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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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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 guess this is what Past Trump told Future Trump,when he traveled back in time .. he's just lying about it now.

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

YOU became our MAJOR disaster...world laughing stock idiot moron

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

The US really doesn't have a president; it has a miserable handful of disgusting men believing their ugly selves worthy of all the power and money and admiration (good luck with that one, Mitch) they can steal before November - just in case shutting down the USPS doesn't prevent votes during the coronavirus, and let's be ready for what other despicable plots they have in mind. Why our precious country isn't in a major revolt, I don't know. It's a protest march here, a begging marathon there, a gripe, a to-the-editor column, all media outlets, and home-crafted yard signs, and -- fill in the rest.

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

Was...was he having prophetic dreams about his own presidency?

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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

Yes trump that's exactly what's happening right now. Only true words you ever uttered.

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

Again, did he say that yesterday because if so he’s right on the money on this one.

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

I know someone - I won’t say who - that should not never ever neither write, say or think anything! Just ... not be.

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

There's not enough luck in the world to help us out of HIS disaster.

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

No, it's EXACTLY like the United States has no president, because we don't.

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

Now those who thought he meant someone else...voted for the personification of this tweet. He is a Twit.

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

He could not have seriously said that about himself. But then again, consider the source.

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

Somebody needs to print all his tweets and leave them on his desk.

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

Foreshadowing his own presidency! Only thing, it has a rudder - a big fat one that is inside out and back words! #SorryForAmerica

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

Because this statement was made in 2014, I can't give it much merit.

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

Sad very sad because it is true if the people don’t believe in their leadership then that country will surely cease too exist!

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

Obviously he’s so toxic even the coronavirus won’t attack him.

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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

Where was he when he engineered all these comments, and to whom? He's still on point but now he's talking about his amazing self.

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

it's really sad when the 45th impeached president's ignorant words backfired more than once. He truly has done more than anyone EVER..of destroying his legacy, name and the country in less than one term.

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

What "President" or Commander in Chief makes a statement like this?! Such admirable leadership. Since he's the one navigating this ship hopefully it sinks!

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

At least until January of 2021 ,you are on his ship with no wind in the sails.This is your Captain Bligh and his version of The HMS Bounty, Welcome aboard Crew.

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

All these anti-Trump quotes are predicated on the assumption that Trump is a bumbling idiot. You know, the bumbling idiot who presided over the greatest economic recovery on record, that continued right up until an epidemic struck. Are you saying that Mr Trump is responsible for the epidemic? What, did he personally synthesize the virus in this secret lab in the basement of Trump Tower?

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And then Trump was elected and the economy skyrocketed....to bad that virus got in the way. But we WILL rebuild...Trump 2020

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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