Posted on 12/31/2020 1:38:52 PM PST by Rummyfan
Across the country, there is general consensus that 2020 has been the "worst year ever." According to studies, 82% of Americans agree that 2020 has been a terrible year of unprecedented suffering and misery. Experts confirmed that 2020 was indeed the worst year, provided you have never lived in virtually any other time period in all of human history.
"We noticed that most of the respondents who called 2020 the worst year also enjoyed delicious food being delivered to them for 8 months while they sat on their couches with the air conditioning on and binge-watched shows the whole time," said one researcher.
"While we understand it hasn't been easy, we also found very few instances of Viking raids, Black Plague, famine, world war, using rotary telephones, needing to look things up in a physical dictionary, slavery, people being burned at the stake, walking miles to school, living in caves, sleeping on the ground, ice ages, Nazi holocausts, civil war, infant mortality, global floods, ethnic cleansing, using leaves as toilet paper, using leeches as medicine, using wooden mallets as an anesthetic, fighting wild saber-tooth tigers, cannibalism, occupation by the Persian Empire... what was I talking about again? Oh yeah-- most people in 2020 never experienced any of those things, so comparatively speaking it's been a pretty decent year!"
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Funny, but...
it WAS the worst year ever for me. Here’s to hoping for better things in 2021.
My family’s been here since the 1630s.
We’ve seen worse.
Some lived through world war and holocaust. I looked things up in a physical dictionary and used a rotary phone, and slept on the floor a few times.
1929 is right up there, and 1945's war rationing puts that year in the race. I was born in the 50s, so I missed the early 20th-century misery.
My uncle is still MIA, presumed KIA, WWII, B17, over France 1944. I think that is still much worse than this.
I was born 1951. I saw something on the news about 1950 - 2000. I thought gee that was a short time on a calendar but a long time when I think of all that has happened. My dad would be 101 now. He saw a lot.
How could any year be worse than having Mary Ann leave us?
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
If I had to pick one year of my life to spend in jail, 2020 would have been it. As it was, I did do a six-week recuperation from surgery, nearly the same thing. House arrest in either case.
I wish you the Best for 2021!
I really wonder how 2020 compares to 1941 or the great depression years??
1941 was great except for the last month.
[[[1929 is right up there, and 1945’s war rationing puts that year in the race. I was born in the 50s, so I missed the early 20th-century misery]]]
Yep, 10+ years of an economic depression then off to war for 4+ years.
My 401(k) went up 30% and now at age 58, I can actually retire today if I really wanted to (but I don't just yet, especially since I can now work at home most of the time).
I saved a ton of money due to vacations being cancelled, restaurants being closed and whatnot.
Haven't seen most of my in-laws for over nine months now.
Got a lot of books read and caught up on some older movies I never saw when they first came out.
Really improved on my home cooking skills. I've built up quite the spice cabinet.
Got to look on the bright side!
There were worse years in general, but I am hard pressed to find a year that saw the Constitution crapped on as much as we’ve seen in 2020. Even the allowance of Obama to run in 2008 pales in comparison.
2020 is the worst year of my life but my 89 yo mother says that the early WWII years were the worst of her life. I’m sure some of the older FRiends on the board could speak to that.
Thanks. You too.
~ Billy Joel
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