| Written 13th January 2010 by Rich |
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But still no flying car
2010 came in with a whimper everywhere except in Australia. What has been coined as 'Y2K.1' struck a bank in the upside down land which caused thousands of chip 'n' pin machines to believe it was 2016... thus rendering the Castlemaine XXXX drinkers' cards useless as the system claimed they had expired.
Of course, as everybody knows, we're all going to die in 2012 anyway (John Cusack said so) so this is doubly stupid; of course that is if we assume that this is actually 2010. And the evidence suggests it isn't... My favourite lunchtime toilet fodder is El Reg, a science and technology news site, and they say it might actually be 2015. Or 2014. Or 2006...
And it's probably April.
But assuming this is actually January 2010, it still isn't the 'end of the decade' because there wasn't a Year 0, anyway. The end of the decade comes in 11 and a half months time! Then we begin 2011 (or the 1st year of the 201x decade as the name suggests!!).
Ten years ago, if you'd been asked what life in 2010 looked like you would have been completely wrong. Why? Because it's exactly the frickin' same... only with iPhones. And we have a lot less money. And no supersonic commercial airliners.
Computers are still frustrating beasts. Linux still isn't popular. Apple is still buoyed by its cult prestige and one or two actually commercial products.
Cars are still here burning oil and killing squirrels, despite the better efforts of the big auto companies.
The good things? Well, there's not a lot of good happened in the noughties. 9/11 (or 'September 11th') happened. Several wars between Western nations and middle eastern countries were waged without proper reason and loads of people died unnecessarily. George Bush Jr was re-elected proving the US should NOT be allowed a nuclear arsenal.
The UK jumped from the frying pan into the fire as Tony Blair left Number Ten in favour of a less traumatising job (running around the middle east with a giant beaming target on his arm) and Great Britain was left with some 'one eyed Scottish idiot' who clearly hasn't got a clue.
Adverts on telly went from being remotely intelligent to dumbed down "GO COMPARE!!!!!" abominations. (Although I do like the compare the meerkats one...).
Food didn't change at all, although we haven't had any BSE outbreaks that I know of. Foot and mouth, yes.
"The British motoring industry" is now a past tense phrase.
Parkinson hung up his hat, as did Wogan. The BBC classics are now gone.
Top Gear. Actually that's a good point. Was Top Gear the only good thing about 2000-2009?
Like me, loyal followers of the show have been all over the world with the TG crew this decade. I've seen deserts in Africa, rainforests in South America, tunnels through Italian mountains, and I've been to the magnetic North Pole.
How sad is that. That's the decade that was; the best thing about ten years, 3652 days, was three blokes cocking about with cars...
Oh, and a Russian meerkat with oligarchical tendencies....
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