You don't hear people saying that anymore....

[Airspeed]

I had it in memory as "It's good to be alive, in nineteen fifty five."
Bur according to Google, it was ....1985, being a reference to George Orwell's 1984.
Whatever, you don't hear people saying that any more

[spot]

“Glad it’s still fun in twenty twenty one”.

Brian.

[Tako_Kichi]

I'm still partying like it's 1999!

...and I still miss the guy who wrote that song.

[511Flyer]

When I'm 64. I wish I was!

[Dev One]

I think that was Eccles who said 'It's good to be alive in 1985.'
(Sorry to the non UK people, Eccles was in the Goon show played by Spike Milligan.
Keith

[airboatr]

Orwells' Novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was released in 1949.

[Airspeed]

I was released in 1946, people can read me like a book, but I never became famous.
The only thing that I predicted for the future was that sending all the manufacturing to cheap labour countries was a very bad idea.

[Paul K]

Ironically, I was diagnosed with a cataract in 2020.

[Airspeed]

20/20 vision, eh?
Assuming that's not a joke, are you booked for surgery, Paul?
Takes about ten minutes, and you can see it all happen before your very eyes.
As a bonus, when the light catches the plastic lens right, you have a twinkle in your eye.

[Paul K]

20/20 vision, eh?
Assuming that's not a joke, are you booked for surgery, Paul?
Takes about ten minutes, and you can see it all happen before your very eyes.
As a bonus, when the light catches the plastic lens right, you have a twinkle in your eye.

No mate, it's not a joke. Having repeatedly put it off because of the pandemic restrictions, I finally decided to get it fixed. I'm going to my pre-surgery assessment next week where, amongst other things, they are going to measure my left eyeball. Presumably that means popping it out and running a tape measure around it.

Seriously, I'll be damned glad to get it done, whenever it's scheduled.