Heralding Natural Disaster
So I said at the beer festival we were probably due an earthquake somewhere. And we got one in the UK over the weekend. So last night a mate was saying that I had the ability to forecast (or prophesise) natural disaster. So I said:
Don’t be silly. I said there would be a volcanic eruption as well. Do you see any signs of that?
Except that as I was speaking, Mount Etna was erupting. So I’m left with several possibilities:
- It’s all coincidence
- I’m able to herald natural disaster
- I’m able to cause natural disaster by thinking about it
- The Big Guy is messing with my head
What next? I’m tempted to suggest that there will be some weather-related disaster, but I don’t know if I dare…
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How about suggesting it’s going to rain £50 notes - that would be nice…
Fair enough Jake, I’ll tell people to blame you. All I know is that a couple of dozen miles away I slept right through it without noticing a thing!
You couldn’t predict that I’m going to win the lottery could you?
Well, there must be something in it- was the tornado in Kansas down to your magic powers?
[...] It appears that after initially predicting earthquakes and volcanic eruptions — which there obviously were, my crack about the next one being weather related came true [...]