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Can everybody do me a favor? Internets, coworkers, the Daily Show, everybody, please?

STOP TALKING ABOUT THE MAY 21 APOCALYPSE.

Thank you.

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This is the first I've heard of it. *goes back under rock until Sunday*

I don't even know where the idea came from, nor do I want to.

All I know is, May 23 is Victoria Day, aka "No one knows when Queen Victoria's birthday is because we move it to whichever monday in late May is covenient" Day, aka the last day of "Canadians emerge from their igloos, expose their legs to the sun for the first burning of summer, and drink lots of beer at the lake" weekend. I am not missing May 23.

Edited (When I said I didn't know which day it was, I really really meant it.) 2011-05-19 22:43 (UTC)

I feel sorry for the people who sold everything and are rationing their food and meds so's they run out on the twenty-first.

One of these days I will have a flash of insight allowing me to comprehend the desire to use mind-altering substances such as alcohol. That day is not today.

...Well, it's been more than a decade since the last mass panic about the end of the world. I'm hoping that after this it'll take another long period to get people gullible about it again, but since next year is 2012... *sigh*

Last mass panic was instigated by the same guy, I think.

He instigated one in 1994, but Y2K was its own brand of whacked.

Ah, true.

To be fair, if there hadn't been millions of man-hours poured into fixing Y2K, it really could have gone horribly wrong and caused things like our immensely efficient just-on-time food delivery infrastructure to fall over dead.

Life without takeout! THE HORROR!

I moved to a farm in 1999, so in between learning about how to raise chickens and maintain a garden and catch a horse, we got lots of "helpful" books and pamphlets on Surviving When The Lights Go Out. It's kind of a good thing we didn't have to, because man, we were sucky farmers to start with. (We had to move from cows to sheep in 2000 because we discovered most of us were physically incapable of giving a cow medicine or doing anything else it disliked, or carrying a calf)

No, no. I mean delivery as in 'schedules shipments to grocery stores'. A lot of our food infrastructure, particularly in cities, relies on timing everything just right to insure stores have enough food to keep the shelves stocked, but no so much that it goes to waste. Even back in 2000 it was heavily automated (although not to the extent it and many, many other things are today). Screw up the date on a company's scheduling system and suddenly stuff stops moving correctly. The same goes for finance, power generation, and all sorts of other stuff.

It's not the Apocalypse, it's the rapture. Look at it this way, if it's true, we'll be rid of all the born again right wing nuts by Sunday. :)

When it's not, we can just point at laugh.

(Besides which, Sam and Dean are on the case on Friday, I think we're safe.)

Um... is me being silly helping or do I need to shut up now?

You're definitely amusing me, but I really am sick of hearing about it.

On the other hand, the Centers for Disease Control has chosen this moment to release its Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse

Coincidence? I think NOT!

Heee

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