I would be the smartest 3 year old in the world. There's not much I could do at that age so I'd keep my mouth shut about my true nature and just experience childhood again.
You wake up in 1991
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This is a question I have been asking myself waaay too often so:
-I would find my folks, first of all. Tell them how everything is going to go, warn them of the financial crisis, of 9/11, of the earthquakes and figure out a way to prepare the country for the coming decades.
-I would need money for that so I would buy stocks for YT, Apple, MS, Blizzard, Pixar and find a way to be involved in the movie making business. By coming in contact with Jobs and Gates, we would find a way to stop the WTC disaster.
-Stop Greece from entering the Eurozone.
-Find Putin and convince him to run for PM earlier.
-Figure out a way to stop the Israel War.
-Hug my 2 year old self.
-I would find my folks, first of all. Tell them how everything is going to go, warn them of the financial crisis, of 9/11, of the earthquakes and figure out a way to prepare the country for the coming decades.
-I would need money for that so I would buy stocks for YT, Apple, MS, Blizzard, Pixar and find a way to be involved in the movie making business. By coming in contact with Jobs and Gates, we would find a way to stop the WTC disaster.
-Stop Greece from entering the Eurozone.
-Find Putin and convince him to run for PM earlier.
-Figure out a way to stop the Israel War.
-Hug my 2 year old self.
Today... in 1991?
I've got about a month to prevent the suicide of a friend. That would have to get top priority. I could enlist my 13 year old self for help (I know some things about him that only he would, it would be pretty easy to convince him that I'm him.)
After that... I might warn myself off the girl he's about to fall for, that's probably not going to alter too much. And I might tell him to be a little less of a dick... I was almost cured of being a bully by 13, but seeing as how I'd be in the "nerd/geek clique" in a couple of years it might help out. I played football but I read books too, it just took a couple more years to realize that the guys and gals I was discussing the books and movies and videogames with were just better people than my "popular jock" friends. But anything else might have too much affect on my future. Sure I wouldn't mind changing some things for him (my life is hardly perfect) but after all, I really gotta try to avoid preventing myself from doing whatever I did to travel back to 1991. So I'd leave me a note explaining why I couldn't help anymore and then leave. I think I'd get why... I hope so, I'd hate to give myself an abandonment complex.
I guess then the money stuff; microsoft, apple, google. I'm gonna know superbowl champions and Stanley Cup winners, that will give me a bankroll. I'd really wish I had access to 2014's wikipedia, I'm not going to remember too many specific dates to be able to do a lot of good stopping disasters. I'd tell a local detective I would later come to know how to catch that serial killer that he would eventually get. 1991 would be too late to save any of the victims... but the guy wouldn't go unpunished for 20 years or so. I'd try to prevent 9/11, I could reunite with my 23 year old self for help. With the money I would have'n by that time it would be'n easier for us to do than I probably realize. Wouldn be? Maybe I'd perfect time travel tenses. I guess I could stop the Columbia crash in 03. The upcoming release of The Dark Knight Returns would remind me to get my ass to Colorado.
But mostly I'd visit myself one last time right before he went back to 1991. Give him some of the bankroll money he'd need. And make sure he remembered to not interfere with me and him/me changing things for him (gonna start having to number us at that point.) I'd also give him the wikipedia database on a laptop (current to 2014) I'd spent the last couple of years making and updating. His time through he can make even more money and changes for good. Then, finally "back to the future..." well, I would be nearing retirement age anyway.
I've got about a month to prevent the suicide of a friend. That would have to get top priority. I could enlist my 13 year old self for help (I know some things about him that only he would, it would be pretty easy to convince him that I'm him.)
