[Closed] Our country in 10yrs time - what will it be like?

Drac, that's Rochdale. This morning.

We will have free owls.
How much more optimistic can you get?
Or do you want to hold out for a goshawk?

🙂

Nobody’s mentioned graphene and I hoped they would, because I know nothing about it but a friend in Manchester Uni reckons it’s going to be huge

Drac, that's Rochdale. This morning.

Ha, there's a LOT of places in the UK that's been like that since we joined the Common Market, never mind left the EU.

(The first to reply “Fnar” will be shot, btw)

PS Whoever shifted this from “Bike” to “Chat” has just added to his/her good karma repository. Thank you.

All the young hand wringing lefties will have grown up, most will have got decent jobs then realised that labour want to take all their earnings off them to give to the bone idle, so will shift to the right.
Happens with every generation. I'm appalled with myself for voting labour in my younger days 🙁
So the big swing to the left that some predict, well I don't see that ever happening.

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Christianity in Britain will be reduced to one old lady in Basingstoke called Ethel.

We will be able to travel by transporter like on Star Trek.

See, if I’d asked this question in the 50s or 60s, I reckon we’d have had suggestions that I’d be levitating around in my self propelling hoverbubble thingy wearing a bri-nylon bowler and clothes that wash themselves. Self printing money and free food. Trips to see the in-laws on the moon every few decades. Instead, I have a slightly gloomier outlook of life without my jojonas, in a Newport that always rains, watching Walesgland playing Scotland (and probably losing) in the 6N, but the consolation of an owl or possibly a goshawk to keep me company if I play my cards right. Less George Orwell and more Salvador Dali if you ask me. Not how I expected the conversation to pan out tbh.

levitating around

transporter just like on Star Trek

Virtually every bike will be E!

With a bit of luck, life expectancy will continue to drop and the UK population will reduce with a smaller proportion of pensioners.

Anyway, I think it will be shit.

I just hope they bring back Woolworths before the zombie apocalypse.

It will be a nuclear waste land.. Next year Trump will dim wittedly start a war to boost his popularity.. it won't end well. Nk will hit SK and Japan with chemical weapons, the US will nuke NK, China won't like it and will gang up with Russia to wipe out the west.
There won't be much left after the nukes get hurled around.

There won't be much left after the nukes get hurled around.

Graphene isn’t that new though - my skis are made of it!

I know. I’ve got graphene in my tyres too. Apparently, it’s on the verge of doing something big though? Electrical? Maybe not.

The summary so far:

Anyway, I think it will be shit.

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I reckon it will turn out all right.

Our country in 10yrs time - what will it be like?

Mostly the same.

Tinners - Member

What time do the optimists get back from the pub?

Right about now. 😀

🙁

Damn you rene59, I was just about to post “hoverboards........hoverboards everywhere”

Stewartc waiting for Rene59 to post, there, before offering an opinion....... 😉

The first year after receiving free Owls will be utterly wizard. Unfortunately we’ll find out that Owls carry a disease that will wipe out 99.5% of the human race. This will lead to a Planet of the Apes scenario (not the Tim Burton one) only with Owls instead of monkeys.

Get your damned avian claws off me!

Always good to look back 10 years first...
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/2007.html

Tech integration will be the norm, the idea that you don't have something with you will have gone be that banking or work.

Petrol will cost more than 3x it's current price and anything pre 2000 will be banned from the roads.

There will have been at least 2 coalition governments but people will still not forgive the lib dems for the one they went into.

England will not have won a world cup at football but womens sport will be shown regularly on TV with equal billing - old white men will be angry

Europe will accept the UK's application to join the EU without a rebate or veto and the repayment of Nigel Farages fraudulent expenses and pension from his time pretending to be an MEP , after 9 years of turmoil and failed trade talks with much larger economies.

Climate change will have caused significant changes around the world and global action will be happening.

When government starts to lose control over the populous as is likely for many reasons one of two things will happen.

Revolution.

Or, and massively more likely, the forming of a police state.

I think we can see the latter already forming in this country.

I also think a lot of politicians that love to say they are the great defenders of democracy secretly envy the control Putin has over his population.

Terrorism is an absolute gift to a government looking to use it to monitor and control its own populous in far more draconian ways.

oldtalent - Member
All the young hand wringing lefties will have grown up, most will have got decent jobs then realised that labour want to take all their earnings off them to give to the bone idle,

Let's expand that, the bone idyll, good for nothing's needing the NHS and malingerers such as the disabled or mentally infirm. Any other residual bit of society you want to rip apart?

