A simpler time, A simpler day

Hell no! FD, you crazy. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

So much for leave i had to respond to this... FD i can see what your saying but no, i find the future is where we should be. That doesnt mean we all become cyborg computer nuts, i love going down to cape code (the one place in america i like and was born) and fishing and sailing. But that simplier time is also a time where more died due to worse medicine and surgery techniques. Also car´s were badly designed without extensive computer testing. Sure there are aspects of the future that are bad but the gain can and is much greater. Besides a world without EDM (Code that was for you, i was gunna say techno) would really bite.

Actual, for me, it is before cars. You had only to feed and keep your horse in order to get around. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

Heh. In my case, I´d go back to the 1950s and 1960s.

i´d go foward and play halo 4

i dont care about quotas, about rushing, i can sit under a tree and relax. But you wont apreciate relaxing unless you have something stressfull to relax from. If you spent all your in hobbiton, eventually you´re going to yearn for excitement. I like the current situation. Sure there´s social groups that i have a problem with, but by in large, life´s grand. And there´s nothing stopping me moving out to the country to be a farmer, or to live in a cottage, free from electricity, and live off the little bit of land i own.

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Uhm.....why exactly do you think things in the past were simpler times? What gave you that idea? Movies? Tv shows? <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Times in the past are as hard as they are nowadays. Toys that we have nowadays like cars and computers haven´t really simplified our lives all that much if at all. Back then, you were a lot more susceptible to diseases. You couldnt jut drop by your local drug store to pick up some Pepto Bismol if you know what i mean. You had to tough it out. Life was as difficult as it is today. Just a different kind of difficulty. ---------------------------------- Check out my <A href=´http://landofhobbes.blogspot.com´ Target=_Blank>blog!</a> Go! Now! Wheeeee!

heck no, if i could take digital cameras and the capacity to recharge, and download the pictures from them, then yes

Gotta go with EB I´m afraid. Work would most likely be tougher for lower pay, much less time to spend lazing about. Judging from the pictures you posted FD you yearn for the days of cowboys, and if you were there you´d probably be doing some sort of agricultural work. Even now with all the machinery available to make the job easier being a farmhand is incredibly tiring. I did it briefly at one time, you´d spend your lunch break wolfing down a lunch you´d never normally have the appetite for and then you´d pass out and bleed every ounce of rest possible out of your break. Not exactly relaxing, huh?

I´d go back and change history. I won´t say how because it might dredging up politics lol but apart from that I would visit the 1960´s, 70´s and 80´s. Go to guns ´n roses live concerts, Woodstock ´69 and just live in a world where noone gives a damn about what you are and what you do. But I understand what FD is talking about. Where you didn´t have to spend 13 years in an institution to succeed and there was no BS in the world, things were straight up. Now you can´t trust nobody. Oh well, I guess people will want to live in this era in the future You are digging for the answers, Until your fingers bleed, To satisfy the hunger, To satiate the need. They feed you on the guilt, To keep you humble and low, Some man and myth they made up, A thousand years ago.

Actually, the old west or that time frame was a lot simpler. Your main worry was putting food on the table. People then cared more about each other. On an average day, I spend 45 min commute to work, work 8 hours, have an hour lunch and spend anywhere from 1 hour to an hour and a half commuting home. Almost 11 hours a day involved in work. Not to metion the stress at work. The old west work was hard, but not that stressful as it is these days, with companies downsizing their staff and the rest haveing to pick up the slack. The air was clean, the water pure, no pesticides or hormones in your food, that could be imported from all over the world. It was what you rasied and grew. I had a lamb chop the other day, that the package said was imported from astrailia(sp). Not that I have any thing against their lamb, but to import it from so far away, where is the logic. The beauty of the mountains, compaired to the skyline of a city, there is no compairsume. It may be more of an issue of age catching up than anything else. But, to have a simpler life, I could give up computers, in a heart beat. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edit - As far as diseases go, there are more today then back then. Cancer comes from every where today, though I think it is from our food sources, the additives and preservatives. We have children dieing of cancer, and a meriade of other things. So that part can not truly be considered. Edited by - Finalday on 4/11/2005 5:11:52 AM

In the 1950s and 1960s (especially by the late 1960s), when you compare income percentages, you could save a fair chunk of money aside every year, more so than today, and still be able to come out ahead of the game every year. And from what all my relatives tell me it definitely was less BS. You could either get a job ´cuz you could do it or you didn´t. None of this aptitude-testing, aura-checking, degree-requiring stuff where the company needs to make sure you ain´t gonna blow something up.

