Ever wish you could live in a different era?

W.Shakes-Beer

I wish I was living in the 1970's, just seemed like a cool time. I was looking at pics online of forgotten America, old buildings, cars, ghost towns etc.

Would have been great to have been in America with all those nice gas guzzling V8's and fuel as plentiful as tap water. Great music was still going (Allman Bro's, Skynyrd etc.) and then the 80's would be full of cheesy hair metal. The future seemed bright.

But these days, everything is so expensive, fuel is running out, cars are getting shíttier (imo), music is getting worse, there is no privacy to life (Facebook and mobile phones), education and employment are extremely competitive and getting places is becoming harder.

Maybe its just me, anyone else wish they were in a different, more care-free era?

For Forks Sake

Medieval times. The amount of pillaging I'd get up to........

Saila

ahh rose tinted glasses.. *swoons*

krudler

The wild west for me, sauntering into a two bit town on my horse then into the local saloon to knock back whiskeys, play poker and try not get shot.

Rainbow Cannon

Bronze age was where it was at. It's all been downhill since then.

omahaid

Does it have to be in the past?

EmatoelDiablo

Strictly real eras or stuff like 18th century Steampunk?
That or if I'm going to be real.... Renaissance Italy.:D

squod

Fifty years in the future. Global warming has taken hold and women wear less clothes generally. Hover cars are common and double cheese burgers are no longer bad for you. It's 2062 and utopia has broken out across the world

starbelgrade

W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »

the 80's would be full of cheesy hair metal. The future seemed bright.

Does not compute.

EmatoelDiablo

squod wrote: »

Fifty years in the future. Global warming has taken hold and women wear less clothes generally. Hover cars are common and double cheese burgers are no longer bad for you. It's 2062 and utopia has broken out across the world

With giant floating cities like the Jetsons, as water levels have risen by 2 miles.
Also, sex is now considered a normal pastime, like reading.

mikemac

W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »

I wish I was living in the 1970's

Would have been great to have been in America all those nice gas guzzling V8's and fuel as plentiful as tap water.

Never hear of the fuel crisis in the 1970's?
The USA enforced speed limits to conserve fuel and car design changed

You have some rose tinted glasses I think OP

Jenroche

Victorian times. Corsets, bustles and button boots. Yes, it's all about the clothes.

pragmatic1

In the future. I like technology and the benefits it provides. The past sucks balls.

Anytime after the invention of the toilet and discovery of bacteria, but before the invention of sunbeds and fake tan.

I just want to be clean and pale!

W.Shakes-Beer

feelingstressed wrote: »

Never hear of the fuel crisis in the 1970's?
The USA enforced speed limits to conserve fuel and car design changed

You have some rose tinted glasses I think OP

yeah that was late 70's or there abouts i think, but to have been 21 in 1970 would have been beast

az2wp0sye65487

Yeah, 1920's / 30's / 40's - New York.

Think I'm actually from that era - just born too late. I would have to be incredibly wealthy of course. I'd be all trilby hats, spats, jazz clubs etc....

Ciderswigger

The roaring 20's. Art Deco, the Great Gatsby vibe, the charleston, flapper dresses, the jazz style music, men were dapper and women were more liberated than before. Would have loved it.:)

Liam Byrne

Any time before greed, fakeness and commercialism took over.

Ciderswigger

Edward Some Cross wrote: »

Yeah, 1920's - I'd be all trilby hats, spats, jazz clubs etc....

SNAP!

Da Shins Kelly

Edward Some Cross wrote: »

Yeah, 1920's / 30's / 40's - New York.

Think I'm actually from that era - just born too late. I would have to be incredibly wealthy of course. I'd be all trilby hats, spats, jazz clubs etc....

Just what I was gonna say. I love jazz and the whole vibe that seems to come off the music and images from that time, so I think any time between 1920 and 1940 in New York would have been perfect for me.

SafeSurfer

Edwardian - like the R.F. Delderfield novel, Long Summer Day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Horseman_Riding_By

Fek that... We're the luckiest generation in history. It may not be perfect but it's an easy life for most.

jill_valentine

I'm a woman. So uh, no.

As a useful thought experiment next time an impulse towards nostalgia should occur, take a moment to recall all the people you used to know with weird crap growing on their faces.

There aren't many of those people around now, are there?

I rest my case.

Funglegunk

jill_valentine wrote: »

I'm a woman. So uh, no.

As a useful thought experiment next time an impulse towards nostalgia should occur, take a moment to recall all the people you used to know with weird crap growing on their faces.

There aren't many of those people around now, are there?

I rest my case.

There are less beards now, to be sure.

Green Back

Funglegunk wrote: »

There are less beards now, to be sure.

Especially on women.
When was hair removal cream invented?

Pdfile

id go back to the 1950's, it seemed so boring but at least economy's where stable...

RachaelVO

Edward Some Cross wrote: »

Yeah, 1920's / 30's / 40's - New York.

Think I'm actually from that era - just born too late. I would have to be incredibly wealthy of course. I'd be all trilby hats, spats, jazz clubs etc....

Me too! The wealth would certainly have helped. Going to clubs, art deco clocks... all of it. Fecking class!

jimthemental

Wild West with a tank. I'd be unstoppable.

dpe

The 70s were rubbish. And in Ireland they were even more rubbish (I think they were called the 50s).

