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.
Yes i think it's called Sherlock holmes but I'm not sure😅😅😅😅
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That is, really. He only brought Sherlock back from that cliffs one (reichenbach falls maybe?), because the public demanded it. Not that I'm complaining I love the stories and novels, but still :(
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Good lord! Read about him! He worked for justice in Africa, was a field doctor during a war, got some falsely accused poop!e exonerated ( saving them from death penalty) and was knighted for his services. He was never suspected of being the Ripper, but a member of the royal family was. Is it fake news on BP today?
And as a doctor that was addicted to opium... Conspiracy theory even suggests he was actually Jack the Ripper... He was away all week in his office, home only on weekends and holidays and he lived close to Whitechapel, London... on top of that, he hated his mother who he saw as a prostitute (cause of her promicuous lifestyle)
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my god! he created a god-like character! don't be ashamed of it! i love sherlock holmes! yeah i only know you for that but you're not a failure if you makes peoples happy
He tried to kill Sherlock, but it didn't exactly work. He hated that thing. I literally have no idea why
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I love the relationship between him and his mom. If you are not familiar with their bond and love of story telling, it is worth looking up.
Actually, he was much like Houdini, where he truly Wanted To Believe, but he needed proof. He was a dyed in the wool skeptic, thought that logical process of elimination was the correct path for any rigorous proof, and debunked several mediums, spiritualists, fairy sightings/photos, etc. He wanted the supernatural to be real, but needed it to be proved definitively before he would believe. Holmes was essentially him in an alternate universe. And... he described several forensic techniques/tables that are standard forensic procedure now, but were written off as fantastical and irrelevant to any situation except the 'contrived fiction of Holmes.'
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My favorite short story of his isn't about a detective, it's about a pilot who goes above 10,000 feet for the first time and discovers a whole ecosystem of flying jellyfish, squid-like monsters, etc. and dies. Good stuff.
"The Horror From the Heights." I first read that story when I was a kid. I actually found a PDF copy of it online a while back.
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Dear Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: I remember you did not only write Holmes. You are saved. Love, a fan
No, you just failed at not knowing anything else about him....
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It's unfortunate we can't bring him back and show him all the tv shows and movies.
He coined the phrase "License to Kill" forever linking him to James Bond's 007. One of the few to be Knighted, he is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He once helped to exonerate a man wrongly imprisoned for murder....Saving a man's life, I'd say that qualifies him as not being a failure.
Ohhhhhkay...as I recall, you were also a nutty spiritualist. There. Does that make you feel better?
The Challenger series??? Military histories??? Stage plays??? countless short stories. Hell, even the story of the Marie Celeste is remembered in the way he wrote about it in a fiction novella rather in than in the way is factual. We'll brush over the spiritualism thing though.
Then he’s not a failure, because many also remember he was an ophthalmologist!
Well he never reaped the copyright rewards and movie royalties. . . like today's authors. . .
Well then sir.............you are one of THE most FAMOUS failures of all times!!!
You mean the former Portsmouth goalkeeper was known for something else?
I remember him more for thinking that photographs of fairy cut outs were real fairies.
He was the first to propose and detail the concept of fluid forensics. He also made crime scene investigation sensationalized.
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Privileged speech from a rich white man. He planned to change the world and is probably still disappointed that he was "only" famous as an author.
Or just maybe he wrote many other books more interesting, challenging or fascinating than the super sleuth series and rightly guessed its all he would be remembered for, as your misguided comment seems to confirm. His novel The Lost World is surely an inspiration to things you know today as Jurassic Park or the plateau visited by the characters of the animation UP, but I'm sure you are right and not just projecting modern day identity politics onto a man who died almost a century ago.
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No need to yell, Mister Doyle won't hear you either way ;)
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.’
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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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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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