Preparedness for when

nuatha

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Originally Posted by Nargleblast View Post
Apparently we are due for a lunar eclipse on September 28th, and some are prophesying that it will herald the start of an apocalypse, based on events in history that happened around a lunar eclipse.

Suppose we had all better stock up on tinned tomatoes and toilet rolls, then.

ivyleaf wrote: »

Mmm....I'm pretty sure we've had plenty of lunar eclipses before!

This particular one is being promoted by two American authors as heralding end times, the fact that their maths is very selective (they are ignoring the other occurrences of their carefully chosen, not exactly rare phenomenon) as is their biblical quotes. They gained some traction from the timing of their first book on this as it appeared during the crash of 2008.
We get enough predictions of TEOTWAWKI that sooner or later one of them will be right (or sod's law will be that it happens on the only date not mentioned as a possibility in some prediction or other).

If the weather is decent I have plans for that eclipse (actually if the weather is bad I have other plans - stop in bed) which involve being on a secluded hill with Herself and the cameras - I've yet to get a decent photo of a lunar eclipse. We generally keep a decent stock of toilet rolls, though I'll admit the tinned tomatoes are looking more sparse than usual. (Tomato pur!e and passata are fine though).

Karmacat

**puts astronomy enthusiast hat on**

That lunar eclipse is visible from the UK? Hurray!

**scurries off to look at diary**




ETA - its already in my diary takes place at 0347 here in the south of England erm, I won't be getting up for that! Ah well

nuatha

Karmacat wrote: »

**puts astronomy enthusiast hat on**

That lunar eclipse is visible from the UK? Hurray!

**scurries off to look at diary**

http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2015-september-28

Full eclipse 03:11 to 04:23, whole thing starts 01:11 and ends 06:22

Now just to hope for clear skies.

notjustlaura

GreyQueen wrote: »

...Have to say from my pov a foal out-cutes a baby any day of the week.

IMO pretty much any baby animal is cuter than a baby! Sloths, anyone?

Have been reading along this thread for a few days and find it very motivating although I don't have much to contribute as yet so thanks to you all

Frugalsod

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Ahem....city girl gone country query here....and I haven't asked anyone yet when calving season is. When is it please?

Spring basically. Though it can run through summer while they have their calves with them. My rule is give them a wide berth and keep an eye out on the exit routes from the field. As long as you are not perceived as a threat you should be fine.

Frugalsod

nuatha wrote: »

This particular one is being promoted by two American authors as heralding end times, the fact that their maths is very selective (they are ignoring the other occurrences of their carefully chosen, not exactly rare phenomenon) as is their biblical quotes. They gained some traction from the timing of their first book on this as it appeared during the crash of 2008.
We get enough predictions of TEOTWAWKI that sooner or later one of them will be right (or sod's law will be that it happens on the only date not mentioned as a possibility in some prediction or other)

Yes there are many who are making predictions of religious catastrophes. I ignore all of those.

Then there are plenty who predicted hyper inflation and gold hitting $50 000 an ounce yet they are constantly talking of manipulation as the reason why we have not seen it so far. Yet all inflation has gone into inflating asset bubbles. Then they misunderstand the mechanism that QE causes deflation.

Also they confuse credit with real money so when the debts are defaulted or repaid the total amount of credit falls and is not converted into real money. So when the next financial crisis strikes it will wipe out the credit and the support for all the asset bubbles that they have created.

While I do think that a financial collapse is coming because debts are unsustainable there will be chaos for a while but the loss of the banking system is not apocalyptic as some fear. The payments mechanism can be nationalised but unless bankers are gaoled there will be repeats of the problems ahead.

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Let them inflate what they feel is a valuable asset to $50,000 but to my way of thinking an ounce of tea/common sense is far more valuable than an ounce of gold any day of the week!

mardatha

Calving season is when the fields are full of cows with calves lol. And cows are bl00dy scary when they want to be. I live deeply rural and would never walk through a field with cows in it - they are too unpredictable. The farm manager my son was working for was nearly killed by one, it knocked him off his feet and actually rolled on him.

Frugalsod

mardatha wrote: »

Calving season is when the fields are full of cows with calves lol. And cows are bl00dy scary when they want to be. I live deeply rural and would never walk through a field with cows in it - they are too unpredictable. The farm manager my son was working for was nearly killed by one, it knocked him off his feet and actually rolled on him.

Rreminded me of this:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS12p0Zqlt0

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Cows are silly beasts, they are curious about everything and HATE dogs with a vengeance. They will come to you if you walk in a field of them, they will follow you and they seem to walk faster and faster (maybe that's just nerviness on my part) until they've escorted you right through their territory. Bullocks are the silliest creatures though, not only do they walk you through the field, they're prone to skippy bucking jumps and get very excited by their own exuberance and they ALL join in, that's when you're most likely to get knocked down, daft creatures but very nice with Yorkshire pud and horseradish sauce (why IS it called horseradish and NOT cowradish, that's what we eat it with after all).