Most pointless use of a time machine

[Stick Legs]

Okay, you have just been gifted a perfectly functioning Time Machine.

Now ignore all of the usual ‘invest £1 in 1620’ or ‘kill Hitler’ suggestions. I’m after the pointless uses.

Like go back in time to last night to put the remote control by the chair instead of on the mantelpiece so I don’t have to get up now for it.

What would you use one for right now?

[grumbledoak]

Go forward one second.

[wolfracesonic]

Make all archaeologists redundant.

[Roofless Toothless]

I think I might go back to 1968 and check if Madeleine had locked her bedroom door.

[king arthur]

I'd go back in time to kill whoever invented the time machine.

But then it wouldn't have been invented, so I wouldn't have been able to go back and kill him.

So then he would have invented it, so I would have been able to.

But then it wouldn't have been invented, so I wouldn't have been able to.

So then....

[dundarach]

I'd go back to 22nd November 1959 and arrange to watch North by Northwest at the pictures.

The Criterion in Hull to be exact, assuming they were showing it!



Convinced by my notion that this was the exact moment mankind 'jumped the shark', and this was the peak of human development!

I expect I'd be disappointment to realise it's not what I expected, however the movie was much better on the big screen surrounded by people who'd never seen it.

[Discendo Discimus]

I'd go back to 2015 when I was about to sell my 200SX for £5000 and slap myself in the face with a stiff fish.
I thought that was a great deal at the time. It recently sold for £14K

[President Merkin]

Eat a hot dinner.

[TheK1981]

Something like in the year 2000, standing outside a bar and it was freezing, waiting for a taxi and a girl that was part of a group that we was chatting to said about sharing a taxi and having a coffee at hers to warm up, me saying that I wanted to go home to warm up, she left, and my friends still bring it up to this day, she was a stunner and I was an idiot

or more on topic, remember to put the cider in the fridge on Saturday, the day before the north London derby, warm cider from the cupboard isnt very nice

[Sporky]

I'd go back to tell the person who gave it to me how to build it, forgetting that it was a one-shot system.

[chrisman]

Go back to 1485 and put a Parking ticket for overstaying into Richard III's grave.

Let the archaeologists explain that one !

[williamp]

Go back and win some internet arguments on here, and elsewhere.

[BoRED S2upid]

TheK1981 said:

Something like in the year 2000, standing outside a bar and it was freezing, waiting for a taxi and a girl that was part of a group that we was chatting to said about sharing a taxi and having a coffee at hers to warm up, me saying that I wanted to go home to warm up, she left, and my friends still bring it up to this day, she was a stunner and I was an idiot

or more on topic, remember to put the cider in the fridge on Saturday, the day before the north London derby, warm cider from the cupboard isnt very nice

There’s a few examples like that I’d like to put right in my dating life but no regrets.

[Cotty]

Stick Legs said:

I’m after the pointless uses.

Ordering a Chinese take away, eating it and still hungry.

Go back in time accept the delivery and eat it a second time.

[geeks]

Back to watch the first moon landing on TV, completely pointless I can watch it now, but to have watched it at that time live with everyone as it happened would be very special for a space idiot like me

[CammyN]

Go to 2028, this is the year when it is all supposed to happen.

Extra terrestrials show how to overcome epidemics and remove nation destroying weapons, Governments reveal how much they know about alien life on earth, big choices are made on the future of the planet.

[Randy Winkman]

I'd go back to the middle ages and tell them all about smart phones to see what reaction I got. I'd be ready to leg it pretty quick though before things got nasty. To be fair, I think they just get bored listening and walk off.

[GAjon]

I’ve just put my tea on, but I’m hungry,

So I’ll go forward an hour till it’s done.

[Pixel Pusher]

I'm not messing with time machines with my luck.

[Dracoro]

On the topic of time machines.
Imagine you get ONE go in a time machine, do you choose to go back OR forwards in time?