2010s

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I saw pale kings and princes too,/ Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;/ They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci/ Thee hath in thrall!' – John Keats

The 2010s (also known as The Tens, The Tennies, or the Smartphone Decade) is a decade that chronologically includes the years 2010 to 2019. Culturally, one can argue that they began in 2008 with the Great Recession, Barack Obama's election, Facebook overtaking Myspace, the start of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Iron Man, and electropop music like Lady Gaga washing away post-grunge like Nickelback. This culture ended around 2018–20 with TikTok overtaking Vine, sadpop like Billie Eilish collaborating with Lady Gaga, the MCU's conclusion (not really) with Avengers Endgame, the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, lockdowns, and a bookending Greater Recession.

The nickname "Smartphone Decade" is self-evident as the smartphone is now the life, the breath, the entire meaning of existence of millions upon millions of people intent on blocking thoroughfares and stairways as they check their Facebook stats. In no other time would the selfie be so socially significant that one would take a picture of oneself to send to oneself and people one hardly knows, then turn around and flame someone who uses the picture for their own evil purposes. Psychologists refer to living in one's own little world like that to a situation similar to the one presented in The Truman Show movie. Ironically, most people who went to the theater to see that were checking their tweets while it was running.

2010 – Earthquakes, Angry Volcanoes, and One Direction

Haiti once again got the shitty end of Earth tectonic events with an earthquake centered on the capital Port-au-Prince (When Doves Cry). Measured 7.00 on the Richter Scale and kills 300,000. The Port-au-Prince's main buildings collapse including the national palace (the Haitian White House). The World says...move on. Capital city remains a ruin in 2021. Around the other side of the world Hobbiton or the Shire (formerly known as New Zealand), an earthquake shook Christchurch. This was another '7', yet the damage was limited. Fewer than 200 people died. Within a few months most the repairs had been done. There would be an encore of the event in 2011.

A volcano in Iceland spewed out enough ash to close air travel across Europe. People found themselves stranded and desperate to find a way home. The volcano responsible, Eyjafjallajökull (a natural word trip barrier for newsreaders outside Iceland), blows out enough ash into the atmosphere to gum up the engines of airplanes. With flights suspended, people are surprised to hear birds singing for the first time.

In 2010, Anglo–Irish boyband One Direction debuted on The X Factor to great success, proving the formula created by New Kids on the Block was still working. Every generation of teenage girls needs a new band to scream lovingly at, and every generation of teenage boys needs a new band to scream angrily at.

In other news, David Cameron became British Prime Minister. He headed a coalition of Conservatives and Liberals. First formal coalition at the national level since World War II. Australia's first woman prime minister Julia Gillard wins an election against the right. They reminded voters than Gillard was actually a 'foreigner' as she was born in Wales and a secret daughter of Tom Jones. Relations between North Korea and South Korea ran red hot this year. Ships are sunk, disputed islands are shelled. The Korean War looked about to restart. Would MASH return?

2011 – Year of upheaval

The Arab Spring

While marching against the government, protesters do not realize they will get hit by roaming charges and probably several tanks at the same time.

While most people in the West merely saw this as a rollout of a new version of Irish Spring soap, people in places like Tunisia thought it was a good idea to change over from sleeping on the floor to a bed with a sprung mattress and a box spring. Now finally getting a good night's sleep for a change, their attention turned to more pressing issues. The run-of-the-mill Tunisian, rather than just being plain tired, also became tired of skyrocketing food prices and police brutality. It was generally agreed that it was very hard to post photos of empty plates on Yelp or Snapchat without getting a truncheon or blood in the shot.

In Tunis, Hassan bin Eazi walked into the middle of a busy street trying to get bars on his phone. Suddenly, the cheesy battery taken from a cheap hoverboard exploded and set him on fire. He figured inshallah, since he also found his Facebook page hacked and Instagram down, and he expired. Authorities took this to be a protest of some kind and called out the police to beat up a few hundred thousand people. Outraged citizens called each other and crashed tha 2nisian intertubes, which now made them really angry.

All this spread like wildfire to nearby Algeria, Egypt and even Jordan and Yemen on YouTube and social media after things got working again. People took to the streets battling police and the army, not even caring if their phone screens got scratched or worse. The promise of new rebuilt flip phones encouraged people in other countries in North Africa and the Arabian peninsula to also rise up. Leaders were toppled left and right, who mostly were unable to escape as protesters had already stolen the tires on their limos. Not one to be left out, Moammar Ghaddafi was kicked out of office and went down the tubes, or at least one tube.

