What age would you choose to live?

[Drunk Clown]

Oh, and what does this mean?

As you first said: Great thrash

Man, the stuff the youngsters of today listen to. They don't even know The Who anymore.

Ofcourse not, did you expect it then?

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Lady GaGa

[Megas Methuselah]

I would post some Three 6 Mafia, but Lemur would probably ban me again.

Enjoy this instead, s'better:

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

I would post some Three 6 Mafia, but Lemur would probably ban me again.

Enjoy this instead, s'better:

Oh no, Native americans! RUN!

Seriously though cool vid.

[plutoboyz]

14th century. here. ahh... its nice for being royal families.

[antisocialmunky]

As long as you are a Byzantine.

[Cadwalader]

I know life was unimaginably harder back then, but I'd like to live in the Roman Empire, perhaps during Augustus' reign. I have a fantasy where I travel to the north to create grammars of Gaulish and Germanic. I'd take as many copies as possible and make sure they'd survive the test of time.

[artaxerxes]

Well, actually, who are you? I mean, they probably "can't explain", but if Methusaleh won't get fooled again, the kids should be alright.

seriously the best comment I've ever read in here! for you:
(and I'm 20 years of age and I've seen the Who live, so restore your faith in the modern youth)

Plutoboyz, as for the 14th century. Can you spell P-L-A-G-U-E ?

As for me, if I could be a Macedonian general, the period c. 325-260 BC would just be fantastic: I mean, everybody-versus-everybody. For example I love the fates of fx Pyrrhus or Demetrios Poliocertes (no idea bout the spelling), who lost and won kingdoms SEVERAL times. Actually the Cambridge Ancient History itself remarks; "everything was possible in the fantastic world of Hellenistic politics". I know it must have been a cruel time, but I just love a big mess. The Period of Migrations in Europe, with the Goths and Huns and Vandals would be another one of those periods. Where everything's confusion and there are no set rules and adventure everywhere.
But obviously those periods would only be cool if you were a commander + a very talented commander (being a lousy commander is prolly more fun in peace time). So if I can't choose what to be, I'd rather try the 1960's and 70's. Sounds like they were fun :)

[Badass Buddha]

I'd be happy with most periods/regions pre-1600, as long as I was nobility of some sort. Regardless of which awesome civilization you live in, shit sucks if you're a slave washing clothes with pee.

[Cute Wolf]

I'd be happy with most periods/regions pre-1600, as long as I was nobility of some sort. Regardless of which awesome civilization you live in, shit sucks if you're a slave washing clothes with pee.

did you have some kind a noble blood today? if not, you are definitely a peasant washing noble clothes with pee

[Duguntz]

did you have some kind a noble blood today? if not, you are definitely a peasant washing noble clothes with pee

I do have noble blood! Though I already said that I'd live in the Neolitic period, in CANADA. No nobility there, as long as I proove myself as a man and hunter! Going back to the roots of my people. Yeah, speaking of wich, makes me nostalgic when i think about that!

[Hannibal Khan the Great]

I would be a charismatic military genius in England in 1066, so that I could stop William and save Anglaland from being Romanized by those philoromaioi Franco-Normans....

[Duguntz]

I would be a charismatic military genius in England in 1066, so that I could stop William and save Anglaland from being Romanized by those philoromaioi Franco-Normans....

You damned red-coat... pfff XD

[Ibrahim]

nah, I'd stick to the early Abbasid era.

Arab, young, and academically good, I could be the next jahith

[Megas Methuselah]

I do have noble blood! Though I already said that I'd live in the Neolitic period, in CANADA. No nobility there, as long as I proove myself as a man and hunter! Going back to the roots of my people. Yeah, speaking of wich, makes me nostalgic when i think about that!

Lack of nobility...? Are you sure, man? Maybe not nobility in the European sense, but hereditary positions in many Amerindian societies in present-day Canada were common during the early colonial period and likely the pre-colonial period, as well. My own ancestors were hereditary chiefs since the earliest periods of recorded history in the Great Plains, and certainly long before the European colonization of my homeland.

