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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.
:cool:

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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):D

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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:D

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

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Bit of a beggar if its true,:eek: have a hol booked fer Jan 4th.:D

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu7vySQbgXI

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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.

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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.

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Any grotty stuff we have left we pass on to Less:D:p

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And how would yeh know that?:rolleyes::D

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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.

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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.
:D

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

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

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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

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Good excuse not to buy Christmas presents

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It would certainly provide you with an unusual excuse...'Sorry didn't buy any presents
I was told the world was going to end on the 21st of December'
My response would be....'That gave you three days to find something when it didn't' :D

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Yes I know I had three days before xmas and I would have bought it, but, the post office was inundated with last minute gifts to deliver from others like me.
I thought sod it, I wouldn't normally have sent her anything anyway.

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The day after my monthly pay-day. Perhaps I will have to get some special whiskey

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I'm panicking! I can't find anything on our Christmas holiday insurance which covers me for the 'End of the World'!
Should I claim for a broken leg now and spend the money on shortbread, good whiskey and cigarettes?
After all, the end of the world could last a long time.

Second thought-
Thinks- what the heck do I need shortbread for?

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This may be just coincidence, but -
Terence McKenna's Timewave zero (based on I Ching) happens to 'end' then too :D

Terence McKenna's Time Wave Zero

(expand thumbnail to view graph for this month)

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Didn't he tweak it a bit to make it end then? According to Wikipedia:

McKenna expressed "novelty" in a computer program which purportedly produces a waveform known as "timewave zero" or the "timewave". "Timewave zero" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase over time in the universe's interconnectedness, or organized complexity. Based on McKenna's interpretation of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching, the graph appears to show great periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity's biological and sociocultural evolution. He believed that the events of any given time are recursively related to the events of other times, and chose the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as the basis for calculating his end date of 16 November 2012. When he later discovered that the end of the 13th baktun in the Maya Calendar had been correlated by Western Maya scholars with December 21, not far from his own hypothesized end date, he decided that the Maya were more likely to be right on this subject and he adopted their end date.

I have been trying to plough through his Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge - A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution but found it hard going -still only a third of the way through.

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A big 'novelty dip' is due tomorrow.
We will have to see whether some extreme event will match it.

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No chance Weds is half day closing in Accy.

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GlenMorange and a Romeo y Juliet, much more satisfying than shortbread Gordon:D

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You didn't get a shortbread biscuit this morning Simon, we were so busy talking aeroplanes and cars I forgot I had saved you some.
Anyway you did have a Blue Riband with your coffee.

You reminded me that the end of the world was due today but I am still nipping up to the chippy for my evening meal in a few minutes, hopefully I will have a house to come back to..
See you again soon.

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I just bought Single Malt 10YR Bushmills. I shall hopefully make it home in time to sup some and watch the world end...:D

Due tomorrow... but who is counting on it.

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You probably are- if it happens you'll miss that hangover!

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Its a conspiracy.:D

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I was looking forward to MargaretRs 'novelty dip'- a lollypop, plastic Batman, anything would have done.
But as usual she's let us down.

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I'm counting on it, just borrowed a fortune from a loan shark so I can go on the p tonight, if I wake up tomos' I'll be in deep doo doo!

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Here's another thought, Roy is due to fly in for Christmas tomorrow, if his plane doesn't make it, what will happen to AccyWeb?

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You'll never know!

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If you can reschedule the end of the world to a definite Saturday afternoon, I will join you at the railway and will gladly accept an end of the world pint from you hehehe

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you'll have to take over less ....... god help us!!!! :D:D:D

anyway here you go ... just thought id get it in before all hell lets loose tomorrow .. wi less in charge of accyweb...... the spugster made this a few year ago .. so should be on here elsewhere somewhere ..

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My loan sharks interest is high, not mine.

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:D

Anyway. Here is my XMAS Selection(attached)

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the Bushmills is a superb malt, it would be worth me suffering to sup that on the last day, but knowing my luck, the world won't end.:D

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I like the other Bushmills... So I am in for a treat!???. How come you don't drink or is that a bad question...

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Nah i can't have a form of neuralgia thats alcohol triggered, always was a lucky get.:D

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Had to google that one. Ouch. Well least ya liver isn't pickled.

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this ones nicer restless ..... :D

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Can you believe it ? We're still here & there was me looking forward to the rest of eternity off, have to dig out me work boots now. :D

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Bought this on way back from Brugge
As yet unopened but that will change over Christmas:D:D
if we are still here

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sweet

I bought my friend the Glenmorangie that is in the yellow box for xmas. His fave whiskey

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Well ... I'm still here ... guess I'll have to pay my bar tab after all:mad: At least I didn't max out my plastic.:D

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Aren't you several hours behind?
Maybe you'll get it first?

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Maybe our time slot is the 9.15 pm one.

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Open it now & get it over with Mick. :D

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Frank Sinatra My Way - YouTube Just fer all of yeh.

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I some how missed this post last night...

Can't compare the two, haven't tried the single malt yet.

I tried Black whilst I was in Windermere. It was a bit harsh for me. Very hmmmm...dark/heavy.

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Redbreast 12/15 or a Jamie 18, both Irish, both blends, helps pass a convivial evening if your not a Malt man. :)

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Devils wee-wee....all of them.
You can have my share!

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So Hell won't be all bad!

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well, it will for me Gordon.......don't like whisky/whiskey in any shape or form......from any country...Scotland, Ireland or USA(bourbon).
It is something that himself tries to get me to have when I have a cold......I would rather drink paraffin.
So you can have my share of it when we get to the hobs of hell.

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Update(the yellow glen isn't mine)

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Well we all still seem to be here, So the Mayans were lying pigs.:D

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It's a pity really, that it didn't happen, would have solved the massive unemployment problem at a stroke.

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Yes Cashy, we're all still here, but not sure if everyone's all there, if you see what I mean...

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Bit harsh that mate, perhaps they were just trying politics ? :idunno:

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Well here we are at the beginning of another new year according to the calendar we use.

Thinking back over the years there have been many crackpot predictions like this one, almost as regular as the Hyndburn circular.

Come to think of it, will they actually behave like buses, always late and three of them turning up at once?

:mosher:

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Well the whiskey is gone and the world is still spinning...

come to think of it-- :spank: So is my head