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...
Unfortunately knowledge of addiction doesn’t make you immune from it.
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The freakiest cigarette ads came after they discovered that smoking reduced birth weight of babies, so they started promoting cigarettes as a way of keeping your figure and having a "slim" baby as a bonus.
The thing that bothers me the most is how bad the last line is. Who thought that would sound good?!
It's a good thing that they banned all advertising for tobacco products. Perhaps in another 20 years smoking has become just as social unacceptable as drunk driving or speeding.
It's pretty much at that point already here in Australia. There are very few places out in public where people are allowed to smoke now.
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I believe less people died from Camels which has more tobacco but less chemicals. Chemicals cause cancer more than tobacco.All the modern ciggies are loaded with chemicals so they can patent their brand. I know 6 Camel smokers that died in their late 80's and 90's. I have never smoked - THANK GOD.
I remember going with my mother to her Dr once. We went into his office and it smelled like a giant ashtray. Which he actually had on his desk......a HUGE round ashtray, piled up with cigarette butts!!
Classic advertising trick. Suppose 1% of doctors smoke. Then you conduct a nationwide survey and stop as soon as you have at least one more count for Camels. Then you can run this ad and claim it's all true.
My grandmother was advised to smoke for her asthma when she was quite young, seems so bizarre now...
🎶"I roam the city in a shopping cart! A pack of camels and a smoke alarm!"🎶
This could be true. Although, maybe "T" for Throat Cancer would be a better tagline.
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.
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
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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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