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Post by amie8 on Dec 19, 2012 15:38:13 GMT
Well, we've got a Christmas thread, so I thought it was only fair... Article on my Yahoo homepage on how different countries are preparing for the end of the world on 21st December: uk.news.yahoo.com/mayan-apocalypse-2012--how-the-world-s-believers-are-preparing-for-the-end-135520325.htmlThere are times when I just love being British... Other organisations have kept a stiff upper lip.
The London Fire Brigade spokesman advised: "Fit a smoke alarm on each level of your home, then at least you might stand a chance of knowing that the end of the world is nigh ahead of those who don't.
"If you survive the apocalypse you'll be alerted to a fire more quickly should one ever break out."
The AA said: "Before heading off, take time to do the basic checks on your car and allow extra time for your journey.”What are you doing to prepare? |
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Post by Wyvern on Dec 19, 2012 18:03:23 GMT
What are you doing to prepare? Well, we have quite literally the biggest box of Thornton's Continental chocolates... In The World in my office at the moment. I am going to prepare for the Apocalypse by eating them all. It would be a terrible shame to waste them. |
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Post by FizzyLogician on Dec 19, 2012 18:29:48 GMT
Made a special trip to the liquor store today. Also bought extra pet food just in case I'm no longer around and they have to feed themselves.  Courtesy of Twitter. |
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Post by amie8 on Dec 19, 2012 23:18:44 GMT
Well, this evening I feasted on home-made coffee ice cream and a small snowball.
And there's still two days to go. Who knows to what depths of debauchery I will yet sink?
Also, windscreen washer bottle has run out. Perhaps I won't fill it...
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Post by jmsquared on Dec 19, 2012 23:41:32 GMT
I have ordered spare parts for my vacuum cleaner. That'll be a waste. Then again, maybe the post Apocolyptic world will need a good hoovering. Mmmmm.......
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Post by Wyvern on Dec 20, 2012 20:04:54 GMT
My Japanese and Australian friends report that the world is still there...
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Post by dit on Dec 20, 2012 21:39:47 GMT
I have this image of a gigantic Pac-man starting off in the southern hemisphere and chomping its way up from the antipodes.....
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Post by ladylurker on Dec 20, 2012 22:17:25 GMT
I have this image of a gigantic Pac-man starting off in the southern hemisphere and chomping its way up from the antipodes..... It's the Langoliers! ;D |
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Post by amie8 on Dec 20, 2012 23:52:26 GMT
I hope we're all spending these last hours in quiet contemplation. I certainly am:  Ooh, did I think that out loud? |
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Post by Wyvern on Dec 21, 2012 1:54:31 GMT
I'm contemplating the fact that if the world ends, all the money I've spent on Christmas presents could have been spent on beer instead...
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Post by dit on Dec 21, 2012 2:36:47 GMT
Have to say, if I have to think of what to consider in quiet contemplation in the last few hours of the universe, it would be this sort of thing. Aint never going to get near it in the real world, so why not?   (Do they produce taxis in the after-life?)  |
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Post by TheDaisy on Dec 21, 2012 7:40:25 GMT
I'm contemplating the fact that if the world ends, all the money I've spent on Christmas presents could have been spent on beer instead... *nods* That's why I haven't bought many yet ;D And besides, the world can't end yet - I have a pot of yogurt in the fridge dated for New Year's Eve. |
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Post by crumbs on Dec 21, 2012 8:26:06 GMT
I received an email Goth Christmas card reminding me I was going to die today. The black creepy Christmas tree had a red skull on the top. It is excellent!
I'm sure there will be plenty of fine bottoms, taxis, chocolate, wine, whisky, cake, roast dinners, chicken sag or patia (I could go on) in the afterlife, so all will be well. We will all be given a man of our choosing, or men if you're greedy and lurve will be all around.
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Post by Wyvern on Dec 21, 2012 9:58:05 GMT
The world hasn't ended yet. In fact, the sun's out. If this is the Apocalypse, can we have them more often please?
Anyway, the world can't end yet. I designed a pair of fingerless gloves a couple of days ago and I've only crocheted one of them so far. I don't want to go to the afterlife looking like a cross between Michael Jackson and a tramp.
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Post by dit on Dec 21, 2012 10:48:37 GMT
I've just had an e-mail headed "Do you want to die alone?"
That worried me a bit.
Until I opened it, to find it's a jokey one from a dating site about the potential apocalypse and whether there's time to find a nice man before the end of the day. Must admit, it gave me the spooks when I first saw it!
(Apologies about the semi-naked James further up the page, by the way - I realise I've lowered the tone of this thread!)
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Post by amie8 on Dec 21, 2012 13:24:05 GMT
13.22 on apocalypse day. Just had nice gin and tonic next to cosy fire in local pub. Now eating soup.
Slightly disappointed, if I'm honest
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Post by crumbs on Dec 21, 2012 14:37:09 GMT
Just come back from a bout of Christmas shopping. It felt like the apocalypse if I'm honest.
G and T in a warm and cosy pub? Bliss.
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Post by Wyvern on Dec 21, 2012 14:45:39 GMT
A song for today...  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2012 15:13:43 GMT
6:12 AM EST has come and gone and I am still here. I assume so is everyone else!
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Post by amie8 on Dec 21, 2012 16:41:38 GMT
"Not quite the conflagration we were banking on..."
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