Rewriting History: A Time Machine Question

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Duke
It's not just insurance companies. It's general hygiene and common courtesy. I do NOT want to be walking on whatever your filthy feet have been in.
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Well shoes make floors filthy and gross too! đź’ˇ
 
Der Alta
I honestly would love to go back in time and stop the first person who wore flip-flips to an important social event. Thus moving the Flip-Flop from sanitary necessity, to approved public foot wear.

I can understand wearing them to the beach, or in a communal shower, but The White House? Or dinner?

In all seriousness, the Flip-Flop is the most unattractive form of footwear, ever. No woman or man can ever be called "Sexy" or "Hot" when wearing Flip-Flops. You can put a man in a Tux, or a woman in an elegant Dress, and they'll looking stunning. Change the footwear to Flip-Flops, and the Wearer beomes an idiot.

This point doesn't warrant killing the inventor, as there is certain need for the Flip-Flop. Instead, the precise moment Flip-Flops became social footwear, needs to be stopped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop
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I fully and wholeheartedly agree. I hate the noise they make as the back of the shoe hits the wearer's heel. Slap-Slap-Slap. And they most certainly are not suitable footwear for a man in an office. (Yeah, someone does that in my office)

I'd like to go back and give a lesson in vehicle dynamics to the person who thought it would be a good idea to vomit great lumps of tarmac all over our city streets.
 
buickgnx88
Well shoes make floors filthy and gross too! đź’ˇ
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...but that doesn't include sweat, toe cheese, athlete's foot fungus, dead skin, and other general personal dirt that is shared with the world by those in flip-flops.
 
Perhaps not the sweat and toe cheese, but the fungus could be tracked in and the dead skin does come from elsewhere on the body. Don't forget animal crap, bugs, actual dirt, gum, and germs in general. If you don't wear shoes, you'll step on things regardless of whether others wear shoes or not, and if you wear shoes you won't have to worry about picking up things on your feet!
 
Ive always wondered what would happen if you gave USA just 1 F-22 Raptor in WWII.
 
Most of the people who dont know alot about war would take all the glory for america winning and the other countries doing nothing

oh wait...
 
Small_Fryz
Ive always wondered what would happen if you gave USA just 1 F-22 Raptor in WWII.
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They'd have no pilots who could fly it, no fuel that could power it, no weapons you could launch from it and nobody who could maintain it. I guess it would be fairly limited to where it could take off and land too. ;)
 
Sharky.
Find whoever "created" rap and hip-hop "music" (or at least who made it "popular") and shoot that fool.
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It was likely MTV's fault for popularizing it.

Hip-hop started out with neither record labels nor videos, no producers nor industry support. It was basically just guys rhyming to a beat, either created with (semi-)portable electronic instruments or with a background from another record, looped and sampled. The sound existed in many forms for about a decade, in clubs and outside parties...with very limited record pressings and very little radio airplay (at night).

It probably wasn't until 1983-84 that it started on the road to cross-cultural notability; commercialization followed suit, and by the early-1990s, daytime radio airplay and video popularity made it the gormless creature it is today. The industry is no worse than any other form of music that reached the point of wretched excess...
 
TheCracker
They'd have no pilots who could fly it, no fuel that could power it, no weapons you could launch from it and nobody who could maintain it. I guess it would be fairly limited to where it could take off and land too. ;)
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That's pretty much it, except that finding the airfield to operate from would have been no problem. Other than that the P-51D was far better suited to the escort fighter job at hand and the huge amounts of B-17's, B-24's and B-29's were easily more effective in reducing the enemy installations to rubble than a single F-22. It would have been barely above a single Me 262 when effectiveness is concerned due to the demands of the battle.
 
Go back and let GM know of the fuel and economy crisis looming upon them.

Tell myself to puck up and ask a girl out, whom I may never see again.

Tell myself that one loser in particular was going to attack me, so I could defend myself/maybe hurt him if I needed to.

Stop Peter Brock and Steve Irwin from going out on the trip/race that would kill them.

Get to know my father better before he died, and maybe even get him being treated for the cancer he died of earlier to stand a chance of surviving.

That's all for now.
 
2002: Convince GM to continue production of the 305/350 small block and the 454 big block.

2001: Convince Ford to continue production of the 302W small block.

Feburary 18, 2001: Make Dale Earnhardt be a part of the Big One so he would still be alive.

1996: Convince Ford to continue production of the 351W, 300 I6, and the 460big block.

1980's: Deflect the sperm of Paris Hilton, Aaron Carter, Brooke and Nick Hogan, Justin Timberlake, and Britney Spears.

1970's: Deflect the sperm of Kevin Federline.

1960's: Deflect the sperm of Brian France, the man who is ruining Nascar for his own financial gain.
 
I'd go back to my elementary and middle school days to do something about my shyness. I only broke out of it when I finished high school and I still seal myself off in social occasions if I'm even a little uneasy. It totally sucks.

I'd also go back and try to force myself to focus a bit more through 3rd year uni so I wouldn't have to go back and retake a few undergrad courses in order to get into an MBA program.
 
This I would give my life for:

- Joha : I would go back in time to October, 2005, just to kick myself in the butt for not asking her to be my girlfriend. Now I realize my mistake, and I regret it...
- Fangio : I would go back in time, twenty years before he died, so that he could teach me how to drive and race like him. Twenty years later, I would go back in time 40 years before he died and challenge him to a race (with my newly adquired skills) in the NĂĽrburgring. :O
- Fangio 2 : Go back to prevent him from dying, thereby making Horacio Pagani naming the Pagani Zonda the "Fangio F1".
- I don't know : I don't know. Maybe, go to the times when I had blackouts and change my life completely?
 
id go back and stop the twisting and misinterpretations of religion, it might be wildly out of control and noone seems to notice the initial reasons but still..
convince developing modern society of genuine importance, the meaning of generosity, and respect for nature. re-teach kids the system of earning and how being the same doesnt make them different.
tell karl marx he was right, capitalism was a big flop and commodity fetishism has turned humans into more of a sheep than they already were.
plus tell past nations leaders to not be such a tit đź‘Ť
 
I also like to go back to the 80's and convince the "powers that be" that MTV stands for Music Television.

If you're gonna show LAME "reality" shows all day change the effingham name to LRSTV.
 
Go back and ask why?
Pupik
It was likely MTV's fault for popularizing it.

Hip-hop started out with neither record labels nor videos, no producers nor industry support. It was basically just guys rhyming to a beat, either created with (semi-)portable electronic instruments or with a background from another record, looped and sampled. The sound existed in many forms for about a decade, in clubs and outside parties...with very limited record pressings and very little radio airplay (at night).

It probably wasn't until 1983-84 that it started on the road to cross-cultural notability; commercialization followed suit, and by the early-1990s, daytime radio airplay and video popularity made it the gormless creature it is today. The industry is no worse than any other form of music that reached the point of wretched excess...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapping
 

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