You are hired to stop the invention of the common toilet.

[AMMO Kid]

You have been hired by a time travel agency to stop the invention of the toilet as we know it today. This will mean outhouses and cleaning up your own poop for the rest of your life, but they offer you 65 million dollars, so you accept.

The only rules are -


1. You cannot use violence.

2. You cannot use bribes.

How do you persuade him/her?

 

[mjc0961]

65 million dollars wouldn't be enough to make me want to do that, but I'll play along.

How about going back in time far enough to make it with the inventor's mom (say goodbye to his daddy), thus preventing him from being conceived?

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

Tell them that I'm from the future and if they create the toilet they'll be responsible for approximately 120931809238 deaths.

No srsly man, what the fuck? How do you even come up with that type of question.

 

[HeySeansOnline]

Get dressed up In a hazmat suit, tell the inventor I am Darth Vader from the Planet Klingon and I will melt his brain If he pursues engineering as a career.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Say that the invention of the toilet will bring about the end of life.
Then get paid and invent the toilet.

 

[Slash12]

Tell them that I'm from the future and if they create the toilet they'll be responsible for approximately 120931809238 deaths.

No srsly man, what the fuck? How do you even come up with that type of question.

Yea pretty much this. Tell them that creating that toilet will lead to Skynet or something.

 

[evilartist]

Tell them that I'm from the future and if they create the toilet they'll be responsible for approximately 120931809238 deaths.

No srsly man, what the fuck? How do you even come up with that type of question.

It's called a "stoner thought", Cheery. XD

 

[BlackJak007]

You have been hired by a time travel agency to stop the invention of the toilet as we know it today.

That's quite an odd question.
OT : Tell him that toilets will slowly gain intelligence, create an army and enslave mankind. Or lock him in an underground bunker or something.

 

[Rarhnor]

Simple.

I let him them smell my fingers.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

How about going back in time far enough to make it with the inventor's mom (say goodbye to his daddy), thus preventing him from being conceived?

But what if you were the inventor's father all along?

 

[SultanP]

Not possible. Inventions like that aren't made by just one guy at one point in time, like electricity, lots of people get the idea, one guy gets the credit. That means that stopping the invention of something like that would be a never ending job because you have to stop every single person ever to get the idea. I'd rather spend a little time explaining to this agency how stupid they are.

Unless you mean the common toilet in the shape that we know it. I'm fairly sure you can't stop the function from being invented.

 

[_Janny_]

I'd give the inventor a bit of my cash. In that time period I'm pretty sure $100 would be enough to make him/her do anything.

Nice thread idea, btw. Original, quirky and fun. *thumbs up*

 

[Furious Styles]

I'd invent something different but either better or almost as good, thus negating the need to invent the toilet.

 

[Cyanin]

Not possible. Inventions like that aren't made by just one guy at one point in time, like electricity, lots of people get the idea, one guy gets the credit. That means that stopping the invention of something like that would be a never ending job because you have to stop every single person ever to get the idea. I'd rather spend a little time explaining to this agency how stupid they are.

Unless you mean the common toilet in the shape that we know it. I'm fairly sure you can't stop the function from being invented.

It's CALLED being thorough. =P

 

[The Shade]

Get dressed up In a hazmat suit, tell the inventor I am Darth Vader from the Planet Klingon and I will melt his brain If he pursues engineering as a career.

This is clearly the ONLY possible solution.

Don't forget to bring your Sony Walkman though.

 

[Dead_Man]

God forbid the world would suck without a toilet..............but i guess if i wanted to stop the invention of the toilet, i would start rumors that its a hazard. or maybe thats its a portal to the devil lol

 

[Burningsok]

I'll just take the money and not do anything lol. Actually for the lulz. I'll show the inventor of the toilet the current model in our time and he can work on it to make it even more awesome... somehow.

 

[Brandon237]

You question makes me ask questions of your sanity.

Why does the agency not want toilets to exist? Do they REALLY hate everyone? Is it some kind of time-travel employees entrance exam question? What do they know that we don't?

I would take the schematics of a modern toilet, invent it myself, patent it, destroy the working model and make the patent only expire once I'm dead, and considering that I have a time-travel agency that really wants that toilet to not be, I'm sure they'll keep my alive.

I'm not sure if it will be the extreme liberals or extreme conservatives that attack me first: Freedom of flushing vs. the fact that the president ex-plumber's friends are losing serious business.