You know how it is – someone suffers a huge disappointment and you try to console them by telling them that “at least it’s not the end of the world”. You might not open with that line today if you’re shouting down an air vent to an underground bunker where the local survivalists have holed up in anticipation of today’s global apocalypse.
The government missed a trick with all of the End of the World nonsense – if they had combined it with The Gathering, they could have filled up every ghost estate around the country with tourists who could be guaranteed not to complain about the weather.
UPDATE (22/12/2012).Hmmm. Who could have predicted that the end of the world consisted of non-stop drizzle ? At least, that’s what post-apocalypse Galway survivors (otherwise known as Christmas shoppers) are currently enduring. It’s ok – we’re well used to it.
If the 8th century Mayan calendar makers really had any inkling of what was going to happen in the future, they might have put a big circle around 1492 and marked it Oh-Oh.
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