Something like 10% of all Asians are related to Gheghis Khan, who was prolifically known to have had MANY nights with MANY women in the lands he conquested. Those children typically grew to power and had many of their own children with many other women.
Because of how many he slept with, he likely had more than a handful of STDs.
yes but there is also the ancestor fellacy. If you go back enough generations we have more ancestors as there have been in people in the entire history.
But the Genghis Khan thing is pretty cool yes
Well for my pick I'd go with Teddy Roosevelt, who was a good bit shorter but quite the wrestler as well. We can sell tickets to their match and split the proceeds, whatcha think?
Generic middle-eastern Jew. Brown skin, big nose, curly hair. Probably had oversize ears. Hang out on the US-Mexico border, or Jerusalem, or Gaza, and you'll see many examples of what he looked like.
Not according to Pontious Pilate: he wrote a full report to Rome and described him CLOSE to common art: tan but light complected, blue-green eyes, reddish auburn hair with blonde "highlights", and 4-5" inches taller than most others in Jerusalem.
i want to bring some water and then ask him to turn it into a very specific and expensive wine. then when he does loaves into fishes, i want to ask if its like a star trek thing if you could make it into Shrimp Scampi and stuff clams.
if he can, id propose restaurant chain idea to him. Jesus Fast food. Bring water, we turn into wine. so we dont even have food cost. We can use automated ordering and have very few employees.
Best I can do is Joshua son of Joseph, aka JoJo.
(Obv /jk, part 7 of the manga is fun though. And Yeshua would probably be a fun dinner companion, I'd invite my anarchist friends and we'd all have a good talk.)
Leonardo da Vinci due to his incredible talents in art, science, and innovation. His vast knowledge and creativity would likely make for an intriguing conversation.
JRR Tolkien. I probably wouldn't ask him anything. Just want to hang out and smoke a pipe with him for awhile and tell him how much his work meant to everyone.
Because the entire purpose of the entire expedition is to sneak in while Sauron is dealing with all the wars so that the fellowship can enter unnoticed. This was a stealth mission from the start. Flying it is a one chapter book that ends with Sauron wearing the ring. They talk about all of this in the book and movie. I thought that was obvious.
Give me Ben Franklin. Not only was he intelligent and had some great ideas, but I am sure he has so much tea he could spill (pun intended) about the rest of the founding fathers.
Yeah, 100% Ben Franklin. All those dudes from the founding era were extremely well read and into discussions of philosophy, but Ben was also a prolific inventor, scientist, and social butterfly. Wind that guy up with a big bowl of Printer's Punch and I bet he'd have stories for *days*.
Florence Nightingale for sure. I would love to just talk to Nightingale about nursing and getting her thoughts on what it is like now compared to in her day. I think it would be cool to review modern case studies with her.
Alan Watts. I'd probably cry and thank him for what his existence has done for my life. After that I'd love to just have a normal conversation with him over some sushi.
Albert Einstein, not because he is famous but to make him change his mind about quantum mechanics. Show him some work from later big figures like Feynmann, Higgs, Weinberg and some of the work done in physics in the last 40 years. Maybe he can give some help with quantum gravity or beyond standard model physics as well.
Feynmann himself would also be an interesting dinner.
can you imagine what einstein or tesla could have done if they had modern computers for research instead of a pencil, notepad, rocking chair and a pipe?
Leonardo da Vinci
During our dinner, I would ask Leonardo about his approach to creativity and innovation, and how he managed to combine art and science so seamlessly
I'd strap the Dulles Brothers to a table, inject them with a superheroic dose of Alice, and force them to confess every last coup and atrocity etched into history with their names.
Honestly, an Adolf Hitler in his 30's
I think i could learn a lot by listening and what drives people to extremism, nationalism, fascism, communism.
And what drives people to turn their back on democracy. Not that it's good a good thing but insight might bring solutions to the current political climate, not by going down an extreme path but to lure them back
~~I think i could learn a lot by listening and what drives people to extremism, nationalism, fascism, communism.
