Impending DOOM!
I've just been checking the local newspaper's compilation of local travel related tweets, in order to find out if the route we plan to drive later is still closed by floods and/or landslides. I came across this nice encouraging tweet from the police:
"It's still bad and you WILL get stuck."
Looking at their earlier tweets, I see that they're being driven mad by idiots ignoring ROAD CLOSED signs, or even removing them, and proceeding to get stuck in flood water or large holes. Yesterday was a constant litany of "Look, don't do it!" warnings, getting ever more desperate. But I prefer it out of context, as a nice little warning telling us that DOOM is inevitable if we as much as leave our own front door.
However, I am now wondering if any other doom-laden statements actually have a more specific context that history has not remembered:
@Cassandra: Doomed! Doomed! We're all doomed!
@Cassandra: As long as I don't roll a 1, the party should get out of this alive... #D&D
@Millennialist: The end is nigh!
@Millennialist: Will this movie ever end? #TitanicDirectorsCut
@NedStark: Winter is coming!
@SansaStark: Daddy's getting me a baby kitten! She's so CUTE! I think I'll call her Winter, Winnie for short.
"It's still bad and you WILL get stuck."
Looking at their earlier tweets, I see that they're being driven mad by idiots ignoring ROAD CLOSED signs, or even removing them, and proceeding to get stuck in flood water or large holes. Yesterday was a constant litany of "Look, don't do it!" warnings, getting ever more desperate. But I prefer it out of context, as a nice little warning telling us that DOOM is inevitable if we as much as leave our own front door.
However, I am now wondering if any other doom-laden statements actually have a more specific context that history has not remembered:
@Cassandra: Doomed! Doomed! We're all doomed!
@Cassandra: As long as I don't roll a 1, the party should get out of this alive... #D&D
@Millennialist: The end is nigh!
@Millennialist: Will this movie ever end? #TitanicDirectorsCut
@NedStark: Winter is coming!
@SansaStark: Daddy's getting me a baby kitten! She's so CUTE! I think I'll call her Winter, Winnie for short.