Does anybody else feel like they were born in the wrong era?

09-05-2014 10:42AM

The old fashions are cool, that's about it. Any time I start getting romantic notions about living in the past I remember things like bathrooms and hygiene and antibiotics and having basic rights and a career.

sdanseo · 09-05-2014 10:45AM

I like 80's music but I wasn't burn till the dregs of the decade. Otherwise I fit into this era just grand.

Although I do hate hipsters. Stupid hipsters.

snausages · 09-05-2014 10:46AM

liek dis if you were born in the wrong generation

I Heart Internet · 09-05-2014 11:29AM

Does anybody else feel like they were born in the wrong era?

Yes. I feel I was born in the wrong area. Would have liked to be born in a classier part of town.

SEPT 23 1989 · 09-05-2014 11:32AM

Certain periods of History seem very familiar to me anyone else get this or am i slightly unhinged?

OneArt · 09-05-2014 11:34AM

21, 000 years into the future. I want to ride a sandworm.

MUUADD'DIIIIIIIIIIIIIBBBBBBBB....

krudler · 09-05-2014 11:34AM

Reiketsu wrote: »

I wish people still dressed like they did in the 40s

Definitely, men's fashion especially, men dressing like men not the skinny jean wearing flop haired twats around now.

mike65 · 09-05-2014 11:48AM

I'd love to have been one of the baby boom generation (born late 40s) they have had the best of it in many regards - expanding post war economies, massive increase is social freedom, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll, upwardly mobile, home owning (home selling at a massive profit 30 years later!) and decent pensions.

phasers · 09-05-2014 11:49AM

I don't think any woman or non white person want to go back very far in fairness

Shakespeare's Sister · 09-05-2014 11:49AM

Talkin' 'bout my parents' generation:

mike65 wrote: »

massive increase is social freedom, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll

In California, New York, London... not so much Ireland though.

ivytwine · 09-05-2014 11:52AM

mike65 wrote: »

I'd love to have been one of the baby boom generation (born late 40s) they have had the best of it in many regards - expanding post war economies, massive increase is social freedom, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll, upwardly mobile, home owning (home selling at a massive profit 30 years later!) and decent pensions.

Yeah that sounds perfect

Also, I've a huge grá for the late 19th/early 20th century. Everything was so beautifully made

Myself and my friend were bitching about how we don't feel like we fit in with the selfie, yoloing, hashtagging era we find ourselves in.

Although I do tend to remind myself, like Bluewolf, of the hygiene (or lack thereof) in olden days!

orangesoda · 09-05-2014 07:21PM

iDave wrote: »

Don't you still do that up north?

No you wouldn't get that caper anymore

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/70179000/jpg/_70179636_68736449.jpg

09-05-2014 07:52PM

I know what ya mean OP theres always a man faster on the draw than you are, and the more you use a gun, the sooner you're gonna run into that man

singledad80 · 09-05-2014 08:34PM

I wish I was a knight and I would go round rescuing a beautiful women and live happily ever after.

09-05-2014 08:47PM

Reiketsu wrote: »

I wish people still dressed like they did in the 40s

If only women still dressed like Lauren Bacall or Audrey Hepburn, and men like James Stewart or Gregory Peck. The music, the classic cars, the manners...

I could live without the poor hygiene, lack of labour saving appliances, small mindedness, inequalities, and of course WW2.

bnt · 09-05-2014 09:40PM

This feels very much like a "post-everything" era. Instead of Modernism, we haves Post-Modernism: most of what gets produced is not really new, but recycled and re-packaged old stuff. Popular music is an arid desert compared to the innovations of the late 60s, 70s or even the 80s.

The designs of cars are now mostly determined by safety requirements, not genuine improvements. You can buy a car called a "Mini", made to cash in on nostalgia for the original, but it's made by a German company (BMW) and it's not a mini car, it's flipping huge and heavy.

It feels as if everything's been done. I genuinely appreciate the way the Internet has transformed lives - I've been using the Internet for twenty years now. I have access to bandwidth and content way beyond the wildest dreams I had back then, and what do we do with it? Download movies and TV programs, moan on forums like this, and watch videos of cats. We are spoiled rotten.

Tail Docker · 09-05-2014 09:42PM

I'd hanker after the good-old days a bit. There's a fair few I'd love to slap in the puss with me glove and choose pistols at dawn. That'd soften their passive-aggressive coughs.

Sky King · 09-05-2014 10:07PM

creolebelle wrote: »

Sometimes I feel like I don't belong in this time period. Everything moves at such a fast pace and I hate the way we dress. I appreciate the social progression that has been achieved globally but that's it.

Being able to instantly listen to any song I want has changed my life.

LizzieJones · 09-05-2014 10:09PM

singledad80 wrote: »

I wish I was a knight and I would go round rescuing a beautiful women and live happily ever after.

Lancelot, my hero.

creolebelle · 09-05-2014 11:43PM

Potatoeman wrote: »

You wouldn't be able to post on the internet either. What period would you want to live in?

True. Anytime btw the 50's and 80's

creolebelle · 09-05-2014 11:45PM

phasers wrote: »

I don't think any woman or non white person want to go back very far in fairness

Well I'm not white and my great grand + grand parents did very well

creolebelle · 09-05-2014 11:47PM

TheTorment wrote: »

I know what ya mean OP theres always a man faster on the draw than you are, and the more you use a gun, the sooner you're gonna run into that man

I have no idea what this means

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 09-05-2014 11:49PM

here ya go op

http://www.reddit.com/r/lewronggeneration/

Karl Stein · 10-05-2014 12:07AM

I was lucky enough to catch the whole rave/house music thing when it was still pretty underground as a youngfella, great times, so I wouldn't change that.

I'd like to have been a young'un for the whole New York City disco scene in the mid to late 70's.

The space race must have been an incredibly interesting part of history to live through too.

With all that in mind I think we're living in a very interesting time with the whole information revolution. There is less-and-less centralised control of the narrative these days and I just love that.

livemusic4life · 10-05-2014 01:25AM

In terms of music, i feel i was certainly born too late. I should really have been born twenty years earlier as people look at me when i tell them my musical preferences *sigh*

pO1Neil · 10-05-2014 01:28AM

Yeah I wish was born in the 50's. That Cuban missile crisis sounds like a great larff.

10-05-2014 01:36AM

I dunno, I feel that I was born at the right time for what has happened in my life, too late for WWII and too early row WWIII which will most likely happen long after I'm too old to be conscripted into military service (like ten years ago) :pac:

Wish I had a pre baby boomers pension though!

10-05-2014 01:38AM

pO1Neil wrote: »

Yeah I wish was born in the 50's. That Cuban missile crisis sounds like a great larff.

My mother was bricking it in the run up to that crisis.. but she had me instead!

feargale · 10-05-2014 01:46AM

I was born at a time when, to change the volume on the television, you had to walk all the way over to the set, turn a knob, and walk all the way back to the sofa again. Try telling that to the young people today - they wouldn't believe you!

amkin25 · 10-05-2014 01:58AM

Karl Stein wrote: »

I was lucky enough to be catch the whole rave/house music thing when it was still pretty underground as a youngfella, great times, so I wouldn't change that.

I'd like to have been a young'un for the whole New York City disco scene in the mid to late 70's.

The space race must have been an incredibly interesting part of history to live through too.

With all that in mind I think we're living in a very interesting time with the whole information revolution. There is less-and-less centralised control of the narrative these days and I just love that.

Personally id have liked to avoid the selfie era,not sure about less and less centralised control of the narrative seems the complete opposite to me.

Does anybody else feel like they were born in the wrong era?

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