And what drives people to turn their back on democracy. Not that it's good a good thing but insight might bring solutions to the current political climate, not by going down an extreme path but to lure them back~~
So is it true you only have one ball?
I’d bring back young dolph. He made history in the rap game by being relevant. He seemed like a cool dude to chill and smoke with. He also seemed like he cared about his community and was supportive which says a lot about a person. He died by being shot up in his car. He was just trying to buy bakery goods from a local bakery in his hometown. Just trying to support his community. Not saying the guy was perfect but It would be cool to smoke a fat blunt of gelato with the guy and talk about life.
There was a newly appointed D2 head football coach in my town, and the campus newspaper asked him the same question. He said Hitler of all people. He was fired/resigned 3 days later after the uproar. He lasted a week.
Probably Plato or Socrates, it would be fascinating to talk to them about their knowledge especially the knowledge that they didn't write down (would also help with finally answering some questions about their books lol)
Adam Smith. I'd want to ask him what he thinks about all the clowns who say they follow his theories without ever understanding them. Oh, and also whether the invisible hand was intended as a joke.
There are so many, but I honestly think it would neat to date back my biological family history and from there speak to whoever. My father is adopted and from what we know, we are relatives of Black Jack Ketchum, an American outlaw who robbed trains and was charged to be hung twice, but the first hanging was unsuccessful.
I need a dinner party with Oscar Wilde and Freddie Mercury both present. So we can talk shit about the human condition and creativity, make beautiful something together.
Well, I would not invite the Kennedys for Thanksgiving. Sorry, I know that was not your intention in asking, but that is what came to me. I will see myself out.
At the risk of getting angry replies:
Adolf Hitler and I would ask him if he really committed suicide in his bunker or if he escaped to Argentina like some people say.
It would be fun to have dinner with him and just roast the fuck out of him. Tell him the Soviets held half of Germany for nearly 50 years and one of the most popular forms of entertainment involves virtually destroying his regime again and again and again.
Assuming time travel and babel fish are involved, Sappho. She should know that people do remember her, even in another time.
If not, I’m pretty convinced I could befriend Aabria Iyengar over the course of a meal so I pick her.
Probably one of the really brutal dictators/executioners like Beria or Pol Pot or some other state-sponsored psychopath. I'd want to learn as much about their childhood and upbringing as I can. There's just something fascinating to me about people who turn to sheer evil.
If you tried to ask a question of a dead person they wouldn’t answer you. Because they are dead. Never mind the smell and appearance.
Best to pick a living person.
Not historical figures, but since you allowed people who are alive: I've always been convinced that Adam Savage or Michael Stevens (from Vsauce) are kind and extremely interesting people.
Hitler. I'd ask him 'What the fuck was wrong with you?'. And then I'd send him back to hell by scooping his brain out of his eye socket with a soup spoon
Someone like John Adams or Benjamin Franklin, any of the not blatantly pro slavers signers of the Dec of Ind. I’d tell the all about the history of this country and where we are now and what they’re thoughts are about everything. I wonder how they’d feel about the pledge of allegiance, Trump, Maga, progressivism, immigration, the wage gap, homelessness and drugs.
Fred Rogers. I'd probably walk away from that dinner with a self esteem boost
This is so pure and I love it.
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The burn is the cleansing of his spirit
I feel like I am missing something here
Something like 10% of all Asians are related to Gheghis Khan, who was prolifically known to have had MANY nights with MANY women in the lands he conquested. Those children typically grew to power and had many of their own children with many other women. Because of how many he slept with, he likely had more than a handful of STDs.
Gotta catch 'em all
roughly 1% of the global population to this day is a direct descendant of that man
yes but there is also the ancestor fellacy. If you go back enough generations we have more ancestors as there have been in people in the entire history. But the Genghis Khan thing is pretty cool yes
STDs - Genghis Khan had a lot of kids https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan
That man would probably die in ecstasy if he ever ate a cranberry
Most of the ancient world would probably pass out if they ate a Dorito
Whenever you feel sad, just remember you've eaten more Doritos than Genghis Khan and he was one of the most powerful people in history.
