This is a thread for ILXors in their 30's!!! yo yo yo breakdancing etc...

I went skateboarding for the first time in ages a couple years ago because the new town has a skateboard park. Being 32 at the time I prudently waited until my new health insurance had kicked in first.

Did he recognize you?

Nope. I didn't recognize him, either, until he gave me his business card, and I was like, wait a minute, where'd you go to high school? He said he didn't even remember my name, which isn't too surprising since we barely crossed paths. You don't forget a last name like Ra1nwat3r, though.

Being 32 at the time I prudently waited until my new health insurance had kicked in first.

haha! radical.

(so jaymc, did he look like a druggie? well wait, what mattress store manager doesn't)

And then soon after that they'll be saying things like "the 20th century? man, I wasn't even born then!"

This makes me want to curl up in a chair with a bottle of single malt and a glass.

I still have my old video tapes with the Cure and Howard Jones and whatnot on them, I even watch them sometimes!
And some 10" records.
Thankfully I never had big hair. But I did have a Nik Kershaw shirt =(

Wait, when don't you want to curl up in a chair with a bottle of single malt and a glass? That sounds lovely.

wait what happened to 10" records?

Weren't they only ever a bit of a novelty thing anyway? I have a PWEI one.

have i told y'all about my big ten inch record?

there's plenty of new 10" records around

this one? xp

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REMEMBER WHEN RONALD REAGAN KILLED ALL SEMBLANCE OF PROGRESSIVISM IN THIS COUNTRY LOL NOSTALGIA

FRANKIE SAY DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION

i remember waking each morning excited to read the next chapter in the intricate lives of my favorite family, the pattersons, in the comic strip for better or worse THE FIRST TIME AROUND

whoops, that was me there

hai

turning 30 was awesome!!

wonder what's goin on over in that 20s thread. so young and tres stupide, eh?!

I bought a 10" record just to say I owned one.

I think I've been enjoying my 30s more than I did my 20s, although "enjoying" is maybe not the right word there, but it'll do.

i like my thirties so far. i'm enjoying life more than i did in my twenties. (modern medicine may have something to do with this.)

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30s are pretty good. Getting better as my kids get older and more independent, too!

The decade's been great aside from the bits that weren't (small in number, happily). I dunno, I'm just kinda relaxed about it all.

My 15-yr-old nephew thinks the newer Star Wars movies are superior to the old ones.

And why shouldn't he? (I'm not being flippant at all, I just wouldn't be surprised at that -- then again you might not be surprised either!)

I'm not surprised, it's just one of those things that expresses the gulf between us. Like the way he has a better mobile than I do.

I'm kind of surprised that you have a 15-year-old nephew!

Not as surprised as I am that my younger brother is also in his 30s now.

Yeah I still think of my little brothers as just that - even though both are in their 30s, married, with 2 kids each. They're further along the "grown up" path than I'll ever be! Tch no wonder they dont take me seriously.

Trayce, I love N Kershaw too. Still do. Remember how I drooled at the little midget. haha

Kids born right now are in a world where there has never not been an iPhone, for instance.

Dude, I know! When my daughter says:"That's mama's ipod." I freaked out at first realizing how different the world is for her. I am already thinking of her having an email address and chatting with strangers. Parents never had to do this back in the 80s: inside they were safe 'n' sound. Although I realize that's my old age talking, as I 'm sure kids now are accustomed to the dangers and on the whole know how to protect themselves.

1976 MOTHERFUCKERS

I've got lots of 10" records! I even have a triple 10" (Tall Dwarfs 3 EP's).

Yeah, two words to anyone who thinks the 80s were a giant party time to be a teenager in: Reagan. Thatcher.

I remember the world before the internet. I can remember getting our first personal computer in the home. I remember PEN PALS. That you wrote to with actual PENS!!! I remember the first time I saw a floppy disc it seemed magical. The first time I saw a 3" disc, not to. I remember when CDs were supposed to be magical things that lasted forever. I remember Betamax, for f*cks sake.

i breakdanced last year, to try and distract a couple of mates who were arguing. They laughed for a few minutes, but then went back to arguing.

