Post Your 2014 Predictions Here

[Jodie]

1.The stock market will crash in April 2015.
2. The Duchess of Cambridge will have a baby girl in April.
3. North Korea will actually hit something with their nuclear warhead, but not necessarily the intended target.
4. One will be able to make a living providing stool samples for the biomedical industry
( someone will really pay you for your #2).
5. Malls will continue to become ghost towns as more services move to online shopping formats.

 

[Loss Leader]

1. The Presidential election will go to the Democrat with at least 296 electoral votes. New Jersey will go to the Democrat even if Chris Christie is on the Republican ticket.

This one was a joke.

2. The "How I Met Your Dad" pilot will not be picked up by CBS. TBS and Netflix will be seen as possible late saviors, but will not pick up the show. The pilot will leak onto the internet where it will be generally garner favorable reviews.

Hit/miss. The show was proposed but died before a pilot was shot.

3. Beckett will get pregnant on Castle. Castle will at least mention naming the baby "Malcolm" or "River."

Miss (so far). Castle and Becket's wedding was interrupted. They were married this season and pregnancy might still be in the future.

4. A reality TV contestant will commit suicide, another will be committed to a psychiatric facility, and a third and fourth will commit to each other in a prime time special.

Miss. No suicides this year.

5. Diet Pepsi will continue to taste about the same.

Hit. An absolute, unqualified hit.

6. A tragedy will occur to someone somewhere. The letter A will be involved.

Hit. An AirAsia plane recently crashed in the Indian Ocean.

7. A gay person, legally married in one state, will die with no will and many valuable assets in a state that doesn't recognize same-sex marriage. The case will have resounding impact on states still refusing to recognize gay marriage.

Miss. So far, the trend-setting marriage cases have all been about getting married and not yet about death or divorce.

8. The New York Giants will lose at least 3 games, but will lose none of them to an amateur or semi-professional team.

Hit. The Giants sucked this year.

9. God will forgive sin, yet there will be no obvious proof of the same.

I have it on good authority that this was a hit.

10. NASA will lock in a plan for a mission to Mars involving sending supplies, fuel and a return vehicle ahead to Mars and constructing a space-to-space vehicle in orbit. Almost no headway will be made on any of it in 2014.

Miss/Hit. The whole Mars thing remains pretty vague. NASA made a little headway with the Orion module but not very much.

 

[zengirl]

More govt sponsored false flag 'terrorist' attacks will happen, they will also come up with aother govt made virus since Ebola didn't terrify the public enough....

 

[lionking]

Smartcooky's prediction of a plane with red in its logo would crash and kill all passengers is downright scary.....

ETA

2. An airliner with the colour red in its logo will crash, killing everyone on board

Malaysia Airlines and Air Asia both qualify.

 

[Ocelot]

A well loved UK Quiz Show host takes a final bow.

Mike Smith, who presented the quiz show "That's Showbusiness" died this year.

A new meme emerges, involving an optical illusion.

This one went viral so quickly after I posted it I could be accused of having seen it already.
http://geekologie.com/2014/01/t-rex-optical-illusion-follows-you-with.php
http://metro.co.uk/2014/01/03/top-1...-optical-illusion-to-spider-invasion-4248417/

There will celebrity endorsed fad involving irregular sleeping habits.

This could refer to multiple lifestyle articles reporting "Attachment Parenting" as endorsed by Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow. This is breastfeeding children way past normal weening age and also co sleeping.

The Monaco plot will come to light.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-debts-9m-including-overdraft-charge-1m.html

If I was any more accurate I'd be helping police with their enquiries.

Applications are suggested for artificial neurons with much interest from a high class.

If you don't know about Deep Learning by now then get ready to lose your job to a machine.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_how...tions_of_computers_that_can_learn?language=en

http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/20/5-deep-learning-startups-to-follow-in-2015/

A seismic shift in the UK political scene.

Oh why couldn't I be wrong on this one.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-briton-of-the-year-by-the-times-9946110.html

A war of words starts after a change of leadership in the middle east.

Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, caused quite a stir, in Egypt

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19256730

There will be sightings of an exotic creature in the UK.

Another hit
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/543194/Bizarre-sea-creatures-spotted-Britain

A film goes viral marked by strong emotions from animal lovers.

Bang on
http://www.people.com/article/joaquin-phoenix-protests-walmart-pig-treatment

Social media blows the lid off a sex scandal that the traditional news is reluctant to cover.

I'm betting Bill Cosby rues the day he heard of Social Media

The OED's word of the year will strike a chord with a sharp figure.

Well last years Word of the year was Selfie. This year's was Photobomb

And bizarrely here's a news sensation just because an exceedingly sharp figure Photobombs a Selfie

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/queen-photobombs-commonwealth-games-hockey-3906386

We'll loose a former world leader with a name beginning with C

Near miss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Karami I'm blaming the that transliteration from Arabic

I must confess it's a better crop than I expected.

 

[steve s]

Smartcooky's prediction of a plane with red in its logo would crash and kill all passengers is downright scary.....

The fact that red is a very common color in airline logos is beside the point.

https://www.google.com/search?q=air...HouXNsDHg7AE&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1152&bih=585

Steve S