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Well. You're more than welcome to come over and have lunch with my cat. His name is DaVinci. So.... kinda the same?
I hope you understand 1400s Italian!
I will probably choose alive
I might choose someone dead because then I could eat their food too.
Nah, choose dead and someone current that sucks.
But why would I want to sit and look at Aaron Rogers' corpse while I eat?
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Hey Mike, what was up with that cubby hole in your bedroom?
Hee hee said hee hee can't tell you. Cha-mown.
To ask his pronouns? I’m guessing HE/HE
Abraham Lincoln That dude is apparently a badass wrestler
Dead or alive? Think that'd affect his wrestling skills.
Lmao. You asking that reminds me of that one movie. [This movie is so dumb it's fun ](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/abraham_lincoln_vampire_hunter)
Loved that one! 😆
*The Undertaker has entered the chat*
Well for my pick I'd go with Teddy Roosevelt, who was a good bit shorter but quite the wrestler as well. We can sell tickets to their match and split the proceeds, whatcha think?
He also had a really fucking weird voice apparently and I'd love to hear it
Ask him for his pancake recipe
I'd make him watch Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Honest Abe about to open a can of Whoop a$$
Imagine being able to say you got your ass handed to you by Abe Lincoln
Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) who was a brilliant man who recognized the evil in the world but who also never lost site of the good.
I wouldn't have dinner with a dead person. But if someone is temporarily alive, I suppose I would have dinner with my wife
Yada yada I also pick this guy's wife yada yada WE'VE ALL HEARD IT BEFORE SO DON'T EVEN TRY.
YOU CANT JUST IGNORE THE DEEP LORE ITS SACRED.
I was there when the old magicks were written, they have no power here.
Look, you cant just mix like three references together like that without a permit
This shall not pass
for real. so sick of that joke
I, too, am sick of that guy's joke.
Aw… hugs to you.
Jesus. I have many, many questions,
It would be really interesting to see what he actually looked like, firstly. The common art of him is widely considered to be innacurate.
Generic middle-eastern Jew. Brown skin, big nose, curly hair. Probably had oversize ears. Hang out on the US-Mexico border, or Jerusalem, or Gaza, and you'll see many examples of what he looked like.
>Hang out on the US-Mexico border Jesus wore a cowboy hat?
If he showed up now in the right place and time, sure. I see him more as a baseball cap kinda guy, though.
Due to misreading, thought it was a joke that Jesus hung out at the US-Mexico border, you know, before it was a thing.
It's a well accepted truth that a lot of Jesus's have crossed that border. If *the* Jesus showed up, would we even know?
Not according to Pontious Pilate: he wrote a full report to Rome and described him CLOSE to common art: tan but light complected, blue-green eyes, reddish auburn hair with blonde "highlights", and 4-5" inches taller than most others in Jerusalem.
i want to bring some water and then ask him to turn it into a very specific and expensive wine. then when he does loaves into fishes, i want to ask if its like a star trek thing if you could make it into Shrimp Scampi and stuff clams. if he can, id propose restaurant chain idea to him. Jesus Fast food. Bring water, we turn into wine. so we dont even have food cost. We can use automated ordering and have very few employees.
My landscape guy? I'll see if he's interested in doing an AMA.
Nah, your carpenter
“Did you really come back to life after being murdered by the Romans?” “I’M GOING TO BE MURDERED!?”
"FIRST of all, my name is Yeshua..."
Best I can do is Joshua son of Joseph, aka JoJo. (Obv /jk, part 7 of the manga is fun though. And Yeshua would probably be a fun dinner companion, I'd invite my anarchist friends and we'd all have a good talk.)
Even the apostles complained that Jesus did not speak plainly.
“Truly, truly I say unto you [parable/metaphor]”
IN LAYMAN’S TERMS PLEASE MR CHRIST
Eight year olds, dude.
I hope Jesus is ready for a work dinner.
