If you could live in any other time period what would it be and why?

[K_Dub]

I would have to live during the time when pirates ruled the sea, most of the world was still uncharted, and adventure was a hardly across the sea. Or around the time of the barbarians. It seems like a lot of fun.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Having studied life in many other historical periods...

Now.

Because we have good medicine and indoor plumbing.

 

[this_was_a_mistake]

Let's see...
...early Rome, I would watch a Colosseum match. Or...
... back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, so I could kill them Turok-style. Or maybe...
...to the begining of the universe!

 

[Assassin_Thunder]

70s and 80s the best music

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

I would love to live in the future, but I wouldn't mind going back to invest in google.

 

[Crowghast]

The British Victorian or Elizebethan eras. I'm partial slightly towards Victorian however, people back then would get me.

 

[Darkmark44]

Hmm...Medieval era. I love the weapons and simplicity.

~DM

 

[DreamKing]

70s and 80s the best music

Seconded

 

[PatientGrasshopper]

70s and 80s the best music

Seconded

I concur

 

[Mariena]

I'd go back to Ancient Greece, around 600 BC and hang out with Sappho. Sweeet.

 

[Tattaglia]

Revolutionary war, with an assload of AK-47s just to see how long the war lasts with the U.S having AK-47s

Or 1889 so I can kill baby Hitler.

You'd kill a baby? I wouldn't, even if it was Hitler-spawn. Wouldn't you wait until he was eighteen to finish the job?

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

Viking. Once I die I go to Asgard, eat as much as I want, drink as much as I want, sleep as long as I want and most importantly fight whenever I want.

How would going back in time improve your chances of getting into a viking afterlife?

 

[Snidenightshade]

Future for me. the only weapon i would take is the Gears of War Lancer. probalbe in a middle of a war i like to crash war partys going on. chain saw a few people. go out drinking might steal a tank or aircraft what ever they call'em.

 

[Zer_]

I'd go into the far future. I'd also invest some money into a secure company that has a steady growth. I would make decent profit.

I'd then be like "Hey guys I'm from the passed, let me captain one of your fine starships so I can boldly go where no man as gone before." Then I'd hum the Star Trek theme.

 

[Zachkotetsu]

Mid 1980's,where I can see all the greatest metal bands while they were still young...er.

 

[SimuLord]

I'd like to live in the time before the american war for independance. But then, I'd also like to assist the british in that particular war, because I'm 85% convinced that the world would be a much, much better place if america still had to run all its decisions past england first.

Just on a side note that's a bit off-topic, can someone explain to me the yank facination and addiction to guns? You've got a firearm related murder rate higher than the rest of the world combined, yet you're unable to be statisfied unless you own more than 12 guns that can spit out 100+ bullets per second. What the hell is wrong with you all? PM me so I don't end up hijacking this thread. I'd really like to understand.

[Edit] Also, to the OP, ya just made a slight typo in the topic. Ya hit the s key instead of the a key for the word "any".

Why? Because More Dakka don't need no reason.

On-topic, I'd like to learn medieval Low German and hightail it back to Rostock right after the Black Death cleared out (around 1351 or so) and use my 21st-century business education to introduce the Hanseatic League to this concept called a "corporation". Basically beat Jakob "Mutha" Fugger to the punch by a couple of centuries. Plus I was raised Catholic so I'd be plenty familiar with the religious routine so I wouldn't get branded a heretic.

 

[thenuminator]

1970's birth of punk

 

[orifice]

The future. Hopefully it won't suck so bad as now.

 

[hypothetical fact]

Bah you people aren't thinking big enough, I would strap a bomb to my waist and go back to the moment when time begins - wait 10 seconds then go back 10 seconds. I would repeat this until I filled the universe, I would take off the bomb and detonate it while travelling foward in time. It raises so many questions and if this was the twilight zone it would turn out that my exploding corpses were the big bang.

 

[Helnurath]

1192 Japan, NINJASRUS!!