Things You Want To Go Away In 2015

zippyjet · Thu Dec 25, 2014 1:09 am

It's that time again! Something tells me this year's thread is going to get some good hits/replies.
2014 for me at least has been anything but a stellar year. It seems for way too many people have endured a devastating/catastrophic year. For me, 2014 can't end soon enough here's to a much happier year for all of us. We've earned it after 2014. Of course I want the obvious things like cruelty to animals/fellow man, devastating disease, poverty, racisism/discrimination. So, without further ado I'll kick off my things/stuff I'd like to see go away in 2015.

Let It Go (Frozen). Has to be one of my worst all time songs. In the leage of Who Let the Dogs Out, Mambo #5. Come to think of it more in the bottom hell musically of You Light up My Life and They're Coming To Take Me Away and anything Helen Reddy.
Niki Minaj, Iggy Azaela, Scarlet Johansen, 1 Direction
North Korea and it's nefarious dictator.
Isis and Ebola
The Kartrashians. Let Kim and her enhanced hemmhroid butt finally go away for good.
This year's Christmas commercials.
Hipsters
All the Loser TV judge shows, Judge Judy etc.
Most reality programming.
Armanda Montalago, Nick Fertucci and the rest of their fly by night ilk, the get rich quick by house flipping, I'd rather flip them off.
The dogmatic fundamentalist of the various religions.
Government inefficiency and gridlock
Globalists
Elitists
Christmas Creep, no decorations, sales, merchandising, displays till day after Thanksgiving
Extended Black Friday's. Let people be with their families on Turkey Day. That made in China gee gaw on sale can wait a day.
Automated phone trees (dial 1 for English, 2 for Spanish, 666 for I'm having a panic attack.
Sense of entitlement
bullying
Political Correctness A growing cancer on our expression and dealing with others.

More to come let's hear yours.

[Edited 2014-12-24 17:26:36]

aloges · Thu Dec 25, 2014 1:48 am

Quoting zippyjet (Thread starter):
Things You Want To Go Away In 2015

grumpy old geezers

IMissPiedmont · Thu Dec 25, 2014 2:01 am

I will add to that list people who are unable to understand proper usage of pronouns. I cringe every time I hear a supposedly educated person say something such as "Me and my wife..." etc.

Also, the GM cars that have the reverse lights that come on when someone puts the vehicle on park or turns off the alarm.

Camaros and Corvettes, the ugliest pieces of crap on the road today.

[Edited 2014-12-24 18:04:03]

mt99 · Thu Dec 25, 2014 2:06 am

Ill add:

- People whose dietary choices are reason for smugness or self importance (vegetarian, vegans and gutlen-phobes)
- FitBit and constant "health tracking"
- Facebook (see above)

[Edited 2014-12-24 18:11:21]

mt99 · Thu Dec 25, 2014 2:20 am

Quoting zippyjet (Thread starter):
Political Correctness A growing cancer on our expression and dealing with others.

yes - lets be a*^holes to everyone

zippyjet · Thu Dec 25, 2014 3:00 am

Quoting mt99 (Reply 3):

The fit police and gluten counters etc. The former Mayor Blumbergs of the world who tell everyone else what they can and can't eat.

Quoting aloges (Reply 1):

This thread is becoming a tradition with me and I don't consider myself a Grumpy Old Geezer in case you had that in mind.

People keep telling me to do standup comedy.

Quoting mt99 (Reply 4):

No, you don't have to be a-holes to others. But, when PC BS gets out of hand you are supressing speach and expression. Today, at least in the USA comics need a lawyer as everything is offensive. You see someone or something suspicious and report it, you are accused of stereotyping and being offensive. Banning saying ho ho ho at Christmas, banning the term sitting Indian style to kids. The PC police demanding the Redskins change their name. Personally I don't care about DC's team but it's gotten out of hand. Banning Sweet Home Alabama in New York or somewhere in the Northeast. PC overkill makes many turn inward which in the end results in more violence and offensive behavior.

fxramper · Thu Dec 25, 2014 3:50 am

justin bieber
the kardashians
grammar nazis
taylor swift
reality tv
jeb bush
the penny
pro athletes tweeting
westboro baptist cult
bitcoin
daylight savings
selfies

Airstud · Thu Dec 25, 2014 5:50 am

Interstate highway tolls

aloges · Thu Dec 25, 2014 11:20 am

Quoting zippyjet (Reply 5):
Banning saying ho ho ho at Christmas,

Apparently, that's an old urban myth: Has Ho, Ho, Ho Been Banned?

