We can’t predict the future. If we could, most of us would be spending our days picking lottery numbers instead of stressing over anything else. But even without a crystal ball, people can still make educated—or at the very least, lucky—guesses.
And the subreddit Aged Like Wine does its best to dig up the ones that truly stood the test of time. From random posts to famous quotes, here are some that aged especially well.
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Mad Magazine Article From 1968 About The “Super Patriot”
Or, it's always been like this. Rinse & repeat ad nauseum. We just have a better view now. I loved mad too. Especially the fold ins :)
Load More Replies...Mad magazine was always socially aware. Their was a fair amount of social and political satire. Made many kids like myself question what the hell were the adults in charge doing and why it was so it was so worthy of parody.
This And Hundreds Other Similar Quotes
Yes, we guessed that. Nearly everyone in the world would have guessed that.
Load More Replies...Don't protest unless you do it the RIGHT way. Wait, you have the legal permits and everything? No, also don't do that. You know what, just don't protest and be happy with what scraps you're given.
For Very Progress, There’s A White Backlash Against It!
And it was a black GIRL too. That's like a double anti-jeopardy for weak white men.
So was it fair or was it like: to a guy: "spell dog", to this girl: "spell floccinaucinihilipilification" and she still won?
That's a myth. She was part of an early nationwide spelling competition in 1908 organised by the National Education Association - it was a one off event. The modern Scripps National Spelling Bee didn't start until 1925.
I think it began the moment we started seeing those "Give Us Our Country Back" signs. There's no doubt who they meant by "us".
Load More Replies...We Haven't Matured In A Century
Wow, it's almost like they were dealing with a pandemic or something.
But the USA are still f*****g learning something most of us have known for a century
Well, everyone nowadays is a specialist or authority! See Trump advising drinking bleach to beat Covid? Internet is nowadays full of "specialists" and "authorities". Much so on vaccinations, asylumseekers, and living a "clean and healthy life". Did it get us somewhere sane?
And Trump actually did contract Covid and at one point got the vaccine.
Load More Replies...Well, the best thing about Covid, was you could get out of so much boring stuff with amazing ease
So go to a site where its info pleases you. It would be better for you as well as being better for the rest of us.
Load More Replies...This Quote Rings Truer Than Ever Due To Recent Events!
This is what the few conservatives that come to this site refuse to acknowledge. What they seem to want is the subjugation and disenfranchisement of anyone they don't think is worthy or white or middle class/rich enough. They want rights for themselves and not for others. Why they come to this site after claiming it is populated mostly by liberals, I'll never know.
How am I supposed to do that while I live here?? And no, picking up my life and moving to another country is not simple or an option for me.
Load More Replies...Never Underestimate The Power Of Spite And Stupidity
because cervical cancer affects women, not men. I guarantee that if/when they develop a mrna vaccine that cures testicular or prostate cancer the anti-vaxxers will shut right the eeff up and fight to be the first in line to get it.
The US loves channeling its money to healthcare executives and not to its people.
If there is a cure for any type of cancer (which there most likely is) Big Pharma will NEVER let us know about it because, TREATING an illness is much more lucrative than actually CURING it.
Mike T. Punching A Guy In A Plane
He's certainly not the best person to be saying it, but it needed to be said. There is a gap between how decent people behave and what can be enforced by law, and in that gap live scum making decent people's lives miserable and saying 'what are you going to do about it?'
Load More Replies...He’s got a point. It’s a lot easier to hate on someone from behind a screen than it is to their face
"Mike, I have no choice. I'd whisper it in their ear but they no longer have one."
Multa Nocte: you have a point. But so does Mike Tyson. I used to play rough sport. Parts of ears getting bitten off were not unheard of - it's what happens occasionally when you put aggressive young men in aggressive confrontation with each other. We grow up, get middle aged, and we change. A middle aged man who did rough sport when young tends to be calm and unflappable - and the rougher the sport, the more unflappable on average. Ex boxers and other former "hard" martial artists are mostly incredibly chill with a good sense of perspective on many face to face real life issues that wind up the rest of us.
Load More Replies...Something something, broken clocks, something something, right twice a day.
