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If you could witness any event of the past, what would it be?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Good Evening Fabbers , Friends and Forumites.
Hevane ! jings crivens and help me bob! Oh blimey.
Can anyone tell Pooch and I what is it with Tuesdays. Its seems to be just an odd sort of day. A bit like the chap in the party that seems to know everyone but nobody knows who they are. Its just a funny sort of day.
I Digress, Pooch and I had a rather splendid walk on a local land mark this afternoon. A hill with history. It has a dark age’s fortification on top; a mediaeval fortified home at the base and was used as a radar station in the Second World War. Nature has once again reclaimed this hill, and now even in mid-winter still has some stunning flora and forna to view.
Whilst at the top we ponde_ed the history of the site and wonde_ed what it would be like to peek back into the mists of time and see the hill fort on the top. Its ramparts still intact and its defenders peeking over in fear of attack.
WE discussed at length if we had a time machine what event in history would we care to visit
For me it would be , The Glory and Splendour of Ancient Rome at the time of Julius Caesar as he ente_ed the city to be proclaimed Caesar
Pooch Last Wednesday, he had a rather spiffing bone to chew on .
So Chums the question we are asking is
If you could witness any event of the past, what would it be?
Pooch and Taff
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Eh... Queen at Wembley OR the Ramones with support by the Runaways. 
I saw the Ramones ,, gabba gabba hay
Such jealousy.  "
I gave my T Shirt away to an ex ,, gutted  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The building of Stonehenge...I'm building a large stone wall, and I'd bloody love to have seen how the hell they managed to get those big stones on top without using a crane.
AND I'd offer them good money to come and finish MY wall off too Its backbreaking...! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The birth of Christ.
I'd take Jeremy Kyle with me and have him do a DNA test!  "
Pmsl, you just got there before me, was about to say "the conception of Jesus, have always had my doubts about Mary's version of events" |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"A change of mind
To be in mission control when men landed on the moon
Is that the Houston mission control or the one ran by Kubrick in Hollywood 
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Booth the catering would be better on the Hollywood hoax lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I would like to witness again the day of Armageddon. The final day of the world...the total destruction of all that is known.....oh....sorry wait a minute.....it hasn't happenre for you guys yet has it?
Sorry....as you were. You will have to wait until next Friday! |
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"For me it would have to be getting fluffy with Cleopatra...  .
Ahh that reminds me, I wouldn't mind having a peek at the great pyramids of Giza"
You go watch the rocks while I take care of queenie then  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Would of loved to of seen Isaac newtons face when the apple fell on his head "
The laws of general relativity states the apple was just continuing its passage in time and space and his head just got in the way |
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By *edMan
over a year ago
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"The Nuremberg Trials
I once met a lady who was a stenographer at the Nuremberg trials "
I learnt German from a guy who was a army translator at the trials. I love meeting people with real stories in life...
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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago
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"for me would have to be D day "
I have met quite a few people who served on D-Day, amazing guys and such a pivotal day in history. It was the first thing to pop into my head, but seeing other answers I will have to go further back in time and further a field (actually can I go a long time ago in a galaxy far far away?).
I would pick the ancient capital Angkor in Cambodia, a vast city with a population of one million people when London only had a population of one hund_ed thousand. To see this, or other ruins that we have today, in their prime would be absolutely magnificent. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'd wanna see if it really was an asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Would you want to stand under it? "
Nah, I'd click my little button before things got too hairy |
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By (user no longer on site)
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There are loads. But I'd like to see some funny ones.
Napoleon and the rabbits
The Great Emu War
And the battle for Castle Itter
Have a read and enjoy these thoroughly ridiculous points in human history. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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He would of known a guy who became a good friend, he was also a translator at the trials along with having flown in Halifax bombers sending German nightfighters to the wrong sectors with his various dialects an German accents. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'd love to witness highheels in my bed   "
Bladey you minx. I'm grumpy because I can't sleep so I'd mainly be sulkily requesting a nice cup of tea and a back rub. Sexy huh? |
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"I'd love to witness highheels in my bed
Bladey you minx. I'm grumpy because I can't sleep so I'd mainly be sulkily requesting a nice cup of tea and a back rub. Sexy huh? "
Hey its more than I expected so result. I'll go put the kettle on and warm my hands  |
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As a military historian my mind boggles with this so I must do a short list it's eather Waterloo,Nelsons funeral and I was alway a bit miffed Imissed out on desert storm |
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"As a military historian my mind boggles with this so I must do a short list it's eather Waterloo,Nelsons funeral and I was alway a bit miffed Imissed out on desert storm "
I did Desert storm but missed Afghan so maybe that or Goose green, Waterloo good but I wish I could of persuaded Harold Godwinson to wait another day. |
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Oh, I saw this thread and have been giving it some serious thought and the one thing I've come up with is being in Trafalgar square on ve day. Jays is witnessing the battle of Waterloo. This thread has been one of our conversations I spent ages trying to think of mine
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The body line series of 1932/33. For those non cricketing nerds, it was the point where modern cricket, and possibly modern sport was born. To have a cricketer so great (Don Bradman) cause an English team to devise whole new tactics and for those tactics to be seen as so outrageous that the Austaralian crowds tried to lynch the English team. Questions were asked in the House of Commons and the Austaralian PM got involved. Amazing. You could argue it was cricket at its best or cricket at its worse. |
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"As a military historian my mind boggles with this so I must do a short list it's eather Waterloo,Nelsons funeral and I was alway a bit miffed Imissed out on desert storm
I did Desert storm but missed Afghan so maybe that or Goose green, Waterloo good but I wish I could of persuaded Harold Godwinson to wait another day."
