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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: Blasted on November 22, 2009, 06:40:50 PM
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What they had predicted for us in 1900:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sGYULzoQCgA/RiR7L_dyCLI/AAAAAAAAAdU/2COTRQtZAk8/s1600/Ladies%2BHome%2BJournal%2BDec%2B1900%2Bpaleofuture%2Bpaleo-future.jpg)
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:)
Pretty funny shit. I like the part about pneumatic tubes everywhere. ::)
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I was dubious about the authenticity of this, especially after reading "Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits," which seemed a little too conveniently prescient. But Ladies' Home Journal does indeed claim this as their own. Here's a link:
http://www.lhj.com/style/covers/predictions-for-the-year-2000/ (http://www.lhj.com/style/covers/predictions-for-the-year-2000/)
Very amusing, even those predictions which didn't pan out quite as expected, like spelling reform and pest control.
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"Few drugs will be swallowed..."
:rofl:
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i want one of those amazing telegraphing cameras
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I was dubious about the authenticity of this, especially after reading "Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits," which seemed a little too conveniently prescient. But Ladies' Home Journal does indeed claim this as their own. Here's a link:
http://www.lhj.com/style/covers/predictions-for-the-year-2000/ (http://www.lhj.com/style/covers/predictions-for-the-year-2000/)
Jules Verne predicted well over a hundred years ago that there would be something like the internet and that the UK would be more or less a "colony" to the US.
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I had a crazy great grandma that predicted all kinds of weird to her kids back then shit that isn't so weird now like radio,cars ,flying everyone thought she was nuts back then
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Great article, ٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶ . Thanks for sharing.
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Pretty accurate, given the year (1906) and the publication (LHJ, FFS!)
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Peas as large as beets... :hide:
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Peas as large as beets... :hide:
:viking:
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Peas as large as beets... :hide:
:viking:
They might be :viking: brave if I actually liked peas! :laugh:
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Peas as large as beets... :hide:
:viking:
They might be :viking: brave if I actually liked peas! :laugh:
Peas in mashed potatoes is good.
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Peas as big as my Balls of Steel(TM)! :zoinks:
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Peas as big as my Balls of Steel(TM)! :zoinks:
Pea-sized, then. Fair enough.
(j/k; we are all well aware that "the twins" weigh several thousand kilos each. Never mind balls of steel; what industrial-strength material are your trousers made from? Inquiring minds need to know.)
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btw my balls are granite.
mineral always beat metal, cus metal is too flexible. flexibility=cheating.
a medieval castle > flexible modern skyrise, any day.
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You're heavy. :zoinks:
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My balls are of Neutronium. :viking:
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I was always bad at biology so I can't tell you for sure. I don't glow in the dark, though.
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My balls are made out of dna, atoms, soluble proteins, etc.
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My balls are made out of dna, atoms, soluble proteins, etc.
pussy!
8)
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My balls are made out of dna, atoms, soluble proteins, etc.
pussy!
8)
No i'm afraid not. If only pussies were made from these things, just about all life would be pussies.
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The future's Orange.
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The future's Orange.
Don't let the Greens hear you say that! :green:
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I love reading this kind of stuff. I think we'll be made fun of by future generations by our predictions.
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The future's Orange.
I'd rather die :zombiefuck:
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No, the future is BLUE! It has to be! :-[