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AIBU?

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to be absolutely terrified

87 replies

Doha · 01/12/2012 22:18

about the ending of the world as predicted by the Mayan's on the 21st December.
Having palpitations and am thinking of asking for a days annual leave to spend the day at home with my family....

OP posts:

Punkatheart · 01/12/2012 22:49

It's kind - but thank you...just usual problems. I just get a bit tired.

Sorry - didn't mean to put on a downer on this end of the world stuff...

It would be annoying...I've got all my pressies now...

pookamoo · 01/12/2012 23:02

punk do chat if you need to.

OP, you are not unreasonable to be terrified, if you don't know the details of the myth that is going around. But I am pretty sure you will be cursing yourself on 22nd Dec when you are fighting over the last moshi monster in town!

monsterchild · 01/12/2012 23:05

I'm guessing the world as the Mayans who originally created that calendar HAS ended/transformed/etc, so they weren't wrong there.

It's also my due date, so yay! Like the top notch procrastinator that I am, I'll get to experience having a baby just barely in time before it all ends!

ellargh · 01/12/2012 23:09

My anxiety is really flaring up over this too so YANBU. The logical part of my mind tells me every reason this isn't going to happen but the other side is the dominant side.

EugenesAxeChoppedDownANiceTree · 01/12/2012 23:09

If the world does end on 21st... well there's not much you can do about it. It wouldn't hurt for long I expect.

CaliforniaLeaving · 01/12/2012 23:15

Well if we are all going on the 21st, at least we won't be alone. I vote we all open our pressies early and drink all the booze by the 21st just in case
We have big plans for January so no doubt we'll all still be around. New carpets, house up for sale and the epic move back to UK ASAP.

rednosedreindeerinthegarden · 01/12/2012 23:15

maybe it's the time now, in the next 20 days, to do as many of the things on your bucket list as possible.
and tell those closest to you how much you love them.
and to not be so judgemental over the way other people live their lives
and to not worry so much about the things that actually don't matter.
and to get your hair and nails done. i couldn't stand to meet Amargeddon with split ends and misshapen fingernails

lovebunny · 01/12/2012 23:19

punkatheart, i still pray for that 'tea and cake'. thought of you when i saw a teapot in m+s that said tea and cake on the side. bring on the days of tea and cake.

lovebunny · 01/12/2012 23:20

well, 21st is the end of term and i'm supposed to be babysitting little grandaughter in the evening. if its going to be the end of the world, we might as well have ice-cream...

thejubjubbird · 01/12/2012 23:23

Of course I'm not worried, do you know how many end-of-the-world predictions there are every year? Well I don't know myself but there are bloody loads!

And no point stockpiling - if the world's going to end it'll be the end of everything - who do you think's going to be left to sit round eating cold baked beans out of a can?

thejubjubbird · 01/12/2012 23:24

((hugs)) to punkatheart. I'd be happy to share my end of world cold baked beans with you if you like.

Punkatheart · 01/12/2012 23:55

We will go out with a bang, thejub...or at least a fart, if we are on the baked beans....

Morloth · 01/12/2012 23:58

If the Mayans were so clever, how come they didn't see the Spanish coming?

Anyway, the world could end for you any time. Could get hit by a bus, fall down the stairs just wrong, choke on a piece of cake etc.

No point worrying about it.

Rowanhart · 02/12/2012 01:00

Punka your post made me sad.

If you need someone to talk to im happy to be a sympathetic ear...

Punkatheart · 02/12/2012 01:10

Thank you Rowan.

R2PeePoo · 02/12/2012 01:22

Look a big long list of predicted dates for the end of the world.

They all got it wrong.

What makes this time different?

Whiteworm · 02/12/2012 01:28

Lol yeah stock pile water and tins! Like they would be of any use if the world ended. Cambells chicken soup will save you....lol

hopkinette · 02/12/2012 02:05

I'm not saying, I'm just saying...

LoopsInHoops · 02/12/2012 02:07

Apparently the mayans said that it is the end of the Makka and the start of the Pakka. Sorry but that made me laugh.

EmpressOfTheNorthPole · 02/12/2012 02:50

There have been loads of predictions like that, Doha, & most of the people who made them were mad as a box of frogs IMO. I think it makes a lot more sense that the Mayans had to stop their calendar at some point & that was it.

If it makes you feel better you could get on OFRS (Oh Fuck Rucksack) like PomBear's together though.

ipswichwitch · 02/12/2012 03:42

I remember when everyone made a huge fuss about 2000 when apparently all the computers were going to explode/turn into giant robots. There was even a squad of techies at work going about putting stickers on machines saying they were "y2k safe".
So what happened when Big Ben finished bonging in the new year? A big fat nothing. I think a calculator battery ran out in Swindon, but there was certainly no global computer crisis that people were predicting

MoleyMick · 02/12/2012 04:56

hopkinette!

MadMumToThree · 02/12/2012 07:23

And this is why I'm not Christmas shopping until after the 21st just in case!

bondigidum · 02/12/2012 11:12

I don't think the big Hollywood film '2012' helped very much, or all of this spiel on tv about idiots stocking up for the end of the world (why the fuck will they need 1000 tins of beans if they are dead?!).

There is nothing weird about 2012. It is the same as every other year. Nothing dramatic will happen. Honestly. Remember in 2000 when the world was going to end because all of the computers crashed? I think I'm still alive...

cbeebiesatemybrain · 02/12/2012 11:49

The Mayan calendar didn't factor in leap years so the world should already have ended!

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