If we were living a couple hundred years ago...

[nugz]

what about you physically or aesthetically would be different? how would you be, or look, etc if we lived back in the "olden days" and there were no glasses, contacts, braces, makeup, blowdryers, tweezers, stuff like that

what about medical ailments? I'm sure many of us have diseases or have had complications that w/out the help of modern medicine, would leave us drastically different, or dead.

me? I'd be blind, have crooked teeth, frizzy hair, and the dark circles under my eyes would scare away any guy, let alone the "hot" ones. thank god for concealer.

although technically I'd be dead as I would not have survived past childbirth. and even if I had, I wouldve died again in 7th grade from pneumonia, most likely.

[oye terence]

I would be considered average height.:p

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

I would be considered average height.:p

i would be tall then :D
and my love of hats would be normal :guitar:

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

I'd be dead. Would have died about a month ago, give or take.

[jesuisbryony]

I'd be really malnourished.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

I'd be dead. Would have died about a month ago, give or take.
so you have no faith in 'faith healing' then? ;)

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

so you have no faith in 'faith healing' then? ;)

Against cancer? It's never worked, it's not about to start working now. I imagine there are no atheists in the chemo clinic. Except me. I never caved.

[oye terence]

I'd be dead. Would have died about a month ago, give or take.
who knows, perhaps inventions , chemicals and the other junk in the modern age help aid in the growth of many illnesses today.



I'd be really malnourished.

vegetarian/vegan?
no fears,vegetables grew back then as well,we would have been fine.:p


i watched a program yesterday about the victorian age and its subject was health and healthy food, and before laws and manufacturing took off ,there were many scary things, in some shops they would often paint cheese with lead paint as to sell it off as another flavor.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Against cancer? It's never worked, it's not about to start working now. I imagine there are no atheists in the chemo clinic. Except me. I never caved.

woa, you got some serious will then, woa :o

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

who knows, perhaps inventions , chemicals and the other junk in the modern age help aid in the growth of many illnesses today.

vegetarian/vegan?
no fears,vegetables grew back then as well,we would have been fine.:p


i watched a program yesterday about the victorian age and its subject was health and healthy food, and before laws and manufacturing took off ,there were many scary things, in some shops they would often paint cheese with lead paint as to sell it off as another flavor.

Have you read The Jungle? Full of examples like this. Sawdust in flour, sand in sugar, horses in the meat. It was meant as an expose of labor conditions, in part, but led to massive food safety reforms.

Vegetables were probably more nutritious then. Most soil is chemically depleted and requires extensive fertilization to grow anything.

And lastly, yes, this is probably true, although my form of cancer was first identified around 1843. Jane Austen died of it, too, according to some theories. But while it's rare here, in Japan and China, it's extremely rare and only occurs in young men. I'm very curious to know what's different. As far as I know, there aren't significant differences in occurance rates between people from various ethnic groups here, so it isn't likely to be genetic.

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

woa, you got some serious will then, woa :o

Just endurance. Anyone can do it, when you have no choice.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Have you read The Jungle? Full of examples like this. Sawdust in flour, sand in sugar, horses in the meat. It was meant as an expose of labor conditions, in part, but led to massive food safety reforms.

Vegetables were probably more nutritious then. Most soil is chemically depleted and requires extensive fertilization to grow anything.

And lastly, yes, this is probably true, although my form of cancer was first identified around 1843. Jane Austen died of it, too, according to some theories. But while it's rare here, in Japan and China, it's extremely rare and only occurs in young men. I'm very curious to know what's different. As far as I know, there aren't significant differences in occurance rates between people from various ethnic groups here, so it isn't likely to be genetic.
i have no idea about ur medical history, except that you survived cancer
which i think is awesome, one kind or another has afflicted many women in my family
but i gotta ask since you bring up that your kind of cancer:
in Japan and China, it's extremely rare and only occurs in young men
the 1st thing that comes to my mind is alcohol then, mainly because it says 'young men'
so the question is did you drink a lot pre-cancer? :o


ps: i know i come off as a tard here alot, but cancer issues really are something i obsess on since i was exposed to over 200 rems at one time during the war, but miraculously i have no cancer!
though the army still expects me too and i get tested every year...

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

It's not correlated with alcohol use, although strong pain in the lymph nodes after drinking is a tell-tale sign. I didn't have that symptom, however.

Leading theories suggest there is a viral component, it's somehow linked with mononucleosis (Epstein-Barr). But I've never had that.

It's Hodgkin's Lymphoma, you can research it if you're really interested.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

It's not correlated with alcohol use, although strong pain in the lymph nodes after drinking is a tell-tale sign. I didn't have that symptom, however.

