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

Is it that time already? Yes! It's the 1st of December so that means this is your opportunity to test your fortune telling skills and tell us what you expect to happen in 2013.

Give us your predictions for 2013. They can be serious, or silly, about sports, politics, showbiz, the weather or anything!

Happy predicting and all the best for 2013!

The Groob will predict a 'Predictions for 2014' thread. I will post that he will predict a 'Predictions for 2015' thread thereon.

Icy North and I will bask in the shared knowledge of being 100% correct for the third consecutive year.

B

When all is said done, more is said than done. I predict that this will continue in 2013. Whatever doesn't get said or done in 2013 will be postponed for subsequent years.

In 2013, that list of postponed chores will get attention. The list consists of:
a)...
b)...
c)...
...

Oh, never mind, Ms Stress will remind me

There will be discoveries of Great New Things on Mars, which will turn out to be Nothing To Get Excited Over the following week.

Didn't get a lot right in 2012, here's hoping I do better in 2013.

1) Earth hit by giant meteor.
2) The EU centralises all economic controls with the Central Bank - all Eurozone state's budgets and borrowings controlled from Germany.
3) PS4 released
4) Somebody releases an "iPhone Killer" that isn't.
5) A rival platform to Facebook emerges.
6) Greggs will begin a home delivery service
7) There will be a Royal baby (that's not an admission of guilt btw)
8) A major High Street department store will fold
9) Augmented Reality glasses will be the summer fad
10) David Beckham will retire.

Attempts will be made to clarify Ireland's very confusing laws on when, exactly, abortion is permitted. They will fail.

TRiG.

7) There will be a Royal baby

Ahem http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20586343

You beat me to it by 11 minutes, swl!

Maybe there'll be 2?

Yes, but you only score the point if it's delivered by Greggs.

There's points?

Yes, and what do points make?

Endorsements.

B

The rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer.

[Guess which side I fall on]

I thought the plan was top skip twenty-thirteen and go directly to twenty-fourteen.
Kinda like leap a year.

I predict a hangover...

3D cinema will finally return to its slumber, where it'll wait another 25-30 years for some money-grabbing studio exec to think "3D, that's an awesome idea!" and thus will the cycle continue.
Reality TV will hit new lows when one of the subjects of whatever programme dies and they decide to broadcast it.
There will be a major scientific breakthrough that has the potential to change the world, but it will happen on the same day as a celebrity dying so nobody will notice.
Following the failure of Leveson to change anything the media will only get worse, because now it will know it can pretty much act with impunity.

Greggs ought to do gift vouchers, not home delivery.


Mol

Ireland will win Eurovision
Brucie will leave Strickly
It will be the wettest summer since records began.

"Reality TV will hit new lows when one of the subjects of whatever programme dies and they decide to broadcast it.
There will be a major scientific breakthrough that has the potential to change the world, but it will happen on the same day as a celebrity dying so nobody will notice."

I'll be contacting Channel 5 to suggest Celebrity UXB - last gasp celebs, publicity hungry MP's, pop clones, and "reality" droids try to defuse bombs that are way more sophisticated than they are.

I think the series should start with the boyz from Top Gear clearing a mine field in reasonably priced cars, and an Olympic "heroes" versus Footie "heroes" minefield volleyball match.