Sorry, Shep, you are going to have to head up my list, because of these inclusions:
Having to wait to refinance my loan to put in my pool.
Having to wait until April 25 to take possession of my new house.
Being fat
Having one’s gall bladder removed
Being in the hospital when you feel shitty.
Ali G (Sorry, his mush mouthed persona makes my skin crawl)
Black widows
What happened in florida
Buffy ending
Packing (which is what I should be doing instead of making this list)
Bush
Cheney
Bush
Rumsfeld
Bush
Ashcroft
Bush
Bush’s administration.
Saddam Hussein
Sex and the city ending
Spuffylessness
Hypersensitivity
Lying and liars
Spam
Rah-Rah Jingoistic patriotism
Bush
The fact that Bush is in the White House
Most of the things other people added to this list
And the # thing that sucks above all other things:
Death
I strongly disagree with the following items on your list:
80’s Revival
American Hegemony
Ann Coulter
Antonin Scalia
Charlton Heston
Dick Cheney
Don Imus
Donald Rumsfield
Fox News
GW Bush
Israel
Julia Roberts
Laissez Faire Capitalism
Lite Cream Cheese
McDonalds
MOAB’s
NRA
Supply Side Economics
War on Terror, The
I agree with you about the War on Drugs, Osama, Saddam, a few others. The only thing I will add is, the typical anti-war protest.
What about Nixon? He did a pretty good job rehabilitating his image over the last 15-20 years of his life, and was a pretty useful foreign policy advisor to subsequent presidents, I seem to remember.
I disagree or partly disagree with the following items on the original list:
Air Travel–the concept’s fine, but the reality sucks
Avril Lavigne
Dogmatic Atheism
Fossil Fuels–I like heat, goddamnit!
Human Cloning–full term probably sucks (though we don’t really know); therapeutic most definitely doesn’t suck.
John Snow
Laissez Faire Capitalism–as opposed to __________ Capitalism?
Microsoft
NHS–This means National Health Service to me; I’m not sure if it means something else to you
NRA–Only when Charlton Heston makes an embarrassment of them
Palladium–Huh?
Planned Obsolescence–What?
Pop Music
Shark Fin Soup–Mmm
Yasser Arafat does suck, but I agree with a two-state solution
My additions to the list:
Animal Rights Extremists
BNP (British National Party)
British Politics
Buses that Don’t Turn Up
Cherie Blair & Carole Caplin
Cilla Black
Cold Weather
Cricket
Culture Snobs (not a dig at the OP! I mean people who really have a go at you for liking pop/rock music; game shows; action films etc)
Dentist’s Drill
Dropping the Connection when Online
Expensive Soft Drinks In Cafes and Pubs
Flight Delays
‘Friends’ (the TV show)
Homophobia
Iain Duncan-Smith
Jim Davidson
Julie Burchill
Living TV
Manchester United
Modern R’n’B
Not-so-smart Bombs
Nu-Metal
Orange Squash
Outward Bound
Paper Cuts
Peter Hitchens
Poor Service
Pop-up Adverts On The Net
Premium Rate Phone Numbers
Quacks
Queues
Rainy Weather
Rip-Offs
Roman Catholicism
Rude People
Self-Righteous Vegetarians
Socialist Worker’s Party
Team-Building
‘The’ Bands from the US (apart from the Strokes)
Trains With Nowhere To Put Your Luggage
Unnecessary Traffic Lights
Violent Crime
Westlife
Whinging Celebrities
Windy Weather
American Media
Black shirts covered in powdered sugar after the donut is gone
Celine Dion exploiting her child for Chrysler
Celine Dion Live in Vegas
Celine Dion on Film for Chrysler
Cheap Vinyl Floor Covering
Cody Gifford’s IMDb Entry
Columbia University CGS Faculty
Crank
Cricket Wireless’s Advertising Tactics
Dick Gephardt
Disdaining the Successful
Dish Network
Donuts Covered in Powdered Sugar
Eminem Winning an Oscar (that should’ve been Julie Taymor’s)
Encyclopedia Brittanica
Ethan Hawke
Faux-Gangsta Rap
Fossil Watches
Frozen Pizzas
Game Show Network’s new version of “Press Your Luck”
Gwyneth Paltrow
HCI
Hollywood Idiotarians
Howard Stern
Hunting for Sport
Ice Milk
Inequitable Use of Shari’a Law
Julianne Moore and Diane Lane winning all of the critic’s awards and Nicole Kidman stealing the Oscar
Lack of Accessible, Quality Pop Music for the Masses
Lance Ito
Low-fat/No-fat Sour “Cream”
Mac OS9
Martin Scorcese Never Winning an Oscar
McRib and McLobster (why?!)
