Your worst prediction?

Sat this morning not getting Springsteen tickets , made me think of the statement I made on here a few months back saying his last tour felt like a farewell.

This is not my worst ever prediction! Around the millennium a friend approached me and said he had been offered a job by a start up company to animate/ devise games for mobile phones. This involved decent pay, share options in the start up and an escape from drawing the Bash Street Kids for DC Thompson. I was horrified and talked him out of it using the phrase , “ no one will ever play games on a mobile phone, that’s a ridiculous idea!” Even now I catch him looking at me with murder in his eye!

Owning three houses in 2008 as I joined the ‘doing up houses and being a landlord’ craze…. That cost me £140k, nearly my marriage, nearly lost my main home, and a lot of respect and confidence in myself.

You should see my football betting every weekend.

Also, as a United fan I’ve spent the last ten years saying ‘well it can’t get any worse….’

Leave the EU ???, one of our biggest markets. That will never happen, i mean nobody could be that stupid …

Pretty sure there’s some tickets available for the 14th at Manchester.

I also thought that the whole Brexit thing would be abandoned as obvious nonsense. Pretty much right up to when they actually did it.

Of course I wasn’t wrong about the obvious nonsense, just about the abilities and behaviour of politicians.

Yeah, Brexit. At the time I could half buy the sovereignty argument that was being put forward but thought the loss of market access, loss of membership of a meaningfully influential power block and the horrendous complication of disentanglement with no preparedness for any of it would sway the argument.

How very wrong I was.

Trump? No chance

Brexit? No chance

You missed Boris? No chance and Truss? Give over, you’re being ridiculous now.

I told a clas that schools wouldn’t shut in the pandemic. Came home, read that now famous report then went back in the next day and said the opposite.

Disc brakes on road bikes are unnecessary and will never catch on. I couldn’t have been more incorrect!

No chance and Truss? Give over, you’re being ridiculous now

Oh, I don’t know. I put a tenner on Truss being the next leader at 9/1 when Rishi was 2/1 and apparently nailed on. I thought that the Tory party was now so mental that it was inevitable

I’ve put the same on Jenrick at 5/1 when Kemi was 2/1 and apparently nailed on

The school won’t close and the UK won’t go into lockdown to 30 kids.

Next day- lockdown.

I thought Russia would take Kyiv very quickly, within days tbh. Then depose Zelensky and install a puppet government that would dance to the Kremlin’s balalaika before their covetous eyes fell on the Baltic states, Poland or God knows where else in the years to come.

I am very glad I was wrong.  I have huge respect for the Ukrainian courage and determination to resist becoming a Russian colony once again and giving other Eastern European states a breathing space to prepare to defend themselves from more of the same.

Your worst prediction?

That I’d never get married and never have children.

Been married 18 years (together 28), and have 2 boys aged 21 & 16.

Best, worst prediction ever…most of the time (an emoji of your choice)

Dreamed of few numbers for lottery so the next day went to buy £10 of the numbers.

Not even one number appeared in the draw FFS!  Not even one!

I thought the Tory party couldn’t get any worse than Cameron in 2010.

Whilst many of the subsequent clusterflucks can be laid at his feet for starting the process leading into the Fhecksit vote, blimey ho much worse they go after him. Self serving moron after self serving fat moron after treble self serving utterly clueless unrepentant self serving moron.

Betamax :o(

Most people won’t trust buying things online.

Oh and Mini Disc.

Not mine, but a recently a sponsored site kept popping up on YouTube by some religious group saying that the world was going to end on October 9th!

breathed a sigh of relief yesterday morning!?

that said, seeing as the world’s spiralling into shit, I suspect we might not be out the woods yet, maybe it was a typo in the book of revelation and they meant the 19th, or the 29th or….

Who on earth would want a stupid gadget in their pocket with a camera/iPod and phone built in?

@tall_martin TBF I remember walking across the car park with a colleague from a COVID planning meeting and we were both saying we thought it would be a massive anticlimax, as SARS/MERS had been. Not that long thereafter it was into 3 on 3 off emergency rotas for six months.

As with others – waking up in the morning of June 24th 2016 was horrifying.

Yeah it’s just a fart just push it out.

Got offered a posting to Brunei. Gave it a swerve cos ide met a lass. Thought “it’ll come around again”.

It didn’t come around again. And the lass had a better offer.

As with others – waking up in the morning of June 24th 2016 was horrifying

We were talking about that only last night. 4 of us were cycling the Trans Pennine Trail and we started day 2 waking up to that news.

