Looking at a few of the WORSE calls of the past.
"We all gunna die! Listen to me"
This has kept being repeated for at least tens of thousands of years.
Those calls age like a fine milk, and when it does, the prophets of doom are nowhere to be found.
Here are some of the most ridiculous and sad calls made in the past:
> The millennium bug
Also called year 2000 problem.
This one is only 20 years old, but I'm sure some people haven't even heard of it.
20 years later the idiotic calls made back then are not advertised. Wikipedia has a page on it but they have not mentionned all of the terrible calls that were being made and repeated over and over in particular in the media. It's as if no one was stupid back then and the world acted rationally. See? You can't trust history.
No, history books and wikipedia and sites that talk about it are wrong. It's not that they are wrong it's that they left the best bits out of the story?
What? To not make people that feel ashamed look stupid?
On tv some nuts were calling for the end of the world, literally. Some christians were claming this would be Jesus second coming. And they were getting attention.
I was a kid and I already thought this was dumb.
From an UN release:
un.org/press/en/1999/19990622.PI1149.html
"Some computer companies were beginning to be optimistic about the Y2K event and some were making a lot of money from devising ways of "fixing" problems related to the issue. Some were referring to a "Y2K boomlet" in the economy as a result of the Y2K fear."
Suckers were becoming fearful and were getting fleeced. Haven't heard much from them. None have been giving speeches on their hiring of "experts" to "protect them from the mighty Y2K bug". People that compared those braindead sheep to nuts looking for exorcists and talismans weren't taken seriously, but they were right. The suckers that hired experts and bought "special software" (pun intended) to protect from the mighty Y2K bug were the modern version of suckers buying expensive talisman to protect against evil ghosts and spirits.
The UN, these masterminds, these lights in the darkness, those beacons of hope, were expecting riots in the streets, wars, governments to be overthrown.
1 small article about some of this:
wired.com/1999/06/un-discusses-y2k-preparations/
AND NOW. IF YOU THINK THIS IS A JOKE. IF YOU THINK I AM EXAGERATING. "It wasn't that bad". 20 years later people have forgotten. People think it wasn't that stupid. Oh yeah? Then listen closely. The whole country of CANADA 🤡 PREPARED FOR A COMPLETE BREAKDOWN OF CIVILIZATION.
"Canadian leaders were preparing for the possibility that civilization would break down"
This article enters into more details about Canada reaction, and shows a few example of the measures that were taken:
theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-y2k-20th-anniversary-how-canada-prepared/
There have been a handful of little bugs, and a few were avoided in advance. No biggie. Collapse of civilization lmao they're so bad.
Aged like fine milk.
> The 2020 coronavirus cold pandemic & governments reactions
Too early? 😉
Can also add the "apocalyptic CO2 calls muh gLoBAl WArmINg"
I'm eagerly waiting for those to age so I can say "told you so" and rub it in their faces.
> Quick one: "Commodities will never go to zero"
"The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt."
Jim Rogers.
What's this Jim? You'll come in my office I want to have a word with you.
> Gordon Brown bottom. Never forget.
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time (head of her Majesty Treasure, french equivalent I think I can say is "ministre des finances" "financial minister"), so basically the "financial expert", the head of the part of the government in charge of finance, made this wonderful sale in 1999-2002:
Clearly a very competent man, which expertise is not just "knowing how to get elected".
Ah, Mr Brown today is giving us his advice on how to deal with covid-19. Wonderful. Let's listen closely so we can do the exact opposite 😊
2009. Gordon Brown warning us of a Climate Change™ global catastrophe. Hahaha. No surprise here.
telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatechange/6372542/Gordon-Brown-warns-of-climate-change-catastrophe.html
Gordon Brown. Losing tens of billions with horrible trades, and then asking tens of billion to taxpayers for some unproven illogical extremely exagerated dogma:
independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/gordon-brown-proposes-pound10-billion-fund-to-fight-climate-change-1829312.html
Absolute POS moronic politician.
"My idea of a perfect government is one guy, in a small room, sitting at a desk, and the only thing he's allowed to decide is who to NUKE."
- Ron Swanson
Well said Ron.
> "The Titanic is unskinkable"
I don't think I have to explain :D
Ye... It was being advertised as being "Titanic" and invincible. Aged well.
Maybe the quote was taken out of context, I don't know every thing, I know that the other 2 titanic ships (HMHS Britannic, RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic) were used in the war and had their own issues.
And I know that the Titanic just went straight for an Iceberg. So someone must have thought of it as nearly unsinkable.
> "In 10 years Oil will cost $380 a barrel" (2005)
"Experts economists" (yawn) were explaining that because of world consumption Oil prices would go up, impossible they would not go up, and would probably be around 380/barrel, and we needed renewables. And ye they explained they looked at sound science and clean facts and it was absolutely impossible for the price not to soar and we had to quickly forget cheap Oil YAAAAAAAAAWN! Dumb economists. So wrong all the time.
This didn't pick up worldwide attention I think it's quite local.