At the same time, Mercans and Brits were largely concerned with aggregating more followers on social media, while their governments were busy trying to decide who to bomb next. What trillions of dollars and pounds could not do was done by determined people with phones and cheap plans with a lot of minutes or phone cards. Of course, Western governments lost some of their favorite dictators and so doubled down on surveillance of their own people, "just in case".

Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

Placed after the massive 1896 tsunamis around the high water mark, stone such as this contain warnings not to build below it and add, "If you made it this far, you're pretty fast but still stupid."

If that wasn’t enough for end-of-the worlders to start packing their bags, March 11 marks the date of the Tōhoku earthquake in Japan. The authorities there had carefully built 10m (33 ft) walls to protect seaside cities and nuclear power plants from tsunamis, only to find waves up to 39 m (128 ft) tall overtopping them. Seems that they took the cheaper and easier way by taking the average wave height of recent tsunamis rather than anticipating anything close to the worst case in history. People who make it to higher ground after warnings are able to see the mostly forgotten stones placed after 1896 inscribed with warnings marking the high water line from the massive tsunamis of that year. Of course, if you were born before 1946, you probably end up treading water and getting a Toyota in the face before you could get to high ground.

Extensive damage hampers immediate rescue efforts, but, as usual, the major criminal gangs (yakuza) are somehow out distributing food, water and blankets before anyone else. So why not just turn everything over to the guys who can get things done? It is supposed that the yakuza never get elected since there would be nobody left to bribe the officials in government. And pity those carried out to sea by receding waters only to find that they can't get a smartphone signal out there. In Buddhist terms, that means their unrequited souls would roam the earth forever, taking revenge on their phone service providers. Luckily, the Mormons convert them posthumously to Mormonism so the lost souls could later vote for Mitt Romney as their last act in this world before attaining the everlasting bowls of lime Jello in the afterlife.

Speaking of criminals, Japanese power company TEPCO, in its infinite wisdom, placed all their emergency generators on the bottom floors of all their nuclear power plants. They did protect them with the standard 10m tall wall since nuclear power plants need no extra protection. Whatsoever. Ever. So, the mean old tsunami tops the walls easily, drowning the powerful hamsters used to run the emergency generators to keep the cores cooled. "Big boom", as the Japanese versions of Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon say as they watch their own homegrown version of The China Cleveland Syndrome. The Japanese versions of Wilford Brimley and James Hampton run around in circles and point fingers as well. Technicians rejoice as escaping radioactive gas and water head toward China and Korea rather than their own houses that probably are now floating in the ocean anyway.

Japan, the country of creepy or cute robots that don't do much of anything, has to ask the US for some that actually had the ability to move. Those are sent into the reactor buildings and fry and die in minutes from the radiation. Can you say Chernobyl? Readers are urged to read the as-yet-unwritten 22nd century article in Uncyclopedia to see if TEPCO got their act together or just encased northern Japan in concrete and walked away.

We did get a song in Dance Dance Revolution about it, though, so everything is just fine.

2012 – End of the world

Since only the southern hemisphere was destroyed in 2012, nobody paid much attention to what was going on.

Since you were probably busy checking Snapchat, you probably missed the end of the world. This actually happens several times during the year causing several disruptions in social media which you did notice.

The basis for the end of the world was based on the notion that since the Mayan calendar system was ending on December 21, the world would follow. However the reason for the end of the calendar was obvious. As most Mayans had acquired the ancient technology known as Palm Pilots, there was no longer a need for written calendars. Mayan banks, markets and insurance companies then stopped giving out free calendars so astronomers and scribes lost their jobs.

New Age traditional lore traces back to very ancient times, estimated to be about 1977. Once again, it involves a conflation of ideas involving Mayans, space aliens and gossip from insane street people, all with secret knowledge. Their conclusion is that a new era of enlightenment was dawning. They congratulate themselves when they decide the suicide car bomb is part of this.

Terence McKenna rolls out his Timewave Zero formula created while he was on a variety of psychotropic drugs. Throwing in the I Ching for good measure, he irritates New Agers by beating them to the punch. And while his end of the world date doesn't coincide with the end of the Mayan calendar, in a moment of brilliant insight, he just changes it.