Quote:
Last month a rumor began to circulate alleging that Santas were being banned from saying "Ho, Ho, Ho" because "Ho" is a slang term for a prostitute. As is often the case with such rumors, there was an event that triggered the rumor, but that event had been twisted and blown out of proportion in the course of being repeated.

What really happened was that Westaff, a firm in Australia that trains Santas for appearances in shopping malls, had cautioned its trainees that many small children are initially scared by Santa. So they told the Santas-in-training "to try techniques such as lowering their tone of voice and using 'ha, ha, ha' to encourage the children to come forward and meet Santa." They never banned their Santas from Ho, Ho, Ho-ing.

Westaff's words of caution transformed into the Ho-Ho-Ho-Banned rumor. And as the rumor spread details were added, such as a claim that two Santa trainees had quit the course in disgust.

(from 2007)

Quoting zippyjet (Reply 5):
banning the term sitting Indian style to kids.

That one seems to simply have gone out of fashion - as things do.

Quoting zippyjet (Reply 5):
The PC police demanding the Redskins change their name. Personally I don't care about DC's team but it's gotten out of hand.

Well, it is a derogatory term. Why would you want to perpetuate its use?

Quoting zippyjet (Reply 5):
Banning Sweet Home Alabama in New York or somewhere in the Northeast.

likely another urban myth in the same league as the "ho ho ho ban"

Quoting zippyjet (Reply 5):
I don't consider myself a Grumpy Old Geezer

There are loads of urban "PC is going mad" myths around. Usually, the people who fall for them and get upset are not the happiest individuals.

frostyj · Thu Dec 25, 2014 11:34 am

Quoting zippyjet (Thread starter):

Um Judy's show is not a loser show.

frostyj · Thu Dec 25, 2014 11:38 am

1. The switching of the clocks forward, its not needed here.
2. Annoying corrupt governments.
3. Charities asking us for money at christmas.
4. Charities asking us for money for poor countries that we have been giving money to for decades and they are no further forward.
5. The rain in winter, I want snow.
6. Chelsea Handler.
7. Annoying, smug gay people who act like they are better and superior to everyone because they admitted they were gay. Yes you are gay but that doesn't provide you with the benefit of acting like a prat.
8. The European Union.
9. Immigrants coming to my country who can't afford to live, no stay in your own country where your government is supposed to take hold of your problems. Its NOT our problem!
10. Christmas cake yuck.
11. Wine.
12. Beer.

Bongodog1964 · Thu Dec 25, 2014 11:43 am

Most of the above plus:

Black Friday to go back across the Atlantic, here the retailers are just waking up to what a crap idea it is having endorsed it with great enthusiasm.

|dle whinging people who think all the ills of society and down to others and not their own dismal efforts.

UKIP (UK equivalant of the tea party, but probably more racist)

and most of all GUNS

AIRWALK · Thu Dec 25, 2014 11:49 am

People that walk slow or stop randomly while walking. There are driving tests and flying tests etc, there should be a comprehensive walking test. If you are unable to keep a suitable pace (determined by me) unable to give proper notification to other people before stopping or changing direction and don't understand the idea of proper space utilization you should be deemed unworthy to walk and not be given a license. If you fail any part of the 3 part theory exam or the practical which will be invigulated by 3 testers, you will not be allowed to walk until you can resit the test which is once every 3 years.

