There are loads of aspects of modern life that I would never, ever want to do without but there are also a lot of things about days gone by which should rule today. I thought I'd start a discussion on what we like about what we know of history and what we would want from the past in our lives today.

I think we should still wear the Victorian dresses. Okay there not pratical and im not sure there that comfortable, but i think there pretty....okay i just want to be transported back to the 18th centry or even further back still!!

oh i love those dresses too. Hollie and I were watching Atonement last night at the cinema and they all wear such fab clothes and they talk in a posh ish way and yeah the old days they seem to have more principles and everything like that, I feel like the modern world has been slightly currupted...

Ohhhh everyone stopping for afternoon tea, on the lawn preferably, if not the drawing room would do :lol: and the fact that no one who was female ever had to go out to work :)

lol Im moving to Mansfield park..i decided i just need to get me a time machine and the right atire..and yeah get rid of the purple hair. I could so live in those times all i do is cross stitch and read, and have a handsome rich man courting me..hehe!!

Tea with little china cups and sausers!

yes jess you could sell your cross stitches for lots of money. and we could prance around in dresses and find a man who is like Mr Darcy (the colin Firth version of course!) and oh it would just rule!

oOo I'll have Mr Darcy please :P

I'd bring back the whole travelling on horseback thing, I love horseriding I prefer it to travelling in cars.
And courtship..that should come back in..
Oh and harps..there should be more harps..

:D

oh ys and piano playing was cool and beautiful! I would be wearing pretty dresses all the time playing piano

See I wouldn't be wearing the dresses..I'd be in the Tops and Tails..
All men should carry canes..cuz they're sexy :P
And oOo yes!! Like in P&P sitting at the piano and singing!! I love that!

I dont want to be Victorian...your expected basically to be a baby factory and then probably die during childbirth anyway. And who can breathe in corsets anyway? AND they only had baths about twice a year. Eww

Take me back to the sixties! I want to wear flowers in my hair and have psycadelic ponchos and be able to play the guitar (as all hippies can)

You know what shouldnt have changed? Opal fruits! Also, the smarties tubes...and they discontinued Wispas and Marble bars, the bastards

Fine. Dont blame me when you get Consumption :P Or thrown out of polite society for wearing a skirt above your ankles.

Bring back SM:tv Live!!!

you are all worng take me back to the 50's where they had cool dresses, the men were heroes, they were stil patrotitic about the country and neighbours would talk all the time. oh and on top of that rock and roll began w00t! now that's my era!

I think I'd prefer Edwardian Times to Victorian - they were a bit more liberal then ;)

I'd quite like to go back to the '90s for a bit just to laugh at what everyone used to wear...oh dear...

If were talking 1900-1999 time line then
70s ..As Sam Tyler might be there, Crap clothes but my kinda music!

pffft...

I'm with Hollie. 60's all the way man.

*puts on rose tinted glasses and makes daisy chains*


Either that, or I shall make my own world. Where we all dress like we're from the 1900's, and it is compulsory for men to wear waistcoats and velevet and pinstripes and carry top hats and canes, and women wear corsets and amazing gowns and we all know how to dance AMAZINGLY well, but the electric guitar and band concept is very much alive and well.

Can you imagine people from the 1900's going to see The Beatles? Or the Stones? Or even Led Zepplin and The Who?

Perfect world? I think so.

OMG! Put me on your list for the perfect world please Charlotte! Ive been busy thinking how we could work waistcoats into the 60s equation. But then again in the early 60s everyone still dressed pretty formally and 50s-ish i think.

We're going to the Goodwood revival next year where you have to wear authentic 50s/60s dress :D Cant wait!

Pfft. Patriotism would get old very quickly, I feel. And Charlotte, corsets? Are you MAD, woman? I think if I had to go back, I'd pick the nineteen seventies. The birth of punk! Brilliant.

oh i want to join your world lottie it would rule :D

yeah sure go ahead. :D

Just make sure you're finished by the time I get abck from shopping, cos then I'll have plenty of time to thwart your evil plan and still have time to put the dinner on.

Oh well now that's just asking me to d it now isn't it..

It's the big red button!!

No one's wanted to live in the times any further back than the Victorian era!

IMO, the best decades of the 20th century were the 20s, 50s and 80s. I'd be happy living in any of those, really.

I dunno when would be the best time to live in if we're actually talking about time-travelling. The past rules in so many ways but if you go back too far, things were so unfair (e.g. the poor/rich divide, like Guyoline said, and everything was that much more in its infancy and the illnesses and diseases and poor hygiene were too nasty to bear to think about. I really don't know how people put up with it but then if you didn't know anything else or better...

I completely agree about the compulsary period dress (especially for men ;) ;) ) and the courting of the Victorian or Georgian times really, really should return. Relationship-forming way back was so much more exciting than it tends to be now. I hate how dates or 'wooing' hardly exist anymore!!! :angry: :(

yes i am a hopeless romantic which is a real bum in these days as guys don't send romantic letters or randomly give you gifts (unless they have done something wrong) and they never take you anywhere romantic or special or personal - romance feels kinda dead now days and that's sad :(

You see, I am going to make a stand for romance today - my boyfriend has upon strange occasion just randomly given me flowers or just bought me stuff he thought I'd like. And he makes me go to London with him all the time. And Paris that one time lol

I am INCREDIBLY lucky. I seem to have the most romantic boy I know lol

However - I am the least romantic person in the world. Poems and love letters just sicken me.

