What the first thing you'd do with a time machine (wrong answers only)?

[steverob]

Let's say that time travel is possible and you either manage to design or somehow acquire a working time machine. What's the first stupid thing you'd do with it?

Don't want any answers about going back and killing Hitler, preventing some terrible tragedy, seeing a spectacular future event, or finding out next week's lottery numbers - it has to be something completely unserious and utterly useless to you or mankind. After all, what's the point in having this magical technology at your disposal if you can't completely waste it?

My choice - go back to the late 70's / early 80's and settle the argument once and for all. Were Wagon Wheels really any bigger back then?

 

[Dogtrousers]

While you're back in the 70s, spread a rumour that the new messiah is coming and will come from Aylesbury. He will be Really Free. So said Nostradamus.
See how Otway copes with being a god figure as well as a rock star.

 

[Gillstay]

Go and watch Krakatoa blow up.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I'd like to go forward in time, maybe half a century or so, to see if Wagon Wheels had gotten even smaller.

 

[DCLane]

Go back and not set fire to the school classroom kitchen by accident. That caused me many future issues.

 

[steverob]

While you're back in the 70s, spread a rumour that the new messiah is coming and will come from Aylesbury. He will be Really Free. So said Nostradamus.
See how Otway copes with being a god figure as well as a rock star.

Nah, I can't see that happening. Not that John Otway wouldn't welcome the opportunity, more that no-one in the world would ever believe that anything good could come out of Aylesbury (I'm allowed to say that cause I've lived there all my life).

 

[Drago]

Id go and see Status Quo live on their 1972/73 "Piledriver" tour.

 

[stephec]

Choose art instead of home economics as one of my mandatory choices in the third year of high school, then in the fourth year my teacher would've been Miss Wantling, the new student teacher who caused a big commotion amongst all the young lads, and probably most of the male teachers as well.

 

[oxoman]

I'd go back to 1978 when I was camping on the back garden when a girl a year older than me from next door came in the tent. Just to see what would have happened if her dad hadn't caught us. 🙄

 

[Dave7]

I would go back to when Margaret Thatcher was in power as I enjoyed her as PM sooo much.

 

[Drago]

I'd go back and alter the script of Deliverance so the famous "squeal
Piggy squeal" line would become "gadzooks, thy farts will be forever silent, thou fateth lump of lard."

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

I’d go back around 150 million years, grab the first Compsognathus I find, and bring it back as a pet.

 

[Drago]

Id change every fifth word in Churchills famous "fight on the beaches" speech to "fart."