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Rick and Morty S3 didn't even come out.
Dec 26, 2016 12:58 PM
rupertbootes13
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Rick and Morty S3 didn't even come out.
erbiumyttriumytterbium
Well, most people here didn't live through 39-45. Some Imgurians hardly remember 9/11.
SamSquag94
1929
BuiltonSin
Yes, 1939-1945 was literally the worst year....
FunnyOriginalUserName
2016, you dirty sack of shit.
automaticallymoderated
It's almost like we experience life individually. It's callous to try to shame someone for their emotions based on how "it could be worse."
Greypuppy
1346–1353 probably was a little tougher, too.
IveBeenSlackingMyWholeLife
Anyone remember 2004? Quarter million people died and millions fucked over by a giant tsunami? No?
rupertbootes13
I was in Malaysia for that and got badly hit by waves bouncing off Thailand. Not pleasant. You're right too many people forget about it.
NotMe831
I'm black so everything before the 70's was probably worst for us
BrentenIreland
Except maybe musically.
NotMe831
That is true. A lot more positive energy and joy in the music.
Rokobex
How about 1618 to 1648?
Robinhood2109
I'm casting my vote for any of the years the black plague desolated Europe
IHaveAPhrasalUserNameLikeThisOneCauseTheyAlwaysGetTheTopComment
Nah, the fact that celebrities that we happen to know right now died is much worse.
chefbou4gainz
Haha, it was the entire Eurasia except india. Plague started in China. Plus the Columbian Exchange desolate South America as well.
hypnokrote
Yeah losing 90% of your people is certainly worse than losing a dozen pop stars and actors
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IHaveAPhrasalUserNameLikeThisOneCauseTheyAlwaysGetTheTopComment
If you're from the US, that's your ancestors.
Neitn
Boom
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IHaveAPhrasalUserNameLikeThisOneCauseTheyAlwaysGetTheTopComment
Well they sure have had shittier years than just 2016 too.
twofishtails
Or your religious persecutors
LongCommentChainAppreciator
Could be his own religious persecutor too
hypnokrote
The pilgrims went to America to practice religious persecution, not escape it
twofishtails
You cannot be serious.
AdoIfHitIer
It was a struggle for sure. The good guys almost won.
MarkSurge9411
Username checks out
PeopleReportEvenIfTheyreMarkedMature
Don't forget 1929 great depression
SerialChillinSpree
Ugh, how depressing.
zapbranagan
People are soft. I blame Listerine soft, you bent to the demands of the weak who can't handle the germ killing burn, now look where we are
triforceofsad
This is my favorite comment of all time
goddamnitfarva
Second.
UncleAnnie1127
If you were in Europe. But in the US, I'd go with 1929-1936
GingerSnapYourNeck
Knapaholic
1756-1763 was a pretty sizable kerfuffle.
RevanTheJedi
1944-1945 were pretty fubar too
Gr8GoogleyMoogley
"Pretty sizable kerfuffle." Absolutely fantastic.
MerToo
That is a uniquely English military strategic term, compare "clusterfuck".
Gr8GoogleyMoogley
Clusterfuck is great, too.
TheBadInternet
I like kerfufle. I will be borrowing this.
mellowdrama
You literally haven't even seen 2017 yet. You totally won't even believe it.
tarataqa
He survived 2017 with just this one weird trick...
ayyyylom
AwesomeName
The seventies were forty years ago. It should come as no surprise that people who were famous back then start dying.
SecretCoconut
Just like Harambe
forgetthisnoise
We are all getting older and will have to get used to people "leaving"our lives at a faster rate than people enter them.
ZoidbergIsGreat
Yup. I was sad about Anton Yelchin. His death was well before his time. But a lot of them were simply older folks who met their natural end.
Somanyquestions
Our childhood idols are all in their 60-70s now. We'll see tons of them go every year from now on.
MisterTrashPanda
I mean, technically not "from now on". I think we'll see a pretty serious drop off by the end of the 2020s...
DontWantToBotherFindingAGoodUsername
Yeaaaahhhh
AwesomeName
And of course, people from the eighties are not that young either.
atticusjacksonva
As a person from the 80s...aw man
bethbunny
I think he meant people who were famous in the 80s, making them 20-30 even 40 years older than you
atticusjacksonva
You right
Knapaholic
Yeah, fair point... but 53 still seems a little young.
chickNlittle
Wow, I'm circa 1982. That hurts man.
