What historical period would you want to live in?

musicismylife78

if you could live or be alive in any time in history, excluding the 1980's/90's/2000's as most of us were alive during these time, what era would you live in?

1960's? 1950's? 1890's?

Pap

chadwick

8th - 10th centuries in Scandinavia
The Vikings were quite explosive during those times

Jeanwah

The Roaring 20s.

StillHere

I would have liked the mid to late 70s era. These were my glory days. The war in Vietnam, for the important parts, which was the draft, was over, the Grateful Dead were in full bloom, pot was cheap, beer was good...even pony bottles, other stuff which i won't mention here came in all forms, shapes, strengths, with pretty little designs, it was perfect. EXCEPT that there was no PJ...if not for that, I would have loved to have stayed there.
But I am grateful that time went on and PJ was born and thrived....I wouldn't change THAT for anything!
Then again, I wouldn't have been here on this forum, on this computer had it remained the 70s either. And that sux too. But for attitude, love of one's brothers and sisters, traveling, communal life, it was way cool, at least for me.

StillHere

chadwick wrote:

8th - 10th centuries in Scandinavia
The Vikings were quite explosive during those times

You know, I thought about saying something like 11th century Celtic Ireland/Wales....I have many ancestors we've traced back to that time...and I really enjoy all that I've learned about the culture...BUT...I'm WAY too lazy for all that work. (at least i'm honest right?)

pandora

I'll take when Jesus was here so I could sit and chat a bit
Thats really all I can think of. I've lived those eras, traced my family tree
and wouldn't want to live the decades before I was born.
The future's not looking too bright so I'm glad I was born when I was.
So I'll take as is or a time spent being a Jesus groupie

Gary Carter

70's

all those great legendary bands at their peak
cbgb's
young billy joel
young bruce springteen and e street band

StillHere

metsfan wrote:

70's

all those great legendary bands at their peak
cbgb's
young billy joel
young bruce springteen and e street band

Were you there?
I remember Bruce at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park before we knew who he was. So cool to look back on now

Gary Carter

StillHere wrote:

Were you there?
I remember Bruce at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park before we knew who he was. So cool to look back on now

no sadly i wasn't even born yet

Kilgore_Trout

medicine/technology is better now
art is better now
movies were better in the 80's
music was better in the 90's
fashion was better in the 50's
architecture was better at the turn of the century

i dont know... its all just dumb nostalgia about either our childhood or our parents' era

catefrances

i was gonna say the 1970s... then i remembered i did live back then. :roll:

chadwick

StillHere wrote:

chadwick wrote:

8th - 10th centuries in Scandinavia
The Vikings were quite explosive during those times

You know, I thought about saying something like 11th century Celtic Ireland/Wales....I have many ancestors we've traced back to that time...and I really enjoy all that I've learned about the culture...BUT...I'm WAY too lazy for all that work. (at least i'm honest right?)

yes it is true that people worked harder back then.
you would have liked the Vikings im sure.
i've read that woman (not all women loved them) up and down the coasts of Europe loved the barbarians from the North. do you know why?
it is so simple it stinks.

Vikings bathed every Sunday.
the book also pinpointed the fact that the English did not care to bathe, hence why their women chased the hairy crazed berserkers. Plus weren't the English a bit into wigs and fake moles?

i do not know much about Ireland/Wales culture.
have you ever been there?
i aim to visit all those countries one day

StillHere

chadwick wrote:

StillHere wrote:

chadwick wrote:

8th - 10th centuries in Scandinavia
The Vikings were quite explosive during those times

You know, I thought about saying something like 11th century Celtic Ireland/Wales....I have many ancestors we've traced back to that time...and I really enjoy all that I've learned about the culture...BUT...I'm WAY too lazy for all that work. (at least i'm honest right?)

yes it is true that people worked harder back then.
you would have liked the Vikings im sure.
i've read that woman (not all women loved them) up and down the coasts of Europe loved the barbarians from the North. do you know why?
it is so simple it stinks.

Vikings bathed every Sunday.
the book also pinpointed the fact that the English did not care to bathe, hence why their women chased the hairy crazed berserkers. Plus weren't the English a bit into wigs and fake moles?

i do not know much about Ireland/Wales culture.
have you ever been there?
i aim to visit all those countries one day

I am sure i would have loved the vikings...seem like biker dudes of modern day. they probably bathe every sunday as well. well, maybe wednesday evening, sunday's riding day.

i've never been but we have a trip scheduled for spring of 2012 to Ireland for 10 days. should be great.

comebackgirl

Jeanwah wrote:

The Roaring 20s.

I would pick this era too

Phantom Pain

comebackgirl wrote:

Jeanwah wrote:

The Roaring 20s.

I would pick this era too

You wouldn't like the shoes from that era...

