If you were to travel back 1000 years in time...

sxt · 25-06-2012 10:17PM #1

Are their any skills that you have required that would be of benefit to people in the Middle ages ..

I can't think of any:(

christmas2012 · 25-06-2012 10:17PM

blacksmithing

MagicMarker · 25-06-2012 10:19PM

I'm mighty useful with Microsoft Excel.

crosstownk · 25-06-2012 10:19PM

The interweb.

o1s1n · 25-06-2012 10:19PM

Painting pictures!

I'd probably end up having to work for the church though painting pictures of jesus and saints. Boo!

bee_keeper · 25-06-2012 10:20PM

sxt wrote: »

Are their any skills that you have required that would be of benefit to people in the Middle ages ..

I can't think of any:(

id write and sell a book on gambling which guarenteed future outcomes on wars

SmilingLurker · 25-06-2012 10:21PM

sxt wrote: »

Are there any skills that you have required that would be of benefit to people in the Middle ages ..

Scientific method. Would be burnt at the stake for heresy...

The King of Moo · 25-06-2012 10:21PM

I think they'd have far more useful things to teach me.
They wouldn't be able to do this though.

the keen edge · 25-06-2012 10:22PM

The knowledge that the terrible failure of the 1012 winter turnip crop is but months away.

My name is URL · 25-06-2012 10:22PM

I know a bit about astronomy so I could probably convince some people that I was a wizard. Not really a skill, but handy should you ever find yourself 1000 years in the past.

dodderangler · 25-06-2012 10:23PM

Learn to build a big wall around Ireland keep certain people out

Ficheall · 25-06-2012 10:24PM

My name is URL wrote: »

I know a bit about astronomy so I could probably convince some people that I was a wizard. Not really a skill, but handy should you ever find yourself 1000 years in the past.

Unless they burn you at the stake.

Captain Darling · 25-06-2012 10:25PM

Wizard.

Fluorescence · 25-06-2012 10:25PM

Nothing, because I don't speak Old/Middle English :pac:

Sindri · 25-06-2012 10:27PM

Court eunuch.

purplepanda · 25-06-2012 10:28PM

Events in 1012 according to Wiki :rolleyes:

Mael Morda starts a rebellion against Brian Boru in Ireland, which eventually ends in 1014 at the Battle of Clontarf.
King Máel Coluim mac Cináeda of Alba reputedly defeats a Danish army at Cruden Bay in Buchan.
King Aethelred of England pays tribute to Viking raiders (Danegeld)

So striking a strategic alliance / hard deal / crawling / or bribing Norsemen would be a popular occupation

Or getting all available men organised for a big bloody battle in some cases

pavb2 · 25-06-2012 10:32PM

Say you went back 100 years the differences would be massive but what if you went from the year 0 back to 5000 BC would the differences be as significant?

smellslikeshoes · 25-06-2012 10:36PM

Are we talking practical skills here or knowledge? I'd be pretty sure that almost anyone with a secondary school education could kickstart the industrial revolution using knowledge of steam power and the like.

Pompey Magnus · 25-06-2012 10:41PM

I'd introduce the Three Field crop rotation system and provide Europe with an early population boom...probably resulting in bigger, nastier wars and my eventual trial and execution for witchcraft.

Sound of Silence · 25-06-2012 10:41PM

Fluorescence wrote: »

Nothing, because I don't speak Old/Middle English :pac:

Neither did the people of Ireland a thousand years ago.

Fluorescence · 25-06-2012 10:44PM

Sound of Silence wrote: »

Neither did the people of Ireland a thousand years ago.

Burn :pac: I certainly don't speak old forms of Irish!

mikemac1 · 25-06-2012 10:47PM

The atheists would be a lot quieter

You better be or you'll be burned

Chuck Stone · 25-06-2012 10:48PM

Steam engines.

The Radiator · 25-06-2012 10:50PM

Plagiarism of future inventions

25-06-2012 10:52PM

I'd go back and find some way of setting up my own version of Google.

Where To · 25-06-2012 10:54PM

I could claim all 1980s power ballads as my own.

I'd be bigger than Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Vera Lynn, Elvis, Michael Jackson, The Beatles and Jedward combined.

Imagine this in 1012, written and performed by Where To

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXlo9MN1ZQs

Pompey Magnus · 25-06-2012 10:56PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I'd go back and find some way of setting up my own version of Google.

They had that back then, it was called a library...pretty slow search speed though!

Brian? · 25-06-2012 10:56PM

Fluorescence wrote: »

Nothing, because I don't speak Old/Middle English :pac:

Any form of English would be feck all use to you in 1012 Ireland.

mikemac1 · 25-06-2012 10:57PM

No coke and hookers but I would have wenches and ale :cool:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 25-06-2012 11:02PM

Red Hand wrote: »

You so badaaaaassssssss, Berlin.

Music, of course. I would be warbling Yellow Submarine and Come as You Are to great aclaim from hamlet to city.

Bas ass, stone age my good man. Care for a cup of Earl grey?

B.A._Baracus · 25-06-2012 11:12PM

Interesting question :pac:

While we all know things like electricty, black powder, concrete, plastic (list goes on) would be such a major change. None of us know how to create the aforementioned :pac:

(unless we got a few egg heads using boards)

If you were to travel back 1000 years in time...

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