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It's the End of the World Over Here

Dec 20, 2012#1

doomdragon6

I'm over here in Japan, it's 6:40 in the morning, and SO FAR nothing terrible has happened. I had a dream about an earthquake and some pigmen with Freddy Kruger gloves, but that seems irrelevant.

I'll be sure to keep you posted about any horrors that befall us.

REPORT ANY SUSPICIOUS HAPPENINGS

Dec 20, 2012#2

Chad Sexington

I'm working at a slower speed than usual today. Could this be manbearpig? Or the Maya?

Dec 20, 2012#3

Gared

It doesn't count until it's 12/21/2012 Mayan time.

Dec 20, 2012#4

Charlie Don't Surf

Gared said:
It doesn't count until it's 12/21/2012 Mayan time.

Yeah, I think the alien-gods are probably coming back in approximately 31 hours.

Dec 20, 2012#5

Gusto

Fucking timezones, how do they work?

Dec 20, 2012#6

doomdragon6

Gusto said:
Fucking timezones, how do they work?

Magic, right?

Dec 20, 2012#7

Espy

Did the Mayans account for leap days and leap seconds?

Dec 20, 2012#8

Charlie Don't Surf

Espy said:
Did the Mayans account for leap days and leap seconds?

Their calendar is more accurate than the Atomic Clock.

Dec 20, 2012#9

North_Ranger

An hour and 32 minutes into the last day on earth. No signs of zombies, black holes or anything particularly out of the ordinary yet.

Dec 20, 2012#10

Espy

Charlie Don't Surf said:
Their calendar is more accurate than the Atomic Clock.

WELL CRAP

Dec 20, 2012#11

Ravenpoe

If the world is gonna end, it needs to do it soon, or I'm going to have to go to work tomorrow.

Dec 20, 2012#12

T

The_Khan

damnit, you mean I have to pay back the 12 million dollar loan?

Dec 20, 2012#13

bhamv3

True story:

"You don't want to die a virgin, do you?"
"If you're the alternative, then yes I do."

:foreveralone:

Dec 20, 2012#14

ThatNickGuy

Oh God, WE'RE ALL GONNA LIVE!!

...wait.

Dec 20, 2012#15

Chad Sexington

I DEMAND THE APOCALYPSE!

Dec 20, 2012#16

ThatNickGuy

Chad Sexington said:
I DEMAND THE APOCALYPSE!

Dec 20, 2012#17

Chad Sexington

Blue? The Apocalypse is blue? Dammit.

Dec 20, 2012#18

ThatNickGuy

Dec 20, 2012#19

bhamv3

I read the headline and thought it was amusing, then I read the article and found it wasn't amusing at all:

Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools

Dec 20, 2012#20

Dei

Well they aren't closing schools because they think the world is ending, they are closing schools because they are worried about crazy people doing crazy things.

Dec 20, 2012#21

Allen who is Quiet

dae it's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine?

Dec 20, 2012#22

bhamv3

Dei said:
Well they aren't closing schools because they think the world is ending, they are closing schools because they are worried about crazy people doing crazy things.

Yep, pretty much. Especially since it's so close to the Sandy Hook tragedy.

Dec 20, 2012#23

Hailey Knight

Everyone forgets that the calculations were off and the Mayan calendar's end is still 100 years from now.

Dec 20, 2012#24

Terrik

bhamv3 said:
I read the headline and thought it was amusing, then I read the article and found it wasn't amusing at all:

Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools

Oh goodness, I hope something similar happens by 4:00PM today for me.

Dec 20, 2012#25

jwhouk

bhamv3 said:
I read the headline and thought it was amusing, then I read the article and found it wasn't amusing at all:

Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools

I also suspect a ton of white stuff falling from the skies may have impacted the decision.

Dec 20, 2012#26

Emrys

I'm still releasing the doomweasels tomorrow. Be prepared to feel their wrath!

Dammit, weasel, wake up! You can't sleep through the end of the world!

Dec 20, 2012#27

Yoshimickster

12 O Nine and feeling fine!

Dec 21, 2012#28

Bubble181

Espy said:
Did the Mayans account for leap days and leap seconds?

