In all my years here I have seen some pretty useless and stupid things. I think this poll tops them all.

nah the DSI is firmly in that spot

Can't believe the nonsense Thai press publishes

Are you kidding? Doomsday topics sell copy like crazy everywhere. Besides it gives you another opportunity to dump on the Thais.

Being an ignorant must be a scary way to live.

Where is the ignorance? The percentages (in the bit concerning political leaders) add up to 100 meaning that the respondents had to chose a single 'survivor' ... there was no 'I hope they all bloody die' option, for example.

Now, elsewhere in the poll report, it says that only 8% of Thais believe the world may end this week. That compares to 12% of Americans and 20% of Chinese (http://www.ipsos-na.com/news-polls/pressrelease.aspx?id=5610). Seems to me that Thais are not doing too badly on the ignorance meter. Though perhaps I'll be proven wrong tomorrow :-)

Huh? I thought that the fiscal cliff was supposed to be doomsday.

1. The mayans did not have leap years. By their calendars doomsday happened over 9 months ago.

i dont know how you came to this as like many other ill informed articles. of course mayan calander did not have leap years, its not based on solar years <deleted>. i suggest reading up gregorian leap years

Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung (9.19 per cent)

​So 120 people or so out there actually said this ???

From what I read, only 12.86% of people want to spare the Yingluck administration.

Just when you think these numb nuts have published the most useless poll, they come up with this rubbish.

In all my years here I have seen some pretty useless and stupid things. I think this poll tops them all.

Shut up. It sounds like you're issuing a challenge and someone might respond.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is the politician most Thais would like to see survive "doomsday"

I'm surprise only 32% of Thai choose Ms. Yingluck. I thought it was 'children and other innocents first'?

I'd like to see the entire PTP and its backers spared. Then, while we're all relaxing in the afterlife, they can squabble amongst themselves for what's left of the oxygen on the burnt out rock that used to be the Earth, and Thaksin willl finally achieve his dream of being king of the world.

This was a poll? The sheer amount of morons surrounding me is frightening, to say the least.

Don't mock! 100 years ago the western world would have believed this kind of thing too!

Don't mock! 100 years ago the western world would have believed this kind of thing too!

And there is still people claming the World is flat.

Don't mock! 100 years ago the western world would have believed this kind of thing too!

And 98 years ago, for a large percentage of the western world's young male population, it actually did come true.

Dooms,-or Foolsday?---

What about Jesus and his imagery friend to save the world ?

If the world ends what's the point of saving Yingluck? I suppose the shops will be quite.

It shows some very flawed thinking by those that chose someone to save. No wonder this country never makes sense.

In all my years here I have seen some pretty useless and stupid things. I think this poll tops them all.

nah the DSI is firmly in that spot

I stand corrected.

Don't mock! 100 years ago the western world would have believed this kind of thing too!

And 98 years ago, for a large percentage of the western world's young male population, it actually did come true.

Mayan are Frang, DoNot TRUST......

this is just as bad a the daily horoscopes one reads if you believe polls and horoscopes you probably believe anything any <deleted> writes.

If I had to believe one it would be the horoscopes.

1. The mayans did not have leap years. By their calendars doomsday happened over 9 months ago.

i dont know how you came to this as like many other ill informed articles. of course mayan

calander did not have leap years, its not based on solar years <deleted>. i suggest reading up gregorian leap years

Ok. I have researched info on this crap. Some say happened last year, others a week ago and one guy says it's next year. Happy?

Respondents hoped the following political figures would survive, in descending order of popularity: Yingluck (32.35 per cent);

Does this mean that 67.65 per cent doesn't care if she survives or not?

Doom merchants have and always will generate new earth elimination event (EEE's) scares. There have been so many EEE's since biblical times yet none have ever stood up to attempts to verify the threat. However at least one EEE did occur at the hands of an errant asteroid. The next EEE will likely have the same MO. What will be different next time is that the event will be tracked by our astronomers from half a light year out right down to the moment that said killer asteroid can be seen by our naked eyes. Then I'll belive!