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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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3 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.

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.”

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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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3 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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3 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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Probably One Of The Worst Future Predictions

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

Trump couldn't bear that Obama was better than him at anything, so rose to the occasion and proved himself wrong.

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Marvel Franchise

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

But you can STILL make millions with bitcoin! I get emails every day telling me I can...

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

yeah well even if they DID buy the rights to ALL of the characters doesn't mean they would have done anything worth a s**t with them.

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Jon S.
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They were right at the time. It was the great job they did with their spider-man movie that opened the public up to the idea of good quality superhero films (that and the first x-men film). Up until that point comic book adaptations had a terrible reputation. The MCU came on the back of those early successes.

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Bob Belcher
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just like how Coke had a chance to buy out Pepsi and how Hershey originally supplied all the chocolate to Mars.

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

Sony was right (sort of). Nobody would pay to watch Sony-version marvel characters.

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

They wouldn't have known what to do with them... They may have done a good job with the 22 first Spiderman movies, but the other ones couldn't compare to what Marvel did to have the MCU or Fox with the X-men. Now that they're working with Marvel, the Spiderman franchise looks like something again.

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

This is kind of funny. Because I really don't give a s**t about any of the Marvel Characters. Have only seen the firs Spider Man. I don't even know what End Game means.... Okay wait, I did see a little bit of Iron Man.

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Rose Brien Harrington
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's like the time when IBM was top of the heap in software and decided that Windows driven programs would never work..........................

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Laura Martin
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Right up there with the publisher woh passed on Harry Potter.

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Lee Hill
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

just going by the wording of the quote, I almost want to say this didn't age well the second it was published

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Sam T Godfrey
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it makes anybody feel better, I didn't have $25 million either. Jeez, I couldn't afford Underdog... Underdog_T...091bb9.png Underdog_Thumbnail-5ebf328091bb9.png

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

Yeah, we kinda do "give a s**t" about the other Marvel characters. (As most nerds do). One thing we've always admired it the "female empowerment" aspect. Our new favorite is Captain Marvel (it varies, I will admit). We just watched the Marvel movies in chronological order. When we got to Spider Man we decided to rent it, and it was so incredibly stupid (we had teenagers and are SO over them) we literally only watched about 15 minutes before shutting it off. Sure there's some of the storyline we had to look up (not much!). We're not big Hulk fans either, so we didn't watch any of those - his storyline is pretty much known. But of the 20 or so movies we DID watch? Sony blew it BIG TIME.

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Jodie Johnson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Re: the Beatles, they won't amount to anything guitar bands are on the way out.

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Jaded Queen
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, this decision saved marvel franchise, sony would have ruined it all , like they are ruining spiderman by taking it away from mcu . I get it u wanna make money, but enough is enough ,greedy bastards

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Owen Lodge
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All those companies are owned by the same people anyway so they're not bothered. It's just a PR exercise.

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Max L.
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sony and nokia didn't take it too well about cellphones either..

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Pamela24
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is "J. K. Rowling getting turned down by a couple of publishers with Harry Potter" level.

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

This actually aged well for us! coz if they did buy it then, we not have have the Marvel we love now. mainly because if they don't like it they won't even make an effort to improve it. no movies or anything.

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

I mean... they were right. And they'd have proved themselves right if they did buy them. Sony could never have made the MCU.

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

Even if they'd bought the rights, it doesnt mean their movies would have been the same way, or would have done as well as they have. They could have bought the rights and made terrible movies.

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

Exactly. No one cared about them until they got movies with that sweet Disney financing.

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I have no idea who the other marvel characters are. Hell, I didn't even know spider man was marvel until I read this.

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3 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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3 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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3 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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Quite An Experience To Live In Fear, Isn't It?

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3 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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3 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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3 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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3 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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Aging Well, Actually

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Francis
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3 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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3 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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Rewriting The Rules

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You Wouldn't Download A Car

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3 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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3 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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Go Nuts. Show Nuts

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Jane S.
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3 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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Every Voice Matters

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3 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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