Which Time in History Would I Want to Live? (Also: Cute Chicks!)

[@williamshaw5462]

Those geese are probably the most dangerous thing you've shown on this channel

[@postacorona6746]

This is probably the most factual KZbin comment I’ve ever read

[@Momo-xs8mo]

Canadian Geese.... the only thing more dangerous than a pommel.

[@orionphalynx6192]

Top Ten Most Overpowered Weapons

[@0seraphic]

no one needs access to fully automatic assault geese

[@thrillrider4560]

Might be because they have chicks

[@potmarrone2929]

Older history periods are like that friend you are cool with but you wont share your appartment with

[@zzodysseuszz]

Very true

[@eliasdeleone7059]

There is a level of genius in that comment in rare form these days

[@simonschnedl]

A second in, an we already see the Chicks. I got what I wanted, I'm satisfied.

[@AxxLAfriku]

NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear sin

[@matsmann]

Can youtube add a feature where you could like block people so you don't have to see there comments and channel. Would be appreciated YT!

[@squirrel_disaster]

@@matsmann Wouldn't fly with them, they can't push an agenda if you can block it

[@ct7567CaptRex]

Not permanently, but id like to visit all castles of Germany at the time when they were built and in their mostly original form opposed to the ruins and renovated reconstructions you can see them as nowadays. So from the 10th to 15th century, when most of german castles were built.

[@chroma6947]

I would like to walk around swabia and see if people really did carry longswords as sidearms or its just hema hyping them up.

[@terryseinfeld7187]

Why German castles?

[@ct7567CaptRex]

@@terryseinfeld7187 because I am german

[@terryseinfeld7187]

@@ct7567CaptRex Oh okay makes sense haha. I'm German American 4th generation. The only thing close to a castle that I can think of in America would be Mesa Verde cliff dwellings.

[@albertdittel8898]

@@terryseinfeld7187 I am a German Russian (or rather Russian German as many generations as there are) I am living in Germany and just made a small tour to several castles in the Wasgau region yesterday. Also @CT-7567 Captain Rex: I can absolutely recommend it (the Wasgau castles). What region of Germany are you living in?

[@JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI1701]

"None" is indeed the answer I thought of immediatly

[@houghwhite411]

If you knock your knees you gotta hold that pain. No painkiller no doctor

[@RevCode]

@@houghwhite411 On the other hand, opium poppies were not unheard of, depending on your location.

[@ghostagent3552]

I would say prehuman era.

[@houghwhite411]

@@RevCode now it's the matter how to _borrow_ them without getting stonned

[@RevCode]

​@@houghwhite411 Just go out and find them in the wild. In many european places different strands of poppies grow just about everywhere. Granted, nowadays you won't find much P. Somniferum since depending on the country it might be banned, but that wasn't the case in the past. Also there are multiple species that do produce your desired alkaloids, not just one, so I would guess you have a real chance to find some of them in the wild, after which you could maybe grow them yourself, since the pods contain a shitload of seeds anyways :)

[@WoM]

Ya you think the geese are scary, just wait till one of those three eyed trolls pops up!

[@十十十-s1y]

...So you dont know why they were extinct?

[@no3ironman11100]

@@十十十-s1y Angry geese are a powerfull opponent... and a troll carcass a warm nest to use.

[@paxonite-7bd5]

A mutant geese?

[@casbot71]

Considering I had appendicitis as a small child and would have died without modern medicine, the past doesn't really appeal to me. Anyway I'm going to brush my teeth, after all having had both braces and my wisdom teeth removed, I really should appreciate them. Now were are my glasses?

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

Same! I also got 12 separate cases of strep throat in Kindergarten alone, so I'm pretty sure one of those would have finished me off before I even got to the appendicitis...

[@Orgikan]

About mortality in historical times: it had a huge standard deviation. Life expectancy, is the average age of death with all causes of death comprised in a given point of time. Unlike what a lot of people seem to think, it's *not* the age aroung which most people would have died. Life expectancy not only included the really high rate of infant death or death at birth, but also violent deaths. Today in first world countries we have no active war, no soldiers that die regularly over the years, and mostly no death penalty.

