Here's a question for you, if you could travel back in time , what period would you go to , who would you like to meet and what event would you like to witness ? ( 3 questions really ).
I'd want to go somewhere with adequate standards of health care and hygiene, with minimal levels of social unrest, reasonable levels of personal security to meet ordinary men and women to see what their lives are like.
Oh wait, that would be right here, right now.
Oh, I'm so boring =)
The night David Cameron was conceived to get his father watching a movie rather than ruin this countries future.
If i could go back in time, It would be the day before we lost my brother, just to tell him the things i never did/had the chance to...
Peter that's great mate, we'll said.
I would go back to the day before Beeching published his future for the railways in the UK and get him to change his mind
Think I would like to be with my dad when he jumped into Arnhem in 1944. I was a para for 22yrs and have been in every trouble spot over that period but would liked to been there with him.
These personal things are really very good. I expected responses to be "seeing if Lee Harvey Oswald really bumped off JFK", "take some safety specs to Harold at Hastings", "palling up with Zuckerberg", "intercepting the man from Porlock" or "inducing the British soldier who shot Corporal Hitler in the groin to aim a bit higher."
I like the personal ones better.
Tell the 20-something me to ask her out, and save 22 years of wondering.
I would like to go back to my late teens early 20s, knowing what i know now -( no not the lottery numbers) but the important stuff thats actually important in life. Like how to make the most of the time you have, not to waste an oppertunity. and like LH to tell the 18 year old me to ask her out.
I did meet her recently and I found out she would have dropped the bloke she was seeing and gone out with me. Certainly got me thinking.
The Death of Julius Caesar
York c400AD and find out why the Emperor Constans makes a sudden mid winter visit.
The moment my Mum and Dad first fell out to tell them to get on with separating rather than holding on for my sake for five years.
The moment I pulled my first year girlfriend at uni and tell myself to go out with her mate across the corridor, who was less tapped in the head and, as I found out years later, much much better in bed!
The moment I proposed. Just coz I'd like to see the amazing Mrs Lemmey' face again! <3
Lascaux.
Rome.
Athens.
Egypt.
Middle-age.
Rinascimento in Firenze.
WWII.
Everything in fact.
Uninvent the Chieftain tank. Just to confuse FSN
;D
Quote from: Last Hussar on 01 October 2013, 08:49:39 PM
Uninvent the Chieftain tank. Just to confuse FSN
Or go and make sure the centurion is named the failturion ;D ;D
That's right. Kick a man when he's down.
:(
Go back to watch the fall of the Roman republic play out.
Thats alot of epic history all in one place!
Quote from: fsn on 02 October 2013, 06:12:44 AM
That's right. Kick a man when he's down.
:(
Down? You have the only pendraken centurion, you should be basking in its glory all day long 8->
I'd trademark the word "spacemarine" before GW!
500 years ahead.... I kinda want to see where we`ll be then :-\
Conld rather fancy going back to see if Jesus was what they say or bump him off and start a new religion " chalkieanity " the one true god, maybe not ehy. :)
Go back to Ravenna in 1512 and persuade the young Gaston de Foix that charging 800 veteran Spanich infantry with fifteen riders was a really bad idea.
Go back to all sorts of times and places........and see how (and if) history has been 'warped' by those who wrote about it.
Cheers - Phil.
Go and find out if Cleopatra really was all that good at it.
QuoteGo and find out if Cleopatra really was all that good at it.
which one? (or all of them?)
Quote from: Matt of Munslow on 03 October 2013, 12:08:17 PM
which one? (or all of them?)
I am presuming FK means one at a time so he can compare
Steady that man ! ;)
Anyway....I've seen 'Carry on Cleo (?)'.....That was historically accurate, wasn't it ? ;)
Cheers - Madame Bakurtz.
QuoteI am presuming FK means one at a time so he can compare
Demonstration of the ability to work as 'part of a team' is essential in most assessments these days
Quote from: Techno on 03 October 2013, 12:25:29 PM
Anyway....I've seen 'Carry on Cleo (?)'.....That was historically accurate, wasn't it ? ;)
"Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!" ... yep, sounds like a genuine Julius Caesar quote to me ;D
Are you trying to tell me that wasn't true ?
Talk about illusions (or do I mean allusions ?) being shattered. ;)
Cheers - Phil.
I doubt Cleopatra needed to be either beautiful or particularly good in bed to win over either Caesar Mark Anthony. Not saying she wasn't both, never met the lady*, just that she didn't need to be.
