If you could kill one person in history...

Mark · 12-10-2002 10:02PM #1

Who would it be and why? The question becomes insanely difficult if you start thinking about the effects of the persons death, ie kill Hitler and the UN might not be set up, Germany be a totally different country, more Jews in Europe, etc etc etc etc etc!

Without thinking about it too much to make my head hurt, Im going for Oliver Cromwell

The Gopher · 12-10-2002 10:33PM

Whoever invented maths that have absoloutely no relevance in real life but which you are expected to know for all your major state exams i.e algebra and its ilk.How many hours of my life were wasted listening to the teacher drone about x squared divided by 3y multiply by 7i take away 2z to get the value of 7b.

True though,god knows how different Europe would be if Hitler had died before coming to prominence.

I tellya one thing-the EC would have never been set up and we would still be using punts

Then again the main roads to Dublin would still all be the size of a farm laneway:(

[edited]I recant-there would be NO negative effetcs on the world at all if Louis Walsh and his type were strangled at birth,thereby killing the concept of Westlife,Boyzone,Spice Girls........I could go on all night but Im afraid if I name more than there tunes will envelop my head and that would be disastorous.

[CALIBUR] · 12-10-2002 10:36PM

Danial o'donnell enough said...

PiE · 12-10-2002 10:41PM

That bastard kid from the Kittensoft advert.

"No don't take it away, it's mooooine!

Die you annoying ****!

But then again, you said from History, d'oh.

Um... the guy who made the decision to sell Telecom Eireann to a private company.

Pepe LeFrits · 12-10-2002 11:04PM

Christopher Columbus.

the fnj · 12-10-2002 11:07PM

It would have to be Jesus Pilate gets way too much church time, and he is such a crap character.

R_Tribesman · 12-10-2002 11:18PM

william Shakespeare

Dredz · 13-10-2002 12:16AM

Probably the guy who killed John Lennon.

Or on a bigger scale, whoever first thought of making cigarettes fashionable to smoke. Someone else may have done it instead, but on the basis that killing this person would change the world, I'd have to try and stop lung cancer, and all the other smoking-related diseases.

The Gopher · 13-10-2002 12:30AM

Originally posted by PiE
That bastard kid from the Kittensoft advert.

"No don't take it away, it's mooooine!

Die you annoying ****!

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Leave the kid alone:D Its not his fault-when your 3 you will say anything for a pack of Starburst.

Good point Tribesman-Shakespeare is the most overrated author in history.His plays sucked arse.They were badly written,with no proper plot and filled with racaism,including,I think,anti-Irish comments.How the feck does the department think he is worthy of spending 5 years of your life reading?

Mossy Monk · 13-10-2002 01:01AM

one of Micheál (sp?) Martin parents. their son is a bollocks

daveirl · 13-10-2002 05:38AM

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PHB · 13-10-2002 11:15AM

If Hitler had been killed and WW2 had happend there is agood chance computers would only be in dev now and hence you wouldnt be talking aboutthis on this

BuffyBot · 13-10-2002 11:24AM

..and personally I think Shakespeare was one of the greatest authors ever to grace this planet, a man who wrote damned good plays. The fact that his work still exists, in being produced and studied so many years later is testament to that. Meanwhile, what has any of us ever done that will still be around as long as his work?

phaxx · 13-10-2002 12:20PM

Originally posted by The Gopher
Whoever invented maths that have absoloutely no relevance in real life but which you are expected to know for all your major state exams i.e algebra and its ilk.How many hours of my life were wasted listening to the teacher drone about x squared divided by 3y multiply by 7i take away 2z to get the value of 7b.

Oh don't be rediculous - you reminded me of some complete moron who used to be in my english class (he left school at the end of 5th year, very smart guy) who once said, out loud to the class, "Da Xes and Ys in mats shud be BANNED!"

He's now driving a dump truck to and from some building site.

yellum · 13-10-2002 12:38PM

Gandhi

Mark · 13-10-2002 01:03PM

Gandhi

I knew someone would say that

leeroybrown · 13-10-2002 01:04PM

Eve ... it would certainly cure over-population!

sutty · 13-10-2002 01:14PM

There are lots of people you would like to kill, but if you think about it fully you'll see its a bad idea...

