It’s that time of the year again. At the end of the year. In more normal times, the time of the year we look back, reflect and get shit-faced drunk on the last day hoping the next one will be better. For the last few years, we changed that to looking back in dread of the current year and looking forward with sheer terror to the next.
One tradition that hasn’t changed is the “Year-End Review.” All the media does it. I know, I used to have to put the damn video packages together for many, many years.
I HATE YEAR-END REVIEWS.
So, in what has now become a year-end tradition, I give you “The Only Year End Review You Need.”
It’s short, to the point and has no pictures. Not because it doesn’t need them. It does. I’m just too lazy to look any up and I’m really into a video game that I want to get back to. I’d do this later but it’s the end of the year and I’m running out of time.
Curse the March of Time!
Here it is.
JANUARY: Oh God, it still sucks.
FEBRUARY: It still sucks. And it’s really cold. And what the fuck is a “Polar Vortex?”
MARCH: Well, there’s always the Mueller Report.
APRIL: The Mueller Report is out!!
MAY: We waited two years for that???
JUNE: It just keeps getting worse.
AUGUST: Well, at least it’s warm. The warmest month in history. Great.
SEPTEMBER: They might impeach him!
OCTOBER: Who was I kidding?
NOVEMBER: Holy Shit, they actually might impeach him!
DECEMBER: Holy Fuck! They impeached him! Yes! Wait, oh yeah, the Senate. Damn, this year sucked.
But there is hope. Next year is 2020. An election year. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Let’s just hope it’s not an oncoming train.
Categories: Holidays, Tom Curley
As the time kept getting nearer to the end of one year and the start of this new year, I became anxious and filled with dread…I pray it’s meaningless.
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I’m actively trying to find some way to feel positive, but it’s like climbing a rock wall. with no equipment. And you don’t know where the top is. Or how to get there.
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Sorry – all our troops are coming home
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Only to turn around and go right back.
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Sure does feel like the start of one more stupid war which won’t solve any problems, but will surely lead to at least two MORE wars. Oh yay.
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I did not watch or read any reviews. The year sucked so badly that I just didn’t want to revisit its awfulness.
For us, it ended with our PM throwing a lavish New Year party at Kirribilli house, the PM’s Sydney residence, where guests could watch the Sydney fireworks. I thought it bad enough that the display went ahead but for the PM to throw a party on the same night that many Australians were sitting on a beach and preparing to get in the water to avoid bushfires was just the end. Arrogance of Trumpian proportions.
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Does any country have a normal leader anymore?
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Maybe New Zealand?
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I was thinking that when I saw the fireworks. Like you don’t have enough fire? From HERE it seemed in really bad taste, so it must have really been awful down your way.
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There was a petition to stop it but the mayor of Sydney said it had een planned and paid for long ago and that it was bgood for the economy. The PM’s party could have been cancelled though I’m sure.
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I thought it showed poor taste and a lack of sensitivity, but what do I know?
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I thought so and so did a lot of us but ScoMo has the hide of an elephant. He seems to have no idea why people are angry with him.
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I know the feeling. Painfully well!
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No wait. You forgot to report how our economy is the best ever in history, all our troops are coming home and that our country was saved by a perfect phone call. 🃏
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It was bigly and bestest. The mostest bestest.
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Pancho, This is the BEST Year ender I’ve seen. You’re in a league of your own.
We’ve been inundated with “Yr in review” pieces from everyone except the Animal Channel.
FYI: you probably need new eyeliner and mascara.
C.
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Now the Amimal Channel is one I would watch.
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Thank you for reviewing my year:) Have a Happy New Year – with bright days instead of trains.
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You’re welcome
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😊
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Amen…
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Happy healthy new year
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Yes!
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Much better, I hate end of year reviews and I reckon I could just dodge that train…
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I usually don’t read them either, but this was remarkably a lot like last year. I’m hoping next year will be better.
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I messaged the folks —
“2019—get the hell out of town! You absolutely sucked. Don’t show your face around here again……
..2020. Welcome, Pilgrim. We’ve been looking forward to you. You have a hard job ahead of you. But somebody has to do it. You’ve got the bodge. Surely, you know we’re all counting on you”
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I’d say it can’t get worse but we all know that’s not true.
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