If you couldn't live in the 20th or 21st centuries, which previous century would you chose?

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:41, 95 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

22nd

( Peej, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:41, Reply)

Smart arse.
I have amended the question.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:42, Reply)

I was serious

( Peej, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:42, Reply)

Hover boards & scram jets FTW.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:43, Reply)

Hover boards and scramjets are both 20th/21st century

( Peej, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:44, Reply)

Not in terms of everyday use. Can you hop on a scram jet & get to Australia in two hours? Not yet.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:45, Reply)

They're not 22nd century either

( Peej, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:48, Reply)

i want a pink hoverboard

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:47, Reply)

Fuck off Michael J Fox

( Peej, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:48, Reply)

shut up
it would be so cool to hover down the strand
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:49, Reply)

Has a banana

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:51, Reply)

I wanna PITBULL!

( Peej, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:52, Reply)

why would they only work on the strand?

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:52, Reply)

Because the strand is made of magnets at the opposite pole of the hoverboard.

( Peej, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:55, Reply)

then it's not really a hover board is it? theres nothing to stop anyone copying the idea
I'M OUT
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:56, Reply)

It's all lies

( Peej, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:57, Reply)

im glad hes parkinsoned up to the max, due karma for telling fibs on the telly

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:58, Reply)

One of my first b3ta pictures


A Michael J Fox film
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:02, Reply)

Ha!

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:11, Reply)

I can't Strand losing

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:56, Reply)

Dont strand so close to me

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:11, Reply)

Stranding on the corner in case a certain little lady rolls by.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:13, Reply)

She wouldnt (ahem)
Strand up for falling down
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:24, Reply)

The strand (ard) of humour here has really declined.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:28, Reply)

Ok so I can't have 22nd anymore
So none of them. I'd probably already be dead from some easily preventable disease.
( Peej, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:43, Reply)

Or from tin poisoning from working down the mines.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:44, Reply)

I've changed my mind
Can I have THIS IS A SHIT THREAD BATTERED!
( Peej, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:48, Reply)

Yes. You may.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:49, Reply)

Thanks love

( Peej, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:51, Reply)

Anytime sweetie.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:52, Reply)

4th

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:48, Reply)

19th for me
I could well see myself as some kind of mill owner
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:49, Reply)

16th for me. I'd like to have taken part in the uprising in Norfolk - kicking the shit out of East Anglians.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:52, Reply)

RIP Darth

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:53, Reply)

I could also see myself taking part in the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh - kicking the shit out of the Scots.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:56, Reply)

Battle of Brown Eye

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:57, Reply)

being a pioneer in the old west
but without all the racism and land theft, ta.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:49, Reply)

2600 bc
And living in Sodom, happy times
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:51, Reply)

I thought Jason would be the one to nominate that period, what with him being a child of sodom.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:52, Reply)

Ah but it wasnt just mano e mano
they were all at it, Look at Lot offering his virgin daughters to angry mob to save some angels.
He then got to Fritzl his daughters while pissed in a cave. What a Ledge
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:09, Reply)

Ha!

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:11, Reply)

I'm glad you explained why you thought it would be Jason
I never would have guessed.
( Peej, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:21, Reply)

FIRST!!!!

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:51, Reply)

Depends - can I choose what class I'd be?
Because being a rich Victorian businessman would be fun, I reckon.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:54, Reply)

You would be a poor chimney sweep
who would then die after getting too fat to get back down the flume
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:10, Reply)

Flue

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:11, Reply)

Ah sorry to hear that here have a tissue

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:12, Reply)

Bless you.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:13, Reply)

Gaw lumme!

