What was your favorite time period?
@genericbeing
I'm a big 90s guy, I loved that time, everything made sense, was simpler, less weird. Although I'm obsessed with 80s for their music and movies, even though I barely lived then. I feel like the world fell apart after 2008.
@genericbeing
"I feel like the world fell apart after 2008."
For every affluent nation on the globe, it kinda did... Presumably you've heard of the Great Recession.
@genericbeing Everyone knows the 90s and very early 2000s were the best. Lol. I'm still stuck there. *sighs* Ahhhh, the good times. ♡
It's hard to say...
I'm a mid-70's baby, so I did most of my growing up in the late 1980's thru the early to mid-90's. Today's kids have no idea what they missed, truly... On the other hand, unlike a lot of people I didn't do much partying in my twenties. It was all about work, family drama/bulls*** & living in a horrible place (Vegas. Yecchhh). In the late 2000's to mid-2010's I went through most of my thirties. That was my fun time--it was a lot of work but much of that was for my small-biz efforts...until my health started to give out, I was livin' it up. Ahhh, those were the days...
@genericbeing I choose cowboy and indian time period😁😍😍😍😍😍😍😁
[CW: firearms, crime & vice (but not a lot)]
@Tinywhisper11 You'll want to be in early 18th to 19th-century America, then...especially in the bigger states west of the Rocky Mountains (or the territories, when they weren't states yet). If you were able to access Youtoob I'd post a few links to American history-themed clips there. Ask the care staff if they can rent a DVD or get a history special on Netflix for you.
If you want to do any Net research, look up terms like "Buffalo Bill", "Annie Oakley", "cattle drive", "the Rio Grande", "chuck wagons", & maybe "real cowboy life". If you look up "Republic of Texas" you will learn that our state of Texas was an independent country for about four years...& that we basically grabbed it from Mexico. 😆
I'll bust a myth for you: the "Wild West" wasn't all that wild, most of the time. Shootings were pretty rare in most places, & when they did occur, guys generally did not square off on the main street of town at high noon. Believe it or not, the West was full of gun laws as much as it was full of guns! Many towns required travelers to surrender their firearms upon arrival & would only return them when their owners were about to leave. There was prostitution in many places, especially in towns that sprang up around oil wells...it was usually confined to a certain section of the town. That's where the term "red-light district" came from: the part of the town where the brothels were was sometimes marked by an oil or gas lamp with a red lens in it. Basically it was allowed but kept under control by the sheriff & his deputies. The most serious crimes in those days were bank & train robberies, & livestock theft (cattle & horse rustling). Horse rustling in particular was not taken lightly; if you stole a man's horse & got caught later, there was a good chance you'd be hung.