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What era?

  • 25-06-2012 9:55pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭The Radiator


    The 'travelling 1000 years back in time' thread got me thinking. If you could live in any era past, present or future, what would it be? Middle ages? Jesus time? 10/100/1000 years into the future?

    I like the idea of kings, castles and dragons and shit in the middle ages, but it'd probably get a bit boring with no internet or TV


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  • Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Can you bring cadillacs with you? If so, dinosaurs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    around 1700 to 1800, could hopefully get a job as a watch maker and 'invent' a few things on the side


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    If you could live in any era past, present or future, what would it be? Jesus time?

    Hammer time.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    1920's Paris as a rich American would be great.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    I'm good with now, I like having rights and a decent standard of living.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭southcentralts


    go back and actually invent the internet, instead of just telling people i did?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭firefly08


    I like the idea of kings, castles and dragons and **** in the middle ages, but it'd probably get a bit boring with no internet or TV

    I dunno...I'm kinda glad we don't have dragons any more like they did in the middle ages :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,415 ✭✭✭Archeron


    The age of aquarius. All those hot 70's chicks from benny hill running around in slightly speeded up mode with the funny little slaphead being all annoyed. Thems were the days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭M cebee


    id go forward to 2017 and pick up an ipad 3 for 50 euro thanks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    2002 to 2007. Those were a great few years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,294 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Euromillions jackpot was 150,000,000 a few weeks ago. Id look up the winning numbers and then go back to the day before the draw and buy me a ticket.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,940 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    The early 1990's


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    To be coming of age in the 1930s so I could head out west and make a career for myself in the talkies.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    I'd like to live in the time when women knew their goddamn place!

    *runs and hides


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    The 1940's/1950's in America, I think.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    I'd go back to August 4, 1997 and stop skynet before it became self aware.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    As a musician, some time around the middle of the 60's/early 70's when rock and roll and heavy metal were still as pure as the driven snow.

    Seeing Led Zeppelin/Black Sabbath/Jimi Hendrix in their prime?
    Yes ****ing please.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    I'd love to spend just one day in Ancient Rome.
    Just enough time to walk the streets, visit the temples and see a gladiatorial battle in the Colosseum. Living there wouldnt be very pleasant so one day would do fine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    The future obviously.


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  • Site Banned Posts: 612 ✭✭✭Lionel Messy


    The 1980s. I was only born in 87 so I can't remember, I missed out on the music and it was the best music ever, be it metal or pop/synth. I love 80s related stuff like GTA, Hot Tub Time Machine etc. It was also the best decade for movies and Liverpool were the best team around. It just seems like the best decade ever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭The Radiator


    Yeah


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭MaxSteele


    1982/83 up as far as before the 2008 recession ... get the cheesy sunglasses , suit, mullet and then on into the early days of underground raves in the late 80's and early 90's. I'd also get to experience the era of Italia 90' and jack Charlton.
    Life just seemed more simple before all that.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 182 ✭✭Burt Lancaster


    70's - Loved the shirts, suits, sideburns and the flairs


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Definately the 60's America, summer of drugs,love and sex.
    Magic.


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Charleigh Some Wolverine


    maybe future, see what happens


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Roadend


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Euromillions jackpot was 150,000,000 a few weeks ago. Id look up the winning numbers and then go back to the day before the draw and buy me a ticket.

    I'd go back the week before :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    i'm grand where i am, thank you very much


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,317 ✭✭✭HigginsJ


    Around November/December 999 A.D.

    Looks like it would have put the Y2k bug in the shade.

    http://www.theness.com/index.php/the-year-1000-a-d-and-the-millennial-panic/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    The 20's is the era for me. Boardwalk empire - yea baby!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    20 minutes ago, before I finished off my sandwich.

    It tasted so nice, good times....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    I'm grand where I am.....thanks!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Georgian period England.


    If you ask me we could do with more "how do you do" than "how'ye". And hats. Definitely more hats.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    70's - Loved the shirts, suits, sideburns and the flairs
    RVP 11 wrote: »
    Definately the 60's America, summer of drugs,love and sex.
    Magic.

    Would have liked to be born around 1950 in the states. Late teens in the 60's, 20's in the 70's. Clothes, music and cars from that era are awesome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    It would have to be after sanitation has been invented. I'd hate not to have proper toilets and people having a lack of basic hygiene.

    The two eras for me would either be 1960s New York or California. The Summer of Love. It was a hedonistic liberated time and people enjoyed themselves. I think Mad Men captures it perfectly. If I could go back to the time that would be great.

    Alternatively 1980s Miami. Again for the hedonism. I bet you'd have a whale of a time there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,130 ✭✭✭✭Osmosis Jones


    I gotta say 1970's New York, just to grow up along with the Hip Hop scene there


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭The Radiator


    Cool


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    The future and work for my nephew in his delivery company.

    Would love to see ancient Rome.


  • Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    I have lived through the golden age and removed the varnish from history for myself .Fancy a stay in an olde Inn and the fleas hopping and smells everywhere .People were old at 40 and death was everywhere . These are very interesting times . I'm even looking forward to looking back on them . Hollywood has no truth .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭Niles


    Wouldn't mind going back to the 80s and settling down until 1999... be nice to appreciate those eras as an adult. Compared to some of the eras it's not very ambitious I know, if something involving time travel can be considered unambitious.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭saiint


    roman times :D as long as i was wealthy :D damn i get me some roman bitchs ( i blame the show Sparatcus for this)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Bajingo


    I'd love to live in the 80's, right from the start. Not just for the music, but living in the future doesn't appeal to me, there's enough 'not knowing' in the present day. It would be great to be a part of a time when a great change was going on and knowing where the change was leading. For example, to know that the cold war was ending and to see it actually happen when it did.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    From an Irish perspective probably the 1950's if only to see the Wexford hurling team and Rackard and Ring. I've always thought that it would be right craic watching a hurling match back when the crowd overspilled onto the pitch DURING the match, and all the players wore peak caps! The journey up to Croker would have been right craic as well. No motorway back then!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    For me, going back to a previous era would be $hit. It'd be great to visit a pre-industrial age if you had engineering, electrical, plumbing, medical, carpentry or any other type of practical skill. What the fcuk would I do with my Arts degree? I'd be a fcuking pleb, sleeping in his own pi$$ and $hit, that's what.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Bajingo


    wilkie2006 wrote: »
    For me, going back to a previous era would be $hit. It'd be great to visit a pre-industrial age if you had engineering, electrical, plumbing, medical, carpentry or any other type of practical skill. What the fcuk would I do with my Arts degree? I'd be a fcuking pleb, sleeping in his own pi$$ and $hit, that's what.

    Go back in time and rip off all those play writes and poets, make a mint you would.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭The Radiator


    wilkie2006 wrote: »
    For me, going back to a previous era would be $hit. It'd be great to visit a pre-industrial age if you had engineering, electrical, plumbing, medical, carpentry or any other type of practical skill. What the fcuk would I do with my Arts degree? I'd be a fcuking pleb, sleeping in his own pi$$ and $hit, that's what.

    Wouldn't be any different from the present day so


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