Hitler: Lots of people may still be alive, someone more compandent would hae rose to power, there would be less a type of jet engin, rocket, plastic, computers, communications... and so on.

Gandhi: The father of peaceful protest and passavisum (spl)

William Shakespeare: Modren plays and storys would not be where it is...

the list goes on

Stephen · 13-10-2002 01:29PM

What phaxx said. Gopher, you must have no idea of the relevance of algebra to things like engineering and physics. Without it, technology wouldn't be anything like it is today.

kaimera · 13-10-2002 02:39PM

I see Gophers point about the Maths and I know how valuable it is in engineering n stuff.
Me thinks he's on about Maths that wont be relevant to HIM in his real lyfe. I could never see the point of all the algebra cos I knew I wasn't going to use it later on.

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Some person in history. The guy who named that Dutch country in €urope.

The Gopher · 13-10-2002 02:42PM

Originally posted by phaxx
Oh don't be rediculous - you reminded me of some complete moron who used to be in my english class (he left school at the end of 5th year, very smart guy) who once said, out loud to the class, "Da Xes and Ys in mats shud be BANNED!"

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He left school at the end of fifth year?Wow,what a lazy retard he was!:rolleyes: Er,actually most people leave school at the end of fifth year.
Daveirl-Please explain how it has relevence in your daily life..Just to hedgeducate me as I honestly cant think of one line of work that it can be of specific use in(apart from teaching it to a new generation of course-which makes no sense seeing as I dunno how it can possibly be of use,if you get me:) )
Personally Im able to get by in daily life on the maths I learned before second year:) Strangely I was better than mnost of the teachers when it came to things like fast multiplication in my head(say,I could get a sum like 65x15 quicker than the teacher could think it)but the algebra really ****ed up my overall maths talent:(

Carbon Blob · 13-10-2002 02:47PM

If Hitler had been killed before rising to power, then wouldn't Stalin would have started the war before he kicked the bucket? He doesn't seem the type to just sit there while there's territory to be had, democracies to be crushed etc

. We might all be sitting under a Soviet flag right now..

I'd probably kill Jesus, just to see what we'd all be worshipping nowadays. ALL BOW TO THE ALMIGHTY GNOMES! (or some such

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Edit:
Doesn't engineering rely pretty heavily on maths? No maths; no cars, TV's, computers, Internet, planes, ships etc.

strat · 13-10-2002 02:53PM

Originally posted by Carbon Blob
If Hitler had been killed before rising to power, then wouldn't Stalin would have started the war before he kicked the bucket? He doesn't seem the type to just sit there while there's territory to be had, democracies to be crushed etc . We might all be sitting under a Soviet flag right now..

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C&C red alert

Lex_Diamonds · 13-10-2002 03:40PM

Probably Marty Whelan, or the guy who invented pants.:mad:

Mercury_Tilt · 13-10-2002 03:45PM

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azezil · 13-10-2002 03:47PM

i'd kill my grandfather... to see if there's anything to this 'paradox'

strat · 13-10-2002 03:52PM

how about the guy who decided "science" and such 'black magic' was outlawd and banned and could get you killed back in the middle ages ?

recon we would be more advanced if science was engouraged for them few hundred years?

Krusty_Clown · 13-10-2002 04:06PM

I would kill:
Whoever created that 'rock-the-boat' song.

therecklessone · 13-10-2002 04:27PM

Niall Quinns missus..."ah Mikey" me b****x.

Yurmasyurda · 13-10-2002 04:32PM

Originally posted by #MEAT#
Danial o'donnell enough said...

Killing him once just isn't enough! I second the above.

phaxx · 13-10-2002 05:14PM

Originally posted by The Gopher
He left school at the end of fifth year?Wow,what a lazy retard he was!:rolleyes: Er,actually most people leave school at the end of fifth year.

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If you could kill one person in history...

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