Predictions 2008

[CBright7831 0]

+ We will have a new president-elect

 

+ Gas prices will surge

 

+ We will still be in Iraq by the end of 08

 

+ Many top Hollywood celebrities will endorse the Democratic presidential nominee and annoy the shit out of me

 

+ George W. Bush stays out of sight for the most of the year

 

+ Al Gore will not shut up

 

 

 

 

What are your predictions?

[Guest Vitamin X]

+ We will have a new president

 

Fuckin' Nostradamus here.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

That caught my attention as well.

 

I thought that this was gonna revolve around Election 2008. As it stands, it's too wide open for the thread to really take off as there's a billion topics to cover for any real discussion to occur.

 

What's C&HE?

[Timmy8271 0]

-We will have a Military presence in Pakistan

 

- Rudy Guliani will be president and Change his name to 9/11 Rudy.

 

- George Bush will Pardon about 100 people

 

- The Stock Market will crash and people will panic

[CBright7831 0]

That caught my attention as well.

 

I thought that this was gonna revolve around Election 2008. As it stands, it's too wide open for the thread to really take off as there's a billion topics to cover for any real discussion to occur.

 

What's C&HE?

Current and Historical Events

[Guest My Pal, the Tortoise]

Haha, why do we actually call it that? It's just Current Events. Was this another one of KingPK's abortive forum reforms?

[Obi Chris Kenobi 0]

- The World Economy bombs, which means I can finally afford to buy a house.

- The UK pulls out of Iraq, leading to civil unrest in Iraq and everything going back to how it was minus Saddam

- Russia flexs its muscles some more, sending recon planes to the boarder of US and UK Airspace once again

- Some cool news about our Solar System is revealed, leading to the next Golden Age in space discovery

- Gordon Brown loses the General Election, Torry's come in, and loud smack of foreheads can be heard across the UK in unison as everyone suddenly realizes what they've done, as the Tory's go a privatize everything and you can no longer go to hospital unless you own a bank

- Banks merged together

- Even more crazy weather antics, the date of the 'point of no return' in regards to Global Warming is changed again to that of last week

- Christmas 2008 is canceled due to a mass retailers strike regarding minimum wage

- UN declare it illegal for the UK to not accepting immigrants into the country

- A race war breaks out in the UK as the different Religions and Creeds are forced to live together

- Social tolerance disappears

- The UK becomes a 'not so secret Police state'. George Orwell LOLZ in his Grave.

[Quit Calling My Mama 0]

+ We will have a new president

 

You wont have a new President until January 20th 2009

 

[CBright7831 0]

+ We will have a new president

 

You wont have a new President until January 20th 2009

President elect then.

[Guest Vitamin X]

- Gordon Brown loses the General Election, Torry's come in, and loud smack of foreheads can be heard across the UK in unison as everyone suddenly realizes what they've done, as the Tory's go a privatize everything and you can no longer go to hospital unless you own a bank

- Banks merged together

- Even more crazy weather antics, the date of the 'point of no return' in regards to Global Warming is changed again to that of last week

- Christmas 2008 is canceled due to a mass retailers strike regarding minimum wage

- UN declare it illegal for the UK to not accepting immigrants into the country

- A race war breaks out in the UK as the different Religions and Creeds are forced to live together

- Social tolerance disappears

- The UK becomes a 'not so secret Police state'. George Orwell LOLZ in his Grave.

 

So in other words, the UK turns into the US? Oh god.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

The SAG goes on Strike over the summer with the Writers who are still on strike and Hollywood is pretty much shut down. Television becomes a choice of either sports, politics or game shows. Struggling actors turn to celebrity editions of game shows such as Smarter than a 5th Grader and Jeopardy to make money instead of for their favorite charities.

 

The Presidential election is a rehash of 2000 but in reverse as the Republicans accuse the democrats of stealing the election with phony votes (from illegal immigrants) in California. This time the Supreme Court rules that there must be a new election run early in 2009 with stricter voting rules across the country. With 1/3 fewer votes being counted in the 2nd election (gee..I wonder why..?), the Republican nominee

Mike Huckabee

beats the Democratic nominee

Barrack Obama

handily. Meanwhile, George W. Bush dyes his hair jet black and becomes an Elvis Impersonator during the last few days of his presidency.

 

China wins the most gold medals of any nation at the Olympics, but eventually will end up forfeiting at least 1/4 of them due to doping allegations several years after the fact. After returning home from the Olympics, several American athletes including the entire USA Basketball team all get sick due to lead poisoning. China agrees to stop producing crap with lead if the US will force McDonalds out of China. McDonalds then promptly goes bankrupt in the move and results in a huge spike in unemployment until they realize they can all get jobs at Taco Bell which days later announces a massive increase in stores nationwide. Taco Bell's store increase also came with a side plan, The Taco Bell Fuel for the Future Initiative, funded and researched in parter with the federal governement. It would supply eaters as the restaurant chain with Methane caputring devices that users would stick on their asses after consuming food from their restaurants. With bean prices falling rapidly, Taco Bell is also able to increase the bean content of their dishes 3 fold, providing more fuel for their Taco Bell Fuel For the Future initiative. Despite this, the methane recaptured only amounts to a 3% reduction in oil demand, but the TBFFI is seen as a success.

 

Gas prices will hit $3.50 by the summer and level off for the rest of the year, but Milk will almost double in price to $7 a gallon angering many americans at the US Dairy Cartel for making tons of money off the poor backs of those defensless, Ozone layer destroying cows. Soy milk sales skyrocket until further research is revealed that young boys who drink soy milk turn in to pansies due to the estrogen in it. Soy Milk is thus banned and the breakfast drink of choice becomes Rats milk, to the delight of one Heather Mills and a certain poster here.

