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You wake up after being in a coma for exactly 10 years. In what year would you be most surprised by

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:06:13

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Start the coma the day before or after the 2016 election, learn Trump is still Presidnet*

Posted by ECEIllinois <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ECEIllinois' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 19:32:48, in reply to "You wake up after being in a coma for exactly 10 years. In what year would you be most surprised by"

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bill maher would disagree.*

Posted by Ari Gold <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Ari+Gold' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 2, 2026, 12:30:40, in reply to "Start the coma the day before or after the 2016 election, learn Trump is still Presidnet*"

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Enter coma the day before the Chicxulub meteor strike*

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 12:50:50, in reply to "You wake up after being in a coma for exactly 10 years. In what year would you be most surprised by"

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(for rent)

someone just finished watching hard to kill*

Posted by lcubed <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=lcubed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 12:44:57, in reply to "You wake up after being in a coma for exactly 10 years. In what year would you be most surprised by"

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yeah, that movie made me want to sleep for 10 years too*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 12:47:34, in reply to "someone just finished watching hard to kill*"

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I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

I think 1968 would be a hell of a shock for someone who went dark in the Eisenhower years *

Posted by larue33 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=larue33' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:56:53, in reply to "You wake up after being in a coma for exactly 10 years. In what year would you be most surprised by"

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Advance by a year and you pick up the moon landing*

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 2, 2026, 14:57:36, in reply to "I think 1968 would be a hell of a shock for someone who went dark in the Eisenhower years *"

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I was thinking '73, for an American at least

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 12:01:44, in reply to "I think 1968 would be a hell of a shock for someone who went dark in the Eisenhower years *"

go to sleep in the last vestiges of the '50s and before the British Invasion, wake up at war, with multiple cultural upheavals in the rearview and a few either ongoing or coming soon

Also a bonus "Wait, Kennedy was WHAT?! And then the guy he beat in 1960 just got elected twice?"

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

August 1939 to August 1949 would be a good one

Posted by illiniranger <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=illiniranger' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:52:08, in reply to "You wake up after being in a coma for exactly 10 years. In what year would you be most surprised by"

WWII and all the political and technological change (rockets, missiles, jet propulsion, and the atomic age). the British Raj becomes two independent countries. The Chinese communists are about a month away from total control of China.

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This is the timeline I was thinking

Posted by RVA <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=RVA' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 14:17:36, in reply to "August 1939 to August 1949 would be a good one"

You might have to stretch it out a few more years but the huge difference in just everyday American life and the societal layout from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Plus, of course, World War 2 and the global changes in its immediate aftermath.

1909ish

Posted by illiniranger <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=illiniranger' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:31:56, in reply to "You wake up after being in a coma for exactly 10 years. In what year would you be most surprised by"

When you wake up there are fully functional squadrons of biplanes and triplanes, tanks, motorized artillery, zeppelins that drop bombs, the destruction of central and Eastern European empires, communism controls Russia, Spanish flu. Huge amount of tech and political change and the largest pandemic since the black plague.

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Agree. I always think of our great grandfather, born just after the Civil War to a

Posted by LeatherneckIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=LeatherneckIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 12:51:42, in reply to "1909ish"

Union Army officer named after his uncle killed at Gettysburg. Leaves his family farm in upstate Pennsylvania. Follows the railroads west to Colorado where he's part of the end of the late 19th century Wild Wild West, becomes an electrician, runs small town general stores, settles in a small town in northern Colorado where the streets STILL aren't paved and homesteads land we still own, but lives to see space travel and nearly long enough for us to land on the moon. He went from horse and buggy to space travel in a lifetime. That's nuts.

Oh, and I have his warrant from when he was appointed sergeant in the Colorado National Guard.

