# I predict a Bad Thing

**URL:** <https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/i-predict-a-bad-thing/1473>\
**Category:** The Archers\
**Created:** [26 December 2018 19:47 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/i-predict-a-bad-thing/1473 "2018-12-26T19:47:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\
**Post date:** [26 December 2018 19:47 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/i-predict-a-bad-thing/1473/1 "2018-12-26T19:47:57Z")

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… happening to Brian.  
His exchange with Ruairi about R looking after him in his old age, the peaceful and happy Christmas à deux with JD, and his general and slightly uncharacteristic bonhomie of late just **bode**

And it would explain why no one has bothered with a load of loose ends. Although there are alternative explanations, such as incompetence, for that.

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**Author:** ![HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/hedgesparrow/32/124_2.png) [@HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/HedgeSparrow)\
**Post date:** [26 December 2018 19:52 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/i-predict-a-bad-thing/1473/2 "2018-12-26T19:52:44Z")

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Misread that as “goose ends”, which would surely be a money-making scheme for Fairbrother-Grundy Scams Inc.

I’m not sure the current writers are competent enough to do basic blatant foreshadowing, though.

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**Author:** ![Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/fanta/32/98_2.png) [@Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Fanta)\
**Post date:** [26 December 2018 19:54 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/i-predict-a-bad-thing/1473/3 "2018-12-26T19:54:49Z")

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Many of them are the same writers we’ve had all century.

(yes, all right, they probably aren’t.)

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**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\
**Post date:** [26 December 2018 19:56 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/i-predict-a-bad-thing/1473/4 "2018-12-26T19:56:22Z")

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Well, I hope you are right. I _like_ Brian, although he does have a dodgy taste in wives and is quite ridiculously indulgent to the various hangers-on known as the children.