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21st December 2012, 12:28 AM | #121 |
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21st December 2012, 12:29 AM | #122 |
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So - the world ended...
then reappeared immediately looking exactly the same? Man, that's clever. It's almost enough to made you believe... |
21st December 2012, 12:42 AM | #123 |
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What a boring end of the world this one has been. *sigh* I miss Y2K *sigh*
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21st December 2012, 01:00 AM | #124 |
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21st December 2012, 01:16 AM | #125 |
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21st December 2012, 03:26 AM | #126 |
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So far, no zombies/viruses/meteor showers etc.
However, if you look at the sun today, you won't be able to see the centre of the galaxy because the sun is in line with it. (Of course, if you do that then you won't see anything else - ever. So maybe you should look at this explanation instead. ) |
21st December 2012, 03:28 AM | #127 |
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Harold Camping is having a hoot over this.
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21st December 2012, 04:22 AM | #128 |
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same time next week then?
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21st December 2012, 05:10 AM | #129 |
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Without Putin then. I'm afraid he'll spoil the party again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ9vv9ajd64 |
21st December 2012, 05:35 AM | #130 |
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21st December 2012, 06:37 AM | #131 |
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Stupid end of the world. Always late for work.
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21st December 2012, 06:38 AM | #132 |
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21st December 2012, 07:19 AM | #133 |
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21st December 2012, 07:26 AM | #134 |
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The power flickered briefly where I am located.
Its a sign I says... This looks like a job for the coinwinkadink patrol™ |
21st December 2012, 08:17 AM | #135 |
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It's the End of the World as we Know it, and I Feel Fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY |
21st December 2012, 08:17 AM | #136 |
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About 4 or 5 weeks ago it suddenly occurred to me that the Gangnam Style video would reach 1 billion hits on Youtube on or about the 21st. Other people seem to have had the same idea and strangely we were right - shouldn't be but another hour or two before this benchmark is reached.
A sure sign of the apocalypse if ever this was one. I think it could be for real this time - or not. |
21st December 2012, 08:33 AM | #137 |
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21st December 2012, 08:46 AM | #138 |
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It was a long, tough night but I saved all your asses.
I'll take the thanks in cash please |
21st December 2012, 08:59 AM | #139 |
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I don't know about you guys but its raining pitchfork wielding mayan zombies where I live.
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21st December 2012, 09:53 AM | #140 |
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'Nuff said! |
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21st December 2012, 10:02 AM | #141 |
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Yep, there's a booth in the medieval market in Esslingen that sells the Feuerzangenbowle. Totally been there. I'm going to hit Innsbruck's market tomorrow, having had a day to recover. If you're not Christmas marketed out Strasbourg and Colmar's in the Alsace, France go until New Year. That is assuming that the world does not end by midnight on the 21st. I'll be pissed if it does because I had to prepay for the hotel in Austria.
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21st December 2012, 10:14 AM | #142 |
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Hmmm... my personal kook didn't show up to work today. Hope he didn't go totally stupid.
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21st December 2012, 10:21 AM | #143 |
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Make sure you know where the emergency exits are in case they storm in with a gun, intent upon "sparing" all of you the trials and tribulations of the coming apocalypse.
On a related note, this morning I had a chat with someone on the train. Today was the first time they were heading out in public dressed as a woman instead of as a man. Apparently they've been wanting to transition or years and concluded that today would be a good day for their old life to end and their new one to begin. So, for one person at least, today IS the apocalypse, but a good one, a revealing of a new life. |
21st December 2012, 10:32 AM | #144 |
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21st December 2012, 10:47 AM | #145 |
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21st December 2012, 11:38 AM | #146 |
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Just got this in an email, thought it was funny and appropriate.
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21st December 2012, 12:41 PM | #147 |
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Well nothing happened at its usual rate.
Now. do we have to get ready for the excuses about how they forgot to multiply something by something and the world will end on ................ |
21st December 2012, 12:51 PM | #148 |
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Has anyone heard any excuses yet as to why the apocalypse didn't take place ?
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21st December 2012, 01:18 PM | #149 |
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This quote typifies what I've been seeing the last few days:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1....html?ir=World
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Well, it is now the 22nd of December all over the world (except at the international date line where it is now the 23rd )
Guess what has happened to yet another doomsday prediction?
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21st December 2012, 11:40 PM | #151 |
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22nd December 2012, 12:10 AM | #152 |
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22nd December 2012, 12:22 AM | #153 |
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22nd December 2012, 03:20 AM | #154 |
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21/12/12 is now over everywhere.
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22nd December 2012, 04:08 AM | #155 |
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22nd December 2012, 04:42 AM | #156 |
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So did the world end, or do I just need more caffeine?
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22nd December 2012, 04:45 AM | #157 |
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22nd December 2012, 05:15 AM | #158 |
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I'm not scared anymore. (Or should I still be?)
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22nd December 2012, 12:43 PM | #159 |
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Well I listened to the radio program Coast to Coast last night just to keep up to date on the important conspiracy theories I must be in fear of.
It was reported that "of course" nothing happend on the 21st of December, that was never a Mayan calendar, that was an Aztek calendar people were looking at, duh. They went on to report that the "rapture" will happen in January 2013. The New World Order will take over in March 2013. and there will be a huge comet hurtling near the earth by Sept. 2013, but it won't hit the earth, the one behind it that we can't see yet, that one will hit, unless we all blow ourselves to smithereeens with nuclear weapons first. See ? You just have to keep up or you'll never know what to be afraid of, personally I'm always afraid of aliens and ghosts, oh and spiders, and assorted parts falling off of planes flying overhead, and wheels coming off of random big rig trucks on the highways, and radiation emitting from computer screens, oh.... |
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