[@Viktor-jo4kr]

Thank you!

[@pritkon8622]

How about instead of "What timeline in history would you like to live in?" we ask "What kind of historical style (architecture, fashion, etc.) would you like the world of today be like?" So something like having all the technologies and knowledge of today, but looking like ancient Greeks or something

[@MaaZeus]

Yes! An anachronistic mixture of modern or future technology and sensibilities but each country would have retained their middle-age or ancient sense of style and fashion.

[@chengkuoklee5734]

@@MaaZeus I bet Shad will want modern skyscrapers with crenelation and machicolations.

[@AlvarVraal]

@@chengkuoklee5734 I love dark cathedrals and wish more were built.

[@nikkibrowning4546]

Always picking Gothic and Neo-Gothic.

[@kv-2thekingofderp866]

Well, in terms of architecture, the old ones are definitely more beautiful. I'd pick any of them Baroque, Gothic, Renaissance, Neoclassicissm, Art Nouveau, Art Deco modern buildings do look all the same and with no charm at all.

[@alexnobody1]

If linguistics and discomfort magically aren't a factor, send me back as far as possible. I wanna see how the cavemen lived. Otherwise, forget it, send me back no farther than maybe 20 years.

[@Steponlyone]

As a male or female? With “good genetics” or not? In a cold or warm place?

[@DeSpaceFairy]

You don't need gender, to be eaten by a bear or a lion.

[@BigUriel]

"Cavemen" lived barefoot and mostly naked in the cold, living meal to meal and running away from predators. It would be an exciting, but short lived adventure.

[@bullwyrk]

ppl forget to mention they want god mode also ...

[@riograndedosulball248]

Send me back about a 100 years, present location. I'll be fine linguistics wise because i already speak like a hundred years old hillbilly from the Pampas. Also fuck it, if i can continue speaking english i'm a rich man.

[@locke03]

I'll take being a "commoner" today over being nobility at any time in the past. I love air conditioning, electricity, hot water on demand, and modern medicine.

[@ChadOfAllChads]

Hot water was easy. Most nobleman wouldn't have to worry about drawing their own bath water. Air conditioning? What is that? Do you mean two peasants standing beside you fanning you? Electra what? You must be a witch.

[@Mjdeben]

Apologizing to the Geese was the most delightfully Canadian thing I've ever seen on this channel...love it! And an average working class person today likely has a far better quality of life than a noble or even a king in the middle ages.

[@Leubast]

As much as I love Japan and the Medieval Ages, I don't want to live there, just visit for a while. Just as I loved life in the 2000's, I'm glad to be an adult 20 years later so I can pay bills online, order everything I need online, not have to talk to people or drive just to hand out physical cash to live.

[@matthieuniclas9784]

I read Cute chicks! I came as fast as i could

[@cavemancult1999]

That's what she said

[@GreatWightSpark]

Said every straight young man.

[@bartimaus8738]

and then he clicked on the video lol

[@odinsprophet8849]

Goslings, are they’re “proper” name

[@guturalnutria]

This is the kind of cute chicks content I can get behind

[@AnAmericanDodo]

Giggity

[@YourHandleHere84]

Phrasing? Are we still doing phrasing?

[@tommeakin1732]

*_"Make me a boomer"_* - Skallagrim, Current Year

[@nelly5954]

I agree pretty much 100%. However if I had to choose a "historical" period of history where my social standing would be proportionally randomised, I'd probably go with the paleolithic. The primitivist paradise is sometimes overstated, but you'd probably be better fed and longer lived than a farmer from a later time period, you'd have a lot more free time, and you'd be able to see much more untouched nature, even if it's chewing your nads off.

[@rephiccipher1896]

Ah yes, Skallagrim telling us his Ideal Isekai world.

