If you could pick a decade in which to live which would you pick?

[Schadenfroh]

hmm, I spoke too soon, I must ponder this.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

3010's, maybe we'll have flying cars by then and we'll have cycled back to caring about what we eat and drink.

 

[Locut0s]

Its gonna cost ya

Im 23 - I was a child during the 90s.. But I would have absolutely loved to be an adult during that time!

27 here. Aside from nostalgia for some things like the early 90s video games (dam I wish I was older when the great video game gods were being released like Mario brothers etc...) I don't have any particularly fond memories of the 90s. I was desperately miserable (probably clinically) going to school and never fit in anywhere.

Instead I would love to be able to experience the over the top craziness that was the late 60s and 70s hippy/drug/free love movement.

 

[MAKENITO]

Rub and lxskllr - eh, I listened to them last night.. Whilst I am a fan of back in the day.. maybe Im just more into 'back inthe closer to today' - thanks muchly for the links though

And I guess, I do like loudness

 

[dawp]

Ok here are the rules. You are allowed to pick any decade in recorded history. You have to mention the decade and a general (or specific if you want) geographic area (like North America). You get to live in that decade at your current age (sorry no going back to your teens or 20s). You will live the full decade then be brought back to the present. So if you chose the 1920s you would spend the next 10 years living from 1920 to 1929 then be brought back to right now.

Which would you chose?

I think I'd pick the 1970s, North America.

just one question. would you be able to setup say a trust fund in that previous decade and then tap it when you return?

just think about it if you invested in Apple and Microsoft.

 

[Rubycon]

Rub and lxskllr - eh, I listened to them last night.. Whilst I am a fan of back in the day.. maybe Im just more into 'back inthe closer to today' - thanks muchly for the links though

And I guess, I do like loudness

I'm probably the last person to criticize one's liking or particular genre BUT today there is no character in music. It's all the same cookie cutter beats, samples, non singing anorexic teenybopper behind a mic with auto tune. Speaking of auto tune that crap needs to die NOW!

On top of this the final production is compressed with RMS equalization SO LOUD it's WORSE THAN A CRUMMY TV COMMERCIAL!!!

Ok, I'll step off my soap box now.

 

[marincounty]

The '60's. A man could support his family with his own salary and a gas station attendant could afford a home. Also, no AIDS or Herpes!

 

[SunnyD]

The question is, do I get to know then what I know today? If not, then fuck it.

 

[dawp]

I'm probably the last person to criticize one's liking or particular genre BUT today there is no character in music. It's all the same cookie cutter beats, samples, non singing anorexic teenybopper behind a mic with auto tune. Speaking of auto tune that crap needs to die NOW!

On top of this the final production is compressed with RMS equalization SO LOUD it's WORSE THAN A CRUMMY TV COMMERCIAL!!!

Ok, I'll step off my soap box now.

I don't know, some of it is good, but ya the big stars suck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbv315-y8EU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEOgaS-F53w&feature=related

I would like to make a trip across the pond to catch one of her shows.

 

[MAKENITO]

I'm probably the last person to criticize one's liking or particular genre BUT today there is no character in music. It's all the same cookie cutter beats, samples, non singing anorexic teenybopper behind a mic with auto tune. Speaking of auto tune that crap needs to die NOW!

On top of this the final production is compressed with RMS equalization SO LOUD it's WORSE THAN A CRUMMY TV COMMERCIAL!!!

Ok, I'll step off my soap box now.

Uhhh.. I see we feel really strongly about this. So I will just say that I like chick flicks

 

[Sho'Nuff]

1960s no question. Great music, great era, and no worries about STD's. Plus a little bush never hurt anyone.

 

[sandorski]

The Decade your Mama turned 18!

 

[shortylickens]

1960s no question. Great music, great era, and no worries about STD's. Plus a little bush never hurt anyone.

I'd prefer a nice little fuzzy in modern times.

 

[KeithTalent]

I have always wanted to live in the 50's. I'm not even sure why to be honest, but it has always appealed to me for some reason.

KT

 

[dawp]

Ruby i got one more for you that should get more recognition but don't,

King's X

and defenetly no autotune.

 

[MAKENITO]

I'd prefer a nice little fuzzy in modern times.

'Fuzzy Wuzzy Was A Bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy Had No Hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy Wasn't Fuzzy Wuzzy'

 

[BurnItDwn]

I would go to the 1980s, when I was born and when I was a little kid.
I'd go to vegas. I would build up quite a fortune betting on things as I would have many of the answers. Maybe I'd also go to the kentucky derby and hit it big once there ....

I would bet/gamble until every single OTB, track, or bookie refused to deal with me .... Then ... I would just hire people to do my betting for me ....

Once I amass a few billion bucks .... then I'd start several hundred savings accounts with many banks, with the max amount protected by fdic .... at each bank, I would have a saftey deposit box, with a few million worth of cash and precious metals. I would invest about 25% of the total $$$ left in stock, and stick 25% in generic market funds, and then 25% in the bond market, and 25% into high yield savings, with no, or only partial FDIC coverage .... would mitigate the risk my spreading it across many different banks.

Then, when I got back to the current time, I would purchase the biggest available private island in the world, and then I would start my own country and be the dictator. NONE OF YOU WOULD BE INVITED!

 

[MrMatt]

I'd pick 1770's, Northeastern United States (then the colonies). I'd fight in the American Revolution. I'm 28 right now

 

[dainthomas]

2550s BC. Cairo. Then I could tell everyone who REALLY built the pyramids.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Can we assume we have money? I wouldn't mind experiencing the Roaring 20s...but I for damn sure wouldn't have wanted to be poor in those times.

 

[ShawnD1]

I'd pick 1770's, Northeastern United States (then the colonies). I'd fight in the American Revolution. I'm 28 right now

Back then they would cut your limbs off with a saw and no anesthetic when you get injured. Have fun with that.

2550s BC. Cairo. Then I could tell everyone who REALLY built the pyramids

We already know who built the pyramids. Everyone knows this!
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids/pyramids.html

The '60's. A man could support his family with his own salary and a gas station attendant could afford a home. Also, no AIDS or Herpes!

I don't think you understand how unbelievably poor people were in the 1960s. No cable or satellite TV, no internet, no cell phone, no computers, only 1 TV (maybe 2) in the entire house, only 1 car for the entire family. Nowadays you're considered poor if you don't have a smart phone; I just got mine last week

Instead I would love to be able to experience the over the top craziness that was the late 60s and 70s hippy/drug/free love movement.

You realize drug culture and sluts still exist right?
drugs. Figure 6 shows that marijuana use among people younger than 18 is actually higher in 2000 than it was in the 60s or 70s. PCP and LSD are down from the 60s and 70s while MDMA use is higher than ever. Tobacco use was fairly steady over the years. USA is still #1 in the world for cocaine as well as #5 in amphetamine.

 

[Kadarin]

Hmm. I might go with the 70s, where we had less sexual repression (pre right wing Evangelical interference in US politics), prior to the advent of AIDS.

Or I'd like to go experience life at the height of the Roman Empire, or classical Greece in Athens under Pericles.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Current decade of course, so I could buy bulk beef on the interwebz and post on ATOT

 

[Inspector Jihad]

To drive home my point about his arguing skills: America has been in the shitter since January of 2008, not 09. So already he's lost his objectivity as far as 2 years back.
Fail.

wut?