If you were transported back in time to 1611...

ArtyM · 27-04-2011 10:30PM

Id be tempted to show them my ipad but they would probably just call me a pretentious tosser like people do now.

landsleaving · 27-04-2011 10:30PM

Yahew wrote: »

Just surprised at the sucicide pills thing, unless that was a quote.

Em... no not a quote... I just don't want a future of only twitter. I'd run out of space to say wha

Bruthal · 27-04-2011 10:30PM

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

.....would you be able to speed up the progress of scientific advancement from what you've experienced living in the present day?

If i could go back to 1611 i would do todays lotto again.

peasant · 27-04-2011 10:42PM

I think I'd have a crack at building a bicycle

Orando Broom · 27-04-2011 10:42PM

Saila wrote: »

I'd burn all research on valves/computers
think how much more interesting boards woulkd be if we all had a carrier pigeon which had to fly to town and where each post was read over the radio..good times

Or the lolgeon as we'd know it.

CarMuppet · 27-04-2011 10:54PM

I'd save Henry Hudson or at least pretend to be him... so that stupid river would be named after me.....

Solnskaya · 27-04-2011 10:54PM

Nah, I'd just introduce them to the joys of tobacco and vodka(no techieness required) and rapidly corner the two markets using my evil modernee brain , and sit back assured that the fruit of my loins would be rich for evermore. Pretty much what a lot of other folk did, minus the time travel bit obviously/probably.

bnt · 27-04-2011 11:29PM

An Irish bloke in 1611 ..? Whatever you do, do not set a foot in England. It's only six years since the Gunpowder Plot, and Irish people were not popular in London, to put it mildly. :eek:

I like the idea mentioned already of vaccinating people against Smallpox using Cow Pox - you could make a mint with such "sorcery", provided you managed to avoid accusations of witchcraft. (Ten "witches" were convicted and executed in Lancashire in 1612.) I would also promote basic sanitation, such as toilets, a sewer system, and keeping the pigs away from the well. I think I'd spend a lot of my time on water supplies: a lack of clean water would be the one thing most likely to drive me nuts or kill me - or both.

Einhard · 27-04-2011 11:48PM

I'd do what McGyver did when it happened to him, and kick the baddies' ass!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP9AlYdJ1dM

Sinfonia · 28-04-2011 12:07AM

Orando Broom wrote: »

Plastic has ****ed the planet and will continue to do so. If you go back and show Dark Agers how to make plastic I will go back and burn your sorry ass at the stake.

It's waaaay later than the Dark Ages!
Anyway, I'll only use it for good... Like Tupperware... Nary a meal will be wasted =P

PeterIanStaker · 28-04-2011 05:36PM

If I were transported back to 1611, chances are I'd be burned at the stake as a heretic, but not before I'd have had my fill of mead and some hefty wenches.

super_sweeney · 29-04-2011 10:46AM

well seriously unless you are some sort of genius(which clearly i am not)

i think the most, most of us would be able to achieve is better road systems, housing, eating life style a few basic medical principles but i think otherwise you are looking to do things it took people their lives to complete who were probably far more intelligent than most of us.

well thats just my two sense anyway. but as far as speed up technological advances unless you were fairly clued up on the basic principles and where to begin to get people convinced it would be a pretty tough time.

G.K. · 29-04-2011 11:14AM

Links234 wrote: »

they'd probably burn me as a witch

Likewise, is my best guess.

FortuneChip · 29-04-2011 11:28AM

I'd teach everyone in Ireland how to order a curry nice and early to stop relying on potatoes. In doing so, I'd basically stop the phrase "I'm actually 1/4 Irish" from ever existing

Blazer · 29-04-2011 11:40AM

Go back in time and kill the great great great great great grandparents of the below people.

1) Bono
2) Sinead O'Connor
3) Bertie Ahern
4) Brian Cowen
5) Margaret Thatcher
6) Osama bin Laden
7) Alex Ferguson
8) Sepp Blatter
9) Mike Ashley
10) Schilatti

I'd also have it off with the great great great great great grandmother of the below so they'd have Irish blood in them and can claim citizenship and be eligible for Ireland (yes I know how the stupid rule works but I'll change that too

)
1) Messi
2) Maradona
3) Pele
4) Cryuff
5) Xavi
6) Iniesta
7) Mourinho
8) Del Piero
9) Cantana
10) Zidane
11) Ronaldo

Sea Sharp · 29-04-2011 11:40AM

I'd show all the ladies how to wash themselves and shave their legs and then I'd proceed to make sweet love to them all.

