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Would you prefer to have been born in a different era?

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  • #92
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,656 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    sjb25 wrote: »
    Oh I'd love to have been a pirate I would be a terrible pirate but....
    There's a book you need to read.

    https://www.amazon.com/If-Pirate-Must-Be-Caribbean/dp/1602396248

    Real Piracy was very different to Disney. They mostly used small boats in ambushes close to the shore rather than ships on the high seas.

    A lot of cases of piracy were captains looking the other way when pirates "took" the cargo in exchange for a cut in the profits.

    And back then slaves were cargo, only rescued when they could be monetised :(


    Today the laws on piracy are pretty much the same as they've always been. Anyone navy catching a pirate in open waters can apply their countries laws. If the Chinese catch you trying to attack the Holyhead ferry the only reason they won't sent your family the bill for the bullet is that the Chinese don't send bills anymore,


  • #93
    dd972
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    20 years later would have been nice to have access to the internet pretty much all my life.


  • #94
    Glenster
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    Tigerbaby wrote: »
    ubiquitous knowledge didnt just suddenly arrive with the "internet".

    I was born in the 60's, information was everywhere. Short-Wave/ Long Wave radio/Newspapers/ encyclopedias / libraries.

    However, discernment, perception and intelligence, as now, were not mandatory, and oft in short supply.

    When I was in primary school it was all about Encarta and the World Book Encyclopedia.

    Dont believe the hype, It was sh*t, they were sh*t and people were stupider in general.

    I wouldn't change the era I was born in. Earlier and I would have been an adult when the internet came in. Later and I would have had to deal with it as a young child.


  • #95
    jimmycrackcorm
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    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »
    I often wish I'd lived in the late Georgian period. Obviously as part of the protestant ascendancy, not some native scratching myself in a mud cabin.

    Are you generally happy with the timing of your birth?

    Sorry, can you repeat. I couldn't hear you because we had no internet in that era.


  • #96
    Lt Dan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,295 ✭✭✭Lt Dan


    Come to think of it. The era when porn movies was at a glamorous peak as covered by Boogie Nights would have been fun to be around if you were Dirk Diggler.

    The rise to fame, the drugs, the fall outs, the humiliating lows, the women, the HIV scares, the drugs , the money, the drugs, the women, ............

    "I'm a big , bright, shining star"


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  • #97
    eamonnq
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    The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.


  • #98
    Winterlong
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    I would love to have been a well to do 20 year old living in California around about 1967. The hippie generation would have suited me.
    Would need to get a long wig by about 1974 though.


  • #99
    kunst nugget
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    Winterlong wrote: »
    I would love to have been a well to do 20 year old living in California around about 1967. The hippie generation would have suited me.
    Would need to get a long wig by about 1974 though.

    Hardcore hippy types are usually the most uptight **** you're ever going to meet. I was fascinated with the era myself but the older I get the more I think it would have been full of leeching ****, tripping all day and talking pure scutter and then topping it off by playing godawfully shíte blues rock all night.


  • #100
    764dak
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    BionicRasher wrote: »
    Would have loved to be born late 40s America. Hitting my twenties in the 60s and experiences in places like LA and New York. Wow that was a great time.

    Weren't Irish still hated back then?


  • #101
    Go Tobban
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭Go Tobban


    Have been brushing up on my history lately and the more I learn, the more I thanks the universe I was born in this era

    Despite the media suggesting otherwise, we are living in a very peaceful time in comparison to prior historic times. It's not perfect, nor will it ever be, but we are lucky to be alive at this stage, especially in the west


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  • #102
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Does it ever worry you that we'll be dead here within 40,50,60 or whatever years?

    We're so insignificant in the grand scheme of things. It doesn't really matter what era we lived in.

    It scares me, I'm looking at my hands now as I type and know in a centurys time that they'll be rotted to the core holding beads in a coffin.

    I love my body, I don't want it to burned or put into the ground to slowly decay. I want to be preserved for all eternity like Lenin or Pope John XXIII.

    :):eek:


  • #103
    DoozerT6
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    764dak wrote: »
    Weren't Irish still hated back then?


    But if he/she was born in America as per their post, then they wouldn't be Irish :D:D


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