After that... I might warn myself off the girl he's about to fall for, that's probably not going to alter too much. And I might tell him to be a little less of a dick... I was almost cured of being a bully by 13, but seeing as how I'd be in the "nerd/geek clique" in a couple of years it might help out. I played football but I read books too, it just took a couple more years to realize that the guys and gals I was discussing the books and movies and videogames with were just better people than my "popular jock" friends. But anything else might have too much affect on my future. Sure I wouldn't mind changing some things for him (my life is hardly perfect) but after all, I really gotta try to avoid preventing myself from doing whatever I did to travel back to 1991. So I'd leave me a note explaining why I couldn't help anymore and then leave. I think I'd get why... I hope so, I'd hate to give myself an abandonment complex.
I guess then the money stuff; microsoft, apple, google. I'm gonna know superbowl champions and Stanley Cup winners, that will give me a bankroll. I'd really wish I had access to 2014's wikipedia, I'm not going to remember too many specific dates to be able to do a lot of good stopping disasters. I'd tell a local detective I would later come to know how to catch that serial killer that he would eventually get. 1991 would be too late to save any of the victims... but the guy wouldn't go unpunished for 20 years or so. I'd try to prevent 9/11, I could reunite with my 23 year old self for help. With the money I would have'n by that time it would be'n easier for us to do than I probably realize. Wouldn be? Maybe I'd perfect time travel tenses. I guess I could stop the Columbia crash in 03. The upcoming release of The Dark Knight Returns would remind me to get my ass to Colorado.
But mostly I'd visit myself one last time right before he went back to 1991. Give him some of the bankroll money he'd need. And make sure he remembered to not interfere with me and him/me changing things for him (gonna start having to number us at that point.) I'd also give him the wikipedia database on a laptop (current to 2014) I'd spent the last couple of years making and updating. His time through he can make even more money and changes for good. Then, finally "back to the future..." well, I would be nearing retirement age anyway.
-See Ayrton Senna at a race.
-Watch Star Trek VI at a cinema.
-Be the first to download Doom
-Use my knowledge of the future to get rich and/or mess with some heads
-Watch Star Trek VI at a cinema.
-Be the first to download Doom
-Use my knowledge of the future to get rich and/or mess with some heads
I would probably try to publish a whole lot of science fiction that has not been written yet. Or write about future events that are not going to happen.
Do the "back to the future" stunt, and make a killing betting on sports outcomes I know are going to happen. The Arizona Diamondbacks are going to beat the NY Yankees in the 2001( or was it 2000?) World Series? No way! I don't think the D-backs even existed in 1991!
1991 I would have 3 or 4 depending on the exact date I wake up in.
Mold my younger self into a gym rat, and convince him to develop an interest in martial arts.
Ew, write the scripts to all of my current favorite movies. Give them to myself from that time with careful instructions.
Make sure I see Dragonheart in theaters, as well as Kung Fu Panda, Last Samurai, and Kung Fu Panda 2
1991 I would have 3 or 4 depending on the exact date I wake up in.
Mold my younger self into a gym rat, and convince him to develop an interest in martial arts.
Ew, write the scripts to all of my current favorite movies. Give them to myself from that time with careful instructions.
Make sure I see Dragonheart in theaters, as well as Kung Fu Panda, Last Samurai, and Kung Fu Panda 2
so you would snipe Steve Jobs then?Mithcha said:
That's suitably insane. But if I do that then I have to snipe the bastard who comes after him to make sure and I'd rather avoid a murder spree.Drake the Dragonheart said:
Likely put...laxative in his coffee or something. Can't invent shit if he spends his life shitting.
Assuming I woke up the same age I was in 1991, I'd watch cartoons, Married With Children, Dinosaurs, MTV, & VH1, stopping only for food, bathroom, & sleep. If nothing was on, I'd ride a bike, listening to music on a tape walkman. Oh, & I'd ask my new parents for a SNES instead of a Sega Genesis, & take a big pass on Art School, but still talk them into moving to Washington State to avoid the 2009 heatwave.
If I was an adult, I'd jumpstart the Urbex trend early with a crappy website. I would also stockpile Crystal Pepsi like it was nobody's business. I would also send mail to my parents to scare them off putting me on AHDH medications.
