Time travel

[Thane of Cawdor]

3 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

 

If we’re going to be all statto pedantic about a nonsense subject, Dundee won the cup on 20 April 1910 and the Titanic went down on 14-15 April 1910.

Only if it time-travelled back two years.

[Hedgecutter]

I'd quite like to test the Butterfly Effect by going back a while and changing a then-seemingly unimportant event before returning back just 5 mins later.

For example, buying some Dweebs/Nerds instead of that packet of Panini stickers on 14/04/93, and then coming back to 2024 to find that Cameron Stout is the president of an independent Orcadian Republic.

 

As an aside, I occasionally wonder how much my individual presence or absence from a game would have affected the result (especially if it's a sh*te one).  I'd imagine it easily could, as even deciding to have an extra pre-match pint could delay the person behind me, who'd get into the ground 2 mins later and therefore not be in that position to throw the ball back to the player taking a throw-in when he would have otherwise, and so on...

Edited January 5 by Hedgecutter

[gannonball]

23 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

Probably go back to sometime on Monday night /early Tuesday morning to see where I left my bottle of whisky when I was out. 

Sorry for your loss x o

[Fullerene]

46 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:

I'd quite like to test the Butterfly Effect by going back a while and changing a then-seemingly unimportant event before returning back just 5 mins later.

For example, buying some Dweebs/Nerds instead of that packet of Panini stickers on 14/04/93, and then coming back to 2024 to find that Cameron Stout is the president of an independent Orcadian Republic.

FYI: The Butterfly Effect is taken from the short story by Ray Bradbury called "The Sound of Thunder" where time travellers go back in time to kill a T-Rex.

Turned into an episode of "Ray Bradbury Theatre" which can be found on YouTube.

Not sure there is a need for you to do a remake with your story instead.

[Loonytoons]

1 hour ago, Hedgecutter said:

I'd quite like to test the Butterfly Effect by going back a while and changing a then-seemingly unimportant event before returning back just 5 mins later.

For example, buying some Dweebs/Nerds instead of that packet of Panini stickers on 14/04/93, and then coming back to 2024 to find that Cameron Stout is the president of an independent Orcadian Republic.

 

As an aside, I occasionally wonder how much my individual presence or absence from a game would have affected the result (especially if it's a sh*te one).  I'd imagine it easily could, as even deciding to have an extra pre-match pint could delay the person behind me, who'd get into the ground 2 mins later and therefore not be in that position to throw the ball back to the player taking a throw-in when he would have otherwise, and so on...

I've wondered that too.

I suspect the smaller the crowd the more likely it is to have an effect.

[Fullerene]

9 minutes ago, Loonytoons said:

I've wondered that too.

I suspect the smaller the crowd the more likely it is to have an effect.

I wonder what the result would be if the players weren't getting the great advice I have to offer from the stands.

[Newbornbairn]

Refs would get away with murder if I wasn't there to keep them right. 

[tamthebam]

19 hours ago, 54_and_counting said:

 

In all seriousness, not read the whole thread but has no one said anything like back to when no one won the euromillons and you stick the numbers on yersel 

 

Not a bad idea- take John McGuinness's numbers and no-one will come in to save Livingston FC during their first bankruptcy....

[aidan-bufc]

1 hour ago, Loonytoons said:

I've wondered that too.

I suspect the smaller the crowd the more likely it is to have an effect.

Could argue the opposite. The bigger the crowd the more people you could potentially be delaying from entering the ground, getting their bovril, using the urinal etc.