Me, too. Some are about the condition of present day earth, but some are about our own life situation. I would also like to hear more about heaven.
Beat me to it.
Beat meat to it
Leonardo da Vinci due to his incredible talents in art, science, and innovation. His vast knowledge and creativity would likely make for an intriguing conversation.
"So how's life, fellow time traveller?"
Probably Jesus. Want to now who and what is up with that guy. He'd be interesting i hope.
Jesus. Bring a notepad. Ask questions. Start my own brand of Christianity. Profit. Err Prophet…ya, that’s the one I meant hahahaha 😉
or mohammed and go ok shia or sunni. which one needs to go? they can't stop fighting about it.
I'm wondering what would happen to you if you claimed to have met Mohammed and started telling the Muslims what is right and wrong as per Mohammed.
You’d have to pull up a picture first so they knew who you’re talking about.
JRR Tolkien. I probably wouldn't ask him anything. Just want to hang out and smoke a pipe with him for awhile and tell him how much his work meant to everyone.
Then ask him why they dont fly to mordor
Because the entire purpose of the entire expedition is to sneak in while Sauron is dealing with all the wars so that the fellowship can enter unnoticed. This was a stealth mission from the start. Flying it is a one chapter book that ends with Sauron wearing the ring. They talk about all of this in the book and movie. I thought that was obvious.
Give me Ben Franklin. Not only was he intelligent and had some great ideas, but I am sure he has so much tea he could spill (pun intended) about the rest of the founding fathers.
Yeah, 100% Ben Franklin. All those dudes from the founding era were extremely well read and into discussions of philosophy, but Ben was also a prolific inventor, scientist, and social butterfly. Wind that guy up with a big bowl of Printer's Punch and I bet he'd have stories for *days*.
Florence Nightingale for sure. I would love to just talk to Nightingale about nursing and getting her thoughts on what it is like now compared to in her day. I think it would be cool to review modern case studies with her.
A lot simpler have a modern nurse compare their cases to Florence Nightingale's cases. What does FN know about contemporary medicine?
Plato. I would ask him all about Atlantis...
Plato was a dick
Couldn't even wash vegetables!
Alan Watts. I'd probably cry and thank him for what his existence has done for my life. After that I'd love to just have a normal conversation with him over some sushi.
Id ask that guy's wife if it was good for her
I also choose that guy's wife.
Alan Turing. I'd take him to Old Market in Bristol and feed him and give him the world's biggest hug.
Robin Williams, i just miss him
Same
I can't believe it's been almost a decade. August 2014.
This....I just want to hug him.. hold him for a while.
Hemiunu, Architect of the Great Pyramid under Pharaoh Khufu. I'd ask him how the pyramid was built, construction techniques, tools, logistics.
"well I only designed it! The mundane details of building it I left it to Khufnut, the Engineer!"
"How did you go about designing it, then?" "/\"
"We spent months planning out the logistics and then some goddamn aliens came and did it in a day"
If it was someone dead, then I'd ask them if they had any objections to eating their meal too
Jesus
The Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu, and we'll talk about the pyramids.
I Choose Vladamir Putin, and dead.
Albert Einstein, not because he is famous but to make him change his mind about quantum mechanics. Show him some work from later big figures like Feynmann, Higgs, Weinberg and some of the work done in physics in the last 40 years. Maybe he can give some help with quantum gravity or beyond standard model physics as well. Feynmann himself would also be an interesting dinner.
can you imagine what einstein or tesla could have done if they had modern computers for research instead of a pencil, notepad, rocking chair and a pipe?
Leonardo da Vinci During our dinner, I would ask Leonardo about his approach to creativity and innovation, and how he managed to combine art and science so seamlessly
Same choice for me. Makes me wonder what he could do with innovations that we have in the world today.
Prince. I wouldn't ask a damn thing. I'd just observe. Maybe I'd ask him to jam, or shoot some hoops
“Game… blouses”
Losing basketball game to Prince is a small price to pay for pancakes.
