If you could travel back in time, where would you like to go?

Hitchens

I'd like go to Tombstone, Arizona around the early 1880's . It'd be great to see Wyatt, Doc and the boys in action.

How's about ye?

saintsaltynuts

Temple Bar.City Centre 1985 ish.

Clifford Byron

I'd go back about 2000 years, just to see what the craic was, like

AgileMyth

Last friday. Petrol station in Letterkenny. I had a delicious sandwich sitting outside it on a nice warm night.

Its the simple things lads.

The Backwards Man

30 seconds ago.

kfallon

Na go on, you head off there on your own, I'm grand here thanks!

Sir Arthur Daley

The swinging 60s.

nc19

Back to the dinosaurs........if they are there

PizzamanIRL

Back to bed.

Pyr0

Ancient Rome at the height of it's power.

suffering golfer

About 100AD for me... would have like to seen the Roman empire in it's prime.

Edit: Beaten to it by Pyr0

ScumLord

I'd go back and see if Jesus really existed.

I'd like to see ancient Rome but I'd wonder how I'd be received. I basically look like a northern barbarian, I'd probably be taller than 90% of people around at the time. The smell of an ancient city would probably have me on the verge of spewing the whole time and maybe my teeth and glasses would make me look like some sort of demigod.

Would people run away screaming at the site of me or grovel before me?

Banjoxed

saintsaltynuts wrote: »

Temple Bar.City Centre 1985 ish.

I was there. It wasnt all that.

Molester Stallone

July 1888 & at the point Alois Hitler is about to shoot his load, scream at him to pull out!

mrsbyrne

1983. Sort a few things out for myself.

Hitchens

ScumLord wrote: »

I'd go back and see if Jesus really existed.

I'd like to see ancient Rome but I'd wonder how I'd be received. I basically look like a northern barbarian, I'd probably be taller than 90% of people around at the time. The smell of an ancient city would probably have me on the verge of spewing the whole time and maybe my teeth and glasses would make me look like some sort of demigod.

Would people run away screaming at the site of me or grovel before me?

just tell them you're a mod, and they'd grovel

131spanner

I'd go back to February and go to more lectures this semester. Fook.

Zed Bank

ScumLord wrote: »

I'd go back and see if Jesus really existed.

I'd like to see ancient Rome but I'd wonder how I'd be received. I basically look like a northern barbarian, I'd probably be taller than 90% of people around at the time. The smell of an ancient city would probably have me on the verge of spewing the whole time and maybe my teeth and glasses would make me look like some sort of demigod.

Would people run away screaming at the site of me or grovel before me?

I think they would probably try to kill you.

hfallada

America during the cuban missile crisis in the 1960s. The closest thing to the world actually ending. I wonder how fear was felt in a city like NYC

Daveysil15

1999. The choons were great and the birds got their bits out for no reason.

namenotavailablE

November 1996. This time, I'd take the chance presented to me.

fermanagh_man

The summer of 2006 and sleep with that France girl again

Sleepy

Last Friday around 6pm with the winning Euromillions numbers.

50's America could be interesting to visit as a white man. A period of real economic exuberance and optimism. Mid 90's Palo Alto would be a fantastic period to go back to if you wanted to make astronomical amounts of money: even the janitor from the original eBay staff is a multi-millionaire.

K.Flyer

Back to the MAYANs, tell em that their calender was wrong and that all their human sacrifices were for nothing.
More importantly, back about 35 years, find me and give myself a good talking to.

Molester Stallone

K.Flyer wrote: »

Back to the MAYANs, tell em that their calender was wrong and that all their human sacrifices were for nothing.
More importantly, back about 35 years, find me and give myself a good talking to.

Did the Mayans speak English?......guessing you'd end up as sacrifice number 1 on that day!

md23040

April 2007 - and sell my entire Bulgarian/Irish buy-to-let property portfolio.

olliesgirl55

I'd go back to 2007 and stop myself from making the biggest mistake of my life.
Other than that I'd go back to the mid to late 90's and buy stock in one of the dot com start up but I will make sure I write a note to sell before the dot com bubble burst. Then I'd come back today where I'd be rich:D

ScumLord

Zed Bank wrote: »

I think they would probably try to kill you.

