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over a year ago
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All my freinds agree I was born in the wrong era and say I should have been born in the 50,s.
Im a complete sucker for a pretty lady in a dress and long hair heels etc.
Also the cars were pretty damn awesome too.
Anyone got a time machine lol |
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"the stone age would be best
see a woman you like club her over the head and drag her back to your cave...job done  "
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"I should have been born in the 1770s, I have concluded.
Reasons being ?  "
Had I made it out of infancy I would have witnessed the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, the opening up of the world to trade, empire and colonisation...
I might have supped with Dr Johnson, William Blake or Hogarth or Bentham...
It was a very exciting and new time in which to live. I imagine.
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"I should have been born in the 1770s, I have concluded.
Reasons being ?
Had I made it out of infancy I would have witnessed the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, the opening up of the world to trade, empire and colonisation...
I might have supped with Dr Johnson, William Blake or Hogarth or Bentham...
It was a very exciting and new time in which to live. I imagine.
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I imagine it would |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I should have been born in the 1770s, I have concluded.
Reasons being ?
Had I made it out of infancy I would have witnessed the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, the opening up of the world to trade, empire and colonisation...
I might have supped with Dr Johnson, William Blake or Hogarth or Bentham...
It was a very exciting and new time in which to live. I imagine.
I imagine it would"
But no Fab! Going back is all well and good, but only if you are one of the privileged few. Life for the vast majority was a lot worse than today, of course! Me? I'll stick to historical novels. |
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"I should have been born in the 1770s, I have concluded.
Reasons being ?
Had I made it out of infancy I would have witnessed the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, the opening up of the world to trade, empire and colonisation...
I might have supped with Dr Johnson, William Blake or Hogarth or Bentham...
It was a very exciting and new time in which to live. I imagine.
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As Goethe would have it "The dawn of civilisation".
We'll see you there Joe! A La Lantern!! |
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"I should have been born in the 1770s, I have concluded.
Reasons being ?
Had I made it out of infancy I would have witnessed the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, the opening up of the world to trade, empire and colonisation...
I might have supped with Dr Johnson, William Blake or Hogarth or Bentham...
It was a very exciting and new time in which to live. I imagine.
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In which case have you read The Baroque trilogy by Neal Stephenson? Sounds like it would right up your strasse. |
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"All my freinds agree I was born in the wrong era and say I should have been born in the 50,s.
Im a complete sucker for a pretty lady in a dress and long hair heels etc.
Also the cars were pretty damn awesome too.
Anyone got a time machine lol"
So am I, however I was born in the 40's only just, it was the very last day.  |
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"I should have been born in the 1770s, I have concluded.
Reasons being ?
Had I made it out of infancy I would have witnessed the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, the opening up of the world to trade, empire and colonisation...
I might have supped with Dr Johnson, William Blake or Hogarth or Bentham...
It was a very exciting and new time in which to live. I imagine.
I imagine it would
But no Fab! Going back is all well and good, but only if you are one of the privileged few. Life for the vast majority was a lot worse than today, of course! Me? I'll stick to historical novels."
I'm no fan of historical novels tbh. I'm well aware that condition were grim for many and yet, as I say, it was an exciting time.
Perhaps a result of the French Revolution, perhaps a result that the English had had their revolution a century earlier (English Civil wars) but social mobility was growing.
You see, for instance, in the Royal Navy a meritocracy emerging that allowed for promotion by ability (these wooden resources were FAR too important to be entrusted to a syphilitic Earl with gout), and the middle classes begin their steady rise through education and the spreading of learning.
At the same time science begins to be systematised for the first time and, along with the printing revolution, ideas are discussed, religion, king and parliament are ridiculed.
And in 1814 (following the analogy that I was born in the same year although 200 years earlier) there would be opportunities for rewriting the continent following the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo at the Congress of Vienna, where it seems the victorious participants shagged and drank their way through.
Although I think I'd like to tangle with this one...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Tarakanova_(pretender)
Interesting times |
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"I should have been born in the 1770s, I have concluded.
Reasons being ?
Had I made it out of infancy I would have witnessed the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, the opening up of the world to trade, empire and colonisation...
I might have supped with Dr Johnson, William Blake or Hogarth or Bentham...
It was a very exciting and new time in which to live. I imagine.