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That is a crazy life*

Posted by JacobRDaugherty <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=JacobRDaugherty' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 2, 2026, 8:49:59, in reply to "Agree. I always think of our great grandfather, born just after the Civil War to a"

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Moreover, Victorian dress disappeared. Women are practically naked AND WORKING JOBS.*

Posted by complainant <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=complainant' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 12:04:40, in reply to "1909ish"

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prior to the networked home, the amount of time spent drawing and heating water was enormous

Posted by illiniranger <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=illiniranger' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 12:25:16, in reply to "Moreover, Victorian dress disappeared. Women are practically naked AND WORKING JOBS.*"

hours and hours were spent every day drawing and heating water.

when women got electricity and gas to their homes they were able to join the workforce, at least until they got married. before that they were literally carrying water all day for their mom until they married and then they were carrying water all day in their new home until their kids were old enough to do it. that freed them up to heat the water and do all the cooking and laundry.

just a completely foreign concept to us. the washing machine and running hot water are miracles.

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I remember a PBS reality show probably 20 or so years ago, called 1900 house

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 13:43:40, in reply to "prior to the networked home, the amount of time spent drawing and heating water was enormous"

Took a modern middle class family and had them dress and live as a family would have in 1900.

A lot of it I knew intellectually, but it was still very interesting to see just how much various appliances have improved life. As you note, the most dramatic was probably the washing machine. It took them an entire day of hard, miserable labor to do the laundry. I just did a load in like 5 minutes.

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Who was heating water every day? Why was she heating it?*

Posted by complainant <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=complainant' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 12:41:49, in reply to "prior to the networked home, the amount of time spent drawing and heating water was enormous"

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Cooking, laundry, bathing *

Posted by illiniranger <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=illiniranger' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 18:11:41, in reply to "Who was heating water every day? Why was she heating it?*"

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You forgot washing the car.

Posted by complainant <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=complainant' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 2, 2026, 6:43:09, in reply to "Cooking, laundry, bathing *"

You think people bathed and washed clothes every day? Before internal plumbing?

Bathing and laundry were both pretty frequent in pre Industrial Revolution America.

Posted by illiniranger <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=illiniranger' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 2, 2026, 10:10:50, in reply to "You forgot washing the car."

Both occurred at least weekly. With large family sizes that’s a lot of hot water. Cooking required a lot of hot water. Basically everything was boiled or spit roasted over an open flame, ovens in the home were not common until the networked home, ie the 20s.

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You think people bathed and washed clothes every day? Before internal plumbing?

Oh, I see. "Every day" means once a week. That makes sense.*

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You think people bathed and washed clothes every day? Before internal plumbing?

Running hot water is pretty great, but have you tried squeezable grape jelly? *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 12:29:38, in reply to "prior to the networked home, the amount of time spent drawing and heating water was enormous"

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Hell you didn’t even mention the proliferation of cars.*

Posted by Carl Spackler <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Carl+Spackler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:57:58, in reply to "1909ish"

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The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 12:08:15, in reply to "Hell you didn’t even mention the proliferation of cars.*"

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it's the only way to live*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 12:01:59, in reply to "Hell you didn’t even mention the proliferation of cars.*"

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I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

Guess I read the prompt wrong. Go into the coma in 1909 *

Posted by illiniranger <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=illiniranger' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:32:39, in reply to "1909ish"

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If you’re in Europe/North America, 1919.*

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:28:56, in reply to "You wake up after being in a coma for exactly 10 years. In what year would you be most surprised by"

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if I was in Europe

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:51:03, in reply to "If you’re in Europe/North America, 1919.*"

how many Euros per day would I need for incidentals?

anywhere from 2022-now is pretty close to the top of the list

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:14:23, in reply to "You wake up after being in a coma for exactly 10 years. In what year would you be most surprised by"

trump being president, COVID, cubs winning the world series.

historically, jumping from like 1928 to 1938 would be stark (jazz age, STONKS booming to great depression, hitler, and the brink of world war).

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"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

GD, I suck... ignore me*

Posted by uofi1998 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=uofi1998' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:45:24, in reply to "anywhere from 2022-now is pretty close to the top of the list"

Are you going to bark all day, little doggie? Or are you going to bite?

Coma starts in 1933, you wake up in 1943.

Posted by JFG <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=JFG' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:14:01, in reply to "You wake up after being in a coma for exactly 10 years. In what year would you be most surprised by"

Coma starts in the depths of the Great Depression, and you wake up and the economy is humming and you’re at war against Japan and Germany.

