10 Sad Thoughts of the Decade!

[BrianEtrius]

That's right boys and girls! It's time to look back at the shitstorm that was 2000-2010!

1. We're still using Windows!
...and it continues to be a piece of shit! YAY

2. We still don't have flying cars yet!
I would settle for at least personalized jet packs.

3. Larry King finally retired........in 2010.
It took him a whole decade to realize no one was paying attention to him.

4. American Idol somehow gets even worse!
What started out as a whoring contest now has just become a turd.

5. Joss Whedon continues to get fucked by TV companies.
Firefly, Dollhouse.....I'm glad he decided to put Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog online, otherwise it probably would of been cancelled halfway through the first episode.

6. Bachelor's Degree= Not a lot
Well, time to see how grad students are doing.......shit.

7. Daft Punk only comes out with 2 albums....
THE HORROR (I'm not counting the Tron Legacy Soundtrack, that's a soundtrack, not an album)

8. Meanwhile, teenage heartthrobs look pathetic....
As far as I'm concerned, the Jonas Brothers, the dudes from Twilight, and Fred would get their asses kicked by Corey Feldman.

9. Jon Stewart becomes the voice of reason....
A comedian is a respectable political commentator. Let the arguments fly.

10. Porn really hasn't gotten better.
Okay, maybe the quality, but there's nothing new. On the other hand, that's not a bad thing......

Contribute your own personal sad thoughts of the decade......

[UberCream]

At 1/3/11 08:53 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: 9. Jon Stewart becomes the voice of reason....
A comedian is a respectable political commentator. Let the arguments fly.

Nothing wrong with that. If comedians can perceive reality well enough to parody it, why not allow them to be the voice of reason?

[EDylan]

Can we think of happy thoughts?

[FireWOLF109]

At 1/3/11 08:53 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: 2. We still don't have flying cars yet!
I would settle for at least personalized jet packs.

Man, I can just imagine how awsome it would be to have my own jetpack or be in a flying car.

[stickmansick]

Just goes to show how the entertainment industry is going down the crapper along with the economy. I say we move out of this country, anyone with me?

[Heinrich]

At 1/3/11 08:56 PM, EDylan wrote: Can we think of happy thoughts?

Some positivity on the BBS? Never!

[saqwert]

I am disappoint at the lack of Billy Mays

[The3DragonsGroup]

At 1/3/11 08:56 PM, EDylan wrote: Can we think of happy thoughts?

Sure, here is the revised version of OP's list:
1. We're still using Windows!
It is still awesome because Apple sucks!

2. We still don't have flying cars yet!
But that's great because we could all die!

3. Larry King finally retired........in 2010.
It took him many years to end his beautiful legacy in one awesome finale.

4. American Idol somehow gets even worse!
At least no one likes this show... :)

5. Joss Whedon continues to get fucked by TV companies.
It's all cool because he is still getting paid...

6. Bachelor's Degree= Not a lot
Well, at least we can spread our share of fast food across the globe... :)

7. Daft Punk only comes out with 2 albums....
Well, I love Daft Punk but maybe they're planning something big... *sniff*

8. Meanwhile, teenage heartthrobs look pathetic....
There is no hope for mankind.

9. Jon Stewart becomes the voice of reason....
I hate this fucking world.

10. Porn really hasn't gotten better.
Suddenly, I love it now.

[tox]

porn.. is old.. there are only so many different things that you can stick in a vag, or only so many ways that you can rub a dick.. we have our breaking points.. and its that breaking point that we chase..
i would change # 10 if i were in your position.. porn was old after the internet discovered that a man could put porn in the net.. and before that there were photos and magazines, before that there were texts, and before that there were cave paintings, and before that.. there was just the idea. and a one time stand usually.. :P

[BrianEtrius]

At 1/3/11 09:08 PM, The3DragonsGroup wrote: Sure, here is the revised version of OP's list!

Yeah.....that just makes it even more depressing than before. I guess sometimes there aren't two sides to every argument.

[EDylan]

At 1/3/11 09:09 PM, BrianEtrius wrote:

At 1/3/11 09:08 PM, The3DragonsGroup wrote: Sure, here is the revised version of OP's list!

Yeah.....that just makes it even more depressing than before. I guess sometimes there aren't two sides to every argument.

No! Positivity is here. Uh...someone help me think of something else that is positive.

