The best decade to be born into?

[Laindessiel]

In your opinion, what's the best decade to be born into? Considering all the advantages and disadvantages we now have, some people presently say they've been transferred or "orbed" from decades, even centuries, past. What's your thought?

[McGrain]

I'd like to have been a teenager around the time Jesus started wraping. That would have been great.

[Laindessiel]

Really? I'm impressed with your courage. You'll brave those cruel, soulless soldiers?

[McGrain]

...no.

[Stieg]

There are too many periods I would have loved to live in or at least witnessed.

I was born in the early 70s but if I had been born in the early 60s, I would have had a blast reliving the cinema, literature (including comics), and popular culture of that period I was too young to intimately enjoy. Yes, I am weird that way. One of the funnest decades but rather blurred.

Or be immortalized like Dracula of fiction even better so I can spend eternity watching the evolution of cinema and literature. Digging into the ancient works we call classics today.

[Stieg]

No, actually earlier than that, I'd like to be between age 14-21 circa 1970 meaning I would have to survive through the turbulent 60s.

[toni]

Great idea, Lain.;) If I could choose, I would live in Shakespeare's time, the age of artistic evolution.

[AimusSage]

I'd love to be born in the 80s of the previous century. Now that would be nice :)




...Wait a minute. I AM born in the 1980s :D

[Bysshe]

I wish I'd been born in the late 1950s/early 1960s to appreciate punk properly at the time.

It's really frustrating, having been born in 1991 when all the music you like comes almost exclusively from the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

[ennison]

I'm glad I was born in 1860

[Taliesin]

Hmm. We are totally happy with 1988, but having born about ten years earlier would have been quite interesting too, since then we would have been a child instead of a baby/toddler during the Singing Revolution and all that and would have something to tell our grandchildren about. On the minus side, that would have meant to live in the Soviet Union for ten years more time.... hmmm...
We're fine with 1988.

[Schokokeks]

I AM born in the 1980s :D
Me too, and I'm not inclined to trade with anyone :D.

Though I would love to visit the Ancient World (but invisible) for a certain time, to brush up my Greek and Latin :D.

[AimusSage]

Me too, and I'm not inclined to trade with anyone :D.

Though I would love to visit the Ancient World (but invisible) for a certain time, to brush up my Greek and Latin :D.
I don't think when you come back, anyone will understand a word you're saying :p

[Niamh]

I'm glad I was born in 1860

my god ennison! you really are old! arsa! Seanda!
Would love to have been around ireland during the viking period. Would love to see what dublin was like then!

[Virgil]

I'm glad I was born in 1860

:lol: :lol: That was funny.

Actually the best time to be born is the latest possible. I know this doesn't sound romantic, but people's lives (health, comfort, and entertainment) have been contiunously improving since the turn of the 20th century. Standards of living have been rising and continue to rise. Trust me, you wouldn't want to do laundry the old fashion way without a washer machine. Traveling around the world was not really possible without airplanes. Modern medicine has raised our life expectancy to over 80 for women and almost 80 for men. I'm 45 years old. A hundred years ago I probably would have had less than ten years left to live. That is shocking when you think about it. Plus modern medicine has so improved the lives of people with ailments that would have severly limited their abilities. Even something as simple as a broken bone today gets healed to where you don't even realize it. A hundred years ago, people with broken bones were usually left with limps or handicaps. And what we can do for the handicapped today is incredible. I know we read dystopias like 1984 and Brave New World, but they have been wrong. Life has gotten better and dispite problems continues to get better.

Plus the greates invention ever is my ipod. :D

[Schokokeks]

I don't think when you come back, anyone will understand a word you're saying :p
With all today's stupid kicking Latin from the schools' curricula (sic!!), it will probably even get worse for future generations :(.

[Pensive]

1000000000000?

And I would be present in some other planet.....

Ummmm......better to live on Earth than Pluto so I guess I am fine with being born in 1990's. :D

[optimisticnad]

Thats an easy one! The 80s!!!!!! 1980s that is. I was born a decade later like you Pensive in the 1990s. Damn my parents. Just how hard could it have been to have me ten years earlier? :-)

[optimisticnad]

I'd also like to be around when Hitler was. Maybe not in Germany though, I'm not exactly Aryan looking!

[papayahed]

I'm thinking the 20's. I may be romanticizing it but bathtub gin and speakeasys? How fun would that be?

