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Do you indulge in this? If so, how much?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

ALL THE FUCKING TIME

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep, all the time.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes. I suspect that even if I didn't make the same mistakes I would end up making different silly mistakes and bad choices and wouldn't end up any better off though.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Used to do that almost as much as N.

Thinking about it now, I'm surprised I've not done this for bloody ages.

Does this mean I'm now happy?

Or at least boringly satisfied with my lot?

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Hardly ever. I still think I would take all the easy paths.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I wouldn't buy any ska cds.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

If I could turn back time, if I could find a way

― Cher (jel), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Did it every day for a year or so.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I was mostly armed w/NO ALCOHOL, though

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

but if you travelled back in time you would still be the same age you are now so say if you went back to school you would be 30 and that would be wrong like Josh in Big having sex with that womang who is 30 she is a paedophile.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think about this very often, probably because I am very happy with most aspects of my life at the moment. There are definitely things that I would change if I could go back, namely my education & employment choices.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

And, you know it's probably better to start thinking about changing your life from today, rather than wasting a lot of time building a time machine, and screwing up history for the entire planet.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I am 30, jel. All is lost.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't do this other than to learn for future similar situations.

― toraneko (toraneko), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Sort of - I have a cutoff point where I wouldn't go back to earlier than 1998. Despite a woman trying to talk to me in a concert in 1997.

I would like to go back then and take her to one side to hear what she had to say - she got me on the dancefloor, you see, and I could NOT tell what she said even though she shouted it right into my ear. knowing my luck she may just have wanted to tell me my hair looked shite, but she COULD have wanted to chat me up. But in 1997 I had my Law finals and I know I'd fail them if I went back in time to that period with my current knowledge.

But I WOULD like to go back to school and go Matrix Reloaded with a pole on the arses of everyone who bullied me back then. Even though it would entail getting expelled.

― N. Ron, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm somewhere between N and Nicole.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I let you all know what its like once I get my DeLorean gassed up.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I loved the way that in Back To The Future 2 all they needed to do to get the Delorean going was fill it with rubbish. So with Christopher Lloyd & Michael J.Fox in it, theoretically it could go for ever.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to want to go back to highschool knowing what I know now. Haha! I don't know much more than then, so it wouldn't be very different I suspect. Except I would cut that godawful hair and lose weight.

― Mandee, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I am 30, jel. All is lost.

Don't say that, or else what hope do the rest of us old people have?

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I would dearly, dearly love to sit in my infant school talking about DNA structure and James Joyce and US foreign policy in the latter half of the 20th Century.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Although I'm not entirely convinced that Mark S didn't do this...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

He did: that is why there is now a ban on that sort of thing.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

It might be nicer to go back and forget what I know (or think I know) now... and make sure I never know it. Cynicism isn't fun.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I do this all the time on a lark. If I follow the train of thought too long, however, I get quite depressed.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

This is so absolutely comprehensively something I subconsciously obsess about that it frightens me that a thread has been started about it. And also I could sort out my hair earlier and avoid particular shirts.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

If I went back in time knowing what I know now I would be the most ruthless and impatient curmudgeon. I could probably get all the high school pussy I ever dreamed about just by being the right kind of asshole but then again I wouldn't really want to - everything would just be a nother pastime and it would just be an extra twelve years of living with nothing to look forward to, which is not cool at all. This is why I refuse to go back to a college campus.

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Lately a helluva lot. I believe I'd have told my father to go fuck himself back in about 1982 and written him off then and there (as opposed to waiting another twenty years).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd bet I do it more than N.

The sucky part is that if you could actually do it you'd either be crushed by the weight of nostalgia (assuming you tried to do things mostly the same) or else just run up against a whole new set of challenges you still don't know how to deal with (assuming you try to do everything completely different). Sometimes it's better to imagine you could just randomly drop into specific moments and clear them up.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember saying to a friend how it would be good to be able to go back and live life again knowing what i do now and he responded "But the trouble would be that everybody else would know what they know
now, so you'd be no better off". I found this quite interesting - how he'd made the assumption that everyone else would also do this as well and I thought (but didn't say) "No, that's not what I meant! i meant just *me*!"

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Your friend sounds like he has a very peculiar mind.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Is he a Borg?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

or else just run up against a whole new set of challenges you still don't know how to deal with (assuming you try to do everything completely different)

That's exactly why it would be a bad idea, I have a feeling things would probably just turn out worse somehow.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

That's like saying movie stars aren't happy!

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

No, but he is one of the most intelligent ppl i know, so maybe I should take note of what he says. I was discussing the futility of the fantasy with someone else and how I was frustrated that i was engaged in the futile business of thinking it at all and she said "Well that's good - if you know you're doing it then it proves that yr not going mad".

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Taking sides: Neurosis vs. Psychosis.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i would have been nicer to a lot of people when i was younger.

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Regrets are inevitable, in life. Best just stomach them and keep moving.

Chaning your life is a waste of a good time machine if you ask me. My 18 year old self just wanted one to go back in time to see Husker Du before they split. For a mate of mine it was the Clash. Now's that's what technology's for.

― Jamie Conway (Jamie Conway), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I'd rather go back in time without actually inhabiting my old body so I could just follow the young me around tersely berating me and occasionally physically attacking me for being such a dumb kid.

― Ferg (Ferg), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

yes I think inhabiting that weedy kid's body again would not be nice. And being closer to the ground. And everyone being taller than me (ok, most are *now* but even more so). ugh.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I owe my current state of relative happiness to a sort of hitting bottom several years ago. About 4 years ago, I made a mental list (as opposed to a mentalist) while out for a long run of all the things that were currently in my life that I hated and then vowed, item by item, to not repeat the mistakes of the past. I made a list of various areas of my life that were lacking and vowed to improve in each of them. Very up-with-people, I know, but pinning down exactly where I'd fucked up and failed was exactly what I needed to do at that juncture in my life.

That veers off the topic at hand, I know, but it's somewhat related in that I did the next best thing. That said, man, if I could go back to my 13-year-old self and clue him in, things woulda been a whole lot better. The first thing I would've done is to tell that boy, "Man, cut your fucking hair, you look like a girl, and put on some blue jeans while you're at it" and so on...

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

N - I've not heard any Psychosis. Any good? I love Neurosis though! Excellent band.

― N. Ron, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

id top myself at 15

― hellbaby (hellbaby), Thursday, 19 June 2003 06:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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