What year would you go back to?

Pineapple1 · 16-09-2019 9:59pm #1

Well if you could go back in time what year/s would you go back to and why? For me it would be 2001-2004. Preferably 2004 though.

corner of hells · 16-09-2019 10:08pm

Pineapple1 wrote: »

Well if you could go back in time what year/s would you go back to and why? For me it would be 2001-2004. Preferably 2004 though.

Any hints on why 2004 ?

For me , 1986 , behind the community centre with a young one who's name escapes me at about 1.30am on a bank holiday weekend.

This is it · 16-09-2019 10:08pm

Back to the Future, preferably 5pm on Friday evening!

paddydriver · 16-09-2019 10:11pm

12/06/1988 - 15:30

ToBeFrank123 · 16-09-2019 10:14pm

1985..great year for Irish sport.
Triple Crown...McGuigan....Denis Taylor... probably one or two others.
Great memories.

Wayne Jarvis · 16-09-2019 10:15pm

Ah I guess I would go back to 12 days ago so I could pick a better username.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 16-09-2019 10:15pm

Can't put a year on it, but I had an absolute ball in my 30's.. Hit the doldrums in my 40's and having a blast again in my 50's.

I probably loved the late 90's to early 2000's best.

BDI · 16-09-2019 10:15pm

I’d go back and become an apostle. Imagine Jesus had a man on his team that knew the future.

I’d **** that Judas motherfuther up that’s for damn sure. Sneaky.

Phewwwwwwwww don’t hate the sinner, hate the sin.

Noveight · 16-09-2019 10:16pm

2002. I was 9 years old in 2nd class, Robbie Keane netted one against Germany and we had nothing but time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m66j8jyUR4k

16-09-2019 10:17pm

Did we not do this last week

Did i go back a week??

Yer Da sells Avon · 16-09-2019 10:18pm

Probably any time before my mother died. But sure what can you do (not travel back in time anyway)?

This is it · 16-09-2019 10:18pm

bluewolf wrote: »

Did we not do this last week

Did i go back a week??

Did you choose in that thread to go back a week? Maybe it worked!

Wayne Jarvis · 16-09-2019 10:18pm

BDI wrote: »

I’d go back and become an apostle. Imagine Jesus had a man on his team that knew the future.

I’d **** that Judas motherfuther up that’s for damn sure. Sneaky.

Phewwwwwwwww don’t hate the sinner, hate the sin.

Jesus was a smug wanker! Someone else would betray him if Judas didn’t.

mfceiling · 16-09-2019 10:18pm

1986.

Fell in with a couple of pricks in school. Was doing very well education wise until I became friends with those pair. Placed no value on study or learning. Missed a big life opportunity because of that.

Strumms · 16-09-2019 10:21pm

1998... I spent the summer living and working in Paris.. had an absolute ball. I was 19, the world cup was on, we managed to blag tickets for a handful of games including the Italy vs France semi...down the Champs Elysses after France winning the final with thousands of people which was an experience not to be forgotten.. a wonderful summer... I get goosebumps whenever I step back into that city, incredible.

freshpopcorn · 16-09-2019 10:25pm

I'd go back to the early 2000's and I think I'd go to a different secondary school and be myself more!

cj maxx · 16-09-2019 10:31pm

96 discovering weed ,E's, speed and Indian food.
Also got alot of rides with alot of girls.

CPTM · 16-09-2019 10:41pm

Can I go back to a time I didn't exist in? For example, the 1960's.. I love hearing my dad talk about that decade. Youngest president of America ever, the boxing champion of the world was a 21 year old black kid, and the rock and roll music scene was up and running with a lot of groovy festivals around. It really sounds like a decade for the young!

TheValeyard · 16-09-2019 10:43pm

bluewolf wrote: »

Did we not do this last week

Did i go back a week??

No, that's next week.

Feisar · 16-09-2019 10:56pm

mfceiling wrote: »

1986.

Fell in with a couple of pricks in school. Was doing very well education wise until I became friends with those pair. Placed no value on study or learning. Missed a big life opportunity because of that.

So ya went drywallin’ instead?

Schwiiing · 16-09-2019 11:05pm

2006

Her name was Karina.

BDI · 16-09-2019 11:07pm

Schwiiing wrote: »

2006

Her name was Karina.

And I had a dream about her
She rang my bell
Got gym class in half an hour

Mongfinder General · 16-09-2019 11:14pm

1983. To see Dublin win the game of shame. A team of absolute no hopers that May ended up battling their way to an All Ireland on a stormy September day.

Badly Drunk Boy · 16-09-2019 11:20pm

CPTM wrote: »

Can I go back to a time I didn't exist in? For example, the 1960's.. I love hearing my dad talk about that decade. Youngest president of America ever, the boxing champion of the world was a 21 year old black kid, and the rock and roll music scene was up and running with a lot of groovy festivals around. It really sounds like a decade for the young!

Actually, Teddy Roosevelt was younger than JFK when he became president.

