What era/decade did you miss out on or want to relive?
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steveo3002 said:
id not mind a look at 50s-80s USA if i could avoid all the bad stuff like getting sent to Vietnam etc
You’d really enjoy Bill Bryson’s book “The Thunderbolt Kid”, it’s is early life which is basically this period. There’s another good similar coming of age book called Rocket kids or something like that, I’ll find it…Rocket Boys by Homer Hickan, turned into a film called October Sky apparently
pablo said:
You’d really enjoy Bill Bryson’s book “The Thunderbolt Kid”, it’s is early life which is basically this period.
That is a good book.My Dad (the same age as Bryson) told me that the US (and Vancouver, Canada, where his cousin lived) seemed very exotic and advanced to him when he was growing up in NW England.
We have caught up since, and arguably passed them in some senses.
Joey Deacon said:
Or, is it to quote the Manic Street Preachers "There's nothing nice in my head, The adult world took it all away"? Personally I don't think anything changed as such on 9/11, but the transition from no resposibility to adult responsibilities is slow and unperceivable. It is only when you stop and look back at when you were younger that you dream of those times again.
I think this is the main reason people are into cars and music from earlier eras, it just takes them back and nostalgia sells.
Yeah it's obviosuly a bit of this, I wasn't a NYC firefighter at the time I think this is the main reason people are into cars and music from earlier eras, it just takes them back and nostalgia sells.
but it just seemed to coincide perfectly with the end of my adolescence and the firm start of adulthood with a hammer blow and that was that.2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
jdw100 said:
The 1720s.
I like the fashion.
Just 22 minutes ago! I like the fashion.
If not the 1720s how about the 2250s? I enjoyed those.
Or maybe the 2140s, when my time-machine finally worked.
Mind you, that first femtosecond of expansion...good times, we had a right laugh back then and you could buy a beer for under a fiver...happy days.
I'm happy enough with the way things are now in my own little world, i once read that constantly looking backwards is a sign of depression and constantly wanting to kmnow what the future holds is a sign of anxiety
Or
The past is history, the future is unknown, now is a gift which is why it's called the present.
Or
The past is history, the future is unknown, now is a gift which is why it's called the present.
I am quite happy in the current era, I just wish I had enough money to not have to worry or care about anything. All this Woke/Covid/Inflation/Supply shortages/eco Armageddon stuff is just noise, just turn off your TV, delete social media, stop reading the news and it no longer becomes a problem. It is ultimately pointless worrying about it as you have zero control over it anyway.
If I had enough money to live a life where everything was taken care of and I literally didn't even have to get out of bed if I didn't want to I would be a much happier person.
I would imagine all eras in mankind have been great as long as you had enough money.
If I had enough money to live a life where everything was taken care of and I literally didn't even have to get out of bed if I didn't want to I would be a much happier person.
I would imagine all eras in mankind have been great as long as you had enough money.
Yes, I'd agree with the 1980's, being a child of '67. Wondrous memories.
Although, and it may seem strange, I have a desire to have lived a similar age period during WW2, like my father.
The concept of collective to beat pure evil; whatever the cost.
Don't believe it would ever happen again. We now appear to live in the century of the self.
S
Although, and it may seem strange, I have a desire to have lived a similar age period during WW2, like my father.
The concept of collective to beat pure evil; whatever the cost.
Don't believe it would ever happen again. We now appear to live in the century of the self.
S
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