Post by vampsterdam on Mar 28, 2013 16:45:58 GMT -5
Hmm, I totally going to sound all "get off my lawn!", but sometimes I think I won't be able to handle people even 10 years from now.
It sounds so dramatic, but it's crazy to see how dumber people are getting from social media. Bad grammar, no filers, etc. Also, it's amazing how much personal information people put out there and how much of your life is tracked by technology. I know, I know. I totally sound like a person who hides in a corner from big brother, and I swear I'm not! Ha. I'm just wondering where people will draw the line in the future.
That being said, I don't know if I would prefer to live in another time period though.
I used to, but it was all the idealized fantasies and not real life. I think the real life would probably suck.
Yeah that's how I feel. Especially as a woman, going back to any other time period would be a huge shock. Like, people called Queen Elizabeth a trumpeting whore. Even super-rich noble women faced so many restrictions and discrimination.
Post by fluffaluff on Mar 28, 2013 17:05:48 GMT -5
Midnight in Paris, anyone? I'd love to rock poodle skirts, go out for a shake at the Diner while sitting at the bar listening to the jukebox and have "swell" and "well gee,..." Be normal phrases..guess I should just jump into a Norman Rockwell.
H's poa poa never bound her feet, but his gong gong did pay a dowry of goats, supposedly.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN
lololol poa poa is his maternal grandmother, gong gong is his maternal grandfather. If they were paternal, they would be nai nai and ye ye. Some of his cousins call poa poa nai nai instead and it throws me off.
lololol poa poa is his maternal grandmother, gong gong is his maternal grandfather. If they were paternal, they would be nai nai and ye ye. Some of his cousins call poa poa nai nai instead and it throws me off.
How many goats was his poa poa worth?
Do you think if I asked her, that would be offensive? Lol. I think there were also sheep and pigs involved. Maybe. There wasn't a receipt so I'm fuzzy on the details.
Post by sillygoosegirl on Mar 28, 2013 17:28:02 GMT -5
No, I don't think so. The past looks pretty bleak to me, and the future doesn't look much better. I think moving into permanent dwellings and developing agriculture may have been a mistake, so maybe I'd be okay living in the really distance past. On the other hand, I'd be pretty useless and bored in a pre-math/science society.
Anyway, I never would have been born if you moved my family very far into the past. My dad would have been the village idiot if he'd been born before they invented eye glasses, rather than a very successful engineer.
Post by sillygoosegirl on Mar 28, 2013 17:32:06 GMT -5
However, I'd love to be a tourist in another time period. Obviously I'd bring my own TP and medicine, just like when I was a tourist in India. And get evacuation insurance.
No, I don't think so. The past looks pretty bleak to me, and the future doesn't look much better. I think moving into permanent dwellings and developing agriculture may have been a mistake, so maybe I'd be okay living in the really distance past. On the other hand, I'd be pretty useless and bored in a pre-math/science society.
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?
You'd like the Etruscans, Kuus. Their. women were allowed to own property and they ate with their men! This horrified the Greeks lol
I used to say that I could have done well as renaissance-era royalty. Fair skin/hair, high forehead, big booty... Yeah, I would have been a damn super model. Never mind that pesky plague nonsense.
Post by darthnbjenni on Mar 28, 2013 20:00:35 GMT -5
All the time. I dream about being a courtier in the Tudor period, or living on the wide open prairie like Laura Ingalls. And then I randomly dream that Henry VIII just pops up in my car and is all like "what is this sorcery?".
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Mar 28, 2013 20:10:44 GMT -5
I'd like to live in the HBO/Showtime version of the Renaissance or Rome, and be one of the "super powerful in reality if not in name " women that they show. Like Atia (plus, you'd get to fuck Mark Antony, hellooooo) or Guilia Farnese (and have my portrait painted by Raphael). Plus the hair on those historical dramas is badass. But I like birth control and tampons and medications and stuff.