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

mikemac1 · 25-06-2012 11:16PM

Cashel was the capital for Brian Boru

UP TIPP!

JuliusCaesar · 25-06-2012 11:33PM

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

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

Especially as each book was hand-written on the sewn together skin of fetal calfs.....

Well, I can cook and I can sew, I can keep a house right tidy. But as I'm not happy about being eaten by fleas and bed bugs, lack of washing facilities and being surrounded by equally unwashed people, living in dark huts without access to clean water or privacy for toilet activites, my stay there would be very short indeed. I don't think my immune system would be up to it at all.

Can you imagine trying to explain concepts like 'democracy' to the illiterate and uneducated unwashed?

Never mind central heating! Soft beds! Electric light! TV!

Run_to_da_hills · 25-06-2012 11:37PM

A 1000 years ago the Pope was extremely inflammable and you wouldn't dare speak out against the Catholic Church. :eek:

Immaculate Pasta · 25-06-2012 11:41PM

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:(

Pfft speak for yourself.

I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

:cool:

phasers · 25-06-2012 11:42PM

I can roast a mean lamb shank and feign interest in even the most mundane things, I'd land me a wealthy husband and be just fine.

Richard Hillman · 25-06-2012 11:43PM

Knowledge of warfare tactics.

pavb2 · 25-06-2012 11:53PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potage

A bowl of potage with garlic and cheese fries

Napper Hawkins · 26-06-2012 12:01AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

The atheists would be a lot quieter

You better be or you'll be burned

Aye, instead of there only being a handful of idiots, it would be literally everyone.

Your godless ass would be murdered quick sharp..

cartell_best · 26-06-2012 12:06AM

If I were to travel back 1000 years in time... I'd tell Syria, Iraq, Iran and all the places that have become soo messed up....Remember compliments you receive.
Forget the insults!

the_syco · 26-06-2012 12:12AM

I can cook, build things with wood, and have a good idea of the traps used during the Vietnam war. Have a basic knowledge of paper airplanes, so would probably be able to make gliders with bombs attached...

starlit · 26-06-2012 12:13AM

I wouldn't fancy going back to 1000 years ago but a 100 years ago maybe.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 26-06-2012 12:18AM

I'd be good at stealing stuff and hiding/burying it and then digging it up in the present day and selling my newly found antiquities for a small fortune.

DavyD_83 · 26-06-2012 12:21AM

Sandwich Making :pac:

davetherave · 26-06-2012 12:24AM

I would just find a corner somewhere and sit in it until the time machine kicked in again. It's all well and good starting the industrial revolution 800 years early and being hailed as a god amongst men but what happens if you get in a fight with a scoundrel outside "Ye New Tavern" for staring at your wench in an ungentlemany manner. That could rip apart the space time continuum and you wouldn't be born :eek:

Duggys Housemate · 26-06-2012 12:26AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

A 1000 years ago the Pope was extremely inflammable and you wouldn't dare speak out against the Catholic Church. :eek:

The catholic church had little or no power in Ireland in 1012. What's happening is a struggle between the Irish and the Vikings.

Everybody is convinced that people were burnt at the stake in Celtic Christian Ireland.

Wrong.

SafeSurfer · 26-06-2012 12:45AM

There are loads of skills anyone could bring back to the middle ages.

You could show people how to make pizza, sandwiches and all types of deliciousness that hadn't been invented yet.

But most of all you could share with them the culinary discovery of the ages that is garlic bread.

starlit · 26-06-2012 12:48AM

Going back to the 'Celts' might have been a nicer era to get back too though.

wendell borton · 26-06-2012 12:49AM

Adrian iv, the only english pope, issued a papal bull in 1155 giving the king of engalnd the right to take over ireland; so the celtic church would be brought into line with rome.

mikemac1 · 26-06-2012 12:54AM

CJC999 wrote: »

I'd be good at stealing stuff

Yeah but if you were caught we'd put you in the stocks in town and laugh and throw rotten veg at you

Duggys Housemate · 26-06-2012 01:01AM

wendell borton wrote: »

Adrian iv, the only english pope, issued a papal bull in 1155 giving the king of engalnd the right to take over ireland; so the celtic church would be brought into line with rome.

Yes long after 1012

Agricola · 26-06-2012 02:00AM

I did some archery lessons for a while last year and was pretty handy in the end. So I suppose I could hunt wild game for Middle Age Irish people. As long as the game is slow moving. Stationary preferably.

Where To · 26-06-2012 02:04AM

DavyD_83 wrote: »

Sandwich Making :pac:

Samiches didn't exist until the 1700s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sandwich#The_sandwich

You would be consideredered a withch.

some random drunk · 26-06-2012 02:05AM

I'd go into caves and paint pictures of modern day inventions. It'd confuse the hell out of historians.

26-06-2012 02:12AM

Show them how to use a Boom Stick and keep the English out

OMARS_COMING_ · 26-06-2012 02:17AM

I would tell them of out ipads,dish washers and game boys

burnt at the stake

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

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