[Bristol Pete]

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.

Pete

[CooperUK]

Originally Posted by Captain Benefit

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

Pete

You can be Jake if I can be Heath

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.

[zAndy1]

I'd do what Gordon Frazer does!

[jenic]

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.

[jenic]

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.

[JUS]

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

[TameRacingDriver]

Originally Posted by ipod crazy

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.

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

[shahedz]

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

[Soundwave]

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.

Neil

[Jim_Fear]

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

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.

[Mr.D]

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.

Originally Posted by Mr.D

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?

[Knyght_byte]

Originally Posted by shadowritten

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.....

[Bristol Pete]

You can be Jake if I can be Heath

We could play

'paint your wagon pink'

or

'the mild bunch'

or

'very into poppers...high plains drifter'

or

'a fisting of dollars'

fade to black

[Mr.D]

Originally Posted by shadowritten

Nice life. Any particular period, or just in the here and now?

Elizabethan : my rat pie would be bring me fame far and wide.

The mid 21st century : I'd tailor each loaf for the genetic index of each customer.

[stealther]

It would be a toss up between Jeremy Clarkson’s job or more realistically owning my own Scuba Diving school in the Caribbean and living in a modest beach front property whilst the wife pursued her ideal job as a British ambassador.

Originally Posted by Captain Benefit

We could play

'paint your wagon pink'

or

'the mild bunch'

or

'very into poppers...high plains drifter'

or

'a fisting of dollars'

fade to black

Genius!

[hottstuff]

Originally Posted by Captain Benefit

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.

Pete

brokeback mountain ?

I think i would like to be a director with a big budget

[Nobber22]

Originally Posted by shadowritten

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.

You want to be IanJ?

[Decadence]

I'd like to be a pirate with a bloody great big galleon...and a parrot...and have lots of treasure.

[Mr.D]

Originally Posted by Decadence

I'd like to be a pirate with a bloody great big galleon...and a parrot...and have lots of treasure.

You mean you want to be a serial male rapist driven stark raving bonkers by syphilis. And likely end up flayed alive by your own men at the first sign of mutiny?

Its not all fun and games like Pirates of the Carribean you know. Real pirates had to work for a living.

And the food! Maggot pie 7 days a week ..if you were lucky.

[Decadence]

Originally Posted by Mr.D

You mean you want to be a serial male rapist driven stark raving bonkers by syphilis. And likely end up flayed alive by your own men at the first sign of mutiny?

Its not all fun and games like Pirates of the Carribean you know. Real pirates had to work for a living.

And the food! Maggot pie 7 days a week ..if you were lucky.

No, a nice, tidy pirate...not one of those dirty ones...

[stealther]

Originally Posted by Nobber22

You want to be IanJ?

[Mr.D]

Originally Posted by Decadence

No, a nice, tidy pirate...not one of those dirty ones...

They were all big dirty diseased, son-murdering man botherers. They'd have raped the timbers if they found a suitable knot.

Originally Posted by Captain Benefit

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

Pete

Did they have camp fires in Brokeback Mountain? Do they have limp flames and the embers glow pink?

[Bristol Pete]

Funny that Brokeback mountain has raised the Cowboy profile again.

Personally, I have always wanted to be a cowboy since listening to Thin Lizzys 'cowboy song' some years ago. Genius lyrics that sum it up.

Pete.

[Decadence]

Originally Posted by Mr.D

They were all big dirty diseased, son-murdering man botherers. They'd have raped the timbers if they found a suitable knot.

Ok then...but I'd still like to be one, just not doing all that stuff...I would concentrate on sinking spanish ships and stealing their stuff...and then burying it on a caribbean island before docking somewhere and wooing some fit birds...

Originally Posted by Nobber22

You want to be IanJ?

Which bit of the quote is like IanJ? The rich, well-connected bit, or the butler bit?

Don't know the man beyond reading some of his posts, so couldn't comment.