[@jacksone5856]

Ha! I knew it! No different than asking a 40k fan "Want to live there?" "nooooooo"

[@paulmares9815]

For me I'd like to be in the late teens beggining early 90ties ( "western hemisphere" ); where technology was making huge progress, but your social life and entertainment was still very much in the physical world, when the internet was mainly for e-mails and cellphones were beggining to be popular but not to such point where some people couldn't be without them for 5 minutes. If it were just for a visit, then deffinitely Bohemia/Moravia around 8th century, just before major Christianization, as I would like to see what kind of people were living in my country of origin; I'd be very much interested in the culture and slavic pagan religions and the way of life & war at that time.

[@alexanderren1097]

BREAKING NEWS: Eccentric pommel throwing KZbinr murdered by Cobra Chickens. More at 11

[@Captain-Obvious]

I think a better way to phrase the question is which time in history would you most like to visit? IOW _if_ you had a time machine so you could go and check out what it was actually like to live in different time periods but then could return to the present which time period & location would you most be interested in seeing?

[@chopper333]

1:52 "It kind of sucks" right as a guy with a spear being shoved up his bum is shown. Nice!

[@jrs4516]

2:53 i love the look on the guys face while they're carving flesh off his back. "could you hurry it up please? i have places to be."

[@DAKOTA56777]

Don't forget 15:21, look at that happy smile as a sword is shoved into his noggin.

[@dingobabies9824]

I enjoyed this outdoor rant. Hope you're doing well Skal!

[@Herandro_just_Herandro]

Nice talk, nice landscape. Watching you from Brazil.

[@domestikostonscholon6894]

“Oh shit they have chicks!” One of the most fearful moments in my life happened when I was biking by a bunch of geese and swerved to avoid them but almost hit a gosling instead. I swear every goose in the vicinity immediately swiveled to glare at me. The only way I could’ve pedaled away faster would to have been going downhill.

[@richhartnell6233]

I used to feed geese by hand down by the lake and they sometimes bit my mfing thumb and it hurt like crazy.

[@Emelefpi]

15:22 - for a dude getting a sword jammed through the top of his skull, it looks like he's handling it rather well. And the dudes murderizing him look like supportive well-wishers. All in all a delightful scene of slaughter

[@chroma6947]

Fighting manuals show people doing the same thing

[@roach5485]

Cute chicks...I see what u did there skall

[@BeaglzRok1]

with a pair of big honkers no less

[@AnotherDuck]

It was kind of obvious he'd do that from the start. Not that I'm complaining. :)

[@babysealsareyummy]

It makes you wonder if people 1000 or so years from now will look back to our time period with that same kind of wonder and curiosity: “Imagine what it was like! The wild, early days of the internet! The corona plague!”

[@FeedMeMister]

Just try explaining the analog media era to a digital native who has never even seen an LCD screen in 4:3, let alone a CRT TV.

[@vagabondwastrel2361]

Covid is going to be looked at as a joke. The response to covid has done far more damage and will kill more people.

[@tyler1673]

The corona plague will be forgotten if not laughed at in the future

[@FeedMeMister]

@@tyler1673 it won't be forgotten, it is a defining moment (that lasted more than a year) for Zoomers, as much as 9/11 was for millennials. It will by mocked however, just like Gen X and the Millennium Bug.

[@BigUriel]

@@FeedMeMister It won't be forgotten, but it will be remembered as that time when everyone panicked and the world ground to a halt over a bad flu. Hopefully it will be taken as an example of how not to manage an outbreak of a mild infectious disease.

[@alanhyland5697]

As a fellow Canadian, I can confirm that you were lucky to survive the Geese.

[@doomslayer2290]

That "oh shit" at the start got me

[@JagerLange]

"It was at this moment Grim knew he fucked up"

[@Marhathor]

I only came here to see if there were actually cute chicks and was not disappointed.

