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After a horrible 2020 with the start of the pandemic and everything that entailed I truly believed 2021 would be better but it wasn't, it was worse. On top of the pandemic we had cancer scares medical negligence caused by bad re-organisation to cope with ever changing COVID rules, multiple surgeries, life threatening (5 year) late diagnosis and emergency treatment etc. Only the last month seemed to offer any respite with a cancer all clear, final reconstructive surgery and positive blood results and I am hoping this is a corner turned and we are heading for sunny uplands....
However, please prepare me with your dire(hopefully amusing) predictions for the shitstorm I face ahead.
I will start with :
1) Global cycling companies agree on a new tyre / wheel size of 20.22" which are not compatible with 20" BMX tyres nor with the new 600c standardised road rubber
1) Desperate to recoup COVID expenditure, the Tories bring in a new working from home tax backdated to April 2020. Higher rate charges apply to those with a sit/stand desk and a wood burner. Naturally, the effect on the STW forumites is massive and premium subscribership plummets. The magazine folds and the editorial team become Butlin's redcoats.
2) Finishing off his riding career on a high, Mark Cavendish enters Strictly Come Dancing. The Manx Missile wows audiences with a foxtrot street dance mash up that sees him win the series. Even the great Eddy Merckx claims it as "flawless" and almost as good as his own dancefloor exploits. Unfortunately for Mark, his previous experience as a ballroom dancer is exposed by WADA (World Anti Dancing Authority). He's disqualified from the competition and retrospectively stripped of all TDF jerseys.
I've got money on something involving a volcano.
Given we’ve had the warmest NYE how about a month of snow either side of the summer solstice?
I’m sincerely hoping this year turns a corner. I’ve not seen my brother for two years aside from a fleeting few hours in London so hoping I get to spend some time in France with him, his boys and newest son. And I’ll be getting a new top boss in May this year (Mayor of South Yorkshire) so I’m hoping for someone who knows their onions (nothing wrong with the current incumbent mind).
Aliens will land, take a quick look around, shrug whatever constitutes their shoulders and get back in the spaceship to leave.
Im positive about 2022, but I'm am eternal optimist.
21 was okay for us, all my family are in good health and still here, we're all still in work too, so have absolutely nothing to be sad about.
Bring it on.
Cavendish isn't allowed on Strictly as he was a junior ballroom champion.
So that's shat on this prediction.
War
Queen dies, the TV becomes unwatchable for a solid week
Prince Charles coronation becomes known as the 'Bloody Ascension' , he has all the MPs in attendence killed and sets out to have the rest tracked down, the last sight many see is a Busby and a bayonet. Several are lynched by the public.
Nicholas Witchel is publicly executed by hanging. A purge of the media follows.
Many cheer this at first as Charles rides the populist wave.
By the end of the year we live in a brutal dictatorship.
TV becomes unwatchable for a solid week
TV is already unwatchable
Due to climate change, the populations of midges and clegs explodes. In retaliation, the UK govt develop robot beasties to deal with this problem. Oh how we celebrated the birth of the first fully autonomous and intelligent man-made beasts that would rid us of the plagues of evilness.
Now, we're not sure who struck first, us or the machines, but it was us that scorched the sky...ruining my long-held dream of one day retiring to the Scottish Highland wilderness, as it has long since been vaporised (September 24th to be precise) in a first strike nuclear attack. All remaining humans, fearing the fallout, retreat to the enclave of Mineheadinium - last refuge of humankind.
I may be feverish so I'm just about to take a LFT... 🤔
There will be a mass coronal ejection event knocking out the world's Comms for months.. it'll be bliss.
My ****hole boss still won't retire....
Happy new year! This year has not been too bad for us in the grand scheme of things, hard work but we've survived so a lot to be thankful for.
Predictions for 2022?
Queen dies.
Floods.
China something something.
Fire.
Prince Andrew becomes the next Lord Lucan.
Day to day life won't change much.
War
Huh, Yeah
Queen dies, the TV becomes unwatchable for a solid week
Prince Charles coronation becomes known as the ‘Bloody Ascension’ , he has all the MPs in attendence killed and sets out to have the rest tracked down, the last sight many see is a Busby and a bayonet. Several are lynched by the public.
Nicholas Witchel is publicly executed by hanging. A purge of the media follows.
Many cheer this at first as Charles rides the populist wave.
By the end of the year we live in a brutal dictatorship.
And somehow it’s still better than the current government.
And somehow it’s still better than the current government.
Crossed my mind as well, I was pretty happy with quite a lot of the suggestions
I thought a long time before posting on here - I've been having a break from STW until recently anyway - as my tone will be more personal and serious.
Currently in covid isolation and about to start a new job on the 4th, I'm seriously considering allowing 2022 to ruin my cycling "dreams" - well endeavours more than dreams.
Also turning 50, with a son turning 13 qnd a daughter turning 10 I'm really not sure that training 5 x a week for MTB racing is a good use of my time. Its starting to feel selfish as they need "Dad/Mums taxi" more and my wife is back to full time employment. Cold dark evenings in the mancave could be exchanged for an extra hours resting on the sofa or with the kids, as would the gain in weekend hours.
It feels very much like a year out and just some social cycling could be a good thing, but I'm not sure if getting fatter and less fit feels a bit like "defeat".
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A couple years ago I was at the doctor and she sneaked in a couple of BP readings when I was otherwise occupied. It started a conversation where she asked if I had looked at the average life expectancy for ‘someone like me’.
So this year marks average life expectancy for me.
I’m currently predicting the 9th of July.
My Dogs currently not well and 16yrs old.... so I'm not hopeful.
I've rebooked an Alps trip again so I'm.now expecting covid and that Icelandic volcano to erupt and then Slovenia to have a military coo.
I also turn 40 so can't decide if that's good or bad
Slovenia to have a military coo.
Oh if only I just was good with photoshop 🙂
Anyone?
Not sure if he is Slovenian but I definitely heard a military coo
Or, for the Scots...
Yet again, I won’t win anything on the Megasack Countdown.
Would be nice to see any of the forum regulars win something , though TBH.
Yet again, I won’t win anything on the Megasack Countdown.
Would be nice to see any of the forum regulars win something , though TBH.
The whole thing is rigged, like the WWF, they decide in advance how the whole series will play out....
Queen dies, the TV becomes unwatchable for a solid week
Prince Charles coronation becomes known as the ‘Bloody Ascension’ , he has all the MPs in attendence killed and sets out to have the rest tracked down, the last sight many see is a Busby and a bayonet. Several are lynched by the public.
Nicholas Witchel is publicly executed by hanging. A purge of the media follows.
Many cheer this at first as Charles rides the populist wave.
By the end of the year we live in a brutal dictatorship.
That'll confuse the Gen Zs
Stop reading any media. Get rid of the tv. Limit phone time. Live your real life based on the things around you...
I just hope 2022 will be much better for me after all these years.