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Old 21-02-2006, 7:33 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Smile What would you do if you could.....

This is not one of those 'I wanted to be an astronaut' type posers. However, if you could drop everything and change into a lifestyle in a different time and place what would you do?

Personally, I would love to be a lonesome Cowboy on the range, just me and my horse around the camp fire. Magic.

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Old 21-02-2006, 7:38 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Personally, I would love to be a lonesome Cowboy on the range, just me and my horse around the camp fire. Magic.

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If I could do anything at any time Bletchley Park during WW2 would have been very interesting.

I'd like to have acted with Shakespeare in Elizabethan times.

I'd also like to have been an astronaut during the mid to late sixties. Space - the final frontier.
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Old 21-02-2006, 8:07 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I'd do what Gordon Frazer does!
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Old 21-02-2006, 8:20 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Since i wasnt around in the 70s, i would probably go back in time to then. Life seems so much more relaxed back then IMO.
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Old 21-02-2006, 8:37 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Just thought about it a bit more and i would probably want to live the simple life in Slovenia where my grandparents came from, went there the other year and it was well good.
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Old 21-02-2006, 8:38 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I think Homer said something like....

'damn my family, if it wasn't for them I would have fulfilled my ambition to be a Rockstar or Playboy photographer'

Either would do me
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Old 21-02-2006, 9:10 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Since i wasnt around in the 70s, i would probably go back in time to then. Life seems so much more relaxed back then IMO.
Thats not what my mate says.... I'm 26, but I work with a guy who is 46, but very much a jack the lad. He said things were a LOT more violent and a lot more poverty in the 70's than now, despite what the media would have you believe.

That is here in the North East mind... maybe other parts of the country were different.
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Old 21-02-2006, 9:11 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Own my own house outright, and have enough income without working to live comfortably, somewhere out in the country like Northumberland. I kinda miss being able to drive out there easily from where I came from originally.

Peace, space, air to breathe, tranquility, real people, no rat-race .... bliss
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Old 21-02-2006, 10:08 PM   #9 (permalink)
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funny i was having this conversation with a mate the other day, i would be an 80s rockstar , like Europe, Jon Bon Jovi, Kiss etc
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If I could do anything it would be a racing driver

It's something I'm aiming for within the next 3 years...well not the full thing but I'll be doing my National B licence in the next 2 years then hopefully if I can afford it get on the Catherham challenge & see what happens.

Other than that be a writer & live in America.

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Old 21-02-2006, 10:37 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Its annoying they moved production of the Caterham 7 elsewhere, the main showroom is at the end of my road.

If I could do anything it would be an extreme sports inctructor out in New Zealand
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Old 21-02-2006, 10:58 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Having just watched an episode of Poirot on telly, plus an episode of Jeeves and Wooster on DVD (and because I feel an affinity with the period), I'd opt for life in England in the 1920s-30s. But only as long as I was rich, well-connected and got to see lots of classical music concerts given by the many great composers who were still alive then.

And I'd want a butler.
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I'd be a baker. I'd start at three in the morning , fire up the ovens, get the bread on do some pastries whilst I was waiting for the bread and any special orders done. Then I'd open up and leave the selling to the shop staff and go home and have a kip.
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I'd be a baker. I'd start at three in the morning , fire up the ovens, get the bread on do some pastries whilst I was waiting for the bread and any special orders done. Then I'd open up and leave the selling to the shop staff and go home and have a kip.
Nice life. Any particular period, or just in the here and now?
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Having just watched an episode of Poirot on telly, plus an episode of Jeeves and Wooster on DVD (and because I feel an affinity with the period), I'd opt for life in England in the 1920s-30s. But only as long as I was rich, well-connected and got to see lots of classical music concerts given by the many great composers who were still alive then.

And I'd want a butler.

ahh, a man with the right idea of life....heh


as this option has been done tho, only other thing i could think of would be to have actually been what i wanted to be if my med problems hadnt screwed up my education and be an architect with a big well known building i'd designed built in central London somewhere.....going around the well to do parties (see the above quote but in modern times)......and of course owning a real state of the art Wilson Audio speaker pairing with the best source and amplification available........in a room perfectly designed to be both acousticly sound and also comfortable and happy to be in.....
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