Time has changed.
What time period would you rather live in.
What time period would you rather live in.
The wild wild west. Times were simpler, you really had to work for a living, which meant you worked sixteen hour days but you were happy to do it and were never bored, and kids did this thing called "Go outside and play." Plus, it was the way of the gun. Technology was moving forward as was medicine, though neither was very far along. This sucked on the medicine side of things, but somehow living to 35 instead of 90 just makes me feel like the 35 year life was lived better. Technology is great, and I'm a computer geek, but there is a part of me that yearns for simpler times.
Plus, there's just something attractive about everyone being able to wear their weapons and tote them around like steel penises. That may have come out wrong so I'll clarify: It was harder times, but people were stronger as well. You didn't have a lot of whining little bitches everywhere.
It was just a more primal time, yet there were still laws. Sometimes the law was further away than you'd want it to be, but it's still more law than you'd find in the Medieval times.
And yeah, I'd love to visit the Renassaince period as well. I prefer the sword to the gun, but honestly the amount of festering wounds and just absolute shitwork going on way back then is just too much for me to want to live there on any permanent basis.
So despite being a major Science Fiction/Fantasy writer, I prefer imaging the days of the Sword along side Elvish Healing Magick and shit. It's just a bit cleaner that way.
Plus, there's just something attractive about everyone being able to wear their weapons and tote them around like steel penises. That may have come out wrong so I'll clarify: It was harder times, but people were stronger as well. You didn't have a lot of whining little bitches everywhere.
It was just a more primal time, yet there were still laws. Sometimes the law was further away than you'd want it to be, but it's still more law than you'd find in the Medieval times.
And yeah, I'd love to visit the Renassaince period as well. I prefer the sword to the gun, but honestly the amount of festering wounds and just absolute shitwork going on way back then is just too much for me to want to live there on any permanent basis.
So despite being a major Science Fiction/Fantasy writer, I prefer imaging the days of the Sword along side Elvish Healing Magick and shit. It's just a bit cleaner that way.
dinasour time, great hunting back then..
Holy nazi sig batman!Broken-Down-Hitler wrote:
Time has changed.
What time period would you rather live in.
I'd live in the now!
Agreed. Who could live without BF2? And computers? And Starbucks? I couldn't. I could live without Nazi sigs, though.Adelphi wrote:
Holy nazi sig batman!Broken-Down-Hitler wrote:
Time has changed.
What time period would you rather live in.
I'd live in the now!
20 years back will do just fine.. No internet, no emails. Life was less stressful.
At 1030am on a Saturday morning:
Handphone rings..
Me: "Hello.."
Client [sternly]: "Why havent you responded to my email?"
Me: "Oh, did you sent it last night?"
Client: "No, I sent it at 730am this morning"
Me: "Oh, I am at the gym now"
Client: "But you have an O2 PDA and you can access email right?"
Me: Owned.
Don't you wish for the days when the only way to communicate was through the fax machine and pagers?
At 1030am on a Saturday morning:
Handphone rings..
Me: "Hello.."
Client [sternly]: "Why havent you responded to my email?"
Me: "Oh, did you sent it last night?"
Client: "No, I sent it at 730am this morning"
Me: "Oh, I am at the gym now"
Client: "But you have an O2 PDA and you can access email right?"
Me: Owned.
Don't you wish for the days when the only way to communicate was through the fax machine and pagers?
if someone rang me to ask why i havnt replied to email yet id say " i'll let you know why i havnt replied when i reply"mikeshw wrote:
20 years back will do just fine.. No internet, no emails. Life was less stressful.
At 1030am on a Saturday morning:
Handphone rings..
Me: "Hello.."
Client [sternly]: "Why havent you responded to my email?"
Me: "Oh, did you sent it last night?"
Client: "No, I sent it at 730am this morning"
Me: "Oh, I am at the gym now"
Client: "But you have an O2 PDA and you can access email right?"
Me: Owned.
Don't you wish for the days when the only way to communicate was through the fax machine and pagers?
The days of Noah.Broken-Down-Hitler wrote:
Time has changed.
What time period would you rather live in.
now, that is a thought..the_heart_attack wrote:
if someone rang me to ask why i havnt replied to email yet id say " i'll let you know why i havnt replied when i reply"mikeshw wrote:
20 years back will do just fine.. No internet, no emails. Life was less stressful.
At 1030am on a Saturday morning:
Handphone rings..
Me: "Hello.."
Client [sternly]: "Why havent you responded to my email?"
Me: "Oh, did you sent it last night?"
Client: "No, I sent it at 730am this morning"
Me: "Oh, I am at the gym now"
Client: "But you have an O2 PDA and you can access email right?"
Me: Owned.
Don't you wish for the days when the only way to communicate was through the fax machine and pagers?
I actually have two time periods:
1) Medieval Europe between 1066 and 1245
2) Early 16th Cent. as a Privateer.
1) Medieval Europe between 1066 and 1245
2) Early 16th Cent. as a Privateer.
I'd like to live in the Victorian era -- Sherlock Holmes and stuff like that.
Basically, I'd like to live in an era in which manners, integrity and decency were not just words.
On the other hand I am not quite sure if I should give such a history-centric answer to somebody who has Hitler in his signature. English is not my mother tongue and I have never been to the United States, so forgive me if I am wrong, and don't take it as an offense, but I had never expected to see Adolf Hitler here. I am aware of the fact that these forums deal with war, even if it's taken just as a "game", but in my opinion your signature is crossing the line, even considering the "broken down" prefix.