Load More Replies...That Is The Deal
The first term of office for trump gave us the idea that the second wouldn't be any better. Not everyone realized that obviously, or there wouldn't be another trump term...
Satire Is One Of The Most Important Forms Of Free Speech
See the latest South Park episodes for a perfect caricature of the most egregious hypocrite, Brendan Carr.
They've also done a fine job on a few of the other oppressive acolytes, like ICE Barbie and Hogseth.
Load More Replies...We Weren't Paying Attention And Still Aren't
The growing spread of measles scares me despite the fact that I and both my kids are vaccinated.
I had measles before there was a vaccine. And chicken pox. As soon as vaccines became available, I got them.
Load More Replies...How insane is it that people who have a choice are willing to risk their kid getting polio?
Load More Replies...Indeed He Will
Aw, he was such a good Hagrid. I'd hate to be the poor slob who tries to take his place.
He was just all round brilliant in everything I ever saw him in, sadly missed.
Load More Replies...We miss you Hagrid, Dumbledore, and Prof McGonagall. I guess Snape too ;)
Such An Incredible Tale
I'm sure some people will find a way to imbue it with racism to get their jollies. I'm also sure these people won't be Japanese, Phillipino, or mixed race.
Load More Replies...My cousin’s husband is half Puerto Rican. She calls her kids Quarter Ricans.
It was the "constantly" that did the OP in. First time funny and clever. 43rd time, not so much.
Robert A. Heinlein: Manny: "First time you say it, you're a wit. Second time, a halfwit." Mike: "Geometric progression?" Manny:"Or worse."
Load More Replies...HAH,!!!! That'spakctually kinda cute, if that was me ,you could call me that
May Not Surprise Some, But Still Interesting
What I hate: Recently hired on with a national chain who works their staff <30 hrs/week. Everyone communicates by celll/text. The boss(s) will send out a mass text to find out who wants to...whatever. EVERYONE ,save a couple, just piggybacks on the initial text, meaning my phone blows up from 20 people responding. Grrrrrrr
Ever since I worked in jobs where I had to answer a phone I have HATED them. Yes, I have a cellphone, but I am not glued to it. It lives in my purse or pocket and is only for emergencies or the b******t a lot of places are pulling these days, like where a menu is only online. Otherwise, I ignore it. I LIKE being unreachable when I don’t want to talk to anyone or deal with their b******t. I never logged my number with any company I worked for, and never accepted a company phone either, because I did my work at work, and wanted to keep my work life and personal life SEPARATE. I’m 65 now, so you know that did not go down well with employers back in the day, and I know it kept me from getting promoted more than once. Don’t care. I didn’t burn out. I didn’t sacrifice my personal life for a company that didn’t give a fat rat’s a*s about me. I retired and had a whole life and family already in place to spend time with. I may not have profited from it promotion and money-wise, but I sure DID profit greatly from it in ways that are priceless.
I'm old enough to remember when mobile phones were still just an idea. But their advent was no accidental discovery - research into all the required tech had been ongoing for decades in order to make it happen. The idea happened not long after WW2 and they became available to the public within 40 years..
In 1978 my grandfather still didn't have a landline. He made calls from a phone box, and expected most contact to be by letter. Not unusual in hisbneighbohood, phone calls were expensive. So no, I don't think this was generally accepted 25 years prior
Load More Replies...Wow, That’s Stunning
Five websites then. Bit like IBM's vision of their being a need for four, maybe five computers in the world.
Load More Replies...Is It Wine Or Milk? Can't Quite Tell
YES. Thats how i call 2019. The Last Good Year. Ive had fun afterwards, and there have been great moments, but yeah 2019 was The Last Good year.
Load More Replies...Hard to believe that in ten or fifteen years we'll be saying THESE are the good old days,
As 2016 was the worst year of my entire life, this doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.
Fb Memory From 2013
What is that weasel up to these days? Comfortably retired and very rich?
Haven't you heard of the trickle down effect? Which would work fine except for the considerable absorbancy of the sponges at the top.
A French comedian said that it would have been nice to warn us that the only thing that would trickle down is pee.