[TechnoGoomba]

Millions of people have died, whether it be from starvation, illness, or murder, including people who brought joy to millions.

The world economy has fallen on hard time, leaving many without work, all because some people wanted a few extra dollars in their own pocket.

Of course, the things you mentioned are MUCH worse.

[SpaceWhale]

I'll only comment on the ones that I know enough to argue about.

1. We're still using Windows!
...and it continues to be a piece of shit! YAY

WROOOONG

2. We still don't have flying cars yet!
I would settle for at least personalized jet packs.

I'm sure we have better things to work on. Plus, we've made basic ones.

8. Meanwhile, teenage heartthrobs look pathetic....
As far as I'm concerned, the Jonas Brothers, the dudes from Twilight, and Fred would get their asses kicked by Corey Feldman.

Agreed.

10. Porn really hasn't gotten better.
Okay, maybe the quality, but there's nothing new. On the other hand, that's not a bad thing......

It has. You're looking in the wrong places.

[megakill]

Well, I might as well just stick my head in the microwave and time travel to see if its worth sticking around for the future.

[The3DragonsGroup]

At 1/3/11 09:10 PM, EDylan wrote:

At 1/3/11 09:09 PM, BrianEtrius wrote:

At 1/3/11 09:08 PM, The3DragonsGroup wrote: Sure, here is the revised version of OP's list!

Yeah.....that just makes it even more depressing than before. I guess sometimes there aren't two sides to every argument.

No! Positivity is here. Uh...someone help me think of something else that is positive.

There was the birth (Yes, I know the website was made in 1995 but you got to submit Flash in 2000) of a beautiful Flash site called...

[ChaDMcBaDD]

At 1/3/11 08:53 PM, BrianEtrius wrote:

1. We're still using Windows!

its the best OS you dipshit. apple sucks. everything else sucks.

2. We still don't have flying cars yet!

Who needs flying cars when you got this?
http://www.entrepreneur.com/worklife/aut omotive/article205576.html

praise your species for making these achievements.

3. Larry King finally retired........in 2010.

he had a good career, but like brett favre he should have retired years ago.

4. American Idol somehow gets even worse!

Of course it was going to get worse. It had no where to go execpt for down. You can only do so many seasons til youve taken the best america has to offer...

5. Joss Whedon continues to get fucked by TV companies.

fuck this guy

6. Bachelor's Degree= Not a lot

The economy is the lowest its ever been. You have to work a lot harder to make it anymore. Everything is falling apart.

7. Daft Punk only comes out with 2 albums....

Fuck man, theres TONS of music out there, try looking for other bands than just 'daft punk'.

8. Meanwhile, teenage heartthrobs look pathetic....

Yes the disney channel is hitting little girls in the heart, and the daddy going out making all the big bucks is paying for all this shit.

9. Jon Stewart becomes the voice of reason....

jon stewart is an unfunny faggot. Stephen Colbert is where its at.

10. Porn really hasn't gotten better.

Porn has become amazing. You best be trolling.

[Painbringer]

It's amazing that people realize 2010 is part of the previous decade, yet fail to understand that the year 2000 is the last year of the 20th century (they both have the number 20 in common). But I guess it's society's fault for calling the last decade of the 20th century the '90s.

The Romans have always counted from 1 to 10.

[Dosensuppen]

At 1/3/11 08:53 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: 10. Porn really hasn't gotten better.
Okay, maybe the quality, but there's nothing new. On the other hand, that's not a bad thing......

What do you want from dick and vagina? What new thing could you get?

[Lost-Chances]

