When would you like to have been born?

[dartmoordog]

Not so much of when to be born, now is fine. Just wish we could halve the population, get the Salmon fishing like it was 45 years ago, the deer population like it is now, snowflakes not dictating terms, beer at 50p a pint and fuel £1 a gallo;.

 

[John Gryphon]

I would have liked to have been born 20 years before they put the Capstone on top of the Great Pyramid at Giza.
I could have attended the placement and watched it all unfold htf they did it,then I could come back in the 2000`s and tell all you blokes how they did it.

 

[sh1kar]

Just been musing on the net with a good mate in Herefordshire.

I am stuck in the sand-pit -Sultanate of Oman (for the foresee-able) as I cant do a planned trip back at Easter to see loved ones and some Roebuck hunting. (Cant take the chance of not being allowed back - C virus etc).

Anyway . Got to thinking..

Though I would most likely be dead now I would have been better born around 1935 ish. Purely an academic exercise but was wondering.

Why 1935 ish?

Grow up in England (oh we cant say that anymore) According to FEO time before last when I renewed and put Nationality as "English", quote " I will make a note to the Home Office about you"
OK I was provoking the fellow but really?

Too young for WW2 (just saying)

Be the right age to enjoy the permissive "indulgences" of the 60's

Be able to hunt in Kenya in the first part of the '70's

(Still be able to enjoy the "indulgences" of the '70's)

Be wise enough - hopefully by then - to make a fortune in the 80's
Carry on as above (minus Kenya and the mayhem of the previous two decades) in the 90's

(And over the above periods , no internet, no social networking bulls*t , no reality garboil and gossip spreading negativity that it all entails - (apart from SD and a few other exceptions. Exceptions prove the rule yes? ) No Lead ammo issues, no packham, no issue about bringing back a bit of dead animal/fish from a hunting trips, still had WAGBI (fw it was worth). Charities still charitable ,not money machines. No extreme minority groups setting the agenda

2000 to date;
Enjoying my home, family and our small flock of sheep in retirement over the last 20 years
*Yet worrying to hell about where our youngsters go with all this)

Though given the above would probably already expired !! Hey ho. We all have to exit the stage sometime.

(I was born in '63 btw.)

Any one care to add their thoughts?


Ade

Same time as Richard Hannay and his author Lord Twuidsmuir

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[Cootmeurer]

In all honesty, I would prefer to choose the WHERE rather than the when. Being born in the wrong place at the perfect time would be very bad indeed.

That being said, I would like to have been born around 1880 in the USA. Allowed first hand conversations with Civil War veterans, been able to see the Western US when large herds of hooves game still roamed, lives through a Teddy Roosevelt presidency and seen the USA become a world power. See both great wars and Great Depression, and observe the dawn of the nuclear age

 

[VSS]

Same time as Richard Hannay and his author Lord Twuidsmuir

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With all the privileges too, no doubt. Not sure if it would have been quite so good for the ordinary folk!
Great adventures, nonetheless. I'm a big Buchan fan myself, and I really imagine myself into their shoes when engrossed in one of those books.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

20 years BC in Bethlehem to see if it was all true.

 

[User00035]

I can't pick another time to have lived in because history gets in the way. Knowing how things are going to pan out colours everything and I can't filter that out and imagine what it would be like in real time.
It would be nice to visit another time for a long stay though. Periods I'd like to visit are Edwardian Britain between 1900 and 1914; the late 16th /early 17th century before the civil war; early 19th century England and America 1945 to 1965.

If it was permanent then I'd prefer an alternative reality to another time. I'd like to live in a PG Wodehouse novel, particularly as a resident of Market Blandings during Lord Emworth's years.

 

[opticron1]

My Dad was born in 1925 and he seemed to have had a pretty productive life, he saw the salmon and sea trout numbers at a good level, he could do a bit of shooting for the pot, there were fewer people about and international travel was still a novelty/adventure. However on the down side he grew up hearing the tales of the Great War and how many men didn't come back, then he spent the latter part of the second world war....er….. discussing weapon choice and ammunition with the Japanese in Burma! He wasn't called back up for Korea, Suez, Malaya or any other "local" conflicts, but he did see the start of the NHS and the opening up of the countryside. He did admit that he was envious of me and my generation as we had so much more freedom to travel, places to shoot and places to fish. I suppose there are good and bad bits about any era so you make the most of what you're given!

 

[Deker72]

Late '30's to early '40's preferably in the mid-west of the USA, just old enough to appreciate Rock and Roll and the start of the golden cinema era in the '50's and then start of the muscle cars in the 60's (preferably on the west coast for those), OK Vietnam might have caused a problem but I'd take the chance.

 

[Woodsmoke]

back in the 70's in Africa with the knowledge and experience I posses now

I was born in '69, and I'm not sure I would change that (perhaps a decade later so I would miss being forced to remember just how sh*t I used to look in the '80s )

Apart from that, just as Bowji John says!

 

[User00025]

Just happy to still be here and out and about.
No other wishes or times.

 

[kes]

Happy to be born when I was in 1950.
I would probably only change that for the late nineteenth century - if I could have been one of the landed gentry with bags of cash. Shotguns and rifles haven't improved much since then, plenty of quarry, no do-gooders, parliament working on my side, shooting parties and the first cars - have to be a Bentley.
As it is, I was young at the start of the pop revolution and the sexual revolution but enjoyed my bit of it !

 

[rem284]

I would like to have been born 1999 as long as I had the knowledge that I have now. That way I would be 21 this year.

I think being born a native American Indian before the white man set foot on the shores would have been great

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Happy to be born when I was in 1950.
I would probably only change that for the late nineteenth century - if I could have been one of the landed gentry with bags of cash. Shotguns and rifles haven't improved much since then, plenty of quarry, no do-gooders, parliament working on my side, shooting parties and the first cars - have to be a Bentley.
As it is, I was young at the start of the pop revolution and the sexual revolution but enjoyed my bit of it !

I was also dropped/born in 1950 then again in 1952 but then was by my older sister, it explains a lot.

 

[bogtrotter]

Today would have been good ! As everyone keeps asking " Were you born yesterday? "

 

[Longstrider]

A very dear friend, a shooting mate and fishing fanatic who had spent a good part of his life in what was then Rhodesia used to regularly tell me "Boy, you were born a century too late and on the wrong ruddy continent !"
I agreed with him then and still do.

 

[Odders]

Some time between 1930 & 1945 & needless to say, in England, thus winning first prize in the where to live stakes, though I'd probably have moved to the US by the early 80's.

 

[VSS]

A very dear friend, a shooting mate and fishing fanatic who had spent a good part of his life in what was then Rhodesia used to regularly tell me "Boy, you were born a century too late and on the wrong ruddy continent !"
I agreed with him then and still do.

My kids often tell me I was born in the wrong century.

 

[Klenchblaize]

In hindsight and the not inconsiderable distraction of large-breasted and short of dialogue Barmaids aside, it hasn't been a bad innings to date in the scheme of things.

Just got to survive this Corona lager thing as one more Autumn in the woods would be much appreciated and certainly not to be sniffed at.

K

 

[rem284]

Today would have been good ! As everyone keeps asking " Were you born yesterday? "

My boss thinks i was born yesterday. I say i was born at night but not last night