Get to it

Land before time came out in 88 that's only 35 years ago. The CDC reccomends colonoscopies at 45.
It's close. I must have seen it long after its initial release or while I was very young. But I'm still about a decade off from 45.
- The rates of colorectal cancer are increasing in young adults. It’s best you start earlier so that problematic polyps and adenomas can be removed before they get worse.
  https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/with-colorectal-cancer-rates-rising-among-younger-adults-a-yale-cancer-center-expert-explains-there-may-be-more-factors-behind-this-worrisome-trend/#:~:text=Nearly%20double%20the%20number%20of,by%20the%20American%20Cancer%20Society.
  
  Yup. My family has a history of colon polyps, so I had my first screening at 42 and they found a precancerous polyp.
  
  I've got a family history of it and probably should get checked early bit haven't. Here's to hoping that the article I saw that said THC is toxic to polyps literally saves my ass.
  
  Wasn't there a recent meta study that showed colonoscopies were basically useless?
- You don’t really start to retain memories until after 5 as your brain basically rewires itself at that point. So if you “remember” it (from its debut), you’re probably closer to 40.
  
  I likley just rented the vhs from blockbuster because it had dinosaurs on it
  
  You don’t really start to retain memories until after 5 as your brain basically rewires itself after that.
  I call bullsht on that. I have many memories from before age 5, and one from as young as 14 months. I may be a statistical outlier with that last bit, but I can't believe that our brains don't save any memories from before we were 5.
  
  I can confirm this. Am 41 and I remember it quite clearly.
  It might not have been released at exactly the same date in my country as the US release. But it should be close enough.
- I remember watching that movie as a child on TV and I'm 25
  
  Ok boomer
- Same. Though I guess it could be edited to say "remember seeing it in theatres". That'd put you at least around 5-7.
  
  That'd make much more sense
- Never too early to be touched by and Angel.
- Yeah I watched this movie all the time on VHS and I'm only 35. Pretty sure I don't need a colonoscopy yet.

Yup, because children never watch old movies.
- Never once
- Yep, because memes must always be taken seriously

Not quite; movie’s only 35 years old. First colonoscopy is recommended at age 45.
- To be fair, it also says if you remember this movie. So you're adding on at minimum 4-5 years before you're old enough to start remembering this movie at all, much less clearly. Then there's the wording that says "about time". To your not quite I instead offer a simple "Quite."
  
  You're right, but it doesn't make it more likely the viewer is older.
  I'm 30 and I remember the movie, but I probably watched it when I was like 10 and the movie was already 15 years old.
  
  But that would only be if you remember seeing it at release
- If you were 10 when it came out, it's time

Yup yup!
- Don't make me sad like that bro.
  Also I'm only 32!

If you are being recommended colonoscopy as a regular-risk person on the basis of age, your health system is not serving you well. Compared to colonoscopies, regular FOBT or FIT testing has an insignificant risk of complications (bowel perforations, death etc) and is easily conducted at home without the unpleasant "preparation" required of a scope. If done every 2-3 years they are at least as (and maybe more) effective at detecting cancer compared to a scope.
- What is FOBT and FIT testing?
  
  @15liam20@lemmy.world shared a great link for FIT. From the same website: FOBT = Fecal Occult Blood Test
  FIT/FOBT: low-cost, low-barrier, easy and 100% safe test done by the patient themselves at home
  Colonoscopy: expensive, resource-intensive, onerous, invasive, time-consuming and while usually safe there are complications up to and including death
  Even though an individual colonoscopy is more sensitive than an individual FOBT/FIT, regular use of FOBT/FIT is probably more effective overall on the population level. Unlike a colonoscopy, it is reasonable to repeat the FOBT/FIT every 1-2 years. Screening colonoscopies are usually done at intervals of 10 years. So imagine if you start doing colon cancer screening in 2023. In 2024, you start to develop cancer. If you are screening by colonoscopy, you will have to wait until 2033 to find it, unless you have symptoms in which case you are in trouble! (The whole idea of screening is you don't wait for symptoms.) Also it is important to remember that in the real world, people hate colonoscopies, health care is not always perfectly accessible, life gets in the way etc so it could be even more delayed. But if you are doing your FIT/FOBT every 1-2 years you will likely detect it fairly quickly. People are much more likely to actually go through with FIT/FOBT testing compared to colonoscopies. Then when you get the positive FIT/FOBT result, you'd be sent for a colonoscopy (or some other equivalent) for the confirming diagnosis.
  
  Fecal immunochemical test
  https://www.ccalliance.org/screening-prevention/screening-methods/fecal-immunochemical-test

Bro I am 24. I think I'm okay for a lil bit

- Yep Yep Yep!
  Now I'm sad again :(
  
  Don't look up what happened to her VA. :(
- I'm not sure I know?

Already had mine. Checked a-ok despite the functional alcoholism in my teens and twenties. Thanks!
- Congrats man! I'm 43 and I've had 2 checks so far. Wildest one is when they do both ends at the same time. Nothing like getting spit roasted by camera machines.
  
  "This had better not awaken anything in me"

Did anyone else think those leaves looked tasty as fuck when you were a kid?

This and Watership Down are two of my favourite movies that fit a genre that seems to hardly exist any more. A movie where the journey is the story. Love them. Also I will continue to be in denial about my age thank you very much!
- Watership Down and Plague Dogs are a whole different level. I agree with your sentiment. I just want to add that some dinosaurs watching relatives die just the same.
- We're not old, we are young in spirit.

- Reddit moment

As Littlefoot says, "How fucking dare you."

I'm definetly too young but maybe it's just because I was a dinosaur kid.

Jokes on you. Bloody TP forced one of those several years ago already. Rookies.

Ha! I've had at least 4
- Did you enjoy it?

Just made it this year

First? I already had my first and my second. 😅
- Three so far, and I'm really lucky to still have a colon. Check your crack, people.

Legalize tree stars.

More like past time to have scheduled...

I get 3 a week on the subway for absolutely nothing. American healthcare is the best!

The early movies in the series and the cartoon network show were pretty good. But then they just kept pumping out more and more movies, with widely varying degrees of quality. Either way, the first one was a masterpiece.

But I'm only 26!

Damn dawg

Oh The land before time? Well, my little sister watched a bunch of it on YouTube But as it's YouTube, nor she nor me ever got to see the movie or all the other stuff there is
Only recognized when i saw the dinosaur holding the leaf there and the other comments confirmed it haha
And I'm not even 18

More like final colonoscopy.