afgan was ok bit hairy at times and goose green comes across as a nightmare for everyone concerned |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"As a military historian my mind boggles with this so I must do a short list it's eather Waterloo,Nelsons funeral and I was alway a bit miffed Imissed out on desert storm
I did Desert storm but missed Afghan so maybe that or Goose green, Waterloo good but I wish I could of persuaded Harold Godwinson to wait another
day.afgan was ok bit hairy at times and goose green comes across as a nightmare for everyone concerned"
Goose green was rough and Mt Longdon according to mates.
NI, Bos and SL all places I visited and I spent some time looking at the MSR in Iraq but I would still liked to have done Afghan with those still in.
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"Mines is more sombre macabre, I would like to see the events unfold on the 1st day of the Somme."
would 5 hat be the massive artillery barrage or the first assault where german machine gunners likened it to mowing grasd.?
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Good Evening Fabbers , Friends and Forumites.
Hevane ! jings crivens and help me bob! Oh blimey.
Can anyone tell Pooch and I what is it with Tuesdays. Its seems to be just an odd sort of day. A bit like the chap in the party that seems to know everyone but nobody knows who they are. Its just a funny sort of day.
I Digress, Pooch and I had a rather splendid walk on a local land mark this afternoon. A hill with history. It has a dark age’s fortification on top; a mediaeval fortified home at the base and was used as a radar station in the Second World War. Nature has once again reclaimed this hill, and now even in mid-winter still has some stunning flora and forna to view.
Whilst at the top we ponde_ed the history of the site and wonde_ed what it would be like to peek back into the mists of time and see the hill fort on the top. Its ramparts still intact and its defenders peeking over in fear of attack.
WE discussed at length if we had a time machine what event in history would we care to visit
For me it would be , The Glory and Splendour of Ancient Rome at the time of Julius Caesar as he ente_ed the city to be proclaimed Caesar
Pooch Last Wednesday, he had a rather spiffing bone to chew on .
So Chums the question we are asking is
If you could witness any event of the past, what would it be?
Pooch and Taff
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"Mines is more sombre macabre, I would like to see the events unfold on the 1st day of the Somme.would 5 hat be the massive artillery barrage or the first assault where german machine gunners likened it to mowing grasd.?"
The over the top moment, where the Majority of casualties was about the first hour or so. |
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"Mines is more sombre macabre, I would like to see the events unfold on the 1st day of the Somme.would 5 hat be the massive artillery barrage or the first assault where german machine gunners likened it to mowing grasd.?
The over the top moment, where the Majority of casualties was about the first hour or so."
that's what you get for walking into battle I suppose  |
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"Mines is more sombre macabre, I would like to see the events unfold on the 1st day of the Somme.would 5 hat be the massive artillery barrage or the first assault where german machine gunners likened it to mowing grasd.?"
I think they shelled for 8 days, to soften them up, before going ott. 1m shells or so .
When they did go, was about 10000 casualties first morning.
Thing is, numbers don't really convey what happened. Same with verdun |
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"Mines is more sombre macabre, I would like to see the events unfold on the 1st day of the Somme.would 5 hat be the massive artillery barrage or the first assault where german machine gunners likened it to mowing grasd.?
I think they shelled for 8 days, to soften them up, before going ott. 1m shells or so .
When they did go, was about 10000 casualties first morning.
Thing is, numbers don't really convey what happened. Same with verdun "
a third of the shells were duds as they were made by women who were doing the work o experienced munition workers. |
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"Mines is more sombre macabre, I would like to see the events unfold on the 1st day of the Somme.would 5 hat be the massive artillery barrage or the first assault where german machine gunners likened it to mowing grasd.?
I think they shelled for 8 days, to soften them up, before going ott. 1m shells or so .
When they did go, was about 10000 casualties first morning.
Thing is, numbers don't really convey what happened. Same with verdun a third of the shells were duds as they were made by women who were doing the work o experienced munition workers."
you say that but could it not be that the ground was si sift that they did not detonate and the Germans just simply went into there deep dug outs till the barrage passed over |
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