This is a thread for ILXORS IN THEIR 50's

Been there since July 25. Hate it.

lol u softies, it's been 4 years for me now and I had my first serious surgery in May

I've been there for quite a while now and it only gets, um, it only gets, um, never mind.

I better post in this thread while I ca

Lol

bookmarked this thread yesterday and not sure how i feel abt it haunting me there at the top of the page

half century club

come on in, the water is nice. i've been in for a few years now

i'll catch up in the later 2020s presuming they exist (and i do) (and ilx does)

I joined in April - my daughter turned 18 a week before. For her, it was pretty sad not to be able to celebrate under lockdown. For me, separated, terminally uptight about how to be around my "ex" wife, what a godsend not to have any expectations of a party or anything. Being 50 seems OK, although being Australian, the government acknowledged my birthday by mailing me a container to defecate in. That didn't really enrich the experience.

Today I became the father of an adult child.

This whole thing is zipping by so fast.

\m/

My sense of time is completely out of whack at the moment. I worked for 30 years before Covid lockdown, yet the months since March seems to have lasted forever and the years before them are now like the distant past.

I totally understand how you could feel that way! But at the same time, I’m having the opposite problem? Time is absolutely rushing past, how are we in October already? What the hell happened to September? Did we even have a July this year?!?!!

Yeah, my wife and I are both wfh since March and we both find M-F feels more like T-H used to.

57 next month
ask me anything don't ask me anything

My sense of time has gone through various gravity-bending events during lockdown so yeah.

Does T-H mean Tuesday to Thursday?

Hey gang!

Howdy!

Since I officially left this group in May, I have started How did I get here?? (Thread for ILXors in their 60s)

I’m still 16 months away. Oh the joys of youth.

(oops wrong thread, can't tell my 5's from my 6's anymore)

I was born in the age of Aquarius and turned 50 in the age of stupidity. Fuxk 2020 forever.

I have 5 months left in this thread

cue David Bowie

carroll o'connor was 47 when 'all in the family' started and 54 when it ended

I refuse to hear this

is it just that we had fluoride? idgi

Fewer three-martini lunches or three pack a day smoking habits.

yeah, smoking. but damn

And of course Wilford Brimley was only 50 in Cocoon.

I’m 51 now but have not officially posted in this thread before, so hey.

52 and never officially posted either but tbf i don't feel a day over 55

55 when the daleks first hove into view ppl:

https://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/persons/76723/76723_v9_ba.jpg

*checks notes* i mean 900

that's right

Redd Foxx was 49-54 during Sanford and Son

The Big One!

I measure my years against John Nettles. Bergerac is behind me, I can barely remember The Liver Birds, and I'm in a voice-over trough atm before I enter my Midsomer Murders phase in 2022.

I had a folder of writing and poetry to which I had stopped adding things in 1992, and just tucked in the back of the cupboard as I moved houses several times.
Today I was organising papers and I decided to take a look, expecting that I would realise what a talent I had put aside to go on with the rest of my life and be overwhelmed with remorse. And then I read it and pretty much every page made me either wince or actually gasp out loud at how bad it was. Don't think I will be starting a novel.

Not quite 50 yet, but I started doing a similar thing last year, reading old essays I had written at university. The ideas were dubious but the writing was quite well-done; for some reason, I had expected the opposite.

I knew this existed. Search needed the apostrophe.

I can never find.

Although I suppose I won’t need in a few years

Last year I turned 50 and hosted a pub quiz to celebrate. It was so much fun. I think it might even have been fun for other people too. I haven't seen my brothers since. Stupid covid.

hi y'all

things are great so far, tbh

Almost there, lurking in this thread with interest and trepidation

Welcome!

Soon. (Eight days.)