I'm starting to get a bad back.

I don't even relate to mine own generation. What hope is there for me?

Oh, and my knees aren't what they were.

I get pains in my kidneys if I drink too much.

And I swear I never used to have this ringing in my ears.

My feet have gone all veiny.

Pen pals! OMG I had heaps. My first 2 boyfriends were penpals I ended up meeting! LOL proto-internet dating.

I had an Italian pen-friend, she wrote me to in Italian...I couldn't understand a word of it, so I asked my Italian teacher - Mr. O'Hara - to translate for me, and he just laughed. The letters were always on pink scented paper. Proto story of my life. I wonder if she is on Facebook now?

Ah, I do miss snail mail. I still have shoeboxes full of letters from friends.

We used to make an artform out of addressing envelopes. It become a problem when they started getting returned by the post office as illegible. How we'd pass along clippings from music magazines, with letters written on the back of them. I do miss that.

The only bit I managed to translate was that she didn't like Europe, because they were offensive.

I would volunteer that we should start an ILX0r penpal service to send spangly letters to one another... but, being in my 30s, I don't really have the time to send letters any more. Life doesn't come with a study hall period to waste decorating envelopes any more. :-(

The decade's been great aside from the bits that weren't (small in number, happily). I dunno, I'm just kinda relaxed about it all.

My sentiments exactly. I'm turning 38 in a couple weeks, and I don't really have a sense of "age" these days. Sure, getting close to 40 and not being married/with kids is on my mind, but it's not really bothersome, and I feel as comfortable in my own skin as I ever have.

I have some 10" records too! And I still have my Intellivision console somewhere :/

Sure, getting close to 40 and not being married/with kids is on my mind, but it's not really bothersome

Same here, the occasional twinge but I think that's more due to societal conditioning and expectation. (See also house ownership as a purported sign of maturity -- not out here, I think!)

But Ned, how can you pass on spending all of your money on home improvements instead of CDs and obsessively watching HGTV?

I feel better already.

Have any of you noticed a slight... difference between this thread and the 40s thread?

Um... what happens to ILX females after they hit 39? Do we DIE or something? Or just turn invisible? I'm a-scared. Somebody hold me!

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That's a good point, the way of archiving photos has changed massively. I'm still attached to hard disks, even print pictures to put them in albums, while the cloud gives me whiffs of data being potentially wiped out (all very irrational).

Another thing related to the above that I have caught myself doing a bit more recently is to actively try to remember and visualize specific moments of my childhood / youth. I'm looking for flashes, or to remember how I felt, all from the concern that it's becoming hazy.

There might be few posters in their 30s left around here, but no reason that aging is reduced to colonoscopies and other picturesque experiences at the doctor :) For that matter, I haven't seen my doctor the whole year, it's good to be back to a state of prolonged healthiness.

Still have one year left! I legit believed I was turning 40 next year until very recently. Managed the same trick on my 29th as well! It's great, feel like I got a bonus year.

Is there a thread for ilxors in their 40's? A few days away and it's looking like my first order of business as a 40-year-old is gonna be scheduling a prostate exam 😳
Had a blood panel last week, A1C is 5.4 and cholestrol is off the charts. That was a real surprise.
When I had a worrying chest scan 9 months ago, the Yijing gave me the image of plugging a leaky old boat and suggested that I wouldn't be able to relax my vigilance anytime soon. oh, right- this isn't just about my lungs. Welcome to the new normal, get used to it. Gotta be much more careful from now on, and don't slip up.
In light of this, all that "age us just a number" stuff feels like a crock. Sucks not being young anymore LOL

This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties

"forties" spelled out, got it. TY

see ya, thread for ilxors in their 30's

You can always come back as an elder dispensing unsolicited wisdom.

i'll leave that to the wise.