I was born in 1973, so even my parents know the War only from stories of their parents. Me and my generation, and the mostly even younger majority of people playing BF2 have nothing to do with Adolf Hitler or WW2. So using a signature like that doesn't make any sense to me and doesn't throw a very positive light on you. People might think you have no eyes or ears, according to the line written below this awkward picture.
Sure, even today there are some brainless retards who adore him and want him back. But please consider that most people could come to the conclusion that you might be one of them. For me, personally, seeing Hitler in a forums' signature, pushes the person using that kind of signature into a political right wing. Again, no offense and no analogy. I might be totally wrong in this special case.
I surely don't want to deny the existence neither of WW2 nor of Hitler. But things happened, and they shouldn't be forgotten, simply to prevent that awkward and horrible and homicidal crap happening again.
Nowadays, only the ultra right wing parties and their partisans dare to show Hitler and/or the swastika. No liberal or even conservative person would ever even think of that. So that is the reason that I am very irritated looking at your signature.
Again, maybe I am totally wrong, maybe Hitler is dealt with in a completely different way in the United States. However, I can't think of any reason for that. For me, there is no place for racism and nationalism in this world, and Hitler is the ensign of all that. In Germany, showing and apotheosizing Hitler is sconced and being punished very strictly.
If I am all wrong, please feel free to forget my post, but don't forget that people might be irritated by your signature.
Basically, I'd like to live in an era in which manners, integrity and decency were not just words.
On the other hand I am not quite sure if I should give such a history-centric answer to somebody who has Hitler in his signature. English is not my mother tongue and I have never been to the United States, so forgive me if I am wrong, and don't take it as an offense, but I had never expected to see Adolf Hitler here. I am aware of the fact that these forums deal with war, even if it's taken just as a "game", but in my opinion your signature is crossing the line, even considering the "broken down" prefix.
I was born in 1973, so even my parents know the War only from stories of their parents. Me and my generation, and the mostly even younger majority of people playing BF2 have nothing to do with Adolf Hitler or WW2. So using a signature like that doesn't make any sense to me and doesn't throw a very positive light on you. People might think you have no eyes or ears, according to the line written below this awkward picture.
Sure, even today there are some brainless retards who adore him and want him back. But please consider that most people could come to the conclusion that you might be one of them. For me, personally, seeing Hitler in a forums' signature, pushes the person using that kind of signature into a political right wing. Again, no offense and no analogy. I might be totally wrong in this special case.
I surely don't want to deny the existence neither of WW2 nor of Hitler. But things happened, and they shouldn't be forgotten, simply to prevent that awkward and horrible and homicidal crap happening again.
Nowadays, only the ultra right wing parties and their partisans dare to show Hitler and/or the swastika. No liberal or even conservative person would ever even think of that. So that is the reason that I am very irritated looking at your signature.
Again, maybe I am totally wrong, maybe Hitler is dealt with in a completely different way in the United States. However, I can't think of any reason for that. For me, there is no place for racism and nationalism in this world, and Hitler is the ensign of all that. In Germany, showing and apotheosizing Hitler is sconced and being punished very strictly.
If I am all wrong, please feel free to forget my post, but don't forget that people might be irritated by your signature.
Last edited by NiMhurchu (2005-11-18 21:31:36)
I gravitate towards the 1940's. The war was a bummer though.
I´d like to live in the Us 1920 swinging a Thompson MP.
2010
Letting the topic sit because it isn't too stupid.
Also, I was more impressed with video games back then, and would've been able to catch my favorite MUD when it opened.
Guess I should be satisfied with the now, though. Maybe they'll perfect organ cloning before I need a new one.
This. I was like 9 or something in 1990, but I still prefer the fax. With e-mails you have to inevitably deal with a client not being able to open an attachment or see an embedded image or some other bit of browser compatibility bullshit. Before he got too heavily into cell phones, my dad actually had time to do shit. Now he has two of the squirrelly fuckers to keep track of, plus e-mail and fax. And snail mail.mikeshw wrote:
20 years back will do just fine.. No internet, no emails. Life was less stressful.
At 1030am on a Saturday morning:
Handphone rings..
Me: "Hello.."
Client [sternly]: "Why havent you responded to my email?"
Me: "Oh, did you sent it last night?"
Client: "No, I sent it at 730am this morning"
Me: "Oh, I am at the gym now"
Client: "But you have an O2 PDA and you can access email right?"
Me: Owned.
Don't you wish for the days when the only way to communicate was through the fax machine and pagers?
Also, I was more impressed with video games back then, and would've been able to catch my favorite MUD when it opened.
Guess I should be satisfied with the now, though. Maybe they'll perfect organ cloning before I need a new one.
Ban OP. Offensive name.
His last post was over 4 years ago. CBA
racialist.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
His last post was over 4 years ago. CBA
Will ban for pie.
lol, get a life.mtb0minime wrote:
Ban OP. Offensive name.
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Rumpleforeskin! Wat?burnzz wrote:
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lol, l2sarcasmDrunkFace wrote:
lol, get a life.mtb0minime wrote:
Ban OP. Offensive name.
my character map said it was "Pi". i thought unnamed would ban if i gave him oneUltrafunkula wrote:
Rumpleforeskin! Wat?burnzz wrote:
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pie!
if you open your mind too much your brain will fall out.