drawkcabi Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 On 11/14/2016 at 1:09 AM, A True Kaniggit said: Haha. I just finished watching the end of John Oliver's last show for the year, and all it consisted of was people saying "F*** 2016" and flipping off the camera. Seemed relevant to this thread for some reason. On 11/14/2016 at 6:16 PM, rocksniffer said: and here is the link i laughed til i hurt... Yep I watched that the other night and was glad in a misery loves company sort of way that John Oliver felt the same. That's also what I really wanted to title this thread but I don't think I'm allowed to use the F-bomb in titles. Larry Wilmore's "Fuck You 2016!!!" was my favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 May I just say that Twenty Sixteen continues to suck rancid mushroom dicks and my job sucks just as bad as Twenty Sixteen does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 On 17.11.2016 at 6:39 PM, Maester of Valyria said: Fair enough: I probably shouldn't have expressed myself in those terms. However the fact remains that May doesn't have any sort of plan, beyond 'Brexit means Brexit' and paying off companies so they'll stay in the UK. Hey, she has a plan: spy on everyone. The Snooper's Charter passed into law today. Fuck 2016. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maester of Valyria Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 16 hours ago, polishgenius said: Hey, she has a plan: spy on everyone. The Snooper's Charter passed into law today. Fuck 2016. Damn, I didn't even see that in the news. Thank you, establishment media! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyanna Stark Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 On 15/11/2016 at 0:16 AM, rocksniffer said: and here is the link i laughed til i hurt... Hahaha yeah fuck this shit. That was brilliant. Also now I really want to listen to Beethoven. Thanks for all the sympathies people. I hope you can set fire to your 2016 as well and let's all move on to better things. Personally, I'm trying to just skip the rest of the year and pretend 2017 starts NOW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawkcabi Posted November 25, 2016 Author Share Posted November 25, 2016 I'm sick again This is like the 3rd or 4th time I've been sick this year, including my dreadful bout of cellulitis. I've had my flu shot and pneumonia shot. Before this year it had been like three or four years since I've had a cough/cold type illness. Fuck you 2016!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mladen Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 1999 was rather bad in my corner of the world, but no doubt that 2016 takes the cake when it comes to awfulness. You get anywhere near Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Ian McKellen or George R.R. Martin, 2016, and we are done... I won't even celebrate the birthday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Pesci Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 2016 can eat a fat one, its been worse than 2014, where I almost lost a leg in an accident. Shittiest of the 36 I've spent on this planet, hands down. But hey, nowhere to go but up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawkcabi Posted November 27, 2016 Author Share Posted November 27, 2016 Do not taunt 2016. We've still got a month left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Pesci Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 I know, it was more of a looking forward to 2017 line of thinking than a challenge to 2016 to try and shit on me any more than it already has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 It's a bit longer-term and more British-focused but Jonathan Pie sums up the mood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Tiger Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Other than Brexit and Trump I really didnt think it was so bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeping Sore Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 To top it off, they're adding an extra second to 2016. Fuck you, International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Ent Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 I’m much more confident about the world at the end of 2016 than at the end of 2015. Democracy has won, elections have won. I “lost” both of the big elections in the anglosphere (in the sense that I rooted for the losing side), but in both cases it was proved that the people actually can change society in the face of massive propaganda. I find that very heartening. (I think both decisions were wrong. But wrong decisions are part of democracy.) Politics has become interesting again, instead of everybody blindly following the Davos elite in their disgusting global capitalist circle jerk towards a authoritarian multiculturalist hell with an insanely rich upper class. Identity politics died in 2016. That is great. Multiculturalism died. Postmodernism took a big hit. Global capitalism took a bit hit. These things are absolutely fantastic for me. Europe will reconsider some of its absolutely insane politics regarding immigration. Maybe even the Euro? Who knows. Everything is suddenly up for debate. Parts of the left is suddenly waking up and understanding that it’s about class. The totalitarian left has been badly shaken. Possibly some liberal democrats (in the narrow sense) like me will be able to recover some ground on the left and start agitating for civil liberties again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckwheat Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 My personal 2016 has not been bad at all. I finished two MA programmes, one of my theses was chosen for the faculty award. I moved out to the best city again, and it helps me a lot not to be living with my parents. I have a social life now and I love it. The downside is that the internship I have now and will last into 2017 kind of sucks. But at least I have learned not to take the first opton offered and reconsider the next time? And at least it allows me to live here, which is totally worth it. Still a month to go, I hope something happens in this time that makes up for at least some of the bad feelings some in this thread have of 2016. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Pepper Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been devastated by fires, as has a lot of the southeast. Fuck you 2016! But yeah, on a personal level, things have been good. It's so strange having such personal joys when the world around you is ablaze, figuratively and literally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 22 hours ago, Weeping Sore said: To top it off, they're adding an extra second to 2016. Fuck you, International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service! Distressing news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawkcabi Posted December 3, 2016 Author Share Posted December 3, 2016 I'm still sick, though improving slowly. But...I busted a freaking blood vessel in my eye from coughing so hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marquis de Leech Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 On 01/12/2016 at 9:32 AM, Happy Ent said: Identity politics died in 2016. That is great. Multiculturalism died. Postmodernism took a big hit. Global capitalism took a bit hit. Problem is that the neoliberal consensus is coming undone via the Right, not the Left. The same thing that happened the last time economic liberalism went into meltdown, and that didn't end well. In fact, if anything this time is worse for the Left, seeing as we don't have revolutionary socialism to plug the gap of weak social democracy. But yeah, apart from Trump, some unfortunate deaths, and the All Blacks losing to Ireland, 2016 has actually been an excellent year for me. Got a book published, and a new (de facto) girlfriend. I'm actually moderately pro-Brexit, so that wasn't a big disappointment, even though it was a surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 22 hours ago, Roose Boltons Pet Leech said: Problem is that the neoliberal consensus is coming undone via the Right, not the Left. The same thing that happened the last time economic liberalism went into meltdown, and that didn't end well. In fact, if anything this time is worse for the Left, seeing as we don't have revolutionary socialism to plug the gap of weak social democracy. Yes, I also cannot quite share HappyEnt's enthusiasm. As much as I approve of "things getting shaken up" they are shaken up not in the worst but in a fairly bad way. There are some stirrings on the left (Sanders, Corbyn, also Greece and Spain) but they are usually reined in quickly (either externally like in Greece or "internally" in the case of Sanders and the Spanish leftists who succumbed and supported the status quo in the end) and the "centrist left" still doesn't get it at all. This is also visible by many political discussions on this board. Their main idea is to cry ever louder racism and bigotry. This might even be justified to some extent, but it does not help at all and only alienates those needed as allies, I also think it hides some of the true causes of the mess we are in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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