Bairnardo Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Do you think now is the best time to be alive? Personally I watch TV, films, read books etc about different times and fond myself wishing I could see what life was like then. Most recently, I think life would be better thousands of years ago, when the planet was still teeming with life. The hunter gatherer time. When would the people of P&B like a wee shot of and why? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boostin' Kev Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Easy, Manhattan late 70s to late 90s. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandcowden Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 1 hour ago, Bairnardo said: Do you think now is the best time to be alive? Personally I watch TV, films, read books etc about different times and fond myself wishing I could see what life was like then. Most recently, I think life would be better thousands of years ago, when the planet was still teeming with life. The hunter gatherer time. When would the people of P&B like a wee shot of and why? i suspect life probably wasnt much fun then,a perpetual struggle to survive and,as hobbes would say,"nasty,brutish and short" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erih Shtrep Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Perthshire, post-motorcar. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Weimar Berlin in the 20s. Plenty of loose women and cocaine. I'd try to get back to the future when Adolf Hitler took over though... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Melanius Mullarkey Posted January 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 30, 2021 1 year ago so I could get a fucking pint. 26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Would have liked to have seen my team play in six finals at Hampden between 1927 and 1953 but wouldn't fancy being British Empire cannon fodder in WW1. Maybe being born around 1910 or so? Probs have to work down the pit for a living, but might have been worth it for the fitba. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Stewart Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Being part of the Roman gentry during the rise of Julius Caesar and then through the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius would have been fucking magnificent, IMO. Living through the days of Nero probably would have been the most interesting / debauched as long as you’d kept on the right side of the mad fucker. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) I would liked to have lived in the days when smoking was still good for you. Hank died this week aged 86. The Camel snouts obviously worked wonders. Edited January 30, 2021 by Detournement 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 A merchant trader sailing between Venice and Byzantium around the 10th Century for me, wife in each port. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 The downside to living in the past is all the nasty bugs going about that kick covid into a cocked hat- bubonic plague, cholera, small pox etc. Personally if I had the money then that I do now then my student days in the early 90s would be fun although I wouldn't have a liver and I'd be literally shagged out 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Before that fives game so I could possibly avoid that O.G Ftfy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 19 minutes ago, welshbairn said: A merchant trader sailing between Venice and Byzantium around the 10th Century for me, wife in each port. ^^^ Secretly wishing for the 'camaraderie' between sailors en route to each port 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: 1 year ago so I could get a fucking pint. ^^^ This. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunfermline Don Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 I have been lucky enough to witness the Dons glory years in the early/mid 80s before moving down south and watching both local teams Wimbledon and Palace play in FA Cup finals.I would love to have been of age in the 60s to have seen my hometown team winning cups and playing in Europe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 6 minutes ago, tamthebam said: The downside to living in the past is all the nasty bugs going about that kick covid into a cocked hat- bubonic plague, cholera, small pox etc. Personally if I had the money then that I do now then my student days in the early 90s would be fun although I wouldn't have a liver and I'd be literally shagged out Not even that. Before running water in houses personal hygiene must have been horrific. 99% of people would be humming. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, Detournement said: Not even that. Before running water in houses personal hygiene must have been horrific. 99% of people would be humming. Imagine the smell of an orgy before like 1948 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 OT: About 2364. When I can join the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 D. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Wouldn't want to go back to a time before novocaine and modern dentistry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Would like to have been the ideal age to experience all the best bits of the 1960s & 70s rock scene. I'd be deid by now, but so what? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.