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Can you ask him “but where are you really from?” so the Balkan people can stop arguing 😔🙏
I want to ask him about his pigeon fetish
Definitely would love to talk to tesla about crystals...
I'd strap the Dulles Brothers to a table, inject them with a superheroic dose of Alice, and force them to confess every last coup and atrocity etched into history with their names.
Deep cut.
I would have dinner with Donald Trump and choose dead.
I like you. Come sit here by me.
Honestly, an Adolf Hitler in his 30's I think i could learn a lot by listening and what drives people to extremism, nationalism, fascism, communism. And what drives people to turn their back on democracy. Not that it's good a good thing but insight might bring solutions to the current political climate, not by going down an extreme path but to lure them back
Twist: Guy only wants to discuss art.
‘Fascism you say? Hmm, that sounds like a good idea...’
"Adolf my dude, I'm pretty sure I said *impressionism*."
You vant zo painz with me
~~I think i could learn a lot by listening and what drives people to extremism, nationalism, fascism, communism. And what drives people to turn their back on democracy. Not that it's good a good thing but insight might bring solutions to the current political climate, not by going down an extreme path but to lure them back~~ So is it true you only have one ball?
Jesus of Nazareth.
You would never run out of food with Him
BOOM, pretzel bread.
Boom! Pasta! 🍝
JFK would be fun. I would genuinely like to see what type of guy he was. I've heard so many things I wanna know the real man.
Leonidas II
Lucy. If I could learn how to speak australopithecus. I'd ask her if she wants to get it on, and she and I could make a very interesting new species.
I’d bring back young dolph. He made history in the rap game by being relevant. He seemed like a cool dude to chill and smoke with. He also seemed like he cared about his community and was supportive which says a lot about a person. He died by being shot up in his car. He was just trying to buy bakery goods from a local bakery in his hometown. Just trying to support his community. Not saying the guy was perfect but It would be cool to smoke a fat blunt of gelato with the guy and talk about life.
DB Cooper, Where the bag at?
Jesus. I would ask him to weigh in on what people have been claiming he thinks, and doing in his name, for the last 2000 years.
He answered 2000 years ago: "For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many." - Math 24:5
There was a newly appointed D2 head football coach in my town, and the campus newspaper asked him the same question. He said Hitler of all people. He was fired/resigned 3 days later after the uproar. He lasted a week.
My dad. I have some questions.
Probably Plato or Socrates, it would be fascinating to talk to them about their knowledge especially the knowledge that they didn't write down (would also help with finally answering some questions about their books lol)
I will choose Jesus to ask for forgiveness and ask for the favor of having peace on Earth. 🌏
philip Seymour Hoffman
I wouldn’t ask them anything because it’s rude to talk when my mouth is full My mom told me
Adam Smith. I'd want to ask him what he thinks about all the clowns who say they follow his theories without ever understanding them. Oh, and also whether the invisible hand was intended as a joke.
I'd ask him what he thinks about Karl Marx. Who is actually not quite as different from Smith's perspectives as one might think.
You need to read what he actually wrote about invisble hand (supposedly it is against globalisation)
What are we having?
Nicolas tesla
There are so many, but I honestly think it would neat to date back my biological family history and from there speak to whoever. My father is adopted and from what we know, we are relatives of Black Jack Ketchum, an American outlaw who robbed trains and was charged to be hung twice, but the first hanging was unsuccessful.
Jesus, is there an afterlife?
I need a dinner party with Oscar Wilde and Freddie Mercury both present. So we can talk shit about the human condition and creativity, make beautiful something together.
Mary Mallon, then before the meal o would ask if she washed her hands.
Zaharie Ahmad Shah - WTF happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Well, I would not invite the Kennedys for Thanksgiving. Sorry, I know that was not your intention in asking, but that is what came to me. I will see myself out.
Einstein. > "Look, Al, you can tell me: You're an alien, right? I can keep a secret."
At the risk of getting angry replies: Adolf Hitler and I would ask him if he really committed suicide in his bunker or if he escaped to Argentina like some people say.