Load More Replies...Billionaires: Born, Not Made
Put your left hip in put your left hip out. Put your left hip and you shake it all about. Do the hokey pokey as you turn yourself around. That's what it's all about.
Load More Replies...Right? Only people deeply in delusion don't know this already.
Load More Replies...And when they say "wealth creation", they mean profiting from the labor of others.
Which means a slide downhill from brainpower driving the US economy to a slide down the hill
globally yes, however in the US 2/3 of the 1% are first generation in the 1% for example. Most countries it is 80-90% static, US and a few other countries it fluctuates a lot. 20% of the bottom 20% will move up within their life, and 20% of the top 10% will move down. Ironically the higher income taxes a society has, the more static wealth becomes, the lower income taxes, the more fluctions there are and the more mobility. It does explain why so many children of the top 1/10th of the 1% are pro-Higher taxes (like Mamdani and most of his rich kid inner circle in NYC for example). Because its about keeping the rich class static and keeping people from moving into it
Yes, but a good percentage of that 2/3 probably had parents who weren’t quite in the top 1%, but were probably at least in the top 5% to 10%, so had enough disposable income to help fund their children’s business ventures in the first place. You might have the million dollar idea, but you won’t see a dime if you can’t raise the cash to get the d****d thing up and running in the first place. I sincerely doubt many of them came from families on the poverty line, so having parents who may not be wealthy but are certainly comfortable is simply a variation of being born into vast wealth. It’s always easier to hit a home run if you get to start on third base—-or even halfway between second and third.
Load More Replies...Watchmen Got It Right
After its brief 30 year flirtation with democracy, the US reverted to its roots as a proto-f*****t imperialist state in 1980. Then graduated to full fascism in 2001 and by 2024 became a full N**i imperialit state.
Hidalgo: this too will pass. A remark often mis-attributed to Churchill goes roughly like this: "The Americans will always do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities." Just you wait - it'll most likely work out more or less okay, in the long run, after an awful lot of unnecessary suffering much of which is happening right now (Gaza, Ukraine, Myanmar, awful things in so many parts of Africa and I don't know where else and that's before I get on to what Modi is having done to Muslims and, and... 😢)
Load More Replies...Home Alone Age
I bought roughly the same amount yesterday and paid over $73 USD. Nothing crazy either!
Luckily wages and salaries have kept pace with inflation. Oh, wait, I'm lying.
Load More Replies...Even allow for inflation, that $19.00 in 1990 is $47.12 now, and Kevin would have to have bought the cheapest generic brands to only spend that much for two bags of groceries. I say that as a 65 year old who used to fill my gas tank for between $5 and $10, and feed myself and a pet cat for a week for less than $20—and I was not eating ramen noodles every day, I was eating meat and vegetables. Chicken and hamburger were cheap. That was back when I was 20-ish. Yeah, when Reagan was elected and the world started to go to hell in a hand basket—-for my entire young adult life, the years when I was supposed to be the most productive and see the most gain before retiring. That didn’t f*****g happen. My retirement is a fraction of what I thought it would be. I’m not starving, but I still have to stick to a tight budget.
With The Recent News The Supreme Court Being Asked To Overturn Gay Marriage
They will deny any attempt to explain it claiming they've never seen any sort of discrimination and its only bad actors pushing that narrative. Tokens get spent.
Load More Replies..."I did not speak out"- Martin Niemuller, 1946. First They Came: "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me."
I like how the "new" version now doing the rounds is "first they came for the immigrants and I immediately spoke out because I've read the rest of that poem".
Load More Replies...My Dad participated in sit-ins in his 20’s. He was Hispanic with light skin and an Anglo surname so he wasn’t a target of racial discrimination unless he spoke Spanish around the wrong person. And that was his point; you need to fight racism BEFORE you yourself become a target because you WILL become a target.
Turning the hate directed toward you against others is like standing by watching the school bullies who picked on you before now pick on another kid. You WILL be their next target
I really struggle with LGBTQI+ people that discriminate against other LGBTQI+ people. Don't get me started on ultra-conservative LGBTQI+. They are part of a minority that is discriminated against. They are usually men hating on women, or the poor, or non-white, or non-Christian people... oh, so just like cis men that are ultra conservative. (I can say this as a man in the LGBTQI+ community.)
