Beer Good

For example:

1. My internet-connected fridge orders Stella at the cheapest price when I get down to the last 8 cans.

2. My friends watch Sky Sports for free via my fast PC Tv-in card and broadband internet connection (huh, FU Rupert Murdoch!)

You get the idea.

Crush

My thoughts...

I) Traffic will go nowhere, as there will be too many people on the roads.
II) Bush & His Mini-Me will kill us all in the war for the last remaining drops of oil
III) I will get an Evo
IV) Depletion of Natural resources will make us dependant on Nuclear power, and waste management wont be able to handle it, and will be dumped in the sea, killing of marine life.
V) Peugeot will retain the WRC Championship for ever!
VI) Like IT & Manufacturing, other industries will collapse, and the unemployed will become desperate & turn to crime.
VII) The police will struggle with it & riots will break out.
VIII) I'll leave the country before this all happens & laugh when I see it on the news

I can only count to 8 in roman numerals, so I'll stop there. But you get the idea

Cheery ******, aint I?

Regacy

IX I will learn to count to ten in Roman numerals
X that's it

corradoboy

Fantasy - Britain stands down as a pretend superpower and accepts it's a tiny little place and should lead its own people better before trying to lead others. After a sustained policy of population control we reach a stable 40m with full employment and no poverty. Our military is placed on reserve and redeployed to assist the police force and prison becomes a punishment to be avoided at all costs. Immigrants are denied benefits and healthcare and will only be admitted if financially independent. All products made outside Britain will be subject to 30% import tax and no item can be sold for a profit greater than 400%. With our roads now much quieter, speed limits can be relaxed and with the countrys growing prosperity, petrol tax reduced.

Reality - The population spirals to 80m with massive unemployment & recession. Those with the means to do so, flee the country taking much of its wealth, working population and business/industrial/creative potential with them. The police force, disillusioned by lack of public support and a legal system which ridicules their efforts, strike and society decays into anarchy. The country slips into bankruptsy and the UN arrive to try and restore order. On a matter of pride our government refuse financial aid from Afghanistan. As we don't have any oil (well not much anyway) America turns its back, sticks its fingers in its ears and goes lalalala.

Both are fantasy really. One is more likely than the other. You decide.

Luke

Reality get my vote.

Leslie

Life in this country used to be held up as an example to the world.

Les

boxst

Hello

The future holds nothing but death and an eternity of nothingness.

Steve.

Duck_Pond

In my vision of the future, we're invaded by a race from outer space, cunningly disguised as human faeces.

These slippery brown eels will congregate on all toilet seats, preventing humans from taking a dump. The resulting pressure from the build up of faecal matter will cause humanity to explode in a fountain of cr@p.

Once we humans have been eradicated, the alien turd invaders will revert to their true form of bandy-legged Morris-dancing pixies, who'll spend the remainder of eternity hitting each other with abrasive branches, and eating phallic shaped turnips.

corradoboy

boxst - cheer up FFS

LG John

The barriers between right-wrong, male-female, black-white, etc will be slowly eroded until we live in a moral free society where people do what they like when they like to/with whoever they like. The family unit will become obsolete and the human race will effectively self-destruct itself

I'm not taking the p1ss - I ACTUALLY believe this will happen one day! Look at how much society has changed in just the last 20-30 years

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

I think eventually some form of natural disaster will hopefully cull most of the human race, but not make us extinct. Then civilisation can be given another chance, hopefully learning from historical mistakes.
Even if we were to become extinct, there is enough time left in this solar system for life to start again on Earth. An interesting thought that the dominant species will be talking about humans like we talk about dinosaurs.
Anyway in 5 billion years time someone had better have come up with a plan to hop to another solar system before the ultimate natural disaster happens, though I hear a quick relocation to Mars may prolong our stay for the odd 500,000 years or so.

In the more immediate future, in 2,5 or even 10 thousand years time hopefully all present day religious beliefs will be given the same regard as we now treat the greek gods - as in stories born through fear of the unknown.

And in the even more short term future, I'm going to a wedding on Sunday

LG John

Wow, people still do that!!

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

Well, I will be going unless my family unit becomes obsolete or the vicar becomes self destuctive and decides to have an anachistic round of golf instead

LG John

Good for you mate Weddings are great for 3 things:

To celebrate the life long committment between a man and a women (sorry I'm a traditionalist)

To get p1ssed

To sh@g bridesmaids

Duck_Pond

So no-one going for the invasion theory then? Society today! No imagination... Bah!

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

There is an invasion for a society today with no imagination..

American sit-coms

Oh and SB, I like a good wedding, apart from the god bit which is a bit of a grind, but if thats what the happy couple want..

And I have already 'shagged' the one and only bridesmaid We're expecting our first child in December - out of wedlock At least the vicar seems happy with a 6 month preggers bridesmaid, not entirely traditional mind. Society today, hrummph!

LG John

LMAO @ Jay - good going that man At least its not a shotgun wedding you are going to......is it

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

LOL I can see it now, "we are gathered here today for an unconventional double wedding.." I'm always the last to know

Severely back on topic, I'd love to be able to text my DVD recorder from the pub when I've forgotten to tape something, or ring the microwave to start cooking when 5 mins from home. I'm sure thats poss now. Actually I'd like to be able to phone for a cab @ 8pm Fri to pick me up from my home 15 mins later. All I seem to get is 'nothing till 9.30'

LG John

I want to be able to phone my car and tell it to go for a drive and get itself all warmed up so that I can boot it the second I get into it

Dr Nick

As the power and ease of use of telecommunications and the internet grows, all jobs that do not actually physically require your presence in the UK will be moved to countries where labour is much cheaper.

We, with our minimum salaries, maternity leave, pensions (for what they are now worth), paid sick leave, redundancy pay, and all the other employee protection issues have finally priced ourselves out of the market.

We are ****ed mark my words. Its already happening people!

Shark

A corner

unclebuck

Skynet will become self aware and trigger a nuclear holocaust, leaving the remnants of the human race to do battle with the machines.

Huh? what do mean it's only a story?

UB

brett555

"ill be back ...." ........"it is time" .........pahhffff!!!!

Duck_Pond

Arnie will be so old in the next film, he'll be saying

"Ohh me back!" instead!

unclebuck

PMSL @ DP

UB

LG John

- LMAO

Marky-San

Duckpond - Class comment

Beer Good

Have to agree with Dr Nick. I think we'll all be flocking to Delhi to get work in a call-centre. Given we won't have any background we'll all be declared 'untouchables' and spend the rest of our lives in poverty & servitude....

...until the Board of Directors realise they have noone left to sack / **** about with, disappear up there own *rses and we can all come back to clear up the mess.

jhdee

Glad I read this thread !!!

jhdee