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.
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”.
They’re talking about her popularity - she could have still had a good reputation but she had to run her mouth about trans people when nobody asked her.
Load More Replies...I really don't care if I get down voted, but I know I will. Jk Rowling is not transphobic. I've seen her tweets. I'm not saying that all trans people are like this, and most trans people are wonderful and inspiring people. Sometimes, but very, very rarely men say that they are woman to get into woman's mental hospitals and refugee camps and do horrible things to them. I'm a massive supporter of trans people, but I believe that Jk Rowling is not homophobic. Down vote me because I don't care. Have an amazing day to whoever is reading this 🤩
I agree with you. Also, I am a gay man and I do not think Rowling deserves this much hatred by the LGBT community.
Load More Replies...Nah, f**k off with this. She had a valid point but was completely obliterated by obnoxious LGBTQ+ extremists who only have one narrative and when your opinion doesn't fit perfectly with that, you're automatically labeled a trans phobe
I agree. It's sad how we cannot have a differing opinion without being crucified. Rowling does not hate trans people at all.
Load More Replies...this is really difficult for me. i grew up on her books when i was younger but identifying as trans i won't let myself support her and her comments. i love the books but just because she wrote good books doesn't mean she can use her platform to spread hate
She's a smart woman who knows she shouldn't share her horrible thoughts if she wants to stay popular. Her fans are the first generation to come out so freely as trans
Load More Replies...Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Cis women have different life experiences to trans women and vice versa. Trans men have different life experiences to cis men and vice versa. And that's OK, because people's life journeys are different. No one's experience is more "valid" or "authentic" than anyone else's. There is no gatekeeper of "womanhood" or "manhood". I don't understand why this has to be a fight. Let love rule.
Load More Replies...She makes a few comments about a controversial topic, and suddenly, everyone goes berserk. I will not say whether I support trans or not, because that is not the point. People are mad at her for expressing an opinion, and they always will be because people are always desperate for a reason for anger, drama, and pettiness. However, refusing to read a book because the author has different views is foolish. The books are great, whether the author is popular or not. We can't just cancel culture because we don't like it.
We can, because we can all choose which values are important to us. For some it's not a big deal, but for others it's a dealbreaker, and they have the right to their feelings - and subsequent actions. I'm in my 30s so I don't particularly care about Harry Potter anymore, but I've stopped watching things with known sexual predators on cast because I don't feel comfortable. I can't get immersed and I don't take any joy from it anymore - so why should I keep watching? Because I would be called "foolish" otherwise?
Load More Replies...She didn't say anything wrong. And she wrote a wonderful book series. Aged fine as per me.
Yeah, when she was saying (but not writing in books) about Dumbledore being gay everyone was so Happy about her speaking up. But as soon as she started protecting women from men-who-think-are-women she's bad. Fortunatly for her, she's rich enough so she does not care in either case and she's just true to herself, not popular opinion
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Cis women have different life experiences to trans women and vice versa. Trans men have different life experiences to cis men and vice versa. And that's OK, because people's life journeys are different. No one's experience is more "valid" or "authentic" than anyone else's. There is no gatekeeper of "womanhood" or "manhood". I don't understand why this has to be a fight. Let love rule.
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Load More Replies...lol and? still said awful and disappointing things about trans people with her very large and influential platform
Load More Replies...I love her books. A very talented writer, who has given millions to charity.
She, like everyone else who is racist, has to take her lumps if she wants to speak out.
I still support her and she is just a victim of oversensitive people on Twitter.
You mean trans people and their allies? That's what you mean, right?
Load More Replies...you stand with what she said about trans and non-bianary people?
Load More Replies...Trans women are women. JK needs to stop using her harry potter fortune to persecute them.
Give it a f*****g rest. Do you get paid to be offended? She's allowed an opinion and a very valid one. Biological women's history mustn't be erased because trans women exists.
Load More Replies...Her view was so forward thinking that most didn’t get it it went right over everyone’s heads and became a pile on of hatred mistaking her comments as anti LGBTQ …back up the bus and reread her actual comments all people “types” are valid and deserve a voice..pretty disgusting treatment of her
Totally false apart from some idiots who think your sex can be changed physically but it can only be changed mentally. I think having £500,000,000 will cushion any problems she has.
She´s probably worth more money than all the people who disagree with her put together
Loving JK Rowling! I don’t get this one. Her sales are still skyrocketing through the roof.
She made transphobic comments- its not about her work ig
Load More Replies...this is why the world is how it is today all soft and this cancel culture bullshit .. yall dont know what freedom of speech means .. YOU CAN SAY ANYTHING YOU WANT WHEN YOU HAVE THE FREEDOM TO SPEAK .. but you WILL be held accountable for watchu say ..
"but you WILL be held accountable for watchu say" of course you will be held accountable. What if someone came up to you and said your mother is a whore are you not going to held that person accountable? Or are you going to chalk it up to other person using freedom of speech?
Load More Replies...So, to summarize the general opinion of the Pandas here: If people feel insecure because they are very tall, with freckles, red haired, grey haired, old, fat, have a missing limb or are born with both genitals, we’re all pro body positivity: embrace your body and accept it as a part of who you are. But if people feel insecure about their sex (or in rare cases even their species) most Panda’s are suddenly pro body change. This doesn’t sound very consistent to me.
Trans people aren't "insecure" about their sex. Stop.
Load More Replies...is it bad that i had to read the comments to figure out who this person was?
Amazing writer, yes. Hateful towards trans people, also yes.
Load More Replies...For the last time, it's not about her bloody age! Read the blimming comments before jumping to conclusions
Load More Replies...yet again, THIS IS NOT ABOUT AGE. It is about transphobia :(
Load More Replies...No, they are saying she is a hateful transphobe and has been denounced by half the Harry Potter cat for her TERF views. Her later book is a vile piece of anti-trans propaganda.
Load More Replies...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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