1. There are actually people out there who believe Obama is a Marxist Muslim who has a false birth certificate.
I know of conspiracy theories but come on...
2. There is a Conservative-Liberal Democrat joint leadership.
Okay, so take one part of "he seems a very charismatic fella" and add two parts of "AAAHHH I JUST WANT A CHAAAANNGGE" and you get this shit stain. Conservatives who continue to support the rich and screw the poor, and Liberal Democrats who don't do anything at all.
3. £2 Million Project On Happiness.
Despite being in a recession, £2 Million seems a good amount to spend on discovering if UK people are happy.
4. The Iraq War.
Do I need to say any more?
5. The war rages on in terms of allowing gay equal rights.
A decade later, while some rights have been granted, quite a bit has yet to be done and hasn't been for no logical reason. Meanwhile, gay rights groups think the best way to achieve equal rights is to make themselves heard and not, I don't know, making friends with straight people. Nice going gay parades, your attempt to out-flamboyant each other is really helping marriages being legalised.
6. The media.
Despite spreading moral panic over nothing, people still have faith in these bundles of hate. Yes, I'm sure The Sun and other similar newspapers are spreading the relevant truth. After all, Celebrity Gossip, Chavs and Immigrants are the only things that matter in the UK society.
7. Student Riots/Protests.
A bunch of nothing, caused partly by people just looking for a fight, which all the protest it's self managed to achieve was misdirection from other things. While it's aims were clear and made logical sense, in terms of who they are preaching to, it was never going to happen. All the riot add-on managed to do was cause misdirection and justification of the fees rising (after all, the rich would never involve themselves with a riot! God damn working class!). Then again, the protests were a joke, doing things like petitions ("UH DAVID! IT SEEMS LIKE THIS IS AN UNPOPULAR MOVE, WE BETTER NOT DO IT!", assuming he gave a fuck what people under a £30,000 wage thought) and marches in Universities (which I managed to witness myself, I'm sure David gives a fuck you marched around your own university chanting for no fees change). In the end, the fees rose and we all quickly remembered that other things were being affected just in time to watch it being put into place.
8. Cartoons.
While Futurama was being cancelled, Simpsons (thanks to Matt Groening who also helped create the more popular show Futurama) went on for it's...For another season and Seth MacFarlane made stupid shit. Seth MacFarlane has so far managed to create Family Guy, the spin-off The Cleveland Show and American Dad, all three with the exact same structure and joke format. When your entire show is only made up of pop culture references and random acts occurring, something is wrong with the writers. Where your entire show that is only made up of pop culture references and random occurrences, something is seriously wrong with TV audiences. Many parodies of Seth has been created, including CollegeHumor's reference to EVERY SETH MACFARLANE SHOW BEING THE EXACT SAME FUCKING FORMAT and South Park's reference to you may as well get a swimming pool of manatees to pick your "random scenes" considering the sheer inanity of them.
9. "Video Games Cause Violence".
You may thank the media to create this moral panic. Thank you media sources and then people with professional occupations like politicians and psychologists for ignoring that correlation =/= causation and rare and extreme events can't be simply explained by video games. You may read the first few sentences that clearly state that despite research by leading journals, NO CORRELATION HAS BEEN FOUND.
10. Religious Debates.
After all, the concept of just accepting that people have opposing views is stupid apparently. The idea that people may be using their faith in a high power as just an excuse to do extreme acts like, oh I don't know, 9/11. That faith may only be used as a tool by establishments to round people up for support is an insane notion apparently. It also seems to not ring true with a lot of people that if there was an agreement of what, if any, religious text is correct, it wouldn't be achieved in a forum directed towards a demographic of 13-25 year old Flash Games/Film viewers. I'm not saying there isn't a God or there is one, just merely that religious debate and corrupt use of religion is annoying, pathetic and silly. I wish I could say it's non-constructive, but considering the wars that have been waged, the political parties that have been around and the lack of secularisation in society, I'm not so sure...

[Purple-Slurpie]

Porn's in 3d now. So that's a lot better. Your list is irrelevant.

[psycho-squirrel]

At 1/3/11 08:53 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: That's right boys and girls! It's time to look back at the shitstorm that was 2000-2010!

1. We're still using Windows!
...and it continues to be a piece of shit! YAY

Windows 7 is actually pretty good.

2. We still don't have flying cars yet!
I would settle for at least personalized jet packs.

I doubt we will even see those in out lifetimes

3. Larry King finally retired........in 2010.
It took him a whole decade to realize no one was paying attention to him.

Good for him I guess

4. American Idol somehow gets even worse!
What started out as a whoring contest now has just become a turd.

I don't watch that show so I didn't notice

5. Joss Whedon continues to get fucked by TV companies.
Firefly, Dollhouse.....I'm glad he decided to put Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog online, otherwise it probably would of been cancelled halfway through the first episode.

Firefly and Dollhouse were pretty good shows. I also liked Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog.

6. Bachelor's Degree= Not a lot
Well, time to see how grad students are doing.......shit.

Yeah, you need more than a Bachelor's degree now. Just way things are.

7. Daft Punk only comes out with 2 albums....
THE HORROR (I'm not counting the Tron Legacy Soundtrack, that's a soundtrack, not an album)

I only like about two songs anyways.

8. Meanwhile, teenage heartthrobs look pathetic....
As far as I'm concerned, the Jonas Brothers, the dudes from Twilight, and Fred would get their asses kicked by Corey Feldman.

I don't like teenagers, but yeah, they would get their asses kicked by him.

9. Jon Stewart becomes the voice of reason....
A comedian is a respectable political commentator. Let the arguments fly.

It is crazy, yes, but kind of ironic too

10. Porn really hasn't gotten better.
Okay, maybe the quality, but there's nothing new. On the other hand, that's not a bad thing......

It has become more available than ever, but if you are a porn producer then that would be a bad thing.

Contribute your own personal sad thoughts of the decade......

Modern popular music has become even shittier.

[MrPercie]

11: I still havent had sex. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...

[walterwagner]

Like 20 videos about teens killing kittens/puppies so fucked uppp :(

[hongkongexpress]

Leslie Nielson a raunchy comedy actor, staring in Airplane (one of the greatest movies of all time), or Loaded Weapon Series, Zero Man, DIES

Micheal Jackson dies, regardless of his weirdness and being an "Angel" (context little naked boys) adminstering "Jesus Juice". He was a very iconic and influencial musican, and once had his own ride at Disneyland.

FREAKY Acts of God, from Earthquakes on New Years Eve, to Tropical Storms destroying a city.

The Plague.... SARS, Swine flu, Avian flu, Mad Cow Disease,

The Death of Iconic defining religious figures, like religion or not these guys had influence in their large communities: Tammy Mesnier (of Tammy Fay, scandalous preacher), Pope John Paul II One of the more popular popes, Gordon B Hinckley who ran the Golden age of Mormonism (SLC Olympics, Interviews with Larry King about the faith, churches and temples all over the world).

Free China (Koumintang Party, or Democratic China, before communism), loses it's monoply and Oligarchy after defending freedom and democracy for the first time.

Prince of Nepal goes Lady Gaga with a gun. and kills his family.

Bomb explodes in Bali.

Muslim Hajis die in stampeed in Mecca during Hajj.

Illegal coup de etat against a legally elected Bozo in Thailand. He may be a dick, but at least he was chosen by the people.

Baiji or White Dolphin becomes extinct in China. Fuck you dirty Chinamen, and you fucking spit and your loud disguisting voices and your rude rude manners and your ugly teeth. Fuck you.

All sorts of crazy industial accidents: Most notably structural failure of Levees in New Orelans, and the BP oil disaster, Chinese mines blowing up,

Dead WWF wrestlers,

[BrockManson]

At 1/3/11 08:53 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: That's right boys and girls! It's time to look back at the shitstorm that was 2000-2010!

6. Bachelor's Degree= Not a lot
Well, time to see how grad students are doing.......shit.

This. I graduated and already the only employment I've had has been a temporary contract at M&S (which wasn't renewed so I handed in my notice anyway).

Fucking waste of time doing a degree, you're so much better off getting practical experience and training. All it is at the end of the day is a piece of paper that shows you stuck with some subject for 3+ years. Hoo-fucking-ray.

[Ryanson]

Saddest thought of the decade? This thread got only 15 posts.

Also, why wasn't 9/11 mentioned? Ass.

[Toast-Tony]

At 1/4/11 05:46 AM, ryanson209 wrote: Saddest thought of the decade? This thread got only 15 posts.

Also, why wasn't 9/11 mentioned? Ass.

unfortunately 9 out of 11 americans dont get this

[Lost-Chances]

At 1/4/11 05:46 AM, ryanson209 wrote: Also, why wasn't 9/11 mentioned? Ass.

Because people can't read topics.

[Lintire]

I've got plenty of localized sad thoughts, but nothing on a global scale. Speculating on the downfall of humanity is too complicated to be done correctly, so not even going to bother at all.

Porn, however, will never really get better. You just can't fake sensuality, no matter how hard you try.

[Damien]

At 1/4/11 07:10 AM, Lost-Chances wrote:

At 1/4/11 05:46 AM, ryanson209 wrote: Also, why wasn't 9/11 mentioned? Ass.

Because people can't read topics.

I loved each and every point you made man.
You have touched me and taken on very serious matters.

I always knew you were a smart guy. I could just feel it.