h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

i predict that i will wake up the day after everyone is done celebrating the "new millennium" and notice that the earth still rotates around the sun, the moon has not magically turned to cheese (much to my disapointment i might add), the question of chickens and eggs will still go unanswered and all in all life will be just as it was the day before.....full of new ideas, discoveries and all 'round intrigue
monsy

Dogs will still bark,cows will still moo..and the English will still be debating the pro's and con's of foxhunting!
shazzPR

The English will also be still loosing at cricket!!!

And football, rugby (both kinds), tennis, hockey, badminton...

But we are good at loosing though, aren't we?? Gentlemen to the end, what?

Certainly
But it's easy when we get so much practice.

In the future, what could we beat other nations at then, Morris dancing, tiddlywinks?

What could we beat other nations at then, Morris Dancing, Tiddlewinks?

We'd have to invent a sport that hardly any other country plays, enter it in the Olympics and win all the medals! (Not mentioning any names here as us British are such good sports at loosing...)

There was the not-so-famous, yet incredibly funny, Saturday Night Live skit about men's synchronized swimming. Just an idea.

There will always be someone harping on about the 1966 World Cup, regardless of the subject matter.

I think the English should set off to start beating everybody in alpine skiing. That is one of the most unpredictable things I can think of... That or icehockey, come to think of it.

What about speed tea-drinking and full-body-contact queuing?

Ha! They'll never beat us Swedes in that last sport...

Well, there was always the famous 1988 British success at losing gloriously at Ski Jumping by Eddie "The Eagle". If you're going to screw up, best to do it when the whole world is watching

Now that's what I call losing with pride. Eddie was king. They had a massive amount of interviews and stuff about him here during those games.

We won the World Conker Championship. A couple of pubs in France and Germany sent teams, so it was a proper international. Hardly anyone abroad plays, so we win all the time.

I was in Italy recently and passed a long row of conker trees. The floor was covered in conkers, huge, perfect specimens. In England the local kids would have picked up every last one, then thrown sticks into the trees to get the rest down, but the Italians just let them go to waste! I nearly cried, really.

Us British tend to be worst at the sports that we created e.g football, rugby, cricket, tennis(?).
We are regularly world champions in sports that others invented e.g. judo and other martial arts.
Maybe we should get others to invent some new sports for us.

For what it's worth, don't we lead the world in events to do with horses? And on another tack, Britain can be proud of its contribution to rock music.

But at least the rest of the country doesn't have the defeatist attitude of us Scots, where "We wis robbed" is the commonest complaint. I predict that no amount of Parliamentary Indepence will remove that from our psyche.

I would have to agree that the British made a considerable contribution to rock music. Led Zep and Pink Floyd are two of my favorite bands. It is time for a rebirth of the great music that was produced during that time.