What would be the worst era in human history? Would it be the present, WWII, the Middle Ages, the stone age, or some other time period I haven't mentioned?
For me, I would say WWII (use of nuclear weapons in war, genocide, tens of millions dying, etc.) or the present (us political polarization, climate change wiping out all life by 2100, the rise of police states in the western world)
I'm pretty sure the answer to your question is "May 23, 2006 to present day."
But bush was elected six years before that date, and the SE nine years before that.
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Every day has been worse than the one before. That means each time you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
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Guys, I'm trying to have a serious discussion here.
January 24th, 2014
timdiggerm said:
January 24th, 2014
Why that date? Can a single day be considered an era?
May 17th 2014 - Xenuber 19th 57 is a bit rubbish.
The only history I can give an informed opinion on would be my own personal history, and I doubt that's what you're looking for.
Perhaps the worst is yet to come.
timdiggerm said:
Perhaps the worst is yet to come.
The year 2099 for example...
The Earth is very different from today. Following a number of environmental disasters, such as "the Withering" – which resulted in the loss of a great deal of human knowledge including the vacuum cleaner and fire (although the latter came back fairly quickly) – and a "Cattle-clasm" that killed off most of the livestock.
The Earth has been reduced to a wasteland separated between "Withered Zones" and the remaining inhabitable areas. The Withering shifted the Earth into a new orbit, resulting in disruption to the seasons and a reformed calendar. Every day of the week is now 25-hours long except for Thursday (which, due to time anomalies, has not occurred in over a decade), while the change in the length of the year led to the creation of new months such as Janril, Febtober, and Marchuary. In addition, the dreary season of Hamble was created, which is permanently dark, cold and drizzly. The Withering resulted in vegetarians, pigeons and gays becoming endangered species, and completely wiped out tarts.
The Earth's geography is also radically altered. A new mountain range was formed in Britain by a day-long ice age, and the Earth now has twelve and a half continents. Many locations have been displaced and reduced to islands, including Oxford University and the London borough of Deptford, which is now in the Indonesian Ocean as a part of the Cockney Islands. The solar system is equally altered: Jupiter has been deep fried by Harry Ramsden's, Mercury and Neptune have been knocked together, and there was an initiative to destroy the Moon, which was deleterious to the nightlight industry.
Religion still exists, pieced together following the Withering, theologians conclude that there were four true deities: the evil twins Yin and Yang, Feng Shui the destroyer, and merciful Bod, based on the children's television programme Bod; the theme tune of which has become a hymn, sung in Gregorian chant. Bod is analogous to God, hence the commonly used phrase "Oh my Bod!"
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generalfrevious said:
Guys, I'm trying to have a serious discussion here.
Then you've come to the wrong place!!
November 5th 1955
1985, but the alternate era where Biff controls everything.
I hear AD 2101 will be pretty bad
TV's Frink said:
I'm pretty sure the answer to your question is "May 23, 2006 to present day."
What happened on May 23, 2006?
Warbler said:
TV's Frink said:
I'm pretty sure the answer to your question is "May 23, 2006 to present day."
What happened on May 23, 2006?
That's the day generalfrevious joined the forum, according to his profile.
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generalfrevious said:
What would be the worst era in human history? Would it be the present, WWII, the Middle Ages, the stone age, or some other time period I haven't mentioned?
For me, I would say WWII (use of nuclear weapons in war, genocide, tens of millions dying, etc.) or the present (us political polarization, climate change wiping out all life by 2100, the rise of police states in the western world)
WRONG THREAD!!
You should have posted this in the historical discussion thread. I made that thread for a reason you know, not as a thread that people could ignore so they could make their own, plagiaristic threads. My thread is all-encompassing so we don't need more than one thread about history.
Welcome to my world.
RicOlie_2 said:
generalfrevious said:
What would be the worst era in human history? Would it be the present, WWII, the Middle Ages, the stone age, or some other time period I haven't mentioned?
For me, I would say WWII (use of nuclear weapons in war, genocide, tens of millions dying, etc.) or the present (us political polarization, climate change wiping out all life by 2100, the rise of police states in the western world)
WRONG THREAD!!
You should have posted this in the historical discussion thread. I made that thread for a reason you know, not as a thread that people could ignore so they could make their own, plagiaristic threads. My thread is all-encompassing so we don't need more than one thread about history.
Ok, I honestly didn't know there was a historical discussion thread here. And I wasn't trying to plagiarize anyone when I made this thread. That was not my intention; my intention was to see if the early 21st century really was the worst era in human history. I am very afraid that the human race will go extinct in my own lifetime due to climate change, and I think that was unfair. And with the political polarization in my country , and the sociopath that we call the president making things worse all the time, I felt depressed.
No worries, I was just joking around. I think the 21st century is in a pretty bad state, but looking at history, one can see that new and good eras spring out of bad ones, so though we may be in a bad situation, things will turn around in the future.
I've decided to say that the 21st century is the worst era in human history, as I hate most of the movies, music, slang, fashions, technology, celebrities, etc, etc, etc. made in the last fourteen years.
The black plague and the holocaust, just to name two, would like a word with you.
TV's Frink said:
The black plague and the holocaust, just to name two, would like a word with you.
But Duracell didn't have to live through that, so how could all those horrible deaths and atrocities be worse than living in a world where you can simply choose not to watch Michael Bay type films or listen Lil' Wayne type music but instead choose to turn your attention to all of the wonderful artists at work today? IT'S HORRIBLE!!!
Ah, I stand corrected.
Although something is very wrong with society if the personal life of a celebrity is a bigger news story than something like the NSA violating civil liberties.
