Sunday 30 December 2012: A Year In Review

This is a review of the major news stories that I can be bothered to write about - basically, if we had filmed an edition of Bad Jokes, like we were going to, these would have been in it. But we haven't and we won't, so this'll have to do.

Right, so Greece was predicted to leave the Euro, but actually it didn't and instead the Euro won the Nobel Peace prize. The timing of these events seems mocking - as with Germany's conflict-ridden history, we can at least guess what some newspapers were thinking when they read these two stories one after the other; 'World War Three was prevented!' But actually, the Peace prize was in recognition of the last 60 years of trying to unite Europe, not just recent times. And somehow, they managed - at least for the time being - to pull through and survive a rather major market collapse that people thought would've surely happened by now.

And speaking of things that surely should've happened by now, the world didn't end on 21/12/12. Now, even if you look at this quickly, you can see the argument is full of holes. I mean, just because a calendar finishes on a certain day doesn't necessarily mean that the world will end, and all the  YOLOfags who jumped on this bandwagon should be kicking themselves for having been so easily taken in, and resolve to change their ways. It is new year, after all. Because, quite simply, if the Mayans could predict the future, they'd still be here, right?

And then in August, the world's ginormous eyes turned to London, by form of HD cameras on strings above a sports stadium, and the stadium in question is the Olympic one. So I am not a fan of sport, or PE in general, but even I find myself watching - with a certain degree of interest - a person lifting a 100kg weight, or canoe slaloming, or even playing table tennis, but the one thing I would suggest is that they should introduce something like 'Olympic Sudoku solving' or similar. I don't know, maybe it wouldn't work, but in any case, the representation of people, the representation of sports and the crowd turnouts in these games is better than it has ever been.

Now I have always maintained (even if I never said it), that writing your own blog, and coding it yourself, has more ups than downs. For example, I don't have a five hundred word limit, so I can continue to write. So I shall.

And this year the Queen celebrated 60 years on the throne (not a toilet) and will hopefully continue to serve for a few years more.

The American General Election saw Barack Obama remain in the White House / Oval Office, however, it was unfortunate that just prior to this event occurring, New York and several states in the US were struck by Hurricane Sandy, which caused flooding and damage and ultimately destabilized the presidential race in the favour of Barack Obama, and potentially away from Mitt Romney.

Now, as the year is almost at its end, and I didn't film Bad Jokes, here are the funny news cuttings I found in places around the Internet.

• Federal Agents raid gun shop, find weapons.
• Study shows frequent sex enhances pregnancy chances.
• Manufacturer of flame-resistant fabric catches fire
• Prisoner facing 2000 year sentence could face more time
• Hospitals resort to hiring doctors

So yes, this is the year we call '2012' basically over, however it looks as though (for the foreseeable future at least), the world will continue its existence, and as such, so will we all.

Oh and also, there is ten posts now in the Archive, so the next post I make will be on a new page. Yay! New year, new Archive page - how exciting!

No ... just me then.

And with that, goodbye.