What era would you most like to live in?

krudler · 14-02-2011 08:06PM #1

If there was one time or place in history that you could choose to live in for a while, where and when would it be?
For me it'd have to be America in the Old West, disease and non existant dental care aside,how cool would that be? Roaming around on horseback, big duster jackets, settlin' arguments with a gunfight, playing poker in saloons, all that stuff.

so how bout it? England in the Beatlemania years? Ireland during the Easter Rising? Feudal Japan? Vietnam? WW2? Piratey times?

bonerm · 14-02-2011 08:07PM

krudler wrote: »

Piratey times?

I'm living in piratey times right now. You should see my harddrive.

Dont be at yourself · 14-02-2011 08:08PM

Wouldn't mind a bit of ancient roman decadence...

BraziliaNZ · 14-02-2011 08:08PM

Ancient Rome, but just to have a look around. Also I'd like to look around Nazi Germany. But choose to live in this era because I'd miss cheap flights, nachos, subway, sexual liberty, etc!

Mr. Manager · 14-02-2011 08:09PM

I'd stick with this one.

Sure what would ya do without the internet

TeddyTedson · 14-02-2011 08:10PM

Jesus I can't think which one, they're all great. I'd like to have always been alive and live forever. Who knows it could still happen.

we'llallhavetea_old · 14-02-2011 08:11PM

i like the now

sollar · 14-02-2011 08:13PM

40,000 BC, just for a few hours though.

Links234 · 14-02-2011 08:14PM

The future! Star Trek time

I want holodecks and food replicators and those sexy uniforms

iPlop · 14-02-2011 08:16PM

60's America

Red Hand · 14-02-2011 08:17PM

In one of the South American civilisations 200 years before the Spanish and Portuguese arrive.

I would be a God.

Sticky_Fingers · 14-02-2011 08:20PM

krudler wrote: »

If there was one time or place in history that you could choose to live in for a while, where and when would it be?
For me it'd have to be America in the Old West, disease and non existant dental care aside,how cool would that be? Roaming around on horseback, big duster jackets, settlin' arguments with a gunfight, playing poker in saloons, all that stuff.

Someones being playing Red Dead Redemption a little too much I think:D

I'd like to have lived in 1950's America, sure it was a repressive, prissy society under the threat of imminent nuclear destruction but god damn they had some style. The cars, the clothes, the music, much better then anything we have today IMO. Plus there is the 60's to look forward to afterward, all that free love with loads of unwashed, unshaven hippy chicks, awesome.

Kasabian · 14-02-2011 08:24PM

The Wild West.

Not Connemara.

14-02-2011 08:25PM

Twenty years earlier (be born in the 1940s rather than 60s), more boom than bust during that time, baby boomers have had the best of everything. Their lifestyles will go down in history as being the best ever.

JohnK · 14-02-2011 08:26PM

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

Wouldn't mind a bit of ancient roman decadence...

Oh yeah I could go for some of that :cool:

darragh16 · 14-02-2011 08:27PM

Ireland 1997-2007

Swampy · 14-02-2011 08:28PM

Whenever Mad Men is set. It was a great time to be a man.

krudler · 14-02-2011 08:30PM

Sticky_Fingers wrote: »

Someones being playing Red Dead Redemption a little too much I think:D

I'd like to have lived in 1950's America, sure it was a repressive, prissy society under the threat of imminent nuclear destruction but god damn they had some style. The cars, the clothes, the music, much better then anything we have today IMO. Plus there is the 60's to look forward to afterward, all that free love with loads of unwashed, unshaven hippy chicks, awesome.

I havent actually played it yet I'm ashamed to say, I did just watch True Grit though :pac:

you're right about the 50's if Mad Men has taught me anything is that men were fcuking awesome back then, Don Draper ftw

Its a real shame men dont wear suits and hats anymore like they did back then, you can get away with it when you're old, but damn it'd be cool to be out on the town in a natty suit and fedora.

Turtyturd · 14-02-2011 08:34PM

Prohibition era America for the women, there is just something about the whole style.

80's movies have also left a big impression of 80's New York in my mind...despite it always appearing scary and run down.

HooterSnout · 14-02-2011 08:34PM

Anywhere without an Irish climate would do it for me. Pirate days would be fun, but I'd be the retired type with my own island in the Caribbean. Rum and wenches. Yup that's the life for me.

bonerm · 14-02-2011 08:41PM

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

Wouldn't mind a bit of ancient roman decadence...

This is like reincarnation hypnosis where everyone was Cleopatra or Alexander The Great in their past lives.

Reality is in most of these eras you'd probably be some worthles peon shoveling shít to pass the time.

14-02-2011 08:42PM

Given my comfort levels, hygiene, etc I'll stick with this one please

Sanjuro · 14-02-2011 08:45PM

I'd like to visit the past. Live there? No.

I'd like to visit the future more though. See some of the technological advancements we've made. Or if World War 3 has put us back to using sticks and stones.

karlog · 14-02-2011 08:48PM

Sanjuro wrote: »

I'd like to visit the past. Live there? No.

I'd like to visit the future more though. See some of the technological advancements we've made. Or if World War 3 has put us back to using sticks and stones.

Make sure you dress like an ape. You'll thank me when you get to the future.

bonerm · 14-02-2011 08:50PM

Cranky Mc Funhouse wrote: »

If you really want your children to learn from an early age, you need to read to them and supply the buggers with as much human-on-human interaction as possible, not park their adorable little butts in front of the ****ing television. TV programs and Infant Education videos use a series of rapidly changing scenes and constantly bombard your kids with new words. With time, their itsy bitsy minds start to filter out most of the information just to help manage the constant barrage, and voila! The kids develop shorter attention spans, and eventually the food service industry claims another life.

Wow. I hadn't noticed. Thanks for the eye-opener.

rebel10 · 14-02-2011 08:53PM

Cranky Mc Funhouse wrote: »

If you really want your children to learn from an early age, you need to read to them and supply the buggers with as much human-on-human interaction as possible, not park their adorable little butts in front of the ****ing television. TV programs and Infant Education videos use a series of rapidly changing scenes and constantly bombard your kids with new words. With time, their itsy bitsy minds start to filter out most of the information just to help manage the constant barrage, and voila! The kids develop shorter attention spans, and eventually the food service industry claims another life.

Are you just posting this in every thread? Jamie Oliver?

rebel10 · 14-02-2011 08:54PM

1963-1967 San Francisco (Haight-Ashbury preferably.):p

Sanjuro · 14-02-2011 08:56PM

karlog wrote: »

Make sure you dress like an ape. You'll thank me when you get to the future.

No way, man! You're not going to make a monkey out of me.

Latchy · 14-02-2011 09:17PM

krudler wrote: »

Ireland during the Easter Rising?

Interesting period and no fecking tourists hanging around Temple Bar back then either :pac:

Sink The Banana wrote: »

60's America

rebel10 wrote: »

1963-1967 San Francisco (Haight-Ashbury preferably.):p

Hanging out with Dylan ,The Byrds, Crosby Still Nash and Young ( Crosby nicked fron Byrds ) Mamas and Papas ,,,Yeah that be cool man :cool:

krudler · 14-02-2011 09:20PM

bonerm wrote: »

I'm living in piratey times right now. You should see my harddrive.

shouldnt that be your harrrrrrrrdrive?

I'll get my coat..

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 14-02-2011 09:23PM

I'd prefer to live now more than any other time.
But I'd love to 'visit':
60s America.
70s/80s English football matches with terraces and hooliganism etc. I'm slightly fascinated by it.
1910-1930s Ireland.

What era would you most like to live in?

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