Hypothetical Questions Thread

[Wolfox]

6 hours ago, StanSP said:

If you could change only ONE thing that happened in the last 10 years, what would it be? 

Brexit for the U.K.  is the obvious one

 

theres likely to a be a far more complex environmental issue, which I can’t articulate that would make that look massively insignificant though 

[Wolfox]

5 hours ago, Suzie the Fox said:

What would be the 1st thing you do if you won say £10m on the lottery?

Ha!  I know where you’re going with this !

 

cheeky!

[Parafox]

6 hours ago, boots60 said:

If you could travel back in time, would you kill Hitler?

And then Putin as a baby. Him, not me, obvs.

[Milo]

If I do nothing every day except train to finish off chances. 
 

Day after day after day for nine months. 
 

Then, yeah, definitely will convert at least one chance playing up front for Man City. 
 

(Might have to work on my current levels of fitness first)

[Trumpet]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

And then Putin as a baby. Him, not me, obvs.

[MPH]

If you found a wallet with money in with an address very close by, would you hand it in?

[Zear0]

10 hours ago, boots60 said:

If you could travel back in time, would you kill Hitler?

Didn't turn out well in C&C Red Alert. 

[Jon the Hat]

1 hour ago, MPH said:

If you found a wallet with money in with an address very close by, would you hand it in?

Yes of course.  Its not my money.  They might well need it more than me.  If it was a lot of cash I would take it to the Police.

[ozleicester]

1 hour ago, MPH said:

If you found a wallet with money in with an address very close by, would you hand it in?

Family member lost their wallet at a local field day recently... was handed in within an hour, and the organisers dropped it off at home as they were coming past the next day

[MPH]

44 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

Yes of course.  Its not my money.  They might well need it more than me.  If it was a lot of cash I would take it to the Police.

 

27 minutes ago, ozleicester said:

Family member lost their wallet at a local field day recently... was handed in within an hour, and the organisers dropped it off at home as they were coming past the next day

 

i found a wallet at a petrol station a few months back right next to a pump.  I checked the address on the drivers license  and it was just a couple of miles down the road so  I took it to the house and outside the house a lady was panicking rummaging through her car quite tearful. It was her husbands wallet she was looking forShe was so grateful. Just a little gesture like that made her day. It had all his bank cards in and only a bit of money and she was more worried about the bank cards than anything else. 

Edited 20 October 2022 by MPH

[ozleicester]

3 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

 

i found a wallet at a petrol station a few months back right next to a pump.  I checked the address on the drivers license  and it was just a couple of miles down the road so  I took it to the house and outside the house a lady was panicking rummaging through her car quite tearful. It was her husbands wallet she was looking forShe was so grateful. Just a little gesture like that made her day. It had all his bank cards in and only a bit of money and she was more worried about the bank cards than anything else. 

Same...  only about $5 in cash... but all bank cards, medicare cards, kids info etc.

It is a wonderefully uplifting event when people (more often than not by the way) do the right thing

[Trumpet]

11 hours ago, MPH said:

If you found a wallet with money in with an address very close by, would you hand it in?

No. I’d go on Facebook to find the person publicly so everyone knows I’m a top ****ing bloke.

 

Which reminds me. I saw a post years back of someone finding a season ticket and wanting to return it to the person. The reasoning on the post was “they already have a season ticket” 

Edited 20 October 2022 by Trumpet

[Nalis]

How long would you last as PM before getting 'found out' as an idiot?

 

I'd like to think it was longer than 45 days. But I'd struggle to complete the day I'd reckon.

[reporterpenguin]

19 hours ago, MPH said:

If you found a wallet with money in with an address very close by, would you hand it in?

Closest I’ve come to this was finding a £20 note on the floor walking home from the pub after the football one night. 
 

Being in a good mood (we’d won) I decided to give it to a homeless man on the way. 
 

Got home and my bike had been stolen. 
 

Thanks karma…

[boots60]

On 19/10/2022 at 13:26, boots60 said:

If you could travel back in time, would you kill Hitler?

To all those who said yes, well done, give yourself a pat on the back, you would have undoubtedly saved millions of lives.

