# Those crappy psychics again **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 6, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574 "2022-03-06T17:21:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/1 "2022-03-06T17:21:58Z")
Looks like the same psychics that didn’t tell us about Covid-19 forgot to mention WWIII also. I may have to cancel my subscription. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/2 "2022-03-06T17:41:04Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > Looks like the same psychics that didn’t tell us about Covid-19 forgot to mention WWIII also. **I may have to cancel my subscription.** - I knew you were going to say that. Still sealed envelope with my prediction available on request. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/3 "2022-03-06T17:45:16Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > I may have to cancel my subscription. I subscribe to 2^100 different psychic prediction services. After each significant event, I cancel my subscription to the half that got it wrong. I am gradually narrowing it down - after 100 events, I will have isolated the one true psychic who predicted all 100 events correctly. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/4 "2022-03-06T17:48:03Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > after 100 events, I will have isolated the one true psychic who predicted all 100 events correctly. Speed it up and you can use it for the March Madness tournament. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/5 "2022-03-06T17:51:53Z")
Your psychics prediction services are better than mine: no way mine would get half of their stuff right. Some say that can be used as a contrarian prediction tool, but I have not found out the way yet, as they mostly don’t predict the wrong outcome of an event, they predict the wrong kind of events. But 2100 subscriptions? I commend you very much for your stamina. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/6 "2022-03-06T17:54:12Z")
I fixed the title for you, it was driving me a littlemore? nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/7 "2022-03-06T17:54:21Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > I subscribe to 2^100 different psychic prediction services. After each significant event, I cancel my subscription to the half that got it wrong. I am gradually narrowing it down - after 100 events, I will have isolated the one true psychic who predicted all 100 events correctly. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, I presume? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/8 "2022-03-06T18:13:25Z")
never mind ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/9 "2022-03-06T18:17:19Z")
For only $1.99 a month, I can predict the next poster in a thread a few seconds before they post. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/10 "2022-03-06T20:34:43Z")
The usual suspects are at it again. > **[Nostradamus World War 3: Could now be time 'East will weaken the West'](https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1576353/nostradamus-world-war-3-prophecy-ww3-russia-ukraine-conflict)** > > NOSTRADAMUS has attracted a huge number of followers that credit him with predicting major world events - but did the 16th-century apothecary predict the outbreak of World War 3? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/11 "2022-03-06T20:36:17Z")
> [@Bootb](#): > > The usual suspects are at it again. - > > [Nostradamus World War 3 prediction: Could now be time 'East will weaken the West' | Weird | News | Express.co.uk](https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1576353/nostradamus-world-war-3-prophecy-ww3-russia-ukraine-conflict) You don’t even have to be psychic to see that coming. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/12 "2022-03-06T21:09:20Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Still sealed envelope with my prediction available on request On Funk & Wagnall’s porch, I assume? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/13 "2022-03-06T21:23:17Z")
In a mayonaisse jar since noon today. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/14 "2022-03-06T21:25:53Z")
Oh sure they could, in fact they often do, since the predictions are very vague and afterwards they can be explained as being right. One Psychic was lauded as she told a young man to not drive. And yes- like tens of thousands of young men, he died in a car crash… but he wasn’t driving. So, really she got it wrong but she lauds it as getting a bullseye. But predicting that a young man will have something bad happen to him in a car? That is pretty close to a 50-50 if not better than that. Like those Psychics who say the murdered girl will be found "_I see water, and the color green"._ That mostly eliminates the middle of Death Valley. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/15 "2022-03-06T21:39:31Z")
My prediction for the day: ( free of course, cause it ain’t worth the paper it’s printed on) Tomorrow will be " Monday" ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/16 "2022-03-06T21:44:25Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > My prediction for the day: ( free of course, cause it ain’t worth the paper it’s printed on) > Tomorrow will be " Monday" - No, tomorrow will be Monday. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/17 "2022-03-06T21:46:36Z")
You bet your sweet bippy! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/18 "2022-03-06T21:51:25Z")
“Sock it to me” ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/19 "2022-03-06T21:52:37Z")
That reminds me, I need to stock up on canned goods and water, and keep it in my basement, where I intend to hang out. The concrete walls ought to offer some degree of protection from nuclear fallout. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574/20 "2022-03-06T22:47:12Z")
“Oh, why didn’t I see this coming?” [![](https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/8/8b/Fortune_Teller.png) ](https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/8/8b/Fortune_Teller.png) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-crappy-psychics-again/960574.md?page=2)