FinsburyParkCarrots

Plague, pestilence, leprosy, women giving birth to monstrosities and daemons and fire breathing griffins, cardinals gouging out your eyeballs if you suspect you won't fall off the edge of the world at Felixstowe, bear-baiting tents, people throwing shit out of their top windows on top of you, women having to wear scolds and bridles and be dunked in freezing ice ponds if they are heard gossiping, bear-baiting tents, poxy bowsies selling their wares in the groundling pit at the Globe theatre, hanging, drawing, quartering, flogging, pillorying, exorcisms, subsisting on jellied blood and congealed turkey arse grease roasted on a spit, two-year-olds drinking 20% ABV ale before working on the fields at the crack of dawn, religious persecution, priests hiding in holes in houses, buying and selling in groats and ducets, and badde spellynge. Fuck that. I'll live in the present. There might not be many trees left, but at least there's toilet paper.

pickupyourwill

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Plague, pestilence, leprosy, women giving birth to monstrosities and daemons and fire breathing griffins, cardinals gouging out your eyeballs if you suspect you won't fall off the edge of the world at Felixstowe, bear-baiting tents, people throwing shit out of their top windows on top of you, women having to wear scolds and bridles and be dunked in freezing ice ponds if they are heard gossiping, bear-baiting tents, poxy bowsies selling their wares in the groundling pit at the Globe theatre, hanging, drawing, quartering, flogging, pillorying, exorcisms, subsisting on jellied blood and congealed turkey arse grease roasted on a spit, two-year-olds drinking 20% ABV ale before working on the fields at the crack of dawn, religious persecution, priests hiding in holes in houses, buying and selling in groats and ducets, and badde spellynge. Fuck that. I'll live in the present. There might not be many trees left, but at least there's toilet paper.

cheers to that, FPC! Love that toilet paper!

FinsburyParkCarrots

Mind you, we still have bad spelling.

catefrances

the bane of my existence.

The Juggler

the late nineties.

81

i'll take 2500 ad

comebackgirl

Phantom Pain wrote:

comebackgirl wrote:

Jeanwah wrote:

The Roaring 20s.

I would pick this era too

You wouldn't like the shoes from that era...

But I bet they would go with a cute little flapper dress! And I want one of those cigarette holder things.

FinsburyParkCarrots

I'll take whenever Raquel Welch was running around in a fur bikini. When was that again?

pickupyourwill

comebackgirl wrote:

The Roaring 20s.

But I bet they would go with a cute little flapper dress! And I want one of those cigarette holder things.[/quote][/quote]

I like the flapper dresses too! and those long cigarettes, and flashy holders. didn't they do the Charleston or something? that would be cool. was that around the time of alcohol being illegal? crazy times. I love the flapper dresses though. When I finally get skinny again, I am so being a flapper dancer for Halloween...some year.

cheers to that!

comebackgirl

pickupyourwill wrote:

I like the flapper dresses too! and those long cigarettes, and flashy holders. didn't they do the Charleston or something? that would be cool. was that around the time of alcohol being illegal? crazy times. I love the flapper dresses though. When I finally get skinny again, I am so being a flapper dancer for Halloween...some year.

cheers to that!

Yep - they did the Charleston and that was the time of prohibition! I have a flapper-type dress that I wear in real life Half my wardrobe could probably double as a halloween costume :? And I wish hats would come back in style. I love cloche hats and long pearls. Ok yeah...I'm picking my decade based on the fashion. I wouldn't mind the 40s either.

musicismylife78

my pick would be 1800's in england.

i am facinated by the idea of walking about in a city that doesnt have paved roads, that has no cars, etc...

additionally, I'd also like to have lived in north america in the 1600's. I can just picture how crazy and odd "America" would have seemed back them. So much wilderness and trees. No roads. no highways. no cars. no planes.

Porchsitter

The 50s. The birth of rock music and the era of some of the greatest cars ever built.

musicismylife78

i used to be a fanatic about the 1950's. i was and remain a big fan of those 50's sitcoms. I Love Lucy and the like. Leave it to beaver. i just love the vibe and sense of those shows. the sockhops. the maltshops etc...

and it wasnt until years later that i realized that the 1950's were far from the idyllic innocent time that it is often portrayed as. that said, it would have been fun to have been alive at that time

igotid88

2000's

chiquimonkey

Paris in the 1920s, just to hang out with the artists and be a fly on the wall.

I'm glad I live here and now though. To think it hasn't even been a hundred years since women were given the right to vote in this country! Ladies haven't been afforded much rights throughout history so I'm happy with the era bestowed upon me I would love to visit different time periods just to see certain things happen, like when stonehenge was constructed or the sphinx was completed, or see the first Impressionist exhibition firsthand to see how people freaked out at it.