[Niamh]

Thats an easy one! The 80s!!!!!! 1980s that is. I was born a decade later like you Pensive in the 1990s. Damn my parents. Just how hard could it have been to have me ten years earlier? :-)

Awww! Opti you are still so young! (lucky for some!) I was born in the early 80s. wasnt much fun. but then again i was born in ireland in the 80s.

[Schokokeks]

Awww! Opti you are still so young!
And yet she claims to be 37 days older than me... I'm confused :D.

[Niamh]

yes i noticed that elsewhere and got a bit confused! Opti If you were born in the 90's doesnt that not mean your age is somewhere between 8 and 17?:p
Which means you should bow to Schokokeks!:D(and Me;) :brow: )

[AimusSage]

With all today's stupid kicking Latin from the schools' curricula (sic!!), it will probably even get worse for future generations :(.
They actually do that??? What do they replace it with? It had better be something good!

[Schokokeks]

Opti If you were born in the 90's doesnt that not mean your age is somewhere between 8 and 17?:p
Which means you should bow to Schokokeks!:D(and Me;) :brow: )
:lol:


They actually do that??? What do they replace it with? It had better be something good!
Yes, over here they do :( As far as I know, they replace it with more maths and technology classes. I don't mean to say these don't have any merit on their own, but I grew up with the idea education should be balanced and not one-sided :rolleyes: *now stops deploring the good old times when politicians were noble and goes off to have a couple of consolation cookies with Aimus* :D

[AimusSage]

:lol:


Yes, over here they do :( As far as I know, they replace it with more maths and technology classes. I don't mean to say these don't have any merit on their own, but I grew up with the idea education should be balanced and not one-sided :rolleyes: *now stops deploring the good old times when politicians were noble and goes off to have a couple of consolation cookies with Aimus* :D
Well, lets see, Math and technology are good. They should just add those in without removing latin and greek, by teaching these classes in latin and greek. It's the perfect solution. Also I don't think politician have ever been noble, there may have been a few, but in general, they are quite devious. :)

YAY for consolation cookies! They're the best!

[optimisticnad]

And yet she claims to be 37 days older than me... I'm confused :D.

Oops sorry nymph and shocks.

I was born in 1987. not the 1990s, what i meant was- I reached 'maturity' in the 1990s so missed the first half of the decade of the 80s cos i wasnt around and then...well, i was learning to walk and get to grips with these huge people around me (actually nothings changed there, everyones still bigger than me). does that make sense? I wished I was born ten years earlier so 1977 and then I would have reached 'maturity' in the 80s, by maturity I mean getting past the stage of goo gaa gaaa (baby language).

And shocks I am 37 (was that the number?) days older than you. Hey, who told you to stop kneeling?

[optimisticnad]

yes i noticed that elsewhere and got a bit confused! Opti If you were born in the 90's doesnt that not mean your age is somewhere between 8 and 17?:p
Which means you should bow to Schokokeks!:D(and Me;) :brow: )

I cant bow down to you Im afraid. Bad knee.

:lol:

[Niamh]

...............:p

[Niamh]

Oops sorry nymph and shocks.

I was born in 1987. not the 1990s, what i meant was- I reached 'maturity' in the 1990s so missed the first half of the decade of the 80s cos i wasnt around and then...well, i was learning to walk and get to grips with these huge people around me (actually nothings changed there, everyones still bigger than me). does that make sense? I wished I was born ten years earlier so 1977 and then I would have reached 'maturity' in the 80s, by maturity I mean getting past the stage of goo gaa gaaa (baby language).

And shocks I am 37 (was that the number?) days older than you. Hey, who told you to stop kneeling?

Yes i understand what you mean!
How could you make such a booboo!:lol:

[optimisticnad]

Yes i understand what you mean!
How could you make such a booboo!:lol:

im sorry, what was that???????????????????????????????????????

Hey lady, I spoke baby language millions of years ago and like any other languages if you dont speak it often you forget it.

ga goo deee ba?

(you got that?)

:lol:

[Niamh]

im sorry, what was that???????????????????????????????????????

Hey lady, I spoke baby language millions of years ago and like any other languages if you dont speak it often you forget it.

ga goo deee ba?

(you got that?)

