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If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 7:45 pm
by WazzaClaret
At any historical event, what would you choose?

Got into this with a few mates before and it brought up some interesting choices.

Mine was Hitler being stuck in Berlin and seeing if he did die or in fact escape like the conspiracy theorists seem to think. If he did escape, see how he did it.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 7:48 pm
by IndigoLake
Good question. Probably a moment in WWII for me as well.

Alternatively, in the White House on 9/11 perhaps.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 7:50 pm
by Leisure
Being with the Venkys when they were told that Rovers could/had got relegated from the Premiership!

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 8:20 pm
by bfcjg
Interesting thread. Possibly when Kennedy considered whether to nuke Russia during the Cuban crisis.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 8:25 pm
by ian
the birth of my daughter, I missed it!

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 8:29 pm
by thomaspaine
Next to Wellington at the battle of Waterloo just before the Prussians arrived to save us.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 8:29 pm
by KLClaret
Kylie's bedroom

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 8:33 pm
by jdrobbo
I’d be in the Crow’s Nest onboard Titanic thirty minutes before unsinkable-unthinkable happened!

“Where are the big binoculars?”

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:27 pm
by Tribesmen
Yep the build up to the days JFK was shot and 5 minutes with Jack Ruby before he got it .

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:35 pm
by ElectroClaret
When Ronnie Kray walked into The Blind Beggar and shot George Cornell.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:43 pm
by Bordeauxclaret
Burnleys decision to take a lower allocation at Arsenal.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:43 pm
by box_of_frogs
KLClaret wrote:Kylie's bedroom
Gets my vote....

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:48 pm
by Bop
Prince Harry’s conception.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:56 pm
by Espia
HMS Victory, Nelson's quarters, telling his Officers of his plan for Battle of Trafalgar.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:00 pm
by Bin Ont Turf
Dyche's job interview and powerpoint presentation at Burnley.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:05 pm
by Rowls
Cabinet war rooms after fall of France

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:07 pm
by tim_noone
Tribesmen wrote:Yep the build up to the days JFK was shot and 5 minutes with Jack Ruby before he got it .
Before jack ruby got what???

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:15 pm
by lifelongclaret
In the pits just before Ayrton senna crashed at Imola , I would tell him to slow down,
On the summit of Mount Everest to see George Mallory reach the summit or fail trying

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:16 pm
by Dyched
At the front of the german coastal lines on d-day looking out towards the channel as the first boats/aircraft arrived.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:21 pm
by Lancasterclaret
Honestly?

I'd be in the room when the Nazis decided to enact the final solution, just to see if there was any emotion at all in the decision.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:24 pm
by Pstotto
... Watching 'The Rape of the Sabines'

Not just me, in fact it was one of the major subjects of Renaissance royal titillation via art commissions employing the old masters.

Actually if I could be a fly on the wall, it would have to be with another fly. They spend the whole of the summer just having great sex in flowers or rockabilly dancing in shafts of light.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:28 pm
by tim_noone
Watching tony Bliar lowering his trousers for the Americans.....

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 6:53 am
by Chobulous
Pstotto wrote:... Watching 'The Rape of the Sabines'

Not just me, in fact it was one of the major subjects of Renaissance royal titillation via art commissions employing the old masters.

Actually if I could be a fly on the wall, it would have to be with another fly. They spend the whole of the summer just having great sex in flowers or rockabilly dancing in shafts of light.
and eating shite?

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:12 am
by Rick_Muller
Bop wrote:Prince Harry’s conception.
What, next to Charlie...? ;)

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:47 am
by fatboy47
Rick_Muller wrote:What, next to Charlie...? ;)
watching eastenders with Cam??

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:49 am
by Dom
Hitler killing himself, Eva and his dogs. Just to see if he found it easy or not considering all he'd done before.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:59 am
by NottsClaret
lifelongclaret wrote:In the pits just before Ayrton senna crashed at Imola , I would tell him to slow down,
Flies can’t talk I’m afraid. At least not to humans via a restricted two-way radio communication channel.

You’d merely be a helpless observer, your tiny fly brain processing the frustration as the tragedy unfolds.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:07 am
by Murger
tim_noone wrote:Watching tony Bliar lowering his trousers for the Americans.....
That sort of thing turn you on does it?

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:13 am
by Sidney1st
When the decision was made to create and use the Abrahamic religions to control man.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:56 am
by starting_11
Bop wrote:Prince Harry’s conception.
I know someone else who wishes he was there too!

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:34 pm
by Pstotto
No Chobulous. If you are a fly on the wall you are a fly on the wall. I presume from the post that one can pick and choose the options. After all, a fly on the wall would not be very much interested in 'The rape of the Sabines' except for the smell and would not be able to watch in human terms as they don't judge distance the same and see through compound eyes.

I'm satisfied to be human, actually. :-)

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:44 pm
by Vintage Claret
From WW1 - The Christmas 'truce'

From WW2 - The Dambusters Raid

From all time - The Apollo 11 moon landing

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:54 pm
by houseboy
Whilst accepting that there were no actual 'walls' at the location itself but working within the parameters of the OT, I would like to have been with Custer just before his decision to engage with what he considered to be 'a few renegades' and then seeing his face when he discovered that his optimism was somewhat misplaced.

Remember the old saying chaps: walls have ears - so be careful what you say about their sausages.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:54 pm
by Chobulous
Pstotto wrote:No Chobulous. If you are a fly on the wall you are a fly on the wall. I presume from the post that one can pick and choose the options. After all, a fly on the wall would not be very much interested in 'The rape of the Sabines' except for the smell and would not be able to watch in human terms as they don't judge distance the same and see through compound eyes.

I'm satisfied to be human, actually. :-)
I was trying to provide a counterpoint to your description of the idyllic life of flies in a relationship

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 2:55 pm
by Steve1956
The Brian Clough interview's for the England job,can't believe he never managed England and Gareth Southgate has,he must be spinning in his grave.

Re: If you could be a fly on the wall...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 3:18 pm
by Bigvince
The killing of Julius Caesar
“Et Tu Brute”