Charlie Don't Surf said:
Their calendar is more accurate than the Atomic Clock.

They did account for leap years/days/seconds, but obviously differently than we do, and their calendar is based on a different system (partially solar, partially lunar). Revised calculations have put their "end of the world" in 2014, 2018, 2132 or something,.... *shrug*
When has that ever stopped anyone from making a nice littel media hype? 99->00 was also "the new millenium oh my god". 00->01 nobody cared. Silly media and their thought-up self-made hypes.

Dec 21, 2012#29

Far

Dei said:
Well they aren't closing schools because they think the world is ending, they are closing schools because they are worried about crazy people doing crazy things.

Which is what I'm infinitely more worried about personally.

Dec 21, 2012#30

sixpackshaker

I crawled out of my bunker for this?!

Dec 21, 2012#31

North_Ranger

I heard something about Peruvians saying that the apocalypse has been postponed to Sunday or something. Can anyone confirm?

Dec 21, 2012#32

Chad Sexington

The last four digits of my phone number are 2012 because of today. I am going to be so sad if some shit doesn't go down.

Dec 21, 2012#33

phil

Dec 21, 2012#34

BErt

I guess I have to actually pay for all those Christmas gifts I put on my credit card now. Dammit.

Ninja'd by Galactus, woohoo!

Dec 21, 2012#35

Chad Sexington

Yay!

Dec 21, 2012#36

WasabiPoptart

As I just said on FB - "Well it's 8am and I haven't been sucked into a black hole or attacked by zombies or noticed any signs of the rapture. Although, I do need to go to the commissary in a bit so any one of those things could still happen I suppose."

Dec 21, 2012#37

TommiR

Three hours of the day left over here, and I still have more than half a case of beer left. I'll need to pick up the pace, as it would be a shame to let that beer go to waste.

Dec 21, 2012#38

sixpackshaker

I hope History won't run any Ancient Nostradamus Apocalypse Effect Aliens for a couple of months...

Dec 21, 2012#39

Yoshimickster

In the age 2000 A.D., Nostradamus predicted that Angol Mois the lord of terror would descend to Earth and usher in the apocalypse. Buuuuuuuuuuuut then her frog uncle told her not to.

What crazy cartoon are we gonna get out of this nonpocalypse?

Dec 21, 2012#40

North_Ranger

Seven minutes past midnight over here.

Dec 21, 2012#41

Emrys

How do we know you're really North_Ranger and not a pod?

Dec 21, 2012#42

Wahad

Dec 21, 2012#43

North_Ranger

Emrys said:
How do we know you're really North_Ranger and not a pod?

I can threaten to choke you with your own weasel if you mention certain pantaloons...

Dec 21, 2012#44

Chad Sexington

Well, maybe you're just in the wrong time zone. There's a fireball over my city.

Dec 21, 2012#45

Gared

North_Ranger said:
I can threaten to choke you with your own weasel if you mention certain pantaloons...

That just really reads wrong.

Dec 21, 2012#46

North_Ranger

Chad Sexington said:
Well, maybe you're just in the wrong time zone. There's a fireball over my city.

That's the sun.[DOUBLEPOST=1356128922][/DOUBLEPOST]

Gared said:
That just really reads wrong.

Dec 21, 2012#47

HCGLNS

There's still time for the world to end! You just need to believe people! I have faith in Shego, why don't you!

Dec 21, 2012#48

Covar

Dec 22, 2012#49

Chad Sexington

Apocalypse update:

BULLSHIT

Dec 22, 2012#50

strawman

I'm personally glad the world ended yesterday. We now have a shiny new world and we can choose how to live the rest of our lives, rather than allowing ourselves to foolishly be bound to an ancient civilization that has long since ceased to be relevant.

Dec 22, 2012#51

sixpackshaker

Great, now I have to pay my phone bill.

Dec 22, 2012#52

Emrys

North_Ranger said:
I can threaten to choke you with your own weasel if you mention certain pantaloons...

I could never be that cruel.

Dec 22, 2012#53

Chad Sexington

Emrys said:
I could never be that cruel.

