h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

And if so why?

I think I should have been about 20 in 1970 because I think that secretly I'd have really enjoyed wearing kaftans. I'd definitely have objected to the Vietnam War and would have worn flowers in my hair.



Anna

No!

Not in the past anyway, because I couldn't watse my working life hanging around here if I was around before h2g2.

Have thought about this before but give up because I would no doubt have been the scullery maid rather than the high-born lady in the big frock

This time (at least in the UK) is the first time that I have great opportunities in life and work regardless of my sex and station.

k

Hear hear Kelli. I am glad to be living in this age of opportunity. I look at the generation before mine and still see that "little woman in the kitchen" thing. I cannot imagine living in an age where the only ambition a woman had was to be the perfect wife and mother . But saying that - I wish we still had the music of the 60's, 70's and 80's.....oh, wait a minute, that's right...we do! Except they are sh*te covers recorded by people who cannot sing for toffee, "mixed" onto a sh*te garage/hip-hop/trance beat.

Yep,

Either in the medieval / dark ages, but i'd have to be in the monied classes so I could ponce about in full armour and be a knight.

Or in the future once we have interstellar travel so I can ponce of and explore strange new worlds.

Either way, sometime when there was a) large amounts of undiscovered / unexplored territory b) the opportunity and means to explore it.

The one thing I find most infuriating about the current age is that we know there are other worlds out there in space (no earth like ones yet, but....) but don;t have the means to go there in person and explore them.

Going for a weekend in Bognor isn't quite the same.

Sir Ictoan (Space Explorer Extrordinaire)

Yeah, I'd have to say the same as Ictoan about exploring. Also maybe feudal Japan would have been a nice place.

Although I would love to have worn those lovely full skirts that were fashionable in the 1950s, I wouldn't want to live in any other age. I'm too used to the facilities (plumbing, electronics, transport, you name it) and opportunities that I have in this age to be able to cope with the past. And I think the future would probably take some getting used to - new technologies, possibly new culture or outlook on life. So I'm quite happy with when I am, thank you.

Yeah
Born 1980
Should have been born 1945

My life is dominated by music and footie. was great between 1955 and 1975, whilst Leeds United were the best team in Europe between 1965 and 1970.

*Correction*

Best team in Europe between 65 and 75.

Why didn't they win the European Cup in those yeas then.

I wear flared trousers, target t-shirts and listen to The who all the time.

I think we all know when I belong.

I have been more or less like this since 1987, when I got disillusioned with the copycat nature of pop culture. Not bad for a ten-year-old.

Check out link below (posting 7?) I'm not biased Flanker - honest..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F19585?thread=198102

Oh, I'm very content with the age I've been born in

Although, if I had the choice, I think I maybe would like to have lived in the 1960s, since that's still the kind of music I like. Or maybe even the 1930s (have you tried getting away with liking Fred Astaire movies when you're a teenager at this day and age )

If I continue with the thought that I was 20 in 1970, then I would be able to just about catch The Jam at their prime, despite be a sad (older) hippy. Hypothetically speaking, my loyalties would have changed mid-way through the '70s

Yeah, 50s and 60s music is great. I would like to have lived in the American 50s, the kind they had in Happy Days and Grease.

Actually, that's true: so you could enjoy The Who and The Jam.

Of course, we're about to have another mod revival in music. Heh heh heh [plays bass riff to My Generation]

Hooray! Natalie will be pleased

I let her know about this thread actually

[plays riff again, coughs, falls over]

Hmm. That's the second time today. I should get my inner ear checked.

I would have liked to have been old enough to be involved in the internet from the start.

I would have also liked to have been around for the eighties. But thats only because I like Spectrums and the Sex Pistols

Not so much a different age as a different world, I think... some books I've read (fantasy among other things) make me wish I could have experienced it...

...by the way - I didn't choose the nick name Titania - my RL friends chose it for me and use it in RL...

*resurrects thread*

This is one of the things I talk about all the time! I constantly feel misplaced in time. Like I was born too late or too early. I reckon I should have been a 1930's baby...with carnivals and Marilyn Monroe to idolise...or born in old time Israel...or 19th century Paris...somewhere aside from here. Being born in teh mid-80's means I missed out on electronic pop, grunge, and just lost the edge of decent metal...so my music tastes crystallised properly around 1998...which wasn't the best year for music...and I was too young for the horrors of war to be drilled into my head...but old enough to be rendered obselete in my view of the world by TV...the game consoles of my youth are SNES and the MEgadrive.

Luckily my Mum injected some 60's/70's taste in my head before it was too late.

But still, misplaced.