Kinda dampened the joy of riding for a while.

I was very confident in 1990 that mountain bike suspension wouldn’t catch on.

It didn’t come around again. And the lass had a better offer

She got the Brunei gig?

 waking up in the morning of June 24th 2016

We were camping up in the hills for a few nights and came down on the morning of the 24th. It was hosing down, no signal til we were almost down. I was jokingly suggesting 70 – 30 for remain, 60 – 40 at a pinch, and a red faced farage. Madame read the news out and we just looked at each other, rain dripping off our noses.

Later we walked into the cafe in ullapool. It was nearly full but utterly silent. Everyone was staring into their phone in utter disbelief.

I was very confident in 1990 that mountain bike suspension wouldn’t catch on.

My lbs at the time told me that all you need is a flex stem and a Brooks B66. They went out of business

Back in the 80s I used to kick around south London with my younger brother doing entrepreneurial type stuff.

Quite often we’d come across a little gem of a business idea that I really thought had legs and could be scaled up quickly.

And I would say to him “This time next year Rodney (that was his name) we’ll be millionaires!”

Never quite happened.

I remember a news article on telly, saying the iPod was dead. Nokia had introduced the MP3 player into their phones. I thought, **** that it looks rubbish, but if apple make iPods that are phones Nokia are super ****. I was triumphant.

Lots of people have mentioned Brexit. I might be generalising a bit but i suspect that a lot of people on here had the same problem as the politicians – being in a lefty middle class bubble full of people who had done very well out of the (then) current system so thinking why would anyone vote to leave? I think the reason that it became a problem was two-fold. Those in charge were so out of touch that they never considered a leave vote as a realistic possibility and so therefore totally failed to plan for it, and secondly making a success of it rather depended on having a competent government in charge afterwards, which we also appeared to lack. Living where I did at the time, where I grew up, I saw it coming a mile off as it was by far the majority opinion (the next door constituency was the biggest leave vote in the country), but then i failed to see the Blair landslide coming, for exactly the same reason, I thought that they’d get, at most, a hung parliament.

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I remember a news article on telly, saying the iPod was dead. Nokia had introduced the MP3 player into their phones. I thought, **** that it looks rubbish, but if apple make iPods that are phones Nokia are super ****. I was triumphant.

Yeah it was lack of decent touch screens and a crap OS (Symbian) that killed Nokia (and Blackberry)  in the mobile phone market.

When Android and iOS matured a bit more, with no physical keyboards and fancy touch screens, they were just murdered, it was a blood bath, like taking spears to a gun fight.

It wasn’t the Brexit vote itself I was talking about – it was obvious that was going to be quite close – but the subsequent years of idiocy long after it became clear that no one had anything to offer other than vacuous slogans and ludicrous claims.

Apart from Trump and Brexit, I remember telling American friends who were upset about W. getting elected that it wasn’t such a big deal, he’d probably govern a lot like his father and not do anything really stupid.

I just had to Google June 24th 2016 ?

Pick any political/economics thread from 24+ months before whatever the current date is, they’re absolutely stuffed full of proclamations.

Back in the early days of the internet, when it was just glowing green text on the black background of a VT100 terminal, I assured all of my colleagues that it would never catch on, teletext/ceefax was superior in every way!!!

That having children wouldn’t be that difficult…..

Veeeery specific but a long time ago I went and saw a band, Terris, play my local venue. I think they’d just signed a minor deal but they were still nobodies, I came out completely convinced that they were going to be massive, we might see them headlining festivals etc in a few years. I’ve never been so certain. The album bombed completely and they sank without trace, I assume they’re all teachers now.

Meanwhile the coheadliners were obviously never going to amount to anything. Literally days later they had their first top 40 hit, about 3 months later they released a single called Yellow, then put their debut album straight in at number one, it was bloody Coldplay.

Meanwhile the coheadliners were obviously never going to amount to anything. Literally days later they had their first top 40 hit, about 3 months later they released a single called Yellow, then put their debut album straight in at number one, it was bloody Coldplay.

Related, I remember a conversation with friends at Glastonbury where one of my mates said – come and watch this band, they’re in our year at our uni and they’re going to be massive. I didn’t bother because I couldn’t be bothered trekking to the new bands tent. I also didn’t realise I knew the drummer from drinking in the Union, which would have been enough probably. Anyway, that was Coldplay too.