Christians still fervently hope for end times as they get to read and reread the most interesting part of the Bible. The most committed believers work in nuclear bomb construction and accident testing hoping for the best. Yet, as is written, and when least expected, the Rapture comes and takes all deserving people. However, after a careful count, it is found that only six humans and a porcupine were taken by God. Christians then go on a killing rampage, blaming Muslims, Jews and Quakers as usual.

Of course, skeptics discount the end of the world theories completely. When absolutely nobody is seen on the streets on December 21, they explain that they have other things to do, like checking under the bed or cleaning the basement.

2013 – Year of the men in black

The self-styled caliphate ISIL/ISIS/IS/Daesh source fighters from many countries. Obviously, they aren't too picky on who they hire.

After spending a winter underground like gophers, albeit fanatical ones, ISIL/ISIS/IS/Daesh/whoever flex their collective gopher muscles and expand their territory, leaving the 31 actual serving members of the Iraqi army reeling. The pseudogovernment expands into Syria at the same time into areas the Syrian government could care less about. Despite arguments with Al Qaeda and other groups over who was most murderous and most fanatical (determined by a poll of 100 audience members of Family Feud), they fail to clash and kill each other off.

Advertising on social media, thousands join the cause, either for the cash or the ability to kill just about anybody they like. In response, this requires the United States Marine Corps to ramp up its efforts to avoid losing potential recruits. Luckily, inner city gang members dislike the Daesh/whovever anti-drug stance and continue to join the US armed forces in order to tag foreign countries and sell smack. However, Daesh/whoever finds that their message is a little too attractive to emos and their black uniforms too attractive to Goths. Beheadings of "dead wood" would be shown on YouTube over and over, with the practice later being adopted by Silicon Valley companies like Google to reduce their workforces.

In February, a meteor explodes over Chelyabinsk, Russia, with the event recorded on dashcams and phones and shown all over the world. Many people panic as they apparently have to the need to panic over things out of their control. Dinosaurs, who were largely wiped out by a meteor thousands of years ago, have nothing to say about the incident as they’re all dead anyway except for the Loch Ness Monster.

Russia then decides it needs to protect the Crimea and parts of the Ukraine from meteors and grabs both, though allowing a referendum in the Crimea to decide the matter. Vladimir Putin allows his good friend, then-hotelier Donald Trump, to become an honorary Crimean for a day and vote in the election. Miraculously, the referendum, requiring a 99% vote to pass, clears by just one vote. Trump later wins two hotels in a raffle held at a dinner held in his honor. A white woman named Paula Deen drops the n-bomb on the radio, outraging Harrah's Joilet enough to drop her from Paula Deen's Kitchen and rename it to "The Restaurant at Harrah's".

Also in February, Pope Benedict XVI resigns without God throwing a lightning bolt at him or anything like that. Apparently his Hitler Youth roots proved too strong and it is thought he will return to that organization in order to kill Jews faster than he could as a Catholic. Edward Snowden rats out the US government and moves to Russia to look for meteors. As American sheeple are totally involved with new versions of Grand Theft Auto and Bioshock, they failed to notice or care about being spied on or reining in their government. While that lack of concern is rated doubleplusgood by the NSA, they still want Snowden's head for not washing the coffee mugs he used when he worked there.

2014 – Don't arrive at your destination year

As all Russian Olympic athletes are completely dehydrated after competition, they are allowed to bring urine samples from home for drug testing, provided that the samples are kept cool.

The Winter Olympics are held in Sochi, Russia. Russian athletes sweep all the medals for every event with none testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. Yet, it would take weeks after the events were over before piles of syringes could be cleaned up from the site. Much later, Olympic officials would become suspicious as cross country gold medalist Alexander Legkov skied home to Kamchatka, then continued around the world. Retesting of samples disqualify many Russians including Legkov. Upon appeal, being found to be a sickly half kangaroo/half rhinoceros, his unrelated medication is determined to have caused a false positive.

It is not a good year for Malaysia Airlines, which loses Flight 370 somewhere over the Indian Ocean. Americans are astounded that it is not tracked to its exact crash site as the microchips in their heads and phones allows their tracking to plus or minus ten feet (3m). Authorities are thus forced to radically extend the boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle. Rumors abound, largely instigated by the Malaysian government, including one about the pilot purposely forgetting to check that engines were actually on the wings before takeoff. However, in the crash of Malaysia Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, Russia clearly states that the nonexistent missile that was not Russian-made that was not fired at the nonexistent jet was not the reason for anything. The US shamefacedly says nothing as its USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian civilian jet in 1988 by mistake rather than intentionally. The International Civil Aviation organization (ICAO) reminds its members to avoid missiles.