[Duguntz]

Lack of nobility...? Are you sure, man? Maybe not nobility in the European sense, but hereditary positions in many Amerindian societies in present-day Canada were common during the early colonial period and likely the pre-colonial period, as well. My own ancestors were hereditary chiefs since the earliest periods of recorded history in the Great Plains, and certainly long before the European colonization of my homeland.

Completly true. I was speaking solely in term of nobility understood in European fashion. in our people's fashion, we shopuld speak more of a hereditory social position than of a title of nobility, in my opinion. of corse I speak knowing my knowledge about past or our people isn't as deep as yours :S

[Megas Methuselah]

Completly true. I was speaking solely in term of nobility understood in European fashion. in our people's fashion, we shopuld speak more of a hereditory social position than of a title of nobility, in my opinion. of corse I speak knowing my knowledge about past or our people isn't as deep as yours :S

Yeah, you right, you right. Exceptions probably made for the chiefdoms, hereditary positions were more of a strict responsibility than a right or privilege. In the northern bands of the Great Plains, if you weren't doing what your people wanted you to do, then they would just leave your band and migrate to the band of another chief, if not simply strip you of your responsibility outright. Besides, power was also shared with the council, the elders, and the warchiefs, so once again, being a hereditary chief was more about representing the will of your people rather than being something of an absolute monarch (in the case of my own ancestors, anyways).

Of course, the role of chief wasn't always hereditary in present-day Canada, nor was it the only hereditary position in many cases. After all, Canada is a huuuuuuge place, spanning across 1/3 to 1/2 of a huuuuuuge continent, and the countless cultures vary... alot. This should probably be taken into account, since we live half-way across the continent from each other, my Algonquin brother.

[Duguntz]

Yeah, you right, you right. Exceptions probably made for the chiefdoms, hereditary positions were more of a strict responsibility than a right or privilege. In the northern bands of the Great Plains, if you weren't doing what your people wanted you to do, then they would just leave your band and migrate to the band of another chief, if not simply strip you of your responsibility outright. Besides, power was also shared with the council, the elders, and the warchiefs, so once again, being a hereditary chief was more about representing the will of your people rather than being something of an absolute monarch (in the case of my own ancestors, anyways).

Of course, the role of chief wasn't always hereditary in present-day Canada, nor was it the only hereditary position in many cases. After all, Canada is a huuuuuuge place, spanning across 1/3 to 1/2 of a huuuuuuge continent, and the countless cultures vary... alot. This should probably be taken into account, since we live half-way across the continent from each other, my Algonquin brother.

It should certainly be taken into consideration! as the distinction is to be made between cultural groups (algonquin, Cree, Mohawks, etc...) but also, each band had their own habits and traditions ;) As for algonquin, the ''political'' power was mostly in the hands of the women as it was a matriarcal society, the role of cheif, though having power within the band, was more concentrated on war and commerces, alliances, well, inter-band questions. but at home, hehe, mama ruled (along with the elders). Wich was very surprising for Champlain when he made alliance with the algonquin against the Iroquois and the red-coats, as his emissaries told him that, though men were speaking, decision were, for a big part, made by women! (what a change, for a european who's used to the egemony of man!) this is about all i know about the politics of my ancestors!

I've a question, I told you my people, i don't recall (or maybe don't remember) where you come from, i know the name of your ancestor, but not even what group he was from!

[athanaric]

nah, I'd stick to the early Abbasid era.

Arab, young, and academically good, I could be the next jahith

Or taken out in some intrigue. (Cue tasteless head/off joke...)


That said, for me it would be the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century. As an English or German gentleman. With money...
Imperial Rome/China/(Sasanid) Persia/Japan would be nice places, too.

