Time is not just relative, it gives a whole new perspective of things that wasn't there. Think of it as an ultimate test to determine whether stuff is legit or not. And while some things remain unchanged, like the world still hailing Keanu Reeves, others turn sour, like an acidic vinegar you’d never, ever dare to call wine.
This phenomenon is known as poorly aged things, which means they not only didn’t get better over time, they got way worse to the point of passing cringe or meeting regrets. So in order to see some of the best of the worst real-life examples, we took a visit to the “Poorly Aged Things” Twitter account that does precisely what it says: “showcases poorly-aged things and blinx.”
With 719.9K followers and counting, it offers some of the most remarkable examples of feeling remorse over something you were honestly proud of before. How did this 180° change happen? I told you, it’s all time’s fault.
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Part of the beauty (and the horror!) of the world we live in is that things are for the most part unforeseeable. I mean, nobody would have believed you if, back in 2018, you told us there was the greatest pandemic in modern history right around the corner that would forever change our lives as we were used to. But on 31 December 2019 (it’s hard to believe it was two years ago!) the coronavirus was first reported from Wuhan, China, from which it rapidly spread around the globe.
But what if we could have known it prior to the outbreak actually happening? Could we have changed the debilitating course of events that followed? The question may never have answers, but we can have a look at what it takes to make predictions about the future, and how accurate they actually are.
If you've never heard of superforecasting, it’s the practice of prediction that covers everything from whether a currency will become stronger, one country will invade another, or there will be civil unrest in a city. Superforecasters calculate the probability of something happening and then adjust that as circumstances change. In this way, they’re able to come up with consistent predictions.
But it’s much more complex than that. According to Bloomberg, superforecasters did not accurately predict Brexit, putting the chances of a Leave vote at 23% in June 2016—the month of the referendum. Their predicted figure had been higher a few months previously but they had adjusted the likelihood downwards, reports the BBC.
I look forward for the day in which "millions give up on" Daily Mail.
Being a superforecaster entails one quintessential personality trait, which is superior analytic ability. Philip Tetlock, the Leonore Annenberg University Professor in Democracy and Citizenship at the University of Pennsylvania, identified many people who could be turned into “superforecasters”—people whose analytic ability is considerably better than random people (or who, in financial analyst terms, “beat the market”).
It doesn’t mean trusting your gut is all there is, since analysts have to do many other things besides just forecast, but it surely helps, Philip argues. Other personality traits for a superforecaster include being intelligent, playing games and solving puzzles, being able to pragmatically use other people’s ideas, and being open-minded to new data which shows up.
Same things have been always said for disruptive innovations in history.
It almost sounds like the badly translated Engrish seen in product manuals.
So true! And true for most of his tweets, they are always weirdly put together sentences😕
Load More Replies...Didn't he say he doesn't really want to be president before the election?
Load More Replies...That's reTHUGlican'ts in general. For reTHUGlicon's it's always money first people can go to hell.
Load More Replies...The "Average" American is an uneducated mouth-breather...so it makes total sense...
Load More Replies...Nothing he said aged well because it usually was wrong from the first second onwards.
Yeah, it didn't age well...it was BS the moment it was sent!
Load More Replies...Imagine ignoring a pandemic and being partially responsible for over 500K deaths
And I bet he doesn't lose a wink of sleep over it. He's horrible through and through
Load More Replies...It's a small thing compared to the hundreds of thousands who lost their lives over the past 18 months due to this f***-head, but I LOVE that T***p gave all these dire warnings about how the stock market would crash under a Biden administration and it's doing better than ever. And even more, I love that T***p can't tweet about it.
Nothing and nobody mattered to him except the stock market. What a f*****g loser!
"we are in contact with everyone" ...........do you even see how that might be wrong, or bad in someway? because, y'know. NO contact?
Can you imagine what the Repugs would have done if Hillary had been president and 50K people died?
Stock Market starting to look very good to me! Bleach will skyrocket soon, great investment.
Ah Yes, Isn't it so great to have a Narcissist leader that shows his stupidity of science?
392,428 COVID victims are unavailable for comment. https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/coronavirus-case-numbers-in-the-united-states-january-20-2021-update
Nothing this s**t head said or says means anything he is mentally ill and a pathological LIAR who is followed by idiots
I can't help but feel that the stock market as an indicator on how well your country and your people are doing is vastly overrated.
I have never hated anyone more than this buffoon. What an absolute f*****g embarrassment. Buh bye.
He cared more about the stock market going up than the fact that people were dying.
Replace "coronavirus" with "zombie-alien-robot shark" and you're got your Syfy movie of the week.
It is part of the Presidents duty to calm the public and avoid public panic.
As funny as Trump dismantling Obamas pandemic team as soon as he got into office. Look at how much money he saved! *eyeroll*
Load More Replies...Sad thing is that there are some doctors still smoking nowadays...
it'll topple over if there are no intervention. They heavily stabilized it starting from 90s
Technically true - he didn’t say “not one s**t-smeared government building”.
that just defies common sense even in 2002, never mind not ageing well
What the heck is that even supposed to mean in terms of a nationwide department store chain?
When insulting bald people will start (finally) to be considered body shaming?
