If you could live in any time period...

StateOfLoveBoatCptn.

Collin wrote:

Mmmmmm T-Rex T-bone steak...

this is what I'm talkin' about ::D

riffrandall

smithnic wrote:

Hard to pick anytime other than now considering life expectancy and all. Most of you saying like old west and ancient times would probably be dead from that cold you had when you were young, or that complicated pregnancy your mom had.

Realism sucks I know.

OK Debbie Downer.. so much for a little daydream.

I would want to be Miss Holloway on "Mad Men." To be single in NYC in the early 60s, have a fabulous wardrobe and pay $35 a month for an apartment? Yes!
Plus I'd get to smoke everywhere & get drunk on my lunchbreak without getting in trouble.

MrMerkinball

Then:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=VtqQyW0XOLo

gobrowns19

smithnic wrote:

Hard to pick anytime other than now considering life expectancy and all. Most of you saying like old west and ancient times would probably be dead from that cold you had when you were young, or that complicated pregnancy your mom had.

Realism sucks I know.

The OP got me thinking the wild west would be a blast, but yeah, i wouldn't have been born ok and I would have died from all the colds I had in my preteens. Im healthy now though! How I would just love it, if someone did me wrong now, to just fucking shoot them in the back.

I'm joking...........a little bit

decides2dream

as a woman, now time like the present.
while some of the clothes and such are really cool in the past...the opression, lack of choice...not so much. so right now is cool with me. might like the future even more tho...who knows?

sennin

The 60's! Free love!

smithnic

gobrowns19 wrote:

The OP got me thinking the wild west would be a blast, but yeah, i wouldn't have been born ok and I would have died from all the colds I had in my preteens. Im healthy now though! How I would just love it, if someone did me wrong now, to just fucking shoot them in the back.

I'm joking...........a little bit

The other thing about times gone by, especially the old west, is the smell!! People didn't acknowledge the wonderfulness of bathing! Also trash disposal was throwing it behind the building. I'm tasting my lunch coming back up just thinking about it...

smithnic

sennin wrote:

The 60's! Free love!

Good call as always!!

Flannel Shirt

my current age but 75 years in the future. the medicine will be insane. nobody will get sick or die of cancer or any of that bullshit that we deal with now.

smithnic

Flannel Shirt wrote:

my current age but 75 years in the future. the medicine will be insane. nobody will get sick or die of cancer or any of that bullshit that we deal with now.

Yeah but the Bush V regime has dragged us into a war with Thailand because of their stance on terrorism...

eyedclaar

Flannel Shirt wrote:

my current age but 75 years in the future. the medicine will be insane. nobody will get sick or die of cancer or any of that bullshit that we deal with now.

In 75 years there won't be anything but cockroaches and craters.

decides2dream

smithnic wrote:

The other thing about times gone by, especially the old west, is the smell!! People didn't acknowledge the wonderfulness of bathing! Also trash disposal was throwing it behind the building. I'm tasting my lunch coming back up just thinking about it...

exactly...the disease...young deaths...the stench...lack of personal hygeine products, etc..no thanks. and that's just on top of the lack of choice as a woman.


anyone ever see that movie kate & leopold? yea...cheesy chick flick...but she goes back in time to 1776 i believe. ll i could think is man, if you've been alive today...hoew can a woman go back to a time with no tampons?! :eek: tmi, i know...but really. while some things VERY cool in the past...the rest, really, not so much. just thinking of all the issues....ugh...makes my skin crawl.

gobrowns19

decides2dream wrote:

exactly...the disease...young deaths...the stench...lack of personal hygeine products, etc..no thanks. and that's just on top of the lack of choice as a woman.


anyone ever see that movie kate & leopold? yea...cheesy chick flick...but she goes back in time to 1776 i believe. ll i could think is man, if you've been alive today...hoew can a woman go back to a time with no tampons?! :eek: tmi, i know...but really. while some things VERY cool in the past...the rest, really, not so much. just thinking of all the issues....ugh...makes my skin crawl.

Directing my way out of this thread now.....:p

decides2dream

gobrowns19 wrote:

Directing my way out of this thread now.....:p

hahahaha....oops, sorry....:o


in regards to clothes..i love the flapper era...and i really adore the whole big wig and corset era. granted, i know the corsets were HELL to wear, the wigs to hide lice ....but i still think damn cool. i'd love to try it out for halloween sometime in any case if the costumes weren't so bloody expensive to rent!

iluvcats

regarding the old days like Renaissance or the old west, how would they have known they were smelling vs. clean if they had nothing to compare it to?

that's why flowers were for weddings to hide stink
(that's not true, but I got an email that said it, it turned out to be a hoax)
I think it made sense!

decides2dream

iluvcats wrote:

regarding the old days like Renaissance or the old west, how would they have known they were smelling vs. clean if they had nothing to compare it to?

that's why flowers were for weddings to hide stink
(that's not true, but I got an email that said it, it turned out to be a hoax)
I think it made sense!

sure..i am sure they were accustomed to the stench, but still a stench none the less. and knowing what we do know now, i would not willingly choose to go live in such time periods as the OP asks, that's all.


perfume was invented to mask the stink tho...the wigs for the lice...etc...so they were 'aware'...hahaha.