Time Travel - What would you change?

[DemonWilly]

I would travel back to early September 1987, sit down and have a chat with a young irishman just starting his football career, and makes sure he understands that if he runs across the mark he gives away a 15 metre penalty.

 

[chargers 09]

Bump.

Thought this would be a good thread to bump, interesting to hear what people have to say especially events occuring in the last 5 years or so.

 

[Bomber Bears]

I'd go back to 2005 and make sure ALL cricket balls were removed from the warm up area when the Australians have a game of touch

 

[The OBSTacle]

Grand final day 1998.

North would kick 18:2 instead of 2:18 to the Punt Rd end.

 

[stmookeyj]

MY PERSONAL TOP 10

(1) 1997 Melbourne Cup, Doriemus to beat Might And Power by a nose (I was on Doriemus! The old man put it on for me because I was 13)

(2) The collapse of Ansett, they were the airline that I flew before they went under and were great. There was one flight in 1996 from Darwin to Brisbane where they were very helpful and even gave us (I was 12 with my 10 year old sister) an Eskimo Pie on the flight.

(3) 1997, Alex Tobin and the other defender (Craig Moore) not playing the offside trap that was sprung by Khodadad Azizi for the Iranian equaliser. We go to France 98.

(4) Ensure the merger between the South East Melbourne Magic and the North Melbourne Giants didn't take place after the 1998 NBL season. Rendered the league useless as the one massive rivalry (Magic vs Melbourne Tigers) was dead.

(5) For Christmas 2001, fly down rather than bus. 36 hours of living hell from Rockhampton to Melbourne, most of which (Gatton to Shepparton) was spent next to an obnoxious kid given just $20 to food with wanting chicken nuggets. Rocky to Brisbane I can manage, but not further on a bus.

(6) Along the same lines, 1998 fly from Melbourne to Rockhampton. Nearly 3 days on a train stopping in Sydney and Brisbane was tough enough. Losing your Game Boy Colour in Sydney was worse. Struggling to walk about in Sydney was literally painful. At least we (Old man and I) had Pizza Hut for lunch and watched George Of The Jungle. Speaking of which....

(7) Bring back Pizza Hut dine in restaurants. The one on the northside of town has been boarded up for years and is an eyesore that should be converted. Now it's just little take away outlets that don't do much for me.

(8) Pass the couple of Uni Subjects in the period 2002-2006 that I didn't quite pass to get full teaching qualifications.

(9) SBS keeps some rights to the Premier League. Nothing like heading home late Saturday Night in 2003 and staying up to watch matches like Southampton vs Leicester City (In saying that, I'd also have Saints back in the Premier League where they belong). Interest since it became exclusive to Fox has almost totally diminished.

(10) Jason Akermanis keeps his mouth shut long enough to bring us a flag, then retires to say whatever he likes.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Odyssey 5 board.

Not sure if I would change anything. Even if I changed things from my own past they would alter the events and life I've lead after it. And if I'm aware that I changed them then I personally won't really have changed.

Confusing.

 

[Walesy]

I reckon if I had the means to go back in time, I would befriend [famous rock act] well before they got famous- derider their music career before it got started- and then proceed to steal all their songs.

Then invest it all in Microsoft shares.

 

[Partridge]

I'd be a highway brigand in the Middle Ages, and prey upon voluptuous rich young women.

Fantastic term. The word brigand is definitely not used enough these days.

Let's see, off the top of my head:

1. Gettysburg 1863 - Mention to Robert E.Lee that advancing across a mile of open ground against 85,000 Union troops with lots of accurate rifles is not necessarily the best idea.

2. April 1865 - Convince Abe Lincoln that perhaps he should have a night at home instead of venturing to Ford's Theatre.

3. January 27, 1967 - Light a match inside the Apollo 1 Capsule before the crew climb in, to demonstrate what a wonderful combination pressurised oxygen and fire makes.

4. December 1974 - Make Mick Taylor realise life is much better with him in the Rolling Stones instead of Ronnie Wood.

5. Have Guy Sebastian's mother sterilised. You think Stalin and Hitler are evil? This guy's "music" is far, far worse.

 

[Fevola99]

go back to before youtube and facebook were invented and give the ideas to the people who came up with them, then make them do all the work they would have done anyway and take 50% of the money

 

[TheMightyEagles]

Has anybody ever considered that time machines have been invented and are in use in the future，and as a result, we are already living in an alternate version of history?

*eerie music**