2009: Worst Of Them All?

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well okay, lemme start....


2009, to me, i think its a "bad year". So many losses, disasters, etc. The Swine Flu , mostly everyone is trying to avoid it. it was actually discovered like 10 years ago. i think. i'm not exactly sure. but anyways, the wildfires in Cali. its like everywhere you look, there's a wild fire. umm
the deaths of famous people. i mean its a pretty bad year.

What do yo think about 2009?

 

[:mad:]

All years have tragedies, they're unavoidable. Why is 2009 any different? Celebrity deaths?

 

[Mr. Rogu]

i think 2009 stands out is cause of the "OMGZ SWINE FLU!!!" and the many random celebrity deaths. not to mention the us economy is still a mess.

me personally, its been a great year. i achieved all the goals i wanted to this year.

 

[Teran]

I think some of the years between 1939-1945 pretty much laugh at this, considering the massive genocide Hitler led.

Oh and of course, there were more. 2001 brought us 9/11, 2005 brought us the Asian Tsunami and the July 7th bombings in London.

Nah man, every year is catastrophe filled, 09 has been pretty tame.

 

[Cherry64]

Lawl, theres nothing worse this year than there is any other year, What Teran said. For me personally it's a bad year, I've already had 3 peeps I know commit suicide, joy to the world...

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

I too agree with Teran.

But this year has been personally better for myself after sending my mind through a living heck for about a year.
Now im just happy-go-lucky and super happy all the time. SUCCESS

 

[Firus]

The only disastrous thing about Swine Flu is the over-hype it's getting.

It's not any more serious than the standard flu. Stupid media is stupid.

Overall, there's not a whole lot that I think is great about '09, but there's not really anything lolhorrible about it.

Again, except for epic media over-hype.

Spoiler

Lookin' at you, Michael Jackson.

 

[¯\_S.(ツ).L.I.D._/¯]

Yo Imma let you finish but 2001 was one of the worst years of ALL TIME!

And what Teran said.

 

[Firus]

Yo Imma let you finish but 2001 was one of the worst years of ALL TIME!

Eh, S.O.L.I.D.'s a jack***.

Spoiler

If you don't get it, news moar.

But yes, Teran and S.O.L.I.D. are right -- there have been much worse years. I mean, the Wii came out in '06...that's gotta count for something.

 

[j0s3ph]

Yo Imma let you finish but 2001 was one of the worst years of ALL TIME!

And what Teran said.

This. Pretty much, since nothing 9/11 caliber happened, we can't exactly say this has been the worst year of recent memory.

 

[Man of Popsicle]

lol Swine flu.
What about the years of the bubonic plague? The Inquisition, the halocaust, Either world war, the civil war.
Any year any of these events to place is much worse than this year
This year was cake.

 

[Noobicidal]

You guys are forgetting something...

 

[POKE40]

It has only been somewhat of a "bad" year.

Think of:
Civil War
WWII
WWI
The Nuclear Crisis
SPUNTIK
Holocaust
Hurricane Katrina
9/11

and other stuff.
We still have "4 years" left here.
lol

 

[finalark]

and other stuff.
We still have "4 years" left here.
lol

Ah yes, the fabled 2012. I can't wait for it roll by so I can laugh when nothing happens.

Yeah, the Mayan calender ends then, so what? If it was obscure little tribe in Africa that's calender ended in 2012, no one would care. Ah, silly people and their superstitions.

 

[Xivii]

I don't think it has been a bad year at all. Swine Flu is nothing compared to all the other stuff.

 

[Teran]

I'm pretty sure the Rwanda genocide was even worse than 9/11. About 1 million people were killed in that.

Then we have the holocaust again, which kinda dwarfs that.

All this to say 09 was pretty smooth sailing.

 

[Mota]

09 was boring.

Lol at swine flu, you take the normal flu, add an animal name to the front and everyone goes nuts.
Dang Media.

 

[CRASHiC]

It can't be worse, we got the song WOOF WOOF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1dOovoMlRs
That makes this the best year.

 

[Aurasmash14]

Well aside from a lot of famous people dying randomly, (and that's not including politicians) 09 is pretty much ok. for now, (you never know, there could be something killer that could happen in dec 31 11:59 pm.

 

[Kholdstare]

4,000,000,000 B.C. was a pretty bad year for anybody.

 

[JustKindaBoredUKno]

Ah yes, the fabled 2012. I can't wait for it roll by so I can laugh when nothing happens.

Yeah, the Mayan calender ends then, so what? If it was obscure little tribe in Africa that's calender ended in 2012, no one would care. Ah, silly people and their superstitions.

Although I gotta agree with you on the whole "sit back and laugh" thing, Mayans weren't a little tribe in Africa, lol. They were far more advanced then that. The reason why anybody (logically thinking) would fear their calenderend date is because of how incredibly well they knew astronomy. Their knowledge of it rivals our own today.

But thats a different topic. 2009 I think just hasn't turned out so well because we expected things to get better, and they really didn't. They pretty much stayed the same. Sure, a lot of celebs died. But as my friend said, its just the older generation on the way out.

 

[Firus]

09 was

What's with all of this "was" in reference to 2009? It's late September, we've still got October, November, and December left. The year is far from over yet.

 

[Neo Exdeath]

For the record, 2005, 1943, 1968, and 1347 sucked pretty bad.

 

[The Cunning Weasel]

Summer of death. DEATH, death death. Death

 

[¯\_S.(ツ).L.I.D._/¯]

What's with all of this "was" in reference to 2009? It's late September, we've still got October, November, and December left. The year is far from over yet.

I highly doubt that anything that could rival any of those other horrible years will happen from now until the end of the year. I hope I'm right.

*knocks wood*

 

[Firus]

I highly doubt that anything that could rival any of those other horrible years will happen from now until the end of the year. I hope I'm right.

*knocks wood*

I'm sure you are, *knock on wood*, I'm just saying that the year as a whole isn't over, and referring to a year that's a little more than 3/4 of the way done as the past, basically, doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

In other words, I'm a grammar nazi and I am annoyed by the incorrect tense being used.

 

[Deleted member]

What about 1519, where about half of the American indigenous tribes population died from European diseases? Or perhaps 1945, when the worlds deadliest weapons were used on Japan? I could even make a case for 1918-19 when one of the worst wars in history had just ended and the flu epidemic that shortly began.

2009 doesn't even come close.

 

[demonictoonlink]

**** celebrities. Their deaths should mean nothing more than any of ours.

 

[§witch]

Swine flu only kills infants/geriatrics/those with an existing complication.

HOLY **** GUYS DON'T LEAVE YOUR HOUSES

 

[Jonas]

Yeah, the Mayan calender ends then, so what? If it was obscure little tribe in Africa that's calender ended in 2012, no one would care. Ah, silly people and their superstitions.

But the mayans were mysteriousssss
Also they sacrificed people which means they possessed dark magic.

What's with all of this "was" in reference to 2009? It's late September, we've still got October, November, and December left. The year is far from over yet.

OMG a lot of bad things can still happen D:

 

[Xi_Athletics_ix]

The whole 2012 thing is all Psychology.

The human brain is wired to find connections between things, even if those things have NO realation to each other. Imo, the 2012 thing is for people who needed to find a connection between the Calanders, theories of prophicies, an other misc. things.

The world "ends" every 6 years.
2012-I guess the world just..ends
2006-the devil was supposed to come get us.
2000-another time the world was just going to..end
1994-something to do with war, don't remember exactly.