:lol:

..........;)

[bazarov]

Schoko, you're probably from Scandinavia( at least that's how your signature looks like) but in other parts of Europe latin and greek are still learning.

I am very happy for being born in middle 80's, but I am afraid for todays youth! They are incredibly dummy!

[Niamh]

Schoko, you're probably from Scandinavia( at least that's how your signature looks like) but in other parts of Europe latin and greek are still learning.

I am very happy for being born in middle 80's, but I am afraid for todays youth! They are incredibly dummy!

:nod: Agreed!(coughcookiegermancough)

[andave_ya]

I'd like to have been born in the 30s. Fred Astaire, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Gene Kelly, Ginger Rogers, Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, Doris Day, Betty Hutton......

[ennison]

Seriously as I approach my one hundred and forty seventh year I marvel not only at my own longevity but at the remarkable inability I have to not learn much that is new. Sometimes I wonder if Eve really ate the wrong apple. Sex, now for someone my age that is really an expedition into the Heart of Darkness. Maybe Iwont survive. Tell you next week folks. It is certainly an education to experience it over 100 decades. Now That's a thought.

[Adolescent09]

I am afraid for today's youth. They are incredibly dummy!

:(........

[Adolescent09]

Seriously as I approach my one hundred and forty seventh year I marvel not only at my own longevity but at the remarkable inability I have to not learn much that is new. Sometimes I wonder if Eve really ate the wrong apple. Sex, now for someone my age that is really an expedition into the Heart of Darkness. Maybe Iwont survive. Tell you next week folks. It is certainly an education to experience it over 100 decades. Now That's a thought.

Now that is droll :lol:

[kathycf]

Despite all the benefits of modern technology and medicine, I really wish I was born in 1922. I would then have been young in the 1930's and 40's. I watch too many movies from back then, so everything looks so nice, and romantic. I know the Great Depression and WW2 were neither, but I think a fantasy version of that time period would have been really nice to live in.

[cuppajoe_9]

I really have a hard time playing this game. If I had to chose, I suppose I'd be born in 1945 and see the Beatles and Bob Dylan and the Velvet Underground when they are still musical acts as opposed to multinational corporations, or maybe back into 1770's Germany and do the same with Beethoven; but being born into any earlier decade means giving up political freedom, and that's unacceptable to me.

[aeroport]

I'm inclined to agree with cuppajoe and Virgil. Right now is the time for me! The idea is to MAKE your decade the one you prefer, anyway, right? Or am I just being idealistic...? Besides, my being born in '87 means I missed most of 80s themselves. I couldn't ask for more. I might have liked to be born one year earlier, however, as most of my friends seem to have been, and it was quite frustrating when they all graduated high school before me...

[bazarov]

:(........

You know you're smart, so why do you care?

[whatsername]

I wish I was born in the year 1900 :(

[papayahed]

Despite all the benefits of modern technology and medicine, I really wish I was born in 1922. I would then have been young in the 1930's and 40's. I watch too many movies from back then, so everything looks so nice, and romantic. I know the Great Depression and WW2 were neither, but I think a fantasy version of that time period would have been really nice to live in.


That's exactly why I picked the 20's, this is a very close second.

[kathycf]

Yea, I liked what you said about bathtub gin and speakeasies...that would have been my second choice. :)

But as I say, I prefer my candy coated Hollywood romance version...My dad was born in 1928 and my mother in 1935 (yes, they were a bit older when I was born) and neither of them had an easy time. The Great Depression was absolutely brutal for them.

[cuppajoe_9]

Besides, my being born in '87 means I missed most of 80s themselves. I couldn't ask for more.Hear hear!

[Madhuri]

I want to be re-born every decade I feel I am getting old :p That way I will be able to live forever (after the brief death I will have to experience) and experience all things old and new. I just want to go through the whole cycle again and again (it was nowhere mentioned I cant repeat the cycle). I know I am selfish :D

[dramasnot6]

I think I like being born in '92. Not so much because the last decade or so has been so wonderful, but because the further one is into the future the more we can study and fall in love with decades of the past. Maybe it is not so much dreaming of when you would want to be born, but the beauty that you could learn and enjoy so much history that you would have the choice. If I was born in,let's say, Shakespeares time, I would not appreciate the experience as much if I had not known how one set of works would carry on for centuries and still be just as cherished(if not more).