If people's only purpose in life is "to go after" someone, have they even need to exist?
Original artist is Adam Ellis (@adamtots )This is his commentary on how in EVERY group there's a percentage that believe that in helping to persecute an even smaller minority that they will be left alone. It never works out well...
Load More Replies...I have no idea what is going on in this meme. Is this some usa thing?
Newspaper Clipping From 1926
HF: it's possible - I don't say likely, just possible - that the orange rápist fully understood what tariffs would do, and his plan always was to trash America while he and his sycophants exploited the situation to get richer themselves. I read that the Tr*mp family is making big bucks these days. You think he cares about normal folks? It's like with Putin: those who have gone along with Putin, supporting the Ukraine invasion - well, they have got a lot richer. It's why Putin is still in power - if you side with him, you gain.
Load More Replies...So, the great wheel turns, with a period of about 100 years it seems.
The Two-State Solution (International Herald Tribune, 2018)
Trump Had His Civil Case Overturned And Saves $500m
Just when you think that he can go no lower, he somehow manages...I truly believe he could shoot a child on the street in broad daylight with several recorded perspectives and still people would foam at the mouth to support him and say the kid deserved it...America is rabid rn...
Well, his goons can shoot and k**l a mother of three in broad daylight with cameras recording and say she deserved it, so...
Load More Replies...Ah, but Karma is waiting for him. One way or another, his long overdue comeuppance is coming—-and it’s going to be a doozy. Be sure to have the popcorn popped, folks, because he’s got a lifetime of payback for his crimes coming to him. It’s going to be a real satisfying show.
Everyone That Knew The Debt Would Skyrocket
Thing is, Security Fund should be sacrosanct. It should never be used for anything but retirement. No borrowing from it to pay back a fund for a stupid vanity project that lost money hand over fist. NO. But, they opened it up for that years ago when it was extremely healthy, and now they’ve depleted it, the present administration has looted it just because they don’t like the idea of “the poors” having anything in their old age except early death, and it’s in danger of being run out of existence—-even though it’s OUR money that we have all paid into it our entire working lives, and therefore deserve to have available to us when we’re too old to go out and earn it all over again.
Average US life expectancy in 1935 was 60 years. Average US life expectancy in 2026 is 80 years. The full retirement age in 1935 was 65 years. The full retirement age now is 67. We're living too dang long. The Boomer generation was huge and easily supported their parents and grandparents with their payments. Gen X is much smaller than the Boomer Generation and there aren't enough of us to keep up the payments. Millennials are a big generation and will mostly support the remaining Boomers and Gen X through retirement (thank you very much). Gen Z and Alpha are much smaller generations and will not be able keep up with the Millennials. They couldn't afford to have kids and the kids they never had won't exist to support them in retirement. Start putting whatever you can afford into a 401K.
Load More Replies...Older millennial here too and I truly fear the same.
Load More Replies...Marco Rubio: Trump Trying To Pull Off “Biggest Scam In American Political History”
Rubio was correct, but he turned around and started licking someone's orange hindquarters to try to move up in the world, and you can see it every time in his face when the news cameras pan to him that he knows that everyone is laughing at him - especially Drumpf.
When are you going to sack that piece of s**t b4 every American is f****d over by this nut job president that doesn't abide by any f*****g laws let alone your predefined constitution
D**n it, most of us are trying hard to get the whole bunch of crooks TF OUT. Problem is our representatives who are either hamstrung by being in the minority, or are in the majority but lack the cojones to stand up and do the d****d jobs WE hired them for. WE the PEOPLE, not Fat Donald, are the ones who hired them, and we can fire them too. Dump the fatalistic attitude, people, and get your asses out to vote. Do not accept someone trying to block or intimidate you from voting. If you are a citizen and of age, you are legally allowed to cast your vote. Do not let any f*****t try to bully you to stop you, because your vote can put them away for a long time. They know it, and they’re lashing out because they’re f*****g terrified of losing and finally laying their well-deserved consequences. Make. Them. PAY. By. Voting.
