Do you feel like you were born too late in history?

[New Kvenland]

Can we not go into this here?

What's the matter, don't like accuracy in your nostalgia?

Oh, I know it was a half-millennium-long massacre. I just don't like threadjacks. If you want to argue this, make a new thread about it (following the guidelines for a good thread, of course).

[Condunum]

What's the matter, don't like accuracy in your nostalgia?

Maybe they don't like derailing threads.

Raining on someone's parade isn't the same thing as derailing a thread. Pointing out that history is full of periods of suck and that objectively our lives are better than the summation of human history is not derailing the thread. If you (general you) feel like you were born too late in history, you need to take a look at history.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

As much as I think I would have made a wonderful traveling storyteller/entertainer in another time, I am really digging the lack of plague we've got going on right now.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2849316/Outbreak-bubonic-plague-Madagascar-claimed-47-victims-spreading-island-s-capital.html

Oops!

(I know, relatively minor compared to "back in the day," thank goodness. Still sad.)

[Lunatic Goofballs]

As much as I think I would have made a wonderful traveling storyteller/entertainer in another time, I am really digging the lack of plague we've got going on right now.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2849316/Outbreak-bubonic-plague-Madagascar-claimed-47-victims-spreading-island-s-capital.html

Oops!

(I know, relatively minor compared to "back in the day," thank goodness. Still sad.)

A disease STARTING in Madagascar??? How counter-intuitive.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

Maybe they don't like derailing threads.

Raining on someone's parade isn't the same thing as derailing a thread. Pointing out that history is full of periods of suck and that objectively our lives are better than the summation of human history is not derailing the thread. If you (general you) feel like you were born too late in history, you need to take a look at history.

When you continually "rain on the parade" however by trying to make a point, I respectfully disagree.

And I'm sure, despite what you may think, that many of the posters here are aware of history and what was going on in the eras they "pine for," metaphorically speaking. So. Let them dream, huh?

[Condunum]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2849316/Outbreak-bubonic-plague-Madagascar-claimed-47-victims-spreading-island-s-capital.html

Oops!

(I know, relatively minor compared to "back in the day," thank goodness. Still sad.)

A disease STARTING in Madagascar??? How counter-intuitive.

Bubonic plague used the undetectble infection glitch, obviously.

[Condunum]

Raining on someone's parade isn't the same thing as derailing a thread. Pointing out that history is full of periods of suck and that objectively our lives are better than the summation of human history is not derailing the thread. If you (general you) feel like you were born too late in history, you need to take a look at history.

When you continually "rain on the parade" however by trying to make a point, I respectfully disagree.

And I'm sure, despite what you may think, that many of the posters here are aware of history and what was going on in the eras they "pine for," metaphorically speaking. So. Let them dream, huh?

No.

[The Cobalt Sky]

Nah, I'm ok with right here and now. Go back too far and there's a chance I'd be lynched if anyone found out the identity of the girl I have a crush on. Also I go through horrible withdrawal symptoms any time I'm away from my phone for more than an hour.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

A disease STARTING in Madagascar??? How counter-intuitive.

Bubonic plague used the undetectble infection glitch, obviously.

Aha. The plot thinnens.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

When you continually "rain on the parade" however by trying to make a point, I respectfully disagree.

And I'm sure, despite what you may think, that many of the posters here are aware of history and what was going on in the eras they "pine for," metaphorically speaking. So. Let them dream, huh?

No.

Read: I disagree with what some posters think in a relatively light-hearted thread so I'm going to protest their viewpoints by continuously pointing out the flaws that I see in said viewpoints.

*nods* Noted.

[Imperium Sidhicum]

Can we not go into this here?

What's the matter, don't like accuracy in your nostalgia?

Sounds like the most glorious age in the history of Mankind to me... An age that destroyed the weak, tormented the timid, punished the slow and rewarded the strong, bold and vicious. An age that gave rise to the modern world as we know it.

[New Kvenland]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2849316/Outbreak-bubonic-plague-Madagascar-claimed-47-victims-spreading-island-s-capital.html

Oops!

(I know, relatively minor compared to "back in the day," thank goodness. Still sad.)

A disease STARTING in Madagascar??? How counter-intuitive.

The cookie insurgents planted the disease there...

[The Cobalt Sky]

Bubonic plague used the undetectble infection glitch, obviously.

Aha. The plot thinnens.

It's the polar opposite of Game of Thrones!

[Condunum]

No.

Read: I disagree with what some posters think in a relatively light-hearted thread so I'm going to protest their viewpoints by continuously pointing out the flaws that I see in said viewpoints.

