Famous Events You'd Like To Go Back In Time To Witness...

I don't think so, it's helping our economy. This is one of the myths being spread by the oil industry because they're scared that their easy lives are getting less comfortable.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...booming-cbi-green-sector-jobs-energy-security

 

Music - any Queen concert in the mid 70's or an early REM concert when they were playing bars and tiny clubs in the early 80's. An early 90's illegal rave or night at the Hacienda would also be on my list of time machine destinations.

Sport - I wasn't at Anfield for Brian Howard's winner, so it would have to be that.

Politics - the fall of the Berlin Wall looked pretty interesting.

 

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/long-reads/whats-happening-life-expectancy-england

Life expectancy in UK in 2022 is lower than it was in 2019 - although a lot of that is due to Covid (and we still don't know the long term effects of that).

https://www.theguardian.com/society... death rate increased,the period 2017 to 2019.

Number of women dying in pregnancy has increased by ~50% since 2019.

A lot of this was Covid. Some of this was austerity and being poor. Some of it in America is due to ignorance and stupidity.

 

With all due respect mate, if you don't think life expectancy has increased in the last 100 years worldwide while maternal and infant mortality has decreased... then I genuinely don't know what to say.

You're arguing over minutae for reasons I can't even begin to imagine.

We've reached a plateu over recent years in developed countries due to the robustness of our bodies and the limitations of medical science. There is bound to be some minor variations both up and down while on that plateau but they're trivial. Some developing countries are still on the upward curve but they'll get there.

There may be another quantum leap in scientific innovation or we may have reached the limit.

But to start arguing that we're not better off now, in the 21st century, than at any other time in human history on these issues, and that it isn't so much better, is just bizarre.

 

I'd like to have been present when Brian Harvey ran himself over after eating too many baked potatoes.

 

I'd like to have been there the first time Sticky Vicky realised how talented she was.

 

I did see him have a hissy fit after someone lobbed a bottle of piss at him at a student night in Sheffield. It was pretty good.

 

We've all done it.

 

January 22nd 1879 Isandlwana South Africa near Natal.

The largest and most recent defeat of an at the time modern army versus a tribal gathering of zulu impis.

What a tactical balls up.

 

Any day before I was fifteen when all my relatives were still alive. I’d have so much fun speaking to them all again.

 

How did you get it to accept numbers? I just get a string of emojis

 

Hitler's birth,I'd have made him disappear!

 

You would kill a child?

 

Yes because obviously I know who it is and what a horrible monster he turned into.

 

Its the event that makes the Monster that you have to prevent.

 

You would also kill me - and my mother (and daughter). My grandparents would never have met without the war - they were born over 200 miles apart and only met after my granddad joined the RAF and was stationed in Lincolnshire. No Hitler, no war, no me.

Killing Hitler might be seen as a good thing, but there is a possibility that the alternatives might have been even *worse*.

 

There would have been a War anyway. I watched the film "Amsterdam" the other night and there were businesses that instigated a war to make money. Hitler and Mussuloni were figure heads.

 

It would have been a different war though. Maybe it was 5-10 years later and Germany had nukes. Maybe it was one where they were much more ruthless with civilians than they were. Maybe we were the aggressors after electing a fascist government in the 1940 election. Maybe the Russians got the nukes first and pushed through Europe after years of building an unbeatable military.

But without the specific events happening when they happened, a lot of us wouldn't exist.

 

It is vastly better than at any point in history, except for 5-10 years ago in this country when life expectancy was higher and maternal mortality rates were lower. This is partially Covid, partially austerity, and partially other stuff - NHS waiting lists, lack or resources, bad diets, smoking for decades, etc.

It might be that it is a blip and the trend continues upwards again in a few years. It might be that people in our country are not getting the help and support they need to live the full life they deserve.

 

The first sentence is probably true, the Treaty of Versailles arguably caused WW2. The rest is nonsense.