Superfly · Thu Dec 25, 2014 12:07 pm

Muslim terrorist
Muslim terrorist apologist
Barack Obama
Bill deBlasio
Environmentalist an global warming alarmist
United Nations
Political correctness
US tax code
TSA
Air Asia
Lion Air
Rap/hip-hop
Idolizing of thug culture
Tattoos
People buried in their smartphones in public places
Toyota Prius
Cross over CUVs
Duck face selfies

Quoting IMissPiedmont (Reply 2):
Camaros and Corvettes, the ugliest pieces of crap on the road today.

SHAME ON YOU!
I thought you were cooler than that.
The Camaro an Corvette are fine cars.

S75752 · Thu Dec 25, 2014 3:46 pm

1. Patent trolls.
2. The republican domination of congress.
3. UA's 747's
4. The cavities on my teeth.
5. California Sales Tax
6. Recaro's aviation division.
7. AA's 767's
8. IAH's ridiculous size and annoyance of getting from one gate to another.
9. FAA's restrictions on India, Vietnam, etc.
10. The 1099 tax form.
11. Wisdom teeth and the Appendix from Humanity's DNA.
12. Daylight Savings

Quoting Superfly (Reply 13):
Duck face selfies

I've thought they've been gone a long time. I haven't seen any of those stupid things since 2013.

zippyjet · Thu Dec 25, 2014 3:58 pm

Quoting Superfly (Reply 13):

Great to have you back my friend, humor and all. This Vette is cool looking to me. The bitchin Camarro is loved by friends who have them.

Quoting aloges (Reply 8):
There are loads of urban "PC is going mad" myths around. Usually, the people who fall for them and get upset are not the happiest individuals.

On the happiness scale at least this year, I'd put myself at a 5 out of a 1 to 10 index. 1 being Debby Downer/I want to end it all and 10 being Polyanna on steroids. Some may be myths but when you hear it and read it from multiple sources....

Quoting frostyj (Reply 9):

I call that genre Loser TV=Usually on during the day during working hours, with commercials for ambulance chasing lawyers, If Santa sneezes while your kid is on his lap you may be entitled to millions of dollars call the Law Office of Do We Cheat Em and How! Factory Dental centers and factory pain docs. Rent A toilet, TV, Washing Machine to eventually own at Tony Soprano high interest rates. Meaning the TV one watches in many cases if you are suffering unemployment.

Sorry for exporting this bizarre phenomenon. For this I'll forgive y'all in the UK for One Direction.

Quoting bongodog1964 (Reply 11):

Superfly · Thu Dec 25, 2014 4:23 pm

Quoting S75752 (Reply 14):
2. The republican domination of congress.

Not going to change since there is no Congressional elections in 2015.

Quoting S75752 (Reply 14):
I've thought they've been gone a long time. I haven't seen any of those stupid things since 2013.

You consider 2013 a long time ago?
It's now 2014.

Quoting zippyjet (Reply 15):
Great to have you back my friend, humor and all. This Vette is cool looking to me. The bitchin Camarro is loved by friends who have them.

Thanks.
The Corvette an Camaros are great but I'd rather have a Viper and/or Challenger.

tommy1808 · Thu Dec 25, 2014 5:49 pm

Quoting mt99 (Reply 3):
- People whose dietary choices are reason for smugness or self importance (vegetarian, vegans and gutlen-phobes)

i hope that doesn´t include vegetarians like me..... even my friends often took more then a year to realize i somehow don´t appear to eat meat anymore....

What i want to go away? The last tiny bit of my belly, so those apps can come out again

D

best regards
Thomas

pvjin · Thu Dec 25, 2014 8:02 pm

1.Political correctness
2.Climate change denial
3.Social Democrats (eurocommies) and National Coalition (liberal capitalists) parties in Finnish government
4. European Union if TTIP agreement goes through
5. Religious terrorists, fundamentalists, bigots
6. Rubbish reality TV
7. Car manufacturers of American origin, they should be replaced with Toyota which would then force everyone in the US buy Prius or Hybrid Corolla.
8. Unsustainable humanitarian immigration from Africa / Middle East to Europe.
9. Extreme feminism
10. Drug addicts, put them all to rehabilitation camps and use them as free labour.