*nods* Noted.

I don't understand.

I just like the chance to rain on someone's parade. When it's conveniently on topic and correct, anyway.

[Asterica X]

I 100% agree with what Narnia said, especially regarding the '80s (fashion, music, and film-wise), but also Victorian/steampunky era. I'm surprised how their taste match mine so much.

Edit: Sorry, I should've probably quoted because it's on a different page. Here's the original post I commented on.

Completely disregarding things like technology and healthcare I would want to have lived in the Victorian era, 1950's or 1980's.

That's just judging by culture and fashion though. Technology always moves forward so the modern era has more fun things to do.

[NeuPolska]

To battle! Sail the high seas, pillage villages, and bring honor to your name!

Honestly I'd either want to be around near 1000 AD or 1500 AD, around there, or when I was actually born, the late 90s.

There any particular childhood disease you'd prefer to die of?

Or perhaps gangrene after your first battle, after you took an arrow because you're too poor to afford decent armour?

Tuberculosis, sir. Or maybe a bad flu.

Too poor? Pfft, I'm a blacksmith. I can make my own armor.

In other words, get off your high horse and realize that the older times were not that bad. Yes, there were plenty of illnesses and various problems, but if you survived to age 21 chances are you were going to make it to age 60 at least. Provided you didn't die in battle.

[The Cobalt Sky]

As much as I think I would have made a wonderful traveling storyteller/entertainer in another time, I am really digging the lack of plague we've got going on right now.

But where else am I going to get quality pus from? We need to bring it back!

But yeah, I do like how we can cure tons of diseases. At least where I live.

[Tagmatium]

There any particular childhood disease you'd prefer to die of?

Or perhaps gangrene after your first battle, after you took an arrow because you're too poor to afford decent armour?

Tuberculosis, sir. Or maybe a bad flu.

Too poor? Pfft, I'm a blacksmith. I can make my own armor.

In other words, get off your high horse and realize that the older times were not that bad. Yes, there were plenty of illnesses and various problems, but if you survived to age 21 chances are you were going to make it to age 60 at least. Provided you didn't die in battle.

But I like the view from up here...

[Geilinor]

There any particular childhood disease you'd prefer to die of?

Or perhaps gangrene after your first battle, after you took an arrow because you're too poor to afford decent armour?

Tuberculosis, sir. Or maybe a bad flu.

Too poor? Pfft, I'm a blacksmith. I can make my own armor.

In other words, get off your high horse and realize that the older times were not that bad. Yes, there were plenty of illnesses and various problems, but if you survived to age 21 chances are you were going to make it to age 60 at least. Provided you didn't die in battle.

If you wanted to sail the high seas, you'd have to be careful of scurvy. Or, be hacked to death in battle.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

Aha. The plot thinnens.

It's the polar opposite of Game of Thrones!

The polar opposite of Game of Thrones would be a polite and sociable dragon wearing pants.

[Men Empire]

Hmm.İnteresting question actually. Yes i do. İf i had the chance, i would go back in time to the ancient era. The age of mysteries, epics and endless sword fights What profession would i have chosen? İ would have loved to be a librarian at the ''Library of Alexandria''. To view all those ancient books, all that knowledge before it got lost would have been my only wish (where is a TARDIS when you need one ? )...

[Geilinor]

Hmm.İnteresting question actually. Yes i do. İf i had the chance, i would go back in time to the ancient era. The age of mysteries, epics and endless sword fights What profession would i have chosen? İ would have loved to be a librarian at the ''Library of Alexandria''. To view all those ancient books, all that knowledge before it got lost would have been my only wish (where is a TARDIS when you need one ? )...

If you were lucky enough to learn to read, you mean. Most people back then were illiterate and not out of choice.

[Shilya]

No, I actually think I was born too early.

Too little time to see the future.

[The Cobalt Sky]

It's the polar opposite of Game of Thrones!

The polar opposite of Game of Thrones would be a polite and sociable dragon wearing pants.

Dang it. I was so close.

[Condunum]

Hmm.İnteresting question actually. Yes i do. İf i had the chance, i would go back in time to the ancient era. The age of mysteries, epics and endless sword fights What profession would i have chosen? İ would have loved to be a librarian at the ''Library of Alexandria''. To view all those ancient books, all that knowledge before it got lost would have been my only wish (where is a TARDIS when you need one ? )...

If you were lucky enough to learn to read, you mean. Most people back then were illiterate and not out of choice.

Well, the middle kingdoms of Korea established a universal writing system easy enough for the layman to understand. Literacy wasn't 100% but it was accessible.