xxxp wasn't even aware of that event, holy christ.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link
Trail of Tears getting slept on imo
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link
We could probably just poll the Indian sub-continent famines during British rule. 14-15 of them. About 55 million deaths 1765-1947.
Still, cricket, eh?
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
ye didnt even leave us that
which tbf is something i spose
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
1982: XTC stop touring
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
2016: Sting starts touring
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
2009: Sting releases Christmas album1985: Sting releases first solo album1951: Sting born
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
Seriously though:
2006: Sting releases an album of 16th century lute music
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
2004-2007 Sting has a single session of tantric sex
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link
What year were the rock and roller cola wars?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
Hard to not vote for the holocaust indeed.
where's the out-of-context thread
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
ILX quoted out of context
― banfred bann (wins), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
Inasmuch as acuteness/suddenness/concentrated evil are criteria, that makes it harder to choose multi-year events like the Holocaust, plague, and Civil War. Like for the Holocaust do you choose Wannsee conference or the height of the killings? For smallpox do you choose the initial introduction or the height of the death toll? Trail of Tears is part of a sustained campaign of displacement and abuse.
Morbidity aficionados may prefer more focused and discrete events like Nanking.
― troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
lol wins
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
The British Empire tried to pay for the East India Company's parliamentary bailout post 1770 famine with the 1773 Tea Act, so at least that went tits up for the arrogant pondlife.
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
Each candidate arrived at an examination compound with only a few amenities: a water pitcher, a chamber pot, bedding, food (which he had to prepare himself), an inkstone, ink and brushes. Guards verified a student's identity and searched for hidden printed materials. In the Ming and Qing periods, each exam taker spent three days and two nights writing "eight-legged essays" — literary compositions with eight distinct sections — in a tiny room with a makeshift bed, desk and bench. There were no interruptions during those three days, nor were candidates allowed any communication. If a candidate died, officials wrapped his body in a straw mat and tossed it over the high walls that ringed the compound.
I can see how the Imperial Examination system would have completely broke Hong Xiuquan after he failed it 4 times.
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
1914. All of modern right-wing evil stems from a refusal to get over 1914. We thought we were done paying for 1914, but look who got elected on November 8? The Austrian election only came out ok because Austrians KNOW everything is about 1914 and they're pretty sick of it.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
Once we zero in on the year, we should work to figure out which particular day or perhaps even twenty minute window of time that was the ultra most concentrated worst part of that year.
1346: you've watched helplessly as your entire family (and half of everyone you know) dies, as parts of your body rot and blacken and fall off, and have spent all morning vomiting up blood while waiting for the doctor. he finally arrives, only to strap live chickens onto your buboe-covered arms and give you "medicine" which is really just a mixture of various urines and mercury. the doctor visit is probably the worst part of the day.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
You mean like the day Sting released an album of 16th century lute music in 2006?
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link
99 Reasons 2016 Was a Good Year: https://medium.com/@angushervey/99-reasons-why-2016-has-been-a-great-year-for-humanity-8420debc2823#.747qbjze7
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
thx4sharing
― Mordy, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 23:26 (seven years ago) link
not the worst but certainly the most recent outrage
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 December 2016 09:28 (seven years ago) link
this is the 1st im hearing of this sting lute album is there anything that guy cant do
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 22 December 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
Can't or Shouldn't?
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 December 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link
xpost be in a room with Stewart Copeland without waking up covered in blood?
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 22 December 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
hey guys maybe his name should be Stink, what do you think
― what is the lever disease? (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 December 2016 14:13 (seven years ago) link
xpwas that from tantric fucking for too long?
― calzino, Thursday, 22 December 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
Feeling the lack of Syrian posters right now
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 22 December 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
99 Reasons 2016 Was a Good Year
https://medium.com/future-crunch/99-reasons-why-2016-has-been-a-great-year-for-humanity-8420debc2823#.5qyt20dsg
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
2016 was the hottest year in human history, by a good large margin.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
we're voting for best, right?
― Long post, yet important. (crüt), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
"I write a fortnightly newsletter"
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
that guy is still adding dead celebrities to his sgt. pepper thing (including ppl he missed the first time round, e.g. Barry from Hi Di Hi who died back in April)
https://twitter.com/christhebarker/status/813811135522734081
― soref, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
Write in vote for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Changping
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 22:36 (seven years ago) link
Yes. Voted 2016.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 23:04 (seven years ago) link
this "FUCK YOU 2016" shit is really out of hand
― marcos, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 01:17 (seven years ago) link
no but the internet is an amplifier
― a but (brimstead), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 01:52 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoS1MCF8AeI
blaming it all on 2016 is a magical thinking get-out that assumes not-2016 -> not-shit
― my hangover is a time machine (seandalai), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 02:28 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/0wqrJPN.png
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 02:32 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 29 December 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Every latest year is the worst year in human history tbh, so yes.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 29 December 2016 12:02 (seven years ago) link
nah its not
egos be as happy with doom as with pride imo
anything pre internet and eg anaesthetic and whatever else youre having yourself was so demonstrably worse that anybody claiming otherwise is suffering delusions
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 December 2016 12:15 (seven years ago) link
i think you might be wrong even tho on the obvious level you're right
something to do with the imaginability of good/bad in any given era? the boundaries move. nobody was sat around bored in the 18th century longing for the internet. and even abstract evil vs experienced evil has always been a thing, sure there were mopey cavemen pondering the imminent extinction of their kind even if they'd personally had a mammoth-filled year.
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 December 2016 12:25 (seven years ago) link
imma claim deeper level right again tho, one downmanship
something something we are too heavily invested in our greater knowledge of global suffering which something something relative to our level of maximum possible/experienced comfort is worse than historically was the case but in general something something relative to historical levels of global suffering something something is actually fine tbh
that last part obv needs work
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 December 2016 12:50 (seven years ago) link
yeah tho i agree that awareness of bounds of suffering/possibilities is a factor but think it works both ways
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 December 2016 12:51 (seven years ago) link
feel like everything is fine and has always been fine and always will be fine tbh
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Thursday, 29 December 2016 12:52 (seven years ago) link
we've all felt the "pang" of "loss" in 2016 amirite
Not take anything away from recent genocides or die-offs, but I find it hard to see how 2016 can measure up to such older vintages as '42 or '58 - If soulseek went tho' it'd be right up there for sure.
― calzino, Thursday, 29 December 2016 12:56 (seven years ago) link
that guy is still adding dead celebrities to his sgt. pepper thing
now with added Debbie Reynolds: https://twitter.com/christhebarker/status/814381762205851648
maybe we can bring the deadpool thread back for 2017, but with the condition that all submissions must be in the form of a photoshopped sgt.pepper cover featuring the people you're predicting will die over the next 12 months
― soref, Thursday, 29 December 2016 12:57 (seven years ago) link