If I was going to sabotage anything, it would have been Doc Brown's love life in Back to the Future 3, the live action adaptation of Aeon Flux, & Anne Rice's career as a writer.
If I was an adult, I'd jumpstart the Urbex trend early with a crappy website. I would also stockpile Crystal Pepsi like it was nobody's business. I would also send mail to my parents to scare them off putting me on AHDH medications.
Apple almost folded in 1997. All you would have had to do was wait 6 years & prevent Bill Gates from giving Steve Jobs a $150 million dollar handout to keep his company afloat.Mithcha said:
If I was going to sabotage anything, it would have been Doc Brown's love life in Back to the Future 3, the live action adaptation of Aeon Flux, & Anne Rice's career as a writer.
I would wait a few years then prevent the birth of Justin Bieber
Get a job and buy all the old Pokemon games then keep them in mind condition
Make a £1000 bet that Star Wars: Episode 1 will be dissappointing
Hunt down and make sweet love to 90s Britney Spears
Be the first kid to like DBZ and Power Rangers, then act smug as fuck when they become mainstream
Do an Ocarina of Time speedrun and blow people's minds
Get a job and buy all the old Pokemon games then keep them in mind condition
Make a £1000 bet that Star Wars: Episode 1 will be dissappointing
Hunt down and make sweet love to 90s Britney Spears
Be the first kid to like DBZ and Power Rangers, then act smug as fuck when they become mainstream
Do an Ocarina of Time speedrun and blow people's minds
1. Freak out.
2. write down stuff in know about myself from the days before this happened for possible future reference as well as stuff I should try to do.
3. Find out where the fuck I am, what I'm doing there, and what I'm supposed to be doing.
4. Be amazed at how cheap things like gas used to be.
5. Weep for a few hours when I realize that I'm in 1991 and that technology like computers and phones sucks the lowest hanging of balls compared to what I'm used to and internet is still in its infancy.(just thinking about having to use dial-up again gives me the shivers)
6. Use knowledge procured in 3 to get on with my new life.
7. put money in some of the things that become big, but only a little so that I still get a fair amount of money later but don't get noticed.(I wouldn't bother with the lottery and such because, unlike some of you weirdos, I don't spend all my free time memorizing lotto numbers and such)
8. spend a fair amount of my free time trying to find out how and why this happened until I either do or get bored.(probably the later)
9. Live life, maybe try to do things and meet people I wouldn't have had a chance to before I traveled back in time.
10. As the day I traveled back in time approaches, contemplate whether or not I should warn myself about what may or may not be about to happen. After that I don't know what I would do.
2. write down stuff in know about myself from the days before this happened for possible future reference as well as stuff I should try to do.
3. Find out where the fuck I am, what I'm doing there, and what I'm supposed to be doing.
4. Be amazed at how cheap things like gas used to be.
5. Weep for a few hours when I realize that I'm in 1991 and that technology like computers and phones sucks the lowest hanging of balls compared to what I'm used to and internet is still in its infancy.(just thinking about having to use dial-up again gives me the shivers)
6. Use knowledge procured in 3 to get on with my new life.
7. put money in some of the things that become big, but only a little so that I still get a fair amount of money later but don't get noticed.(I wouldn't bother with the lottery and such because, unlike some of you weirdos, I don't spend all my free time memorizing lotto numbers and such)
8. spend a fair amount of my free time trying to find out how and why this happened until I either do or get bored.(probably the later)
9. Live life, maybe try to do things and meet people I wouldn't have had a chance to before I traveled back in time.
10. As the day I traveled back in time approaches, contemplate whether or not I should warn myself about what may or may not be about to happen. After that I don't know what I would do.
Are we the age we were back then? 'Cause I'd be about one or two at that time... Well, at least I'd be able to catch up on the cartoons I missed out on...
Oh yeah, and as a bonus, I can avoid making some mistakes in my life as well as hopefully relive a few happy moments.