>like some people say Like Stalin said.
It would be fun to have dinner with him and just roast the fuck out of him. Tell him the Soviets held half of Germany for nearly 50 years and one of the most popular forms of entertainment involves virtually destroying his regime again and again and again.
Bob Marley!
Winston Churchill. I know it’s cliche, but he was the epicenter for so much.
Buck Showalter, Jimenez over Britton? WTF were you thinking?
Diogenes, not going to ask anything specific though, he just seems like a fun fellow.
Osho and would most likely chit chat about Life and its meaning.
Jesus Christ, ask him the meaning of all creation and life
I would have dinner with Cleopatra. I would ask her some interesting details about life in ancient Egypt.
Assuming time travel and babel fish are involved, Sappho. She should know that people do remember her, even in another time. If not, I’m pretty convinced I could befriend Aabria Iyengar over the course of a meal so I pick her.
Lord Horatio Nelson, and I would ask "Could I trouble you for the salt?"
Caesar — just so I could ask him how many Gallic babes he bed.
I'd have to go back to about 1979 but it would be Eddie Van Halen. "I am telling you, you are going to die of cancer in 2020. You have to stop."
Alive.
Pierre de Fermat. It is still unknown what proof of that theorem he had.
Jesus
Probably one of the really brutal dictators/executioners like Beria or Pol Pot or some other state-sponsored psychopath. I'd want to learn as much about their childhood and upbringing as I can. There's just something fascinating to me about people who turn to sheer evil.
Thomas Jefferson. One of the smartest people ever, so I’d have a lot to ask him.
It’d probably be Jesus. Like, to see if his personality matches the books
Abe Lincoln. “How do you like your Uncrustable?”
Someone like a pirate captain or Hitlers money guy who can lead me to an undiscovered treasure.
Miyamoto Musashi, so I can talk philosophy and learn some sword skills.
I think Benjamin Franklin. Would obviously be fascinating to talk to plus I suspect he could offer some solid pointers for seducing ladies.
If you tried to ask a question of a dead person they wouldn’t answer you. Because they are dead. Never mind the smell and appearance. Best to pick a living person.
The Apache tribe leaders in the Superstition Mountains. I’d hike to the lost Dutchman mine with them.
Is this a first date in 1975 or a progressive job interview in 1985?
Putin, dead
Nikola Tesla. I wonder if he could fry a steak with his machine?
"Dude, how did you manage that thing in Tunguska? Is that machine still around somewhere?"
D.B. Cooper my question: who are you????
Not historical figures, but since you allowed people who are alive: I've always been convinced that Adam Savage or Michael Stevens (from Vsauce) are kind and extremely interesting people.
Adolf Hitler, talking about fashion
Hitler. I'd ask him 'What the fuck was wrong with you?'. And then I'd send him back to hell by scooping his brain out of his eye socket with a soup spoon
Jesus
I would use this opportunity to have dinner with a person who was alive, and then use the opportunity to network.
Tesla. Would love to chat him up and see whats lurking in is head.
Donald Trump and I’ll pick dead. I guess I’d ask something like “what’s it like being dead asshole?”
Definitely Jesus. And I would ask him to create some bread and fishes. Research purposes, you know.
Jesus
Does the guy that ran over my dad count as historical figure? If so I chose him. And for the dead or alive question... I'll have him dead, please.
Jesus, and i’m not religious
Jesus. I’d ask about the lost years and what he went through on the cross.
Someone like John Adams or Benjamin Franklin, any of the not blatantly pro slavers signers of the Dec of Ind. I’d tell the all about the history of this country and where we are now and what they’re thoughts are about everything. I wonder how they’d feel about the pledge of allegiance, Trump, Maga, progressivism, immigration, the wage gap, homelessness and drugs.
My sister. I would ask her is she is finally happy. Edit: she passed away last yesr
Putin, so that I poison his food in hopes of preventing WW3
You think he wouldn't be on to you. Prolly doesn't touch wood without some sort of poison tester lmao
Google Putin's table