No knowledge of Hitler’s rise, or really anything else.

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2011. Smart phones, wireless internet, streaming TV, HD flatscreens, 2 wars (2 less WTC towers),

Posted by Chuck Woodaby <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Chuck+Woodaby' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:13:47, in reply to "You wake up after being in a coma for exactly 10 years. In what year would you be most surprised by"

black president.

Yeah, I think going under on 9/10/2001 is the winner for years I have lived through.*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on May 1, 2026, 12:25:04, in reply to "2011. Smart phones, wireless internet, streaming TV, HD flatscreens, 2 wars (2 less WTC towers), "

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black president.

You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

TWO WARS?!*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:26:27, in reply to "2011. Smart phones, wireless internet, streaming TV, HD flatscreens, 2 wars (2 less WTC towers), "

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black president.

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

How could I forget... podcasts.*

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black president.

fewer

Posted by IlliniSax05 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniSax05' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:17:21, in reply to "2011. Smart phones, wireless internet, streaming TV, HD flatscreens, 2 wars (2 less WTC towers), "

Why do you hate me, Sammich?

MAJOR UPDATE: "Maybe you're not such a bad egg, Lisle-y"
-Sammich, 1/15/2011

#stannis*

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"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

it's crazy how it didn't feel that drastic to live through (aside from 9/11, of course)*

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:15:29, in reply to "2011. Smart phones, wireless internet, streaming TV, HD flatscreens, 2 wars (2 less WTC towers), "

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black president.

"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

A lot of the tech stuff was just natural upgrades like every year

Posted by assassin <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=assassin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:51:45, in reply to "it's crazy how it didn't feel that drastic to live through (aside from 9/11, of course)*"

iPod - iPod touch - iphone

So when it’s every year it’s just like oh yeah it does that now. Cool.

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black president.

Brandon Schrock of Laredo, Texas, told the federal government that his employer was “poop,” and his occupation was “pooper.”

Also, at least initally, those upgrades felt like things that were improving our lives

Posted by IlliniRunner <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniRunner' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 13:08:59, in reply to "A lot of the tech stuff was just natural upgrades like every year "

and not stuff that was decimating our society.

there's a very dry but influential book called the rise and fall of American growth

Posted by illiniranger <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=illiniranger' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 12:05:15, in reply to "A lot of the tech stuff was just natural upgrades like every year "

the thesis is that the inventions that occurred between 1870-1970 were truly revolutionary to how humans live their lives and unlocked huge amounts of productivity and human capital, whereas the inventions after 1970 are just incremental improvements. he uses examples like the "networked home" with gas, power, and water; germ theory of disease that improved life spans; automobile which unlocked travel for rural Americans in a time when most Americans lived on farms, etc.

basically the argument you are making. if you lived from 1900-1926 and you home was "networked" that was a transformative improvement to your life vs the cell phone. it also unlocked huge economic growth relative to today.

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iPod - iPod touch - iphone

So when it’s every year it’s just like oh yeah it does that now. Cool.

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black president.

Thanks for the tip. I have now downloaded it.*

Posted by complainant <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=complainant' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 13:10:20, in reply to "there's a very dry but influential book called the rise and fall of American growth"

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iPod - iPod touch - iphone

So when it’s every year it’s just like oh yeah it does that now. Cool.

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black president.

some time before June 2025

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:09:09, in reply to "You wake up after being in a coma for exactly 10 years. In what year would you be most surprised by"

go to sleep when Trump's candidacy was just a rumor, wake up at the start of his second term

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

Wait... Trump is in office?... carry the 1... the math isn't mathing.*

Posted by uofi1998 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=uofi1998' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:07:05, in reply to "You wake up after being in a coma for exactly 10 years. In what year would you be most surprised by"

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Are you going to bark all day, little doggie? Or are you going to bite?

Jesus... I totally misread this.*

Posted by uofi1998 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=uofi1998' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2026, 11:44:13, in reply to "Wait... Trump is in office?... carry the 1... the math isn't mathing.*"

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Are you going to bark all day, little doggie? Or are you going to bite?

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