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"I’d like to visit historical periods, but not live them.
Time travel with return ticket... Good idea!  "
More the case I don’t think I could live in a period with no running water in the house. A communal toilet and/or water supply the end of the alley is not for me.
Although I would like to try a garderobe just once for the fun of it! |
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"I’d like to visit historical periods, but not live them.
Time travel with return ticket... Good idea!
More the case I don’t think I could live in a period with no running water in the house. A communal toilet and/or water supply the end of the alley is not for me.
Although I would like to try a garderobe just once for the fun of it!"
okay this hadn’t even crossed my mind - madness to think how relatively recent history indoor plumbing is and yet how far we have advanced in that time |
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"I’d like to visit historical periods, but not live them.
Time travel with return ticket... Good idea!
More the case I don’t think I could live in a period with no running water in the house. A communal toilet and/or water supply the end of the alley is not for me.
Although I would like to try a garderobe just once for the fun of it!
okay this hadn’t even crossed my mind - madness to think how relatively recent history indoor plumbing is and yet how far we have advanced in that time "
Yep, we forgot how quickly the world has advanced last 50/100 years or so and how such basic commodities we now take for granted |
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I was born in the North in the 70s. Grew up under Thatcher. I am the tail end of the fortunate generation of working class folk and I'll never forget it.
My parents bought a house on my dad's salary. Mum stayed at home (well, worked from home but we weren't allowed to tell the neighbours she made circuit boards at the dining room table...).
My first degree was paid for by the LEA and I got a full grant. I got a student loan of £1,600 and paid it off in 6 years.
Ditto my PGCE (prob part of my previously stated loan).
My MSc was paid for by the EU - with a bursary of £60 per week!
My second degree was paid for by the NHS and I also got a bursary. This time I also needed a student loan of £10k to live on. But my repayments are still more than the interest every year. It's going down!
At no point before in history has it been acceptable and affordable for a working class woman to study science. And I'm hugely aware that the ladder I climbed has been kicked away for others. Every. Single. Rung.
So, while it would be lovely to be Cleopatra or Catherine the Great, if I were to live my own life in any era other than my own timeline (+/- 2 or 3 years) I would have missed so much.
And I can only apologise to those that followed me that the route to my success just isn't available any more. I know I got really lucky.
So, no, I lived the best age for me (so far!). I'm just so upset and angry that those chances have been taken away for others like me... |
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My life would certainly have been shorter and harder but would like to have been in London in late 16th and early 17th century, the Elizabethan age when Shakespeare was writing. |
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over a year ago
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"I was born in the North in the 70s. Grew up under Thatcher. I am the tail end of the fortunate generation of working class folk and I'll never forget it.
My parents bought a house on my dad's salary. Mum stayed at home (well, worked from home but we weren't allowed to tell the neighbours she made circuit boards at the dining room table...).
My first degree was paid for by the LEA and I got a full grant. I got a student loan of £1,600 and paid it off in 6 years.
Ditto my PGCE (prob part of my previously stated loan).
My MSc was paid for by the EU - with a bursary of £60 per week!
My second degree was paid for by the NHS and I also got a bursary. This time I also needed a student loan of £10k to live on. But my repayments are still more than the interest every year. It's going down!
At no point before in history has it been acceptable and affordable for a working class woman to study science. And I'm hugely aware that the ladder I climbed has been kicked away for others. Every. Single. Rung.
So, while it would be lovely to be Cleopatra or Catherine the Great, if I were to live my own life in any era other than my own timeline (+/- 2 or 3 years) I would have missed so much.
And I can only apologise to those that followed me that the route to my success just isn't available any more. I know I got really lucky.
So, no, I lived the best age for me (so far!). I'm just so upset and angry that those chances have been taken away for others like me... "
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It's amazing when you talk to someone who is in their 80s or 90s and you you see from their eyes how they looked I couldn't imagine any century other than this one Imagine like no cars no planes no TVs no electric is like Jesus Christ what a nurse did they do for 24-hours a day |
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It's amazing when you talk to someone who is in their 80s or 90s and you you see from their eyes how they looked I couldn't imagine any century other than this one Imagine like no cars no planes no TVs no electric is like Jesus Christ what did they do for 24-hours a day |
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"It's amazing when you talk to someone who is in their 80s or 90s and you you see from their eyes how they looked I couldn't imagine any century other than this one Imagine like no cars no planes no TVs no electric is like Jesus Christ what did they do for 24-hours a day"
and we were lucky enough to catch just that sweet spot where we understand the technology but got to have a childhood snd grow up without the pressures of it |
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