[@calebking707]

Damnit man why do your videos have to be so fuckin wholesome and yet entertaining

[@vastuullisetajatusleikit5739]

Thanks for this, was really insightful and wise, many conclusions that I have also arrived at or pondered about. It is clear that we still have our vast share of unfairnessess, but compared to times in history this really is the best time to be alive, the potential is to be fullfilled and can be attained better, history doesn't have to repeat itself, something like that. Although the strength of our technology is in some ways very scary as well. One of your best videos.

[@darthblade2016]

A super long and rambly video by Skall?? Yes please!

[@sevenproxies4255]

Regarding nobles, they weren't guaranteed an easy or long life either. Plenty of historical figures did die from disease and ailments at very young ages after all, since medical technology at the time was not sophisticated enough to treat them. Also, in some periods it might even have been more dangerous to be a member of the nobility than being a commoner. Like during Roman Imperial times and certain monarchies during medieval times, there would've been tyrannical rulers who put the nobility in great peril. Caligula, Nero, Tiberius and others, we often read about their reigns of terror, but what you have to keep in mind is that this terror usually extended to nobles primarily, which these tyrants feared that they were plotting and conspiring against the tyrant, so they would be assassinated, executed or tortured on sometimes completely trumped up charges. Whereas commoners were likely not considered very important, and sometimes a tyrant would even go to great lengths to impress the commoners to cement their popularity so ironically, sometimes commoners got better treatment than the nobility.

[@laason1091]

Rather than idealizing the present, I'd say you went easy on the past. Totally in agreement with you, thank you for sharing your thoughts on the matter

[@Heyyouoverthere1]

Found your channel last night at like 4am and binge watched a good chunk of your videos. Do you think you could do a video on the weapons from Mordhau and how accurate they are? It is a medieval fighting game that I think is fun as hell. The game is also a good source for some memes :)

[@richhartnell6233]

Hello fellow mordhou player! Skallagrim has made a video about mordhou called "please stop asking about mordhou now...😅" As you can guess from the title its alot about how much his fans asked for the video, but he also goes into a lot of the realism. anyway I hope you enjoy the video!

[@andypanda4927]

Yo! Skall, you should try one of those Aussie Brim hats with beads swinging from strings on the edge of the brim. Supposedly, keeps the blood-sucking little buggers away from your face. Think I've seen such in one of the Crocodile Dundee films.

[@andreweden9405]

Certain medieval people who were born into the lower classes were able to obtain a musical education, and managed to improve their station in life. I know of at least one musician, a court organist for Maximilian I, who was not only knighted, but Maximilian actually "ennobled" him, basically saying "I hereby declare that you are now nobility". I know, music is almost like "cheating" in this regard, because I can actually think of A LOT of medieval musicians and composers who climbed higher up on the social latter compared to where they began! I can tell you about them if you'd like. I can also tell you about multiple documented musicians who were also known to have been knights. And I don't just mean that they were "knighted" the way Hofhaimer was by Maximilian. I mean they were actual fighting men-at-arms. I can tell you about them as well if you'd like. Yes, I'm a classical musician who specializes in medieval repertoire.😁

[@anabasis769]

Skal, could you overanalyse "Crazy Samurai Musashi"? It's last year's samurai flick with a 77-minute long single-cut fight scene of one guy against 400 opponents. Gratned, it commits a sin of over-compliant enemies, but both the protagonist and the opponents go at full speed and movement efficiency. And the single-cut fight leaves no room for posing which makes it stand out among other sword-fight movies.

[@petersmythe6462]

I have geese where I live with Goslings. They hiss but as long as you don't do anything aggressive and you respect their space they don't attack. In fact, even if they hiss at you from 3 meters, they probably won't do anything to you at 1.5.

[@_kodokami]

Great video Skall, many people doesn't appriciate and/or understand that today we live in a very different and honestly a much better place than some centuries ago. Yes, we have problems, problems that waren't arount back then like pollution or little biodiversity but I strongly believe that we will outstand those problems and in future the reality will be event better :) Thanks for the video!

[@kylestanley7843]

Damn, Skall knows how to make a title that draws people in!

