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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2012 15:29:54 GMT -5
I told DH if its an asteroid, I hope they give us enough time to get to where ever its going to hit because I want to be under it when it comes crashing down....I don't want to be around for the mess afterwards If I'm going to die, let me die quickly. Haha, I told my wife all I needed was my gun and 1 bullet; nothing else. I don't want to go through hell only to die anyway at the end.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Dec 12, 2012 17:40:38 GMT -5
It'll be just like Y2K. All the doomsday folks will stock up on stuff, I imagine most of them already have, and hunker down waiting for whatever. The rest of us will go on with our lives, and when the world keeps on ticking without missing a beat on the 21st, the doomsday folks will find some other reason that the world is going to end a few years later. Early next year will probably be a good time to stock up on brand new "used" survival crap being sold by embarrassed doomsday folks.
I'm already making a list of camping stuff that I'll be looking for on Craigslist.
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Post by shanendoah on Dec 13, 2012 16:12:58 GMT -5
I am not quite ready for 12/21. I told everyone they had until Monday at noon to RSVP for my annual birthday dinner. Monday afternoon I'll make the reservations, and then I should be good.
This is the end of one Mayan calendar. Their calendars were much more astrologically based, so it's like it's the end of the Age of Aquarius. A new Mayan calendar, for a new age, will start the very next day- just like our 2012 calendar will end on Dec 31 and the new 2013 calendar will begin the next day. The Mayans just created longer calendars.
Of course, none of that changes that my birthday is 12/21, and that it's fun to call our annual holiday dinner the "dinner at the end of the Universe" (since we're all geeks and get the reference- except my poor mom, who will be joining us this year).
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Dec 13, 2012 19:34:14 GMT -5
Steve is off doing something for the end of the world. He may be able to avert it. I wished him well, just in case the Mayans' ( or our ) calendar is right. Or wrong. I have the day off that day, so I'll be relaxing if the world ends. Then I'll be turned back into star dust, and I can move on to some other project.
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Post by weltschmerz on Dec 13, 2012 19:43:25 GMT -5
Of course, none of that changes that my birthday is 12/21, and that it's fun to call our annual holiday dinner the "dinner at the end of the Universe" ---------------- Are you going to the restaurant at the end of the universe?
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on Dec 13, 2012 20:01:33 GMT -5
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
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Post by seriousthistime on Dec 13, 2012 20:19:55 GMT -5
Anyone watch Big Love? There was an episode a few seasons back when Nicki was distraught because she ran up her credit cards and Bill had no idea she was in debt and she couldn't pay them back so she called her mother and asked for a loan. Her mother said something along the lines of, Oh, we're all in debt! The second coming has been predicted so many times, who ever thought we'd have to pay it back?
So if the end really is on 12/21/12, I suppose my last thought will be, damn - I wish I had run up my credit cards and skipped saving for retirement. And I wish I hadn't cared so much about the state of my liver and enjoyed life a little more. It could have been so much more fun without all that worry.
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Post by Malarky on Dec 13, 2012 20:55:48 GMT -5
We are having a "End of the World" Party at our place. 7 other couples and us: Booz, drinks and a good time. Hey, I'm local. So is Chiver. Invite us. We can all go together in financial bliss. ;D
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Post by sheilaincali on Dec 14, 2012 9:30:45 GMT -5
Shanen, Welts, Rocky- Thank You Douglas Adams is our family's favorite author. Seriously- The Boy has a copy of Hitchhikers Guide that has several of the stories in it. I'm pretty sure he has read it at least a dozen times. Every day when I drop him off for school he says "So Long and Thanks for the fish" when he gets out of the car. We decided to jump on Carl's bandwagon and are having an End of the World party at our house. Booze and Boardgames mainly. I'm thinking ahead though. I invited my husband, our friend that's a doctor and a couple of college professors- so between us we should be able to figure out how to survive if things go all to hell.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Dec 14, 2012 9:42:18 GMT -5
Urgh, now DH is talking about buying shells for our shotgun because he thinks all the loonies will be out creating chaos. I think he might be hanging out on P&M and i don't know it. He's going to get wrapped in tinfoil and shoved in the closet if he doesn't knock it off. He gets all his information from the internet.
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Post by sheilaincali on Dec 14, 2012 9:53:25 GMT -5
Urgh, now DH is talking about buying shells for our shotgun because he thinks all the loonies will be out creating chaos. I think he might be hanging out on P&M and i don't know it. He's going to get wrapped in tinfoil and shoved in the closet if he doesn't knock it off. He gets all his information from the internet. Hot Chocolate meet Monitor. Wrap him up in tinfoil and shove him in the closet huh? Curious to know if that would work.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Dec 14, 2012 9:57:09 GMT -5
If I use enough duct tape to keep the tin foil tight and break the door knob, probably.
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Post by sheilaincali on Dec 14, 2012 10:00:03 GMT -5
I'm going to have to remember that for next time DH gets on my bad side
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Post by chiver78 on Dec 14, 2012 19:45:31 GMT -5
We are having a "End of the World" Party at our place. 7 other couples and us: Booz, drinks and a good time. Hey, I'm local. So is Chiver. Invite us. We can all go together in financial bliss. ;D
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