2pillows
I think he meant famous people in the 80s. They'd be 60+ today
TheRunawayFound
Not a great excuse for the world's two most stable democracies to tantrum-fuck themselves with rolls of razor wire though.
JD10001
UK leaving the EU isnt a tantrum, its not wanting to be united with racist who don't let brown ppl be citizens (src: I am a Turkish Cypriot)
rupertbootes13
This is one of my favourite comments ever
Mashpit
You forgot about South Korea and the fuckery they got going on.
0MockingBird0
Secret coven of billionaire women who control the nation. This is the kind of stuff that makes me suspicious about Trump winning election.
DontWantToBotherFindingAGoodUsername
Wait for France, we have some catching up to do
Fireninja404
aren't you guys too busy with terrorist attacks though?
DontWantToBotherFindingAGoodUsername
You're thinking of the germans
TheRunawayFound
I never thought, as a Brit, I'd be relying on the French to guide us sensibly out of the fog of ignorance. But I am.
DontWantToBotherFindingAGoodUsername
Entente cordiale 2.0
Flyndaran
Probably the worst was the great bottlenecking of around 70k B.C.E. when our species was knocked down to around 1000 individuals on earth.
Munchman347
Well, in 2015, Grandma beat me to the last piece of pie, then blamed her farts on me, so I'm puttin that one up there as worst...
Piornet
"People actually thought 2016 was terrible back then", reflected the survivors of Trump's presidency.
tarataqa
*Trumpocalypse
InquisitorRavensburg
/a/98oBy
illbeyoursledgehammer
Could be worse, we could have Hillary.
Piornet
Hillary is a bitch but at least she knew how to drive the car - we handed the keys over to a pouting infant ranting on twitter.
Frogapus
Wait, so when was the "Great" period that Trump said he'll return us to?
Darwinthenaturalselector
I'm going to assume the 50s and 60s. Which economically were pretty good for most people.
Frogapus
But not particularly great for Black people ... or Asian people ... or LGBT people.
Darwinthenaturalselector
Hence why I said most, during the time, caucasians were the majority. If we had that economy now it would be awesome
johnvictor
Anyone not WASP.
WhileMyWeepGentlyGuitars
Yes because I totally lived through those to have them as an accurate frame of reference. Or are we just being contrarian for points here?
Gr8GoogleyMoogley
If we go by this standard, people can no longer bitch about slavery because no one alive now lived through that.
WhileMyWeepGentlyGuitars
No people cannot bitch about slavery as if they themselves went through it just like they cannot bitch about the holocaust as if they did
RegisteredBoobInspector
I don't know. John Candy died in 1994.
NiNJ45TAR
Loved John Candy, been watching all his films over the past fortnight
SerialChillinSpree
Me, too, for a baker's dozens' night.
BlazingSaddlesfortomorrow
I think people living in Syria right now would disagree
shootan
Since the battle for Aleppo is over, I think Mosul is currently the worse place to be right now.
IveBeenSlackingMyWholeLife
Ya but that's not what people are upset about
tarataqa
#NukeSyria2017
Morrigi
At this point I would be entirely unsurprised if Raqqa ate a tactical nuke from somebody.
ImgonnapartylikeitsCOVID1999
2016 A few dead celebrities, a dead gorilla, and a president half the country hates. 2001 biggest recent terrorist attack and start of a war
robofist194
His name was Harombe.
Earlkay
There's been a lot of shit going on in Africa and the Middle East and a weirdly high number of plane crashes.
MarkSurge9411
2016 has also seen the conflict in the Middle East grow worse, global terrorist attacks, Brexit, tensions between countries strain, etc
gamblingpoet
Given Trump's tweets about nukes, 2016 maybe the start of something far far worse than 9/11.
northwestroots
2001 sucked but how many other countries deal with that ongoing? Their numbers far out pace this single incident. US = Disneyland
youthisforever
Nah, this year was definitely worse
AmazinglyCoolNameHere
*Half the world hates.Eastern Europe is now in a very real possibility of war with Trump's buddy. America will hobble on for a while longer.
flapperfemmefatale
Well my dad also tried killing himself and is in the hospital. So I've stopped giving a fuck about famous people or politics.
stygyan
I hope he gets better. Good luck with that. About the "famous people" we can write so many things...
ImgonnapartylikeitsCOVID1999
You actually have a reason to 2016 sucks. I wish you the best in 2017.
hippothepurplerhino
Me too, it annoys me so f much. I lost my mom and my grandma this year. I'm sorry to hear about your dad, I hope things get better soon.
sjmanzur
Biggest terrorist attack in your country*
GoCorral
Have their been bigger ones that weren't just actual acts of war?