The Ebola virus becomes a major concern in the US largely because it sounds like Ebonics. Americans also worry that their heavy illegal drug use will compromise their immune systems and make them vulnerable. The resultant hysteria sends Prozac sales to new heights, with pharmaceutical companies building more back doors onto their factories to feed the underground trade. In response, Apple rolls out a new iPhone guaranteed 100% Ebola-free, as its factory workers are pre-tested and then clearly obligated to commit suicide after building 10,000 phones.

Rioting and protests occur in Ferguson, Missouri after the shooting death of Michael Brown. Ferguson police display and use an impressive array of surplus military weaponry whereas the Iraqi army is supplied by the US with cardboard armor and guns that shoot little flags with BANG on them, as are US troops in Afghanistan.

Scotland holds a referendum, Weegeexit, on whether to leave the UK. Depending on who’s talking, Scots either overwhelming vote to stay or almost pull off independence. This later gives the copycat Loony Party, also known as Not the Monster Raving Loony Party but Still Loony, the idea to secede from the European Union, causing rejoicing among Little Englanders.

2015 – A Madlibs kind of year

During the year, there are number bombings. Blaming some situation, type of criminals place bombs hidden in objects at the building or location in city, country, causing number injuries and number fatalities. Authorities suspect organization and vow to round up the usual suspects led by terrorist random name from Facebook. As there are so many of these incidents, most people just scroll through them to get to cat pictures or porn.

The World Health Organization declares Nutella has been eradicated from the Americas, but it turns out to be a typing misteak.

Notables that join the choir invisible in 2015 included: Leonard Nimoy (reincarnated ambassador to Cardassia famed for his removable ears), Lee Kuan Yew (everyone's favorite Singaporean dictator), B.B. King (bluesman and hamburger-selling transgender tennis star), Christopher Lee (due to come back to life anytime now), Yogi Berra (Eastern mystic and friend of Boo-Boo) and Lemmy Kilmeister (front man for bands The Archies, The Partridge Family, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, etc.).

2016 – Pokémon revival year

Dude, you gotta step in a lot closer to catch it. You got like 40 of these already? Just force a trade with your little sister like you always do.

Pokémon Go is released, a phone app/game that garners a huge following. Players actually have to get out of the house and roam around to catch Pokémon. It is remarkable to see pasty white mole-like adults and children who have rarely seen daylight stumbling around with smartphone in hand, just being missed by drivers also with smartphone in hand looking for Pokémon. Crack houses, bordellos, serial killer's houses and even schools are suddenly well-visited by players searching for rare critters. This situation could not last, obviously, as the game is hacked, allowing players to once again just sit at home and play the game.

The United Nations declares this the International year of pulses. Well-meaning health care personnel go around checking everyone to see if they have one, excepting still-beloved vampires and zombies. What the UN really meant was beans, lentils and suchlike, which really meant that the UN was running out of ideas. Health care personnel then check beans for pulses and finding none, simply give up.

The new disease of the moment to worry about is the Zika virus, carried by (among others) the familiar Aedes aegypti mosquito. If only people worried more about these long-time foreign invaders rather than the legal two-legged immigrants they're so afraid of, things probably wouldn't be so problematic. Rather than clearing out standing pools of water, or perhaps not living in swamps, Americans seem to prefer slapping themselves during the day as a means of mosquito control.

People rush to buy the last videocassette players being manufactured but not because of any retro trend to go back to tapes. It is found that with the aging housecat population, their poorer eyesight meant that attacking an opening CD player tray was becoming difficult. However, VCR trays are larger, slower and noisier, providing the perfect toy for cats particularly since the animals have eaten every laser pointer made to date.

Samsung phone users march in protest of the recall of the Note 7.

