I’m not sure what it is with a British accent that makes a smack-down so much more viscerally satisfying, but whatever it is; it works. This video dismantles the tomfoolery surrounding the end of the world ballyhoo that was making the rounds in late 2012.
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7 comments
February 19, 2013 at 6:29 am
syrbal
I love the crickets chirping after he says “Here’s the short course of data supporting the doomsday predictions.”
On the downside? I wonder why the hell so many people seem just thrillingly anticipatory about alleged world endings!
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February 19, 2013 at 9:52 am
heinrich
The funniest thing about the Mayan end-of-the-world BS is that it is almost always accompanied by a spiffy graphic of the *Aztec* Sun Stone.
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February 20, 2013 at 10:59 am
The Arbourist
@syrbal
I would guess is that they are having to deal with the same slice of challenging life that we all do and are tired of it; thus they want their 72 raisins and eternal bliss stat.
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February 20, 2013 at 11:00 am
syrbal
I rather hand them 72 reasons for their eternal (infernal?) blips.
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February 20, 2013 at 11:02 am
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@Heinrich
Good eye. Pretty much covers societies indifference to what we in western civilization quietly describe as primitive civilizations. How would it be if others were describing the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria as rowboats, or the garbage scows of discovery?
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February 20, 2013 at 11:15 am
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@syrbal
I like starting with holding up my hands and telling them that carbon atoms in my left are from one supernovae and the ones in my right are from different supernovae. It is dramatic, and it still blows my mind, even if most of the time the ‘true believers’ will casually dismiss it. :)
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February 20, 2013 at 11:16 am
syrbal
Likely that is why I tend to dismiss “true believers”…
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