When Julius "our bald whoremonger**" Caesar found her she was a teenage damsel in distress looking to escape a forced marriage to her brother and a life of being bossed around by the palace eunuchs who seem to have been running the place. She also just happened to be able to give him control of a country that supplied much of the corn supply for Rome while distancing him from the Egyptians who had just butchered Pompey the Great. What's not to like :)
Mark Anthony found a queen and living goddess who had been Caesar's mistress and who's child was a possible heir to the Caesarian faction. And she still provided a strangle-hold on Rome's grain supply.
Plus, of course, Billy Crystal's purported assertion that when it comes to sex women need a reason but men just need an opportunity may have come in to play.
*Despite what my children might tell you I am NOT that old!
**According to his own legionaries song, apparently
*wonders... "if I went forward 500 years, would Games Workshop be selling the new improved 90th edition of the Warhammer rules, and would their figure blister packs be 100 pounds per figure?" (would only need 100 of these to form an army)
Six :-\
Think inflation would sink this plan. Basically add a zero every twenty years.
Beano 1979 = 6p, today £1.50
Mars Bar 1979 = 5pm today 65p
My former, departed neighbours house in 1947 £300, our old house in 1999 £12000 (our garden furniture cost more than his HOUSE)!
gW space marines in 2513... 7 grand...
Quote from: sixsideddice on 03 October 2013, 02:38:18 PM
*wonders... "if I went forward 500 years, would Games Workshop be selling the new improved 90th edition of the Warhammer rules, and would their figure blister packs be 100 pounds per figure?" (would only need 100 of these to form an army)
Don't be silly i_am_win has Space Marine trademarked by then and is coining in ten grand a figure while GW is a minor trader selling 6mm "Space Wombles in HiTec Armor" for a tenner a time :)
Quick and dirty method for calculating appreciation etc.
The magic number is 72 (ish- use closer numbers for easy maths)
Divide APR/Inflation into 72ish to get the number of years it will take for value to double
Likewise 72/time = Inflation
Example
How long does it take prices to double at 3% inflation?
72/3 = 21 years
If I want to double my savings in 10 years, what does the interest rate need to be
70 (easy number, remember)/10= 7%
Quote from: Ithoriel on 03 October 2013, 04:38:47 PM
"Space Wombles in HiTec Armor"
Space Wombles ?
That sounds like an ex Evil Empire worker writing..... :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\
Or did that expression ever get out ? ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Space Womble was a pretty well known name for the original Space Marine figures everywhere I think, I certainly heard of it way back when
Quote from: FierceKitty on 03 October 2013, 09:48:13 AM
Go and find out if Cleopatra really was all that good at it.
Trust you to think of that FK. Could do a Time travel sex tour - Christine Keeler(when she was young) Mata Hari, Cleopatra Etc Etc. Would be fun and you might learn a few tricks :d
Then a quick stop off at Dr Femming's for the first dose of penicillin?
Quote from: Techno on 03 October 2013, 05:57:33 PM
Space Wombles ?
That sounds like an ex Evil Empire worker writing..... :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\
Or did that expression ever get out ? ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Only ever wrote for the Specialist Games mags, so a tenuous connection.
However, it was rumoured that Space Marine Librarians might owe their existence as Librarians rather than Psykers to me. I was a librarian in the Main Library across the street from the studio that Ally & Trish Morrison shared with Bob Naismith at the time and visited them whenever I could - to scrounge decent coffee rather than drink what was available in the Library and look at what was being sculpted. No idea if it's actually true but I'd be tickled if it were. I was certainly known in my gaming circles for a tendency to a "kick in the door and spray the room with gunfire" approach to in-game situations :)
QuoteDon't be silly i_am_win has Space Marine trademarked by then and is coining in ten grand a figure while GW is a minor trader selling 6mm "Space Wombles in HiTec Armor" for a tenner a time Smiley
*grins wide*
Quote
Beano 1979 = 6p, today £1.50
Mars Bar 1979 = 5pm today 65p
My former, departed neighbours house in 1947 £300, our old house in 1999 £12000 (our garden furniture cost more than his HOUSE)!
gW space marines in 2513... 7 grand...
OMG now I really feel old.... I can remember when Mars Bars and the Beano were that price :(
7 grand huh...hmmmm maybe Id better start collecting now then, while they`re still only 15 quid each ;)
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 03 October 2013, 07:16:58 PM
Trust you to think of that FK. Could do a Time travel sex tour - Christine Keeler(when she was young) Mata Hari, Cleopatra Etc Etc. Would be fun and you might learn a few tricks :d
Teach a few tricks.
