Your worst non-sports predictions

[Scornfire]

This will be my last shot of Tequila tonight

[DoubleF]

Stock A > Stock B.

(Stock A drops, stock B shoots up)

[#-3]

After Katrina I predicted New Orleans would be 10 % of its former size and the US would just give up on the city.

[N-E-B]

That Justin Bieber would be irrelevant by the time he was 20... Unfortunately I was dead wrong and his music is worse than ever.

[HOWITZER]

"Oil prices can't go any lower"

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by HOWITZER

"Oil prices can't go any lower"

Hahaha

...

[Locke]

Originally Posted by The Yen Man

I remember watching Star Trek the Next Generation, and all their control panels were touch screens. I thought that would never work in real life.

Really? My parents had (have) a microwave with identical controls that is an antique.

[Fuzz]

The Amana Radarange? My parents had one of those. The name always kinda scared me, but having grown up with one, I can't for the life of me imagine why those touchmatic buttons are so rare. What an awesome control.

[GirlySports]

bitcoins are the dumbest things ever. Worthless

[OutOfTheCube]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

The Amana Radarange? My parents had one of those. The name always kinda scared me, but having grown up with one, I can't for the life of me imagine why those touchmatic buttons are so rare. What an awesome control.

Haha, Radarange. That's straight out of Fallout.

[wontondestruction]

Nortel stock would be unstoppable. Fortunately, I was too broke at the time to buy any.

[schooner]

That the mini disc player was a superior system to mp3 players. A year later I couldn't sell my mini disc player for $5 in a garage sell.

That the tablet would work. I mean really, who would possible need an intermediate device between their phone and laptop.

[Derek Sutton]

Two years ago, when our money was even, I predicted that the Canadian dollar would remain stronger then the US dollar and didn't stock up on US money... Also lotto numbers, worst predictions ever.

[OMG!WTF!]

In 1984 I went to summer camp at the University of Calgary for kids whose parents wished they were smarter. One part of the week long camp I remember was writing down our predictions for the future and putting them in a time capsule, welding it shut and pouring concrete over it..

So, thirty years later in 2014 they opened up the time capsule...

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...822/story.html

I was in Calgary in 2014 when they opened it and so I went to read some of the 30 year old predictions and find what I had written. I flipped through some of the little stories the kids wrote, all perfectly written and spaced out as per 1980's cursive instruction.

One poor kid was so convinced the Russians were going to invade she suggested learning Russian now so that in thirty years when the Russians came they would spare your life if you knew their language. She wrote a couple example words in Russian and drew a happy little hammer and sickle flag with a sun and some happy Russians.

Another kid was pretty much bang on in predicting that books would be electronic and people would read from a screen or listen to books on tape. Must have had a Commodore 64 at home.

I really couldn't remember what I had written. I flipped through some more predictions. Most of them were fairly certain that we were about to get nuked. Then I started to remember a bit about my submission.

I couldn't read or write when I was ten... or talk without stuttering or eat in front of adults without barfing. But I remember the writing was a problem regarding the time capsule. Then I found my submission. I traced my hand, drew a house on the moon and drew a picture of a dinosaur. I suspect at best I am 1 for 3 on my predictions. We do not yet have houses on the moon. Dinosaurs are still extinct. But I have stayed here for thirty years with both hands, one for holding a pen and for tracing and one to show that all the bad things that happen to us might not be so bad.

[Duruss]

I remember thinking that tablets would never take off, and hd-dvd would beat blu ray.

I also remember thinkig would onky take 2 months to find a new job, and that was 7 months ago.

(Posted from tablet)

[Slava]

Originally Posted by schooner

That the mini disc player was a superior system to mp3 players. A year later I couldn't sell my mini disc player for $5 in a garage sell.

That the tablet would work. I mean really, who would possible need an intermediate device between their phone and laptop.

Originally Posted by Duruss

I remember thinking that tablets would never take off, and hd-dvd would beat blu ray.

I also remember thinkig would onky take 2 months to find a new job, and that was 7 months ago.

(Posted from tablet)

You can lump me in with these tablet predictions for sure. Frankly, my tech predictions in general have been pathetic. I still have no understanding of why/how facebook is viable or people use it. On the other hand I think Twitter is brilliant and totally useful. I also still think that Blackberry is the far superior phone, so that is probably doomed to failure (if it wasn't already!)

I was so sure that the tablet would fail though, that my thought on the smartwatch was that it will never take off. The only thing that makes me less adamant about its pending failure is that I was so incredibly not close on the tablet, that why would I even think I have any idea on the smart watch?

[Sliver]

Crossovers. Haha, who would want a huge, heavy vehicle with the interior dimensions of a car, the exterior dimensions of a minivan, with high ground clearance (for no reason whatsoever), crappy fuel economy and terrible driving dynamics? Plus they're expensive and super ugly.

Fast forward 10 years and every second vehicle is one. The real piss off on being wrong on that prediction is I blame people who like crossovers for the industry not pumping out enough cool wagons in North America.

[polak]

Originally Posted by HOWITZER

"Oil prices can't go any lower"

My friend, the summer of 2014 when he was trying to convince me that spending the entire amount I was pre-approved for on a mortgage was a good idea.

"Oil will never go down!"

Then when oil started flirting with $70 and I told him I'm not going to move into a job in oil and gas.

"You're an idiot, Oil won't go down"

.... I wish he was right.

[Lubicon]

When I graduated university in the late 80's the economy was in the toilet so none of us from my class had jobs lined up. This was before coffee shops (Starbucks, Tim's etc.) were a big thing. We had made it through school on endless cups bought at the one coffee place on campus. We walked out of our final exam wondering what we were going to do next and one of my buddies says we should open a bunch of coffee places. We all looked at him like he had three eyes and told him that was the stupidest idea we had ever heard, how could a business ever make a go of selling essentially only coffee?

[The Reverend]

Sorry to be so bleak but I predicted that after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, Americans would come to their senses and enact stricter gun laws.

I would never have predicted gun ownership to increase in the U.S. after that tragedy.