Leading theories suggest there is a viral component, it's somehow linked with mononucleosis (Epstein-Barr). But I've never had that.

It's Hodgkin's Lymphoma, you can research it if you're really interested.
ok, got it, i really only know about Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma which is very common in gulf war vets, but i'll look the other kind :)
now back to the thread
i really think that a lot of these cancers we get are caused by modern civilization
but my gut is what says that, now, f my gut, stats are what matter
so now i want to know what kills the amish these days :p

[Franzanna]

I probably wouldn't have been born in the first place what with being part 'forrin' and everything, but if I had I would probably have been called an idiot. My sister would have died aged 11 due to appendicitis.

[the beast]

I probably wouldn't have been born in the first place what with being part 'forrin' and everything, but if I had I would probably have been called an idiot. My sister would have died aged 11 due to appendicitis.

your not an idiot now you mean:eek:

[EPbabe]

I'm not telling. :o

[Franzanna]

your not an idiot now you mean:eek:

Harsh! :eek::tears:

I would have also not have met any of you, because the Internet was not around. :p

[the beast]

Harsh! :eek::tears:

I would have also not have met any of you, because the Internet was not around. :p

you've not met me, we've not spoke:confused:

[EPbabe]

Harsh! :eek::tears:

I would have also not have met any of you, because the Internet was not around. :p

The beast would be small and skinny. :D

[nugz]

i'm not telling. :o

tell!

[EPbabe]

tell!

Okay. :o
blind
bad teeth
greying hair
hairy legs

:D :o :D :o

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Okay. :o
blind
bad teeth
greying hair
hairy legs

:D :o :D :o

id shave ur legs with my razor, other parts too if you let me :p
buy you false teeth(best take those out b4 we go to bed i think :D)
as for being blind, i would happily lead you around like a seeing eye dog
even right to the milking cows :guitar:
and well, as for your hair, b4 it went grey i would cut a piece of it
have it photographed with the daguerreotype of your head of hair lovingly retouched with the finest paints until the day i die...

[nugz]

Okay. :o
blind
bad teeth
greying hair
hairy legs

:D :o :D :o

oh thats nothin!!! I'd have all those too. :cool::p

well, cept maybe the greying hair, but I would eventually!!

[EPbabe]

id shave ur legs with my razor, other parts too if you let me :p
buy you false teeth(best take those out b4 we go to bed i think :D)
as for being blind, i would happily lead you around like a seeing eye dog
even right to the milking cows :guitar:
and well, as for your hair, b4 it went grey i would cut a piece of it
have it photographed with the daguerreotype of your head of hair lovingly retouched with the finest paints until the day i die...

Robby, that was very sweet, in a creepy way. :D


oh thats nothin!!! I'd have all those too. :cool::p

well, cept maybe the greying hair, but I would eventually!!

Ah, okay. :o

[oye terence]

Okay. :o
blind
bad teeth
greying hair
hairy legs

:D :o :D :o

so what you are saying is you would be turkish instead of hungarian? :confused:




my apologies to any turks that use the board.i am only joking.:p

[nugz]

id shave ur legs with my razor, other parts too if you let me :p
buy you false teeth(best take those out b4 we go to bed i think :D)
as for being blind, i would happily lead you around like a seeing eye dog
even right to the milking cows :guitar:
and well, as for your hair, b4 it went grey i would cut a piece of it
have it photographed with the daguerreotype of your head of hair lovingly retouched with the finest paints until the day i die...

i just went back and read this. god this IS creepy, haha wtf robby? especially that first line!!! GAH, run EP, run!!! :eek::p

[EPbabe]

so what you are saying is you would be turkish instead of hungarian? :confused:

my apologies to any turks that use the board.i am only joking.:p

It wouldn't be that impossible. Hungary was under Turkish occupation for 145 years. :eek:

[oye terence]

It wouldn't be that impossible. Hungary was under Turkish occupation for 145 years. :eek:

ahh ,yes! i just had a history lesson on the region the other day.
its amazing that an entire empire is based on the ottoman,i mean its only a piece of furniture.:p

sorry,very bad joke...

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

i just went back and read this. god this IS creepy, haha wtf robby? especially that first line!!! GAH, run EP, run!!! :eek::p

you guys are mean, i speak from the heart, why is that creepy online?
i was really putting myself in the place of some late 19th century man having Ep babe wind up on his door step knowing very little about her
and saying what i said, thats all, sorry im playing the game of this thread for some of my posts :o
you just keep being mean about it, you post modern women :cool:
but remember, this is for pretend, in rl i treat women to whatever category of 'moderness' they desire...

