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Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« on: December 20, 2012, 06:04:05 pm »
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2012, 06:15:48 pm »
Someone from another country, please tell me you have numskulls and nitwits this stupid as well, because it seems like these stories are always out of the US...  |O
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2012, 06:33:47 pm »
Quote from: c4757p on December 20, 2012, 06:15:48 pm
Someone from another country, please tell me you have numskulls and nitwits this stupid as well, because it seems like these stories are always out of the US...  |O

Its just sensationalism. If you read the article, it mentions that threats made against the kids in school and parents' concern of a repeat tragedy (Connecticut) is what prompted the closings two days early for the holidays. It seems the 'end of the world' stuff is from students posting on Twitter and the like.
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2012, 06:44:40 pm »
No, we have them a lot dumber....... There are whole schools where the pupils and teachers alike are convinced that there are Tokoloshe ( spirits/ghosts/demons) in certain places, and they all will run screaming at times. The way to protect yourself from the Tokoloshe is to lift the bed up on 4 bricks, this is apparently because they cannot climb one brick..........
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2012, 07:08:30 pm »
Well thanks for the reassurance, SeanB  ;D
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2012, 07:33:11 pm »
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2012, 08:01:45 pm »
Quote from: SeanB on December 20, 2012, 06:44:40 pm
No, we have them a lot dumber....... There are whole schools where the pupils and teachers alike are convinced that there are Tokoloshe ( spirits/ghosts/demons) in certain places, and they all will run screaming at times. The way to protect yourself from the Tokoloshe is to lift the bed up on 4 bricks, this is apparently because they cannot climb one brick..........

Long time ago my grandparents told me that it wasn't uncommon in their youth to place the legs of a bed into pots filled with water. But that had a practical purpose, to prevent some vermin from climbing into the bed. It had the negative side effect that it ruined the metal or wooden legs when done directly. So they improved on that by placing half of a brick in each pot to keep the legs dry.
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2012, 08:19:42 pm »
About that Mayan calendar... Didn't they have to stop somewhere? Shame on them for thinking a 5000+ year calendar might be good enough! If only they could imagine how utterly ungrateful people have become. If only we could find some of their descendants to sue for our worries!
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2012, 08:23:02 pm »
lmfao.

oreo is the mayan term meaning end of times btw.
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2012, 08:52:10 pm »
Thing is that the Mayan counting/calendar doesn't really stop anyways. The calendar will simply go to the next Baktun. It's simply just another numbering system. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar#Long_Count. They use(d) the long count system, while we use the day/month/year system. Both are arbitrary, and both are "good" for many centuries to come ;)

Of course, facts are something that the woosters are completely immune to.

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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2012, 09:09:23 pm »
Are you still there Dave, or is it the whole world at once when it gets to the 21st in Mexico.
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2012, 09:43:15 pm »
i believe dave still alive except sleeping since they are down under us and GMT is calculated based on longitude. be it on latitude, we should have been hit first, we are still alive cold sweet raining here, no worry ;)
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2012, 10:30:59 pm »
Quote from: G7PSK on December 20, 2012, 09:09:23 pm
Are you still there Dave, or is it the whole world at once when it gets to the 21st in Mexico.

I'm still here!  :-DD

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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #13 on: December 21, 2012, 03:15:29 am »
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #14 on: December 21, 2012, 04:17:02 am »
I do love this country, but our gun fetish bewilders me.
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #15 on: December 21, 2012, 05:21:59 am »
If we didn't have guns what would dads break out and clean to intimidate their daughters boy friends? I've got a few more years before my girls are old enough but I'm already saving for a new Benelli. :)
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #16 on: December 21, 2012, 05:35:11 am »
Quote from: perfect_disturbance on December 21, 2012, 05:21:59 am
If we didn't have guns what would dads break out and clean to intimidate their daughters boy friends?

Crazy psycho works every time  :-+

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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #17 on: December 21, 2012, 10:32:55 am »
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #18 on: December 21, 2012, 10:40:47 am »
Quote from: perfect_disturbance on December 21, 2012, 05:21:59 am
If we didn't have guns what would dads break out and clean to intimidate their daughters boy friends?

Sharpening a large kitchen knives does the trick quite fine. And since Pulp Fiction a pair of pliers and a blow torch go a long way, too.
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #19 on: December 21, 2012, 11:14:33 am »
Quote from: Bored@Work on December 21, 2012, 10:40:47 am
Quote from: perfect_disturbance on December 21, 2012, 05:21:59 am
If we didn't have guns what would dads break out and clean to intimidate their daughters boy friends?

Sharpening a large kitchen knives does the trick quite fine. And since Pulp Fiction a pair of pliers and a blow torch go a long way, too.

I prefer to have my daughter outside with me shooting targets when the boyfriend shows up. It really gets the message across if you have her shooting paper man targets with a nice shot pattern around the crotch !


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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #20 on: December 21, 2012, 11:23:45 am »
Quote from: Bored@Work on December 21, 2012, 10:32:55 am
Quote from: JoannaK on December 21, 2012, 03:15:29 am
Americans..  :o
http://gizmodo.com/5970132/walmart-is-running-out-of-guns-so-better-go-there-and-stockpile

I guess the author won't get a Christmas card from the NRA.

I have mever been in Usa, but even thinking that news alongside the images of people-of-wallmart ...

Please, please tell me that The Young Turks is a parody product like The_Onion?
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #21 on: December 21, 2012, 12:36:04 pm »
Quote from: perfect_disturbance on December 21, 2012, 05:21:59 am
If we didn't have guns what would dads break out and clean to intimidate their daughters boy friends? I've got a few more years before my girls are old enough but I'm already saving for a new Benelli. :)

A cordless drill with a very long bits works as well.
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Re: Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #22 on: December 21, 2012, 02:09:16 pm »
Quote from: Bored@Work on December 21, 2012, 10:40:47 am
Sharpening a large kitchen knives does the trick quite fine.

Oooh and I'd been looking for a good reason to get a new wusthof chefs knife.
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #23 on: December 21, 2012, 04:31:21 pm »
Quote from: JoannaK on December 21, 2012, 11:23:45 am
Please, please tell me that The Young Turks is a parody product like The_Onion?

Unfortunately, no.
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Re: Mayan end-of-world rumors prompt Michigan officials to close 33 schools
« Reply #24 on: December 22, 2012, 07:55:16 pm »
I think what needs to be realized here is that Michigan is the home of many separatist gun loving loons. Ted Nugent is from Michigan. Tim McVeigh was from Michigan. It's not unreasonable to be wary of nuts on "end of the world day."
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