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in asking just what time the world will end tomorrow?

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SirCliffRichardSucksEggsInHell · 20/12/2012 10:16

I've got plans you see and wanted to schedule them around the apocalypse. You'd think the Mayans would have narrowed it down to a time slot wouldn't you? Like delivery drivers?

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SirCliffRichardSucksEggsInHell · 20/12/2012 12:58

kaylasmum, fear not. There is no planet hurtling towards us, if there was you'd be able to see it by now. That was made up by a woman who claims to have an implant in her brain that was put there by aliens who talk to her.

Plus it's already Friday the 21st in Australia and as far as I know, the world hasn't ended over there just yet.

The earth isn't just going to implode you know, if it ends then I reckon we'd probably have more than 24hrs warning. Like a huge ice age, or even a nuclear bomb (there'd have to be loads and I reckon even North Korea would probably give a bit of a warning like "will you all stop taking the piss or else..."

So chill. It ain't gonna happen. Not till I go to the toilet for a poo.

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rockinaroundthebadtasteflump · 20/12/2012 13:01

is your poo going to end the world? Xmas Shock

WTF have you eaten?

kaylasmum · 20/12/2012 13:01

looks like i'm the only one worrying on this thread

RockingAroundTheBloodyXmasTree · 20/12/2012 13:03

No ur not kaylasmum

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SirCliffRichardSucksEggsInHell · 20/12/2012 13:03

Well, let's just say that 11.11am tomorrow my shit will hit the fan Grin

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ramblingmum · 20/12/2012 13:04

If it is going to end tomorrow please can it be at about 8am so I can open my birthday presents but not have to go to work.

PorkyScratching · 20/12/2012 13:05

Once we get to 11.12am tomorrow, can all these threads then stop

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SirCliffRichardSucksEggsInHell · 20/12/2012 13:06

Look, if this were WWI or WWII you might have a right to worrying about the end of the world (which were also predicted then). Even if this were in the midst of the Cold War you'd have a right to worry as many many people did (and the end of the world was predicted then too).

If you worried about every end of the world prediction you'd be a mess.

How did you cope with the Millenium, when the end of the world was predicted? I think you need to apply logic, learn from past experiences and move on with the present.

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Chubfuddler · 20/12/2012 13:08

It's wrong that I just laughed at "wake up Harold" on that link about the funeral, isn't it?

Sorry.

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SirCliffRichardSucksEggsInHell · 20/12/2012 13:11

Look at the number of end of the world predictions to date, there are hundreds of them predicted by religions, people, theologists, etc. There are even future predictions of the end of the world like 2020 or 2129.

Now look at all those predictions and tell me how many have come true?

What makes this particular prediction scarier than all of those? Personally if I was living in the Second World War and I heard the Jehovah's Witnesses claim about how the end was nigh, then I might have just shit my pants.

But the world didn't end then and it won't end tomorrow.

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Alisvolatpropiis · 20/12/2012 13:13

SirCliff I was 11 when the Millenium was predicted to end the world. I coped very badly. End of the world scenarios have bothered me ever since,as irrational as it is.

cheekybaubles · 20/12/2012 13:25

The sad thing is that I know there are people out there with anxiety issues who are really distressed about all this and nothing you can say to them will make them understand that;
a) it isn't going to happen
b) if it was going to happen then worrying wouldn't make a jot of difference.
I really feel for these people and am looking forward to the deadline (pardon the pun) passing so that they can relax for a while (2020 or whatever) and maybe see their GP's to get a bit of help.

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SirCliffRichardSucksEggsInHell · 20/12/2012 13:35

Is there a name for that? Like arachnophobia? Armageddonophobia? Apocalypsophobia?

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cheekybaubles · 20/12/2012 13:38

I like the last one SirCliff Xmas Grin

cheekybaubles · 20/12/2012 13:39

Actually, it all went a bit quiet then and I was worried that it had already happened whilst I was watching Gino and Mel Xmas Shock

hopkinette · 20/12/2012 13:55

It'll happen when Gangnam Style gets its one billionth view on YouTube. Only 11,019,944 to go!

TheHoneyDragonsDrunkInTheIvy · 20/12/2012 15:54

As far as Aylesburys concerned the world hasn't started yet, so I doubt it's going to end there.

Tamisara · 20/12/2012 16:19

The HoneyDragons I quite agree Grin Are you from Aylesbury?

LalyRawr · 20/12/2012 16:28

Does this mean I don't have to work tomorrow?

Awesome.

RockingAroundTheBloodyXmasTree · 20/12/2012 19:22

Just seen itv news. Has shit me right up.

Pandemoniaa · 20/12/2012 19:24

Friends in New Zealand have promised to send a message just before it hits them. That'll give enough time to go out and misbehave before everything goes bang.

MurderOfGoths · 20/12/2012 19:24

Rocking You really need to avoid this shit. Nothing is going to happen, honestly

everlong · 20/12/2012 19:40

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Sparklingbrook · 20/12/2012 19:41

DS1 (13) has been mentioning it on and off all day, and has made me a bit Sad now.

BoatysTinselSails · 20/12/2012 19:47

Oh bugger! Just got home from Christmas shopping and read this thread...what a waste of money! Xmas Grin

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