XaiaX
The difference is academic.
SSTRIe
Depends on how you define terrorists
MetalPsychologist
The correct answer: no there hasn't
Contundo
Much of the attacks in the middle east i would say are more guerrilla warfare than terrorism. but I'm not the one who decides what is what..
tentaclefriendly
Wait for 2017-2020. If we're super lucky, the global nuclear winter and global warming catastrophe will balance each other out.
JudgeMentalCat
Nuclear winter doesn't actually mean it'll get colder, and global climate change actually means the continent will get colder
JudgeMentalCat
Current science holds that the "warm arctic, cold continents" theory is correct
wafflesho
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH -from 2021
deadandbloated
We won't be lucky.
tentaclefriendly
Nope.
AllLivesDontMatter
Who's the nuclear war going to be between?
Morrigi
US and China, most likely. Fortunately, China only has enough ICBMs to severely fuck us up rather than utterly destroy the country.
tentaclefriendly
My guess is Trump vs The World, but we'll see.
AllLivesDontMatter
The World? The only country capable of taking on the US in a nuclear war is Russia. Not to mention only a handful of states even have nukes.
tentaclefriendly
Nuance is hard in 140 chars. I expect trump to start trade wars, proxy wars, provoke china, first nukes might not be lobbed at us, but by us
tentaclefriendly
Expecting sanctions on america. Expecting trump to be baited into war the first time a truck explodes in front of one of his towers.
AllLivesDontMatter
I'd also like to add, I'm legitimately interested. You're not the first to claim so, but you might be the first to give a coherent reason.
hazzmg
1914-18 wasn't the greatest either
Killstealer
"1545; this is Sengoku Jidai. The age of the country at wah."
Murraylastname
But what about the Great War ahrump ahrump. For England's glory
jewmastajamez223
Wait until you cunts hear about 2020
shootan
1850-1864 was the greatest though in China, some dude turned out to be Jesus Christ's brother!
ICanBelieveItsProbablyMargarine
1812 - "2016 takes the cake, man."
SAIZEO
Agreed. Especially if you where a young man.
Lopool
And when you felt down
AussieAussieOxenfree
1914 wasn't the worst. There was the Christmas truce and a bunch of others that went unspoken but I catch your skid/drift/turn.
EddieMaxwell
1914 brought a new hell to the world. It can be said we never stopped fighting the war that began that year.
Felberin
To be fair, I don't think there has been an year of peace throughout the world since invention of rocks.
EddieMaxwell
But never before in history was war 'total war.' Soldiers fought, not countries.
tarmtarzan
1709, the battle of Poltava wasen't amazing for us Swedes...
5NoteHalf
1929 was, from what I hear, kinda shitty.
aWiseSageOnceSaid
2008 millions became homeless and unemployed
iwantacoolnametoocatsandstuff
Im still pissed off at 2008
Fingolfin
1918: You think years of a World War are bad? Well here comes a flu pandemic to kill 50 million more people
Walleyed
Damn straight. That Spanish Influenza kill during WWI wiped out the masses.
dewhicular
Spanish flu fucked up a ton of people on top of the war. Shifty time to be alive. Everyone was scared of getting it.
Flyndaran
It was unusual for killing young healthy adults. Most other flu strains kill sick and children first.
shootan
A large contributor for the Spanish Flu was the trenches themselves, making the young soldier highly susceptible to the flu.
Flyndaran
All war brings disease. But that flu killed loads of healthy people sitting in nice cities.
Flyndaran
It is like how the biggest black death plague outbreaks happened right after poor weather causing famines. Weakened immune systems.
Redballoonsatan
The French lost like 27,000 dudes in one day in August 1914.
akmarksman
Influenza is a bitch
Metadeth901
Honesty, the French high command are stupid, constantly sending wave after wave for hope of defeat when they never have been on the front.
ignimbrite
Verdun?
Gingersaur
No, Verdun lasted from the 21st of February to the 18th of December in 1916. French casualties ranged between 315,000 and 542,000 people.
Wolfyboy
Was that the Somme?
Gundarf101
Nah it was marne https://youtu.be/sbOdF-5dk_E
Wolfyboy
Ah, thank you for the clear upm
codenameblack
No the somme was a british offensive in 1916.
Wolfyboy
Sorry bit fuzzy on the details and dates, thank you for the clear. Thought Somme was British and French though? Or am I even more wrong.
FindusSomKatten
if you like podcasts hardcore history blue print for Armageddon is great
codenameblack
They both participated, but the british had the overal command, if you are intressted look up the great war channel on youtube its great 1/2
canderousbossk
1864-68 kinda sucked in the usa
Quarantinous
Yeah, with the whole 1/4 white males being dead...
Knapaholic
1861-1865?
AyAyRonn
Well, 64-68 also really sucked in the South.
Knapaholic
You're not wrong. Maybe even longer than that.
BondHaimBond
Probably until November 2016.
dewhicular
I know. Slavery being abolished really sucked.
shootan
Do not trivialize the deaths of 1 million people, no matter what the reason
dewhicular
I'm not going to wait around for you to get a sense of dark humor. I hope I didn't trigger you.
shootan
I liked your other response better
rupertbootes13
1095-1291 can't have been a highlight I guess
YuJinX5
Pretty sure the worst year was 1453
RaptorCav
1492-onward want that great for the natives.
jp189512
in the years before 1492 a plague wiped out 90% of the native population so those weren't great years either
somenub755
In the years before and after 1456 a lot of people died.
jp189512
wasn't that like....all the people dying? ships of dead sailors and whatnot?
Waitthisparachuteisarucksack
I'm from the future, you're in for a treat
AZSupernova
0-2016 are the worst
rupertbootes13
Fuck damnnit just coz my water fountain doesn't have wifi
therealcreedbratton
in 1291 switzerland was sort of founded. so you're goddamn right!
noaddictions
Looks more like the best year ever then, after reading all that. I beleive you stand corrected OP. I expect a retracted post within 1 week!
AnyaJenkins
1600-1672 was fucking fantastic though.
shootan
The "christian civil war" aka The Thirty Year War is the best episode of " world history"
AnyaJenkins
The Dutch gokden age was in that period of time, which was kinda cool
koektrommel
Tell that to Japan's Christians and the natives of Banda. That's just for starters.
baxtothefuture
1929-1939 was rough too
RevanTheJedi
Unless you're American
baxtothefuture
No, that was the great depression.
RevanTheJedi
Wait, I thought it was during 1920s. I guess I'm wrong, huh.
hazzmg
Give me sec to go google "wars before 1095". I'll be back soon
DefinetlyNotARussianSpy
Go check the punic wars!
WritingUnderTheMountain
I think he meant the holy crusades :) But the first battle was 1096 really, before that there was a free men crusade which went horribly /1
akmarksman
At least it wasn't a semen crusade..should really leave that to professionals like the Greeks n Romans.
SlayTheMuff
You must be compiling one hell of a list
WritingUnderTheMountain
2/ but was not sanctioned by the Pope
Aquick20dollars
Eh, it could be argued that when the Princes crusade arrived proper, the Turks didn't take them as serious as they should have because 1/2
Aquick20dollars
Of how poorly the "People's" crusade went. 2/2
amementomori
I dont understand why a few celebrites dying in 2016 makes it the worst year.
KrautMick
Memes. The new gold standard. That's why.
northwestroots
No shit.
WhileMyWeepGentlyGuitars
In the US at least a lot more happened than dead celebrities and I highly doubt thats what most people are referring to when mentioning 2016
tarataqa
Twitter gives kids a place to commiserate/whine.
SantasAnagram
The rise of the far-right globally. Increase in overt racism. Horrendous global democratic votes. Syria. Terrorism. ISIS. That's why too.
RandomStranger55
All the nazis.
NipplesTheEnchiIada
I think it makes it a bad year because we lost a lot of really good ones, Alan Rickman, David Bowie and Gene Wilder just to name a few.
ErinFromTheOffice
The end of Biden memes makes it the worst year.
rupertbootes13
Exactly: as we get older our childhood icons are more and more likely to pass away each year it's just that the generations we're in at 1/2
rupertbootes13
At the moment are the ones bitching about it on social media
YesImThatMrTrebus
Pretty sure it's not just dead celebs, i mean the U.S.President elect us a racist molerat.
illbeyoursledgehammer
And yet hillary was the one so bad electors jumped ship from her boat instead of his.
SomeCrazyNerd
Two Texas electors jumped from Trump. And about 30% of the GOP congress hates him e.g. McCain.
illbeyoursledgehammer
Still speaks volumes that trump had fewer defectors than "the most qualified person to ever run for president"
SomeCrazyNerd
Sure they're both unpopular.