World in Not Going To End In 2012 Shock
Just read this on BBC News.

"A new reading of a Mayan tablet mentioning the 2012 date suggests that it refers to the end of an era in the calendar, and not an apocalypse."

What's wrong with the article is that there is nothing new at all about the above statement. That is and always was a lot of nonsense dreamed up to sell books, and perpetuated to sell red-top newspapers.

"There is no prophecy for 2012. It is a marketing fallacy," Erik Velasquez, etchings specialist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told Reuters.

The classic objection of skeptics that a mass misinformation campaign couldn't possibly work is refuted by the very popularity of these kinds of crazy stories. It's a metaconspiracy! People really are that easily led. This particular fringe belief only dates back to 1975, the date of 21 december 2012 was finally decided in 1983, but has by now captured the popular imagination and even inspired a film.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 18:04, 4 replies)

A laughably shit film at that
The crack in the earth that what's his face, Cusack, is racing away from, constantly adjusts it's speed to match his. When he's on foot, it's right behind him, when he's in the car, it's right behind him, when he exits the car and goes on foot again, it slows down to match.

Sheer bollocks. As is everything by Roland Emmerich.
(Dildo Bugger destroyed a ring on, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 18:08, closed)

I've not seen it,
it's in my top ten of films I don't intend ever to watch, alongside the anachronistic abomination "10,000 BC".
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 18:16, closed)

The version I downloaded was in French with Polish subtitles
And even through the language barrier I marvelled at the sheer shitness of it.

I've not seen 10,000BC and don't especially want to.

It's a shame because an interesting movie could have been made about a baktun count apocalypse, but this was not that movie.
(Dildo Bugger destroyed a ring on, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 18:23, closed)

But I've already made plans!

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Sat 3 Dec 2011, 11:17, closed)