[@cornofthechildren]

The black flies are pretty bad where I live too lately (Maine, so I might as well be in Canada too)

[@nmcnms]

video idea I'd like to see: a brief summary of weapons with unique fighting styles, and interesting ways to wield them together. Like as an example could someone effectively use a kukri and a karambit together? What would it be like to combine 2 weapons that use very different techniques, and are there combos that are actually practical

[@ulfhedtyrsson]

Beautiful scenery. Minus the friggin powerlines of course

[@andrejara4054]

I remember you made a video about going back into time, I believe it complements the content on this video.

[@James-kv3ll]

Would love to visit Ancient Greece. Same for the height of the Roman Empire. Also wouldn’t mind going to Ancient Egypt or Edo period Japan, but I’d want an emergency exit button on hand.

[@freshboy3968]

16:42 That's a fantastic shot. Like out of a Ghibli movie.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

One of my Literature professors in university said she would want to live in the Regency Era, because she loves Jane Austen's novels, and that's when they were set. When I asked her, what about the lives of the people (i.e. my ancestors) who were colonized by the British Empire, she said, "It was to civilize them for their own good." As if things weren't bad enough, she was the head of the department, so I couldn't say anything. This should give you a pretty good idea of the mindset of someone who romanticizes the past, and how much they're willing to overlook.

[@TheHangryDragon]

"How lucky we are to live in this time. This first moment in human history when we are, in fact, visiting other worlds!" -- Carl Sagan

[@adriansoto343]

I pretty much agree with everything you said jaja, wht would be really cool will be to time travel there as a spectator.

[@DonPeyote420]

13:00 the Unabomber tried doing that, but they started building a highway right next to him.

[@scatterbug]

The time period I most want to live in hasn't happened yet. : )

[@davidwillard9894]

Honestly you put out the most consistently enjoyable content on my youtube. And I have a lot of channels on here. I just love you're content and please never stop lol. Love ya!

[@KamiRecca]

about travel, you dont need to go so far as Plane going around the Planet, feck just going to town now compared to then is such a big difference its hard to wrap your head around. One time i would like to see as a timetraveller, where i think i could live at least for a while is the stone age. P.S The 90s was epic. And Epicly bad, but that is also Epic.

[@CommissarMoody1]

All my friends ask me the same question. And I am like any time after world war 2. Nothing before that. Love to read about it and learn about it. But I like plumbing, electric lighting, night dieing from a infected shaveing cut. 🤣

[@TallicaMan1986]

I feel after The Burning of Alexandria a lot of Medical discoveries were lost. It was romanticized as being a learning hub for many who sought knowledge. It was essentially a pilgrimage to go there and there halls were great and filled with many many texts.

[@gregcampwriter]

Since I have Type 1 diabetes, I have to accept that the current period is better for me, though I would like to live in the future when we've cured that. And if it could be a time when we have warp drive, that'd be perfect.

[@reez4910]

It’s a blessing to be born this current time as a diabetic cause back then diabetics didn’t have insulin shots which I think they put themselves very strict diets If that’s what I learned

[@gregcampwriter]

@@reez4910 There were some diabetics who could survive on strict diets for a few years, but mostly, it was a death sentence. Now it's a suspended sentence of death, with outcomes dependent on how much healthcare is available--and affordable--where a person lives.

[@Shinseidono89]

I know it's not for everyone, but I legit would take living in the past in a heartbeat. All the bad shit included. However, I won't be down for just ANY period or place. It HAS to be living within the Saxon tribe (southern Denmark, Northwestern Germany) pre-Roman contact. There are other periods I really would like to visit temporarily, but living in the here and now is better.

[@RyuuKageDesu]

Being a Doctor Who, and history fan, I would prefer to visit all time frames, but the future is generally a better place to actually live.

[@RyuuKageDesu]

I try not to brag, to much, @asdrubale bisanzio.

[@liznakleonhardt4406]

My gods your beard looks magnificent in that lighting :D

[@toptrees1801]

I literly never knew u live in Nova Scotia I moved here three years ago really cool that u are that close by!