ER757 · Thu Dec 25, 2014 9:59 pm

Quoting zippyjet (Thread starter):
North Korea and it's nefarious dictator.

L'il Kim needs to disappear

Quoting fxramper (Reply 6):
justin bieber
the kardashian

You'd have thought their 15 minutes would have been up by now.....we can only hope their time in the spotlight ends soon

Quoting fxramper (Reply 6):
reality tv

- a scourge on the TV landscape - I cannot watch a single episode of any of that crap. Network execs, hire some writers and do scripted shows again!

One more - slow drivers in the left lane!

PC12Fan · Thu Dec 25, 2014 10:23 pm

Quoting zippyjet (Thread starter):
Isis and Ebola

Hopefully the former will meet the latter.

Quoting zippyjet (Thread starter):
The Kartrashians.

Going to contradict myself here. I respect life, but if I heard they all met a quick death I think I'd actually pop a cork.

Quoting zippyjet (Thread starter):
The dogmatic fundamentalist of the various religions

How about religion altogether.

Quoting frostyj (Reply 10):
11. Wine.
12. Beer.

Um no . . . and . . . . no.

Quoting Superfly (Reply 13):
Toyota Prius

After mentioning to you about the Buick my dad had and sold, you might be surprised that I have to disagree with ya on the car itself. However, the attitude that most owners of them have - yea, that needs to go. I still want that damned GNX though.

frostyj · Thu Dec 25, 2014 10:37 pm

Quoting PC12Fan (Reply 20):

What a vile thing to say.

PlymSpotter · Thu Dec 25, 2014 10:44 pm

Just one - death. Lost far, far too many people this year.

Quoting frostyj (Reply 21):
What a vile thing to say.

If you're going on headcount, your list beats that by a magnitude.

Dan

Bongodog1964 · Thu Dec 25, 2014 11:24 pm

Quoting frostyj (Reply 10):
11. Wine.
12. Beer.

No surprise there, guess you are a vodka and red bull man

frostyj · Thu Dec 25, 2014 11:26 pm

eh no I don't like alcohol.

fxramper · Thu Dec 25, 2014 11:40 pm

frostyj

filler

filler

filler

aloges · Fri Dec 26, 2014 12:51 am

Quoting zippyjet (Reply 15):
On the happiness scale at least this year, I'd put myself at a 5 out of a 1 to 10 index.

Ah. Fingers crossed that your 2015 will be much better and give you many reasons to look like this:

Quoting zippyjet (Reply 15):
Some may be myths but when you hear it and read it from multiple sources....

Well, yes, that's how urban myths work, isn't it? Somebody makes one up, other people believe and parrot it and soon after that the usual suspects are all offended because it's "PC gone mad again!!!"

fr8mech · Fri Dec 26, 2014 1:42 am

Ignorance.

May those that put voice to opinion or pen to paper in order to shape policy or pen legislation do so after educating themselves on the topic. And, may those that hold ultimate power (that would be us) also take the time to educate ourselves so that we may make decisions based on knowledge and fact.

Alone the same vein:

May our legislators legislate using reason and logic legislating. While the deliberation should not be devoid of emotion, the emotions should be tempered with logic and education.

Sounds more like a blessing than a grievance, but there you have it.

And, since I'm asking for the impossible:

Creamy guacamole. Oh my God, who came up with that slurry? Guac should have chucks of salsa and avocado.

zippyjet · Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:15 am

Quoting fr8mech (Reply 27):
Creamy guacamole. Oh my God, who came up with that slurry? Guac should have chucks of salsa and avocado.

That stuff looks like the hurl my cat "QT" brings up

couldn't resist.

How could I forget Gwen Stefani? Make her stop please!

hip hop/rap especially white artists trying to sound hood. Doesn't work

I don't necessarily want the Prius to go away but it's way overdue for an extreme auto makeover. The current style is just plain fugly and all it's knock off body styles.

The big ass SUV's with the inverted rear quarter panel window. These hippos on wheels are made by Lexus, Infiniti. Nissan. They look like Trailways Eagle busses from 1963!