Samsung provides thrills and chills for newly minted buyers of its Galaxy Note 7. A raft of defective batteries cause a fair number of them to burst into flame beginning just a month after release. Initial reviews are very positive for the phone with no blogger mentioning smoke obscuring the screen. Still, suspect overheating batteries are replaced, this time by other defective overheating and exploding batteries, with Samsung denying all the while that there was nothing wrong with the phone. A US recall is issued but, as ever, some people just have to keep theirs, with fiery results. Notices against the carrying of Galaxy Note 7s pop up everywhere with paranoids carefully trying to identify them as phone users walk past or stand nearby. It isn't until October that Samsung eventually stops sales. Extreme sports enthusiasts are disappointed as carrying a smoking Note 7 while riding an exploding hoverboard while BASE jumping is right there on the edge. It is unknown how many ISIL/ISIS/IS/Daesh/whoever suicide bombers do themselves in accidentally by carrying one of the phones.

Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize for Literature for his body of work of his song lyrics. The Nobel committee agreed unanimously that "Everyone must get stoned" although their critics wondered if any of them had bought any record albums or books in the last 30 years. Motley Crüe's Nikki Sixx was particularly upset upon hearing the news. "Content and obscure references in song lyrics. If I only knew." While "crimson flames tied through his ears rolling high and mighty traps" after the announcement, Dylan seems nonplussed at the achievement. Part of the requirement of the award is to show up in Oslo, Norway and to speak. Whether Dylan's mumbling counts as speaking is up for debate. In the meantime, he continues to compete with other ancient rockers and folkies to see who who can look the most grizzled and gray, whether dead or alive.

Political pundits are shocked by Trump's election even though "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" – Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Hotelier and The Apprentice star Donald Trump follows in the footsteps of other actors and gets the nod as Republican candidate for president after frenemying every other candidate. The Republicans hope for a loose cannon to take on the Democrats but get an even better deal as Trump personally takes on every party including Republicans and even the Whigs. Pundits would wonder if the election was rigged as the Democrats select the hated Hillary Clinton as their candidate. People would wonder at the time why Russian TV would have full coverage of the US presidential election followed up by a showing of The Manchurian Candidate; they would get major clues to the answer the next year.

With the legacy of an imperial presidency carried over from Barack Obama days, Trump ignores that there are two other parts of US government. He then brings the presidency into the 21st century, governing by tweet while enjoying a hot cup of covfefe. He finds an avid core of followers who want to Make America Great Again, nostalgic for the 1620s where Pilgrims could kill Indians at will and take their food and land. While not yet threatening to make his horse or any other animal a senator, he would keep a wary eye on his own praetorian guard except when he had to focus on finding the correct emojis to use.

The adage "Every nation gets the government they deserve" becomes true once again. Sightings of the Furies over American skies become common and egg prices drop as chickens come home to roost.

2017 – Boom boom, out go the lights

After a 2016 referendum, Great Britain, who worked very hard to weasel its way into the European Trade Union with major exceptions allowed, decides to bail with a formal announcement to leave, dubbed Brexit. Brits wing it with absolutely no plan to begin and drag their feet in deciding even just generally what to do, as if this was a decision on what dress to wear to the party. They expect favored nation status despite taking a shit on their former cohorts by figuring Europe would be too lazy to renogotiate thousands of economic and political agreements. The pound, having already taken a big dump after the vote, points clearly to real problems, but "England always muddles through". Just like India. Or Nepal. Some members of Parliament propose a monetary system based on the guinea and transportation to Australia for those who can’t keep up economically, while setting aside funds for a study on rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic .

Video hosting service Vine, home of the 6-second loop, is revived as "Vine Camera" for mobile devices after being left for dead in late 2016. As always, parent Twitter decides that making changes that nobody wants is the thing to do to justify their own existence by making the videos captive to Twitter or one's own phone. This move is greeted with a resounding chorus of two crickets chirping. The Vines site is meekly and weakly brought back but as archive-only. This is thought to be so that the Way-Back Machine site can keep busy.

Yes, he really did this before eclipse totality. A bonus gold star is awarded for pointing.

The United States gets its very own total eclipse, once again asserting its standing in the Western world. Although having a large part of its population in the dark already, that state is confirmed by the large numbers that travel to spots where totality was predicted. This insures much happiness, with price gouging by merchants and thieves doing their thing while everyone's attention is occupied. The best viewing spots are taken early, with thousands watching the progress of the eclipse on the phones. Pornhub reports a huge drop in traffic balanced out by a very active Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein during the period of totality. Despite warnings and ready availability of protective glasses, notables like rapper Joey Badass and Donald Trump brag about not using special glasses, though the latter's spokespeople state that Trump is “just momentarily checking to make sure that was really the sun up there.” Burn marks on the back of Badass's head provide evidence of possible eye damage, whereas experts agree brain damage had already occurred before the eclipse.

