You just convinced me to change occupations to barkeep.
Strip bars are where the money’s at, and my ‘1 Gray’ bar will be the place to be.
I love it 
Fetch the soft cushions! :fffuuu:
I don’t understand how so many people seem to have been taken in by this. The calendar is neither ending nor does it spell the end of civilization or anything like that. All it’s doing is rolling over, much like the odometer on a car. And seeing as no-one is using the Mayan calendar (and certainly no technology relies on it) precisely nothing will happen in 2012.
The anime series “RahXephon” has a rather nice twist on the 2012 thing. Rather than being the end of the world it is just the start of a new age of really crazy stuff where super-advanced Mayans turn up and try to take over the world.
A week after that all important December 21 2012 date an ancient civilisation known as the Mu starts to reappear in our world. They’ve got giant floating cities and they fight using giant mind-controlled clay statues that shoot death rays. (Lol.) They used to live in our world thousands of years ago but then they left to go to another universe, or our world actually split into two universes, or something along those lines.
The Mu in the anime are based on the crazy books of James Churchward, who claimed that there had been an Atlantis-style civilisation called the Mu in South Pacific, and that the Mayans were a remnant of a Mu colony. Hence the mayan calandar thing.
The plot (people in giant robot things fighting weird giant invaders, while a secretive organiation manipulates everything for its own ends) is very obviously a rip-off of that old mind-screw Neon Genesis Evangelion, and indeed it features an absurd number of intentional Evangelion references. But without all the mixed-up Christianity references. It has crazy plot twists all the way through (in fact, practically every episode!) but unlike Evangelion it all actually makes sense in the end because they didn’t make it up as they went along. Incredibly they manage to keep you guessing about one plot detail until after the end credits of the final episode. The artwork, animation and music remains consistantly high quality throughout the series. And the protagonist is a reasonably likeable 17-year-old guy rather than a whiny depressed 14-year old. It’s essentially Evangelion done right.
Don’t bother to watch the RahXephon movie though - it tries to compress a twisty-turny 26-episode series into a 2 hour movie, with predicatably bad results.
RahXephon is awesome!
Roland has too much imagination, and no one to reel him back into reality. He gets all of these zany ideas that have no basis in the real world, and just throws them up on screen without any worry if it is possible or not. Someone needs to tell him “no” every once in a while 
And I haven’t enjoyed any of his movies since Stargate, and my like of that wore thin a long time ago (the movie, not the series, I loved the series).
:fffuuu:
Edit: Sweet I’m a page late
If the movie is just another natural disasters gone wild thing I might watch it just for the carnage.
I’ll see this as long as they bring back the CG wolves. Not.
What else are you gonna watch it for? :what:
I try to avoid those movies as much as possible.
bscly…
However due to the awesomeness of the 2012 movie trailers, my 12 year old is now obsessed with dying and the end of the world. I mean REALLY obsessed. As in, we went to see transformers last night and when the extended movie trailer for 2012 came on, he closed his eyes and covered his ears cuz he didnt want to obsess over it more than he already is.
I keep telling him that long ago people thought 1984 was supposed to be some sort of big apocoliptic period as well, and yet nothing special happened. Deesnt matter. He stays up at night worrying about how he is going to die. =-( Poor kid.
Well… I graduated high school. but that is not a big thing.
Orwell was 20 years off the mark, but you have to give him points for accuracy.
Wait the world ended in 2004?
If you haven’t read “1984” by George Orwell, you can admit it. I won’t make fun of you.
I have.
There aren’t thought police out yet, and I don’t recall a sudden change in dictionaries.
There are some similarities, but fortunately we aren’t quite there yet.
“Hay guys it’s 2012! Let’s crumble and catch on fire!”
Then it escapes me why you thought “the world ended in 2004?” was a relevant comment.
Perpetual war with a constantly changing enemy, ubiquitous state surveillance, unlimited extrajudicial detention including arrest for “planned” acts that haven’t been committed, and yes, redefining language as a method of propaganda (“enhanced interrogation”)…those are certainly “some” similarities, in fact all of the major ones that I can recall.
If you believe it then you are both gullible and batshit insane![/SIZE]
Unfortunately the world is populated by a majority of people who will believe virtually anything, no matter how inconcievable. (Talking snakes, the chupacabra, pig-monkeys, you name it)
The Mayan calender does not predict anything, it merely ended on the year 2012, which was thousands of years ago, when humans stopped using the Mayan calendar. There have been many different calendars used since, and in no way do any of them sync up with the Mayan calendar.
If anything does happen in 2012, it’s either pure coincidence or self-fulfilling prophecy.
I thought people would get over this thing by now… evidently not. Remember when the world didn’t end on Dec 31st 1999? and again on the 6th of June 2006?
Psh, you’re just ignorant of the FACTS!! On a related note, I’ve found out what’s seeping out of our ground: dihydrogen monoxide. Got that?