So you are transported back to the dark ages...

[Dryk]

Well, I'd hopefully be wearing this tee-shirt:

Spoiler: This should keep me pretty well covered.

And yes, I would take all the credit. If I did manage to get back to the present, I would enjoy reading about myself in history books.

One of my friends owns this T-shirt, if I'm about to be transported back in time I'm going to grab his hand and drag him along.

 

[Terratina.]

@nikki191: Quite well, my work might be found in some noble's great hall and put in a museum, who knows?

 

[nexus]

Would probably kill myself or be killed eventually..

Dark Ages were dark for a reason.. if persecution and execution doesn't get you.. then living in filth will.

Did you know, everyone was absolutely covered in fleas back then? They also didn't wash but once or twice a year (if you were lucky). Fleas were so bad, they would drape their clothing over chamber pots or the castle piss-pit so the stench would permeate the fabric, so not even fleas stuck around. Then you put the clothes on.

Also, they never wiped their ass. Asses just completely encrusted with mold, piss and feces. No one washes their hands...

No.

 

[Iron Criterion]

and you have all the knowledge you currently have. How many things would you be able to reinvent?

Electricity? Cars? Computers? A Shamwow? A pastromi on rye?

Maybe I already did.

You're welcome.

 

[Aprilgold]

Nothing, because I'd be immediately executed for being a witch if I tried any of that.

EDIT: Not to mention they'd think I was speaking in tongues. Modern day English is completely different to what they spoke in the Dark Ages.

Yeah this, I'd be better off jumping off a cliff or dying of the plague.

As much as we want to think that this time was glamours and full of chivalry, it really wasn't. You'd either die from the plague or from several different illnesses.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I'd probably be burned as a witch in the first five minutes...I do not play well with medieval guys.

Also you would probably just die from the sheer overwhelming amount of germs. I doubt our immune systems are anywhere near as strong as they used to be.

At best the first thing I'd do would be disguise myself as a man. :|

 

[Toaster Hunter]

I know the basics of a steam engine and the formula for primitive gunpowder. That should be interesting to say the least.

 

[Kpt._Rob]

As someone who's trained for a career as a painter, I might actually find myself in a very advantageous position. Those of you without training in artistic techniques and art history might not realize it, but most of the techniques we use today for the rendering of painted images simply hadn't been invented yet in the dark ages (that's why paintings from the dark ages look so flat). If we could get past the language issues, and I could get my hands on some paint, I'd be able to deprive quite a few of history's greatest painters of their fame. Now granted, I'd probably have to do a bunch of paintings of Jesus and Pals, which would be pretty lame... but sometimes that's just how the proverbial cookie crumbles.

 

[Rblade]

I would probably be able to piece together a steam engine if I would have a very large supply of material, tool and skilled craftsman at my command. And obvious things like crop rotation and modernly shaped tools.

But what most people don't seem to realise is just How sick you would get and just how pathetically weak we are compared to people from that age. We man would get our ass kicked, even well trained men these days don't have near the same amount of "exercise" and rough testosterone of the middle age man.

 

[Sonicron]

Honestly... Once I adjusted to the miserable sanitary/hygiene conditions and come to terms with the fact I'll probably keel over and die within 10 years from stubbing my toe on a filthy rock, I'd probably have a blast. My natural aggression and prowess in melee combat, coupled with the slashy-stabby-murdery spirit of the times, would make for some sweet, sweet times of legally condoned sellsteel work.