If you could live in any period of history when would you choose, and why?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 10:57, 50 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Now or the future.
I'm not messing about in any era that doesn't have painkillers.
( girlinthehole, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:00, Reply)

early 1900s for you, then
Cocaine at the dentists? Yes fucking please.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:01, Reply)

deffo
coke and skag over the counter at 'the chemists' ;-)

Ever read Aliester Crowley's 'Diary of a Drug Fiend'? Brilliant book, reads like it coulda been written last week. Effectively cut and pasted from his own personal diaries, it contains the most monumental coke binges ever committed to type. Highly recommended.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:18, Reply)

I haven't *adds to Xmas list*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:25, Reply)

my mate has that and highly recommends it
I need to swipe it from him
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:44, Reply)

I would very much have liked
to have been turning 18 in London in 1966. But I'm a day dreaming fantasist so in my deluded mind I could get into the idea of living in pretty much any time other than the present.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:01, Reply)

I would have liked to be a few years older when the punk thing took off.
I would have totally embraced the whole look instead of just hanging on the periphery with my ratted hair and over-use of eyeliner.

Not to mention have attended the gigs.
( girlinthehole, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:04, Reply)

one of my brother's best friends
was bang into it all at precisely the right time and had one of those Destroy straitjacket tops like John Rotten had. He kept it in his mum's loft and thought he'd reclaim it a few years ago.

'Oh that? I cut it up and used it for dishcloths because it wall all ripped up, love. Didn't think you'd want it'

Un. Lucky.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:08, Reply)

I recently bought a Dead Kennedys t-shirt.
Then I remembered taking the piss out of my mum when she was my age now because she borrowed my Bauhaus t-shirt to wear.
( girlinthehole, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:13, Reply)

Oooops!
You’d think people would have learnt by now that leaving priceless things in parents lofts is a bad idea! I have to tell my dad every month not to throw out an architects drawing board which is worth over £2,000 that he is holding for me in his garage.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:15, Reply)

I fail to see how a drawing board could be worth that much
unless it's made of something valuable
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:16, Reply)

It was given to me by my granddad
Who was given it by his granddad. Its worth a lot of money because its old and made from some sort of fancy wood and has proper weights to tilt the board. When I buy a house with a spareroom for all my art crap I'll be taking it away! :)
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:20, Reply)

very nice
things like that with a nice smooth action are worth having. much better than the crap you get these days
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:34, Reply)

Exactly
the only problem is the size of it! Its hooooge, hence the reason its in the garage, it wouldn't fit in the loft! Hehe
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:41, Reply)

The period in which flying cars become generally available.
I would also settle for hover boots.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:07, Reply)

May I have a blend?
If so I would like Victorian morals with todays technology and healthcare, with the constitution of the Cromwellian era (no idea why!) and a little bit of the Roman Empire chucked in for good measure.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:09, Reply)

Yes.
Yes you can.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:12, Reply)

Thanks Monty.
I mean that, thanks - thanks a lot.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:13, Reply)

Hey, no problem pal.
What are friends for, eh?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:14, Reply)

Mostly for sharing lines
buying me beer, assisting with putting up garden gates and keeping me on the straight and narrow.

Most fail.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:18, Reply)

Sharing lines?
What is this craziness you speak off?
( girlinthehole, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:19, Reply)

The early 1980s
I love shit decades. They make me feel cozy.
Applying this rule, I will probably look back on this decade as Shangri La. It isn't though. It's cack.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:09, Reply)

Lols
He said period.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:11, Reply)

I'd have liked to have seen zeppelin in the mid 70s
that would've been sweet.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:12, Reply)

I'd have like to have seen The Sweet in the mid 70s
That would've been zeppelin.

Er, hang on....
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:16, Reply)

totally zeppelin man
I dig what you are saying
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:16, Reply)

The Sweet?
Hahaha!

I remember them.
( girlinthehole, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:17, Reply)

they did some hard-rocking B-sides at odds with their commercial stuff,
that are highly rated by the cognocenti.


Plus Blockbuster is a work of genius, I reckon. I fucking LOVE it.

Stick that in your Bowie and smoke it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:23, Reply)

I must admit Blockbuster was a doozy of a song : )

( girlinthehole, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:26, Reply)

The Macc Lads piss take
Is also a cracker...

