2009

Predictions?

1) Applying the principle of "surge" in Afghanistan will lead to a crisis in Pakistan.

2) American troops will largerly withdraw from Iraq.

3) Gordon Brown will go.

Happy New Year!

Here are some of the 2008 predictions: Thread 84055

1. Germany will win the European cup.
2. The Republicans will win the US general election.
3. Castro will die.
4. I will suffer more than one hangover.

There will be a terrorist attack by Al Queda that will be bigger than 9/11

A Brish Royal will be assassinated.

George Dubya to go into Iran before his term is up.

Hilary Clinton will be first female US president.

The "Big Three" automakers will finally realize that the Asians have it right.( but on the downside waaaaaay too late)

America will go to war against Pakistan.

1) The Nuggets and the Celtics in the NBA Finals (Nuggets win, 7 games)
2) The Patriots will lose in the playoffs
3) The vacuum created by the rapidly shrinking testicles of all the players on the Mitchell report will suck the game of baseball into its swirling vortex, and worldwide boredom will decrease exponentially.
4) A fast food chain will make a five-patty hamburger sandwich.
5) Led Zeppelin will tour.
6) The entire country of Iran will lift out of the earth with rockets, and Ahmadinejad will proclaim, "That's right! We weren't working on Nukes; we were working on becoming the worlds first air-island!"
7) The cost of the iPhone will drop to around $200...in fact, the price of all electronics will drop soon.
8) The Discovery Channel will prove that the world can be cut in half...by cutting it in half.
9) I will solve my Rubik's Cube.
10) They will push the envelope with energy drinks so far that dropping an unopened can could result in fatal blast burns.

1. Bret Favre will finally retire. (-- well, he did for a few months at least!)
2. steroids scandals will mar the Olympics (-- if they did, I've already forgotten )
3. a presidential candidate will be shot at but not fatally (-- threatened, but that's it (which is good) )
4. war will break out in a country that nobody has noticed in a long time (-- can you say Mumbai? )
5. everyone will be stunned when a truly original film is made in the US (-- see number 2 )
6. Either Quebec or Scotland will gain independence/autonomy (-- well, there are still a couple of weeks (or see number 2) )
7. Queen Elizabeth will pass away after figuring out how to bypass Charles as the heir (-- see number 6 )
8. The forums will be shut down for three days due to a major implosion, resulting in a temporary ban on non-subs posting. (-- not that I remember, but I was gone a few months )
9. Russ will offer a discount to everyone who subs on his birthday, resulting in a number of new members equaling his age (-- he should still consider this )
10. Huck and Darv will get married, but not to each other (-- does engaged count?)


1. The Democrats will take the US treasury benches and the White House, but, with another Clinton in the Oval Office is not entirely certain.

2. There will be significant nuclear exchanges in the Middle east involving the US, Iran and Iraq.

3. HRH Queen Elizabeth 2 will pass this year, and Charles will succede. So, by default the first born of Camilla will be next in line to the throne, bypassing Edward and Harry.

4. The USA will suffer yet another attack even more horrific than the 9/11 event. It will bring the country and NORAD very close to midnight.

5.There will be a complete and sudden tectonic plate separation off the West Coast of America. The resulting tsunami will be devastating.

6. Planet Earth will become aware of an ELE due early 2012 (Nostradamus) and world trade, economics and general living standards will deteriorate from the announcement.


POLITICS

The middle east will have a ceasefire...and then resume hostilities shortly thereafter.

RHP FOLKS

Darvlay will finally lose it and turn his back on all his followers calling them a bunch of Cliff Claven wanna-be's.

SPORTS

The Yankees and/or Red Sox make the playoffs again. Phlabibit claims their payrolls have nothing to do with it.

FORUMS

The general forum becomes so loaded with fluff and garbage that the UN declares it a wasteland unfit for human use.