Hey, I´d also love to go back to the 50s or 60s. I´d have a ball then. Elvis would still be alive...awesome!!! Definitely the golden age of music for me. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=´http://home.mchsi.com/~daniel.goodwin/majorsig.jpg ´> <b>Merc for hire...but only if you can afford it. </b>

Heck yeah Finalday, With your thoughts resting apon 1850-1900´s. I´d be chasing whiskey and skirt, And carry at least 3 pistols! Hey it was rough back during this time frame. Good thing I´m a good shot. Check out Deadwood on HBO. <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

One of my first, and best, memories was going to the New York World´s Fair in 1964. I was four years old (get your calculators and figure out how old I am... <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> ) and it was like walking into a magic world. I wouldn´t want to go back as an adult, but again as a four year old just in awe of the place. We went several times. When I drive to the airport from where I live I go right past Flushing Meadow Park, and still see the Unisphere and the New York exhibit, which both still stand. All else was torn down. I remember riding in a small car seeing a huge model of Manhattan, all perfectly in place, each building recreated meticulously. The fair introduced microwave ovens, the push button phone, and Belgian Waffles! The push button phone freaked people out. They would go to make a call, and have no clue what to do. They had to have people from ATT at each kiosk to show people how to use it. For those of you who´ve been to the Disney Parks, &quot;It´s A Small World&quot; and &quot;The Carousel of Progress&quot; debuted at the 64 World´s Fair. Anyway, I have memories even before this. I actually remember my 2nd Birthday party and our Studebaker which we sold before I was 2, but the 64 World´s Fair, the best!

I also would like to go back to a simpler and more *honest* time, when life was not so hectic or complicated and people were nicer to each other and there were fewer foreigners and everybody in your neighbourhood knew each other. i hear what´s said about there being no anti-bios before 1940s, tbh that doesnt bother me, i´m allergic to most of them anyway so i have to just get by with illnesses and infections. lack of modern techmology doesnt bother me either, I´m a luddite at heart; even though my job is 100% modern technology, I could live without it very easily thank you. i certainly wouldnt choose the wild west though, that´s an american mythos that only means anything to americans, all that pioneer spirit (rotgut whisky mostly) perversely I´d choose wartime Europe, well, Britain again, or a colonial dependency. i´d also q fancy living in Imperial times, i imagine I could have done q well in the Raj. maybe Id go back as far as the early 18th Century, not too long gbefore cos without some sort of industry i wouldnt really be able to do anything. besides language is too different before then and Id stick out like a sore thumb. ooo Italy in the time of Garibaldi and Mazzini, that´d be q good. its not just a case of *when would you like to have been alive?* its also how you´d fit in if you could go back. but I´d have no problem with winding our current clock back 40 or 50 years, because modern society is terrible.

Actually Taw, Many Europeans of all walks of life made their way to America after being drawn in to see the &quot;Wild West&quot;! Being somewhat knowlegeable of history I could live during the Napolionic area as well, or just about anytime being the person that I am. Now Time Travel, Thats another post All together! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

I would go back to the Roman times and observe the use of shock cavalry in battle. Then I´d return to the present an expert on cavalry charges, and post in one of the Rome: Total War forums many &quot;OMFG CAVALRY IS UNREALISTIC&quot; threads, and possibly create a mod for the game that makes cavalry behave realistically. Then the present would be perfect. Edited by - Griffon_26 on 4/11/2005 4:40:24 PM