This was a fist-pumping anthem to the benefits of sleeping through a nuclear armageddon, suggesting that we wouldn't notice if anyone threw "a nuclear poo" over Europe because the weather here is so awful anyway.
But there are things you can do to reduce the chances of group holiday Armageddon.
The cold war, too, passed off without the threatened nuclear Armageddon.
But then imagine that within two years of the supposed armageddon the country's banks have become more profitable than ever; and that, another three years on, the whole mess has been cleaned up for a small fraction of the cost feared.
The country's leaders at last ended a ludicrously irresponsible bout of fiscal brinkmanship, removing the threat of global financial Armageddon by agreeing to raise the federal debt ceiling.
Even if the markets could be persuaded that the cancellation or conversion of part of the debt was not the prelude to monetary armageddon, what will the effect be on elected politicians?
The proponents of the status quo like to present a false narrative that there were only two choices: do exactly what was done, or unleash Armageddon.
Despite the president's deliberate attempt to talk down the markets and the media's dramatic warnings of economic Armageddon posed by a mere 17% of the government remaining temporarily idle, the S&P 500 closed at a record high the day after the shutdown ended.
Armageddon had Ben Affleck using animal cookies as foreplay on Liv Tyler's body with just five years separating them.
As those over 60 cannot forget, the world held its breath for those few days, genuinely believing that the stand-off between Washington and Moscow over the Soviet deployment of nuclear weapons in Cuba could end in Armageddon.
Armageddon – a Greek default on its borrowings followed in all likelihood by exit from the eurozone – may once again have been postponed.
