If you could live any time in last 100 years ?

**bubbs999** · July 7th, 2019, 11:06 AM

If you could live any time in last 100 years ?

Personally I’d go back to the 1950’s.

Before I was actually born ? – yes
Only 2 tv channels, mainly B&W ? – yes
Not as ‘enlightened’ about homosexuality & people of colour ? – yes, but then again not PC gone mad & rammed down your throat every 5 minutes.
No mobile phones or internet ? – Bliss
Yellow pages & hard bound encyclopedias ? – Great
Could walk your dog off the lead ? – yes & sensible
I.R.A ? yes, but no ISIS, & Russia kept back behind the Iron Curtain (where they belong)

More Bank robberies ? – yes, but the coppers used to catch them & put them in prison. Also less likely to meet a teenager armed like a Ninja
Less cars on the road, easier to repair, cheap petrol, easier to find a parking space, no charge to park at hospital.
More disease, less cures but you didn’t need to book a doctors appointment 3 weeks in advance, wait 5 hours for an ambulance or a year for an operation.
All that sexual promisquety to look forward to in the 60’s

Send me back to the 50’s I say

**cicciobuki** · July 7th, 2019, 11:48 AM

Back to no free porn times? No thank you

**karloschaos** · July 7th, 2019, 11:48 AM

Easy. 1972 just so I could see Hawkwind on the Space Ritual tour.

Estreeter · July 7th, 2019, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by bubbs999

Send me back to the 50’s I say

I Like Ike

**Mister Fide** · July 7th, 2019, 12:12 PM

To the 1970s as a blade of grass during Wimbledon fortnight............but only when Chris Evert was playing.

**Sir Honkers** · July 7th, 2019, 11:42 PM

Now that I'm an old man with an assortment of ailments as long your arm I'd actually prefer to live in 2119.

**bombermouse** · July 8th, 2019, 01:19 AM

i was there bubbs 999. It's overrated.

TioMegamanX · July 8th, 2019, 01:57 AM

Back in time with your current mind or be born again? cuz I would end up making the same mistakes or different ones.

Gordon3 · July 8th, 2019, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by TioMegamanX

Back in time with your current mind or be born again? cuz I would end up making the same mistakes or different ones.

Oh, I know exactly what I would have done differently, given what I know now...youth and ignorance is wasted on the young.

And the Baby Boomers got the best of it, no WWII, and the best of some interesting decades, the 50's through the 80's, plus economic prosperity, for the most part. Sure, some 60s strife, but a drop in the bucket compared to what's coming.

**Sir Honkers** · July 8th, 2019, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Gordon3

And the Baby Boomers got the best of it, no WWII, and the best of some interesting decades, the 50's through the 80's, plus economic prosperity, for the most part. Sure, some 60s strife, but a drop in the bucket compared to what's coming.

The 60's was a good time to be in Swinging London...or at least the latter part of the 60's. The rest of those decades weren't that exciting really.

July 7th, 2019, 11:06 AM	#1
bubbs999 Vintage Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Here, UK Posts: 1,965 Thanks: 15,652 Thanked 31,310 Times in 1,952 Posts	If you could live any time in last 100 years ? If you could live any time in last 100 years ? Personally I’d go back to the 1950’s. Before I was actually born ? – yes Only 2 tv channels, mainly B&W ? – yes Not as ‘enlightened’ about homosexuality & people of colour ? – yes, but then again not PC gone mad & rammed down your throat every 5 minutes. No mobile phones or internet ? – Bliss Yellow pages & hard bound encyclopedias ? – Great Could walk your dog off the lead ? – yes & sensible I.R.A ? yes, but no ISIS, & Russia kept back behind the Iron Curtain (where they belong) More Bank robberies ? – yes, but the coppers used to catch them & put them in prison. Also less likely to meet a teenager armed like a Ninja Less cars on the road, easier to repair, cheap petrol, easier to find a parking space, no charge to park at hospital. More disease, less cures but you didn’t need to book a doctors appointment 3 weeks in advance, wait 5 hours for an ambulance or a year for an operation. All that sexual promisquety to look forward to in the 60’s Send me back to the 50’s I say __________________ "Here's looking at you kid"

July 7th, 2019, 12:12 PM	#5
Mister Fide Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Nearly there Posts: 892 Thanks: 23,075 Thanked 17,988 Times in 890 Posts	Who knows............it might happen.............one day.............perhaps? To the 1970s as a blade of grass during Wimbledon fortnight............but only when Chris Evert was playing.

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cicciobuki supermoderateur Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Belgium Posts: 24,471 Thanks: 157,991 Thanked 322,969 Times in 24,386 Posts	Back to no free porn times? No thank you

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karloschaos Vintage Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: East Yorkshire Posts: 748 Thanks: 7,982 Thanked 8,832 Times in 687 Posts	Easy. 1972 just so I could see Hawkwind on the Space Ritual tour.

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Sir Honkers Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Land Of Glorious Leader Posts: 30,418 Thanks: 287,352 Thanked 386,928 Times in 30,374 Posts	Now that I'm an old man with an assortment of ailments as long your arm I'd actually prefer to live in 2119.

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bombermouse Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: In the fog Posts: 3,868 Thanks: 105,779 Thanked 33,560 Times in 3,839 Posts	i was there bubbs 999. It's overrated.

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TioMegamanX Member Join Date: Jul 2019 Location: Mexico City Posts: 47 Thanks: 104 Thanked 292 Times in 41 Posts	Back in time with your current mind or be born again? cuz I would end up making the same mistakes or different ones.