DEATHS

Dick Clarke

MUSIC

CD Sales will plummit to levels not seen since rotating discs made of wax were used to sell music. Much of the blame will be placed on a realization that after 10 years of listening to bands like Deefhoof, MIA, Fallout Boy, My Chemiical Romanace, Belle and Sebastien et al, that the music of today is flat, simplistic, and simply boring after 5 minutes of listening. One good song here and there are not enough to sustain CD sales for entire albums and that the 30-65 age bracket (as a whole) do not feel comfortable using pay pal to pay for songs over the internet. Copy protection is removed and a plan to charge people a flat fee collected by their ISP provider to be given to the musician associations is given serious disussion..........However, hope makes an appearance late in 2008 with rumours of a band from the UK that sounds nothing like before...stay tuned.

Originally posted by spruce112358
..........However, hope makes an appearance late in 2008 with rumours of a band from the UK that sounds nothing like before...stay tuned.

Originally posted by spruce112358
Predictions?

1) Applying the principle of "surge" in Afghanistan will lead to a crisis in Pakistan.

2) American troops will largerly withdraw from Iraq.

3) Gordon Brown will go.

Happy New Year!

1. The economic crisis will prove to be not as bad as people expected. Stock markets will surge (+10-30% ) and the economy will only show a small decline, ready to recover in 2010. The price of oil will go back to 100 dollars per barrel by the end of 2009.

2. Mugabe, under increasing pressure from the African League, will lose power.

3. A dialogue with Hamas is finally started and peace negotiations begin. They fail after either side is accused of agression or not honoring the terms.

4. US troops largely withdraw from Iraq.

5. The US starts negotiations with Iran resulting in the abandonment of the Iran nuclear programme.

6. The Cuban economy will show strong growth due to the adaptation of China-style "free-market communism". Fidel will die. US sanctions against Cuba will be lightened.

7. Gordon Brown will indeed be forced to resign.

8. There will be an assasination attempt against Obama.

i reckon we will complete our 2009th revolution around the sun without being destroyed by an asteroid, the rest is just details.

Originally posted by eamon o
i reckon we will complete our 2009th revolution around the sun without being destroyed by an asteroid, the rest is just details.

1. Due to less disposable income people will realise they don't actually need most of the crap they buy. Worsening the financial situation but generally improving their mental health.

2. Israel will bomb the Palestinians into apparent submission, and find another neighbor to annex. Thus creating another generation of alienated Islamic youths who decide bombing Israel is the best solution. The Palestinians join in again. Nothing really changes.

3. My chess rating will go back to 1300 🙄

4. Europe will end up in a ridiculous quagmire when Ireland votes No to Lisbon again. It'll get taken to all the nations to vote on, they'll also vote no. European parliament gets sacked and we start again without the useless bureaucrats.

5. Euro will overtake sterling, UK will ask to join Euro and be declined because their economy isn't stable enough.... Comedians have field day....

I dare not make meaningful predictions for the world (too much uncertainty) but, IF everything goes according to my plans for 2009, by the end of 2009 I will;

1, be running a profitable software business selling software over the net that I invented that rivals Microsoft’s software (I have already made a start at making the software but it is going to take many months to complete).

2, become well known in the world scientific community for proving by computer simulation on my computer a phenomenon in evolution that I have long logically deduced should exist that for now I am calling the “bias for spread effect”. This “bias for spread effect” is when, under certain conditions that don’t occur most of the time but do sometimes occur naturally, natural selection selects for characteristics that favour the organism spreading faster and farther into new territory even when those same characteristics actually decrease the chances of the organism passing on its genes onto the next generation! (this idea would probably be regarded as scientific heresy as this is not how evolution is supposed to generally work).
I don’t wont say any more about this theorem until I have confirmed the theorem’s predictions by computer simulation.

The problem is I made these two predictions for last year but then everything seemed to take a lot longer to arrange than I imagined.

Originally posted by eamon o
i reckon we will complete our 2009th revolution around the sun without being destroyed by an asteroid, the rest is just details.