You'd think so but I'd bet they'd want to consult the gods first, they were a very superstitious people. That should give me enough time to explain steel and soap.

Mint Aero

I'd go back to before time began.

K.Flyer

Molester Stallone wrote: »

Did the Mayans speak English?......guessing you'd end up as sacrifice number 1 on that day!

I would be speaking to them through the ACME voice translatafone, handy gadget you pop into your mouth, you can buy them cheap in PC Universe in about two hundred years time.

mitosis

Hitchens wrote: »

I'd like go to Tombstone, Arizona around the early 1880's . It'd be great to see Wyatt, Doc and the boys in action.

How's about ye?

Do you mean time and space also? Coz no time machine in Rathgar will drop you off in Arizona

Tokyo

Any time before August 29, 1997. And find John Connor.

Daveysil15

mike_ie wrote: »

Any time before August 29, 1997. And find John Connor.

Kill him before the Terminator gets him?

Adamantium

mike_ie wrote: »

Any time before August 29, 1997. And find John Connor.

I'm heading back as well after you.
So who's side are you on anyway?

furiousox

Sunset Strip L.A. in the 80's at the height of hair metal.

Hitchens

lads, 1st Rule Of The Cosmos - you cannot mess with history during a time trip

Adamantium

May 4th 1977 Los Angeles Chinese Theatre,just to see Star Wars in the cinema and the reaction with everybody else, I'd need a mind wipe as well, but then I would forget where I parked the DeLorean and have to live out my life as an amnesiac in Late 70's California.

Doesn't sound so bad actually.......
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Might visit my Da in Leitrim.

Give him a heads up on Google.

He goes out on 10000000 plastic googles.

He goes broke and I'm never born as a result.

Saganist

22 November 1963

cactuspaw

go back to about 2008, get the notes to all the lectures i skipped to go on the lock!

Sh1tbag OToole

1950's Ireland. See all the old school cars and farm equipment, mingle with the old school people and soak up the old school culture. Travel around a bit to Donegal and the islands, polish up on my cupla focal, head to Mayo and prevent Enda from being born. Convince a few future paedophile priests to become plumbers instead. Maybe buy a thatched cottage in a small town and turn it into a pub.

MsQuinn

Sept 1984 - Starting secondary school. Do it all again the same.

Adamantium

Hitchens wrote: »

lads, 1st Rule Of The Cosmos - you cannot mess with history during a time trip

Told you Hitchens isn't resting in peace, he never liked that phrase, he's just been time travelling ever since!

Daveysil15

Hitchens wrote: »

lads, 1st Rule Of The Cosmos - you cannot mess with history during a time trip

Well actually you can but it would be like creating a new stream on a river. It just wouldn't affect the main river.

Hitchens

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Well actually you can but it would be like creating a new stream on a river. It just wouldn't affect the main river.

there is a distinct possiblity that the universe could revert back to a singularity within a millionth of a nano-second as well

Sh1tbag OToole

Hitchens wrote: »

there is a distinct possiblity that the universe could revert back to a singularity within a millionth of a nano-second as well

That wouldnt be good. Think of all the recessions we'd have to go through again

stefan idiot jones

11th May 2009, Dublin, RTE Studios.

No, you faux American wannabee, you will not host the show.

DazMarz

Back to the year 2000. Get a big load of loans and buy a shag-load of property. The whole lot will be sold by the year 2006. I'll be off then to Dubai or Vegas or somewhere with my untold squillions.

Hindsight is a great yoke...

Iwasfrozen

ScumLord wrote: »

You'd think so but I'd bet they'd want to consult the gods first, they were a very superstitious people. That should give me enough time to explain steel and soap.

They're romans, they had both?

ScumLord

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

They're romans, they had both?

Towards the end but for the most part they had neither, they used to clean themselves with olive oil and a scrapper. Steel was a magical material pretty much right up till the industrial revolution. It was kept secret, barely understood and too labour intensive to make in any great numbers. Iron wasn't even considered a particularly good metal for a long time because it was softer than some of the alloys available. Steel being cheaply available to the masses is a fairly new thing.

CamperMan

I'd go back to Ireland in the early 1990's before the Celtic Tiger came along and fecked it up

McChubbin

I'd travel back to the 1920s and get me some geniuine flapper dresses!