Greentopia · 16-09-2019 11:30pm

Mid '80's. So I could have met the love of my life decades sooner and we may have been able to start a family.

Only useful of course if I could go back in time with the present knowledge I have of who he is and where I could then find him, otherwise it's a needle in a haystack even if I had the right country.

And actually it would have have been very difficult to move there anyway because he was literally walled in to a country that didn't readily accept foreigners so there's that roadblock. Literally. :pac:

Still would have loved to try though.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 16-09-2019 11:34pm

Early 2001 so that I could put engineering on my CAO form.

Wayne Jarvis · 16-09-2019 11:37pm

Greentopia wrote: »

Mid '80's. So I could have met the love of my life decades sooner and we may have been able to start a family.

Only useful of course if I could go back in time with the present knowledge I have of who he is and where I could then find him, otherwise it's a needle in a haystack even if I had the right country.

And actually it would have have been very difficult to move there anyway because he was literally walled in to a country that didn't readily accept foreigners so there's that roadblock. Literally. :pac:

Still would have loved to try though.

You could have tried this Greentopia

BDI · 16-09-2019 11:39pm

Guy Person wrote: »

You could have tried this Greentopia

Hey gorbechof tear down that wall

Greentopia · 16-09-2019 11:52pm

Guy Person wrote: »

You could have tried this Greentopia

Would have been about as effective and got me carted off to a padded cell by Die Politzei.

There were some Westerners who actually did move to the GDR though believe it or not. For political reasons of course, but also a few American soldiers who decided to defect when they were stationed in the BRD. Some black American soldiers felt life might be better for them there than back home in their own country, which says a lot about how they were treated.

https://www.thelocal.de/20130412/49097

BuboBubo · 16-09-2019 11:57pm

1992.

I'd rather up all the previous years leaving cert papers.

Then I'd go back to 1991 and get straight "A's"

Quantum Erasure · 17-09-2019 12:00am

November 5, 1955

Wayne Jarvis · 17-09-2019 12:01am

Greentopia wrote: »

Would have been about as effective and got me carted off to a padded cell by Die Politzei.

There were some Westerners who actually did move to the GDR though believe it or not. For political reasons of course, but also a few American soldiers who decided to defect when they were stationed in the BRD. Some black American soldiers felt life might be better for them there than back home in their own country, which says a lot about how they were treated.

https://www.thelocal.de/20130412/49097

Damn, that’s a sad but interesting read.

cj maxx · 17-09-2019 12:04am

Mongfinder General wrote: »

1983. To see Dublin win the game of shame. A team of absolute no hopers that May ended up battling their way to an All Ireland on a stormy September day.

I'll never unrember Kieran duff drawing the boot onto yer mans head

Elemonator · 17-09-2019 12:06am

August 2017-March 2018. So many terrible decisions made in the space of such a small time. I hope to be able to correct all of them permanently someday soon.

Mongfinder General · 17-09-2019 9:16pm

cjmc wrote: »

I'll never unrember Kieran duff drawing the boot onto yer mans head

There was a recent documentary on Duff. Apparently the kick to head didn't connect and the guy on the receiving end of the boot told Duff's wife as much the day after the match. It looked horrendous on tv. But what a game. Absolute mayhem from start to finish. The best defensive display of Gaelic football I have ever seen.

The Crazy Cat Lady · 17-09-2019 10:56pm

2017 for me, I made a decision that wasn't good, which set me back a bit health wise, it took 2 years to get me back to myself

If i went back, I wouldn't make that decision again..

4Ad · 17-09-2019 10:59pm

1990...22 years old..Great summer, great craic and there was this certain girl...hmmm...

Rufeo · 17-09-2019 11:19pm

1919-1921.

It would have been a crazy time to be alive.

Yer Da sells Avon · 17-09-2019 11:26pm

Strumms wrote: »

1998... I spent the summer living and working in Paris.. had an absolute ball. I was 19, the world cup was on, we managed to blag tickets for a handful of games including the Italy vs France semi...down the Champs Elysses after France winning the final with thousands of people which was an experience not to be forgotten.. a wonderful summer... I get goosebumps whenever I step back into that city, incredible.

I was there the year before that. Had an absolute blast, speeding around the city in my white Fiat Uno every Saturday night...

L1011 · 18-09-2019 12:00am

Going on the going back to a specific time in your life to change something approach, I could write the most complicated PI post on various things I could have done slightly differently and how I've played out all the scenarios in my head since. In the most plausible one I'm the drivetime presenter on a UK radio network and living with my (now direly bored of me) (former) underwear model husband in a penthouse apartment in Manchester :pac:

I'd rather enjoy being 19/20/21 in 1999, with the income and outgoings level I had when I was actually 21 (engineering role in a medtech firm); but with current hindsight of what were the best things to do and go to. I'd be in ever clubbing hotspot in Dublin, Birmingham/Sheffield/Leeds or Ibiza on any given weekend, taking all the drugs, riding anyone that was up for it and meeting every hero. When I actually was 21 everything was incredibly boring.

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