To ask which historical crossroads you wonder about?

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For me it’s wondering what would’ve happened had Catherine of Aragon had a son and Henry hadn’t divorced her. Country may well be totally different.

Maybe others don’t have the time I do to dream up pointless scenarios! 😆

The fire at the motel and Meg Mortimer's 'death'

If Hitler had got into art school

How things could’ve been so different if that had happened!

I had to Google. Hadn't heard of either in real life and never saw Crossroads in Ireland!

If Covid had never happened.

I wonder what would have happened if Arthur Tudor hadn't died, he and Catherine of Aragon had gone on to have children. Probably a similar outcome to your scenario, really.

If Edward VIII had married someone else instead of Wallis Simpson, remained king & had kids.

Must’ve been around 2002 but I remember an episode where a young woman died of a brain haemorrhage in her sleep just after having a baby, Mandy I think she was called?

I think that’s my google rabbit hole sorted for the evening!

I can’t really go there as it’s too painful and recent.

I know this sounds odd but the kind of person I believe him to be, I think if it wasn’t Wallis it would’ve been somebody very similar to Wallis. I also believe he was incapable of fathering children..

I just think like life has changed for the worse since the pandemic!

If Cortes and the other first-wave conquistadors hadn’t brought smallpox and decimated the population of Tenochtitlan, whether the Aztec empire would have survived, and the subsequent history of SouthAmerica been different.

If Jim Callaghan had called an election in 1978 when it was likely he would have won, how different things might have been. No privatised utilities; would that have meant cheaper fuel bills for all of us now? No selling off of council houses meaning much more social housing for people now, so they wouldn't have to be paying extortionate rents to private landlords.No selling off of the railways, or other public transport. No Falklands War.The list goes on....................

I was only thinking this morning about what if Joan Collins had got the lead in Cleopatra instead of Elizabeth Taylor? I felt sad that I'll never get to see that film.

If penicillin hasn't been discovered until a later date... especially since it was by chance

Fantastic AIBU op 👏 👌 😀

I popped in to say, I often think what would life be like if Prince Arthur hadn't sadly passed away so young which then of course lead us too Henry the 8th 🤪

If John Smith, leader of the Labour Party hadn't died
If J F Kennedy hadn't been in an open top car
If Robert Kennedy had survived
Further back, if the Versailles treaty had been less harsh

Great thread, op.

Margaret Thatcher really caused a lot of damage which still affects society today! David Cameron is another former PM, if he hadn’t been elected there would not have been the referendum.

If that brave Soviet commander hadn't checked when told there was a nuclear attack on Russia from America. None of us would be here.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/9/28/russian-officer-who-prevented-nuclear-disaster-in-1983

If only Trump's parents had used a condom...

What if Guy Fawkes had succeeded?

If Dennis Thatcher had been a better lover.

I often wonder this too!