Other Times/Places Alive You'd Like to Have Been Alive

Started by Queequeg, April 08, 2010, 03:40:39 PM

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Ed Anger

Quote from: Caliga on April 08, 2010, 05:31:53 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 08, 2010, 05:26:16 PM
or the past. I want to ejaculate into the primordial ooze.
You're not supposed to do shit like that.  Didn't you read that one book?  You'll come back to the present and find that we have President Hitler, not Obama.  :(

Obama is Hitler. So I already did it.

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Barrister

Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 08, 2010, 05:28:33 PM
The US right after WWII, as long as I'm not black.  Everybody is making money.  Your country owns the whole world.  Idiots are getting good jobs.  All women are thin.

I dunno - how good a time would it have been to be half Korean?   :huh:
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Admiral Yi

Quote from: Barrister on April 08, 2010, 05:38:12 PM
I dunno - how good a time would it have been to be half Korean?   :huh:
I dunno.  How good a time would it have been to be living in late Republican Rome or Victorian England if you're Ukranian?

Barrister

Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 08, 2010, 05:42:00 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 08, 2010, 05:38:12 PM
I dunno - how good a time would it have been to be half Korean?   :huh:
I dunno.  How good a time would it have been to be living in late Republican Rome or Victorian England if you're Ukranian?

Well you're the one that threw in the "as long as you're not balack" proviso.  Personally, I think late Republican Rome would be a dump no matter what your heritage, and Victirian England... if you had money and spoke perfect English I don't think they'd care about your heritage (as long as you're white).
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Jacob

Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 08, 2010, 05:42:00 PM
I dunno.  How good a time would it have been to be living in late Republican Rome or Victorian England if you're Ukranian?

Is there any time or place it'd be a good time to be Ukrainian?

Grallon

Hmmm


I'd walk to the Domus Publica the night before the Ides of March and demand to see Caesar, say as a freedman of Servilia on a mission from her mistress.  Then I'd explain everything that's gonna happen and watch the great man either : a) have me killed or b) take steps to avoid the conspiracy of the next day.  Imagine, seeing History change under your very eyes!


Other than that I wouldn't mind visiting China under the Tang dynasty or have a taste of the life of the french aristocracy just before the Revolution.





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Admiral Yi

Quote from: Barrister on April 08, 2010, 05:47:09 PM
Well you're the one that threw in the "as long as you're not balack" proviso.
Point taken. :weep:

Barrister

Quote from: Jacob on April 08, 2010, 05:49:25 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 08, 2010, 05:42:00 PM
I dunno.  How good a time would it have been to be living in late Republican Rome or Victorian England if you're Ukranian?

Is there any time or place it'd be a good time to be Ukrainian?

It's always a good time to be Ukrainian.   :cool:
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The Larch

Roaring 20s in Paris or Berlin would have been cool, as well.

The Larch

Quote from: Barrister on April 08, 2010, 05:52:38 PM
Quote from: Jacob on April 08, 2010, 05:49:25 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 08, 2010, 05:42:00 PM
I dunno.  How good a time would it have been to be living in late Republican Rome or Victorian England if you're Ukranian?

Is there any time or place it'd be a good time to be Ukrainian?

It's always a good time to be Ukrainian.   :cool:

Definitely not in 1932-33.  :hmm:

Martinus

Quote from: Barrister on April 08, 2010, 05:52:38 PM
Quote from: Jacob on April 08, 2010, 05:49:25 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 08, 2010, 05:42:00 PM
I dunno.  How good a time would it have been to be living in late Republican Rome or Victorian England if you're Ukranian?

Is there any time or place it'd be a good time to be Ukrainian?

It's always a good time to be Ukrainian.   :cool:

Especially when you want to test various Game for Gustav scenarios in real life. :P

Queequeg

Quote from: Barrister on April 08, 2010, 05:52:38 PM
It's always a good time to be Ukrainian.   :cool:
Considering they were just Russians with a bit of a Polish accent before the mid-late 19th Century, that isn't much of a timespan, even if it were a good one.
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Barrister

Quote from: Queequeg on April 08, 2010, 05:59:14 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 08, 2010, 05:52:38 PM
It's always a good time to be Ukrainian.   :cool:
Considering they were just Russians with a bit of a Polish accent before the mid-late 19th Century, that isn't much of a timespan, even if it were a good one.

Trap - spotted.  Troll - averted.   :showoff:
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