While nobody can accurately predict the future, that never stops folks from trying. Making a calculated guess—the more calculated, the better—increases the chances, but there’s still a non-zero chance of it being wrong. But, boy, is it particularly satisfying to hit the bull’s eye with a prediction!
Online, this phenomenon is appropriately called aging like wine. It pertains to posting something about the future and turning out to be right about it. In fact, there’s a whole group dedicated to celebrating this phenomenon called r/agedlikewine.
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The Real Eternals
Well, He Ain't Wrong
Is It Wine Or Milk? Can't Quite Tell
So, r/agedlikewine is a subreddit that’s all about “things that have stood the test of time”. This includes everything from social media posts to newspaper excerpts to news headlines to videos speculating about stuff.
The subreddit was created at the end of 2018, and as of this listicle, the subreddit has nearly 195,000 members.
Hunter S. Thompson One Week After 9/11
I Downloaded This On 1/1/2020... Not Thrilled It Came True
The meme was likely made because COVID started in China at the start of December 2019 and was confirmed and reported spreading by the end of December 2019
This Sadly Aged Well
Everything that ends up being true in the end—one, two, five, whatever—years later, ends up on this subreddit. And everything that turns out to be false or worse—redonkulously wrong—gets thrown into r/agedlikemilk.
This subreddit is the genetic antithesis of r/agedlikewine. And, it seems, it’s celebrated even more as it’s home to 1.2 million members, despite being created just three months before its wine counterpart.
They’re Not Too Far Off Tbh
Not Fully Aged Yet, But Relevant To The News
Guess I Got What I Asked For
I mean . . . Even without covid, it's a lot more considerate to just cover your face when you're sick. You know?
People in/from Asia have been doing it forever. I work in a predominantly Asian area (in the US), and would see folks wearing the masks during flu seasons.
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I was coughing badly the other week and woke a mask and my husband said is that necessary? I said covid hasn't just vanished. Now he is in the club of masks don't work bandwagon. I'm so upset with that mindset. I do not want anyone snot or splutter on any surface I'm touching or circulating in small spaces around me. I will now be considerate the rest of my life after living through this pandemic. ALSO why have people stopped using their elbow to sneeze and cough into???? They use their hands!!!
I still wear a mask on mass transit where we're all crammed in to cars like sardines in a tin. For no other reason but to inhale your own stale breath over someone's foul body odor.
I am still masking. I was Ecstatic when masking became normalized. I love it.
I generally mask up if I know I'm going to be in a confined place with others: doctors waiting room (it's full of sick people by it's very nature 😆),on the bus, hospitals (again sick people) and some smaller shops... fortunately I spend a lot of time alone anyway
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When I have the cold or a sore throat I will put on a facemask when I get the kids to kindergarten and daycare. The amount of ppl freaking out, asking me if I have covid..... it infuriates me so much! My usual reply is that I hope that we all learned from the corona-lockdown to wear a mask when around others if we feel not-well anywhere in the respitory (how do you spell that? English isn't my first language) system. And everybody agrees with me... but they still freak out and act as if I am sick with something super crazy. The other kids usually begin to talk to me about the face masks they have at home to play with (!!).
I wore masks back then due to a medical condition. I always got looks, but the tone of those looks became different around and following 2020.
I got sick nov 2018. Had to take meds that destroyed my immune system, do i wore a mask 2018 and all through 2019. I was declared " in remission" and stopped wearing a mask Feb 2020. On the positive side, i already had masks ans sanitizer, and was used to isolation.
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I hate how it's looked on like covid was the only illness that ever existed. I don't want norovirus either! I hoped that handshakes would go the way of the ark too, but having to touch someone else's sweaty, gross hand is back like nothing ever happened
There was a kid in a clinic with both his parents. He must have been about 9 or 10. Obviously very sick with an infection in his lungs. He wasn't bothering to cover his mouth at all. Just cough and hacked aloud and moving around 3 seats while his parents just sat there. The receptionist didn't say anything until I brought it up, despite there being a mask mandate for that clinic to this day.
There was a prediction in 2018 from a well-known epidemiologist of a massive pandemic occurring soon. But that was of a flu pandemic. Nearly correct.
First time flying after Covid I flew from Canada to England. I was the only person wearing a mask. In the past I’d always picked up a bug after flying and I still had some masks left over. It made so much sense - I was surprised no one else was wearing one.
I work in food service. I think even antimaskers appreciate seeing me handle their food.
Man. The level of misunderstanding on this site about how masks work, in which situations they're useful and in which situations they aren't, and how COVID is transmitted is actively dangerous, and actually startling at this point. Even Dr. Fauci acknowledged recently, in a CNN interview, that there is not strong evidence they work at a population level. We have done an incredible amount of harm by convincing elderly, vulnerable people that they were safe if they wore ill-fitting cloth masks around potentially contagious others.
To give you a taste of what sort of content constitutes as quality wine-grade post, try some of these on for size:
Someone predicted that Netflix will crack down on shared accounts. Someone predicted that Chris Rock will get a handful of Will Smith. Someone predicted that video games will cost $70. That last one was actually from The Simpsons, which is a whole other story when it comes to predictions.
I Saw This Meme At The Start Of The Pandemic
Mobile Phones Predicted In 1963
1979 Advertisement For London Transit Showing How The City Would Look If Built By American Planners
There is a documentary about how the US ended up this way. It's called, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
The most hilariously notorious example of aging like wine is more or less the entirety of The Simpsons. If you’ve been a fan of the show for long enough, you’ll know just how many things it has managed to predict across its 34 (as of this article) seasons.
