[fxbezak]

Simply, If you could live in ANY timer period, what time would it be.
Im gonna say the Medieval times.

[Lerkfish]

Originally posted by fxbezak:
Simply, If you could live in ANY timer period, what time would it be.
Im gonna say the Medieval times.

nah...REAL suits of armor weighed as much as 200 lbs, and knights had to be hoisted onto their steeds by winches (not wenches, which would have been a lot more fun). No one bathed, and fleas were commonplace. If you were getting married, the Lord had the option to break the hymen of your bride before you on the wedding night, and you had to just accept that (as did your bride) without complaint. Peasant life sucked like...like...peasant life. Even if you were of the aristocracy, and had the ill fortune not to be the FIRST born son, you would be sword fodder on the front lines of whatever war happened to be going on at the time.
The prevailing medical treatment was cutting open a vein and bleeding copious amounts of blood from you. If you survived, well, that was unusual. And let's talk about amputating limbs without anesthesia! woohoo!
Most people did not survive to see 30, and of course if that wasn't fun enough, there was the plague and various other diseases without benefit of antibiotics. Imagine a really bad upper respiratory infection that sidetracks you now for a couple of days would simply kill you as you progressed into pneumonia.

I know that Renaissance festivals glamorous this time period, but honestly, I think if half these folks were forced to leave behind their computers and star trek episodes and REALLY live in medieval times they'd be running through the forest shouting "help me mither wizard! help me mither wizard!" trying to get home.

Just my opinion, of course.

[fxbezak]

HAHAHHAHAHHAHA

thats very true. but I would still wanna leave during that time. It just seems neat.

All the exploration, the battles, the nobility

[SimeyTheLimey]

Originally posted by fxbezak:
All the exploration, the battles, the nobility

I think you have been watching too much Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[ringo]

1890s to 1920s, staying long enough to see the end of the Victorian era, the Edwardian age, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism and Art Deco first hand.
Let me stay long enough to see the stock market crash in '29, time warp me back sometime in early 1930.

[scottiB]

Five minutes into the future--then I'll never be late.

[Lerkfish]

Originally posted by scottiB:
Five minutes into the future--then I'll never be late.

nah, you'll just keep hitting the snooze button.

[Lerkfish]

Originally posted by ringo:
1890s to 1920s, staying long enough to see the end of the Victorian era, the Edwardian age, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism and Art Deco first hand.
Let me stay long enough to see the stock market crash in '29, time warp me back sometime in early 1930.

Having just rented "the time machine" I'd have to agree. There was so much going on during this period, and a general explosion of art and discovery that it might very well have been our most interesting as a species.

[MacGorilla]

2100. That way I can see what the earth looks like with no polar ice caps or fossil fuels.

[Alias]

January 14, 1947 - 7:42 AM.

Just Kidding! I'd go back to the Dot Com boom, and make a few billion dollars!!

[Tigerabbit]

�or February 2000, and start short-selling everything in sight.

[Captain Big Trousers]

400 years from now.

[Teronzhul]

I'd go back in time with copies of win 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, and xp. Kill Bill, assume his place, and slowly take over the world.