Holy Mayan calendar Batman! Game over!

[themadscientist]

For all you fruit loops who care about this silly s***, here's a countdown clock for you to plan and prepare for whatever the hell you think is going to happen on the magic hour.

http://www.2012supplies.com/They_Warned_Us.htm

Before you start giving away all your possessions, joining the Rebecca Black fan club, voting Democrat, experimenting with deviant sexual proclivities you avoided entertaining, but now, in light of impending doom, now think "what the hell, fire up the curling iron," think about this.

If these guys were so prescient, why are they dead?
They are dead because they didn't know a bunch of droughts were going to kill them. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ought.html

Doesn't sound like they were that good at predicting stuff does it? It's one thing to watch a predictable mechanical cycle and extrapolate it using math, quite another to predict the future. Everybody is ready to s*** their pants because a calendar made centuries ago by people who obviously had a great understanding of astronomy "ends" on a certain date.

If you are near a 2011 calendar flip it to the last page. If you have one of those cheap calendars that doesn't give you January of the next year, first, spend some money on a quality calendar, something with hot chicks or cars or something else cool. Second, how are you still alive? Your calendar has correctly predicted every day of 2011 so it's obviously trustworthy, but it ended yesterday! Yet, you are still here; how's that?

Could it be that when a cycle ends a new one begins?

Na, you must be dead and just imagining that hangover. That makes more sense.

Good luck with the apocalypse and let me know if you want to give me your stuff on Dec 20.

[Razi]

A civilization didn't make more calendars = end of the world

[MinisterofDOOM]

Clock ends at 12 because it's round. Time keeps going. Paradox?

[Rev_D21]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdQcJ2ZYY[/youtube]

[Dattebayo]

If anyone actually bothered to be so informed and actually study why their calender was set up that way, they would know the calendar was designed with respect to our solar system's position in the galaxy, which changes every few hundreds of thousands of years, not one round and then the end of everything. Besides, when you design a wheel, do you expect it to make one revolution and then explode?

[themadscientist]

Round wheels are overrated!


It's cool that the Mayan calendar is actually more accurate than ours. No need for a leap year. They have a 365.25 day year. Kewl! It would be my luck that that last day would be the coolest one, but only a 1/4 of the length.

[MinisterofDOOM]

[SBC 240Z]

HAHAHA!!

[nissangirl74]

[alms24sebring]

Thats funny. I didnt bother clicking the link, but what you said TMS is what I tell these people that say "what if". Its soooo freaking aggravating to think they really believe something so stupid.

[Rev_D21]

No need for a leap year.

Then what happens to me since tha's my BD?

[Jesda]

TIME TO STOCK UP
http://www.costco.com/browse/product.as ... d=11487214


And on your way out you can pick up a hot dog and soda for $1.50

[themadscientist]

No need for a leap year.

Then what happens to me since tha's my BD?

I'm sorry to say, you are just a figment of our collective imaginations. Don't be sad, though, that makes you more special. We chose to create you. Real people just happen and usually suck.

[Bubba1]

No need for a leap year.

Then what happens to me since tha's my BD?

You stop aging, of course.

[300ZXttZMAN]

I love this thread title haha.

[themadscientist]

What's our status Hudson?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuCHgqZhfBU[/youtube]

[SnookieTownshend]

Most of my extended family was convinced - absolutely convinced - that the world would end at midnight on December 31, 1999. Mind you, these are the same people who call me up and ask stuff like "Hey, fertilizer melts snow, don't it?" (Yes, they're all from the deep south. Cue the banjos...) I think Mayans are a little too esoteric for them, though. At least I hope so. I don't really feel like going through all that again.

And to those who think the world's really going to end: can we have your stuff?

[numbnuts240]

my uncle flipped the main breaker at midnight during our y2k party. the ensuing paranoia was priceless.

[nissangirl74]

(Yes, they're all from the deep south. Cue the banjos...)

What's that supposed to mean?

my uncle flipped the main breaker at midnight during our y2k party. the ensuing paranoia was priceless.

[Kompresshun]

my uncle flipped the main breaker at midnight during our y2k party. the ensuing paranoia was priceless.

I did something similar - I was doing lighting at our church that night for a Y2K event and I hit the "Blackout" button at midnight. It was a lot more effective, since there were a few hundred people there

[numbnuts240]

a one-upper eh? so, this one time, i endured a victorious 8-hour battle against flying hitler, harry potter, AND dr. robotnick while riding a centaur/pegasus hybrid in a sphere filled with africanized killer bees. who's the bad a** now?

[Dattebayo]

[nissangirl74]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyEE0qpfeig

[AZhitman]

(Yes, they're all from the deep south. Cue the banjos...?

I'm from the deep south, and more than happy to compare IQ with anyone who's not.

With that out of the way, if the Mayans were so smart and insightful,maybe they'd still be around. Hmmmm....

[float_6969]

Shhh! I'm using that as an excuse to my wife to buy 900 rounds of ammo for my .308, LOL!

[Dattebayo]

if the Mayans were so smart and insightful,maybe they'd still be around. Hmmmm....

Actually, according to modern Anthropology, they just kind of moved in with the Toltecs, they didn't die off or anything.
I guess the death cult wasn't so cool after while...

Ah, forget it. I watch too much Discovery CHannel...

[SnookieTownshend]

(Yes, they're all from the deep south. Cue the banjos...)

What's that supposed to mean?

I love 'em - don't get me wrong - but sometimes they make me feel like I've walked straight into that movie "Deliverance." Like my one uncle who crashed a crop duster when he decided to buzz my other uncle's pickup truck. He was lucky to escape with only two broken legs. The uncle who he tried to buzz was one of the funniest guys you'd ever meet, but I don't remember ever seeing him sober. The one who crashed the crop duster vanished sometime around 1986 or so. He said he was going to go to Central America to join the Contra rebels. We haven't heard from him since. Then there was my grandmother, who fixed a lovely pot pie that turned out to be squirrel and not chicken. (Turns out I don't care for squirrel either on the table or on the bird feeder.) And those are only some of the things I witnessed - the stories I've heard are even less believable.

The funny part is, my father's father ran the sewage treatment plant in the little Arkansas own he lived in, and my mom's parents had a farm - and I ended up working for an agency that works with farmers to help prevent water pollution in the watershed area we're in. So I guess I learned well from them. (And no, buzzing your brother's pickup with a crop duster is not a recommended best management practice...)

[AZhitman]

Sounds like cool people. I'd rather hang out with them than some of the NJ / NY people I've met.

[themadscientist]

You're cabbage!

[numbnuts240]

Sounds like cool people. I'd rather hang out with them than some of the NJ / NY people I've met.

oh, brb, i thought i just saw a squirrel in the yard...