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
namaste
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 December 2016 12:57 (seven years ago) link
yeah i pondered some sort of discrepancy argument, i'm not sure i buy it.
we could use some objective measurements - mortality, life expectancy, hunger, disease - and they'd almost all point to "we've never had it so good" - for certain functions of "we", which i'd happily accept broadly covers the posting population of ilx
it gets harder if you factor in less measurable but no doubt life-affecting experiences such as sense of purpose, sense of community, sense of hope etc. but intuitively it feels to me that an individual's sense of happiness at any given moment is a product of the objective measurements and that second category of stuff interacting in some complicated way - obv for somebody like Maslow it's simply hierarchical but i'm not so sure
before we even get to individuals as consistent narrative units that are always in the same relationship to the world they think is around them which, well, i'm not touching that, i don't believe it, and i've wandered a ways off track
i have this intuition that for any individual human being happiness contentment misery and all that stuff are in a set of interrelated sliding scales that are kind of outside your immediate station in history - so like "fuck Year X" is partly "'twas ever thus" but also not unreasonable depending on the context that the sentiment is uttered from inside
or something something telling people their moaning is unfounded/unreasonable is of a piece with affirming that their moaning is founded/reasonable, you can't argue one without allowing the other argument maybe
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 December 2016 13:01 (seven years ago) link
agreed but with the proviso that id think it merits further over a pint
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 December 2016 13:03 (seven years ago) link
this is the only truly bad year because it contains this shitty meme tbh
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Thursday, 29 December 2016 13:04 (seven years ago) link
I couldn't care less about famous people dying but trump + what.cd shutdown were the WORST things ever
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 29 December 2016 13:05 (seven years ago) link
some kind of pint-related summit meeting would get half this board sorted over a weekend, i'm sure of it
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 December 2016 13:06 (seven years ago) link
summit summit pint
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 December 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
this probably being the legit answer
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 December 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
if I were a notable person the best I could hope for would be that news of my passing be pulled into the slipstream of the most woeful schtick since whatever cunt came up with no cash no hope and no jobs
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Thursday, 29 December 2016 13:09 (seven years ago) link
Nobody remembers to prepare an agenda. And here's why
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Thursday, 29 December 2016 13:16 (seven years ago) link
At least people have stopped saying that celebrities die in threes. Now it's like 30s.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 December 2016 14:26 (seven years ago) link
it'll be great if Sgt Pepper bloke has shopped himself into his own shitty collage and posts it prior to cutting his own throat at five to midnight on Saturday
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 December 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/IAm9Tgn.png
― pplains, Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
on the plus side, my second cousin is pregnant with twins, first ones in my family in my lifetime
― “a tub of horses” (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Thursday, December 29, 2016 12:52 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
superb work
― ogmor, Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
took me way too long to get that
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
I was minutes away from saying so myself xp
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
elaborate pls
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
anything pre internet ... was so demonstrably worse that anybody claiming otherwise is suffering delusions
lol
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
before the internet, it was difficult to expose ourselves to alarmed dumbasses in sufficient quantity to induce the reassuring feeling that alarm is for dumbasses
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:05 (seven years ago) link
back then you were ostracized for being a little shit, now you can just join subreddits full of people who think just like you and convince yourself that nah, it's everyone else who's deluded
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
but yeah just thinking about stuff like dental care pre-1940 (or whatever) makes me feel queasy, I never want to travel back in time
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:08 (seven years ago) link
just access to information via the internet makes recent years worthwhile than stuck in some pre or colonial times
like woman putting urine and egg in their hair and consuming arsenic because it supposedly cured acne or put all sorts of shit on their faces and bodies is not nor ever will be cool henceforth
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
TS: you must find a man, crack this egg on your head VS you must find a man, shoot this paralytic neurotoxin directly into yr face
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
(women's experience in general not exactly the hardest lens thru which to argue for our own time but that particular example surprised me)
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS74e-4dQLU
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
waiting for a 538 article on whether or not 2016 really had more celebrity deaths than one could expect
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
been shared around a fair bit
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08504ln
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
unable to play that, what's it say?
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
no iirc
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
up from last year but well within expectations (haha listening again their "method" is complete bollocks though, based entirely on the number of pre-written BBC obituaries deployed)
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link