According to the Mayan calendar the world will end on 21st December. If this is the case, why am I worrying about my outfit for son’s wedding on 23rd?
According to some others what will happen is not so much the end of the world as the end of the world as we know it. This would presumably mean the wedding breakfast couldn’t be cooked if there’s no electricity.
I wish these people would get their stories straight, though I realise the Maya are not around to be consulted. If they are correct, there are some characters who will find themselves at the Pearly Gates clutching a tin of sardines and looking rather foolish.
I think I shall concentrate on my finery.
Boadicea's Chariot 
I doubt it will end either.
However, mulling the disintegration of humanity I’m not sure that isn’t a crying shame!
Casting a basilisk eye over man’s ineptitude, greed, cruelty, general revolting behaviour and lack of respect for the planet it is my opinion that they have forfeited all right of occupancy of said planet.
I do hope next time that a more deserving recipient species gets to be the climacteric.
I am quite sure that should ‘Armageddon’ (Why the end of the world should be named for some wretched Jewish place is beyond me) not happen; we shall be able to do the job of self destruction quite nicely without any outside interference. We appear to be well down that road already!
And probably a good job too.
We were supposed to be custodians of this planet, not a bunch of rapists.
Apart from that have a nice wedding, you have had a busy year. Presumably you are off back to the UK again?
In that case I’ll leave my Christmas shopping till the 23rd
Hi sheona, remember this?
https://charioteers.org/2012/01/01/2012/
The Maya dismiss the end of the world talk and insist that, if anything, it would be like changing the calender from 2012 to 2013. One expires, another one begins. Not that I would mind if the world did end, I have to fly with Air France from San Francisco to Paris and am not sure if I can survive that.
OK, christopher, so the Maya got it wrong, but what about the the “preppers” as they’re called. These are the ones ready to take to the hills – mainly in Wales, I’m afraid Christina – to dig in with their stocks of canned food and weapons and sit “it” out, whatever it may be.
Last year, (or maybe the year before last!) we had huge adverts all over Brisbane advertising the end of the world…
I would buy your Christmas presents now Soutie, the shops may not have what you want if you leave it until the 23rd 🙂
Forget bows and arrows, tinned food and a tent. A Cave, a double coat of Frizz-Eased fur and some sharp fangs are all that are really needed. I’ll take my chances.
OZ
If it gets too bad we’ll join you OZ!
Yoo-hoo, Boadicea. If so, I shall source particularly choice haunches of boar for you and Bearsy.
OZ
Soutie, thank you for reminding me of that cartoon. I shall continue shopping, as soon as the rain stops.
Sheona: the Maya did not get it wrong. They simply said that a calendar was going to end. The Spanish destroyed most Maya records and they didn’t have a chance to complete the next one. Many preppers always look for an excuse to go into a panic and do just as you say. There was the fear about the world coming to a complete end on the 1st of January 2000, etc.
I think most of the nutters lurking in Wales are emigrants from England! I don’t think the Welsh are into it, more likely to go down the pub for some good craic and a p/u before the end!
I rather like the choice of the end of the world over flying with Air France, now then, there’s a lad with the right priorities!
I know most of the nutters are English, Christina, but do you really want them infesting your country? I wouldn’t want them in Scotland.
Thinking of the horrific Air France crash into the Atlantic off Brazil, caused by inexperienced pilots, there probably isn’t much difference between flying with them and the end of the world.
True!
I’ve just had a dreadful thought. Re the picture of politicians above, can you imagine the horror of spending two years in a bunker with that lot?
And then after two appalling years finding the world is unliveable?
Can you imagine fighting Merkel for the last pop-tart?
Oh my! A lot to be said for going in the first blinding flash with a smile on your face!!! (And a glass in hand)
PS Not that I have ever eaten a pop tart, but from the look of them I presume they would last for eternity, sort of pre-lithified by Kellogg.
PPS I’m time wasting putting off writing my bloody Christmas Cards. They have to be done so early from here. I think someone rows them across the Atlantic.
CO and Sheona: my travel agent put me on Air France as the flight with KLM would have had a 6-hour connexion time and with Air France it was under 2 hours, though if I can get through Froggish passport control and make it from one end of Charles de Gaulle to the other in that amount of time is uncertain. The other option was Swiss International which would not have been bad had it not required a connecting flight in Chicago O’Hare on the way back to Minneapolis. For those who don’t know, the least thing anyone wishes to do in January is connect in O’Hare as aeroplanes have a tendency to freeze.
CO, pre-lithified? Now there’s hybrid! I’d go with ‘pre-calcified’ to avoid the cross-breeding! 🙂
No, no janus, I swear lithified, have you ever SEEN a pop-tart?