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Thread: The End of the World is Nigh (again)
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Ariel
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# 58
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The world is about to be annihilated (again).
What are you doing in these, your last moments? How would you like to spend your last moments, if the above isn't it?
(Hands up who's spending their last moments watching the Great British Bake Off...)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Eating as much ice cream as I possibly can.
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Brenda Clough
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# 18061
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Yeah, no more dieting! And probably it is not worth mowing the lawn.
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Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
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Meh, well, at least we know what the Lord is NOT likely to be doing on Wednesday.
So I suppose I'd better keep on exercising.
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Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
# 14125
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Typical. The Cubs make it into the playoffs and then THIS happens! ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Penny S
Shipmate
# 14768
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Is this going by UT or the time the last inhabited place finishes the day. If UT, I've got 3 and a half hours, Otherwise, another 12 after that - (I think.)
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
# 64
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Ah no - I don't want to spend my last hours having a dodgy tummy!
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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Penny S: Is this going by UT or the time the last inhabited place finishes the day.
It goes by timezone. Australia has stopped existing a couple of hours ago already.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
# 619
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I do hope the apocalypse (when it gets this length) is not going to be too noisy. I plan on going to bed soon.
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
# 5713
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I have done no ironing, gardening or housework. Long-term work tasks have been ditched and the diet and any pretence at exercise are all long gone.
Somehow I expect to wake up tomorrow and find that the Rapture has not come and another prophet (or should that be profit) has egg on his face.
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
# 31
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Already well into the 8th October here ....
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Belle Ringer
Shipmate
# 13379
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I thought the world ended on the Supermoon / bloodmoon and I missed it. Another chance! I'm surfing the ship. Does that make me holy or un?
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
# 31
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quote:
Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
Does that make me holy or un?
She stopped typing mid word ... it's the Rapture!
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Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
# 292
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I decided to skip going to the gym tonight...
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Jonah the Whale
Ship's pet cetacean
# 1244
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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
I have done no ironing, gardening or housework. Long-term work tasks have been ditched and the diet and any pretence at exercise are all long gone.
Me too. And yet I hadn't heard about the end of the world.
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windsofchange
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# 13000
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I'm ordering things from Amazon and selecting the "No-Rush" shipping option.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
# 953
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I guess last week was a bad time to take out a new life-insurance policy then.
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Brenda Clough
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# 18061
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Well that was exciting! Does anyone ever call out these false prophets? Do they ever feel even the slightest shame?
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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Not at all - they just get out their pocket calculators again and work out when the next one's going to be.
If I'd thought about it in time (which I didn't) I'd have got stuck into the nice bottle of New Zealand sauvignon blanc we've been keeping in the fridge for a special occasion. After all, if I were going to get Raptured, I wouldn't get a hangover, would I?
I'd also have been mightily hacked-off, as we booked the flights for our holiday last week ... ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
# 3216
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Before anyone starts about it, this isn't going to hit us.
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Adeodatus
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# 4992
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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
Before anyone starts about it, this isn't going to hit us.
I love the way that the Express (one of our more dreadful papers, devoted mostly to unresolved grief at the death of Princess Diana) uses the word "skim" for something that's 16 million miles away.
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Banner Lady
Ship's Ensign
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On the other hand, one could be quietly concerned that 86,000 kilometres (6 billion tons) of ice is melting from the polar ice caps each year. This rate of melt is expected to increase.
It might be good to have a 15-50 year plan in mind if you are near a coastline that will eventually be affected. I guess the water level predictions will be much more accurate in about 10 years time.
Perhaps some of us will live long enough to see the rise of protected family compounds again in the scramble for unaffected land.
If 85% of the world lives around sea ports there will be a lot of people vying for less and less real estate. And some clever technologies developed to preserve cities over the next century.
My guess is that an increase in national security services will create jobs in that area. What do you think will happen?
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
# 10424
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We live on a small hill and just 5 kilometres from the sea so are planning towers with armed guards at the four corners of the property. There seems to be some problem with the local government over the gun licences and having a private army but...
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Golden Key
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# 1468
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
If I'd thought about it in time (which I didn't) I'd have got stuck into the nice bottle of New Zealand sauvignon blanc we've been keeping in the fridge for a special occasion. After all, if I were going to get Raptured, I wouldn't get a hangover, would I?
Well, with a hangover, sudden motion, and bobbing up against a bunch of other people, you might need a barf bag, too!
![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Great way to meet St. Pete, God, etc. Maybe skip drinking, and just take the bottle with you as a gift?
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
# 31
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Though with that river running through the city there should be plenty of water to turn into whatever St Pete wants. Assuming Jesus taught him that particular trick.
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
# 5713
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quote:
Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
There are four bottles of Champagne in the cupboard under our kitchen window. It would be a shame to let them get obliterated.
How's your head, LVER?
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Penny S
Shipmate
# 14768
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You don't just need to be above whatever height above high spring tides seems wise, you need your utilities, especially sewers, to be above it as well. (Did a lot of thinking when there was a sudden rash of building on the Thames flood plain below Woolwich. There are levees*, but...)
*Proper ones, earthen wall type.
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Lucia
Looking for light
# 15201
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Don't forget to get your card stamped...
[ 09. October 2015, 14:20: Message edited by: Lucia ]
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Enoch
Shipmate
# 14322
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quote:
Originally posted by Lucia:
Don't forget to get your card stamped...
![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Mere Nick
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# 11827
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quote:
Originally posted by Hedgehog:
Typical. The Cubs make it into the playoffs and then THIS happens!
excellent
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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quote:
Originally posted by Mere Nick:
quote:
Originally posted by Hedgehog:
Typical. The Cubs make it into the playoffs and then THIS happens!
excellent
Ditto Northern Ireland getting into the European footie championships. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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rolyn
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# 16840
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Originally posted by Ariel:
If you missed these dates for the end of the world, just scroll down, there are some more you could still be in time for.
Good grief! Marvellous we're still here really.
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Zappa
Ship's Wake
# 8433
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Penny S: Is this going by UT or the time the last inhabited place finishes the day.
It goes by timezone. Australia has stopped existing a couple of hours ago already.
Now we're still here I probably should point out that Australia is not exactly at the cutting edge of timezones (or rugby, I hope)
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
# 4544
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Originally posted by Ariel:
If you missed these dates for the end of the world, just scroll down, there are some more you could still be in time for.
I'm glad Sir Isaac Newton was better at physics than prognostication.
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bib
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# 13074
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Think I'll just stay in bed and either sleep through it or read a good book while listening to my favourite music.
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