The Babylon Bee on the horrors of 2020

[Vort]

Guess I'm just a recalcitrant stick-in-the-mud. I can't help raining on the joyless parade of those who bemoan 2020 as "Worst Year EVAR". Well, I actually COULD keep myself from snarky comments; I just choose not to. But no need now! The Babylon Bee has done it for me!

https://babylonbee.com/news/2020-rated-worst-year-ever-provided-you-never-lived-at-any-other-time-in-history

[Still_Small_Voice]

It looks to me thus far that 2021 may be worse.  Already we had hundreds of people break in to the Congressional buildings in District of Columbia and we are only 6 days in to 2021.

[estradling75]

I don't know why people would expect 2021 would be better... because we did not solve/fix any of the problems we saw in 2020.

[pam]

2020 for me personally wasn't that bad and 2021 started off really good for me.  Right from January 1st.

[NeuroTypical]

I'm thinking COVID will stop being a thing people think about in 2021.  I'm also thinking once that happens, the whole world will regain most of it's sanity.

[Jamie123]

On 1/6/2021 at 10:55 PM, Still_Small_Voice said:

It looks to me thus far that 2021 may be worse. 

 

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,

More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.

Comforter, where, where is your comforting?

Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?

My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief

Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing —

Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No ling-

ering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief."'

 

    O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall

Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap

May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small

Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,

Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all

Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.

 

Gerard Manley Hopkins