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).
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by New Kvenland » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:10 pm
by Condunum » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:10 pm
by Lancaster of Wessex » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:11 pm
Lunatic Goofballs wrote: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.
by Lunatic Goofballs » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:13 pm
Lancaster of Wessex wrote:Lunatic Goofballs wrote: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.)
by Lancaster of Wessex » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:14 pm
Condunum wrote:Lancaster of Wessex wrote:
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.
by Condunum » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:15 pm
Lunatic Goofballs wrote:Lancaster of Wessex wrote:
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.
by Condunum » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:15 pm
Lancaster of Wessex wrote:Condunum wrote: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?
by The Cobalt Sky » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:15 pm
by Lunatic Goofballs » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:16 pm
by Lancaster of Wessex » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:17 pm
Condunum wrote:Lancaster of Wessex wrote:
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.
by Imperium Sidhicum » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:18 pm
by New Kvenland » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:18 pm
Lunatic Goofballs wrote:Lancaster of Wessex wrote:
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.
by The Cobalt Sky » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:18 pm
by Condunum » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:18 pm
by Asterica X » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:20 pm
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.
by NeuPolska » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:20 pm
Tagmatium wrote:NeuPolska wrote: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?
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by The Cobalt Sky » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:21 pm
Lunatic Goofballs wrote: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.
by Tagmatium » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:22 pm
NeuPolska wrote:Tagmatium wrote: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.
North Calaveras wrote:Tagmatium, it was never about pie...
by Geilinor » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:22 pm
NeuPolska wrote:Tagmatium wrote: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.
by Lunatic Goofballs » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:23 pm
by Men Empire » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:23 pm
by Geilinor » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:24 pm
Men Empire wrote: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 ? )...
by The Cobalt Sky » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:26 pm
by Condunum » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:27 pm
Geilinor wrote:Men Empire wrote: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.
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