how corpses are prepared for burial in - I think it was Sicily or someplace like that. Shocked you never heard about this.

whatever happened to the 'buy this lamp for 400 pounds' things that were forever on the TV / falling out the guardian? 'serious' i think they were called. that said, in sure you can buy daylight bulbs for less than 400 pounds.

(i checked, £3.29 from screwfix)

(do we have a 'wonders of the modern world' thread because 6W light bulbs should be included there)

heck, white LEDs alone are an amazing achievement

Funny how most of the posts itt are about bodies. That’s the one thing we all have in common I guess

the £400 daylight bulbs probably put out a few more lumens than the £3 screwfix ones - you can still get £200 daylight lamps for artists, but yes the price is probably a triumph of marketing over technology.

heck, white LEDs alone are an amazing achievement
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2014/press-release/

yep!

lol. everything hurts.

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