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Post by Moose on Aug 26, 2018 23:42:38 GMT
Before this one, which one would you choose? And .. I don't know. I suppose I might go for nineteenth because it's the nearest but still, there was a good deal of suffering in the nineteenth century, especially for those of a 'lower' social class - which I guess my family was. Even the upper classes did not always have much fun . So maybe a different era? Perhaps Roman? Though then I might have been a slave which would not have been fun either
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Post by Mari on Aug 27, 2018 6:14:59 GMT
Prehistoric times. Mostly matriarchical. I could do the whole wise woman thing.
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Post by Elis on Aug 27, 2018 9:15:35 GMT
I think I'd choose the 19th as well. For the same reasons Jo gave. And with the same concerns.
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Post by robert on Aug 27, 2018 10:06:59 GMT
None of them.
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Post by Kye on Aug 27, 2018 11:22:32 GMT
I'd rather not have been a woman back in the earier centuries. I hate housekeeping and tending children!
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Post by JoeP on Aug 27, 2018 12:30:24 GMT
I choose the 20th century.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 27, 2018 17:00:36 GMT
That doesn't make much sense to me without a geographic referent.
I would like to have been around for the erection of the Ring of Brodgar, for instance. That is around 2957 BCE. But, not just anywhere. 2957 BCE in Patagonia might not be a real smart selection, if you get my drift. So, I'd select 2957 BCE in Orkney, which, as I understand it, would have been at the northern end of the British peninsula, northwest of the Doggerland marshes.
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Post by Moose on Aug 27, 2018 20:05:53 GMT
I'd be fascinated to see prehistoric times but life expectancy was very short My wisdom tooth would probably have seen me off by now. And Joe is a smart arse
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 27, 2018 20:16:33 GMT
I'd be fascinated to see prehistoric times but life expectancy was very short My wisdom tooth would probably have seen me off by now. And Joe is a smart arse Butt, of course. Yeah....If this was the neolithic, I'd be long gone by now. But hey, this is wishful thinking, any way.
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Post by Moose on Aug 27, 2018 20:58:04 GMT
Yeah ... sigh. Wouldn't it be awesome to have our own personal EF time machine, where we could zip about anywhere we wanted (as long as we promised not to do anything Bad) and then come straight back?
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Post by tangent on Aug 27, 2018 21:40:22 GMT
I'd prefer the 24th century, starting in the year 2364 when Captain Picard begins his first adventure.
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Post by Moose on Aug 28, 2018 0:06:30 GMT
Yes well, that's not allowed *looks stern*
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Post by tangent on Aug 28, 2018 5:48:22 GMT
Oh are we talking about a real time machine, as opposed to a fictional one?
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Post by Mari on Aug 28, 2018 6:52:50 GMT
I'd rather just stay where I am anyhow. There's enough discovery and excitement in this era to be honest. Though I would like to make a quick trip to the future to see if and when we finally get rid of Trump and how far he managed to **** up the world before he left...
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Post by JoeP on Aug 28, 2018 7:49:04 GMT
Yes well, that's not allowed *looks stern* Exactly. The rule is clear in the first post: If you had to live in any century... Before this one I'm sticking with my answer
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Post by tangent on Aug 28, 2018 10:54:29 GMT
Meanie 😐
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Post by robert on Aug 28, 2018 21:34:58 GMT
I honestly don't see how any century or other period of time would be better. I know we often romanticize other times and regard the current time as drab. But it is all meaningless and empty.
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Post by Elis on Aug 30, 2018 5:49:57 GMT
Though I would like to make a quick trip to the future to see if and when we finally get rid of Trump and how far he managed to **** up the world before he left... You honestly want to see that? I don't!
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Post by Mari on Aug 30, 2018 16:56:34 GMT
Well, you know, forewarned is forearmed.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 30, 2018 17:29:18 GMT
Don't go all Hindu on us, now...
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Post by tangent on Aug 30, 2018 18:55:20 GMT
I rather think Brexit will cause very much more damage than Trump in the long term.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 30, 2018 19:13:19 GMT
I rather think Brexit will cause very much more damage than Trump in the long term. For you, maybe. I think Brexit will have a lot less effect upon us...long or short term.
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Post by tangent on Aug 30, 2018 23:12:52 GMT
I rather think Brexit will cause very much more damage than Trump in the long term. For you, maybe. I think Brexit will have a lot less effect upon us...long or short term. Yes, of course. But I also think the US has the capacity to rectify Trump's changes much more quickly than the UK can undo the damage caused by Brexit (if it ever does).
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 31, 2018 4:16:48 GMT
For you, maybe. I think Brexit will have a lot less effect upon us...long or short term. Yes, of course. But I also think the US has the capacity to rectify Trump's changes much more quickly than the UK can undo the damage caused by Brexit (if it ever does). Yes, I'm aware of that capacity, but I'm more concerned about the will to use that capacity. I suspect that you, as a people, have the capacity to reverse the course of Brexit, but there has not been the will to bring it to the fore. It has become a matter of 'how bad must it get?' I also suspect we face much the same here in the US.
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Post by Moose on Sept 2, 2018 2:00:13 GMT
I am not sure that Brexit will, in the very long term, be that much of a problem - I think that eventually it will be reversed. I am annoyed by it but it's not the end of the world.
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Post by tangent on Sept 2, 2018 6:11:34 GMT
Maybe, depending on what we get in the end. Teresa May appears to be going for a soft Brexit, which won't damage trade but if we end up with no deal, it will set us back 20 or 30 years.
You think it will be reversed? I can't see that happening.
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Post by robert on Sept 2, 2018 11:42:49 GMT
Do you think there is a will to undo Brexit? I mean do you think the ordinary British citizen is either against it or regrets supporting it now? Or is there still wide held support for it?
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Post by tangent on Sept 2, 2018 12:43:32 GMT
There's widespread support for Brexit and so I don't think it can be undone unless it's a disaster. A soft Brexit will not be a disaster but a 'no deal' Brexit will be. So do we pray for a disaster so that we have a chance of rejoicing Europe or do we just accept that the British government has messed it up again?
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Post by Alvamiga on Sept 18, 2018 14:31:27 GMT
We don't get a choice of Brexit or Trump... We have been lumbered with both!
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Post by tangent on Sept 18, 2018 15:55:58 GMT
No, we've been lumbered with Brexit for life. American gets rid of him in a couple of years time.
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