Is the end of the world getting you down? Is the suspense of it all getting a bit tedious? Are you spending your final hours twiddling your thumbs and wondering whether you should have bought Christmas presents after all? Well, fear not, because there’s nothing like a bit of humour to lighten the apocalyptic mood. Here are some of our favourite tweets concerning the Mayan prophecy:

Royal discontent

 This joke has been tweeted incessantly for the past few weeks

Comedy Dave gets his priorities right

For the football fans

Survival, Voldemort-style

Nice weather for an apocalypse

The word of God

Zach Braff raises a valid point

Fair point

And so it begins… good luck everyone!