You will also save many thousands (possibly millions) of lives if you kill Putin, without the bother of time travel, so get cracking.

[tom27111]

What's the biggest animal you'd beat in a fight? 

 

For me, I'd easily knock out one of those big bastard pengiuns.

 

Controversially, I'm saying giraffe.

 

Just run at it and double foot one of it's legs. It's going down, hard. Then I'm on top.

[Unabomber]

47 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

What's the biggest animal you'd beat in a fight? 

 

For me, I'd easily knock out one of those big bastard pengiuns.

 

Controversially, I'm saying giraffe.

 

Just run at it and double foot one of it's legs. It's going down, hard. Then I'm on top.

Elephant for me I think 

[tom27111]

Just now, Unabomber said:

Elephant for me I think 

 

You just dropping it with a left jab - right uppercut combo? 

[dsr-burnley]

1 hour ago, tom27111 said:

What's the biggest animal you'd beat in a fight? 

 

For me, I'd easily knock out one of those big bastard pengiuns.

 

Controversially, I'm saying giraffe.

 

Just run at it and double foot one of it's legs. It's going down, hard. Then I'm on top.

I could beat a blue whale, easily.  As long as I can choose the venue - any football pitch would be a good place.  The fight might take a couple of days, and be a bit boring, but the whale would die.  Sorry.

[tom27111]

9 minutes ago, dsr-burnley said:

I could beat a blue whale, easily.  As long as I can choose the venue - any football pitch would be a good place.  The fight might take a couple of days, and be a bit boring, but the whale would die.  Sorry.

I should explain the rules...

 

You have to fight the animal in its natural habitat.

 

That Blue Whale is taking you down it the North Atlantic 

[Jattdogg]

3 hours ago, tom27111 said:

What's the biggest animal you'd beat in a fight? 

 

For me, I'd easily knock out one of those big bastard pengiuns.

 

Controversially, I'm saying giraffe.

 

Just run at it and double foot one of it's legs. It's going down, hard. Then I'm on top.

You sick monster.

[leicsmac]

8 hours ago, boots60 said:

To all those who said yes, well done, give yourself a pat on the back, you would have undoubtedly saved millions of lives.

You will also save many thousands (possibly millions) of lives if you kill Putin, without the bother of time travel, so get cracking.

Time travel shenanigans are rarely that simple. There's a host of cautionary tales demonstrating this.

 

Not saying it's a bad idea, but no one would have any idea of the actual consequences of altering history in that way. It could be better, it could equally be worse.

[Jon the Hat]

8 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Time travel shenanigans are rarely that simple. There's a host of cautionary tales demonstrating this.

 

Not saying it's a bad idea, but no one would have any idea of the actual consequences of altering history in that way. It could be better, it could equally be worse.

I mean generally you are right of course, but it is hard to imagine a worse outcome to no Hitler than Hitler.

[leicsmac]

12 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

I mean generally you are right of course, but it is hard to imagine a worse outcome to no Hitler than Hitler.

....killing him allowing the ascendancy of a leader with all the genocidal qualities of Hitler, but one that actually trusts his generals post-1941 and therefore is so much more effective? One that doesn't declare war on the USA and therefore the US doesn't intervene as much in Europe and stays active in the Far East? One that allows access to the necessary resources and encouragement to allow his scientists to complete the atomic bomb program before the Allies do?

 

There's a great many ways I can imagine that things would be worse. Of course, there are a great many ways it could be better.

 

Point is, unless you're absolutely sure either way (and given the laws of causality you never will be), it's rather foolhardy to take the chance.

[Nalis]

8 hours ago, tom27111 said:

What's the biggest animal you'd beat in a fight? 

 

For me, I'd easily knock out one of those big bastard pengiuns.

 

Controversially, I'm saying giraffe.

 

Just run at it and double foot one of it's legs. It's going down, hard. Then I'm on top.

I'm crap at fighting so an alpaca for me.

 

I'd lure the lovable bastard over with a scratch on the neck and then BOOM, cheap punch to the back of the head.

Edited 21 October 2022 by Nalis