[@Ithirahad]

9:28 Equivalents still exist, they just call them 'negative ion' products and lace them with inexplicably loose chunks of thorium compounds that inevitably get all over the house and have you breathing itty-bitty radioactive sources for years to come. (Thorium being the relatively tame radioactive material it is, that's essentially the one single way you can make it immediately dangerous short of trying to eat it, and it's what they're doing with it because of course...)

[@dutch6857]

The big thing is that i would have no marketable skills if i were to go even a short way into the past. I can drive a truck just fine, but a Victorian six-year-old child could harness a horse to a cart better than me. Douglas Adams touched on this it his "Hitchhiker's Guide" trilogy. (And, no, you can't just build your own truck. Even if you were one of the very few people who could make and assemble all of the parts yourself, the lack of a machine shop, precision tools, quality steel, and most of all funding makes that impossible.)

[@butwhataboutdragons7768]

There's a walking trail/park near my house, and last year during the winter, two Canada geese showed up suddenly. Couldn't figure out where they came from, but soon a herd of goslings showed up between them. Our theory is that a flock was flying south, and these two peeled off to have their kids. Then like two months later, the whole flock showed up, hung around a few days, then flew away. Only, they left a few more of their number behind...and you guessed it, they also started producing. So now we have a bunch of geese, and they're intermingling and making even more. Crazy thing is though, for all the memes about scary Canada geese, these are all really chill for some reason. Obviously you don't want to go after the goslings, but the parents don't seem all that territorial or aggressive if you stay on the track, they even seem to get along with the local ducks already there. They'll honk sometimes but that's not a problem, it's usually just when they're on the move as a group.

[@michaelblacktree]

I like these rambling outdoors videos. 👍

[@nullshock3381]

I am fraking terrified of geese...I would have ran like hell in the in the opposite direction. You are a braver man than I.

[@seamusrichardson6011]

As someone who just lost three goslings because the mother refused to keep them warm, I honestly don’t know whether geese with chicks are dangerous.

[@chrishince8947]

1950's Alaska would be awesome! Still got basic tech, toilet paper and the last wild frontier!

[@gabethet8458]

Wonder if the australian prototype of bucket hat with lots of corc sewn to the rim would help with the flies.

[@r.coburn3344]

“Viking killy thing man offers surprisingly sage commentary on the human condition “

[@eedwardgrey2]

10:04 well that would make for an interesting superhero backstory

[@MadNumForce]

I agree with everything except for one thing : community life has deteriorated amazingly. By that I mean the feeling of belonging to a community, and having a place somewhere where you exactly know the rules. Sure the community was tiny, the rules were kind of strict, and you paid quite a price for being a marginal, but for the vast majority of the population, community and social life and sense of belonging compensated for the shitty living standards. Even familly bonds are increasingly stretched out, with the general standardization of nuclear familly model after the massive rural flight and gentrification of historical working class neighboorhoods. One major field of degradation of social interactions is couple-forming. Celibacy rates are skyrocketing. While traditionnal society had events designed for couple-forming, such as balls, in modern society it only happens by accident, during the education period or on the workplace. Online dating is shit, as it brings the intrasexual and intersexual competition at a global level our brains are not designed to handle. You can pick the cutest girl or the most handsome guy in the parish, and if you come second or tenth served there still is room for you. But when you're competing with thousands of people your age, you're way likely to feel rejected or ignored or dehumanized. Selection standards are calibrated not on what's available in the parish or village, but within 50km. The stress and pressure from such levels of competition is unhealthy to individuals. The lack of well structured community life, the fact that most jobs aren't very meaningfull or engaging, and the high stress of sexual competition are points on which the modern life is less favorable on average to the individual than it was in traditionnal society. That being said, the amazingly high levels of comfort we get in return I believe still make modern life more desirable than traditionnal life. Bad news is : this comfort essentially comes from burning fossil fuels, which is the cause of climate change. So this level of comfort is already doom, whether we willingly cut on our activity to limit the consequences of climate change, or we do nothing and suffer the consequences. The society of plenty allowed by fossil fuels is bound to end one way or another. The 21st century will be that of the return of the scarcity-based society.