Load More Replies...Woke Is Undefeated
There was me thinking they'd rebranded it "consequence culture" to justify coming down hard on anyone who wasn't properly worshipful towards the late hate-monger Charlie Kirk - unlamented by all decent people. Maybe someone noticed that "consequence culture" also explained how come Kirk got himself shot... 😁 (don't do múrder, it's wrong. I'll not weep over the death of a wicked person like Kirk despite my sadness that yes, with the death of Kirk another human being was múrdered. That's always a cause for sadness even when the victim is wicked)
Well spoken, and I up-voted the moron who downvoted you.
Load More Replies...Free speech only exists in the US for those who agree with the Toddler-in-Chief. If they cared about BP comments, a lot of us would be in trouble.
Give it time. When we're in the re-education camps, let's shout "Bored Panda!" at random times. Maybe some of us will be able to find each other.
Load More Replies...The Guy Knew Almost 2 Years Ago I Am Surprised
Bill Gates is just "regular smart", not "Einstein smart". He just paid attention to what the really clever folks doing the development work told him.
Load More Replies...Rob Miles: I think it's more that he thought no-one using MS-DOS would ever need more than 640K RAM, that being 10 times more than the maximum memory addressable by most consumer market microprocessors of the 1970s (the original IBM PC used the 8088, which was limited to addressing RAM in 64K pages up to a total of 1MB). The bit he got wrong was how long MS-DOS would be in use, and how quickly RAM would reduce in price. The second mistake was the big one, since Moore's Law was already widely known.
Load More Replies...I can get a special price phone every 24 months with my contract. I've been holding off on doing so because it seems to me that phones have also reached a plateau, with impressive cameras and media capabilities and 5G+ and... well my current device, a fairly generic Xiaomi, can do all of that already. There was a time when things were developing impressively. Now it's "the same only slightly different". So it's logical that this will apply to GPT. It'll reach a point where it's good enough that changes from one to the next won't have any wow factor, it'll just be an incremental update.
I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years, << his opinion had sadly technical consequences
This Comic Is 10 Month Old
TBH, we should all be Luigis, except we should just cough and sneeze all over the healthcare company executives every time we see them, especially when we’re at our most contagious. Keep those a******s perpetually sick, too sick to attend meetings to veto providing care for their customers. Let them be on their deathbeds, and let their own companies refuse them lifesaving treatment for some nonsensical reason. Give them a dose of the reality they are responsible for.
Load More Replies...Tumblr Post From The Pre-Gamergate Era
Right wing and evolve do not seem like compatible concepts... at least among today's version of right wingers. I yearn for the days when both sides knew what the facts were, and only debated on what they meant or what to do about them. Now we can't even agree on the facts, which precludes any meaningful discussion or compromise.
Multa Nocte: a few hours back I read that supposedly properly informed people are suggesting the US won't use military force to steal Greenland. Maybe that's why this lot cheered me up no end. The Watchmen quote: "What happened to the American dream?" "It came true". Yeah, but at the end of that story? The outlook was good, despite all that had gone before. Oh, with a fly in the ointment - Alan Moore's like that. I can't help being moderately optimistic. When I was a kid, I assumed I was going to die in the inevitable nuclear war before I had a chance to get married or any other grown up thing. And here we all are, not turned into radioactive dust! 🤣
Load More Replies...I'm truly scared for what our future holds with the orange donut in charge. This isn't the America that I've known my whole life.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
Multa Nocte: a few hours back I read that supposedly properly informed people are suggesting the US won't use military force to steal Greenland. Maybe that's why this lot cheered me up no end. The Watchmen quote: "What happened to the American dream?" "It came true". Yeah, but at the end of that story? The outlook was good, despite all that had gone before. Oh, with a fly in the ointment - Alan Moore's like that. I can't help being moderately optimistic. When I was a kid, I assumed I was going to die in the inevitable nuclear war before I had a chance to get married or any other grown up thing. And here we all are, not turned into radioactive dust! 🤣
Load More Replies...I'm truly scared for what our future holds with the orange donut in charge. This isn't the America that I've known my whole life.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
