From the Maya Calendar: When the Titanic hits McDonald’s golden arches, the world will end
(Well, that or an iceberg…)
The world economy might, as of yet, be rather sickly but the world’s doom sayers are still doing a brisk trade – even though some of it is the equivalent of flogging cheap souvenirs to the Lourdes couch crowd:
“Football players have been warned against spitting on the pitch, since it could increase the risk spreading swine flu – as two Premier League clubs have been hit by the virus. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) cautioned that spitting – which is commonplace in football games – could see infections being passed on from one player to another.”
As bleak warnings go, ‘Don’t spit on the grass’ is what the Titanic’s music programme would have been to that never-quite-raised warning, ‘I thought I thaw an itheberg.’
Just the tiniest bit irrelevant, I mean.
I’m sure this is just a tiny hiccup in the inner workings of the sturdy doom sayer’s machine but it would appear to be one of those days that nothing seems to go quite right for the end-is-nigh crowd. As the following story shows:
“News is spreading quickly here that scientists writing in a popular science periodical (Dutch) have debunked the 2012 date (google translation linked) featuring so prominently in doomsday predictions/speculation across the web.”
The reports of the planet’s death are greatly exaggerated, and all that.
Still, a mere delay ain’t that bad. At the very least it will give the doom trade eight more years to flog their ‘We’re so fucked!’ T-shirts.
Mind you, if the end of the world comes with the kind of portents Iceland’s most famous blogger Alda Sigmundsdóttir reports, I’m all for it:
“Like many other Icelanders, I did a sharp double-take at yesterday’s headlines: McDonald’s – that bastion of American fast food glory – had decided to pack up its golden arches and wave bye-bye. So long Iceland. Have a nice time piecing your country back together! According to Sky News, “The withdrawal of the golden arches symbolises a sharp fall from economic grace for a nation.” Meanwhile, the Consumerist proclaimed: “Iceland is so messed up McDonald’s is giving up and going home.””
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