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Jack Butler
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The original doom and gloom merchants touting a coming apocalypse were religious seers. Nowadays, though, faith-based threats of calamity tend to be...
Oddly, having spoken to my Da at length - it seemed the only things keeping her going were her family and her faith. My Gran is the most Catholic Catholic I've ever met. Me on the other hand - I'm not. I don't believe in God and I abhor the Catholic Church.
Yes, all right, I'm not a Tory voter. But we can surely agree on cheese. Cheese is good. And Britain, despite the grumblings of the French and the outrage of the Swiss, not to mention some plucky challenges from Italy, Austria, and Spain, has some of the best cheese in the world.
The world did not end today. At least, not for you. Not for me. In places like Syria and Pakistan, individual worlds will come to an end because of hatred, greed and violence.
From plebgate to plodgate, it's been a odd sort of week. The frosty weather has turned distinctly soggy and hopes of a white Christmas are slowly ...
On Friday the 21 December 2012 at 11:11 the world did not come to an end, despite predictions by the Mayans. Across the world thousands had prepa...
However, that doesn't stop us from speculating over what it might mean, if it really was the end of the world. After all, we will be confronted with this at some point in the future, whether it is the Mayan predictions, global warming or some other global catastrophe.
I personally favour calling people out over their predictions and asking for an apology. The videos and blogs should remain online with an additional retraction by the author as a monument to delusion and a warning to others.
I don't wish to be alarmist - are you sitting down? - but on the 21st December, we're all going to be abruptly vaporised.
Is It The Apocalypse Yet?...
So we've come to the end of the road. It's the final countdown. It's all over now... baby blue. Yes, kids, the Mayan apocalypse is upon us, and it'...
OK, let's give the Mayans the benefit of the doubt for a second - and imagine the world really is about to end. At what point would you notice things ...
With everyone asking the simple question 'Is It The Apocalypse Yet?' we thought it would be appropriate to live blog the final hours of human life on ...
So, three days to go til the end of the world, right? Well that's if you're counting down on your novelty Mayan advent calendar. (What's behind De...
Nasa has published a video explaining why the world didn't end - a week before the scheduled apocalypse. It is so confident that the Earth will not...
According to the Mayans, the world will end on 21 December 2012. But what else did these prescient primitives predict for the run-up to Christmas? ...
Nasa has publicly insisted that the supposed apocalypse, theorised to occur on 21 December 2012, will not take place. Conspiracy theorists, interne...
A Cambridge University research group is to investigate the possibility of killer robots overthrowing human civilisation. The Centre for the Study ...
As an avid viewer of his work and stage shows I have been amused, confused and downright bamboozled by him as a showman for years. Like all great artists the moment you think you have worked him out he smashes out a curveball.
Commuting; it's disgusting. Aboard a morning rush hour train you become more acquainted with a neighbour's elbow than its owner, are forced to listen to shrill one-sided perspectives of personal crises, and are forced into positions yogis only achieve after years of spine-worrying atop a mountain.
Nearly a million British soldiers were killed in the First World War. Is this what they died for?
According to those doombringing ancient Mayans, 2012 is meant to be the end of the world. According to everyone else, it's going to be the year of the...
Weathermen aren't known for their sense of humour, but Aaron Justus may well be the exception, what with his parody forecast predicting the apocalypse...
Imagine every time you made love to somebody, you had Louis Theroux come up behind you and back you on the back. It'd be truly mortifying, wouldn't it? And that's just happened to this guy. I imagine the only reason he's still doing it is because he needs more money for his zombie truck
Back in the seventies and eighties, zombie flicks were disreputable trash, little better than pornography. Nihilistic gore-fests shelved at the back of the VHS rental store alongside other 'special interest' titles. Hiring Zombie Flesh Eaters was a furtive and shameful act. These days, zombies have gone mainstream. What the hell happened?