Crappy commercials. Folks we need more originiality and humor.

zippyjet · Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:57 am

Some examples of those fugly SUV's
1. Infiniti QX80

2. Lexus GX 460

This is that fugly bus design these fugly SUV's resemble!

Airstud · Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:23 am

Quoting zippyjet (Reply 28):
hip hop/rap

I like when it's combined with country.

Hick hop.

af773atmsp · Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:37 am

Quoting fr8mech (Reply 27):

Quoting zippyjet (Reply 28):
The big ass SUV's with the inverted rear quarter panel window. These hippos on wheels are made by Lexus, Infiniti. Nissan. They look like Trailways Eagle busses from 1963!

Quoting Superfly (Reply 13):
Cross over CUVs

My list:
-Political extremists; Whether it be at the far right (Tea Party) or the far left (Communism), these groups only make matters worse in politics
-Racism; Its 2014. We're all human, we're all on this plant together. We should make the best of it, because someday the human race won't exist (sorry to be a debby downer on that last part).
-Crappy pop songs; I used to listen to mainstream radio, but the songs just get worse and worse (e.g. Shake it Off by Taylor Swift)
-Federal government not doing squat to change things for the better. All talk and whining, but nothing getting done.
-Suburban sprawl; At least here in the U.S., its disturbing how much land we take up in metropolitan regions.
-Crappy commercials; Especially the ones with an annoying woman speaking in a soft voice in order to manipulate us into buying their product or service (I'm looking at you Walmart), or the ones that pluck at our heartstrings or somehow try to manipulate our emotions.
-Speaking of Walmart...

-SUVs/CUVs; Almost all of them are just really ugly, uneconomical, space wasting pieces of scrap metal (and plastic)
-Dependence on fossil fuels for our vehicles
-Hostility around the world, particularly in the Middle East
-Liberals who want to force people to take public transit, consisting of slow as f*ck light rail and bus (this is a local problem)
-Conservatives who believe that if we just improve and widen our roadways then traffic congestion will disappear (also a local problem)
-Political parties (George Washington warned us)
-Twitter; useless social media tool
-My depression and anxiety; maybe someday
-Bullying
-NIMBYs
-Fox News

I'm sure I'll think of more later.

Aesma · Fri Dec 26, 2014 10:35 am

If religions could go away that would be great, but I guess it's not going to happen.

Quoting fxramper (Reply 6):
bitcoin

Why ? I hope it doesn't go away as I've got a dozen !

Quoting aloges (Reply 8):
Santas were being banned from saying "Ho, Ho, Ho"

Interesting. This fad has gotten in France this year it seems. Not the banning, but Santa saying it !

Quoting bongodog1964 (Reply 11):
Black Friday to go back across the Atlantic, here the retailers are just waking up to what a crap idea it is having endorsed it with great enthusiasm.

Yeah we got it too this year, totally ridiculous since there is obviously no Thanksgiving and people don't know what either things are.

EA CO AS · Fri Dec 26, 2014 11:03 am

Quoting fxramper (Reply 6):
bitcoin

This, this, a thousand times this. I've decided that bitcoin is the behavioral opposite of Fight Club, in that the first rule of bitcoin is apparently that you never shut the fuck up about bitcoin.

PC12Fan · Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:41 pm

Quoting frostyj (Reply 21):
What a vile thing to say.

True, but you didn't disagree with me either.

frostyj · Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:02 pm

No I am inspired by them.

nkops · Fri Dec 26, 2014 7:38 pm

I would like to see stores opening on Thanksgiving evening to go away and let the employees spend time with their families

ER757 · Fri Dec 26, 2014 7:56 pm

Quoting nkops (Reply 36):
I would like to see stores opening on Thanksgiving evening to go away and let the employees spend time with their families

Mee too but I think that ship has sailed now. With Thanksgiving being so late this year (one day short of the latest possible day it could fall on) retailers felt the need to jump-start the Christmas shopping season. Now that they've done it once, I think there's no going back. You wouldn't catch me anywhere near a store on Thanksgiving night or Black Friday.

