b) You're wrong, plenty of people posted on the 8th.

2004 - Racoon was born.

2005 - world ends on 20th January.

 

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I'll bet you a bottle of good vodka you're wrong, Sulkpot...

Now you have to make predictions! Like what mr Sulkpot did there, although they needn't all be of doom. Or at least describe the doom from now on.

2008 - Paraguay goes missing, which causes consternation for those who believed that landlocked countries couldn't get up to much. It is spotted on CCTV leaving a Yates's Wine Lodge in Dunstaple in the early hours of a November Sunday morning with an unidentified blonde girl, and safely returned to its original location after a short period of rehabilitation.

The bottle of vodka bet stands. However, I'll give you double or quits that in 2009, money is globally discredited as a form of exchange and a running double that Gary Glitter is elected to the Presidency of Thailand.

Credit discredited. I like that.

By 2010, 3/4 of the population will be ravaged by incurable disease and will die...

Someone on the internet says it so it must be true.

2011 sees us visited by either a huge comet or a great earthquake (or both)

and, of course, 2012 is the year the poles will switch and everything will grind to a halt (or not)

In 2013, I will buy myself an Aston Martin. Possibly.

2014 will see England finally win the World Cup but no one else participates on account that they're too busy fighting wars against terror.

 

Against each other.

2015: Saif graduates ;)

HRH Queen Elizabeth II dies. Charles accedes to the throne but the reading of Her Late Majesty's will reveals that she has bequeathed the country to her favourite corgi. Charles declares independence for the Duchy of Cornwall, and rules as Grand Duke on the wave of popularity among the cornish which the move generates.

The rest of Britain is ruled by first Liberal Democrat PM Lembit Opik, with a genetic clone of Princess Diana as co-regent.

<becomes president>

<of everything>

<assassinates president of everything>

<Earth is renamed Andy Black in memorial>

Andy Black is destroyed by a pole-reversing meteorite which hits Yellowstone, causing it to erupt and melt the icecaps, but even that fails to stop the nanobots. A few thousand of the planet's most intelligent and beautiful people, as well as renowned president-assassinator Rendle, escape to Titan to finish building their giant space ark.

Titan is renamed Andy Black 2, in memorial.

Work on the giant space ark is slower than people had hoped.

Paraguay, which had buggered off again just before the whole business with the meteor and the pole reversal and Yellowstone and the nanites, reappears and is startled by all the changes.