# The worst things in the world **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 6, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849 "2010-09-06T22:46:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/101 "2010-09-11T12:32:25Z")
> [@Captain\_Midnight](#): > > He’s been dead a couple of years, so no more HBO (a large corporation Calin supposedly hated), on television (a medium he dislikes) Hypocrite: 1. See George Carlin. Amazon has a special on The 12 HBO Standup Specials of George Carlin. For a man who supposedly hated HBO and Television, he sure did a lot of specials for them and took a lot of their money. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/102 "2010-09-11T16:08:16Z")
You can’t trust what a comedian says, can you? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/103 "2010-09-11T17:05:31Z")
I have to admit I loved his story about beheading criminals, letting their heads roll down a hill toward 3 holes in the ground, and letting the public bet on which hole the head falls into. I _think_ he was suggesting that this was a bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/104 "2010-09-11T20:30:13Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > You can’t trust what a comedian says, can you? Just about the only ones I do trust. ---
**Author:** ![Engywook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@Engywook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engywook)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/105 "2010-09-13T18:46:11Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > Plus, everyone who’s not a hopeless moron knows that you should enter a highway at highway cruising speed. That’s like Driver’s Ed 101. That reminds me: dinky little on-ramps where you **can’t** get up to anything like the speed limit. Also - being in a store and waiting for the person in front of me to buy dozens of lottery tickets. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/106 "2010-09-13T19:06:53Z")
> [@Engywook](#): > > Also - being in a store and waiting for the person in front of me to buy dozens of lottery tickets. **Hundreds** of dollars worth of lottery tickets! When they’d be lucky to win ten cents on the dollar back. Dammit, give me your money and I’ll give you one-fourth back, which is better than the lottery will do. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/107 "2010-09-13T19:36:38Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > You can’t trust what a comedian says, can you? Yeah, but that Canyonero _was_ really comfortable. ---
**Author:** ![CutterJohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@CutterJohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CutterJohn)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/108 "2010-09-13T23:12:44Z")
> [@Captain\_Midnight](#): > > 1. When comedians turn self-righteous. STFU and tell some jokes, jokebitch. > > This is what annoyed me about George Carlin in the end. He would just prattle on about how he’s an atheist, his pot smoking politics and how the World and the elite are screwing “the little guy” (while being a multi millionaire, who the World treated like royalty). > > He’s been dead a couple of years, so no more HBO (a large corporation Calin supposedly hated), on television (a medium he dislikes), downgrading the course of soceity while people yuck it up. His political commentary was in his twilight years thankfully. Comedians are sensationalists. That take normal life and put absurd spins out it or give outrageous examples to create laughs. Oh, they mix in a bit of personal belief, but its mostly just a shtick, not to be used for informational purposes or taken seriously, and especially not to garner personal insight into the speaker. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/109 "2010-09-13T23:26:01Z")
My bank has a drive-up ATM that you can use 24 hours a day. Hubby and I pulled up to it this past Saturday night behind another car. The guy in the first car promptly stopped 5 feet before the ATM and began to gather his stuff and prepare for the transaction. This was one of those drive-ups where you have a concrete median on both sides so there was no way to go around him once we pulled up. We honked quickly and he looked back and did a “WHAT?” motion with his hands. SERIOUSLY? Maybe not the worst thing in the world, but at that moment he was the worst person in the world to us. ---
**Author:** ![BayouHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BayouHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BayouHazard)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/110 "2010-09-13T23:35:15Z")
Honda engineers are the worst thing in the world. My Honda is acting up, because it’s old, and it seems like every weekend day is turning into “Wouldn’t you rather choke a Honda engineer today?” day. I’m pretty sure they deliberately made it harder to work on. There’s \*no way \*they could have made it so that you have to take the brake vacuum cylinder off to get the fuel filter out without doing it deliberately. I also have arm bruises from taking off radiator hose pinch clamps (I hate pinch clamps!) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/111 "2010-09-14T00:09:29Z")
> [@BayouHazard](#): > > Honda engineers are the worst thing in the world. > > My Honda is acting up, because it’s old, and it seems like every weekend day is turning into “Wouldn’t you rather choke a Honda engineer today?” day. > > I’m pretty sure they deliberately made it harder to work on. There’s \*no way \*they could have made it so that you have to take the brake vacuum cylinder off to get the fuel filter out without doing it deliberately. I also have arm bruises from taking off radiator hose pinch clamps (I hate pinch clamps!) Maybe you need the special set of tools only available to Honda repair shops. You know, like the snake socket wrench that allows you to turn nuts hidden behind two right-angle bends. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/112 "2010-09-14T01:40:06Z")
None of these things is even close to being the worst thing in the world. The worst thing in the world is watching someone you love suffer horribly while being powerless to do anything about it. Trust me on that one. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/113 "2010-09-14T02:13:24Z")
Christ Jesus, **Scylla** , you auditioning to be the Godzilla of Buzzkill? ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/114 "2010-09-14T02:17:58Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Christ Jesus, **Scylla** , you auditioning to be the Godzilla of Buzzkill? Yeah, I guess so. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/115 "2010-09-14T02:26:19Z")
This wasn’t a contest for worst THING in the world, dude. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/116 "2010-09-14T03:54:58Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Christ Jesus, **Scylla** , you auditioning to be the Godzilla of Buzzkill? I wanna use this phrase in my sig. Is that ok with you? ---
**Author:** ![BayouHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BayouHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BayouHazard)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/117 "2010-09-14T04:17:13Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Maybe you need the special set of tools only available to Honda repair shops. You know, like the snake socket wrench that allows you to turn nuts hidden behind two right-angle bends. 😃 Trust me, there were google searches for just such an item… ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/118 "2010-09-14T14:57:18Z")
The absolute worst thing in the world right now is the stupid headache I woke up with. I took 800 mg of ibuprofen early this morning and another 800 mg just now. I’ve also got a soda and snack to get my caffeine and blood sugar up to see if that helps. I’ve even got my mp3 player on to help drown out the noise and chatter. I feel better, but it’s still not gone. And my university library’s website is not working, right when I have to write a paper. Grr. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/119 "2010-09-14T16:20:06Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > The worst thing in the world is watching someone you love suffer horribly while being powerless to do anything about it. That’s what it was like for you watching Bush getting criticized, huh? ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/120 "2010-09-14T17:24:53Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > > [@friedo](#): > > > > I don’t even have a lawn. I live in an apartment. If I did have a lawn, I could probably take out my frustrating by digging some holes or something. > > I have a lawn, and I dig in it ALL. THE. TIME. That’s probably keeping some Calgarians alive. Breathing holes? P+1) Procrastinating when you know better and still have a big deadline looming. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849.md?page=7)