Article is in french...
liberation.fr/futurs/2005/04/19/380-dollars-le-prix-du-baril-de-petrole-dans-dix-ans-selon-deux-economistes_516916
> "Prosperity will never end"
1929, 2000.
In 2020 the sheep npcs updated their firmware. Now they're saying "stonks will always go up".
> "I hope that with fast foods the french won't get fat like americans" - 1985
Whole world eats 20 grams of a salt a day and eats 1 meal a day. 1 meal that lasts all day long.
> "Enron is the most innovative company" and "Share price will go to 1000" and "Retail is buying at these cheap price"
Innovative in what sector? Fraud?
I posted and laughed about Zoom investors, I laughed about USO (Oil Fund) buyers, I laughed about Carnival (cruise) and airline company buyers.
But the medal really belongs to Enron -99% buyers.
Yes. AFTER bankrupcy and the fraud was publicly known and on every news show over and over.
Yes really. Retail investors REALLY bought Enron shares AFTER the collapse. Since then Enron got delisted so good luck selling, and they can't claim they got caught in a fraud got lied to or anything, since these masterminds bought AFTER the fraud went full public. Absolute genius. "Buy cheap".
And regulators whine about Forex and restrict it and ban ads and are annoying.
K that's enough for a single idea.
> BONUS
People can believe anything... By upvoting a non existant restaurant in London pranksters got mainstream to believe it existed, and it was the best restaurant in London, and people started looking for it.
In 1996 Alan Sokal, a physics professor published a paper where he proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct. A few weeks later he told every one he published a hoax.
I think we can blindly trust "science" no problem 👍
In the late 2000s university students in France were whining about some law (in France universities are generally where the tourist students go, there are no famous french universities, french elites go to small ultra selective "schools").
I was going to my school and university participation trophy students warned they would block the access to our school.
Our math teacher cracked up and she told us not to worry, because those kind of students "typically didn't wake up early".
So basically for the next months these masterminds were standing in front of our school while we were in. Classes began BEFORE they got there, and classes ended AFTER they had already left.
They stood in front of our doors for weeks of months, every day! And we couldn't care less and we were dying of laughter. They were just standing there for nothing, probably patting themselves on the back "aha! No one is coming no one is leaving they are not even trying to enter we have frozen this school" 🤣
LoL I wonder why these geniuses ended up in garbage universities and failed the selective schools admissions. Nothing to do with cognitive abilities I'm sure.
"Miley Cyrus has many fans around the world. Young girls look up to Miley and her character Hannah Montana because they both set a good example for girls."
This has kept being repeated for at least tens of thousands of years.
Those calls age like a fine milk, and when it does, the prophets of doom are nowhere to be found.
Here are some of the most ridiculous and sad calls made in the past:
> The millennium bug
Also called year 2000 problem.
This one is only 20 years old, but I'm sure some people haven't even heard of it.
20 years later the idiotic calls made back then are not advertised. Wikipedia has a page on it but they have not mentionned all of the terrible calls that were being made and repeated over and over in particular in the media. It's as if no one was stupid back then and the world acted rationally. See? You can't trust history.
No, history books and wikipedia and sites that talk about it are wrong. It's not that they are wrong it's that they left the best bits out of the story?
What? To not make people that feel ashamed look stupid?
On tv some nuts were calling for the end of the world, literally. Some christians were claming this would be Jesus second coming. And they were getting attention.
I was a kid and I already thought this was dumb.
From an UN release:
un.org/press/en/1999/19990622.PI1149.html
"Some computer companies were beginning to be optimistic about the Y2K event and some were making a lot of money from devising ways of "fixing" problems related to the issue. Some were referring to a "Y2K boomlet" in the economy as a result of the Y2K fear."
Suckers were becoming fearful and were getting fleeced. Haven't heard much from them. None have been giving speeches on their hiring of "experts" to "protect them from the mighty Y2K bug". People that compared those braindead sheep to nuts looking for exorcists and talismans weren't taken seriously, but they were right. The suckers that hired experts and bought "special software" (pun intended) to protect from the mighty Y2K bug were the modern version of suckers buying expensive talisman to protect against evil ghosts and spirits.
The UN, these masterminds, these lights in the darkness, those beacons of hope, were expecting riots in the streets, wars, governments to be overthrown.
1 small article about some of this:
wired.com/1999/06/un-discusses-y2k-preparations/
AND NOW. IF YOU THINK THIS IS A JOKE. IF YOU THINK I AM EXAGERATING. "It wasn't that bad". 20 years later people have forgotten. People think it wasn't that stupid. Oh yeah? Then listen closely. The whole country of CANADA 🤡 PREPARED FOR A COMPLETE BREAKDOWN OF CIVILIZATION.
"Canadian leaders were preparing for the possibility that civilization would break down"
This article enters into more details about Canada reaction, and shows a few example of the measures that were taken:
theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-y2k-20th-anniversary-how-canada-prepared/
There have been a handful of little bugs, and a few were avoided in advance. No biggie. Collapse of civilization lmao they're so bad.
