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Spart
12-05-2006, 22:02
This Topic is more dear to me than many will ever know. Before Guns and modern technology everything was so simple, wars were won via skill not by bombs etc. (Though I do love playing computer games and I do not see myself being very entertained without one or a TV [alas what has become of this hedonistic society we call modernisation])

This is for all of you to have fun with

You know you are born in the wrong time period when you order your men to charge against heavily fortified trenches armed to the teeth with machine guns and the only protection they have is the clothes on their backs and a suspect quality helmet, and they are fighting in the Somme region.
Lorenzo_H
12-05-2006, 22:25
yeah i often ponder this sort of thing myself.

I'm not sure i was born in the ideal time, though I cant really compare. I intend to spend a few years of my life in the Army, to see what its like. I'm quite good at history and I kind of know what it was like to fight back then. Notice "kind of"; the emotions are probably immpossible to reproduce.
naut
12-06-2006, 04:41
When the only music you listen to is from the 60s and 70s.
macsen rufus
12-06-2006, 14:17
When you really wish your home town still had a slave market....
caravel
12-06-2006, 14:22
When you practice your swordsmanship in the kitchen between chopping the onions and mincing the garlic... :embarassed:

Good technique though... :yes:
Conqueror
12-06-2006, 18:28
You know that you are born in the right time period when you can live through your life without being forced to fight and die for the petty ambitions of some inbred monarch.
Lorenzo_H
12-06-2006, 18:43
You know when you were born at the wrong time when you are forced to become a eunuch at birth. Or even worse, in later life.
Napoleon Blownapart
12-07-2006, 00:45
When you design tanks, machine guns, cluster bombs, parachutes and an underwater breathing apparatus, but were born in the 15th century.

If you can't guess who that is, shame on you.
Lorenzo_H
12-07-2006, 09:43
Leonardo Da Vinci?
naut
12-07-2006, 11:36
Leonardo Da Vinci?
Not to mention primitive Helicopters. :dizzy2:
Subedei
12-07-2006, 13:39
...if a guy with a funny hat and matches stands infront of a pile of wood and says: "If it ain´t the son/daughter of the witch here! Don´t you feel a bit cold?"

~:doh:
MSB
12-07-2006, 18:26
You work out that you can't send swordsmen into battle because nobody uses swords anymore.
UltraWar
12-07-2006, 19:19
...you want to take over....THE WORLD!
Luthiena
12-08-2006, 02:15
--- When you constantly attend Renaissance Faires (King Richards Faire, yo! xD)

--- When you write novels and short stories, it's almost always about ancient eras
Comrade Alexeo
12-08-2006, 03:30
...you're a historical reenactor :laugh4:
naut
12-08-2006, 04:20
...you're a historical reenactor :laugh4:
:laugh4:
Motep
12-08-2006, 04:38
When you spend 3,000 dollars on a roman helmet...and a headress
MSB
12-08-2006, 19:27
...you want to take over....THE WORLD!
WOW! I was born in the wrong time period :laugh4: