Ship of Fools: Goodbye 2014

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Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :

'An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.'
Bill Vaughn

For cancer,
For disease,
For budget cuts,
For broken ankles,
For organised religion,
For committees,
For family,
For unrealistic expectations.

Goodbye 2014. You may leave.

Posted by Mrs Shrew (# 8635) on :

oh so very very seconded.

Fuck you, 2014.

Posted by Nunc Dimittis (# 848) on :

Dear 2014, you were a right royal !@#$% and I'm not sorry to see the back of you.

You can take your ill health and job insecurity, your obscenely stupid hierarchies and everything else that was bad, and stick it where the sun don't shine.

2015, you'd better be better.

Posted by molopata (# 9933) on :

I couldn't agree more that 2014 was a pretty bad 'un (and it's not like I didn't it a chance). Sadly, bad enough to pass a lot of its shit on to its successor.

On the up-side, it has also passed on some experience which may help me to mature a bit yet.

Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :

Good riddance to a year of wars, and more wars... of ebola... of missing planes... of shootings by police and by everyone else... of beheadings and torture...and just all-around hatred and violence.

Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :

Oh good, it's not just me.

AG

Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :

2014 has been a vile year, I will be glad to see it go

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

2014's been one of the worst years of my life. I've learnt a lot, but I can't say I enjoyed the process.

There have been some good things about it, though, and there is a thread in Heaven for those who don't want to get hellish about 2014 but want to enthuse, or even just muse.

Posted by Arabella Purity Winterbottom (# 3434) on :

And seconded again. For so many reasons.

- boss and two colleagues believing work is optional (boss has improved, thank you Jesus)
- cantankerous elderly parents refusing to accept the care they so desperately needed, leading to horrendous stress for everyone
- cantankerous elderly parents suddenly deciding to move into a rest home with NO notice, meaning their house had to be cleaned out (after 58 years of hoarding) and sold under huge pressure
- the most cantankerous elderly parent dying three weeks after moving, leaving the other one confused and grieving and much more demented than previously realised by us
- partner's work using a psych test to determine that she was too stupid to walk and talk at the same time and then telling her about it (when her performance reviews for the last four years have been uniformly excellent). That one caused a hell of a lot of stress - and I have never been so proud of her, as she decided to rise above the stupidity that was being shared around and ended up being supervised directly by the CEO (who had been horrified by the actions of my partner's immediate superiors).

Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
...There have been some good things about it, though, and there is a thread in Heaven for those who don't want to get hellish about 2014 but want to enthuse, or even just muse.

There were indeed some good things about 2014, not least that it wasn't 2012 or 2013.

Other things: the death of a number of close friends; financial insecurity; the continued spouting of bollocks by my father; the general uselessness of one of the priests in my parish (the Frank Spencer of the clergy); the inability of anyone in authority (in any number of different spheres) to make a decision that doesn't result in a worsening of whatever is the current situation. All these things I will happily see hung by their thumbs from the ceiling of Hell and left for small sharp-toothed demons to nibble at.

Posted by Kittyville (# 16106) on :

2014, for the most part, sucked like a Dyson. Good riddance to it. It ended on an upbeat note, though, so I am feeling positive about 2015. At least for now.

Posted by Uncle Pete (# 10422) on :

Death on January 1st; death on December 31st. Gloom interspersed with moments of pleasure.

Hope the door sent you skidding down the pathway when you left, 2014.

Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :

It is probably my OCD talking, but I wish we distinguished the new year on the actual solstice. The Northern hemisphere "winter" solstice, obviously, because A) it would be easier to tweak things by 10 days and B) the Southern hemisphere is unimportant, so fuck 'em.

Or whatever. Interrupting some pointless vilification of an arbitrary calendar cycle with a pointless comment calendars seemed innocuous. But, please, by all means, continue with your litany of feeble fist shaking at nonsensical abstractions.

Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :

quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
the Southern hemisphere is unimportant, so fuck 'em.

You can stay in 2014, for all I care. It's such a boring yawn by the time your location gets around to the changeover anyway. Been there, done that, having dinner the next day.

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

2014 was absolute shite. Here's hoping that 2015 will be at least a bit better.

Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :

Same for me, mostly.

Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :

quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
It is probably my OCD talking...

Wrong spectrum.

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
2014 was absolute shite. Here's hoping that 2015 will be at least a bit better.

Nope. Fuck. [Frown]

Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :

I used to go with a variation of the pilot's saying.
Any year you walk away from isn't all bad. I did have to modify that a couple of years back when I broke my foot the last week in December.

Any year you can crawl away from isn't all bad.

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