He'll eat your pies, he'll tell you lies,
You wouldn't believe that fat bastard's size
His massive gut is forty foot, it goes dark when he walks in the pub
His buttocks part, you'll smell his farts,
He's so fat, he can't wipe his own arse.
So now you've heard about the ugly turd,
He's a virgin and he's never had a bird
Does anyone know he's gay? He goes round spreading AIDs.
(We haven't got a clue where the fat fucker is)
Has anyone seen him eat? He's never seen his feet.
The fat bastard.

Five hundred pounds, he's very round,
But he gets taller when he lies on the ground
He busts his flies, but he can't hide,
Coz he's too big, too fat and too fucking wide

Can anyone guess his weight? That was his fourteenth plate
(We haven't got a clue where the fat fucker is)
His backside blubbers about, cleavage peeping out
The fat bastard

Where's the fat cunt at? Even his fat is fat.
(Found him, he's over here)
You took your time to spot him, he's got an enormous bottom
The fat bastard
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:02, Reply)

my brother fucking loves the Macc Lads
They're very funny, but my problem with them is that I think they're slightly too good at their instruments - if they were a bit sloppier it would suit the vocals more. Minor quibble though, they're hilarious.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:24, Reply)

1930s America.
I'd be a journalist and bust the mob. It would be brilliant. I've got the hat and everything.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:17, Reply)

Tahiti before the Europeans turned up with disease and greed.
It was a peaceful island paradise with beautiful women
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:21, Reply)

Nah...
...too many cannibals back then.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 11:45, Reply)

Jazz Age Paris.
Orgies.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:24, Reply)

Orgies with the French......not for me thanks.

( girlinthehole, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:29, Reply)

Imagine the garlicky smell
and the constant surrendering? Ghastly.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:42, Reply)

the surrendering is perfect for a dom like CHCB

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:44, Reply)

I would just like to have been born about 13 years earlier.
That way I would have been just the right age to appreciate grunge at its peak. I could have seen Layne Staley and Kurt Cobain alive, not too mention my favourite band EVER, Soundgarden before they split up.

I could also have gone to Leeds '95 without breaking the bank for a ticket and seen such delights as said favourite band, Pillbox, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney and Silverchair.

Plus I wouldn't be in half as much debt when I came out of uni.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:25, Reply)

True.
Grunge was awesome, Uni grants were great. I lived in Norn Iron though so none of the big grunge bands ever really played there. But hey, if they were big grunge bands they, like, totally sold out, man, sucking corporate cock, etc.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:28, Reply)

I missed Nirvana in Dunloghaire (sp?) who were touring with a band who's name escapes me.
We got to the gig late just as Nirvana were finished. This was just before they were famous.

Edit - just realised this is Dublin and not in the north.

Edit 2 - Sonic Youth!
( girlinthehole, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:32, Reply)

I wasn't allowed to go to that gig :(

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:38, Reply)

My brother saw Nirvana supporting someone else
His review: 'meh'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:39, Reply)

Nirvana
never even made appeared on my radar...generic pap.

If i had to live in an era to capture the best gigs...i think i would have to try out the late 60's early 70's....Captain Beefheart in his prime, a yellin and a hollerin, those marathon Can gigs/improvs, Neu!, on shrooms, Kraftwerk when they were getting raved up with flutes and oscillators. Faust and their on-stage pinball tables hooked up to synth triggers etc.

Happy days

Although i am glas i had the late 80's and early 90's...free parties, Orbital, early Aphex gigs, Megadog all nighters at Brixton Academy. Aye, special times.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:58, Reply)

Same here
The early years of rave were our generation's 60s, I've always thought. A great time to be a teenager....

*goes all misty-eyed and takes an ill-advised E*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:27, Reply)

When I was at school there was an American kid who had seen them twice
Fucker.
( Peej, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:26, Reply)

my brother had tickets for the last UK gig before Cobain offed himself
we had a family holiday planned so he couldn't go
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:42, Reply)

Well, if I could go anywhere, absolutely anywhere at all in time,
I think I'd probably choose to go back to a week last Tuesday.
( Peej, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:26, Reply)

It WAS good, wasn't it?
Particularly mid-afternoon, I thought.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:28, Reply)

I did all the laundry, and then we watched TV.
Wow, we won't see the like of THOSE sorts of days again.
( Peej, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:40, Reply)