Yeah, God forbid you paid a penny more on your income tax eh?

Yet I bet your proud as punch about the Trident replacement? Bargaintastic.

We don't get more right wing as we get older, we get more cyclical and greedy. It's a choice not a biological inevitability.

Thank God for younger generations coming along with untainted ideals. You were one once. Just because you didn't change the world doesn't mean they won't.

For the record I'm 49 so hardly a spring chicken. Take a good look at why you vote and think the way you do.

Don't stand behind age as a poor excuse for it.

Thanks Tinners, I've enjoyed it so far.

Please don't let it descend into left v right folks..

Mugboo - Member
Thanks Tinners, I've enjoyed it so far.

Please don't let it descend into left v right folks..

I'm not a morning person. 😉

Tinners - Member

levitating around

Don’t you just love it when some young whippersnapper pulls the rug from underneath your feet, just before you click “Send post”?

You can pull whatever you want from under my feet... I'll be levitating!

Oh, happy thread. Well IMO it will look like this..
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Each flat could contain an STW’er, obvz the big hitters can have the ground floor flats (for ease of access) and then the communal core could populate the center section, the left winger obvz on the left and the right wingers occupy the right, the intelligent folks can have the top floor..

But the U.K., along with most of Europe will be desolate after the first dirty bomb has been shot out of the US, with Korea and Russia zapping Nukes overhead and we’re caught in the outfall.

Enjoy what you have now, one day it will end.

If its anything like the last 10 years we'll almost all be slightly poorer, slightly more inward looking and fearful and will have poorer public services.

Older
More prosperous
Greener
Well educated and skilled will have better opportunities than before
Poorly edukated and unskilled will have significantly fewer opportunities than before
Petrol/diesel cars? Really ???
"Mobiles phones/wifi" etc recognised as the tobacco of our generation

Hoverbike obviously.

26" aint dead and the only Boost I get is Cadbury's at the top of the first climb.

To lighten things up a bit:

Orange will still be making single pivot alloy bikes.
Maxxis will eventually release the High Roller 3.
Ebikes will have an option of an onboard methane-powered recharging system.
People will still be trying to spend the old pound coins they found down the sofa.
Bottom bracket standard no. 30456v7 will be released.
Sales of baked beans will dramatically increase.
I'll eventually find that long-lost thingamygig when I move the freezer.
The generation of kids in school won't know what a CD or a bank card is or how to use it.

Apart from that it'll be business as usual.

I'll add in Pension Crisis and at least a decent property market correction.

But the U.K., along with most of Europe will be desolate after the first dirty bomb has been shot out of the US, with Korea and Russia zapping Nukes overhead and we’re caught in the outfall.

Doubt it. The only way we would be on the receiving end of any battle is as collateral damage. We're not relevant or important enough to be a target for anyone. Unless we start it, of course.

anagallis_arvensis - Member
If its anything like the last 10 years we'll almost all be slightly poorer, slightly more inward looking and fearful and will have poorer public services.

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Probably this. ^^

Oh, and THM will still be trolling on here. Obvs.

Chris Grayling will be half way through his sentence.

One thing I hope for is a switch to Satellites for mobile phone coverage so that if you can see the sky you can have a full 5G or better signal. Does away with all the phone and internet Not-Spots in one fowl swoop.

As far as agriculture goes I predict that almost all cattle will be kept indoors as it will be the only way to protect from TB and also help drive down the production costs to levels similar to the non-EU competition. Cattle in fields will be a thing of the past. Sheep will only be kept in Mega flocks owned by a few people prepared to farm on the huge scale needed to be profitable. In any case, the family farm as we know it will be confined to the history books. Animal welfare will suffer all around as the only people who will be happy to farm under the prevailing conditions are the very people you don't really wish to do so (a bit like politicians I guess).

(Nice irony Danny 😯 )

teamhurtmore - Member - Quote
(Nice irony Danny )

It wasn't irony, Alanis

One thing I hope for is a switch to Satellites for mobile phone coverage so that if you can see the sky you can have a full 5G or better signal. Does away with all the phone and internet Not-Spots in one fowl swoop.

It would have to be better than current satphone tech, as these are very poor in vehicles, nut much use in trees, and awful in buildings or steep-sided valleys, so there's still be plenty to grouse about.

That’s was quick zokes. Well done. Nice derail BTW