I'm currently owed 3 beers from people in 3 different countries, as I'd made numerous 'bets', dating back to March/April 2007, insisting that Barack Obama would win the Presidential elections in 2008, barring assassination.
Having returned to this chess website (my maturity over the past 3 years proven by my using chessatwork instead of redhotpawn 😀) after a prolonged absence, I've looked on some of my old forum posts (sad individual), and seen a few unknowingly accurate predictions.
On 3rd December 2005, in a film review thread...
"Infernal Affairs - 9/10 This was a superb film...the Scorcese re-make could give him the Oscar"
"The Departed" went on to achieve this in Feb 2007...
Slightly more shaky, and about as inciteful as a vague Nostradamus, on 3rd Sep 2005,
"Winners of World Cup - between Brazil, Argentina, England and maybe those pesky Italians."
Courtesy of a penalty shootout, the Italians made it.
Can anyone else recall correct predictions they've made more than a year in advance?