Do you ever wish you grew up in a different time period?

[margotmacomber]

I wouldn't mind being super rich and living in the 1920's.  Have to be rich though.

[Deleted]

White people fantasies.

[MWOS]

I would not have fared well pre-antibiotics.

[papie]

No. I like living in the world of modern medicine and modern hygiene.

[Wrath0fKuus]

Mar 28, 2013 16:06:10 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

White people fantasies.

I'm surprised that they aren't just straight white man fantasies.

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Mar 28, 2013 16:06:40 GMT -5 Wrath0fKuus said:

Mar 28, 2013 16:06:10 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

White people fantasies.

I'm surprised that they aren't just straight white man fantasies.

True!

[pantsparty]

I want to live in the FUTURE. Not the dystopian future, though. Just the one where Amazon can teleport my order to me.

[rodeored]

There are time periods I think I would like and then I think about healthcare at that time and am ok with just reading about it.

[Deleted]

Mar 28, 2013 16:07:24 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

I want to live in the FUTURE. Not the dystopian future, though. Just the one where Amazon can teleport my order to me.

*I* want to be able to teleport.

Walking is for the birds.

[elleblue]

Yes for a second until I remember how nice indoor plumbing, modern medicine, equal rights (mostly - we're getting there) and all that other stuff I wouldn't want to live without and decide - nah, not worth it.

[Deleted]

I need to be a wealthy, landowning white male with natural immunity to smallpox.

Other than that I'm good.

[Deleted]

When I was a kid I fantasized about living in alternate eras.

But now I like living in a world where I don't have to go outside in the cold and dark to poop inside of a wood shack while using a page from a catalogue to wipe with

[smock]

Mar 28, 2013 16:10:00 GMT -5 05heel said:

I need to be a wealthy, landowning white male with natural immunity to smallpox.

Other than that I'm good.

But what about the plague? And cholera? And all the other nasty diseases?

Maybe if I were a wealthy white man with immunity and superpowers. Maybe.

[walterismydog]

Yes, I do. I think I would have made an excellent pioneer woman.

[smock]

Mar 28, 2013 16:11:10 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

When I was a kid I fantasized about living in alternate eras.

But now I like living in a world where I don't have to go outside in the cold and dark to poop inside of a wood shack while using a page from a catalogue to wipe with

Don't you mean using a sock to wipe with? 

[Deleted]

smock, I was trying to think small, but you're totally right.

Even with immunity I'd have to pass. I need my modern dental work.

[Deleted]

YES!

In 9th grade I was promised hovercrafts and all sorts of Minority Report shit.

ETA LOL, last night I told Jake that Tom Cruise predicted the future and he held up his hand and said "No, just no.  Minority Report hired technology consultants.  THEY predicted the future. Tom Cruise didn't predict anything."  He was truly offended, lol.

[papie]

Mar 28, 2013 16:11:10 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

When I was a kid I fantasized about living in alternate eras.

But now I like living in a world where I don't have to go outside in the cold and dark to poop inside of a wood shack while using a page from a catalogue to wipe with

When I first visited my grandparents in Greece, I was so shocked to find out they had a wood shack toilet ACROSS THE STREET.  Street being a big word for what that was, but still...I loved going outside in the middle of the night to go pee with my mom, and getting a bath in a bucket (yes, there was no bath or shower either, but they did have running water in the kitchen).  But as a kid, even camping is fun, right?

My mom tells stories of having to hand wash her clothes in the river and wearing cloth pads and washing them.  And no electricity.  No, my mom is not 100 years old, lol.  But I am so happy to live today. 

[walterismydog]

Ah, forget it. You guys have killed my pioneer woman fantasies.

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Mar 28, 2013 16:14:55 GMT -5 papie said:

Mar 28, 2013 16:11:10 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

When I was a kid I fantasized about living in alternate eras.

But now I like living in a world where I don't have to go outside in the cold and dark to poop inside of a wood shack while using a page from a catalogue to wipe with

When I first visited my grandparents in Greece, I was so shocked to find out they had a wood shack toilet ACROSS THE STREET.  Street being a big word for what that was, but still...I loved going outside in the middle of the night to go pee with my mom, and getting a bath in a bucket (yes, there was no bath or shower either, but they did have running water in the kitchen).  But as a kid, even camping is fun, right?

My mom tells stories of having to hand wash her clothes in the river and wearing cloth pads and washing them.  And no electricity.  No, my mom is not 100 years old, lol.  But I am so happy to live today. 

Yeah my mom lived up in the mountains when she was a kid and her tales of being snowed in for a month at a time and needing to use old corn cobs as toilet paper at times kinda stuck in my psyche.

[goaskalice]

Well if course I want to be Queen Elizabeth. I'm obsessed with that whole period. I'm pretty sure if I never got used to daily showers and modern conveniences I'd be just fine.

[Deleted]

Growing up I wanted to live in the 1890s so I could liberate women.

ALL ON MY OWN, GUYS! I imagined I would be like "Dude, skirts and petticoats are *so annoying*, let's just wear pants." And be all rebellious.

I may or may not have acted this out in pretend a few times.

[Deleted]

Race and gender and all that aside, I'd be blind.

I don't think they could make glasses as thick as I needed.

And there wasn't LASIK.

[Wrath0fKuus]

Maybe I'd go back sometime in the past before the Dark Ages, like maybe check out Minoan society or something. They were pretty cool by all accounts, right?

[Deleted]

Also, even if I'd lived in China, I'd be all oppressed, barely hobbling about with my teeny-tiny, stinky bound feet.

[iamgrace]

Not even a little.

I like my life expectancy, modern medicine and other conveniences, amongst many other things.

[Deleted]

I can see myself as a Phoenician seafarer. Rolling around sightseeing at all of the ancient Mediterranean civilizations.

[smock]

Mar 28, 2013 16:22:45 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

Also, even if I'd lived in China, I'd be all oppressed, barely hobbling about with my teeny-tiny, stinky bound feet.

Bound feet only started 1,000 years ago, so if you go back farther your feet will be fine. You'll still be blind, though, lol.

[Deleted]

Rich and white in the 30's/40's doesn't sound terrible.

[smock]

Mar 28, 2013 16:30:24 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

Rich and white in the 30's/40's doesn't sound terrible.

Great Depression? WWII? Even if you're rich, that shit has to suck. (the clothes are nice, though.)