# Australian Prime Minister states "Mayans are right, world will end." **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-prime-minister-states-mayans-are-right-world-will-end/643138 "2012-12-06T00:25:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-prime-minister-states-mayans-are-right-world-will-end/643138/1 "2012-12-06T00:25:52Z")
> **[Australian Prime Minister Admits End Of The World Is Coming](https://www.businessinsider.com/australian-pm-gillard-says-world-ending-2012-12)** I like a world leader with a sense of humor. Glad that she, like Joss Whedon’s take on [Mitt Romney](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TiXUF9xbTo), is preparing for the zombiepocalypse. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-prime-minister-states-mayans-are-right-world-will-end/643138/2 "2012-12-06T01:18:28Z")
_Business Insider_? You have to take that with a case of salt. In other fantasy-news: UCLA is the most [crime-ridden university campus](http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-colleges-in-america-2012-11?action=get_comments&comments_page=2#comments) in all the United States, and Android is the smartphone OS for people who don’t want to [do anything](http://www.businessinsider.com/low-commerce-and-web-usage-on-android-2012-11) with them. (Read: shopping and buying, which is apparently all that interests them. ) Really, I sometimes mistake it for The Onion. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-prime-minister-states-mayans-are-right-world-will-end/643138/3 "2012-12-06T01:57:01Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > _Business Insider_? You have to take that with a case of salt. So the world isn’t going to end? Phew. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-prime-minister-states-mayans-are-right-world-will-end/643138/4 "2012-12-06T03:41:48Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > So the world isn’t going to end? Phew. Yeah but that means that a bunch of us are going to be on the dope when the day arrives. Its going to be 50/50 odds Im laying out, that half will be thrilled and half will be disapointed. I wonder if we can recycle that rapture gag of leaving piles of clothing in random places. Declan ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-prime-minister-states-mayans-are-right-world-will-end/643138/5 "2012-12-06T04:09:47Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > _Business Insider_? You have to take that with a case of salt. In other fantasy-news: UCLA is the most [crime-ridden university campus](http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-colleges-in-america-2012-11?action=get_comments&comments_page=2#comments) in all the United States, and Android is the smartphone OS for people who don’t want to [do anything](http://www.businessinsider.com/low-commerce-and-web-usage-on-android-2012-11) with them. (Read: shopping and buying, which is apparently all that interests them. ) > > Really, I sometimes mistake it for The Onion. It’s kind of like [Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com) for people who are learning to write, but without the humor. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-prime-minister-states-mayans-are-right-world-will-end/643138/6 "2012-12-06T09:33:48Z")
[If you believe it, I have a bridge to sell you.](http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/julia-gillard-the-end-of-the-world-is-coming/story-e6frf7jo-1226531023530) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-prime-minister-states-mayans-are-right-world-will-end/643138/7 "2012-12-06T13:39:13Z")
Note the words in the OP “sense of humor”… 😉 Anyway, I should have put this in MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-prime-minister-states-mayans-are-right-world-will-end/643138/8 "2012-12-06T14:06:30Z")
I don’t think Julia Gillard has a sense of humour. It is the publicist.