Alternate Timelines

[RobDownSouth]

In yet another timeline, noted Alaskan hiking enthusiast Aquagal achieves national fame when she takes down a 900-pound grizzly bear with a single well-placed shot from a .22 caliber pistol.

She becomes the cover girl for the NRA's 2018 calendar, and a naked photo of her (with a tattoo of "one shot" on her left butt cheek and "one kill" on her right butt cheek) becomes the most downloaded photo in the history of the Internet.

 

[Luk]

Is there a timeline where you are Idris Elba?

Is that a new barnyard species I'm not aware of, Dr.?

He's another good-looking, successful, *real* man that you'll never be confused for, vette.

 

[RobDownSouth]

In yet another timeline, Dolf is called the "most reviled woman in Britain" after grainy video surfaces of her fellating Prince Harry at his bachelor party at the trendy ultra-chic JuJu Chelsea club on King's Road.

The Sun features a front page picture of Dolf's "Royal Pearl Necklace".

 

[MelissaBaby]

You should definitely see the movie "Coherence." I think you would love it.

Thanks. I just checked it out on imdb. It looks interesting.

 

[Rightguide]

In yet another timeline, Marine Lance Corporal RightGuide stands trial for treason, giving aid and comfort to the Viet Cong (pallets of canned corn in exchange for VC prostitute pussy). He is sentenced to life in prison without parole. On appeal, his fellow Marine WoundedKnee appears as a surprise character witness. A visibily moved panel of military judges changes RightGuide's sentence to death by firing squad.

RightGuide joins Private Eddie Slovik as the only members of the military put to death by firing squad in the last 100 years. Que gave the eulogy at RightGuide's funeral. Nobody showed up.

Quite demented and totally wrong but I'll give you credit for the effort. I know it's been hard for you ever since being on the receiving end of those Deliverance "squeal like a pig scenes" you've had to endure down there in the "South" every weekend. There's no need to take those excruciating ass reamings out on me however.

 

[MagnusRichard]

Mel & Friends fantasies are mostly homosexual, yes?

 

[pointless]

if there's an alternate universe where i didn't spend my morning shitting my brains out then i'd really like to be there right now.

 

[Nezhul]

I don't believe in time as lines or strings of events. For me Time - is a bowl of sand, where everything that has happened or will ever happen - is already there. If there's time travel, then you can change the positions of some grains of sand, and others will fall into their places instead. But you can't add new sand or take something away.

So for me, alternate timelines is a strange concept. It's produced by the binarity of our brains, the ever-present strive to explain reality and make it simple and understandable. Time? It's a scary thing, because it controls us. But explain it as a line where events follow one another, where cause and effect rule the day - and the scary thing becomes simple and predictable.
It's not that, in my opinion. People just like the fairy tales a lot.

 

[MelissaBaby]

He's another good-looking, successful, *real* man that you'll never be confused for, vette.

Did he really just refer to a black man as a "barnyard animal"?

 

[MelissaBaby]

I don't believe in time as lines or strings of events. For me Time - is a bowl of sand, where everything that has happened or will ever happen - is already there. If there's time travel, then you can change the positions of some grains of sand, and others will fall into their places instead. But you can't add new sand or take something away.

So for me, alternate timelines is a strange concept. It's produced by the binarity of our brains, the ever-present strive to explain reality and make it simple and understandable. Time? It's a scary thing, because it controls us. But explain it as a line where events follow one another, where cause and effect rule the day - and the scary thing becomes simple and predictable.
It's not that, in my opinion. People just like the fairy tales a lot.

Overthinking it a little bit there, honey.

 

[Hypoxia]

Awhile back I listed what I call my life's Determinants and Cusps. Determinants are things I had no control over -- my infant skull fracture, big sister's death, parents' divorce, etc. Cusps are the intersections of paths I've taken, consciously or otherwise. Accepting or rejecting certain offers; turning right at a corner instead of left and traversing new country; marrying too young; re-enlisting.

All those alternatives sit at the head of new timelines. Some of my stories are explorations of those possible futures. What if... no brain injury? A living big sister? A left turn into bland safety? Fucking certain cousins? A winning wager? How would life be different (and sexier because LIT) in those alternate futures?

 

[Scareltt]

I love ideas like this

I love Alternate times lines, and alternate realities..

 

[Radiohead]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDxPGQQyD4g

 

[MelissaBaby]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDxPGQQyD4g

That was timey wimey.

 

[erostwo]

Leprechaun

Kirk Douglas ???

 

[Rightguide]

Did he really just refer to a black man as a "barnyard animal"?

Didn't know what it was, didn't sound like a man...of any color.

 

[Not Normal]

In one I joined Uncle Tupelo and thus Wilco. IN one I actually moved to LA. In one Jane didn't bring a friend, the international "I'm not sleeping with you tonight" symbol...

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Didn't know what it was, didn't sound like a man...of any color.

https://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/white-nonsense-2.gif

In an alternate universe, you're liberal, happier and significantly less pathetic than someone living on the internet every day in the ass end of 2017 who doesn't know who Idris Elba is.

 

[stickygirl]

Thanks. I just checked it out on imdb. It looks interesting.

Or Sliding Doors

 

[MelissaBaby]

https://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/white-nonsense-2.gif

In an alternate universe, you're liberal, happier and significantly less pathetic than someone living on the internet every day in the ass end of 2017 who doesn't know who Idris Elba is.

Idris sure sounded like a man in my alternate world.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Or Sliding Doors

That sounds good, even with Gwyneth Paltrow.

 

[Radiohead]

That was timey wimey.

I hate those doctors but I love that episode many much

 

[Antryg_Windrose]

How about the timeline where John Wilkes Booth missed and Lincoln presided over an effective Reconstruction during his next two terms?

 

[MelissaBaby]

There is even a timeline where this thread took off.

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

There is even a timeline where this thread took off.

Where did it go?