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Back to the stone age

  • 20-11-2008 11:33am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭


    Assume you knew that some mad scientist with a time machine and a grudge were to catapult you (and you only) back to the stone age within the next ten minutes and there was one item (other than the clothes on your back) from your house or your shed (if you had one) that you could bring to help with your survival ...what would you bring?

    Me, I'm still torn between a bar of soap or an axe .

    (unfortunately I don't have any clever "how to survive in the stone age" books or I'd bring that :D)


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    Hoverboard


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭Varkov


    Some sort of engineering encyclopedia, so I could build loads of usefull stuffses.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,185 ✭✭✭asdasd


    I'd bring my time machine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    Of the things I have at home? A Saw.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    The fork that's sitting on my desk.

    That has to come in handy, right?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    I'd bring a stone. Just to show the people there that I'm down with them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    My gun.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    I'd bring a gun. Now my problem is where the acquire a gun in ten minutes...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    I'd bring pornography. Tonnes of it. Just coz.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭SpookyDoll


    Persian rugs.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Elephant Monkey


    One of them multitool survival tool thingys with a video camera attached!

    Cut a branch, light a fire = impress the lads in the caves!

    Caveman/woman might get a thorn in there foot, the tweezers on my multitool will solve that = impress cave woman = gigidy gigidy :)

    Knife to kill and skin snaggletooth for food and clothing as a gift to mr and mrs Ug

    Toothpick get that gritty bit of snaggletooth outa my teeth

    When being attacked by T-Rex whip out the blade of multitool and reflect the sunlight to blind him kick him in the ankles get it all on video, hop back in the time machine show it to the world! To prove that T-Rex's had feathers and they were just big giant chickens :)

    Or a pack of gum i dunno, not gonna think about it too much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,200 ✭✭✭muppetkiller


    my Laptop with solar powered battery charger and it's entire library of ebooks such as SAS survival handbook :D oh and fallout 3


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭jebuz


    I would bring a bottle of Jack Daniels and we would party like it was ninteen six-...5000 B.C.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,532 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Only 10 minutes to decide? My boatmate Cinful, so I'd have a friend (but then she'd hate me for dragging her along to where she would miss Black Friday shopping).

    OK, how about a return time travel ticket, just in case I didn't enjoy being stoned?

    Oh, I know! The boat I live on.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    cigarette lighter


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Caoimhín wrote: »
    My gun.

    Kinda pointless with only a handful of (if any) ammo.

    A lighter might be good ...if you're clever enough, its magic power might catapult you to the top of stone age society just before it runs out.

    If you're not so clever it might just get you killed :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    The internet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Zangetsu


    I'd bring the bible back and give it to some poor gullible bastard and **** everyone up for the next 7000 years!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Three-ply toilet roll. Lots and lots of three-ply toilet roll.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    peasant wrote: »
    A lighter might be good ...if you're clever enough, its magic power might catapult you to the top of stone age society just before it runs out.

    If you're not so clever it might just get you killed :D

    The chance I'd have to take. I'd need food within 48 hours. I was hoping to use the lighter to become some sort of magic-man to a group of humans who would provide me with food and shelter.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭TripleAce


    Condoms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭Creature


    A caveman-english dictionary.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    My iPhone............. because I'm a wanker. :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭Ron DMC




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Id bring the timemachine, and a bucket of AIDS.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭Ginny


    Macgyver


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Ginny wrote: »
    Macgyver

    They didn't have elastic bands, paper clips or drinking straws back in the stone age so you're still ****ed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭deleriumtremens


    A container of raw potassium cyanide


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    A container of raw potassium cyanide

    Remind me not to accept that dinner invite. You sure do have strange things lying about at home :)


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Defo an axe. more useful survival wise than a knife. A shiny stainless steel one would impress the natives. Within the week I'd get a brewery going. Impress them no end. I'd have to show them how to make pottery. Then on to bronze. The wheel and all that guff could wait. The Aztecs did fine without it. Writing would be next. I'd have cavepussy gaggin for it within a month.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Defo an axe. more useful survival wise than a knife. A shiny stainless steel one would impress the natives. Within the week I'd get a brewery going. Impress them no end. I'd have to show them how to make pottery. Then on to bronze. The wheel and all that guff could wait. The Aztecs did fine without it. Writing would be next. I'd have cavepussy gaggin for it within a month.

    and u could shave the cavepussy with the axe.

    genius!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    I could as it would be the sacred shiny axe of the skinny shaman. They'd only looooove that. Lining up they would be.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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