observer Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Best period to have lived in history - well I think it started in the 1950s - and has just ended! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 it started in 1957 and has not yet ended( well i am still alive for the present) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 The recession not biting you then Sid?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 nah just the dog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Most definately Roman Times for me !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Presumably as a Patrician, certainly not a Pleb or even worse a slave! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 1970-1990 when Liverpool FC conquered all before them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 When Brian Bevan was in his prime - the golden sands of Wilderspool. Or perhaps when Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas. Â The last one is not serious, but they were interesting times. Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Was that when they actually won the cup at Wembly? - Harry Bath, Gerry Helm etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Not only at Wembley, but at Bradford too - the replay. I was one of the alleged 130,000 there. Â Best wishes Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 Rome? In which period of the 500 year era? Marcus Aurelius or Trajan or ??? I'd like to time travel myself. See some of the Bible stories in person, some of the explorers finding new lands, spend five years aboard the Beagle, become a disciple of Confucius, be a handsome court officeholder with Catherine the Great, hear the actual symphonies of Beethoven as presented in his lifetime, hear the actual virtuosity of Nicolo Paganini, be a servant in the villa of George Sand and Frederic Chopin, and perhaps be a Brit born in 1950 and coming of age in 1963 to the sounds of Beatles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 Or, being a disciple of Gautama Siddharta in India, or dying with Leonidas at Thermopolae, or being a brother to Cyrano, or on a ship with Leif the Red, or aboard a ship with Adm. Byrd in Antarctica, or a player in Shakespeare's time, or Squanto at the arrival of the foreigners... Â Or times and places I would not wish to live: Germany 1933-1945, France 1780 - 1830, Mexico 1600 - 2009... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 Not to mention being a survivor with Henry V at Agincourt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Settle Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 Probably for me the 1980's when I was running at my peak and Warrington Athletic Club were a dominant force on the road and cross country. Â However as I'm now approaching my third age I am hoping for a revival ONCE I GET THE BITS AND BOBS WORKING AGAIN AND AGAIN. I never run as well but as long as I can run again that will do for me. Especailly if I can get to the top of Rivington Peak on Easter Friday - there's a glorious view well worth the sweat and pain. I think I finished almost last a few years ago and even my old club mate Ron Hill beat me and the great Mark Kinch who used to dominate the fells for Warrington was back competing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted March 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 Jez, the only downside to being born in the USA in the 50s, was a tour in Viet-Nam in your 20s - that's if you couldn't get into University and demonstrate against the war! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 Good point, Obs. My family is cursed (blessed) with missing all our military adventures. My dad was born in 1912 -- missed the Great War and was in this 30s with children when the Axis needed a pasting. I was born in 1936, so I was 14 when the Korean War came, and married with children when the French needed help in Viet-nam. I wanted my son to attend the Naval Academy and he was invited - being a math and science scholar-athlete, but he declined the military life and the nation's foreign bungles as well. My grandson is 18 at this very moment, but things seem to be winding down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted March 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 Pehaps proves that life and living is a lottery - right place at the right time OR wrong place at the wrong time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted March 27, 2009 Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 Exactly. Well said. I've been pondering this since about age 12 when I discovered that being a white male in the USA was a pretty lucky thing to be at that point in time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted March 27, 2009 Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 Putting a finer point on it, we were indoctrinated to believe that being a White Anglo Saxon Protestant was the best, and it evolved into also being hetero-sexual. What a stroke of luck!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted March 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 Luck is what it's all about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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