You have stolen my heart cockNspiel.

i'll sell it back to you for a kidney and an index finger?!

She's just excited because I told her you have puffy nipples.

they ARE all the rage these days ya know....

implants are so last year, collagen in the nipples is where its truly at.

Well between you and IS I'll be able to make a comparison.

O_o

If nothing happens on December 21, 2012, I will go and get a school loan on December 22, 2012.

Just pointless before that

Why?
Do you expect loans to have terrible terms before 12/21/12 because everyone will be getting loans to spend on a final hedonistic bash?

Student loans do have pretty terrible terms.  The interest rate is good, but the "we will track you down and make you pay no matter what circumstances you find yourself in" part of the deal sucks pretty hard.

Because if the world's going to end or the aliens come and enslave us or fucking Elvis comes back, says he's NeoJesus, and takes only the fattest and most wasted his Cadillac-shaped ship, AND if the shit hits the fan on 12-21-12, then there's no point in wasting gobs of time and money on an education that will mean squat.  Afterwards, then yeah, I'll go get the history and archeology degree and dig up Atlantis.

How the fuck did this get in Rhubarb ?

If that's what flicks your switch, then I'd say just go for the student loans already. Ain't shit gonna happen in 2012, since 2012 doesn't exist. We made that shit up.

Meh.  It makes a good cover story for being a lazy bastard.  Too bad I'll have to man up and do it when the time comes lol.

Of course, if the world really does end, i'll be too busy taking over the world.

lol thats cool

You're crazy sir. You worry about racking up a huge debt on an education that you believe will be useless to you because you think the world will end? Well if the world ends who's going to hold you accountable for the debt? Are you worried you'll just feel guilty all the time?

Jeeze, if I believed the world would end in 2012, I'd try to maximize the amount of money I borrowed and spend it all while it still has value. I'd try to time things perfectly so that I completely used up all the money I'd borrowed just in time for the fireworks.

see now that's the thing: what if I'm wrong?  What if I was to borrow and spend thousands of dollars in an orgy of irresponsibility, with the payments to begin just after the theoretical end time just for y'all to be proven right?  I'd be completely fucked that's what. 

Besides, I'm convinced *something* will be different after that date.  Pretty sure it won't be destruction though.

hmm...

If you're wrong then you just deferred your life a bit longer by avoiding getting an education due to some vague apprehension fueled by Hollywood.

I'm also convinced something will be different after that date. Just like I was convinced something would be different after Y2K. Time wears inexorably on. Dates change. People are born and die. Life is a stage and we are all actors playing our parts. We have our entrances and our exits. Shit happens.

More people should wait to find what they really want instead of getting insane amounts of loans they have no hope in hell of ever paying off in an endless search to find something they give a shit about OR setting for what will buy them a house and a Taurus and caring fuck-all about interest or their dreams.

I originally went to Michigan State University with the intention to study Computer Science.  There I discovered there was a LOT of math and it was hard.  I never had to study in high school (just did well by paying attention), so just the concept of reading the book to go back over what the professors discussed in class was beyond me.  Up until recently I didn't have a frakking clue what I actually wanted to do anyway so I'm ahead somewhat in that I haven't wasted anything but time.

While I still enjoy taking my own machines apart (and putting them back together) and maintaining my own network, I think doing it for pay on other peoples' machines would ruin the fun.  i've always enjoyed history though, and that can be much more interesting.

Are you questioning the American way? What are you, some commie Obama fanatic?

Something WILL be different. Up will be down, down will be up, and your livingroom will be the floor of the Atlantic ocean.

Or it will just be 2013.

And you can't do a goddam thing to stop or change either one. So why waste your time worrying about it? Party on, Garth.

I'm still hoping for total annihilation!

That isn't really tied to 2012 at all, though.  It could happen tomorrow, in 2012, or at any other point (as long as I'm alive to recognize the destruction and get blown away with everyone else) and I would be equally satisfied.

And I still hope for it even if I'm not around to experience it.  Whether through natural or supernatural means, through human agency or purely normal feedback mechanisms, I say good fucking riddance and bring on the great purge.

Meh.  Not worried about it per se, but I am slowly building a takeover force.  So far it's crap and one or two I'm planning on taking down due to "friendly fire", but I'm waiting.

How the fuck did this get in Rhubarb ?

Was no one paying attention when all these threads were made?

I'm still hoping for total annihilation!

That isn't really tied to 2012 at all, though.  It could happen tomorrow, in 2012, or at any other point (as long as I'm alive to recognize the destruction and get blown away with everyone else) and I would be equally satisfied.

I've had this thought many times. I'd like to experience it, though. I want to see people join together to face adversity. Call me sappy, but I want to see a unified human response to a threatened disaster like a meteor bearing down on us or a supervolvano situation or something. I have no children that I need to think about. I like disaster.

I'm reminded of a youtube video where an object about 500 miles in diameter hits the earth.  If it's shown in real-time total destruction is in about 2 minutes.

please hold while I find it.

EDIT: found it.  I was wrong though, it's a 500 km rock and it's not real-time.  Close enough though, and if one of those came there's not a damn thing we could do to stop it.

edit 2: forgot the fucking link: Total Destruction Ep.4 - Earth's Demise (death)

Ouch. Sucks to be Japan.

We better hope we've got FTL travel and other colonies before that happens

It's kinda amusing to me that such a large percentage of the population seems to believe that humans are here to stay. We're not. We're here for a bit, then we'll be gone.

We're here for a bit, then we'll be gone.

gone forever...
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Alan Parsons Project "TIME"