In 20 years' time.....

[Rumple Foreskin]

It's a friend's birthday today (happy birthday, hon!) so I got to thinking about time, etc. What are your predictions for 15th November 2024?

1. I'll be older (the alternative is a dead-end proposition).

2. I'll still be an unpublished novelist.

3. The US government will have become a semi-constitutional monarchy with primogenature the only means of selecting the President.

4. The Bush twins(Barbara and Jenna) will both threaten all-out war if their claims to having been the first born aren't recognized so they can become President Bush V (or maybe VI).

5. Dick Clark will still be doing New Year Eve specials.

Rumple Forskin

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... 5. Dick Clark will still be doing New Year Eve specials....

Do you mean the Dick Clark who drops the ball in Times Square, or . . .

Do you mean the Dick Clarke who wrote a book about how Bush II dropped the ball?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Do you mean the Dick Clark who drops the ball in Times Square, or . . .

Do you mean the Dick Clarke who wrote a book about how Bush II dropped the ball?

VB,

Yes.

RF

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

1. Anime, cartoons, comic book movies, and animated characters will continue to rise in popularity in the 00s and teens, eventually rising voice actors to a level of appreciation and stardom halfway between their 04 level and Japanese 04 level. Japan meanwhile will be earning more and more international praise for their increasing quality of live-action films based on Japanese novels.

2. Much to everyone's fear and delight, bioengineering smashes all of the old rules of life and existence, modifying lifespans, improving biosensors, delaying death, the whole nine yards. Nonscientific humans will find a way to fuck this all up.

3. Due to 2, I'll at one time be forced to escape a labratory due to an angry mob storming the gates. It'll be one of my fondest memories.

4. Homosexuality becomes a buried issue and anti-homosexual bigots are forced to hide their contempt and merely show disdain at the "special privilege" homosexual married couples have. Also research once again shows that allowing homosexual marriages did not increase the percentage of divorces.

5. Atheists and TechnoPagans become the newly minted groups to be despised by conservatives. Active persecution of them is on the rise though are found to be both hard to defeat as well as surprisingly popular among half the population.

6. North and South still hate each other. Palestine and Israel still hate each other. Pakistan and India still hate each other. Muslims and Christians still hate each other. Liberals and Conservatives still hate each other. Red Sox and Yankees still hate each other.

7. The relentless pursuit against terrorism has turned the following countries into dictatorships: Russia, Israel, E.U. and China (a heartbreak following their moves toward democratization in the mid teens). The US will barely avoid this due to a leftist backlash in the teens and the collapse of their status as an empire. China and the E.U. will have become the new powers to hate as their empirical movements on the coatails of the fallen US earn them powerful enemies.

8. I'll still hate pants.

9. I'll still be insane.

10. Thus, for my mid-life crisis I'll combine 8 and 9 starting the political movement PAP, psychos against pants. It'll be the precursor to my lockup in St. Mary's Psychiatric Clinic in '27.

 

[Guest]

how can one follow LC and not feel like everything they've written is just pure drivel?!

1. stem cell research will be passe because we find the cure for major illness, however, this will propagate the insurgance of lesser illness and cause a huge plague which topples our immunities and eventually the decline in our over-population (inverse natural selection...the weak will survive)

2. our economic system will have collapsed. our debt leads us to over-produce money which we can not back up and we now have begun to turn from gold to tree leaves. but since we have destroyed most of our forests, we have to import from south america and canada.

3. our bodies have evolved. we are depending on our legs, less and less so they have begun to atrophy and the tallest people are less than 6ft. yet our fingers have gotten stronger and longer.

4. because music has finite combinations, we are now listening to recordings of nature as our top ten pop songs. though the mix of folk instuments and electronics was tried...it failed miserably.

5. we no longer trust our political system...this began in 2004 when the re-election of a certain president led us to near destruction. a slap in the face was our wake up call when north korea nearly pushed that little red button. we next elected a woman to the white house and while she wasnt wildly popular, she was the one to clean up the previous mess.

