OK
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Friday, 30 December 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link
can we move on now
― my hangover is a time machine (seandalai), Friday, 30 December 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
Chicxulub impact fans hardest hit
― troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 30 December 2016 14:58 (seven years ago) link
lol at resultsMaybe if more Star Wars cast members had killed themselves in sympathy
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Sunday, 1 January 2017 05:23 (seven years ago) link
at least no one voted for Roman Sack and Siege of Juersalem
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 January 2017 05:27 (seven years ago) link
Good thing no beloved musicians are going to die now that 2016 is over.
― maccabeelzebubbly (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
This rookie general (Zeng Guoquan) for the Qing dynasty captures 8000 Taiping soldiers in an unlikely rout. His battalion commander helpfully explains that they have to kill them all now. Zeng then reluctantly subordinates the task to him and goes off to hide in his tent. The Commander sets up a killing station where people get beheaded in batches of 10 at a time "finishing by the light of lanterns just after the sun went down that night"
His brother (Zeng Guofan) wrote several letters to Guoquan over the following days - first more sanguine, suggesting his brother find a way to bury the thousands of corpses or else pile them onto old boats and send them down the river so the stink wouldn't bring disease into his camp. But as he realized that the slaughter was weighing heavily on Gouquan's conscience, his letters became more reassuring by telling him if Confucius were alive, he too would say it was right to exterminate the rebels.
― calzino, Thursday, 5 January 2017 00:22 (seven years ago) link
This General Beheaded 8000 Captive Soldiers...And That's Okay!
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 5 January 2017 13:58 (seven years ago) link
Probably for the "why am I such a dick" thread, but have felt a rage I don't quite understand every time I see facebook / twitter posts along the lines of "quit it with the fuck 2016 meme - there's no magical meaning to a year" or "whew, glad it's 2017 now and all of your heroes are safe" - I don't think these ideas / sentiments are wrong, exactly, it just seems like such a patronising attitude, like they think everyone else is an irrational idiot for indulging in some sort of semi-magical thinking when (a) everyone does and (b) the world isn't always a worse place for it. But I should get over it I guess.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 5 January 2017 19:02 (seven years ago) link
yep
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 January 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
surprised there was no option for "every year is worse than the previous year"
― ryan, Thursday, 5 January 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
ban years
― Vote! In the 2016 EOY Poll! (seandalai), Thursday, 5 January 2017 21:44 (seven years ago) link
mods?
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 5 January 2017 22:04 (seven years ago) link
they would but even the worst one only got 16 fps
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 January 2017 22:59 (seven years ago) link
read about the Great Leap Forward the other day. 55 million dead, wow that 20th century was evil
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 6 January 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link
not if those 55 million were stood in the way of a beautiful future
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 January 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link
I'm dying to get hold of that new Tan Hecheng Cultural Revolution book, but £18.20 for an epub download is more than I'll pay.
― calzino, Friday, 6 January 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
2017 thus far featuring less celebrity death but more dystopia
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 25 February 2017 07:04 (seven years ago) link
Alan Colmes ripFuck you 2017
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Saturday, 25 February 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
no
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive
― coetzee.cx (wins), Saturday, 17 November 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
That’s a woke kid’s dream come true
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 17 November 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
should i run this again with 2020
― Mordy, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
definitely
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
Smallpox very likely killed more than 50% of the population of the western hemisphere within a few decades of its arrival. The black death killed nearly half of Europe's population. As bad as this year is shaping up for those of us living through it, covid-19 isn't even close to the head of that class.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
We're still in April!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
rank the past five years in order of terribleness
i'll start
5. 2019 - came out4. 2017 - moved, got new job, bought house3. 2020 - ehhhh.2. 2018 - severe depression (recurrent), treated with tms but overall unpleasant1. 2016 - dad died, lost job, also it was 2016
or, like, just go on speculating what was really worse, the black death or the an lushan rebellion. not sure i have much of a horse in that race.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 23:50 (four years ago) link
Smallpox very likely killed more than 50% of the population of the western hemisphere within a few decades of its arrival. The black death killed nearly half of Europe's population. As bad as this year is shaping up for those of us living through it, covid-19 isn't even close to the head of that class.Governments around the world in those named single years didn’t respond to massive climate crisis events by relaxing or waiving checks on fossil fuel extraction.
― donald failson (sic), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link