[Closed] Things from the past you'd like to try.

Having a slave.
Receiving a telegram.
My first girlfriend.

Burning witches and maybe the black death?

Sending the kids out to work

Burning witches and maybe the black death?

Having a slave.

Sending the kids out to work

We're not at home to Mr Nasty.

Let's think positive, ok?

Empire & Opium

Riding a motorbike to donnington, racing it through the stone bridge, riding home.

Albatross

Debauchery.
Riding a 26" wheeled mountain bike.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system

Kylie

Smoking in a pub.

Fly on Concorde.

Rape and pillage. Them vikings had all the fun!

I tried lardy cake and it was ****ing disgusting. I think i'd rather have slavery back than lardy cake

I think I'd like to experience old time properness. I'd also like to be considered a "good chap" for having a 'tache rather than looking like a paedo.

Bregante - Member

Albatross

Well, if you mean the plane I'd prefer a Camel.

If the track, it's still available.

taking a Bentley Speed Six around the full Brooklands brick track

Fly on Concorde

Shag a 30yr old Jenny Agutter

Marilyn Monroe.

Nancy Sinatra.

Farrah Fawcett.

Kim Basinger.

Audrey Hepburn................ the list goes on!

Rolf Harris

Meeting all the dear leaders good and bad ... 😆

Not having a computer/iphone etc.

Just for a bit like, I remember sitting under my mums desk when we couldn't get a babysitter. Just a desk with a phone and an ashtray and a massive blotter thing covered in phone numbers.

I can't conceive of it anymore.

TJ. 😯

rusty Spanner - I take your earlier criticism on board and have given it a little more thought...

I think i'd perhaps like to start turning water into wine. How does that sound?

Peugeot 205 1.9Gti

A Spitfire, in a non combat sense

Ex mtb 102 with its original engines 😈

A Ford Anglia

wittonweavers - Member

rusty Spanner - I take your earlier criticism on board and have given it a little more thought...

I think i'd perhaps like to start turning water into wine. How does that sound?

Son, we gonna nail you & your hippie friends up high, y'hear me?

hehe i'd like to see you try Mister!

Proper dropper acid from ken keesey's bus tour ......no matter what happens after that it'd be a case of [i] hey man.....i'm easy wi that...just go wi the flow dude [/i]

late 60s psychedelic America

Riding Repack with Klunkers
Watching The Rat Pack in Vegas
Flying a Spitfire
Wearing hats (all of the time like in 1930's etc)
Sarah, my first girlfriend. What a little minx she was.......

D.i.s.c.o 8)

Wearing hats... Genius. Mine's a Homburg.

There were a few friends hot mothers, certainly one was def a dead cert but for my painful teenage shyness.

Owning a handgun, and womens pubes off of the 70s

Shag a 30yr old Jenny Agutter

Agreed, but only if I changed into a werewolf after the event. Whilst flying in Concorde.

Debauchery

As far as I know there's no time-limit on that one...

India about 100 years ago. Paris in the 20s. I'd love a walk round my current locality 200 years ago. Done my time in the opium dens of Calcutta...

Final salary pensions

Roman orgies look like fun.

My English teacher when I was 16.

Ms. Joanne Lain, geography teacher from sixth form days, 1993 through 1995. To this day, I question the decision of whoever sanctioned putting a very attractive 23 year old posh girl in charge of a class of predominantly male 18 year old students. Standard class banter (paraphrasing, but this conversation genuinely happened):

Paul: "Do you follow football, Miss? Have you entered a team in a Fantasy Football league?"
Miss Lain: "Actually, Paul, I have entered a team, yes."
Paul: "Me too. I've been deliberating which goalkeeper I'd like guarding my goalmouth. I like the Arsenal keeper. Would you have Seaman in your mouth, Miss?"
Miss Lain: "No, I've got Tim Flowers."

It's also to my greatest regret that I wasn't born a couple of years earlier, so I could have played more of an active role in the acid house era.

Klunking

Going somewhere were no other visitor has been before, maybe deep in the Amazon or somewhere up in the Hindu Kush, old school Victorian explorer stuff.
Follow the old spice trail from China to Europe on a camel.
Visit Bedlam, just to see if its any different from the average town center on a Friday night?
Visit Bethlehem around Christmas, 0BC and see if any of the story is correct.
Go to a speak easy club in the 30s.

