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Dude! The other day I was driving around my town and I saw this exact message on an enormous poster being carried in the back of a pickup truck. What gives?
Another question: who wants to take a bunch of video cameras and go hang outside their offices on May 22?
Yes, we've seen the big ad on at least one vehicle here in Seattle area too. After which my Bear and I engaged in the kind of heartless mocking of these confident end of world predictors which guarantees we won't be part of the Rapture deal-y.
Maybe I'm just too frugal by nature, but if the world's about to end, I'm sure as hell going to spend my money on something more interesting than a van painted so's to announce the fact that the world's going to end.
They have signs in the Metro, and on the buses here. I guess if they pay for it they're entitled to ad space, but riding the Metro is awful enough without contemplating the end of the world.
Excellent! I play the end of the world drinking game. Every time the world is supposed to end, I take a drink. And then keep drinking until the world ends.
If The Rapture happens in my lifetime, which it won't, it'll either cleanse the world of some of its most annoying people, or if there were a truly just God, which is unlikely, it would leave a lot of self-assumed 'chosen people' to be totally humiliated. Both ways, more fun for me, who would rather, in the words of William Joel, "laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints*"
*even if you're referring to to the New Orleans NFL team
Yeah, we're having an end of the world party to celebrate. The billboards have been up for months. Haven't seen the vans, tho. Looks kind of like a parody.