North Korean bad boy playboy Kim Jong-nam is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur Airport in Malaysia, apparently at the instigation of either North Korea or a combine of Las Vegas and Macao casinos who felt he didn't tip enough the last time he visited. Kim, the older brother of current president-dictator Kim Jong-un was originally slated to replace their father as head of North Korea. However, he was caught trying to sneak into Tokyo Disneyland under an assumed name, embarrassing his government by trying to use the "I'm-only-five-and-a-half-years-old" excuse to get in. He has since been living the chubby playboy lifestyle, completing the cycle with his untimely death. Reports state that he was easily pinpointed by his Facebook posts and Twitter tweets. Two locals are hired to splash him with a nerve agent, and are told that it is a prank, which it is, if you're Cesare Borgia. Malaysia being Malaysia, officials ship Kim Jong-nam's body to North Korea and carefully divvy up the reported $100,000 in his backpack. Meanwhile, the rest of the world realizes that Kim Jong-un has read The Prince by Machiavelli after all, despite being a fan of The Three Stooges.

Fidget spinners become a thing for slightly longer than 15 minutes. It does not take much to guess that a fidget spinner app would be made. It proves to be extremely resistant to malware, going for up to 2 hours before becoming totally infected and bricking a smartphone.

2018 – Sex, lies, and videotape

Cambridge Analytica and not Russia takes credit for influencing the vote in the 2016 US election. This is because the company somehow ends up with everyone's data from Facebook, which Lt. Cmdr. Data Zuckerberg swears was never given to them because he promised users that he wouldn't. While Cambridge Analytica implodes upon being exposed to the light, other companies set up shop in Russia because that's where the big bucks are. American sheeple blink a couple of times and go back to chewing grass, because that is what they do best.

More important to shuffling hunchbacked phone addicts is the boxing match between interwebz fucktard Logan Paul and fuckwit KSI, offered on pay-per-view at $10. But of course, with almost everyone having a little kid h4xx3r in the family, most people watch the fight for free. A rematch is declared for those who also enjoy watching 3-year-olds continually fight over a toy. PewDiePie punching bags would also become popular during the year. Also, unicorns became a popular decoration on ADULT clothing and accessories. If it could be unicorn-themed, it was.

2019 – Populism

In 2019 Brazil elected their own Donaldo Trumpo in the shape of Jair Bolsonaro. His mission was to cut down the Amazon rain forests and turn his country into a prairie. The natives would have to go but that was a small matter. Across the border into Venezuela attempts to oust President Nicola Maduro sees a rival claim himself as president and receives instant recognition from the USA and most of her allies. Maduro stays in power. Venezuela still has two presidents by the end of 2019.

Nuclear tensions rise between the USA, Russia and China. President Trump talks about 'clean nuclear weapons' and repeats the question why he can't use them against Iran or Nancy Pelosi. The land that claims his people are the direct descendants of Alexander the Great get their country's name changed to North Macedonia. It was previously known as the Country Formerly Known as Prince. Boeing's new Kamikaze aircraft the 737 Max Factor Power 8 crashes without warning. This is the second plane of this particular model to crumple into the ground/ocean. Boeing blames the Ethiopian pilots as they come from a 'shit hole country in Africa'.

The first Black Hole is identified as a void known as Elon Musk. Julian Assange is dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London for growing a beard and looking like a hobo. Britain plans to send him to the USA for trial and in exchange for favours from Donald Trump. Notre Dame suffers a catastrophic fire which burns down the roof of the Cathedral. The French police issue a photofit of the man they're looking for. He is dead, wears 15th century clothing and is called 'Quasimodo'.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is ousted by parliament after her Brexit deal is rejected. She resigns and faces the media in floods of bitter lemon tears.

See also

• Cell phone
• Smartphone
• 2010
• Windows 2010
• Inception (2010)
• Medal of Honor video game
• The Great Elephant Revolt of 2011 – where were you on the day this happened?
• Eurovision Song Contest 2011
• Arab Spring
• December 21, 2012
• Mayan Calendar
• Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
• Donald Trump
• Donald Trump Jr.
• Brexit
• 2018 North Korea–United States summit
• Tallinn 2020 Summer Olympics Bid