26" wheels

Witness an atomic test.
Show the Romans how to make a proper steam engine
Go to a ship launch in one of the Sunderland yards.

DrRS**** - Member
26" wheels

That was almost funnier the second time.

Almost.

Test rider for HRD Vincents .
Back in the day they used the A1

I would stop short of this though 😯

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I'd like to go back to the fondly-remembered days of the first Lottery draws - then immediately after that, I'd amuse myself by dabbling with pre-boom property. Ah, that would be fun.

Smoking before it was bad for you. In the pub. While making sexist remarks. Possibly while slapping someones arse 😀

I'd quite like to revisit the drugs from the early 90's too

When it was still acceptable for a chap to carry a sword ( about early 18th century I think )

I'd like to try being born 20 years later.

(Roman Orgies - rampant STDs, no soap - bleurgh! 8O)

Quaaludes

I would like to Hang, Draw and Quarter a particularly obnoxious customer I had this morning.

Smoking on Concorde.

sex, drugs and rock n roll
eating a wooly mammoth
invading france
liberating south america of the incan gold
tying my horse to the outside of a saloon bar
buying a number of houses on 110% mortgages in 1995

Wendy James

Jenny Hanley.
****stani Black.

Sex with a woman who actually enjoys it and doesn't want it over and done with as soon as possible.

@stevestunts - she didn't get you a birthday card though did she?? 😉

'Squirmy Route' was another of Pauls in urban planning seem to remember

Back to OP - Ford Escort Mk11 in yellow
hawker hurricane
powdered egg

Woodstock festival 1969
Brighton Beach 1964 on a BSA Gold Star
Any of those gigs from the '50s or '60s where they used to get several big names on the same night; Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, Rolling Stones and The Who.

duelling, and not with banjoes
feeding christians to lions

Driving an Auto Union C Type around the Nordschleife, or a D-Type Jaguar around Le-Mans.

Jousting

I can put you in touch with guys i know who still joust for real - full contact World Cup Jousting..

Go and see a show at the colosseum in Rome in it's heyday.

muddydwarf - Member

I can put you in touch with guys i know who still joust for real - full contact World Cup Jousting..

It wouldn't be the same 🙁 Closest you can come to doing it properly in the modern age would be trampling miners.

Late 60's to 70's in general.

I'd still be a dull fart, but I'd like to imagine being a millionaire rockstar playboy who raced cars on the side inbetween trips to Monaco to sail my yacht.

Polar Exploration

This

It's also to my greatest regret that I wasn't born a couple of years earlier, so I could have played more of an active role in the acid house era.

Would also loved to been around the studio 54 scene etc

Afghanistan before it got too mental.
India at the height of the Indian Raj not when us Brits had it.
Opium is fun. Had a few nice days with the Hmong tribesman when I snuck into China 15 years ago.
Oh yeah some of those super hot black chicks who were at the weird religious thing at the velodrome when I met you rusty. Don't pretend you didn't see them.
Am I still allowed to say super hot black chicks?

Alpine passes with roads over them that weren't metalled, and putting newspaper up your jersey to keep warm on the descent.

26" wheels.
.

and I seem to remember christmas being more exciting 20yrs ago

26 inch wheels.
They'd be ace the FOURTH time around!

Reading the whole of the thread, instead of just jumping in at the end.

1950's. I reckon I'd have fitted right in.

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There were a few girls I wish I'd tried. Went out with some saucy bints when I was 14-15ish but didn't realise what my little old fella was actually for!! (WTF?) & more to the point, didn't realise what they were after!

*hangs head in shame & embarrasment*

Barbiturates and the hippy trail

Watching Hendrix at Woodstock.

Being at the first night of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

Ford Capri.

University education that was free.

Mtb without the overpriced marketing bollocks.
Ford Capri.

[i]Jousting[/i]

Absolutely this.

Have at it with a ****ing big horse and a long pointy stick. Bragging rights down the pub right there

Racing mx with my old mate paul and just waiting all through the week until it was Sunday and I could breathe in the two stroke!