Oh yeah, and as a bonus, I can avoid making some mistakes in my life as well as hopefully relive a few happy moments.
Cry with happiness that I get to experience the best decade ever from the perspective of an adult. God, so many bands I've never been able to see in their prime...
+ Sony stock.iseko said:
And then I start a youtube channel as soon as youtube gets going, ripping off every famous video I have ever seen on youtube (but will technically be original from everyone else point of view) combine that with my British accent.
I won't even need hookers ... all those youtube fan girls.
I would enjoy some of the discontinued foods and drinks that they had back then, try to save Twin Peaks from cancellation, and go see Silence of the Lambs in theaters. But I would also have to avoid any family members since I wouldn't be born for another 2 years
Let's get the obvious ones out of the way, invest in Microsoft/Apple, find out just how many women Bill Clinton's had sex with, position myself so I can see Boris Jeltsin in all his glory trying to order pizza while hailing a cab in Washington D.C, nude except for socks and underwear. Jeltsin that is, not me.
Oh yeah, I'd probably do something about 9/11
1. I'd walk around Liverpool telling people that Manchester United will have more league titles than Liverpool by 2011
2. Watch Sweden at the 1994 World Cup, making sure I get one of Henrik Larsson's dreadlocks
3. Save Anna Lindh
4. 26th of May, 1999, Nou Camp
5. STOP DAVID MOYES
6. Advise Metallica against using the Internet
7. I'd tell Gary Moore to cut down on hamburgers and pints
8. Tell people that a certain someone's body is ready
I probably couldn't resist being a soothsayer, for better or worse.
Oh yeah, I'd probably do something about 9/11
1. I'd walk around Liverpool telling people that Manchester United will have more league titles than Liverpool by 2011
2. Watch Sweden at the 1994 World Cup, making sure I get one of Henrik Larsson's dreadlocks
3. Save Anna Lindh
4. 26th of May, 1999, Nou Camp
5. STOP DAVID MOYES
6. Advise Metallica against using the Internet
7. I'd tell Gary Moore to cut down on hamburgers and pints
8. Tell people that a certain someone's body is ready
I probably couldn't resist being a soothsayer, for better or worse.
In no particular order, Hopefully be able to attend a Queen concert while Freddie Mercury's alive, begin preparations to invest in yahoo, Google, facebook, etc.
Uhm... If there's a younger me out there, make with some advice.
Just brace for the future, and stuff.
Uhm... If there's a younger me out there, make with some advice.
Just brace for the future, and stuff.
I know I'd show up to all the sick death metal gigs they had back then. Deicide, Carcass, Sepultura, At The Gates... ahhhh. Honestly though, I'm not sure. There'd be stuff to do, but it's alot different today in terms of technology and the like. I'd certainly buy the game consoles of the time though, that'd be alot of fun!
Yeah, actually, that'd be likely for me too. Yeesh, times like this you realize how fragile the human mind is.Rabbitboy said:
What if preventing it turns out to be much worse consequences? History is the one thing you can't armchair quarterback, especially when dealing with world shaping events.Boris Goodenough said:
Seeing as I would be 4 years old...?
Probably just ace everything in school, and not change too much until I turned 18.
I'd quit McDonalds MUCH sooner
Finish my degree instead of being forced to drop out
Get a degree in a field I enjoy working in, instead of the one I was working towards
And apart from a few personal changes...
Predict a large lottery
Bet on a lot of upset sporting events (World Cup example was used a LOT)
Use that money to move the FUCK out of Ohio
Live happily ever after?
Probably just ace everything in school, and not change too much until I turned 18.
I'd quit McDonalds MUCH sooner
Finish my degree instead of being forced to drop out
Get a degree in a field I enjoy working in, instead of the one I was working towards
And apart from a few personal changes...
Predict a large lottery
Bet on a lot of upset sporting events (World Cup example was used a LOT)
Use that money to move the FUCK out of Ohio
Live happily ever after?