ZKSUJ · Fri Dec 26, 2014 7:59 pm

On a whole 2014 has been a forgettable year too. Here's hoping next year will be much much much better

2707200X · Fri Dec 26, 2014 11:37 pm

I'l get in trouble for this but anyway it is not personal but Taylor Swift's ubiquitous overplay of her music in the supermarkets, in the malls and in almost every radio station and also her seemingly contrived friendships with other celebrities and her contrived "enemies list" she had made of Carrie Underwood, Katy Perry and who knows what.

Miley Cyrus; not sexy, not empowering, just a flaming mess and in need of help. Crap music.

Kardashians

Rabid partisanship in America, not every little thing has to be placed in a liberal-conservative orientation.

Justin Bieber; teens love him blindly, supermodels date him, 60 million Twitter followers, no hit in years, gets a "G6."

Selena Gomez; still loves Bieber though he cheats on her and is a habitual criminal. I'm sure Bieber's "G6" will have Selena "flying" back. Crap music.

Getting a red light at every intersection.

Bad driving habits; excessive honking, slow driving, daydreaming at the light, does not go on green, people who don't slow down when you signal for a turn, driving with the headlights off when it's nighttime or when its raining, and people taking two or three lanes parking a car or truck.

When any little rain in the local news is "The storm of 2014," and general news media sensationalism of "breaking news" every five minutes.

Bongodog1964 · Sat Dec 27, 2014 12:15 am

Presently in London, many big regent street stores open until 10pm on boxing day, others routinely open until midnight. The world has gone mad.

zippyjet · Sat Dec 27, 2014 5:02 am

Quoting 2707200X (Reply 39):

I like Taylor Swift for her long legs, she likes to show them also Katy Perry for her long sexy stems. However both of their voices are like fingernails across a blackboard.

Quoting zippyjet (Reply 29):

Here is a picture of the bus I'm talking about.

VapourTrails · Sat Dec 27, 2014 8:22 am

THE MYSTERY about where that aircraft (MH370) is. Will 2015 be the year that they, someone, anyone, will locate the aircraft, 9M-MRO and the 239 people that were on board.

[Edited 2014-12-27 00:40:45]

MillwallSean · Sat Dec 27, 2014 8:56 am

You lot think to big. get back to basics.
Whenever people ask me what id do if I was god for a day i answer destroy West Ham United.

SO for 2015 we hope that the following will disappear.
1. West Ham United
2. West Ham United
3. West Ham United.

sweair · Sat Dec 27, 2014 9:01 am

EU
Airbus fanboys
lefties
wellfare
putin
Made in asia
pc
hipsters

afterburner · Sat Dec 27, 2014 12:49 pm

Threads about Boeing 757 replacement.

zkojq · Sat Dec 27, 2014 12:50 pm

Selfie sticks.
Sandflies.
The Middle East.
Bombardier CRJ200s.
Self entitlement.
Internet Explorer.
The Daily Mail.
The Offshore System.
Political pundits. (replace them with some actual journalists)
Fundamentalists (and not just those of a religious persuasion).

Quoting zippyjet (Reply 29):
Infiniti QX80

Who the hell signed off on the design of that? Wow!

Do people actually buy them? Thankfully they don't seem to have made it to my part of the world.

pvjin · Sat Dec 27, 2014 3:06 pm

Quoting pvjin (Reply 18):

To add some more:

Abuse of words "racist" and "racism", two most overused and abused words of today, used to suppress freedom of speech in Europe.
Social Democrat ideology, ruining Nordic countries since early 1900's.
Refugees who are too lazy / unmotivated to do anything else than collecting welfare money.
Too short jail sentences for violent criminals.
Forced studying of Swedish language in Finland
Swedish government, that undemocratic pile of junk regime should collapse before it's too late.
Islam
Christianity
Judaism
Neo Nazis
Extreme left

seb146 · Sat Dec 27, 2014 5:50 pm

Taylor Swift
Black Friday
Christmas celebrations starting in September
People coming out being a media sensation

hh65man · Sat Dec 27, 2014 10:14 pm

My marriage........ I am a simple man....

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