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If you went back in time would you be able to convince anyone you were from the future?
Say you were transported back to some random day in 1891 in your PJ's. How would you convince them you were from the future?
Say you were transported back to some random day in 1891 in your PJ's. How would you convince them you were from the future?
Rap all of Express Yourself at them
Sports almanac
Fuck!
I've been marckee'd by marckee!
This is really too much.
tell them to test my dna
Explain the passback rule to them.
Instantly die of smallpox/influenza/common cold/imperialism
I'd look up Ol' Ma Wilykit senior
And show everyone the birthmark she's got below her left boob.
Probably invent a ton of stuff...
...that hadn't been invented by then like the lightbulb, telephone and internal combustion engine.
Would be great if I could do that
But truth be told I haven't got the first fucking clue how any of those things work.
http://i.imgur.com/OuoUT.jpg
just print that out
Unfortunately I was joking...
...as those things had all already been invented by then. Would probably be able to kick off some penicillin research though.
Thats my whole point
"so there these amazing cars that can travel 100mph..."
"can you make one?"
"...no... but we have phones which can do all these amazing things like..."
"can you show us how they work?"
"...er..."
sporting almanac
I'd say WAASSSSAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPP
like in those Budweiser adverts
i would predict the great war, titanic sinking, russian revolution
and anglo irish war. Give them the dates and stuff and then i guess just wait around to be proved right. It's just a shame i cant think of anything that happened in 1891
That could work
until people start believing you (or think you are some kind of psychic at least), then your predictions could end up influencing reality. Then it gets fucked up.
put every penny i own on an accumulator
of porto to beat monaco in the champions league final and greece to win the euros in 2004.
didn't read the 1891 part
invent and predict shit i guess
I'd make crude simple inventions of things I think I could make
Eg Electric Guitar or the Toaster
And then get the fuck out of Europe before WW1 starts
WASHING MACHINE I'd do them one of those using a bin or something
Fucking genius, then I'd bog off to America and have a fun time until the Wall Street Crash
I get them to test the stains on my pjs
Think the Victorians already had jizz, flange junk, shit, piss, puke and mucus.
might have spilt some yop
on there, or something else that hasn't been invented yet
I had a raspberry Yop on Monday. 50p from Tezzbags.
they could test your poo
and find loads of processed shit
You'd have to invent the testing apparatus first...
they must have been able to test poo back then
our poo would be different to there poo
did they have magnifying glasses?
They did
But then you'd have to invent poo studies...
In the madness of king george
they check his poo, that was in the 18th century
1994 I think
Do you know...
...that they were originally going to call that film The Madness Of King George III but were worried that our American cousins would wonder where parts I and II were.
Yes Pentago, I had heard that before.
I hadn't
*their
tadger length probably
tell myself something only i would know
then show myself my phone probably
managed to think this thread was about convincing a younger version of myself
that i was from the future, in 1981, and that my younger self was in pjs
i would
*drum roll*
link them to this thread!!!!
*crowd bursts into applause
my breast implants!
I haven't got them yet but
I will have by the time this happens
how the fuck are you going to prove that?
sounds p gruesome tbh
I'm sure I wouldn't die from them just having a look
and sewing me back up, i'd rather that than be put in an asylum
the twin explosions when they burned you at the stake would probably do it
and might take a few of them out too.
just looked upthread
i'm not even engaging with the weirdest half of your posts, christ.
actually fuck all this
i wouldn't convince anyone of anything. I'd spend everything i've got going to america and buying Coca-Cola and then watching the money pile up, then in 1903, use some of the money i've made to buy a majority stake in ford motor company.
exactly. why would you bother telling them you're from the future?
I wouldn't bother saying either
I'd probably steal loads of songs too, make my living as a mysterious troubadour singing 'The Best of the Beatles'
People would think I was talking about my favourite insects or something! YESSSS
Probably look up some of the leading scientific figures of the day
and reel off a bunch of my half-baked knowledge at them, then they could use their knowledge of current technology to prove all my theories correct. Also, I'd tell them about Pluto (trust me it's out there guys).
I'd probably be burned as a witch. #yolo
I would ask to meet HG wells as I have some cracking ideas for him
show them my full set of healthy teeth
show them my tattoo - tattoos were invented in the 1980s weren't they?
cut open my ankle and show them the metal pin inside
take out my contact lenses and show them those
winner ^
pennicilin
thats what.....but with strict instructions concerning misuse/use for commercial purposes.
zepplins/jet engines/monoplanes (I can draw a pretty good spitfire etc)
submarines powered by batteries
etc etc
radar sonar applications
astronomy and astrophysics
and pay a visit to einstein
get hitler killed
* a kilt
I'd go some time before March 8th and predict a "Great Blizzard"
will run from 9th - 12th March. Or before February and predict it will be the driest month in England and Wales.
One of those, or go to America and predict the deaths of 6 horses due to hail in South Dakota on July 5th (look it up).
Predict the endings to as many Sherlock Holmes stories as I could remember
before they were published.
I'd go a day earlier and predict Sherlock Holmes.
No-one's gonna be that impressed
The first Sherlock Holmes novel was in 1887.
wait till I back it up with the hail/horses story.
Tell people
that in 10 years a little non-league side called Tottenham Hotspur will win the FA Cup.
In the meantime, I'll start the world's first Cheeseburger restaurant and get filthy rich.
We're stuck in the past right?
Actually, I'd probably just do this:
http://www.videobash.com/video_show/terminator-2-hand-arm-39401
I would play the solo from Johnny B Goode.
then go into some self indulgent 80s big hair wank solo at the end of it and tell them things about their kids tastes in music
then I would ask for my £53
The problem is how the time travel would take place.
Do you just arrive there with just the clothes you are in? As showing them your trainers and phone will probably do it. Are you provided a place to stay, some basic items to get you going? Otherwise you turn up there with nothing, end up being a mad tramp shouting at people saying you are from the future and even if you do predict the sinking of the Titanic and Queen Victoria's death, you will just be ignored.