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2011: The Year the World Went to Hell in a Handbasket
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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:48:04
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What the hell is going on this year? Has anyone else noticed? The world is going nuts. Off the top of my head I can think of the following things that have happened:

  • Japan Tsunami
  • Amy Winehouse dead
  • Greece in financial meltdown
  • American Congress in political financial deadlock
  • Spain, Italy and Ireland economies on the fritz
  • World stocks and shares plummet
  • Norweigen cocksucker kills 80 people
  • In the couple of weeks after there were two separate U.S shootings which killed 20 people
  • Africa/Somali drought and food shortage
  • London riots spreading around the country
  • In the Middle East you have the Arab Spring where it sort of works out in Egypt but in Syria and Bahrain the govt is shooting and assaulting protesters
  • Libya, need I say more?

What else can you think of and why do you think this has all come to a head now?

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:05:47
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Amy Winehouse does not belong on that list.

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:13:38
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One of these things is not like the other. Nyaa
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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:29:33
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But the Prince William Kate Middleton wedding really helps to balance stuff out.

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:30:35
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You forgot Christchurch and the flooding in Aussieland

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:40:27
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Fuck you Mayans.

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:06:57
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Iga_Bobovic said:

Amy Winehouse does not belong on that list.

I agree.  I'm as sympathetic as the next guy, but a self-destructive substance abuser is different to the lives of innocent people affected in the other things listed.  Though I suppose some may say that her songs were a source of joy and hope to a lot of people.  I don't know.

It just feels like such a terrible time all around and there seems no respite

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:49:09
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Oh yeah, must not forget the 20 American Special Forces people from the unit that took out Osama, who were shot down and killed in a helicopter, along with 10 other military personnel.

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:16:02
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^Hmmm, they don't deserve to be on the list also. They are trained killers that were killed during a war, not the same as all the other stuff you posted.

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:08:12
gamingeek said:

Oh yeah, must not forget the 20 American Special Forces people from the unit that took out Osama, who were shot down and killed in a helicopter, along with 10 other military personnel.



That unit has about 500 people in it, no-one knows if any on the Osama raid were in that crash (though odds are at least a few were).

As for the other stuff, except for the London and the f*ckheads who held up raising the debt ceiling in the US all the rest of it is pretty normal stuff that happens every year.  For humanity I think the Tsunami in 2004 that knocked out 230 000 people was the worst year we've had for a while. (Unless more people died in the constant hell that is Haiti -- I can't keep up with that poor little place).

A lot of political and economic systems have exceeded their expiration date and there is nothing to replace it.

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Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:19:30

What year is it next year... dun dun dun!

And yeah Amy does not belong.  Also the US economic crisis is probably what is causing the world economic crisis.

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Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:40:34

Would you guys stop focusing on Winehouse?

How about all the hacking this year? Sony and Anonymous, Lulzsec and everyone.

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