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

ahh ,yes! i just had a history lesson on the region the other day.
its amazing that an entire empire is based on the ottoman,i mean its only a piece of furniture.:p

sorry,very bad joke...
hungary never really full submitted actually
unlike some of their slavic neighbors
remember, the light cav of the magyar tribes was one of the most awesome of the pre-gunpowder period*!

[EPbabe]

ahh ,yes! i just had a history lesson on the region the other day.
its amazing that an entire empire is based on the ottoman,i mean its only a piece of furniture.:p

sorry,very bad joke...

I'm not Turkish, so I liked it. :D

[oye terence]

its creepy because you just offered to shave her crotch.they are not being mean.you don't just go around offering to shave a ladies vagina,at least i don't,nor should you or anyone.:p

at least strangers.

[the beast]

It wouldn't be that impossible. Hungary was under Turkish occupation for 145 years. :eek:

i'm hungry now:(oh you said hungary:o

[oye terence]

I'm not Turkish, so I liked it. :D

well then,my work is done.:D

[EPbabe]

its creepy because you just offered to shave her crotch.they are not being mean.you don't just go around offering to shave a ladies vagina,at least i don't,nor should you or anyone.:p

at least strangers.

Oh man, I'm laughing so hard.... :D:D:D

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

its creepy because you just offered to shave her crotch.they are not being mean.you don't just go around offering to shave a ladies vagina,at least i don't,nor should you or anyone.:p

at least strangers.

got it, thx 4 explaining oye :o
but i really do love shaving that area :horny:
am i alone in this, or do you understand at all :confused:

[EPbabe]

got it, thx 4 explaining oye :o
but i really do love shaving that area :horny:
am i alone in this, or do you understand at all :confused:

Whatever, you just leave my vjj alone. :eek: :D

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Whatever, you just leave my vjj alone. :eek: :D

yes ma'am :o

[The Seeker of Good Songs]

I would not have survived past 3 months of age.

If I had, I'd probably have been a farmer.

[nugz]

its creepy because you just offered to shave her crotch.they are not being mean.you don't just go around offering to shave a ladies vagina,at least i don't,nor should you or anyone.:p

at least strangers.


Oh man, I'm laughing so hard.... :D:D:D

hahaha, me too


got it, thx 4 explaining oye :o
but i really do love shaving that area :horny:
am i alone in this, or do you understand at all :confused:

robby, STOP IT!!! jesus.....

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

I would not have survived past 3 months of age.

If I had, I'd probably have been a farmer.

interesting, i think id let you own ur field if you wanted :o & i just noticed ur sig quote, i am a descendant of his actually :D

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

robby, STOP IT!!! jesus.....
i did already

yes ma'am :o
but you choose to ignore that, its really mean to me :(

[Mr Smith]

what about you physically or aesthetically would be different? how would you be, or look, etc if we lived back in the "olden days" and there were no glasses, contacts, braces, makeup, blowdryers, tweezers, stuff like that

what about medical ailments? I'm sure many of us have diseases or have had complications that w/out the help of modern medicine, would leave us drastically different, or dead.

me? I'd be blind, have crooked teeth, frizzy hair, and the dark circles under my eyes would scare away any guy, let alone the "hot" ones. thank god for concealer.

although technically I'd be dead as I would not have survived past childbirth. and even if I had, I wouldve died again in 7th grade from pneumonia, most likely.

If it was two hundred years ago, we would still have glasses and cosmetics. Spectacles date much further back than 2 hundred years, and cosmetics can be traced all the way back to the great civillisations of Greece, Rome and Eygpt.

I think I would be dead by now anyway.

[nugz]

If it was two hundred years ago, we would still have glasses and cosmetics. Spectacles date much further back than 2 hundred years, and cosmetics can be traced all the way back to the great civillisations of Greece, Rome and Eygpt.

I think I would be dead by now anyway.

I knew someone was gonna do that :cool:

don't get all technical on me, it was a hypothetical!! :p

[Franzanna]

Glasses were too expensive for the proletariat one/two hundred years ago. :cool:

[Mr Smith]

I knew someone was gonna do that :cool:

don't get all technical on me, it was a hypothetical!! :p

Chicks love pedantic guys. FACT.

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

I do have a soft spot for smart boys, he's quite right.

I'm wrong, though, I wouldn't have died of cancer, because I'd have died in childbirth long before. Dead at 26. And I'd be nearly blind too, although not much else is artificial or technologically assisted.

[Skinner]

No make up = kill myself

No hair dye = kill myself

No glasses = wouldn't need to close my eyes to kill myself cause I would already be blind.

