@saxonrider ref the road bikes, I hope they be distinctly unimpressed - hardly progress.
Its perfectly legitimate when used in reference to the 1970s though
Yes, yes it is. 😆
See it depends what you take back and to what period of time - I mean a smartphone to the Romans for example would be interesting as a games console and nothing else - there'd be no wifi, no phone network, no-one else to call and no videos to stream.
And then the battery would die and there'd be nowhere to charge it.
Or am I overthinking this?
I may be thinking small as oppose to highbrow but I would take my kids back to the house where I grew up half a century ago and show them the ice on the inside of the single glazed windows and how we huddled around a single electric fire in the Winter. Pre "mod cons"
show them the ice on the inside of the single glazed windows
Just bring them round to my house in about 6 weeks time 🙂
My memories of the 1970s are of red wellies, flares, Fatcha, vinyl seats, wildcat strikes, youth culture offensive to anyone over the age of 25, Magnus Pyke, rubbish cars, proper winters, three television channels, Chorlton and the Wheelies, The Generation Game, Pigs In Space and actual proper Lego without the silly bespoke pieces.
My memories of the 1970s are of red wellies, flares, Fatcha, vinyl seats, wildcat strikes, youth culture offensive to anyone over the age of 25, Magnus Pyke, rubbish cars, proper winters, three television channels, Chorlton and the Wheelies, The Generation Game, Pigs In Space and actual proper Lego without the silly bespoke pieces.
but only 3 days a week 🙂
proper Lego without the silly bespoke pieces.
Ah! You didn’t have the Lego sets then.
I may be thinking small as oppose to highbrow but I would take my kids back to the house where I grew up half a century ago and show them the ice on the inside of the single glazed windows and how we huddled around a single electric fire in the Winter. Pre "mod cons"
Pahhh .... I used to live in't hole in't middle of road... and got up for work half an hour before going to bed.
Immediate thoughts of seeing this thread a few minutes ago tie in an awful lot with Malvern Rider's four photos, we've raped this planet for the sake of convenience to ourselves in the past ~60 years, with little thought of the long term repercussions of our actions.
Haber also developed the Haber Bosch process - the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen - which in the form of fertilisers keeps roughly a third of the world's population alive today. Not sure he applied the same fervour to that though.
Well...................
The fixed nitrogen was more because you can't make (decent) explosives without it. The Germans were prevented from importing guano which is what the rest of the Allied powers were using. That it makes fertiliser too was a bonus.
Awesome Chemist, possibly a psychopath though.
A few friends worked in weapons development, they all seem to justify it by saying they only do XYZ whether that's supersonic aerodynamics (of bullets), nuclear reactions, lasers, whatever, most have a conscious blindspot for the overall system.
and got up for work half an hour before going to bed.
Pah... You had a BED!
Something to show them what humanity is working towards, probably this:
Cloning's rubbish - those two sheep don't even look alike
Something to show them what humanity is working towards, probably this:
My electric spiralizer.
I'd have a word with the Irish king of Leinster, Diarmuid MacMurrough, that maybe it might not be a good idea to invite in the Normans to settle a local dispute.
Anyone watch Zapped ?? The first series was funny, the second is about to be aired. If you've not seen it then check it out as some of what we're talking about here is represented in the programme..
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Id show them TM, the current tory cabinet and Donald Trump. We'd fall about laughing, then I'd ask if I could stay. Please. Wait - when am I going back to?