6. me? well, im living on my own private island and have crowned my SO as the queen. we have no currancy...no strife and all are welcome...if they come to visit naked.

 

[SensualCealy]

1. I'll be 56 and still not know what I want to do when I grow up!

2. My kids will have succeeded in their careers, one a Lawyer for Marine Biomedical Researchers, the other will be a famous chef with her own restraunt and tv show.

3. I'm thinking I should have grandchildren at this point but due to their careers I have grand puppies!

4. Their father is living happily in New Mexico, we are still happily married and have congical (sp) visits every three months.

5. Canada will become a part of the US, governed as a seperate being but owned by actors/ actress that shot movies on locations across the country.

6. Religion will be a thing of the past, individual spiritualizim will be done strickly in the home.

7. We will have palm scanners at the entrance to ever building and metal dectors to scan us before entering.

8. Chucky will still be 'dating' Camilla and the Queen will still reign until Will has married.

 

[Guest]

1. I will be dead; my beer and McNugget lifestyle having caught up to me.

2. The Bush Family will have reigned as president for the past 24 years.

#2 makes #1 much less depressing.

 

[LadyJeanne]

8. I'll still hate pants.

9. I'll still be insane.

10. Thus, for my mid-life crisis I'll combine 8 and 9 starting the political movement PAP, psychos against pants. It'll be the precursor to my lockup in St. Mary's Psychiatric Clinic in '27.

Pants? What do you have against pants? Did I miss your pants rant?

 

[Guest]

Meant to add a #3 to mine above :

3.The "Last person to post here" thread continues on Lit, with SensualCealy, Scarlett, and others battling BOT software I left running on my death.

 

[Goldie Munro]

1. I hope I won't be dead but I will be very old

2. I will not understand the younger generation (s)

3. We will still not be dressing in tin foil

4. Hopefully my head cryogenics place will be booked

5. GWB will NOT be president

6. Scotland will be an independent country with a place in Europe

7. The world will be a better place (I am an eternal optomist)

 

[lewdandlicentious]

IN 20 YEARS TIME

1. I'll almost be drawing my pension. (I WILL still be alive!)


2. I'll still be coming to lit on an almost daily basis, and will be part of the "elderly" forum!


3. Threads on the elderly forum will include "Where did I leave my incontinence pants?" and "Where's my ear trumpet?"


4. Arabs will still be a pain in the ass.


5. America will still think it runs the world.


6. Britain will be a totalitarian state, and Tony Blair will be regarded as the hero that started it all. There will be statues of him everywhere.


7. America will go to war on Britain to free the people.


8. America will have it's ass sorely kicked by the Brits.


9. The bible will have been proven to be a fake, but heartland America will still be bible-belt, and will still vote a Bush (Hilary Clinton Bush) to office for the third time.


10. I'll still be calling everyone a Twat!

 

[Guest]

Lew, you fucking crack me up!

I don't doubt a lot of that will be true (especially the Twat bit and the incontinence pants. )

Lou

 

[Goldie Munro]

Lew, you fucking crack me up!

I don't doubt a lot of that will be true (especially the Twat bit and the incontinence pants. )

Lou

Eeeeweee - I'm dreading the Tena Lady pants!!! Do we all become incontinent?

 

[Guest]

Eeeeweee - I'm dreading the Tena Lady pants!!! Do we all become incontinent?

Do what, love? Speak up, I can't find me trumpet.

 

[Goldie Munro]

Do what, love? Speak up, I can't find me trumpet.

DO WE ALL BECOME.. ah fuck it ...

 

[lewdandlicentious]

Who's a strumpet??????

 

[Goldie Munro]

Who's a strumpet??????

You what love??? Crumpets? Oh nice - like butter with mine...

 

[Guest]

Who's a strumpet??????

Yes, please! I'd love some crumpet.

(You are!)

 

[Goldie Munro]

Yes, please! I'd love some crumpet.

(You are!)

Oh you saucy thing!!