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Godzilla due any day now

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Tyredofallthis1 · 20/09/2021 10:27

We've had plague, brexit, wildfires, hurricanes and now there is a volcano erupting in the Canary Islands. It's the one where they do the doommongering documentaries that the next eruption will cause a tsunami that will wipe out most of the USA east coast. (threat has been downgraded according to Wiki). And volcanoes affect the weather in not good ways, just as we are looking at food shortages.

Please can we catch a break.

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CrumpetsForAll · 20/09/2021 10:39

A volcano in the canaries is gonna wipe out like, NYC?! You sure, OP?

Mybalconyiscracking · 20/09/2021 10:42

Nah, giant asteroid.. and Bruce Willis is too old to save us this time.

LadyCatStark · 20/09/2021 10:43

I feel like an asteroid would be a welcome relief at this point! At least it’ll get it over with quickly.

Mariell · 20/09/2021 10:50

And all of them vastly over exaggerated by the media causing people to be fearful and obey pathetic ‘rules’ without thinking for themselves and believing everything their tv tells them to.

PinkFootstool · 20/09/2021 10:50

There's been a volcano erupting in Iceland since March.... It's amazing, highly recommend watching the videos about it - This guy has some phenomenal footage:

drinkingwineoutofamug · 20/09/2021 10:51

7 plagues kind of thing???

Blood into water?
Frogs?
Lice /gnats ? - back to school
Wild animals /flies ? - invasion of flies this summer
Pestilence of livestock ? That bloody llama
Boils? - check out sporners corner
Thunderstorms of hail and fire? - Need I say more
Locus? - ate all the crops in Africa
Darkness for 3 days? - my internet went down .

Think a lot of these have happened in the past couple of years.

light hearted

DoncasterHombre · 20/09/2021 10:58

@LadyCatStark

I feel like an asteroid would be a welcome relief at this point! At least it’ll get it over with quickly.
You'd want to be right underneath it though, right? Same with a nuclear bomb. If you're other side of the world you have to put up with the nuclear winter where crops don't grow and you slowly starve or get captured and eaten by tribes of canibals. Or the radiation gets you and that wouldn't be quick or painless.

I'm in favour of a hostile alien invasion . We might get lucky and they land and say "right then, dickheads, we're going to sort your problems out and you're going to behave" but it's more likely they'd just quickly wipe us out and help themselves to our resources.

Happy Monday to you all.

LadyCatStark · 20/09/2021 11:14

@DoncasterHombre yes that’s why I’m always grateful to live close enough to a nuclear power station to hear the alarm when it goes off!

I’ve already decided that in the event of a zombie apocalypse, I’m going to offer myself up and go straight over to the dark side and accept my new life as a zombie, I couldn’t be arsed with all the running and hiding!

Aposterhasnoname · 20/09/2021 11:18

@CrumpetsForAll

A volcano in the canaries is gonna wipe out like, NYC?! You sure, OP?
Yup. It’s the resultant tsunami that’ll do it.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/2375030/mega-tsunami-wave-could-wipe-out-new-york-and-miami-at-any-time-because-of-landslide-fear-in-spain/amp/

TooBigForMyBoots · 20/09/2021 11:18

I don't mind as long as he doesn't bring that annoying little fucker Godzuki with him.🦖

DoncasterHombre · 20/09/2021 11:22

@LadyCatStark

Oooh, do you? Do they ever "test the alarm" and do they let you know they're testing it in advance . . . . ?! How long would you have between the alarm going off and armegedon? I would want to know these things! Not so much people to see but more things to do! Grin

Fattedthesecond · 20/09/2021 11:27

@TooBigForMyBoots

I don't mind as long as he doesn't bring that annoying little fucker Godzuki with him.🦖
GrinGrinGrin

Technically, Godzilla is the good guy. Despite destroying half of Tokoyo on a weekly basis. Ghidorah is the one you really want to be worried about.

Or MechaGodzilla.

LadyCatStark · 20/09/2021 11:28

They test it every Thursday at 10am. It sounds like an air raid siren and always gave me a bit of a shock when I heard it as I was usually at work at 10am on a Thursday but I’m used to it now as I’ve been stuck WFH for 18 months! There’s signs up nearby to tell walkers not to worry if it goes off then but it has gone off at other times which is scary as it’s not a drill but is usually (well always I suppose 😂) for something small. I’ve no idea how long we’d have and I suppose I won’t be able to tell you if I ever find out 😂.

DoncasterHombre · 20/09/2021 11:37

@LadyCatStark

Haha, I see! I'd have to be prepared and have an ETS Protocol (End Times Sex Protocol) in place if I were you. If single, you could have something in a glass case in your hallway with a little hammer on a chain to break it out with in the event of the alarm going off!

You could always complain to or thank them in the event of a false alrm!

EvilPea · 20/09/2021 11:41

Mad cows disease has popped up again as well.

It’s certainly an interesting time to be alive isn’t it.

Pootles34 · 20/09/2021 11:43

Yup I'd want to know LadyCatStark - I'd not want to spend my last hours on earth doing ironing! We've a max security prison near us, no warning siren that I'm aware of. I always vaguely think there probably should be....

MiddleParking · 20/09/2021 11:45

Oh I thought this was going to be about an OP being heavily pregnant with a massive baby. I was coming for a companionable moan about crippling heartburn. The actual content of the thread hasn’t really helped Grin

Tyredofallthis1 · 20/09/2021 11:51

@EvilPea Bloody hell I missed that. With the relaxing of food standards vvvv likely as well.

Meat is off the menu boys.

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Tyredofallthis1 · 20/09/2021 11:52

There's a wiki article that says the whole 'landslide + tsunami wiping out NYC is exaggerated' which I am willing to believe. But there may be some colder weather, dammit.

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Tyredofallthis1 · 20/09/2021 11:53

@PinkFootstool Iceland have all the fun.

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RedToothBrush · 20/09/2021 12:01

Tsunami theory for this volcano is long since debunked. Not going to happen.

Look it up on twitter or wiki if you are still stressing. Lots of pissed off volcanologists last night.

ItWearsTheBatteriesOut · 20/09/2021 12:04

I love the thought that has gone into it. I'm with the posters that hope I'm right under the asteroid etc

Tyredofallthis1 · 20/09/2021 12:27

@RedToothBrush I'm more worried about it affecting the weather, to be honest.

Also, what else is going to happen? What happened to the murder hornets? Are we going to get an invasion of giant ants instead?

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BrilloPaddy · 20/09/2021 12:31

If it stops people talking about Covid, bring it on.

I'd give Godzilla a red carpet, frankly.

EvilPea · 20/09/2021 12:36

I’m pretty sure you could get away with murder at the moment.
It would be old news within 20 seconds as something catastrophic would happen to push it off the front pages.