Ever wish you were born 100 years or more earlier?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Ever wish you were born 100 years or more earlier? (Page 1 of 2)

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:54:00 PM EDT

Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong century. Would have been better off in the 1800's. Simple life.

Anyone else feel that way?

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:55:02 PM EDT

[#1]

Yes, then I come to my senses, and realize that I like indoor plumbing and technology.

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:55:03 PM EDT

[#2]

Life's what you make it. You can live a simple life today if you choose to.

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:55:13 PM EDT

[#3]

No, life wasn't as simple as you want to believe. It was hard labor, brutish and generally short.

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:55:35 PM EDT

[#4]

Nope. I would have died twice already.

My Dad would be dead.

My Mother would be dead.

My brother would be dead.

My sister would be the only one left.

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:55:43 PM EDT

[#5]

Think of the BO.

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:57:12 PM EDT

[#6]

Chicks would be stank and have big old bushes. After the advent of the douche, razors, waxing, perfume, lipstick, learn how to suck cock via internet porn.... life is better now

But I know what you are saying.

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:57:15 PM EDT

[#7]

Yes.

1880s - 1890's for me would be perfect.

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:57:58 PM EDT

[#8]

working the mines when I turned 12 like my great grandfather? No thanks.

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:58:10 PM EDT

[#9]

I wouldn't mind the 50's. A little slower pace but still modern conveniences.

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:58:43 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong century. Would have been better off in the 1800's. Simple life.

Anyone else feel that way?

Well, you wouldn't have been able to start 4 GD threads a night in the 1800's.

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:58:44 PM EDT

[#11]

I like semiautomatic weapons, reliable cars, modern plumbing, modern medicine and women that shave their legs. So, no.

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:59:01 PM EDT

[#12]

am I still white?

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:59:20 PM EDT

[#13]

I wish I were alive to see the reign of Emperor Trajan. Roughly 1900 years ago.

Posted: 1/5/2012 5:59:42 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Yes, then I come to my senses, and realize that I like indoor plumbing and technology.

And not dying by 30 yoa.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:02:05 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
I wouldn't mind the 50's. A little slower pace but still modern conveniences.

Big +1

I love that era

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:02:44 PM EDT

[#16]

Easy access to laudanum vs easy access to antibiotics and decent dentistry .... Tough call

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:05:07 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Yes, then I come to my senses, and realize that I like indoor plumbing and technology.

And not dying by 30 yoa.

Hell theres a reason people had alot of kids. Alot died before two years of age.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:07:04 PM EDT

[#18]

I'd have killed my mother trying to birth me. I was a full term plus C-Section baby. 9 lbs and an ounce. They said I was even cut out with a ring around my head from trying to be pushed out. If we both wound up surviving that, the fact that I was a meconium aspiration case would have done me.

100 years ago, there was no penicillin. If you got sick or infected, you likely died. Flu epidemics killed hundreds of thousands of people a year. Cholera and Dysentery were rampant. Most diseases that are unheard of today were still around.

Life then is portrayed as simple and idealistic, but the reality was, you worked 12 hours a day, or more, six, or six and a half days a week, just to scratch, claw, and eek out a living. There was no leisure. It was work, work, work, die. And die at a young age.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:08:26 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong century. Would have been better off in the 1800's. Simple life.

Anyone else feel that way?

Yes

Hundreds of delusional arfcommers feel that way.

I'm not one of them

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:09:02 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I wouldn't mind the 50's. A little slower pace but still modern conveniences.

Big +1

I love that era

As someone else said though, I wouldn't want to have been black. There were still a lot of "sunset laws" in the midwest (and probably the NE too) and they were not treated as equals anywhere. Having said that though and being white, I stand by my original post. The cars, styles and manners back then were pretty cool!

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:13:40 PM EDT

[#21]

i like refrigeration.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:15:01 PM EDT

[#22]

You ever see those little pocket Derringers from back then, and think, 'Who the fuck would carry that?" It's like a black powder .22 with a two inch barrel. Getting shot back then was serious shit. The threat of it was a good deterrent. If you got shot, you probably got infected. That probably meant death. Or they'd amputate it. Infection/death again.

Now, unless it's CNS or certain parts of center mass, if you can get it treated quick enough, you'll probably live. That's why thugs are so fearless. They all know multiple people alive who have been shot. It's not a big deal anymore.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:21:33 PM EDT

[#23]

I spend about 30 minutes every morning on Shorpy.com and I've pretty much convinced myself that I was born about 80yrs late

For those that've never been there....check it out. It's got THOUSANDS of old glass-plate images from the Civil War to the turn of the 19th/20th centuries

and some really nice stuff up until the mid-70's.

