Monday, June 22, 2009

thing that really ticks me off #1

Welcome the first of many installments.
I thought that when I don't have anything in particular to rant/joke around/make lists about, I can pull out one of these and they basically provoke the same effect. Plus, I have bucket loads. Obviously.

Let's start off with a simple, yet tragic, one:
The realization that I will never live in another time period

Okay, so this may sound petty and spoiled and all around neurotic but honestly, it really does annoy me. I can't say I am a huge fan of this day and age; there are things I love but there are also things I really strongly dislike. And while other decades and eras had their downfalls as well (as an example, no modern medicine in the Dark Ages was pretty bad) I've always thought it would be amazing to just live for a day in a world like that. Part of me would do absolutely anything to spend one afternoon in Victorian London (yeah, that's right: I'd risk the rib breaking corsets and diseases in the streets for one true period tea time crumpet). I also of course would love to hang out at Woodstock in the 1960s, or fight my way into a Beatles concert, screaming my guts out like all those insane girls you see in old footage.

Top three periods I would travel back to:
1) The 1960s
2) The 1920s
3) Louis XIV France, provided I could be a noble in court

Yes, I will change my gender to make it back there. Can time machines do that? It should be a function or a button you press.

I would totally skip over Napoleon France and Woodraw Wilson America. They were annoying, in office for too long, and racist. And we liberal San Franciscans will not stand for that.

Until later, my friends. What era would you return to?

2 comments:

  1. Ancient Egypt (probably middle dynasties)
    Ancient Sumeria
    Ancient China
    Pax Romana
    Golden Age Athens
    the 1950's, just to laugh uncontrollably

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  2. YOU WOULD LAUGH AT THE 1950s. HEATHEN.

    Just kidding though. A little.

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