Of course, I meant fishing.
Quote from: sixsideddice on 04 October 2013, 12:43:39 AM
OMG now I really feel old.... I can remember when Mars Bars and the Beano were that price :(
I sense I'm not the only one who says "55p for a newpaper - thats 11 shillings!"
In 1986 we were taught £/S/D to £and p conversion by our head at primary school, 'in case it ever came back!'
Only 15 year late Mr Thorne!!
Quote from: fsn on 04 October 2013, 06:15:16 AM
I sense I'm not the only one who says "55p for a newpaper - thats 11 shillings!"
Yup...cos 55p is 4/7d :)
Eh ? :-\
Cheers - Phil.
Fenton
You're not the only one.
I remember six-penneth of chips. That's 6d old money. My local chippy's cheapest are now £1-05 or or £1 10 shillings old money.
Chad
Quote from: Techno on 04 October 2013, 08:41:02 AM
Eh ? :-\
Cheers - Phil.
Well 12 pennies in a shilling Phil
Unless my maths is completely up the left which is probably is
Thats 12 OLD pennies, not these 2.4d new fangled ones which strangley enough are 5 to the shilling
I still measure in feet and inches, weigh stuff in ounces and pounds and (fondly) remember the days of a pint costing less than 2 shillings
Well to be honest I am not old enough to remember Pounds shillings and pence..though I just about remember getting a brand new 5p to spend when I was about 5 in 1971
What next? Pendraken prices in farthings and groats?
Quote from: Ithoriel on 04 October 2013, 05:26:20 PM
What next? Pendraken prices in farthings and groats?
Guineas? Guinnes?
Guinness sounds good, see you at the bar fight!
Quote from: GordonY on 04 October 2013, 05:17:37 PM
I still measure in feet and inches, weigh stuff in ounces and pounds and (fondly) remember the days of a pint costing less than 2 shillings
I got caught in the middle of decimilisation. I now use Feet and inchs at the same time as cm and mm, depending on which in the easiest when doing DIY.
I go round DIY stores with a Tape measure looking for a bit of wood 6 feet long, 4 inches wide and 15mm thick. :)
Had it not for metrication Pendraken would be known as purveyors of the finest 3/8th of an inch miniatures in the known world. Hmm thats got a bit less of a ring to it than Ten Mil.
Local hardware store will sell in imperial, metric and by the metric foot... 8-}
Quote from: GordonY on 05 October 2013, 09:22:18 AM
Had it not for metrication Pendraken would be known as purveyors of the finest 3/8th of an inch miniatures in the known world. Hmm thats got a bit less of a ring to it than Ten Mil.
Nah, "1/150", "N guage" or "Pendraken Standard".
Quote from: sixsideddice on 04 October 2013, 12:43:39 AM
*grins wide*
OMG now I really feel old.... I can remember when Mars Bars and the Beano were that price :(
7 grand huh...hmmmm maybe Id better start collecting now then, while they`re still only 15 quid each ;)
Anyone bothered to do the inflation math on the 7k chapter deal from the evil empire :o :o :o
I am expecting the next price rise to take a pack of 30 infantry to 4 Guineas now!
Personally I'm glad of metric (born 1969). I do wish US rules wouldn't give us, for instance, base sizes of 1 1/8 inches by 7/8ths (Fire and Fury). My base sizes are all multiples of 20mm and 30mm.
I'm that generation caught between the two. My dad measures things in mil- but then he's been an engineer all his life.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 October 2013, 02:03:31 PM
I am expecting the next price rise to take a pack of 30 infantry to 4 Guineas now!
Personally I'm glad of metric (born 1969). I do wish US rules wouldn't give us, for instance, base sizes of 1 1/8 inches by 7/8ths (Fire and Fury). My base sizes are all multiples of 20mm and 30mm.
I'm that generation caught between the two. My dad measures things in mil- but then he's been an engineer all his life.
Yep, I
try to do everything in metric, because it's so much easier, but at times I still find myself slipping back into imperial. A 1.83m x 2.439m table just doesn't work, I find.
QuoteYep, I try to do everything in metric, because it's so much easier, but at times I still find myself slipping back into imperial.
I mix both at work, metric for small stuff, say less than 1'/300mm, then feet and inches for anything larger. When I was at school we started off with Imperial measurements and then quickly had to learn metric as well.