Thought experiment: How far back would you go?

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Re: Thought experiment: How far back would you go?

Post by Salim Munqith » Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:28 am

I will go back to august 2001 and provide the US authorities with the names of 19 terrorists planning to attack the world trade center, the Pentagon and the Congress.
But when they ask me how I knew about it, what should I say?

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Re: Thought experiment: How far back would you go?

Post by Tero » Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:31 am

1990s. I would not go on a pony ride, no matter how much the family complained. That was where the pony stepped on my foot and gave me a messed up joint.
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Re: Thought experiment: How far back would you go?

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:58 am

Tero wrote:1990s. I would not go on a pony ride, no matter how much the family complained. That was where the pony stepped on my foot and gave me a messed up joint.
Let that be a lesson to you - never buy drugs from equines! :tea:
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Re: Thought experiment: How far back would you go?

Post by Millefleur » Fri Nov 05, 2010 1:47 am

I'm tied to the last 6 years by my children, they've been the shittest 6 years of my life and everything I would change falls within that time, but I couldn't live without the little buggers, so... bollocks.
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Re: Thought experiment: How far back would you go?

Post by Eriku » Sat Nov 06, 2010 1:39 am

I'd go to the 60s, before the west's naiveté was blown to bits.

How the good times would roll... also I'd get to go to Old Trafford and see Sir Bobby Charlton, Georgie Best and the rest kicking it about, at affordable prices. OOH, and I could seek out Bill Hicks!

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Post by Trolldor » Sat Nov 06, 2010 1:45 am

1920's-1930's. Roll with Dillinger.
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Re: Thought experiment: How far back would you go?

Post by Rob » Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:18 am

I would go back to December of 2009 and change the woman I decided to be with at that time. There were several women interested in me, there was no need to go with the one I had decided on, she was too complicated and I knew it. Yet I choose to go down that path hurting so much in the process. I would probably start getting involved with a nice woman named Caroline instead.
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