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

It's that time of year when I like to test the brains of H2G2 and find out what their biggie predictions are for 2009.

Serious or frivolous welcome.

When I get a mo I'll dig out "predictions for 2008" to see how many we got right last time!

the word moron will continue to be yikesed

GRJ will post a 'Predictions For 2010' thread.

I'm 100% at this game so far.

B

Apparently so is Taff.

Mu Beta will predict that GRJ will post a 'Predictions For 2010' thread.

In a bid to curb global warming, "National Leave The Freezer Door Open Day" is held in March.
Prince Philip divorces the Queen and sets up a love nest on a Greek island with Elton John.
Hazel Blears' smug grin stretches completely round her head and the top falls off.
Peggy Sue publishes her lurid autobiography. Turns out most everyone "knew" her.
Magnetic pole switches overnight. Australians fall off the planet.
The Republic of Ireland football team field a player actually born in Ireland.
In a bid to curb global warming, "National Hold Your Breath Day" is held in June.
WMD found in Iraq.

"Mu Beta will predict that GRJ will post a 'Predictions For 2010' thread."

I've already predicted that.

You mean "Mu Beta will predict that GRJ will post a 'Predictions For 2011' thread."

B

I *knew* something wasn't quite right,but my brain's mush at the moment.

Ant and Dec will reach critical mass and start to absorb other celebrities. After two weeks enough celebrity will have been absorbed to form a leviathan 50-foot tall meta-celebrity capable of dancing on ice, forming a single-issue political party, eating an entire kangaroo whole, checking in and out of rehab and singing "The First Cut Is The Deepest" for charity all at the same time. Numerous Japanese animators will say "told ya." In disgust, Dr Brian Cox will switch off the LHC, hang up his lab coat and reform D:Ream. His first single "Seriously Though, This Has To Stop" will stay at number one for 6 weeks, and become the anthem for the next Conservative election campaign.

A new ultra-low-budget reality TV show will air called "I'm a single-celled organism, get me out of here".

A man will leave his office at the beginning of his lunchbreak, then purchase a Marks & Spencers BLT sandwich, sit on a park bench and eat it while four hoodies on stolen bikes ride past making rude gestures and shouting something he doesn't quite understand and causing a mother pushing a buggy to swerve into a flower bed such that her toddler releases its grip on the Winnie the Pooh-shaped balloon, which rapidly rises towards the rooftops and becomes a beacon above the cityscape.

This will be the signal. A39617427

the global currency transparency treaty will be the start create one global currency by 2020. one of the major changes in global currency transparency treaty is that the euro will start take over the pound and several other european currencies before the end of 2010.

in the global currency transparency treaty describes each percentage of old currency in the one global currency. on 1 january 2011 one global currency's name and fixed exchange rate will announced.

Oi! keep your thieving European hands off our British independence!

RF

you can not read

You cannot understand economics.

RF

As Groob Roghan Josh said serious predictions were welcome, here are two:

1. The 2008 falls in house prices will be echoed by a 2009 collapse in the value of commercial property.

2. Drug-resistant tuberculosis will be a big media story in 2009.

(Currently of late I've noticed not only domestic/house property prices lower, but also seem qutie a few mid/small sized commercial premises appear at auctions; a bit out in backwaters rurual/semi rural areas, but nethertheless I think its already started....; I saw a shop with as much 'living' space above it as my house for the same price I bought my house for err eight year or so ago maan that shop floor space would make a fab big front room.... )

1. I predict a riot.

2. Further house and commercial price falls, including a big increase in reprosesions hitting peak at about end feb/mid march)..

3. Margret Thatcher will be taken in to hosptital ...

4. A couple more big 'high street names' will follow woolys and the like

5. I'll loose 2 stone by the end of the year, finally ring up to get my boiler serviced and finally loose my rag with Virgin media to the point where they call the police.

On a brighter note, I should like to predict that George Bush will be charged with war crimes. This may be wishful thinking, but I have a rationale to put forward: Barack Obama has to establish himself on the world stage as a man who can be trusted, so he will have to cut away some of the rotten wood.

And if Bush, then perhaps Blair, too?

** George Bush will be charged with war crimes **



as long as it does not happen in the International Court in The Hague, because I do not want US army invading The Netherlands. G. W. Bush signed law that US citizen or army can not be tried in the International Court in The Hague and will be freed some tries it.

** George Bush will be charged with war crimes **

Don't worry, pheloxi. That b*st*rd will pardon himself last day in office.