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

Psychological abuse has been well-documented in the Royal Family. Some of it was well-intentioned or in the couldn't-be-helped category, though you'd think with all their money they could have beat the bushes for solutions . I'm fairly sure I would not want to have been the family psychiatrist tasked with mending fences between Charles and Diana, while Wills and Harry looked on in deep puzzlement and dismay.

Freud arrived in London much too late to help Queen Victoria connect with her grandson the Kaiser. Not that either would have listened to him. From what I've read, I think both Victoria and the Kaiser were certifiable. Not a good thing when you're talking about a family capable of starting wars in which a zillion people may die.

Don't forget that the very idea of psychiatry is still extremely new. And, even today, I still don't think it's very reliable.

Cognitive therapy seems to be the most-used method, not counting the many medications that have been developed.

But, yes, psychiatry is relatively new. It wasn't warmly embraced by much of the world at first, and still inspires numerous jokes . Freud is supposed to have said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," and Groucho Marx replied, "I like my cigar too, but I take it out now and then."

Zsa Zsa, Kirk, and Vera keep on truckin' and are still with us to see in 2016.

Bobby Davro is involved in an accident with a dirigible.

More bloody wheelie bins.

Sandy Shaw will start wearing one shoe. It becomes fashionable.

It will be really hot at Glastonbury to start off, but as the festival progresses there will be a slight chance of scattered showers.

An inhabited earth-like planet is discovered. The inhabitants spell out "Oh shit!" using rocks.

Chelsea will win the Premier League.

Derby are promoted to the Premier League.

People realise the word "bling" is a bit silly and stop saying it.

Lionel Blair will dance naked down Oxford Street for 24 hours to raise money for charity. At one point, Gazza joins in.

Election prediction: Nigel Farage has a fag and a pint the day after the election.

Alex Salmond has a punch up with another politician.

Acker Bilk comes back to life.

I will put more effort into making up my "predictions for 2016".

"People realise the word "bling" is a bit silly and stop saying it." [The Groob]

I hope that prediction will come to pass . To be honest, I've never heard anyone say it in my area. It might be a regional colloquialism common in another area.

Yeah, 'bling' was dying 10 years ago.

Maybe this is the year people stop taking onesies in their selfies.








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The Sun will respond to pressure to remove Page 3 Girls, but being The Sun will manage to replace it with something equally sexist.

Targeted acts of terror such as the ones in Paris will rise.

The above will be used by various governments to enact knee-jerk laws and send troops to hot and sandy places.

The above will be cited by conspiracy loonies as evidence of whatever the conspiracy du jour is.

Labour will win the general election mostly due to strategic voting rather than because anyone actually wants them to. The Green Party and UKIP will both gain seats but only one of them will do it on their own merit rather than simply relying on Tory defectors with safe constituencies.

A football team will win a trophy.

I will announce the use of my genetic material in the creation of a foetus.

If all the world's conspiracy loonies get together and form a society, would be a conspiracy in its own right?

I thought they already had

Mol

That must be why they're so agitated.

Crisp sandwiches will become trendy. Expect to see vans selling them at Glastonbury and other festivals.

I heard them talking about a crisp sandwich cafe on the radio last week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30799439

PP.

Blimey, finally a trend I'm ahead of. I only eat about 6 packets of crisps a year but I often choose to put those crisps in a sandwich.

Although apparently Nod's friends think I'm cool. I've waited *years* to be cool. Doesn't feel like I thought it would

Mol

My only hope of being cool lies in retro coming back. Not that In predict that in 2015 .

Maybe global warming will become cool.

Well, I think Mr Dredful might have won the first point. I'm not sure that M&S underwear counts as something equally sexist, but an online porno site probably does: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/19/has-the-sun-axed-page-3-topless-pictures

I didn't know this thread would entail scoring.

Is it that time already? Where did that year go? I've only just got used to writing 2015!

Let's see how you got on...

I predicted the end of a world. Did anyone notice any worlds ending? My favorite restaurant has gone out of business, and I didn't notice until I went there to eat.

I don't think *anyone* in my list of likely-to-die people has done so. They must be off somewhere singing "I'm not dead yet."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLgQMtquS6Y

Mr Dreadful seems to have scooped the pool. I wish he hadn't been so prescient.

With Terry Pratchett, who died in 2015, Discworld came to an end.