A three second google search... Speaking of Butch Hartman trending, that brings us to today and the accusations of plagiarism. While the jury seems to be out on whether Hartman has committed textbook plagiarism – as in shamelessly tracing over someone else’s art – or just copied art without tracing, it still looks bad. Butch Hartman was commissioned to draw Mikasa Akerman (from Attack on Titan) and delivered a piece that looked a lot like fanart from a Japanese artist known as @028ton on Twitter. Fans reached out to the original artist and tattled. Told ya, the internet won’t let you get away with anything. Didn’t take long for @028ton to condemn Hartman’s actions. Ouch. While Butch Hartman has remained silent about the latest controversy, the fact remains that his star is on the decline. His once prosperous YouTube channel has been losing subscribers and his most recent uploads barely break 10,000 views. Sure, that’s still a lot of eyeballs, but it’s also a paltry number when compa
They are all things people said, or did, that were expected to do well and then failed miserably. Like Bill Gates wishing his wife another happy 25 years - they just announced their divorce like two days ago. Or the guy who sold his bitcoin at $14/coin to just cut his losses - bitcoin is worth over $56,000 per coin today so if he had just left it, he would've been a millionaire.
Load More Replies...I posted on the old IMDB message board before the release of Casino Royale that Craig was terribly miscast, the film would flop and that they wouldn't make another Bond film for a couple of years!
This was a good post for all the reasons i stay with BP. think you should have edited out the one on JK Rowling.
I agree. She has said wrong things and she needs to learn. But the hate that the woman is experienced is crazy. You cant preach for tolerance and then be extremely hateful with others.
Load More Replies...Remember this? I feel like this should be on here whooops-60...996fb4.jpg
Everything related to covid could be here, but then it'd be quite more boring.
Load More Replies...Why do comments keep disappearing? I see the notification say someone has replied, but I can’t find anything.
The site has had some glitch problems, like comments vanishing when you click on them, bottom comments appearing as top on a list til you load more...try going to the article from the main page and finding the comment instead of using the notification link (slower but works most of the time). If it's getting bad, contact the bored panda team and hopefully they can find out why ur account is overglitching
Load More Replies...I opened this post because of the remote control photo. Did I miss it? I can only see the netflix/blockbuster logo (sticker?)
Click the link that says, “Note: this post originally had 67 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes.” The remote is currently #37.
Load More Replies...they could add Marilyn Manson *Internal screaming intensifies* T_T 😭
They did, there's a link at the bottom of the post to the rest of the articles if u fancy a squiz :) there's some good ones!
Load More Replies...I just finished the final season of How I Met Your Mother. Ted and The Mother had their wedding in the spring (with a get-together at the bar first), and the gang went to their big class reunion in the Summer...of 2020. That didn’t age well.
Why would they make a page of posts by mostly a single social media account.
Everything on here seems to be ripped straight from Reddit or Twitter by the ‘writers.’
Load More Replies...I didn't get a lot of these. For example - who is the lady in the last photo?
There is a difference. Trans people are a category of people. As a category, trans people have not done anything to deserve getting hate. Whereas Trump, the individual, has done plenty of things that people hate him for, myself included.
Load More Replies...They are all things people said, or did, that were expected to do well and then failed miserably. Like Bill Gates wishing his wife another happy 25 years - they just announced their divorce like two days ago. Or the guy who sold his bitcoin at $14/coin to just cut his losses - bitcoin is worth over $56,000 per coin today so if he had just left it, he would've been a millionaire.
Load More Replies...I posted on the old IMDB message board before the release of Casino Royale that Craig was terribly miscast, the film would flop and that they wouldn't make another Bond film for a couple of years!
This was a good post for all the reasons i stay with BP. think you should have edited out the one on JK Rowling.
I agree. She has said wrong things and she needs to learn. But the hate that the woman is experienced is crazy. You cant preach for tolerance and then be extremely hateful with others.
Load More Replies...Remember this? I feel like this should be on here whooops-60...996fb4.jpg
Everything related to covid could be here, but then it'd be quite more boring.
Load More Replies...Why do comments keep disappearing? I see the notification say someone has replied, but I can’t find anything.
The site has had some glitch problems, like comments vanishing when you click on them, bottom comments appearing as top on a list til you load more...try going to the article from the main page and finding the comment instead of using the notification link (slower but works most of the time). If it's getting bad, contact the bored panda team and hopefully they can find out why ur account is overglitching
Load More Replies...I opened this post because of the remote control photo. Did I miss it? I can only see the netflix/blockbuster logo (sticker?)
Click the link that says, “Note: this post originally had 67 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes.” The remote is currently #37.
Load More Replies...they could add Marilyn Manson *Internal screaming intensifies* T_T 😭
They did, there's a link at the bottom of the post to the rest of the articles if u fancy a squiz :) there's some good ones!
Load More Replies...I just finished the final season of How I Met Your Mother. Ted and The Mother had their wedding in the spring (with a get-together at the bar first), and the gang went to their big class reunion in the Summer...of 2020. That didn’t age well.
Why would they make a page of posts by mostly a single social media account.
Everything on here seems to be ripped straight from Reddit or Twitter by the ‘writers.’
Load More Replies...I didn't get a lot of these. For example - who is the lady in the last photo?
There is a difference. Trans people are a category of people. As a category, trans people have not done anything to deserve getting hate. Whereas Trump, the individual, has done plenty of things that people hate him for, myself included.
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