AIBU to be irritated with the amount of scare-mongering crap being spouted about the terrible occurrances in Japan etc.

[ArfurBrain]

all the people full of shit about the earthquake being down to the so-called mega-moon this weekend (er, a big full moon CANNOT affect tectonic plates shifting, you ignorami),apocalyptic 2012 predictions (hmm yes, the Mayans who couldn't foresee the end of their own civilisation coming...), global warming causing all the recent natural disasters (again, not recycling or turning off the lights isn't going to cause earthquakes.)etc etc etc.

Actually I don't care if you think I am BU, I just need to get this off my chest before I upset some gentle wooooooo-wafting soul, to be honest.

Radio, obviously. Radion is completely different.

snort!

oh Seeker do please link to Mrs Brian Cox's articles. DH has just discovered Brian Cox and his robust approach to science after despising him for years because he is good looking and on telly.

Maybe she's tetchy cos their star signs are incompatible..

Yes winter I'm glad you can back me up. I thought my collegue was winding me up when she told me the word LUNACY comes from LUNAR as in the moon.

Petalouda, if you use tweed, it will be a history teacher's hat.

[gavel]

Tetchy Mrs Brian

mumbar, it does come from the word lunar. The moon was thought responsible for all sorts of mental illnesses, especially those that seemed periodic like the lunar cycles.
But it dates from the 1500s. I think we have moved on from there.

thank you Seeker.
' Pre-fame, I was asked for my opinions; now, I'm asked what Brian thinks. During a discussion recently, someone said to me, "You only think that because your husband is a physicist", as if I am now incapable of my own thoughts.'

great article, she seems very cool.

Although the word loony comes from a middle english word loun - meaning rouge, red, (angry, mad?) and nothing to do with the moon.

Is it time to point out that earth tides may be implicated in triggering (not causing) earthquakes?

See Tanaka 2010, geophys. Res. Letts. 37:2

I can just barely imagine that the moon being slightly closer to the earth than normal might cause a tiny bit more gravitational tidal stress and make a plate on the brink of slipping shift there and then: but if it was that close to going, it was only a matter of time anyway as subduction is a continuous process.

seeker, that link article has gone!

no it hasn't, there was a missing h from the link

Thank you OP. I was moaning to DH this evening about the volume of 'twat-wankery-woo' (have I got that right?) in RL and in the media following the Japan quake.

This thread has cheered me right up, esp. the point about the mega moon getting interested in the stock market.

YANBU.

Ta Seth.

oh poor Gia,that must be maddening though.
if you are on here, Gia, you could start an 'AIBU to be pissed off that my bus-spotter geek DH's opinion's are worth more than mine just because he is on the telly? thread and we'd come on and be supportive.

she seems very Mumsnettery.

maybe she came on here once but was appalled by the number of threads slavering over her husband.
Or maybe she is still here and in correspondence with Tech over whether it is possible to have a 'hide all threads containing the words 'professor', 'Cox' and 'Brian'' button.

Can I just chip in to nominate lesley33 for "typo of the day" award? I love the idea of teutonic plates - it's all the Germans' fault....

Oh, and Ben Goldacre (author of the Bad Science column and book) also thinks the megamoon/earthquake/tsunami theory proposed by an astrologer in the Daily Mail is total utter stupid offensive made-up bollocks.

Love Ben Goldacre.

My dad used to turn into an even bigger tosser when it was a full moon. Me and my siblings used to make jokes about him really being a wearwolf (can't spell it!) we also knew to keep our mouth shuts when he came home drunker than normal when we ever saw the full moon.

I also worked ina pub in Kings Cross, Sydney and we would have extra security on a full moon as there was always more trouble.

"Did I mention that 2012 is utter nonsense as well? It's drivel"

Professor Brian Cox on Twitter.

Brian Cox isn't that smart. There will DEFINITELY be a 2012.

YANBU...there are some really mad postings on Facebook for example about how the tsunami, 9/11 and Haiti earthquake are all part of some coming apocalypse that was predicted in the bible. Also have heard people spouting on about the fact the the 'earth' was 'biting back', because of us humans drilling for oil , (erm nothing to do with shifting tectonic plates then), and the worst a religious nut (on youtube) saying that the tsunami was God's way of shaking up the japanese because they are atheists!

I have heard through the grapevine that another earthquake is going to hit New Zealand next week (the 20th or there abouts)

mumsgotatum
The Japanese are mostly Budist