you have 60 seconds to grab whatever you can around you before you are instantly teleported back in time 1,000 years, what would you grab?

[delericho]

Dog.

Realistically, I'm going to die in short order. But she probably doubles my chances.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Oh! This shirt and book would come in handy:

 

[Rabulias]

Oh, and the Nimitz.

 

[The Soloist]

A polyhedral dice set and all my d20s. They can be deadly when used with a sling!

 

[Stalker0]

Everything in the medicine cabinet.

Echo this. It’s all fun and games till you don’t have antibiotics

 

[Sepulchrave II]

60 seconds isn't long. If I had time to think about it first, I'd grab a bag and throw in:

• All of my wife's jewellery from her drawer.
• Then I'd run downstairs and empty the spice cabinet, especially: cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger. I'd grab my bag of chef’s knives.
• The magnifying glass and Sweet’s Anglo Saxon Reader from the living room. At least i could start a fire when it's sunny.
• A winter coat, walking boots from by the front door.

I reckon I could do that in 60 seconds. If I had any extra time:

• The unopened bottle of 18-year old Ardbeg from the booze cabinet.

I would find myself in Somerset in 1023. King Canute sits on the throne of England, Denmark and Norway. Godwin of Wessex is my liege. If I could ingratiate myself with Godwin's court and avoid being tried as a witch, we would devise a plan to prevent the accession fo Harthacanute, solidify his claims, and prevent the Norman conquest.

I would introduce cricket, Kantian dialectics and sushi to the Anglo-Saxons.

 

[MGibster]

You first! What would you grab?

Grabbing me was a bad decision on your part.

 

[Delazar]

This is definitely much harder on Americans, I suppose. I’d be sitting in the middle of Antwerp (Belgium), which at least is a settlement surrounded by walls.

Probably my best bet would be to immediately google “how to thrive in the middle ages as a modern person” or something on my tablet, make screenshots, and grab my coat.

battery won’t last me long, but I’ll try to memorise as much as I can from the screenshots.

 

[Zardnaar]

Probably bottle of booze to say good bye and find the nearest cliff.

I would be the only human facing starvation. There's no crops as such.

Polynesians won't arrive for another 200 odd years and that's up north.

Birds and fish is still a slow death. Winter would probably kill you and it's a 400km-800km hike to milder climate.

I know where fresh water is and where to find duck's I'm guessing birds are common enough.

 

[Zardnaar]

This is definitely much harder on Americans, I suppose. I’d be sitting in the middle of Antwerp (Belgium), which at least is a settlement surrounded by walls.

Probably my best bet would be to immediately google “how to thrive in the middle ages as a modern person” or something on my tablet, make screenshots, and grab my coat.

battery won’t last me long, but I’ll try to memorise as much as I can from the screenshots.

America easy mode.

Try New Zealand. In the Southern Part. I'm screwed seven ways to Sunday.