2017 - will it be decent?

Czar Nicholas II wrote at the time that "1916 has been a terrible year, 1917 can only be better".

I think all these celebrity deaths has people thinking it was a bad year. As was posted above I think it was a great year, was for me anyway.

I doubt it.

xabi wrote: »

I think all these celebrity deaths has people thinking it was a bad year. As was posted above I think it was a great year, was for me anyway.

If you survived 2016 you weren't as famous as you thought.;)

Life is what you make it.

I look forward to a Twitter war between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, it would be great, particularly if they arranged to slag each other at a certain day of the week every week.

Rainman16 wrote: »

Give it up man. You lot are born losers, You'll never be better than 2nd best.

2nd best would be the greatest heights of our lives and a damn sight better than 19th best of 2016

Rainman16 wrote: »

2017 will be what you make of it.

2016 was good year for me. I started a new job and fulfilled a dream of visiting Japan. By the way I'd highly recommend it. Tokyo is the most amazing place on this planet.

But people died you monster.

Trump will be a disaster but the real poo won't hit the fan until probably 2018 - Don't be suprised if they're left with a President Pence before long (and don't rule out assasination as a possible reason for that)

Article 50 will be triggered and again in 2018, as the deal the UK will get becomes more clear, more countries will want out of the EU. Italy will be next to go

Ireland and Apple will lose their appeals against the EU Apple ruling

Flight MH370 will not be found

Dublin will win the All-Ireland football title again - Waterford to finally win in Hurling

The Irish Government will not fall until the spring of 2018 and Enda will still be Taoiseach going in to it

The Ireland rugby team will finish second to England in the six-nations

The Irish soccer team will qualify for the 2018 World Cup finals

Rory McIlroy will return to World #1 ranking

Katy Taylor will fall on her ar se

People will go "m'eh, the Late Late Toy Show wasn't as good as other years"....forgetting they have said the exact same thing on all other years

I still won't have a clue what The Kardashians do

We'll still do ferc all in The Eurovision and we'll have our annual one day debate about how we should go back to the old method of choosing our representative

ECB Interest rates will start to rise again prompting a big slowdown in Irish growth and setting us up for a 2018 recession. House prises will go back down again.

More terrorist attacks in mainland Europe and in the UK - the usual domestic terrorism in the US

The same poor feckers in the same parts of Ireland will get flooded out of their homes again

We'll reach a realization that we're in a lot more 5hit over climate change a lot sooner than we all thought

VR, AR and the Internet of Things takes a much greater foothold in life

The Pope's health brings his 2018 visit to Ireland in to doubt - also questions about the succession of Queen Elizabeth

Putin and Russia will get bolder, egg'd on by Trump

People will continue to over-react to celebrity deaths

Sky will still have people thinking that the result of West Brom Vs Southampton is vitally important!