Then I'd make an army and take over the world. Oh and I'd teach them all about binary and logic gates and Michael Jackson.

Username is valid and not in use · 29-04-2011 12:01PM

I'd buy land & start selling it in 2002

Blazer · 29-04-2011 12:09PM

Username is valid and not in use wrote: »

I'd buy land & start selling it in 2002

Cool..I'd buy it off you and sell it on in late 2006/early 2007

fakearms123 · 29-04-2011 12:09PM

I'd go all Marty McFly on those 1611 asses and turn into a werewolf and slam dunk the sh*t out of that basketball to win the game for the Beavers.... oh or wait was that a different film...

Orando Broom · 29-04-2011 12:28PM

Sc@recrow wrote: »

I'd also have it off with the great great great great great grandmother of the below so they'd have Irish blood in them and can claim citizenship and be eligible for Ireland (yes I know how the stupid rule works but I'll change that too )
1) Messi
2) Maradona
3) Pele
4) Cryuff
5) Xavi
6) Iniesta
7) Mourinho
8) Del Piero
9) Cantana
10) Zidane
11) Ronaldo

This post is a colander of logic.

By you implanting your DNA and thus your genetics into the above 11's gene pool you would be disrupting the sequence that arrived at them having the innate attributes to be world class. Your intervention could be creating 11 Elton Johns.

dpe · 29-04-2011 12:36PM

I'd pick a technology that wasn't too far over the horizon that it would be impossible to make and concentrate on that. I'm pretty sure I remember how Watt's steam engine works from my engineering days and I'm pretty sure they would have the skills to build in 1611, and I wouldn't be burned at the stake as a magician. Even if you only sold it for the original purpose they used steam engines for (pumping out mines) you'd get rich by the standards of the day; but you could probably do a lot more than that. I'd also use the money from my steam engine business to buy up coal mines.

elgriff · 29-04-2011 12:52PM

Just print this off and bring it with you

Back in time cheat sheet

FortuneChip · 29-04-2011 01:03PM

elgriff wrote: »

Just print this off and bring it with you

Back in time cheat sheet

I think I just went a few posts back in time...

super_sweeney · 29-04-2011 01:06PM

Orando Broom wrote: »

This post is a colander of logic.

By you implanting your DNA and thus your genetics into the above 11's gene pool you would be disrupting the sequence that arrived at them having the innate attributes to be world class. Your intervention could be creating 11 Elton Johns.

ah but there is the extremly rare possiblity that by him doing this he could infact create a much more robust play and extend their career and the lengend.

yeah i am going with the elton john senarior as well(far more probable).

but i think the best thing to do would be to create a wanted list for hitler and create the myth/ legend of such a wicked man that people all over the world would be terrified and scare their children and he would never get to where he was. or it could have the reverse effect :eek:

Blazer · 29-04-2011 01:15PM

Orando Broom wrote: »

This post is a colander of logic.

By you implanting your DNA and thus your genetics into the above 11's gene pool you would be disrupting the sequence that arrived at them having the innate attributes to be world class. Your intervention could be creating 11 Elton Johns.

Or worse..I could be my own great great grandfather..just like in Fry in Futurama

common sense brigade · 29-04-2011 01:37PM

i'd assasinate Oliver Cromwell

maglite · 29-04-2011 01:39PM

May 2nd 1611, the King James Bible was first printed. I'd go and copyright it to get a small % of all future sales.

Orando Broom · 29-04-2011 02:32PM

You might solve a lot of Ireland's problems if you killed this woman, Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, she is the grandmother of King William......

stateofflux · 29-04-2011 02:50PM

setting up the first proper bookie shop would be the best course of action...."5/1 the king loses his head, any takers? place your bets in the basket"...

hal9000 · 29-04-2011 04:24PM

DaveM80 wrote: »

could i bring my ipad?

You could only invent smug with it!

If you were transported back in time to 1611...

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