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Oh… irony, how sweet you are sometimes. You know how the things we say can come back to haunt us? The test of time is a tough nut to crack, and this time, it’s all about failing. The Facebook page Posts That Did Not Age Well is a hell on earth, showing embarrassing moments when quotes, comments, and everything else you saw online some time ago contradicts itself or completely misses the mark.

There’s aging like fine wine and then there’s aging like milk, and the posts here definitely fall into the latter. Some of these future predictions look so utterly ridiculous today, it may make you wonder what the heck they were thinkin’. From astounding Trump tweets to people who jinxed everything for the rest of us, there’s plenty here that’ll make you feel like dying inside.

So, let’s go down this memory lane together and take a look at everything that has gone wrong lately. If you don’t die from cringe in the meantime, be sure to check out part 1 after. 

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K.Kobayashi
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is how science works, people. Preliminary findings are overruled when new, better evidence come out. This just shows scientists aren't coerced to toe the official line, as some claim.

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If humans could see the future, this post would probably have not existed. Because there’s nothing quite like failing the test of time. All the things you believed and said look more or less absurd in retrospect. Unless your job is predicting the future for a living.

Mysterious as it sounds, seeing what comes next is complex, critical, and quite a different job than the myths suggest. Paul Saffo, a technology forecaster in Silicon Valley, wrote in a piece for Harvard Business Review that “prediction is concerned with future certainty.” And that alone sounds quite paradoxical.

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Paul explains further: “forecasting looks at how hidden currents in the present signal possible changes in direction for companies, societies, or the world at large.” Thus the goal of forecasting is to “identify the full range of possibilities.”

Plus, “unlike a prediction, a forecast must have a logic to it,” says Paul. That means that the forecaster must always be able to articulate, explain, and defend this logic. “That’s what lifts forecasting out of the dark realm of superstition,” argues Paul. In the end, forecasting is “nothing more (nor less) than the systematic and disciplined application of common sense.” And that common sense is something we all have.

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Alan Green
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

. . . he should have 2 wishes left. Wish for it all to go back to normal ASAP then throw the lamp away.

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Electric Ed
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just love how the internet never forgets. (so far it hasn't bitten me yet, so I might be biased...)

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AMYAH MINOTT-STARLING
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

basically the more your locked up the more we want out then if its the other way we want in and i want to stay in for now

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Tabitha L
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It has been 19 years, and my heart still aches every time I see the NYC skyline. For me it has been gone longer than it existed (I was born in the 80s), but the Twin Towers will always be iconic, quintessentially New York.

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Monika Rhodes
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well- theoretically yes but what can you expect when you have buffoons in charge...

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Brittany
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why? Shouldn't you be living your life? F**k the click bate don't worry about a test.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh man, they would hate to go through my cards, I have first edition cards from the original release of the game in '79....dude you have no idea how many of those make me laugh today.

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Francis
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i watched this episode a month ago and said the same to my best friend :D it was quite cringy :D

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Irina Ionascu
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read an interview sometime in the recent years with the son of the man who invented plastic bags. He said that, if his father knew that people use a plastic bag once and then immediately throw it away, he would have been horrified and saddened. The reason the man invented plastic bags was specifically so they could be reused over and over again

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Francis
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

why on eath would you think a man (or anybody) with a sh*tload of money would look like that in future?!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A lot of people underestimated and still underestimate the dangers of Corona and they think that the media are lying to them. ( Wonder who gave them that idea??). If history repeats itself and people behave like they behaved during the Spanish Flu, there are going to be plenty mass graves all over the world.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have a huge (legit) DVD collection. It's one of the most infuriating things having to sit through these 'anti-pirate' adverts that can't be fast-forwarded. That didn't do their cause any good at all, just made me want to buy pirated films instead, which don't have the adverts! Grr...

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Tovah Roche
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who the hell tweets there's suspicious noises in their house and then waits 5 hours to investigate?

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Jane S.
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, what's the new Tumblr, now they've neutered themselves? Where is everyone migrating to? (Legit question).

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Mike Crow
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Need more. Was the player only mentioning he supported Hong Kong, or did he hold up a tournament somehow on a rant? Was online or offline? What was exactly said?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Probably the sentence continued with "... but I never listen to my mom "

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Barrie May
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did he seriously manage to get a magikarp and a gyarados into a slideshow presentation on COVID-19?!!

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David Martin
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By the year 2000, Michael Jackson was predicted to be Billy Dee Williams? o.O

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, Josh. You should have sat there, eat your food and keep your mouth shut. Thanks Josh.

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Terd Fergison
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Government by completely incompetent morons. Bolsonaro, Trump, and this a*****e. A pox upon them all.

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If you look at records this is true. Obama illegally expanded the drone wars, Libya,Syria, and authorized expanding private security companies and special forces to dozen more countries.

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kurisutofu
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She was wrong and right. They lost but it's rigged. A.k.a the electoral college.

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Harold Summer
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was a prediction that people would switch from Facebook to Google Plus. The fact the meme is not understood shows how badly Google+ failed.

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Dippin Dot
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fact that The Onion was able to predict this is scary. It shows that no matter how insane it sounds, anything can happen - just like when The Simpsons predicted Trump as president...

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Troux
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even before the fallout, this is a dangerously ignorant statement. "Let market forces show that Theranos is superior to your local blood test centre" = "Economic demand shall overpower health, safety and standard practices!"

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Troux
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't get it, what went wrong? Obviously Mushu wasn't in the final movie, but...?

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John L
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have to admit, I was surprised Harry chose Megan in the end vs the royal family....

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Andrew Yarke
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And now this asbestos is killing all of the survivors and first responders of that horrible sad event.

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Martha Meyer
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Russia did 80% of the work in WWII. Americans would do well to remember this instead of falsely bragging they single handedly saved everyone. I've seen it way too many times online.

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Terd Fergison
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even without the accusations her original statement is still grotesque.

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Vanta Black
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah... it'll be a long time before America elects a female President.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wtf is 3.25.16? Do they mean 25-03-2016? Or is that some form of code from the movies?

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Miklós Nagy
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Does anybody remember anything from dem primary beside Bernie fighting for workers and everybody else fighting against Bernie?

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