[Laindessiel]

Uncle Virg makes sense. In exchange for the good and postive turnaround as time passes in our decade, it is only fair that there should be some things that is ugly because nothing is perfect, or gonna be perfect; like more people getting into drugs and young people getting into pre-marital sex (the average is getting younger and younger by the minute, it's alarming). But I don't hink there's a problem in the world that can't be solved. Time will come.

[Laindessiel]

The idea is to MAKE your decade the one you prefer, anyway, right? Or am I just being idealistic...?

Yes you are and you make perfect sense.

[Adolescent09]

At the climax of Maximilian Robespierre's The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution of 1790. It might seem like an eccentric notion and impudent... but I would have loved to see Madame Guillotine severing many a supercilious, aristocrat head

[Bakiryu]

Pre-christian times sound interesting, I would have like to see the early tribes or the roman empire.

[Koa]

:lol: :lol: That was funny.

Actually the best time to be born is the latest possible. I know this doesn't sound romantic, but people's lives (health, comfort, and entertainment) have been contiunously improving since the turn of the 20th century. Standards of living have been rising and continue to rise. Trust me, you wouldn't want to do laundry the old fashion way without a washer machine. Traveling around the world was not really possible without airplanes. Modern medicine has raised our life expectancy to over 80 for women and almost 80 for men. I'm 45 years old. A hundred years ago I probably would have had less than ten years left to live. That is shocking when you think about it. Plus modern medicine has so improved the lives of people with ailments that would have severly limited their abilities. Even something as simple as a broken bone today gets healed to where you don't even realize it. A hundred years ago, people with broken bones were usually left with limps or handicaps. And what we can do for the handicapped today is incredible. I know we read dystopias like 1984 and Brave New World, but they have been wrong. Life has gotten better and dispite problems continues to get better.

Plus the greates invention ever is my ipod. :D


AND the INTERNET! The day it dies I will die with it!

Although sometimes I think I would have liked to be born 10 years earlier than I was, in the 70s, so that I could live the 80s properly... Although the 90s had their thing too. I'm not sure about the 2000's but you can't judge a decade before it's over ;)

Argh, all of you born in the 90s...it's so hard to accept. When I think of someone born in the 90s I think of someone who just learnt to speak, walk and all... and instead you're already able to formulate proper thoughts, go to school etc. :eek: Why did it all go so fast? And most of all, if YOU are in that phase it means that THAT phase is over for me and I am hopelessly an adult, should-be-responsible person... that's not fair. I want the 90s back! :sick: :crash:

[kathycf]

Although sometimes I think I would have liked to be born 10 years earlier than I was, in the 70s, so that I could live the 80s properly...

You honestly didn't miss all that much. Of course the 1980s in Italy might have been much more interesting than they were in the US. Let's summarize:

Acid wash jeans
Dynasty on TV
Def Leppard on the radio
Big huge pouffy hair, with mall bangs. (bangs that almost need their own zipcode, really big)
An insatiable need for lipgloss and Aqua Net hairspray
umm...acid wash jeans.

:p

[papayahed]

You honestly didn't miss all that much. Of course the 1980s in Italy might have been much more interesting than they were in the US. Let's summarize:

Acid wash jeans
Dynasty on TV
Def Leppard on the radio
Big huge pouffy hair, with mall bangs. (bangs that almost need their own zipcode, really big)
An insatiable need for lipgloss and Aqua Net hairspray
umm...acid wash jeans.

:p

Don't forget synthesizers and PeeWee Herman.

[kathycf]

Sheesh, you're right.

synthesizers and PeeWee Herman ;)

Saying "Fer Shure", "Groddy to the Max", "Totally" and "Gnarly" and other slangy stuff and totally being like sincere when doing so, dude. Beeetchin.

Guys were often seen to wear Flock of Seagulls hairstyles.

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/kathycf/a_flock_of_seagulls.jpg

Ladies often dressed in attire featuring huge (HUGE) shoulder pads.

You know, the 1940s are looking better and better....:D

[papayahed]

You know, the 1940s are looking better and better....:D

We could have been Rosie the Riveters. :D

[kathycf]

We could have been Rosie the Riveters. :D
Yes, indeed. That would have been so cool. Of course every decade has it's hair issues. We would have had to use those hairnets to keep our Veronica Lake hairdos out of the machinery. :lol: