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If You Could Go Back in Time

Started by Eddie Teach, October 02, 2014, 04:09:58 PM

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What would be the first thing you do?

Kill somebody
1 (2.6%)
Screw an ancestor
1 (2.6%)
Screw a historical figure
2 (5.1%)
Have a heart-to-heart with your past self
10 (25.6%)
Some kind of money-making scheme
12 (30.8%)
Just be an "observer", like a wimp
2 (5.1%)
Avoid using time travel, like an even bigger wimp
1 (2.6%)
Screw the past, I'm going to the future!
6 (15.4%)
Convince Jaron's mom to have an abortion
1 (2.6%)
Something completely different
3 (7.7%)

Total Members Voted: 38

mongers

If You Could Go Back in Time

Wasn't this a T'Pau song?  :80sfrizzybighairsmilie:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

crazy canuck

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 03, 2014, 02:43:13 PM
I'm sure if you spent a couple minutes looking you could find stocks that far outpaced the Vancouver real estate market.

Yeah, but it would be more fun to continually tell Yi that waiting for a crash that has been predicted for about 30 years is a bad thing - and have all the extra property assets to back it up.

Barrister

I'd tell my younger self circa 1991 or so to go buy as much Bre-X stock as I could get my hands on.  And be sure to sell it off in 1996.

Then invest in, I dunno, Amazon, but be sure to sell off by 1999 or so.

Then hold off until 2001 and buy Apple stock.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

mongers

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 03, 2014, 02:43:13 PM
I'm sure if you spent a couple minutes looking you could find stocks that far outpaced the Vancouver real estate market.

What's that quote about investing in land, as they're no longer making it. ?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Barrister on October 03, 2014, 03:22:19 PM
I'd tell my younger self circa 1991 or so to go buy as much Bre-X stock as I could get my hands on.  And be sure to sell it off in 1996.

What's Bre-X?

Barrister

Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 03, 2014, 03:26:31 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 03, 2014, 03:22:19 PM
I'd tell my younger self circa 1991 or so to go buy as much Bre-X stock as I could get my hands on.  And be sure to sell it off in 1996.

What's Bre-X?

Penny mining stock that peaked at a share price of several hundred dollars.

Turned out to be an enormous fraud based on spiked core samples.  Huge scandal up here in Canuckistan at the time.  But if you're after a stock that would give you the greatest % increase that's probably your best bet.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

crazy canuck

Quote from: Barrister on October 03, 2014, 03:28:42 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 03, 2014, 03:26:31 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 03, 2014, 03:22:19 PM
I'd tell my younger self circa 1991 or so to go buy as much Bre-X stock as I could get my hands on.  And be sure to sell it off in 1996.

What's Bre-X?

Penny mining stock that peaked at a share price of several hundred dollars.

Turned out to be an enormous fraud based on spiked core samples.  Huge scandal up here in Canuckistan at the time.  But if you're after a stock that would give you the greatest % increase that's probably your best bet.

Yeah, the irony is they probably would have gotten away with it if it hadnt gotten so big.  Pretty easy to explain a penny stock that goes bust after further exploration doesnt prove out the initial findings.  But they got big enough to make it onto the big board and all the regulatory filings that go with that.

MadImmortalMan

Quote from: mongers on October 03, 2014, 03:23:04 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 03, 2014, 02:43:13 PM
I'm sure if you spent a couple minutes looking you could find stocks that far outpaced the Vancouver real estate market.

What's that quote about investing in land, as they're no longer making it. ?

An owner-occupied single family home is not an investment. It's a cost. Well, for the owner anyway.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Eddie Teach

Quote from: mongers on October 03, 2014, 03:23:04 PM
What's that quote about investing in land, as they're no longer making it. ?

Land prices will go up in the long run, but it's a slow process. Stocks may go up or down, but if you have a time machine you should know which one.  :P
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Tonitrus

Quote from: mongers on October 03, 2014, 03:03:55 PM
If You Could Go Back in Time

Wasn't this a T'Pau song?  :80sfrizzybighairsmilie:

It's almost a Cher song.

mongers

Quote from: Tonitrus on October 03, 2014, 04:48:48 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 03, 2014, 03:03:55 PM
If You Could Go Back in Time

Wasn't this a T'Pau song?  :80sfrizzybighairsmilie:

It's almost a Cher song.

Yeah I think it's that, the fizzy ginger/red hair led me to confuse them.  :Embarrass:

Wasn't the Cher song 'If I Could Turn Back Time' ?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Tonitrus

Quote from: mongers on October 03, 2014, 05:07:49 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on October 03, 2014, 04:48:48 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 03, 2014, 03:03:55 PM
If You Could Go Back in Time

Wasn't this a T'Pau song?  :80sfrizzybighairsmilie:

It's almost a Cher song.

Yeah I think it's that, the fizzy ginger/red hair led me to confuse them.  :Embarrass:

Wasn't the Cher song 'If I Could Turn Back Time' ?

Aye

Capetan Mihali

Killing Hitler's so cliche -- me, I'd tip off Röhm. :ph34r:  And history would always recall the Night of the Small Dull Knives, the failed purged that forced Hitler to flee to Latin America as the gay drunken left wing of the NSDAP assumed power.
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Valmy

I would go back in time and get Franz Ferdinand's driver a better map of Sarajevo.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Grallon

Quote from: Capetan Mihali on October 03, 2014, 06:28:55 PM
Killing Hitler's so cliche -- me, I'd tip off Röhm. :ph34r:  And history would always recall the Night of the Small Dull Knives, the failed purged that forced Hitler to flee to Latin America as the gay drunken left wing of the NSDAP assumed power.


You're so godsdam hot!



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~Jean-François Revel