Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
So.... people bleat on about the "good old days", but being a fairly keen amature historian and as much as I would like to visit some past eras as an invisible passer-by, my conclusion is that if I had to choose a time to live it would be now !!
I have had good medical care which a couple of decades ago I may not be here (!!). I can almost visit any part of the world that I would like to. I have quite a good life expectancy. I can keep contact with people all over the world. Travelling around this country can be done at the drop of a hat.
What does everyone else think and why?
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#2
My mum told me that if it hadn't been for modern health-care, I would have departed at the age of 6 months.
Apparently I had been hit by a bronchial virus and was rushed to hospital.
But my sister told me that it was days of fasting and prayers which my dad ordered the household to follow that saved me
I'm happy with online publishing, so this era is the right one for me.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#3
I agree, I would love to have seen the Victorian era and often think I should have been born in that time but hand on heart I'm glad I'm living in the present day and age. As you mentioned, healthcare, travel, communication - we complain about them all but realistically most of the time they are pretty good.
#4
One word: childbirth. Now is good for me, thank you.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#5
Back to the primordial slime for me...I could visit any part of the world that I would like to. I would have had quite a good life expectancy. I would have been in constant contact with my sort all over the world, etc, etc.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
I thought people would be all over this topic as everything was soooooo good in the black and white days !!
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#7
In an effort to cheer everyone up with this rose tinted nostalgia about B&W..here is a picture of local boy dun good...Charlie Elphicke himself in full..ermm black and white.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#8
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#9
Aaahhh thought you might say that, but no politics, just a heartwarming nostalgic style picture...lol!
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#10
Harking back to "the good old days" is all about nostalgia - what we remember from our childhood and before, but actually living in those times was a nightmare for the vast majority of people.
We can't live in Victorian, Tudor or Middle Ages, even if they seem romantic from here, so we must look back fondly, but look forward eagerly.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#11
i thought the whole thing about the past was to learn from mistakes made and learn from them.
never been the nostalgic type myself, i hear so often about great sportsmen from the past and think we have evev better ones today for the most part.
i suppose the one thing that has gone downhill is oratory, no call for it nowadays as people don't have either the time or inclination to listen.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#12
Oratory -= and manners, too... people had to stick together to get through life then, but these days... everyman for himself ???
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Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#13
If TARDIS's were real, who wouldn't want to go back and see what things were like? But to observe it would be as far as it goes for me - I don't think I'd want to stay anywhere but now. So much we take for granted would be missing. Despite the arguable bonuses of social cohesion and no pervasive ring tones, there was lack of healthcare, high infant mortality, diseases, lack of food, no central heating (yes, I know, aside from the Romans), working until you drop, wars, religious fanaticism...
Come to think of it, maybe things haven't changed that much?
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#14
I'd probably go back to Tom's primordial slime and drop a Pot Noodle in it. Then fast forward a few million and see what crappy fast-food based life-forms had evolved.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#15
speak for yourselves phil and tom i came from a superior planet with a civilisation much more advanced than ours, then again it might have been primordial slime, i sometimes confuse the two.
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