If I could choose any time period to live in, it would be either Colonial, or Pioneer-era America. I just love everything about those periods in time.
Do You Feel Like You're Living In The Wrong Century?
- Thread starter All Seeing Eye
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Don't misconstrue what I'm saying. I'm not taking up for the rigid gender roles of the time, I'm just saying that women who enjoyed being housewives could usually count on the fact that their husbands had decent paying jobs and could make ends meet. There's no guarantee of that today even with both parents working. However, there is no doubt that the career-minded women of that time faced many difficulties, to say the least. Even in this day and age women have to deal with sexism and can't make as much as men in comparable jobs.
Yeah, they didn't have it bad as long as they enjoyed having no choices in life. What an awesome way to live!
Of course, if one managed to make it to the 60's without blowing one's brains out, there would at least be valium a-plenty to ease the agony.
Oh, it wasn't directed at you. I was just using your statement to point out the fact that all the romanticism for the past generally fails to take into account the fact that over 50% of the population were forced to live rather limited, oppressed and potentially miserable lives for the vast majority of human civilization.
That's a statement, not a question.
It's also slightly ironic.
Sorry if I've just confused you even more. Feel free to go back to whatever it was that you were doing with the "walking through the meadow eating apples with birds on my arms" crap.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
Never said it was a question. Just didn't understand what you meant by the statement.
It's also slightly ironic.
Sorry if I've just confused you even more. Feel free to go back to whatever it was that you were doing with the "walking through the meadow eating apples with birds on my arms" crap.
Why is it ironic? and why do you consider it crap?
That's very true.Oh, it wasn't directed at you. I was just using your statement to point out the fact that all the romanticism for the past generally fails to take into account the fact that over 50% of the population were forced to live rather limited, oppressed and potentially miserable lives for the vast majority of human civilization.
You like minor infections resulting in major amputations without anesthetic!?
You like slavery? Dysentery? A nearly complete lack of bathing?To each his own, I guess.
Never said it was a question. Just didn't understand what you meant by the statement.
It's also slightly ironic.
Sorry if I've just confused you even more. Feel free to go back to whatever it was that you were doing with the "walking through the meadow eating apples with birds on my arms" crap.
Why is it ironic? and why do you consider it crap?
This thread reminds me of...
Wrong Century by Happy Rhodes
Last thing I remember
I was standing on a hill
Shaking out my long black hair
I heard the song of an angel
Rising from the trees
I made my way to the source
And it was gone
Now here I am
I don't recognize this village
Where things are made of
Glass and metal
A man is walking toward me
And he's looking pretty strange
He says, "Girl, I think you've
Come to the wrong century"
Now let me get this straight, Man
Not only am I woman
But I'm stuck in this spooky world?
Where everybody moves too fast and
Where are all the trees?
I don't think I can live
In this wrong century
Get me out of here
Show me to my homeland
Get me out of here
I miss my hill
I will not live in fear
Of self-destruct
I am a peaceful man
I don't think I can understand
This
Is this where it stands now?
Must I remain
In this grey and dismal year?
It's plain to see I'm a foreigner
It's clear I do not blend
Still I make a home
In this wrong century
Get me out of here
Show me to my homeland
Get me out of here
I miss my hill
I will not live in fear
Of self-destruct
I am a peaceful man
Gentle man
Get me out of here
Show me to my homeland
Get me out of here
I miss my hill
I will not live in fear
Of self-destruct
I am a peaceful man
Gentle man
I don't think I can understand
This
Wrong Century by Happy Rhodes
Last thing I remember
I was standing on a hill
Shaking out my long black hair
I heard the song of an angel
Rising from the trees
I made my way to the source
And it was gone
Now here I am
I don't recognize this village
Where things are made of
Glass and metal
A man is walking toward me
And he's looking pretty strange
He says, "Girl, I think you've
Come to the wrong century"
Now let me get this straight, Man
Not only am I woman
But I'm stuck in this spooky world?
Where everybody moves too fast and
Where are all the trees?
I don't think I can live
In this wrong century
Get me out of here
Show me to my homeland
Get me out of here
I miss my hill
I will not live in fear
Of self-destruct
I am a peaceful man
I don't think I can understand
This
Is this where it stands now?
Must I remain
In this grey and dismal year?
It's plain to see I'm a foreigner
It's clear I do not blend
Still I make a home
In this wrong century
Get me out of here
Show me to my homeland
Get me out of here
I miss my hill
I will not live in fear
Of self-destruct
I am a peaceful man
Gentle man
Get me out of here
Show me to my homeland
Get me out of here
I miss my hill
I will not live in fear
Of self-destruct
I am a peaceful man
Gentle man
I don't think I can understand
This
I've always felt that I was born about a thousand years too soon. I'd rather live in a mature society that has achieved great scientific advances, yet has cultivated the idyllic Romanticism of the past into an everyday reality.
No hang on...that time machine can only send objects, it kills people right?
(Your Logic)
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
What would me building a time machine in real life have to do with a hypothetical time machine spoken of in the OP of another thread?
Nothing.
A real life time machine may not kill people.
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Oh, it wasn't directed at you. I was just using your statement to point out the fact that all the romanticism for the past generally fails to take into account the fact that over 50% of the population were forced to live rather limited, oppressed and potentially miserable lives for the vast majority of human civilization.
The only percentage of the population, in times past, that were not forced to live a rather limited, oppressed and potentially miserable life was very small and very, very wealthy.
Every one else, white, black, male or female, all had a specific role to play, and I'm certain it wasn't easy.
Still, there are times when work and television and traffic and shoppers drive me to long for those few short days of the year when the family packs up and goes wilderness camping.
Let's see...
Note the question mark in bold. Can you could explain it's inclusion?
It's also slightly ironic.
Sorry if I've just confused you even more. Feel free to go back to whatever it was that you were doing with the "walking through the meadow eating apples with birds on my arms" crap.
Why is it ironic? and why do you consider it crap?
It's rather obvious why it's ironic, which is why it's ironic, keep thinking.
It's crap because it has never been true. Your vision of the past is inherently flawed, and you want to live in a time that didn't actually exist. You're like one of those people who think the 1950s was an episode of Leave it to Beaver. Quite honestly I'm not even sure what time period and location you're thinking of, perhaps you could refresh my memory?
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Me too. But if you're anything like me, when you get home from the camping trip you really appreciate things like electricity, air conditioning and a comfortable bed.
I wouldn't mind living in the 23rd Century myself..but I feel I'm a traiter to this generation because I don't like the style of clothing or hairstyles these days. I swear the haircuts look like a drunk cut them in all those different lengths..and the shorts are too short and the shirts too tight. I can't fit my fat ass into tiny shorts! 
Who wants to wear tight shorts with all that cellulite!?
Who wants to wear tight shorts with all that cellulite!?
Me too. But if you're anything like me, when you get home from the camping trip you really appreciate things like electricity, air conditioning and a comfortable bed.
Indoor plumbing.
I wouldn't mind living in the 23rd Century myself..but I feel I'm a traiter to this generation because I don't like the style of clothing or hairstyles these days. I swear the haircuts look like a drunk cut them in all those different lengths..and the shorts are too short and the shirts too tight. I can't fit my fat ass into tiny shorts!
Right century, wrong decade. tight shorts have been out of style for quite a while now.
I'm quite happy with the Century I'm in right now. There's hope for us all here right now.
In other words, Ancient Greece.
Me too. But if you're anything like me, when you get home from the camping trip you really appreciate things like electricity, air conditioning and a comfortable bed.
Thats why camping trips are regulated to 2 days only..max 3....and no more.
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