Click on the "View full size" link and it's about the next best thing to a time machine you're gonna find

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:23:19 PM EDT

[#24]

I would have loved to have livedin the 60's and 70's.

I'd skip the 80's, take in parts of the 90's, and then coast along in modern times.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:24:20 PM EDT

[#25]

I would have bought a shit ton of pre-NFA items if I was born 100 years earlier.

Wouldn't mind cruisin' around in a 29 Ford. I'd have to wait until I'd be 44 to get one though

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:24:24 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
I wouldn't mind the 50's. A little slower pace but still modern conveniences.

this would be about the right period of time for me.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:26:31 PM EDT

[#27]

Born black in 1865? yeah I'll pass

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:28:58 PM EDT

[#28]

Nope.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:29:05 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Born black in 1865? yeah I'll pass

free room and board, what are you complaining about?

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:29:46 PM EDT

[#30]

Hell no

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:30:12 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong century. Would have been better off in the 1800's. Simple life.

Anyone else feel that way?

1500's for me.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:32:11 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong century. Would have been better off in the 1800's. Simple life.

Anyone else feel that way?

Yes

Hundreds of delusional arfcommers feel that way.

I'm not one of them

Most who say that would have been equally filled with discontent and yearning for another mythical time and place had they been born when they claim they would want to have been.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:32:51 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong century. Would have been better off in the 1800's. Simple life.

Anyone else feel that way?

1500's for me.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/von_landstuhl/ulrich.jpg

Most people never survived childhood.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:34:17 PM EDT

[#34]

If I were born 100 years ago my eyesight would probably have left me dead in the snow before I hit 5 years old.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:35:40 PM EDT

[#35]

I wish I could have been an engineer in the aviation/defense industry starting from about 1940 or so. Other than that, nah, I'm pretty happy here and now.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:36:15 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
Chicks would be stank and have big old bushes. After the advent of the douche, razors, waxing, perfume, lipstick, learn how to suck cock via internet porn.... life is better now

But I know what you are saying.

this
i enjoy having a clean home, AC in summer, (i do heat with wood in the winter though), and the general lack of diseases that can kill you.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:37:23 PM EDT

[#37]

Not really. I've come a long way, baby.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:38:40 PM EDT

[#38]

Fifty would be good enough. I like indoor plumbing.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:39:17 PM EDT

[#39]

Oh yeah. I know I was born 150 years too late

If possible, I would live in the mountains and trap and hunt for a living
I'd come down for flour and beans twice a year

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:39:28 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Born black in 1865? yeah I'll pass

free room and board, what are you complaining about?

I don't mean to sound ungrateful and all but I've got all the ball and chain I need right now ...in fact I think I hear her calling

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:40:37 PM EDT

[#41]

I doubt most women shaved 100 years ago.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:42:03 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:

Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong century. Would have been better off in the 1800's. Simple life.

Anyone else feel that way?

For most people it was a lot of 16+ hour days.

I would like to have seen the country when it was first settled by Europeans. There are amazing accounts of fields of turkeys, rivers covered in geese. Although I would not want to face the survival challenges of starvation, disease and the occaissional dust up with the indians, I would love to have been able to see the New York City, Hudson Valley, Catskills and Adirondacks back then.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:43:10 PM EDT

[#43]

Willoughby, next stop Willoughby!

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:43:35 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:

I would have loved to have livedin the 60's and 70's.

I'd skip the 80's, take in parts of the 90's, and then coast along in modern times.

The 80s were a time of extreme awesomeness, trust me.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:44:03 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

Yes, then I come to my senses, and realize that I like indoor plumbing and technology.

... modern dental hygiene and anesthaesia

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:44:52 PM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
I doubt most women shaved 100 years ago.

They did not. If you've ever had a woman with a nasty yeast infection, imagine that perpetually. This is why things like the internet were invented.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:45:02 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:
Willoughby, next stop Willoughby!

Remember how that ended though?

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:48:13 PM EDT

[#48]

I would love to have been able to see what Lewis and Clark saw.

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:48:25 PM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Willoughby, next stop Willoughby!

Remember how that ended though?

Yeah but, that's open to interpretation (

). The dude died sure but....did he still get to "live" in Willoughby?

I like to think that he did

Posted: 1/5/2012 6:49:57 PM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Willoughby, next stop Willoughby!

Remember how that ended though?

Yep. That's why I brought it up.

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