Wich was very surprising for Champlain when he made alliance with the algonquin against the Iroquois and the red-coats, as his emissaries told him that, though men were speaking, decision were, for a big part, made by women!

Oh it's the same in Europe and Asia, just a lot more subtle.

[Ibrahim]

Or taken out in some intrigue. (Cue tasteless head/off joke...)

nah, I'd stay the **** away from the court; I'll keep to a library.

That said, for me it would be the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century. As an English or German gentleman. With money...

well, hopefully you won't squander the money-that would be pretty unpleasant.

[athanaric]

nah, I'd stay the **** away from the court; I'll keep to a library.

A very wise decision. I admit that the life of an Arab or Persian scholar back in those days looks very appealing.

well, hopefully you won't squander the money

Heh, I'm much too greedy for that. Plus, I hate gambling and drinking (as in, people getting drunk) with a passion. Tends to save a lot of money.

[Power2the1]

I would be a charismatic military genius in England in 1066, so that I could stop William and save Anglaland from being Romanized by those philoromaioi Franco-Normans....

This would be another. The Isles with, primarily, a Celtic-Saxon blend I think would be a great 'what if' scenario. Someone should write a book about that. Harold put up a great fight against both Viking and then Norman, and fought with his men like a true king in the Saxon shieldwall.

[Hannibal Khan the Great]

This would be another. The Isles with, primarily, a Celtic-Saxon blend I think would be a great 'what if' scenario. Someone should write a book about that. Harold put up a great fight against both Viking and then Norman, and fought with his men like a true king in the Saxon shieldwall.

Hehe, of course after Normandy in my version Wales would be next. Then Scotland. But the traditional (Germanic-style) Anglo-Saxon Common Law was really a whole lot nicer than (roman influenced) Frankish Feudalism, especially for the average dude. The only downside to the Anglo-Saxons was that they were constantly being attacked.

[mountaingoat]

the time when EB2 is released ? .... so somewhere around 3030 ad?

[Megas Methuselah]

I've a question, I told you my people, i don't recall (or maybe don't remember) where you come from, i know the name of your ancestor, but not even what group he was from!

Depending on how you look at it, I guess one could say I am Cree, Saulteaux, and Metis.

[Duguntz]

the time when EB2 is released ? .... so somewhere around 3030 ad?

don't worry, it will come. But when it will be finally released, the chimps may have evolved into a new branch of humanity... EB is trying to evolve, and for what we know, evolution takes millions of years ;)

[Brennus]

With what I know now, head back to La Tene Europe, warn the Gauls of the Celts, and have a c. 390 Rome sack repeat itself in 50 B.C. The Gauls, Dacians, Thracians, Iberian, and other languages and cultures might still be preserved today for our enjoyment...

Then again the 1980 rocked. Great thrash, speed, and general heavy metal (not hair metal really) to be found and band in their prime.

Come on you gotta love a bit of Glam, Motley Crue and Poison boths kicked ass!

I'd like to go back either to the 1980s or to when to first person turned up at the site which would become Rome and tell him to move on as this place isnt very good.

[Poulp']

London, 1973, Earl Court, Queen concert.
I'd live happily after that.

[jirisys]

don't worry, it will come. But when it will be finally released, the chimps may have evolved into a new branch of humanity... EB is trying to evolve, and for what we know, evolution takes millions of years ;)

Actually, it's thousands, not millions

~Jirisys (your daily source for evolution)

[Ibrahim]

don't worry, it will come. But when it will be finally released, the chimps may have evolved into a new branch of humanity... EB is trying to evolve, and for what we know, evolution takes millions of years ;)

Its worth pointing out that if chimps evolve into creatures similar to us behavioraly, they would not be a new branch of human.

[jirisys]

Its worth pointing out that if chimps evolve into creatures similar to us behavioraly, they would not be a new branch of human.

Correct, i seem to have skipped that

~Jirisys (your daily source on evolution, that might skip a couple of things)