I reckon guys are still romantic nowadays!

I agree... Although after 6 years together you find romance in the most unexpected places, for example, him doing the dishes so that I don't have to etc. :lol:

But seriously, romance is not dead - you just need to find the right bloke.

Well, my bf has often spontaneously bought me flowers - too often, really, because they cost so much it's naughty - and he does buy me gifts and do lovely things for me q. a bit so he does put in a real effort to show how much he thinks of me so, yeah, I am v. lucky but I agree with Guyoline; it is certainly dying out, proper romance. :cry :cry I think we'd all be having v. different experiences with men if we lived fifty years ago.

What they SHOULD bring back is guys actually asking girls on dates. This happens so rarely, and well, im a wimp so i dont like being lumped with all the chasing responsibility!
But i dont really approve of men having to pay for meals, open doors etc, thats the ridiculous side of old-fashioned romance.
And woebetide anyone who buys me flowers!

Yeah, sorry, Tink, I do struggle to keep up with Chit Chat. :blush

I reeeeeeeeeeally would love to see boys asking girls out on proper dates. And I mean PROPER dates like used to go on rather than making some sort of half-hearted attempt to just say they can call a girl their bitch and then, if they get on, ending up shagging because they feel they may as well. :rolleyes:

I have no moral objection to girls asking boys out but I don't think it's generally as successful because, although most boys would always be delighted to have the interest and be asked out, in the end, a lot of them would feel better if they were the ones doing the asking. Mind you, I may just be saying this because, in my youth (Oh, dear, I'm talking of my youth as a past event! :cry :cry ), I asked a fair few boys out and it didn't generally go well... and that may just be me rather than anything else. :( :( :( It felt better if boys asked me, though (when they did).

I agree men shouldn't have to hold doors open and all that for women but, come on, it is nice. And they're stronger than we are. And some doors are v. heavy. :P :lol:

Oh i dont have a problem with them holding open heavy doors! Or helping to open those tricky jars/bottles that are jammed too tightly!

Bring back...ok this is really sad but I wish they'd bring back teaching grammar/punctuation etc. in English because it wasn't until i reached university that I realised I had no idea what a semi-colon did! I still don't really know I just stick them in essays at random!

:ph43r: PLEASE KEEP TO THE TOPIC :ph43r:

OK, IMO. ;)

I think they should teach about grammar.

There's a girl in my German class that still doesn't know what a noun is!

i want to go back even further, to when people lived in castles, obviously i would have to be rich, and men wore armour (sp?) and there was no thing as cars, everything was got to on horseback and kings went off to war! i think that would be cool. but only if you were really rich

IMO, we are on topic, aren't we? :unsure:

Yep, well, given what I said revealing my profession earlier, I'm sure you'll understand that I agree about the grammar. I tell you what annoys me more than poor grammar, though - Americanisation (if that's a word). US English is taking over our language over here and I CANNOT STAND IT!!! <_< <_< <_< Why can't we live in the days where people knew how to speak in their own language?

Oh, yes, Chapman, being a damsel in distress has a lot of attraction to it.

:lol:

Yes, we are, she deleted the O/T posts.

I'd like to live in an Austen sort of age. When people learnt dances and went horse riding and stuff... although my grandad was a coal miner, so I wouldn't have. :lol:

You dont know Vicky, there might have been a stray Count or Duchess in your family tree!

I know what you mean about americanisation. When people say 'trash' or 'pants' for trousers I just grind my teeth in annoyance!

half the time when people say pants it takes me a minute to work out what they're talking about.

did it really bug anyone else that in the (new) charlie and the chocolate factory (the one with the really odd michael jacksonesque johnny depp) that charlie spoke american english with a british accent?

Yes! That really confused me beacause it was set in london originally and still looked like london, with mostly brit actors, but who spent dollars and spoke all americanese...i think they were trying to be nationality-neutral but it just turned out irriatating!

oh the first one was heaps better - plus it had songs!
and the songs in the new one don't really count!

The songs in the new one are the actual Charlie and the Chocolate Factory songs.


We were complaining about Americanisation today (is spelling that with a Z Americanisation?) Our Japanese teacher was telling us that nowadays, the most popular sports in Japan are baseball (which is actually an English sport originally, so that can escape sort of) and soccer.

*rolls eyes*

That's a bit debatable because both the s and the z are correct in UK English but the z is more American so I prefer the s.

Grrrrrrrrr, yeah, saying 'pants' to mean trousers is really bad because it's confusing as it means something else. Mad! :rolleyes:

Of course, it's not just spellings and actual words that are affected - it's pronunciations as well. The American ones are fast taking over! :swearing :bangh