If you could go back in time to any era/century.. to see how they lived how things were ect.

what era would you choose and what would you want to be and experience first hand ?

my answer: I always wanted to go back to the 1700's during the french revolutionary war and see king louis and queen marie antoinette and be part of there entourage.. like a dutchess or some kind of royalty server...

this time in history has always amazed me and interested me..

yes i know women didnt have much say or were they treated very well but just to see how an empire grew and fell and to see what it took to live a lifestyle like that would be very interesting

things like the black plaugue and shit probably would have scared the living hell out of me but meh (i say off with there heads lol) for those of you who got this joke

anyway how about you ? what would you choose and why?

i want to live in the 1980's

baroque said:

i want to live in the 1980's

they were AWESOME!

I'd want to go back to the 70's and live through to the present

Ever since I was a little kid I was crazy about knights and castles. A dutch writer called Thea Beckman wrote amazing historical novels about kids in different ages. Her books were like nectar to bees; they made my imagination leap up.

So I always wanted to be a bard and travel through the middle ages, from castle to castle and from fair to fair, in Italy, France, Spain and Germany. See castles, see knights, make up songs.

But then again, the wonder in those things is the modern-day person looking back, isn't it? Maybe we all should look to the future. And start worrying. The human overpopulation of Earth is wrecking it in ways we cannot even imagine. And for what? So we can internet. Gawd, I almost wanna log off now...

I would like to go back to the late 1940s and wear a Christian Dior "New Look" dress for a day.

I would love to be one of the women faithful during the three days between the Crucifixion and Resurrection. I want to know that kind of faith to witness a death and have ultimate hope and knowledge that it isn't the end.

Now this is a luxury a few of us ethnic groups don't really have the luxury in indulging in , at least in America.

Shit, women can't really do it safely either.

Remember, go back too far and the era you find yourself in (if you're not a white male) could be less than friendly.

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TheVoid said:

Now this is a luxury a few of us ethnic groups don't really have the luxury in indulging in , at least in America.

Shit, women can't really do it safely either.

Remember, go back to far and the era you find yourself in (if you're not a white male) could be less than friendly.

Not to mention smelly.

Genesia said:

TheVoid said:

Now this is a luxury a few of us ethnic groups don't really have the luxury in indulging in , at least in America.

Shit, women can't really do it safely either.

Remember, go back to far and the era you find yourself in (if you're not a white male) could be less than friendly.

Not to mention smelly.

Not to mention horrific!

Can you imagine predating the Internet?

The George Foreman grill? A fate worse than death!

October 2009. I love Halloween.

mcmeekle said:

October 1982. I loved dressing up like john travolta in Satyurday Night Fever and walk down the street, eating 2 slices of pizza one on top of each other. I have an open black shiny shirt, and tight polyester pants. People noticed me!.

I bet they did

BlackAdder7 said:

mcmeekle said:

October 1982. I loved dressing up like john travolta in Satyurday Night Fever and walk down the street, eating 2 slices of pizza one on top of each other. I have an open black shiny shirt, and tight polyester pants. People noticed me!.

I did that too. But I was Olivia Newton John.

Awesome!

mcmeekle said:

BlackAdder7 said:

I did that too. But I was Olivia Newton John.

Awesome!

The 80's and 90's. See if it was as fun as I remember it. My kind couldn't be born all too safely 20 years prior to that.

tinaz said:

baroque said:

i want to live in the 1980's

they were AWESOME!

I wish I'd been old enough to go the disco in the 80s

I managed to get in with my real ID finally in 1989, but it was already too late HOUSE MUSIC

DanceWme said:

The Harlem Renaissance

The Netherlands in the 1600's is kewl indeed!

I'm a child of the 80's and they were awesome. However, it would be cool to be there as a grown up and reap the benefits of being a lightskin, wavy-haired brother!

The 70's just seemed like a lot of fun.

Most of all, I'm fascinated by the 1960's, particularly the latter part of the decade. There were so many changes going on in society. And it was all reflected in the music, movies and fashion. Would love to witness it all for myself.

Going back too much further is scary.

1984- Prince

1995

1997

2005- because it felt like 1995 all over again

2007- felt like 1997

1971

I'd like to be my age NOW, in like, 1986.

tinaz said:

baroque said:

i want to live in the 1980's

they were AWESOME!

I secong this, the eighties were the best in my world!!

The freakin' Garden of Eden (if there was such a thing) so I could chop down that damned apple tree.

I'd like to be born around 1955 so I could experience the 70s 80s 90s and 2000s

DanceWme said:

The Harlem Renaissance

they aint have taco bell pizza hut nor tevin campbell back then tho!

Christopher said:

DanceWme said:

The Harlem Renaissance

they aint have taco bell pizza hut nor tevin campbell back then tho!

Christopher said:

I wish I had been an adult in the 1970s so I could fully have enjoyed the disco era and the early 1980s era as an adult. I graduated high school in 1985 and was an adult then but Shitney Houston had ruined the music era.

ZombieKitten said:

tinaz said:

they were AWESOME!

I wish I'd been old enough to go the disco in the 80s

I managed to get in with my real ID finally in 1989, but it was already too late HOUSE MUSIC

I hear ya. I partied like hell in the skating rinks in the late 1970s and early 1980s but being a teenager and going skating is far from drinking and partying as an adult in clubs. I became an adult in the late 1980s but it was an extremely boring scene by then because Shitney had influenced other R&B acts into being adult contemporary and the straight clubs at least were filled with "parent friendly" slow dull music. It was definately a dry spell in my life but it did pick up for me in the early 1990s in the gay clubs till around 1993 or 1994 because I loved house music which felt like a reincarnation of disco. Shit hop had to come along and ruin that though. I can't even tolerate being in the same room with what's being played in clubs now. And gay clubs are just as boring as straight clubs nowadays which is rediculous because we're supposed to be fun loving partying people.

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The internet is the closet thing we'll ever have to time travel. Yes, it's all virtual, but I love searching for specific items from my past and finding them. Whether they are photos or copies. You can buy almost anything from the past on e-bay. You tube is the best for finding old shows and concerts I could not get to or was not old enough to attend. I time travel all the time on the Web. One day i sat in front of my PC for 10hrs straight. I had to turn on the TV or find a paper to remind myself what day and year it was.

That was a great day and I discovered SO much stuff. I love the internet!