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Thread: Goodbye 2014
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Patdys
Iron Wannabe
RooK-Annoyer
# 9397
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'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.
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Marathon run. Next Dream. Australian this time.
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Mrs Shrew
Ship's Mother
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oh so very very seconded.
Fuck you, 2014.
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"The goal of life is not to make other people in your own image, it is to understand that they, too, are in God's image" (Orfeo)
Was "mummyfrances".
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Nunc Dimittis
Seamstress of Sound
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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.
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molopata
The Ship's jack
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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.
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... The Respectable
Posts: 1718 | From: the abode of my w@ndering mind | Registered: Aug 2005
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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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.
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"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
~Tortuf
Posts: 9835 | From: Hogwarts | Registered: Aug 2005
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Sandemaniac
Shipmate
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Oh good, it's not just me.
AG
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"It becomes soon pleasantly apparent that change-ringing is by no means merely an excuse for beer" Charles Dickens gets it wrong, 1869
Posts: 3574 | From: The wardrobe of my soul | Registered: Jul 2007
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Kitten
Shipmate
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2014 has been a vile year, I will be glad to see it go
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Maius intra qua extra
Never accept a ride from a stranger, unless they are in a big blue box
Posts: 2330 | From: Carmarthenshire | Registered: Aug 2001
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Ariel
Shipmate
# 58
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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.
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
Trumpeting hope
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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).
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Hell is full of the talented and Heaven is full of the energetic. St Jane Frances de Chantal
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ArachnidinElmet
Shipmate
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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.
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Kittyville
Shipmate
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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.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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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.
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Even more so than I was before
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RooK
1 of 6
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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.
Posts: 15274 | From: Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth | Registered: Nov 2001
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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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.
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Technology has brought us all closer together. Turns out a lot of the people you meet as a result are complete idiots.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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2014 was absolute shite. Here's hoping that 2015 will be at least a bit better.
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Hail Gallaxhar
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Albertus
Shipmate
# 13356
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Same for me, mostly.
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My beard is a testament to my masculinity and virility, and demonstrates that I am a real man. Trouble is, bits of quiche sometimes get caught in it.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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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]](frown.gif)
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Hail Gallaxhar
Posts: 30100 | From: Adrift on a sea of surreality | Registered: Apr 2003
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Palimpsest
Shipmate
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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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