Aged like fine milk.
> The 2020 coronavirus cold pandemic & governments reactions
Too early? 😉
Can also add the "apocalyptic CO2 calls muh gLoBAl WArmINg"
I'm eagerly waiting for those to age so I can say "told you so" and rub it in their faces.
> Quick one: "Commodities will never go to zero"
"The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt."
Jim Rogers.
What's this Jim? You'll come in my office I want to have a word with you.
> Gordon Brown bottom. Never forget.
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time (head of her Majesty Treasure, french equivalent I think I can say is "ministre des finances" "financial minister"), so basically the "financial expert", the head of the part of the government in charge of finance, made this wonderful sale in 1999-2002:
Clearly a very competent man, which expertise is not just "knowing how to get elected".
Ah, Mr Brown today is giving us his advice on how to deal with covid-19. Wonderful. Let's listen closely so we can do the exact opposite 😊
2009. Gordon Brown warning us of a Climate Change™ global catastrophe. Hahaha. No surprise here.
telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatechange/6372542/Gordon-Brown-warns-of-climate-change-catastrophe.html
Gordon Brown. Losing tens of billions with horrible trades, and then asking tens of billion to taxpayers for some unproven illogical extremely exagerated dogma:
independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/gordon-brown-proposes-pound10-billion-fund-to-fight-climate-change-1829312.html
Absolute POS moronic politician.
"My idea of a perfect government is one guy, in a small room, sitting at a desk, and the only thing he's allowed to decide is who to NUKE."
- Ron Swanson
Well said Ron.
> "The Titanic is unskinkable"
I don't think I have to explain :D
Ye... It was being advertised as being "Titanic" and invincible. Aged well.
Maybe the quote was taken out of context, I don't know every thing, I know that the other 2 titanic ships (HMHS Britannic, RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic) were used in the war and had their own issues.
And I know that the Titanic just went straight for an Iceberg. So someone must have thought of it as nearly unsinkable.
> "In 10 years Oil will cost $380 a barrel" (2005)
"Experts economists" (yawn) were explaining that because of world consumption Oil prices would go up, impossible they would not go up, and would probably be around 380/barrel, and we needed renewables. And ye they explained they looked at sound science and clean facts and it was absolutely impossible for the price not to soar and we had to quickly forget cheap Oil YAAAAAAAAAWN! Dumb economists. So wrong all the time.
This didn't pick up worldwide attention I think it's quite local.
Article is in french...
liberation.fr/futurs/2005/04/19/380-dollars-le-prix-du-baril-de-petrole-dans-dix-ans-selon-deux-economistes_516916
> "Prosperity will never end"
1929, 2000.
In 2020 the sheep npcs updated their firmware. Now they're saying "stonks will always go up".
> "I hope that with fast foods the french won't get fat like americans" - 1985
Whole world eats 20 grams of a salt a day and eats 1 meal a day. 1 meal that lasts all day long.
> "Enron is the most innovative company" and "Share price will go to 1000" and "Retail is buying at these cheap price"
Innovative in what sector? Fraud?
I posted and laughed about Zoom investors, I laughed about USO (Oil Fund) buyers, I laughed about Carnival (cruise) and airline company buyers.
But the medal really belongs to Enron -99% buyers.
Yes. AFTER bankrupcy and the fraud was publicly known and on every news show over and over.
Yes really. Retail investors REALLY bought Enron shares AFTER the collapse. Since then Enron got delisted so good luck selling, and they can't claim they got caught in a fraud got lied to or anything, since these masterminds bought AFTER the fraud went full public. Absolute genius. "Buy cheap".
And regulators whine about Forex and restrict it and ban ads and are annoying.
K that's enough for a single idea.
> BONUS
People can believe anything... By upvoting a non existant restaurant in London pranksters got mainstream to believe it existed, and it was the best restaurant in London, and people started looking for it.
In 1996 Alan Sokal, a physics professor published a paper where he proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct. A few weeks later he told every one he published a hoax.
I think we can blindly trust "science" no problem 👍
In the late 2000s university students in France were whining about some law (in France universities are generally where the tourist students go, there are no famous french universities, french elites go to small ultra selective "schools").
I was going to my school and university participation trophy students warned they would block the access to our school.
Our math teacher cracked up and she told us not to worry, because those kind of students "typically didn't wake up early".
So basically for the next months these masterminds were standing in front of our school while we were in. Classes began BEFORE they got there, and classes ended AFTER they had already left.
They stood in front of our doors for weeks of months, every day! And we couldn't care less and we were dying of laughter. They were just standing there for nothing, probably patting themselves on the back "aha! No one is coming no one is leaving they are not even trying to enter we have frozen this school" 🤣
LoL I wonder why these geniuses ended up in garbage universities and failed the selective schools admissions. Nothing to do with cognitive abilities I'm sure.
"Miley Cyrus has many fans around the world. Young girls look up to Miley and her character Hannah Montana because they both set a good example for girls."
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