Michael Moore in general
Michael Moore winning an Oscar
Michael Moore’s Hypocrisy
Michael Moore’s Oscar speech
Mold Contamination
Morning Sickness (esp, in the second trimester)
MSNBC
Noise Pollution
Overregulation
People Who Go to Work When Sick
People Who Send their Children to School When Sick
Pete Shields
Phil Donahue
Pleated Anything
Pleated Skirts
Pleated Trousers
Poverty Pimps
Reveling in One’s Own Ignorance
Self-Sabotage
Susan Estrich
Susan Sarandon
The 2003 Oscars, in general
The continuing stigmatization of the mentally ill
The Dixie Chicks
The Pro-Tax-Status-Quo Lobby
The TSA
The US Income Tax System
Toothaches
TLC’s awful version of “What Not to Wear”
UCLA Bruin Basketball
Unexpected, unexplained Verizon DSL outages
Vinyl House Siding (esp. in colors never seen in nature)
Wallpaper
Whiny Girl Music
What doesn’t suck?
Act II Sweet Corn on the Cob Microwave Popcorn
Just other day I said to him, "King Hussein, can I call you King Hussein? No? Anyway, now that pops has kicked the bucket are you going to liberalize Jordan’s economy and introduce democracy into your regime?”
He replied, “Dave, get the hell out of my house.”
Good nitpick mic84 –- another thing that sucks: being wrong
P.S. Elwood… We’re going to the finals, I can’t fucking believe it. My bracket had Cuse losing to Wake Forest in the third.
21-and-up drinking age laws
Buffy bitterness
Friends who never call or write or e-mail first
Gas prices
Gas-guzzling cars (and being forced by economic circumstances to own one)
(Has Bush been mentioned yet?)
Retail
The website Television Without Pity
Work
Working retail
And, for a friend, the Atlanta Thrashers, whoever they are.
That there is trash in the sink, instead of the trash can
There are no donuts around and i really want one
My pets don’t live with me
That i can’ t find cool posters to put up.
that my bed is only comfortable when on top of the covers
that i need to get shoes
That i have a suit i 've needed to take to the cleaners for almost two years now
That i wll have to get new glasses soon
Avril Lavigne sucks far more that Huey Lewis ever could suck. Booyah.
TV Soaps
Religious belief in all its forms
Large diameter go-faster loud exhaust pipes on crappy, clapped out 1300cc compact hatchback cars made in 1987
Religious Crusades past and present
Anyone with the middle name “dubya” (see above)
Chocolate-coated anchovies
Tony Blair since he got elected
The concept of original sin
Ibiza club scene
Freemasons
Billy and Franklin Graham
Austrian wine sweetened with antifreeze
Sea Urchin Sushi
People who follow TV Soaps
Piles (except golden ones)
Company Presidents who feature in their own TV commercials
Dutch Elm disease
Margaret Thatcher being still (actually, ever) alive
TV soap writers
The price of a pair of new shocks
Local tax increases of >10% in 2003, just like last year
Automated telephone systems
Spotty moronic teenagers driving cars with stereos that go “Bump! Bump! Bump!” and have the windows rolled down
Road accidents not involving two or more of the above
Raves
Nike
TV soap actors
Tax-free religion
Fashion magazines
Fashion
Suburbia everywhere
Raw sewage
Drug dealers (see above)
Nuclear explosions
Being on an aircraft in turbulence
The music on TV soaps
The INS
Paying taxes to educate and support my neighbour’s 7 or 8 kids
Frantic high-speed radio commercials
Radio commercials
Commercials
Hysterical Soccer commentators
Soccer comentary
Soccer chat shows
Soccer violence
Soccer fans
Soccer
Sports
Magazines with a retouched bimbo photo on the cover and zero content of any value
Teenage drivers
Teenagers
Boy bands
Girl bands
Band Without Instruments
Dance music