I could.
North_Ranger
*deep breath*

Ahem:

CERTAIN PANTALOONS

amidoingitright

Dec 22, 2012#54

Emrys

Oooooo, so close.

Dec 22, 2012#55

WasabiPoptart

Pantaloon! I love that book!

Dec 23, 2012#56

North_Ranger

Chad Sexington said:
I could.
North_Ranger
*deep breath*

Ahem:

CERTAIN PANTALOONS

amidoingitright

Noyouaintdoingitright.

Dec 23, 2012#57

Charlie Don't Surf

Scrolling down quickly, I'm really glad that book cover is a dog and not someone in blackface

Dec 23, 2012#58

Officer_Charon

It was off the chain here for the first half of my shift... I had no sooner than logged in and filled up my gas tank, whereupon we had a vehicle chase of a pair of burglars in a stolen car. Then rolled up on ANOTHER stolen car, driven by a guy with warrants for Aggravated Assault. Had a fight at an apartment complex... THEN we got to eat lunch.

After lunch was much better. Busted two prostitutes and confiscated their pimp's car. Went home and had spaghetti.

Dec 23, 2012#59

Emrys

I love when you post about your job. You make it sound so... prosaic.

Dec 23, 2012#60

Hailey Knight

Officer_Charon said:
After lunch was much better. Busted two prostitutes and confiscated their pimp's car. Went home and had spaghetti.

When you say it like that, I imagine you getting in some purple Cadillac and switching off a police hat for a fedora with a feather, then riding off into the sunset.

Dec 23, 2012#61

bhamv3

Officer_Charon said:
It was off the chain here for the first half of my shift... I had no sooner than logged in and filled up my gas tank, whereupon we had a vehicle chase of a pair of burglars in a stolen car. Then rolled up on ANOTHER stolen car, driven by a guy with warrants for Aggravated Assault. Had a fight at an apartment complex... THEN we got to eat lunch.

After lunch was much better. Busted two prostitutes and confiscated their pimp's car. Went home and had spaghetti.

Did you encounter any extra craziness because people thought the world's ending?

Dec 23, 2012#62

Officer_Charon

Naw, not so much. Just a dude who was having a diabetic episode who ran his car the wrong way on the Truman Parkway, crashing into 8 cars (including an unmarked police truck), causing one of them to flip over. Not in MY precinct, thankfully... nobody was extra-crazy due to that sort of stuff, though.

Dec 23, 2012#63

bhamv3

Officer_Charon said:
Naw, not so much. Just a dude who was having a diabetic episode who ran his car the wrong way on the Truman Parkway, crashing into 8 cars (including an unmarked police truck), causing one of them to flip over. Not in MY precinct, thankfully... nobody was extra-crazy due to that sort of stuff, though.

... So, just the normal craziness then.

Dec 23, 2012#64

Officer_Charon

Basically.

Dec 23, 2012#65

doomdragon6

Being a cop must open your eyes to the world a lot, because I never even think about those sorts of things on any kind of regular basis.

Dec 23, 2012#66

Silent Bob

Chad Sexington said:
I could.
North_Ranger
*deep breath*

Ahem:

CERTAIN PANTALOONS

amidoingitright

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news...how-meggings-are-taking-fashion-by-storm.html

Dec 23, 2012#67

Emrys

Silent Bob said:
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news...how-meggings-are-taking-fashion-by-storm.html

Does this means codpieces will be coming back into fashion?

Dec 23, 2012#68

Ravenpoe

Emrys said:
Does this means codpieces will be coming back into fashion?

You mean they aren't already?

...

I need to go change.

Dec 23, 2012#69

Emrys

Ravenpoe said:
You mean they aren't already?

...

I need to go change.

Pictures first!

Dec 23, 2012#70

strawman

I 'd wear meggings.

When I race my road bicycle in cold weather.

Dec 24, 2012#71

Bubble181

I keep hoping kilts'll come into fashion, but instead we get meggings? Ewwww.

Dec 24, 2012#72

drifter

Pffft, meggings.

Dec 24, 2012#73

North_Ranger

From the apocalypse to denim dick bags.

...

Yeah, I'm not surprised either.

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