It predicted at least two US presidents, The Higgs boson, murder hornets, the horse meat scandal, smart watches, the Capitol riots, and a bunch more. Either that, or someone was taking notes.
Popular Mechanics Magazine In March 1912 Hypothesizing That Raising Atmospheric Co2 May Considerably Increase Temperature "In A Few Centuries"
When Your Old Funny Tweet Turns Out To Be Prophecy…
How Right You Were, Marge
Some might argue that The Simpsons predictions are more likely off-hand gags that coincidentally came true, or examples of human nature patterns that were referenced as a joke.
Some of these examples might just be designed to feel like predictions, but in reality rely on people’s confirmation bias rather than what the show’s writers actually meant.
Aged Like Italian Wine?
You are a perverted, not an Italian... I'm sick of all these people that think being and Italian means being perverted, mafia's associated, or ignorant... Sick of all...
A Couple Years Later And Here We Are, Like A Fine Bourbon
This Pandemic Xbox Review From 2019
Collider discussed this, providing the example taken from a Simpsons episode from 1995—the one with Lisa’s wedding. It’s said to have predicted smart watches. However, if we go back 30 years prior, we see wrist communicators being used in the Get Smart comedy series. Same goes with a video telephone featured in Back To The Future Part II from 1989, just 6 years prior.
1950's Ad Accurately Predicts Voice Commands
But, dammit, hanging up on someone in the old days was much more enjoyable.
U/Digitaldesign17 Predicted Fyre Festival Would Be A S**t Show 2 Weeks Before It Started
Touché, Past Self
The whole future prediction kinda sorta ties in with the chemistry of being right. As being right about stuff can be addictive. The reason why we enjoy it is because the brain rewards us for doing that. Hence, some people flat out refuse to accept reality.
Whenever a person argues with someone, the brain floods the body with the good stuff—adrenaline, dopamine, all that jazz—which makes them feel great, dominant, nearly invincible. And the desire to replicate this feeling pushes folks to fight more next time.
I Made A Prediction For Climbing In The Olympics Several Years Ago That Finally Came True
Damnit Apollo
Well
Amidst all the discussions of the two extremes—wine and milk, aging in their own way—there’s also another take on it: aging like anything else that’s more appropriate.
There’s a humorous New Yorker Daily Shout titled Things I Am Actually Aging Like, Instead of a Fine Wine, which gives wittily spot-on explanations of what the authors Lana Schwartz and Karl Spurzem age like that I find all too relatable.
Maybe One Day
Robert Pattinson IS a really good actor. We couldn't realise at first because he was in a ridiculous saga.
Noticed This Comment In A Thread About Nuclear Weapons
Not prophetic. Chicken markets have been breeding new strains of influenza for a century. Bats were the surprise.
In it, they explain that their aging is actually more akin to “that three-dollar wine from Trader Joe’s” as it’s “growing more acidic by the day.” Or “the New York City subway system” as folks should “expect delays on nights and weekends.” Or my personal favorite, aging like “the ocean: salty and containing microscopic bits of plastic.”
This Line From The Show Community
A Comment I Left On The Kid Laroi's First Youtube Video 2 Years Ago When He Just Started Doing Music, He Is Now #1 On The Top 100 Charts And Has Songs With Artists Like Justin Beiber
Please stop making up new celebrities and giving them stupid names. I can't keep up, y'all. *cries in millennial*
This Cartoon Was Drawn In 1912, 1 Year Before The Creation Of The Federal Reserve
Just think of all the farms, businesses and private citizens being able to afford houses that wouldn't exist if it weren't for the Fed. It sure cut down on the massive number of bank runs and panics.
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I Somehow Predicted Denmark Reaching The Euro Semis
Well It Happened
Eh pretty solid guess. She was getting older. Not really a prediction and more common sense. RIP Betty Edit: holy s**t upvotes
Great Actor
(No Way Home Spoilers) Not Bad At All
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Was beginning to think I was doing something wrong, but here it is I'm not the only one who's using android and not seeing it
It works fine on my kindle fire. That's an android, too, right?
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Greta Jaruseviciute - most of your posts and your profile are broken links for app users.
Because the app desperately needs updating, and BP doesn't care. If revenue goes down enough, they'll fix it. If it doesn't, they won't.
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I don't know if the app updates by itself, but this might be a very bad bug.
Has anyone checked if these are real. Some are eerily scary that years before someone jokingly said it would happen almost word for word. Some were coincidences that we all saw happening.
Hindsight is always 20/20.
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Also: I knew from the start that there were no WMD's in Iraq. What a waste of lives and $$. Correlary: the "Arab Spring" was a pipe dream.
Guys relax if you are not able to open this in your app try to open it by website ...i always fo that
Page not loading, yet again. Is there anyone working at Bored Panda....
Was beginning to think I was doing something wrong, but here it is I'm not the only one who's using android and not seeing it
It works fine on my kindle fire. That's an android, too, right?
Load More Replies... Greta Jaruseviciute - most of your posts and your profile are broken links for app users.
Because the app desperately needs updating, and BP doesn't care. If revenue goes down enough, they'll fix it. If it doesn't, they won't.
Load More Replies... I don't know if the app updates by itself, but this might be a very bad bug.
Has anyone checked if these are real. Some are eerily scary that years before someone jokingly said it would happen almost word for word. Some were coincidences that we all saw happening.
Hindsight is always 20/20.
Load More Replies... Also: I knew from the start that there were no WMD's in Iraq. What a waste of lives and $$. Correlary: the "Arab Spring" was a pipe dream.
Guys relax if you are not able to open this in your app try to open it by website ...i always fo that