Rubberlegs

Though I was alive in the 80s, and a teenager in the late 80s, often wish I was born about 10 years earlier. Love early 80s music, and all the cheesiness, shoulder pads, New Romantics etc. Wish I had been old enough to go clubbing and have the big hair and all that:(

dpe

73Cat wrote: »

Though I was alive in the 80s, and a teenager in the late 80s, often wish I was born about 10 years earlier. Love early 80s music, and all the cheesiness, shoulder pads, New Romantics etc. Wish I had been old enough to go clubbing and have the big hair and all that:(

I was. To be honest, from a clubbing and music perspective, the early eighties were alright, the mid-eighties were terrible, and the late eighties (madchester and the rave scene) were fantastic.

Elliemental

I'm in the middle of writing an article on the Henrician Reformation for the "History Files" website. Right now, I could really do with having a word with both Thomas Cromwell, and Henry VIII. It would help the article along very nicely. So yeah, I'd want to go back to 16th century London.
Do I have to pay more for going back centuries, rather than mere decades? :P

jonnny68

I lived through the best time ever (late 80's/early 90's Rave scene) and id love nothing better than to be back in 1990, Madchester, flares, hoody tops, Acid House, best times ever.:cool:

K-9

18th century France seemed cool in Dangerous Liaisons anyway but another vote for 1930's America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCfflhAHbT0

Funglegunk

jonnny68 wrote: »

I lived through the best time ever (late 80's/early 90's Rave scene) and id love nothing better than to be back in 1990, Madchester, flares, hoody tops, Acid House, best times ever.:cool:

Hmmm, during that time I was living through Thomas the Tank Engine, Ninja Turtles, Manta Force, Zero Hour...

I thought it was class though!

ejmaztec

Elliemental wrote: »

I'm in the middle of writing an article on the Henrician Reformation for the "History Files" website. Right now, I could really do with having a word with both Thomas Cromwell, and Henry VIII. It would help the article along very nicely. So yeah, I'd want to go back to 16th century London.
Do I have to pay more for going back centuries, rather than mere decades? :P

It would be a very short chat, especially after the syphilitic old bastard said to you "So, you want to AXE me a few questions about the reformation?"

dpe

Elliemental wrote: »

I'm in the middle of writing an article on the Henrician Reformation for the "History Files" website. Right now, I could really do with having a word with both Thomas Cromwell, and Henry VIII. It would help the article along very nicely. So yeah, I'd want to go back to 16th century London.
Do I have to pay more for going back centuries, rather than mere decades? :P

No, because everyone was covered in **** and died before they were 40.

SEPT 23 1989

I would like to have lived in the the Age of Sail

ejmaztec

dpe wrote: »

No, because everyone was covered in **** and died before they were 40.

Yes, the last time that anyone had a good bath was over a 1000 years before when the Romans took off. After that they were living in their own sh1t for centuries, the dirty smelly feckers.

rossie1977

W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »

yeah that was late 70's or there abouts i think, but to have been 21 in 1970 would have been beast

1973 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCLRlVxOH-Q

Ciderswigger wrote: »

The roaring 20's. Art Deco, the Great Gatsby vibe, the charleston, flapper dresses, the jazz style music, men were dapper and women were more liberated than before. Would have loved it.:)

alcohol was illegal in the states in the 1920s, f**k that

Adamantium

If its imagined eras....

I would love to be alive/young when we or if we start the proper colonizaton of space, first person on mars/europa or when we invent the first warp drive.............or more realistically free energy(nuclear fusion)leading to no wars over oil/resources........that it would be a real amazing time to live in!

Fusion would probably have to happen before the first things can happen though

Bloody Nipples

Late 19th century. Me, Sherlock Holmes and Watson solving crimes and kicking ass.
When men wore suits every day and personal honour used to mean something. There were also a hell of a lot of downsides too, don't get me wrong, but those are two aspects of that era I'd love to see resurrected.

RichieC

I wish I lived back in the days of yore when a sword was the answer to every conceivable problem and the wenches did pour like the wine.

Idjit

I'd love to have been my current age (20) in the 1940's. I just love the fashion style's, the hair, the classy female look...all about your curves and how to work them and looking reservedly feminine, instead of the oompa-loompa coloured skin tone and cartoon-ish amounts of makeup that are the style nowadays.

Cat Melodeon

I wouldn't be able to decide which era I'd like to live in. That's why I'm buying me a DeLorean.

Irish Guitarist

I'd like to live in thirties or forties America and travel the country recording blues, folk and bluegrass musicians like Alan Lomax did.

Ciderswigger

rossie1977 wrote: »

alcohol was illegal in the states in the 1920s, f**k that

Speakeasies, bootlegging, Al Capone sorting ya out with some whiskey... fear of me!:D

HavingCrack

W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »

yeah that was late 70's or there abouts i think, but to have been 21 in 1970 would have been beast

Could have been drafted for Vietnam, no fun at all.

Jade182 wrote: »

I'd love to have been my current age (20) in the 1940's. I just love the fashion style's, the hair, the classy female look...all about your curves and how to work them and looking reservedly feminine, instead of the oompa-loompa coloured skin tone and cartoon-ish amounts of makeup that are the style nowadays.

Meh, the first half of the 1940's included WW2 which was a pretty horrific time to be alive at to be fair. The latter half was pretty **** as well unless you were a wealthy American.

Logical Fallacy

I always figured it would be cooler to live pretty far into the future, replace my fragile flesh with an awesome robot body.

Jade182 wrote: »

I'd love to have been my current age (20) in the 1940's. I just love the fashion style's, the hair, the classy female look...all about your curves and how to work them and looking reservedly feminine, instead of the oompa-loompa coloured skin tone and cartoon-ish amounts of makeup that are the style nowadays.

I hope you can type and enjoy child birth, because they would have been your two main passtimes!

nacho libre

To the year 1900 in Vienna.

Vicxas

2320, star trek!

Thats an era.... right?