This thread is depressing nugz. I'm not vain, I just like being able to see, eyeliner, and 2 toned hair. Is that too much to ask? :tears:

[nugz]

Chicks love pedantic guys. FACT.


I do have a soft spot for smart boys, he's quite right.



haha, theres a difference between smart and too picky! :cool::p


No make up = kill myself

No hair dye = kill myself

No glasses = wouldn't need to close my eyes to kill myself cause I would already be blind.

This thread is depressing nugz. I'm not vain, I just like being able to see, eyeliner, and 2 toned hair. Is that too much to ask? :tears:

hahahaha. sorry!! Id probaby kill myself too. you know I love the eyeliner as much as you do. :)

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

No make up = kill myself

No hair dye = kill myself

No glasses = wouldn't need to close my eyes to kill myself cause I would already be blind.

This thread is depressing nugz. I'm not vain, I just like being able to see, eyeliner, and 2 toned hair. Is that too much to ask? :tears:


haha, theres a difference between smart and too


hahahaha. sorry!! Id probaby kill myself too. you know I love the eyeliner as much as you do. :)
picky! :cool::p
shoot, i guess id be working the fields a lot while i built my own mill for our crop
whilst still keeping all these women from offing themselves :o
wait, when did i become a mormon in this story :eek:

[The Seeker of Good Songs]

interesting, i think id let you own ur field if you wanted :o & i just noticed ur sig quote, i am a descendant of his actually :D
You have a lot of nerve saying you'd let me own my own field. Where you do you get off? Who are you to let me? Come anywhere near any land I'm on and you'll find a
http://sendmedeadflowers.com/uploaded_images/Workshops-371-726415.jpg
either in your face or up your arse!

:)

You're related to Leonard Cohen? Cool! Any "in's" for getting tix when he come to the USA?

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

You have a lot of nerve saying you'd let me own my own field. Where you do you get off? Who are you to let me? Come anywhere near any land I'm on and you'll find a
http://sendmedeadflowers.com/uploaded_images/Workshops-371-726415.jpg
either in your face or up your arse!

:)

You're related to Leonard Cohen? Cool! Any "in's" for getting tix when he come to the USA?

you changed your quote :eek: i meant David Livingstone
as for why i assumed some title granting ability
well, my american ancestors have been cav troops since b4 the revolution
and the Sutherland clan in Scotland has been so for far longer
sorry...

[IDon'tOweYouAnything23]

I'd be a skinny peasant with shit teeth or something :(

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

I'd be a skinny peasant with shit teeth or something :(

if you work hard enough, id share a crop my land with yous too :p

[IDon'tOweYouAnything23]

if you work hard enough, id share a crop my land with yous too :p

I'd need a good wage though, I'd still need my money to buy some ye olde stout :guitar:

[Hellie]

I would have loved to live in the early 1800's.I like the way life was more simple then.

I would be dead though as I've had more medical emergencies than most.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

I'd need a good wage though, I'd still need my money to buy some ye olde stout :guitar:

not to be too picky here, but as long as you dont want to grow potatoes all year, then i think we could work something out :o

[Corrissey]

My baby and I would've died during childbirth.

On a happier note, I would have loved listening to radio shows. I would have freaked out like everyone else upon hearing Orson Wells' War of the Worlds. :eek:

[Hellie]

The best thing about living 100's of years ago would be the silence.Imagine an England covered in forest and filled with bears and wolves.No electricity so it it would be pitch black at night.And no traffic noise.It would be heaven.I hate traffic noise.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

The best thing about living 100's of years ago would be the silence.Imagine an England covered in forest and filled with bears and wolves.No electricity so it it would be pitch black at night.And no traffic noise.It would be heaven.I hate traffic noise.

Imagine an England covered in forest and filled with bears and wolves.
ur thinkin the 16 or 17 century not the early 20th or late 19th :eek:
but i like ur thihkin :guitar: especially the roaming bears part :D

[Hellie]

Imagine an England covered in forest and filled with bears and wolves.
ur thinkin the 16 or 17 century not the early 20th or late 19th :eek:
but i like ur thihkin :guitar: especially the roaming bears part :D


Oh yeah, I mean middle ages England.I'd have been a country wench.;)

[IDon'tOweYouAnything23]

not to be too picky here, but as long as you dont want to grow potatoes all year, then i think we could work something out :o

We could have some variation on the go, but the humble spud will have its role or no deal :guitar:

[Buzzetta]

I would have been able to successfully conquer the planet. While 21st century technology has foiled my plans time and time again, there is nothing that would have stopped me a few hundred years ago.

