Which bit of time would you live in

[Andy Hamilton]

Silly question time.....

If old father time came up to you and shook his head stating that it is a mistake that you live in this day and age and banished you to find another period in history, where would you go?

I have always liked the sound of the middle ages, mind you would not like the dungeons and torture and the like.

[Wombat]

That's the thing isn't it Andy? Yep the middle ages perhaps, but as a nobleman rather than a serf!

I dunno, maybe the 1950s, there was a lot of cool stuff going on and you could travel without getting shot!

Nev

[Paddy's mum]

May be boring of me to say so but I'd rather stay right where I am! Most of the developed world now has good education, health capabilities and disease prevention have leapt forward in the past fifty years, and individuals have more freedom to develop themselves and their own abilities than has ever been known.

I wouldn't choose to go back to a time when women commonly died in childbirth, watched many of their children die in infancy, had no influence on the world around them, worked like oxen and were 'owned' by father or husband.

With all that is wrong with our world right now, we have a certain amount of power to try to change things - actions that were denied to so many for so many centuries.

Following Wombat's comment, if I could choose which level of society I would be at, I might be tempted to say Switzerland in the 19th century. They haven't fought a war for centuries, everyone has loadsamoney and I like the idea of swanning round in beautiful silk gowns all day while someone deals with my every whim!

Good topic, Andy - certainly got me thinking.

[green-girl]

I'm probably the most boring, but I am absolutely obsessed with the era of Laura Ingalls Wilder.... don't know how or why... I just am! If I had to choose when to live, I think it'd be then.

[the.fee.fairy]

i'd go for the middle Ages too Andy, there's all that handiwork to learn then, and all the foraging, and making food from fresh natural ingredints.

And they had pretty muddy huts...

[Boots]

hmmm... I think I would like to go back to the early 1900's to the time of the 'bright young things'... when women first stepped out, shrugged off their escorts, began riding bikes, smoking, cutting their hair, and joining the nightclub scene and dancing all night. I imagine that would have been a vital and quite inspired time.

Shame the war shut it all down again... Can I skip that bit?

[pskipper]

It would depend whether good ol' father time was going to undo all my vaccinations before he sent me and what I could take with me! Personally I think I'd pick a spot in medieval times when there weren't going to be any local wars/plagues for the rest of my life time and make d*mn sure I was a land owner and had proof I was a freeman.

[glenniedragon]

Salve! I'd go back to the time of the Roman Empire but stay here in Brittania. After all what have the romans ever done for us?
Legal system, wine, education, wine, medicine, wine, engineering, wine, rabbits, wine, central heating, wine, internal plumbing, wine, literature, wine, sanitation, wine, olive oil, wine and a single european currency (the denarius)

And the corner, after living in roundhouses for so long it must have been nice to be able to put up straight shelves, and have somewhere to stand your tools.

kind thoughts

Deb

[Paddy's mum]

Oh by heck ... I can surely go with the wine as every second word.

Why do you think I chose Jesus Christ as the number one guest at my supper?!!!!

[Karen_D]

I visit the Early Medieval period on a regular basis - Viking Age Living History, but I wouldn't want to live there. At least not in Europe, I could possibly do China 'cause I need tea in the morning to get started.

[Muddypause]

I think I'd go forward in time to the point where they invent the time machine

[Andy Hamilton]

I think I'd go forward in time to the point where they invent the time machine

I once read something about the paradox's that time machines can bring up. If you travel back in time and shoot yourself, you will miss. You will end up shooting yourself in the arm so that your aim would be slightly out due to the shot in the arm. Incidently me and DAve are not twins, one of us was sent back in time as a baby and stopped the other one from going back in time so there were two of us.

[Muddypause]

I think people misunderstand the nature of a time machine. I think, truthfully, it is a practical posibility to make a backwards-travelling time and space machine, but there will necessarily be certain design limitations.

You won't be able to travel back to a time before the time machine is invented.

This is because it will be a two part machine; a sort of transmitter and reciever set-up. One part will have to be set up at a time and place that we want future travellers to be able to visit. The second part will be in the future, and will be used by the time travellers to link to the first part in the past

And of course, you won't be able to interact with the past that you are visiting - only see and hear it. In other words, it will be more like observing the past through a window.

Hang on a mo. All this sounds a bit familiar. Seems the first time machine has already been invented after all. Weird that the most popular use for such a thing to is enable us to watch yesterday's events in the Big Brother household.

[Jarmara]

I would go to the late 1940's early1950's.
Why well ok it wasn't brilliant then for women but new gadgets for the home made housework easier it was ok to have a little pin job and nobody said to you "oh your just a housewife then" as if it ment you where a lesser being !!!!!Oh and the clothes then where fab too :)

[gunners71uk]

1950s i think