The End is Nigh

Boeing Guy · 11-12-2012, 06:17

Well according to all those who believe the Mayan Calender anyway.
With 10 days to go, I wonder what everyone is planning?
Apparently panic buying is the way to go?
Video: December 21: Mayan apocalypse prompts UK customers to buy 25-year food survival packs - Telegraph

Personally it sounds like a load of .... But you never know.

Margaret Pilkington · 11-12-2012, 06:52

I am sure that I read (somewhere - probably internet) that these prophesies were concocted by a couple of hippies in the 60s or 70s - while they were under the influence of magic mushrooms.
Anyway, if it is somethig that is going to happen I can't see a whole lot that can be done about it...blow panic buying.....anyway I thought that was happening anyway.......aren't the shops closed for a day or two at christmas...that put panic into the hearts of many(though I am not one of them - what we haven't got, we can live without...unless of course it is air)

Boeing Guy · 11-12-2012, 06:59

Well Mrs BG is looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet when it ends, I have no need to panic buy, I have lists of fresh coffee in and more importantly plenty of tea, after all you cannot beat a nice cup of tea.
Oh hold on I need some Shortbread.....panic buying here I come

Margaret Pilkington · 11-12-2012, 07:24

Like your style Si...sounds good to me!

cashman · 11-12-2012, 08:15

Bit of a beggar if its true,

have a hol booked fer Jan 4th.

MargaretR · 11-12-2012, 08:27

I have read a lot about the Mayan calendar and you haven't - it doesn't forecast 'the end of the world'
SO -

Less · 11-12-2012, 08:32

Panic buying 25 years worth of food?

If that's anything like buying a Christmas hamper it means they'll have 20 years of good eating and 5 years of eating the really grotty stuff that nobody really likes and leaves until last.

Gremlin · 11-12-2012, 08:46

I will make sure I leave a few shortbread biscuits in my mixed biscuit box for when you visit me Si.
They are the ones I am not keen on.

Mick · 11-12-2012, 08:48

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Originally Posted by Less

Panic buying 25 years worth of food?

If that's anything like buying a Christmas hamper it means they'll have 20 years of good eating and 5 years of eating the really grotty stuff that nobody really likes and leaves until last.

Any grotty stuff we have left we pass on to Less

cashman · 11-12-2012, 08:53

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

I have read a lot about the Mayan calendar and you haven't - [/url]

And how would yeh know that?

Less · 11-12-2012, 09:05

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Originally Posted by Mick

Any grotty stuff we have left we pass on to Less

Nick nack paddy wack, give a dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home.

Or at least he would come rolling home if you ever put any booze in with the grotty stuff.
It's amazing how a bit of curry powder makes anything tasty.

Less · 11-12-2012, 09:31

Bet Against the Mayans, Win a Free Apartment

This might be a good place to while away 25 years eating off the fat of a bumper hamper.

Michael1954 · 11-12-2012, 10:16

Well if the end is nigh, I think I will start smoking again.

emamum · 11-12-2012, 10:31

i read somewhere that the fact we have leap years now and didnt back then means its not acurate anyway?

MargaretR · 11-12-2012, 11:07

The Mayan (long Count) calendar is based on astronomical observations.

Mayan Calendar -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
" A complicated and accurate calendar using three simultaneous independent systems. It consisted of the Long Count, Tzolkin, and Haab. The Long Count is related to precession of the equinoxes, and will end in 2012 when the winter solstice will be very near the point at which the ecliptic plane and galactic plane intercept "

I have read books by John Calleman and watched videos by John Jenkins - they disagree about the long count 'end date'.

What is meant by 'end' is also just speculation