I imagine it would
But no Fab! Going back is all well and good, but only if you are one of the privileged few. Life for the vast majority was a lot worse than today, of course! Me? I'll stick to historical novels.
I'm no fan of historical novels tbh. I'm well aware that condition were grim for many and yet, as I say, it was an exciting time.
Perhaps a result of the French Revolution, perhaps a result that the English had had their revolution a century earlier (English Civil wars) but social mobility was growing.
You see, for instance, in the Royal Navy a meritocracy emerging that allowed for promotion by ability (these wooden resources were FAR too important to be entrusted to a syphilitic Earl with gout), and the middle classes begin their steady rise through education and the spreading of learning.
At the same time science begins to be systematised for the first time and, along with the printing revolution, ideas are discussed, religion, king and parliament are ridiculed.
And in 1814 (following the analogy that I was born in the same year although 200 years earlier) there would be opportunities for rewriting the continent following the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo at the Congress of Vienna, where it seems the victorious participants shagged and drank their way through.
Although I think I'd like to tangle with this one...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Tarakanova_(pretender)
Interesting times "
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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago
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"All my freinds agree I was born in the wrong era and say I should have been born in the 50,s.
Im a complete sucker for a pretty lady in a dress and long hair heels etc.
Also the cars were pretty damn awesome too.
Anyone got a time machine lol"
I get this all the freakin' time
Hark back to the days of chivalry, letter writing and when men were gentlemen *sigh |
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"I should have been born in the 1770s, I have concluded.
Reasons being ?
Had I made it out of infancy I would have witnessed the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, the opening up of the world to trade, empire and colonisation...
I might have supped with Dr Johnson, William Blake or Hogarth or Bentham...
It was a very exciting and new time in which to live. I imagine.
I imagine it would
But no Fab! Going back is all well and good, but only if you are one of the privileged few. Life for the vast majority was a lot worse than today, of course! Me? I'll stick to historical novels.
I'm no fan of historical novels tbh. I'm well aware that condition were grim for many and yet, as I say, it was an exciting time.
Perhaps a result of the French Revolution, perhaps a result that the English had had their revolution a century earlier (English Civil wars) but social mobility was growing.
You see, for instance, in the Royal Navy a meritocracy emerging that allowed for promotion by ability (these wooden resources were FAR too important to be entrusted to a syphilitic Earl with gout), and the middle classes begin their steady rise through education and the spreading of learning.
At the same time science begins to be systematised for the first time and, along with the printing revolution, ideas are discussed, religion, king and parliament are ridiculed.
And in 1814 (following the analogy that I was born in the same year although 200 years earlier) there would be opportunities for rewriting the continent following the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo at the Congress of Vienna, where it seems the victorious participants shagged and drank their way through.
Although I think I'd like to tangle with this one...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Tarakanova_(pretender)
Interesting times "
But wouldn't you have been shot for being bi? |
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"I should have been born in the 1770s, I have concluded.
Reasons being ?
Had I made it out of infancy I would have witnessed the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, the opening up of the world to trade, empire and colonisation...
I might have supped with Dr Johnson, William Blake or Hogarth or Bentham...
It was a very exciting and new time in which to live. I imagine.
I imagine it would
But no Fab! Going back is all well and good, but only if you are one of the privileged few. Life for the vast majority was a lot worse than today, of course! Me? I'll stick to historical novels.
I'm no fan of historical novels tbh. I'm well aware that condition were grim for many and yet, as I say, it was an exciting time.
Perhaps a result of the French Revolution, perhaps a result that the English had had their revolution a century earlier (English Civil wars) but social mobility was growing.
You see, for instance, in the Royal Navy a meritocracy emerging that allowed for promotion by ability (these wooden resources were FAR too important to be entrusted to a syphilitic Earl with gout), and the middle classes begin their steady rise through education and the spreading of learning.
At the same time science begins to be systematised for the first time and, along with the printing revolution, ideas are discussed, religion, king and parliament are ridiculed.
And in 1814 (following the analogy that I was born in the same year although 200 years earlier) there would be opportunities for rewriting the continent following the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo at the Congress of Vienna, where it seems the victorious participants shagged and drank their way through.
Although I think I'd like to tangle with this one...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Tarakanova_(pretender)
Interesting times
But wouldn't you have been shot for being bi?"
You know me, if anyone could get away with it I could |
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