[@pouncepounce7417]

Only for poor countries, rich countries can rely on renewable energies, nuclear plants and so on.

[@heroismismissing9516]

The primary problem with even the days before the internet and computers lol which a large minority of skalls audience remembers was that you didn't have access to information, it just literally wasn't available to you. So you had to think of it or come across someone who had the ideas, and good luck with that. Even if you are creative, you probably need to have the original ideas in place before you can combine them in unique ways

[@ItsJustMe0585]

Canada Goose... better known as the dreaded Cobra Chicken (Ozzy Man Review's name for them is too legit).

[@oskualajoki9209]

As Skall said there is so much variation in different spheres of humanity on any given time period, it would be more sensible to ask who would you want to be in the history or what kind of people would you want to be in the history. It sucks to be a severely near sighted (-8), some overweight middle aged man with allergies and medical-based retirement because of psychosis type of mental disease, but in most historical scenarios I would be much more screwed. Even if I would live at this current time in USA and not in Finland, I would probably live in streets rambling insane. It would have been somewhat glorious to be remembered as a Finnish war hero like the world record sniper Simo Häyhä or "Soldier of three armies" Lauri Törni ("Larry Thorne"), but I'm not sure were they actually happier than I am nowdays. So, it depends.

[@jackbarman7063]

I may consider living in the future’s history a few decades from now as a place to instantly travel to.

[@RianKashfi]

The time period I’d wanna live in is now. I literally have more comfort than kings did in the past and most of the technology we have is basically magic to them.

[@yokai333]

In my personal opinion, I'd probably choose for myself to be in the tohoku region of Japan in the 6th century or the village of Hoonah by the 18th century, mostly due to how similar the design is in comparison to tlingit artworks. Just my thoughts

[@richhartnell6233]

I like how specific your answer is.

[@cherrypopscile3385]

I can personally answer this question: Rome or part of italy, born under the late days of trajan or the early days of Hadrian. Heres why: If I was able to keep relative to my irl class, so middle class of some sort, I'd be a lesser noble like an equates with an ability to enter into the Roman army. I'm already going into the regular army. Under Hadrians rule I could live a fairly peaceful life with enough action to see service and get honor(In a roman sense.) After that, I could leave the military and enter under the rule of Pius, a man who ran the most peaceful and prosperous time in rome. By the time I'd be 60, near the end of my life, Id have a family, a farm, and a good life. But lets say my class is 100% random. Well unless I'm born in the absolute dregs, I could still go in the army and make a decent living, and still possibly get a job in the army. And counting the grain doll, I likely wouldn't starve. And all of this while living in high roman culture. Do I prefer the modern day? Obviously. But living in this time period wouldn't be that bad

[@joeygwood]

Great vlog Skall! Get yourself a nice wide angle lens.

[@miashinbrot8388]

I've agreed with your opinion on this since the 1960s (yes, I'm a boomer). At the time I was primarily thinking of antibiotics and all the nasty, deadly diseases that today are curable. Now, however, I can sit in my living room and watch people testing out random historical weapons -- couldn't do that at any other time in history, eh? IMO, the Internet is the biggest game-changer of our time. There is nothing remotely comparable that I am aware of. I think if forced to choose a time in the past to be born, I would choose to be born one year before my actual birth date. ;-)

[@DAKOTA56777]

As someone into steam engines and other mainly 19th Century mechanical thingeries, I also hear the "you were born in the wrong era" stuff and it's like... yeah I love the tech, but the actual social situations back then is a solid pass on staying there. I enjoy not being forced to work 14 hour shifts in a factory where safety is valued so little that machines aren't even allowed to be shutdown while you work on them unless it absolutely has to, all for enough pay to maybe afford myself a half decent pocket watch after several months of concentrated saving. Though at least you could afford to live in your own shack, here in modern NY good luck owning your own home with a simple labour job.