 

Hurricane Marco slams into Florida as a Category 6 (having to up the # because it was so enormous and devastating) storm and buries the entire state of Florida under 25 feet of water. Al Gore is seen chuckling somewhere on a big jet flying to a global warming conference, which suddenly crashes somewhere around Greenland, landing on a melting iceberg.

[MrRant 0]

RFID licenses causes NoCalMike and Marvin's heads to explode as conspiracy theories run wild.

[Obi Chris Kenobi 0]

- Gordon Brown loses the General Election, Torry's come in, and loud smack of foreheads can be heard across the UK in unison as everyone suddenly realizes what they've done, as the Tory's go a privatize everything and you can no longer go to hospital unless you own a bank

- Banks merged together

- Even more crazy weather antics, the date of the 'point of no return' in regards to Global Warming is changed again to that of last week

- Christmas 2008 is canceled due to a mass retailers strike regarding minimum wage

- UN declare it illegal for the UK to not accepting immigrants into the country

- A race war breaks out in the UK as the different Religions and Creeds are forced to live together

- Social tolerance disappears

- The UK becomes a 'not so secret Police state'. George Orwell LOLZ in his Grave.

 

So in other words, the UK turns into the US? Oh god.

 

You'd seriously be surprised how accurate your statement is. Its like the UK Government has looked at the US model and went... THAT'S FOR US!

[King Kamala 0]

The SAG goes on Strike over the summer with the Writers who are still on strike and Hollywood is pretty much shut down. Television becomes a choice of either sports, politics or game shows. Struggling actors turn to celebrity editions of game shows such as Smarter than a 5th Grader and Jeopardy to make money instead of for their favorite charities.

 

The Presidential election is a rehash of 2000 but in reverse as the Republicans accuse the democrats of stealing the election with phony votes (from illegal immigrants) in California. This time the Supreme Court rules that there must be a new election run early in 2009 with stricter voting rules across the country. With 1/3 fewer votes being counted in the 2nd election (gee..I wonder why..?), the Republican nominee

Mike Huckabee

beats the Democratic nominee

Barrack Obama

handily. Meanwhile, George W. Bush dyes his hair jet black and becomes an Elvis Impersonator during the last few days of his presidency.

 

China wins the most gold medals of any nation at the Olympics, but eventually will end up forfeiting at least 1/4 of them due to doping allegations several years after the fact. After returning home from the Olympics, several American athletes including the entire USA Basketball team all get sick due to lead poisoning. China agrees to stop producing crap with lead if the US will force McDonalds out of China. McDonalds then promptly goes bankrupt in the move and results in a huge spike in unemployment until they realize they can all get jobs at Taco Bell which days later announces a massive increase in stores nationwide. Taco Bell's store increase also came with a side plan, The Taco Bell Fuel for the Future Initiative, funded and researched in parter with the federal governement. It would supply eaters as the restaurant chain with Methane caputring devices that users would stick on their asses after consuming food from their restaurants. With bean prices falling rapidly, Taco Bell is also able to increase the bean content of their dishes 3 fold, providing more fuel for their Taco Bell Fuel For the Future initiative. Despite this, the methane recaptured only amounts to a 3% reduction in oil demand, but the TBFFI is seen as a success.

 

Gas prices will hit $3.50 by the summer and level off for the rest of the year, but Milk will almost double in price to $7 a gallon angering many americans at the US Dairy Cartel for making tons of money off the poor backs of those defensless, Ozone layer destroying cows. Soy milk sales skyrocket until further research is revealed that young boys who drink soy milk turn in to pansies due to the estrogen in it. Soy Milk is thus banned and the breakfast drink of choice becomes Rats milk, to the delight of one Heather Mills and a certain poster here.

 

Hurricane Marco slams into Florida as a Category 6 (having to up the # because it was so enormous and devastating) storm and buries the entire state of Florida under 25 feet of water. Al Gore is seen chuckling somewhere on a big jet flying to a global warming conference, which suddenly crashes somewhere around Greenland, landing on a melting iceberg.

 

 

 

I don't know what'd be worse if Marvin was serious or making an attempt at humor.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I actually do believe that something as serious as voter fraud by illegal immigrants will be a key problem in the election.

 

Milk prices (and food prices in general) will rise more than gas prices will but gas prices will get all the attention. Soy Milk supposedly causes problems in young boys but there hasnt been a lot of research done. If milk does rise, logically soy milk would probably be a popular alternative because it is getting cheaper due to more soybeans being planted.

 

China has been prepping athletes for the 08 Olympics since 00 so its logical they'll make a run at the most medals. As much as McDonalds wants to hype its Chinese division as growing the fastest of all its divisions, I do not think the Chinese government really likes that fact and would like to see McDonalds out of China, but I dont see it happening.

 

The Writers guild isn't getting anywhere and the Screen Actors Guild can vote to go on strike in July I think. A concurent strike by both guilds would cripple Hollywood, potentially beyond repair.

 

The thing about Taco Bell is geared towards someone finding an odd way to get an alternative fuel source. It almost sounded onionish..

 

The U.S. is due for another major hurricane to hit (Marco for the record is the M name in 08 and you'll get the Marco Polo puns by newscasters by that time..). I keep hearing east coast (NC and the like) but I wanted to tie in Al Gore to it so Florida being covered in 25 feet of water made sense.

[SuperJerk 0]

That was fun.

 

Some of you guys were fucking eerily accurate.