This is the reason that I am currently using part of the bailout to fund my time machine.

Bitches better respect, theres'a recknin a comin'

[Disappointed]

My guess is, had I lived in 1809, I would look pretty much the same as I do now. My hair would probably have been longer, and put up in a similar style to those of Jane Austen heroines. I would've looked smashing in those low-cut, empire-waist dresses that ladies wore back then.

Would I have died at birth? Hard to say. Though my mother did have a C-section, it's possible that she and I may have survived without it.

Since my father is the adventurous type, he may have moved my family from our original home in Maryland to somewhere on the frontier, in which case I would've likely been a farmer's daughter. I don't know if my father would be the farming type, though.

[VetTechOnFire]

I would have died at the age of 7 from complications of thrombocytopenia .... If that didn't get me.... then delivering my first daughter would have done the trick....

[Maurice E]

I knew someone was gonna do that :cool:
don't get all technical on me, it was a hypothetical!! :p

Dude, sometimes you is real dim!

[I am a Ghost]

I'd be riddled with the pox, rickets and galloping knob-rot. Just like now.

[The Seeker of Good Songs]

I vaguely recall a program on one of the Discovery Channels some time ago about how people lived way back, like in the middle ages.

Contrary to popular belief, they showed that a monk's life would have been close to the worst. People generally think a monk just sat around and prayed, chanted and copied texts of the bible. Though they did those things, they also had to plow their own fields, mend their own fences, which were usually made of stones and do all the other hard labor the common person had to do.
Every two or three hours, be it day or night, they'd have to trot on down to the chapel and do their prayers. If they were late they'd get beaten.

To fashion a plow, they'd have to make one out of wood and it would be pulled by an ox or horse if they were lucky, but usually weren't. It would be pulled by another person. The show host demonstrated trying to pull the plow...he barely scratched a line in the soil, let alone turn it over to make a proper field for planting.

All in all, the program showed why people rarely lived past 30 if they got that far. Sickness, injury did most people in. What do you do if you break a leg or accidentally chop yourself in the foot with an axe?

(Edit: Worst Job's in History)

more worst jobs at the link
http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/history/worst_jobs/index.shtml

The Dark Ages
The Guillemot Egg Collector
Farming could be unpredictable and food scarce, so guillemot eggs were an important source of protein in the Saxon peasant’s diet. The only trouble being that guillemots nest on ledges, precariously balanced on cliff sides, so collecting them meant risking life and limb hundreds of feet above jagged rocks and raging seas. And if this wasn’t dangerous enough, angry birds were likely to attack anyone trying to steal their precious eggs.
The Churl
In Anglo-Saxon times, the churl, or peasant, came lowest down the pecking order. His job was farming a small piece of land keeping his family alive on the food he produced. Ploughing the land with oxen and a wooden plough was essential but difficult and backbreaking work. On top of farming, the churl had to put a roof over his head, which meant building a hut made of wattle and daub. Wattle was made of long, slender hazel branches that were painstakingly woven together to make walls and once these were in place the daub was slapped on to stop the wind howling through. This was a messy, smelly job because daub is made from water, mud, straw and dung!
The Bog Iron Hunter
The Saxons needed vast quantities of iron for tools and weapons. The Bog Iron Hunter did exactly what his title says; he hunted for iron ore in bogs. In all weathers, he poked around in soggy bogs trying to find up to 40kgs of ore a day for the smelters.
The Coin Stamper
There was no pay involved, just bed and board and particularly nasty punishments if he was tempted to steal the silver he was making into coins. Stealing just the shavings was punishable with castration and if a whole coin went missing the guilty party’s hand was cut off and nailed to the workshop door!
The Monk
Monks didn’t live in monasteries during the Saxon period; they had to build their own wattle and daub huts, just like the churls, and farm the land to feed themselves. On top of the daily grind, which literally meant grinding grain to make flour for the monk’s daily bread, they had to pray up to eight times a day, including during the middle of the night. Monks also copied manuscripts in meticulous, tiny handwriting in freezing, draughty rooms, which made their bodies and eyes ache horrendously.
The Viking Warrior
Before they could rape and pillage, Viking warriors had to get from their homeland to Britain. This meant long voyages across stormy seas, rowing for hours on end. Life on board a Viking ship was cramped and uncomfortable, wet and cold with no toilet facilities. Rather than sail round a headland, Vikings would often haul their ships across it, with the help of wooden runners. The runners had to be greased to ease the ship along and the most common grease used was made from pulverised fish. Bearing in mind that the fish had been kept for days after they were caught, this would have been an exceptionally smelly job.