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Change one event in history... what is it?

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  • #32
    jeanjolie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 484 ✭✭jeanjolie


    Milk_Tray wrote: »
    9/11

    This is silly.

    In a way, we can be sort of 'glad' (use that term very loosely) that 9/11 occured.

    If you go on a plane today with your beautiful wife/husband or your mother/father and someone tries to stab them with a knife, they'll be tackled down and possibly even killed by other passengers. All of this is because people do not want a repeat of what happened 16 years ago.

    If you went back and prevented sept 11 then the legislation and more importantly, public mentality surrounding aircraft hijackings would have almost certainly remained the same today as it was; which in turn means that yourself and those who you cared about might (although highly unlikely given how rare terrorism was and still is) get sacrificed by Islamic terrorists looking to get lesbian virgins.

    As horrible as 9/11 was, I'm glad in a way that it happened. It's made us safer


  • #33
    Jobs OXO
    Closed Accounts Posts: 882 ✭✭✭Jobs OXO


    Not cancelling Deadwood


  • #34
    eviltwin
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    Sending Dustin to Eurovision


  • #35
    Persephone kindness
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    jeanjolie wrote: »
    You can go back in time and change one event in history towards your favour anywhere at anytime (within human existence of course)..

    What is it?
    Go back and Change this post to as many as I like.


  • #36
    Persephone kindness
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    I would win euromillions. I would urge Bertie Ahern to go into show biz. He could have been Louie Walsh.


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  • #37
    Persephone kindness
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    I would urge louie walsh to go into politics ...he should have been bertie.


  • #38
    Persephone kindness
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    I would help my family several generations back and help them through hard times. I would give my granny cancer treatment so my mom could have more time with her. I would ask my grandad not to smoke a pipe.


  • #39
    Persephone kindness
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Stop holocaust.


  • #40
    jimboblep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 546 ✭✭✭jimboblep


    Prevent the birth of mohammed


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    jeanjolie wrote: »
    Change one event in history... what is it?



    Cionn tSáile/Kinsale (3 January 1602).


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  • #42
    chakotha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭chakotha


    Krakatoa. Make a great equivalent fart instead. *silly smiley*


  • #43
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    That cold winters night all those years ago.


  • #44
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Glenroe was never cancelled.


  • #45
    FizzleSticks
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #46
    Berserker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,043 ✭✭✭Berserker


    I'd stop the person or people who decided to pull production on Fry's Orange Cream from doing so.


  • #47
    Crimson King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Crimson King


    Passeau, Germany in January 1894. Tell that kid Johann Kuehberger not to save that four year old Adolf from drowning.


  • #48
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,094 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Instead of Hiroshima?

    Hiroshima contributed to the end of the war, if you prevented it who's to say many times more Japanese would have died under weeks of conventional bombing.


  • #49
    metaoblivia
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    The assassination of Robert Kennedy


  • #50
    893bet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 10,830 ✭✭✭✭893bet


    The start of reality tv and celebrity culture.

    **** right back to where you came from.


  • #51
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    Battle of the Boyne

    If King James had won, there was a chance that peace could have prevailed in these islands.

    Although the Protestants might have become the new rebels, I'd say many of them might have flipped back to Catholicism.


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,896 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Victory for the United Irishmen rebellion of 1798. Ireland would have evolved into a far better place under its multi religious leadership.


  • #53
    Armchair Andy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Armchair Andy


    The selfie stick.
    When I saw Sergio Ramos with one last night I really wanted to ram it up his sphincter.
    Here he is, club captain holding aloft the most prestigious trophy a soccer player can garner(outside of WC) and this foldable useless piece of plastic holding a camera aloft is his main concern?
    Drink in the experience, lap it up. You're the only one on your deathbed with those memories on the most special occasion of your life. "Oh Yeah, I made sure everyone else got to see the best of my life, pity I was too busy making sure of that as I could've been leaping around with the lads drinking it all in".

    The sad part? None of his team mates said fvck off with that yoke... they all joined in.


  • #54
    The_Valeyard
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    Maybe someone has already done this and we are now living in a much darker dystopian timeline.


  • #55
    davycc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,013 ✭✭✭davycc


    jeanjolie wrote: »
    You can go back in time and change one event in history towards your favour anywhere at anytime (within human existence of course)..

    What is it?

    Go back and shoot the inventor of big brother #


  • #56
    Terrlock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Terrlock


    I'd go back and slap that fruit outta Eve's hand before she had a chance to spoil life for the rest of us.


  • #57
    AnGaelach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭AnGaelach


    Losing the 9 Years' War


  • #58
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,286 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I'd have banned Katie Hopkins on The Apprentice which allowed her to become known in the media.


  • #59
    sbs2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 653 ✭✭✭sbs2010


    Henry VIII's had four sons with his first (and only) wife.


  • #60
    Beanntraigheach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    Sarajevo, 28th June 1914. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.
    So much death, destruction, and misery all set off by a sickly teenager squeezing his index finger.


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  • #61
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    BJ Banda's playoff goal.


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