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:13, Reply)

Ello Marrey Poopins

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:23, Reply)

*choose
What a fucking chode.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:54, Reply)

122nd century BC

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:55, Reply)

20th Century
It was far simpler times. You could feel birds tits and no one said a word.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:55, Reply)

^ DLT ^

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:56, Reply)

*Gropes*

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:19, Reply)

TOTP
Thumbs On Teenage Poon
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:29, Reply)

13th

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:57, Reply)

Unlucky mon

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:58, Reply)

9th

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 10:59, Reply)

8th so I could meet Henry VIII and his eight wives because 8 is my favourite number

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:01, Reply)

Does it remind you of your one favourite fat lady?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:03, Reply)

Only when it's sideways

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:05, Reply)

Infinite possibilities

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:11, Reply)

Nah, just looks a bit like tits

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:12, Reply)

Ah man thats my best science joke for the day used up.

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:23, Reply)

LAST

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:07, Reply)

Oh God, there's literally nothing in any previous century
that would make the typhoid, tuberculosis, smallpox as well as any of the currently easily treatable conditions worth it. A bit of dermatitis is easily treated with a dab of steroid cream unless, that is, you live in any century prior to the 20th where you have to deal with disfigured skin instead.

No, I'm happy where I am, thanks.

In other news, I'm getting my engine rebored to a 2.1 litre. Though you might theoretically try to do that in the 19th century, I'm not sure you'd enough performance out of your Benz Patent-Motorwagen to make it worthwhile. Particularly since that was a 0.6 litre to start with.
( Kroney, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:15, Reply)

Changing the camshaft as well?

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:16, Reply)

Yeah, something like a Piper 272.
On the lumpier side of fruity, but not too wild. It is a daily, after all.
( Kroney, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:21, Reply)

And of course
prior to the 20th century you would have had to learn a number of different dialects as modern French didn't exist as such. You would also have been able to wear stilts to farm sheep
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:22, Reply)

I think I would have been an Occitanian.
Sun and wine are my kind of deal.
( Kroney, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:23, Reply)

Plus 8 arms eh that would be cool

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:24, Reply)

And a beak in my bum.

( Kroney, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:25, Reply)

We have a right laugh here don't we

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:22, Reply)

When you aren't here, yeah

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:22, Reply)

I'm always here, watching you

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:24, Reply)

Likewise....
(◉‿◉)
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:25, Reply)

My meeting yesterday was with Bruce Davison from X-Men
Its wasn't him but he fucking looked like him so it counts.
( Peej, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:32, Reply)

On this logic, Wolf from Gladiators started working here today. His name is John. He is well scruffy.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:36, Reply)

Silly frog,
someone has put up a mirror in your office...
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:38, Reply)

NO WAI!!
I don't have long curly hair, nor do I go to work in tracksuit trousers.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:43, Reply)

I like a bit of mirror

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 12:05, Reply)

What Pilot and fencer and part time Iron Maiden lead singer?

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:37, Reply)

Is this where rach's half flat is?
www.parasite-street.co.uk/
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:46, Reply)

dunno soz

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:49, Reply)

YEAH! LET'S GIVE MORE MONEY TO THE STUPID TO SMOKE AND DRINK!

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:54, Reply)

Can I have the technical knowhow of the present? Last world war, a la Goodnight Sweetheart.

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:56, Reply)

Probably the 15th or so. towards the end of the Middle Ages and the Medieval Times.
All that battling and pillaging looks fun.

I would have probably ended up a Court jester though, and eventually headless.

Or the Elizabethan era where Kings and Queens had to fight for their place and not just sit comfortably on the throne.
Bit more excitement in life.
Doubt I would have enjoyed the toiletries mind.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 11:58, Reply)

Jason, I think we need one of your winning threads to save off topic today.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 12:01, Reply)

^TYPGI^

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 12:02, Reply)

FINALLY, SOME RECOGNITION!!
I'll muster one up soon. Just catching up with overnight work.

You demanding diva.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 12:07, Reply)

You would have ended up as the Groom of the Stool

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 12:14, Reply)

I'm not into scat, thanks

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 12:16, Reply)

Be bop do baada bop

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 12:25, Reply)

camouflage, clear, black, mirror

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 12:05, Reply)