[@raevn11]

I like this video. Felt like a walk in the woods with me mates. Let's have more conversations like this soon. Stay sharp, Skall and may the point not find ye. F geese BTW. You did right there ✌️

[@DraculaCronqvist]

Of course, the answer to such a question heavily depends on what you like and want out of life... and so, most of the time, if people are/were honest with themselves, the answer would be very much like the one Skall gave. The comforts we have and the knowledge we at least have the chance to obtain are more than could be said about life back then. However, what can be said for earlier times is not only were they harder, but in a very real sense, they were more honest. Back then, you do your back-breaking labour, eat what was available and took life as it came. For all our comforts, I would not say that people are actually happier, despite all the betterments that superior technology and ideology brought. People were much more honest back then (and I'm not saying there was no such thing as conmen or thieves or whatnot) in their feelings and what they expected out of life. This can have a certain appeal for people who severely dislike the drawbacks that our modern life brings with itself - enormous bureaocracy, jobs that don't produce much tangible value, overflowing traffic, things like that. As for myself, I'd like to imagine I would answer that I'd prefer a life in more ancient times, but that would be a fantasy. I'm too pampered by our modern comforts to make it through life back then. So if anything, I'd only like to live in the past if I had no knowledge and experience from the modern world. This way, I could not miss what I couldn't know, and would simply accept my more honest, but harder life. But to be transported back, as I am now, into older times? A hellish thought.

[@kieranlock3070]

Love these topics, great vid man

[@curtismcallister9569]

that goose head nod, they're always like "sup bro, you wanna go? you think you can take this? back the fuck up bro."

[@paulpolito2001]

Crank 3: Medieval Edition scene with the... was that a PARTISAN?.. yeah, the Polearm-facilitated rape is disturbing.

[@jeremyhulbert3343]

15:21: That dude is surprisingly chill, considering the circumstances.

[@misadate8688]

tottaly agree, but if i have a choice to transport in some fantasy world where immortality is possible (even necromancy is good enough) then i would choose it, cuz i would have a chance to become immortal, and that's worth more to my existencially dreaded ass then anything else

[@j3tztbassman123]

Maybe back to the 80's, for the music. Get to see Queen live. But that's about the only reason.

[@galaxya40s95]

Nah, it was awesome and short. More of these please.

[@petersmythe6462]

Also keep in mind in ancient Greece it's easy to imagine you'd be an Athenian or Spartan man. But statistically it's far more likely you'd be a woman (no vote, and in Athens, no rights or property. Sparta at least you might end up being a rich heiress), a helot (could literally be hunted by Spartans for ceremonial purpose), a slave (mandatory torture if you ever need to testify, plus you're a slave with everything else that entails). Social mobility was even more limited than today. Nowadays if you're one of the lucky or exceptionally skilled few, you can change your social class for the better. Sure, most people are still working class, paid little more than subsistence wages by their capitalist imperialist overlords, especially if you don't live in a rich country, but there is at least the potential that you can be one of the lucky few who go from worker to small business owner. Or worker in a hyperexploited country to worker in a wealthy country. Or minimum wage worker in a wealthy country to manager in a wealthy country. You know, even though it's better than medieval times. I think maybe we'd be best to get some pitchforks and torches regardless.

[@justiceforjoggers2897]

And do what exactly? Burn down your fellow man's small business?

[@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145]

Canadian geese have your reputation for being vicious I live in South Georgia and the geese that come here during the winter and often stay year round there's still a lot of them now aren't very aggressive for the most part they'll stand a distance from watch you but unless you get very close to them they won't do anything. In fact once saw me the other day I guess recognized me from how much I've been filming them plucked a feather off sat on the ground looked at me and then walked away as if he was giving me a gift for being nice to them lol

[@superfire6463]

I completely agree with the short answer

[@weesnaorc1203]

Lol, when i read the title i understood a deferent context of "cute chicks."

[@JH-kv1vh]

That was intresting thank you .