# The Year 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 3, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128 "2020-07-03T02:11:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/21 "2020-07-03T15:52:37Z")
[https://images.app.goo.gl/dcfpj3HHzce3Aiwg7](https://images.app.goo.gl/dcfpj3HHzce3Aiwg7) ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/22 "2020-07-03T16:38:03Z")
Shamelessly stolen Dad humour: “We can’t even plan for next year because that would mean 2021.” ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/23 "2020-07-03T17:37:44Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > and you know, the “murder hornets” thing is more just a silly Internet thing Yeah but, you know, if there’s ever been a year in the ever where you could read a headline about swarms of murder hornets killing everybody and you’d just go, I don’t know, maybe, sounds plausible? – it’s this one. So yeah, fuck 2020. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/24 "2020-07-03T21:36:05Z")
[https://insultinggifts.com/product/2020-absolutely-fucked-would-not-recommend-mug-15oz/](https://insultinggifts.com/product/2020-absolutely-fucked-would-not-recommend-mug-15oz/) ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/25 "2020-07-03T21:53:33Z")
I’d decided a couple days ago that 2020 is the Year Of Anger. I already have a bad time with being angry. All this shit is just PISSING ME OFF MORE! JUST FUCKING STOP! Okay, okay, I’m cool now. I’ll put off my plans for a three state killing spree. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/26 "2020-07-04T01:46:57Z")
A local shit sandwich in my “neighborhood” too: Couple months ago, our glider club’s tow-plane crashed, killing the pilot. He was a long-time principal mover in our club. First fatal accident in our club’s 40+ year history. ([Preliminary FAA report](http://www.kathrynsreport.com/search?q=N4116Y), for anyone who’s interested in that sort of stuff.) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/27 "2020-07-04T03:30:36Z")
The big upside to this year, of course, is it will end the trend of every year being declared ‘the worst year ever’ for at least a decade. There’s no way 2021 is going to beat 2020. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/28 "2020-07-04T03:42:15Z")
I could probably use a good 3 state killing spree right now. How about I drive and you buy the bullets? Yeah, I go to bed pissed off and wake up pissed off. A couple of days ago, I was walking the dogs and one of them pooped on someone’s yard. Normally, I would have stopped the pooping in the wrong place, or I would have instantly cleaned it up. As it happens, I thought dog shit right in front of their MAGA sign was okeydookie, and walked away without a care in the world. Wanna make it a 14 state shooting spree? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/29 "2020-07-04T04:16:45Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > There’s no way 2021 is going to beat 2020. Shhhh! Don’t give it any ideas! If [evil name redacted] gets re-elected, we’re going to have a whole bunch of years, each worse than the one before. Think of that! Wait, no, don’t! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/30 "2020-07-04T04:30:14Z")
How bad has 2020 been? It started with an entire continent burning down. And then it got so much worse we forgot about that. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/31 "2020-07-04T05:08:43Z")
Awesome way to put things into prospective…and help make me even more pissed off. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/32 "2020-07-04T05:22:14Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Awesome way to put things into prospective I won’t lie. I stole that joke from [Julie Nolke](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms7capx4Cb8). ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/33 "2020-07-04T05:37:38Z")
I would never have known, but your refusal to steal credit from someone else has made me just a little less pissed off. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/34 "2020-07-04T05:59:22Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I won’t lie. I stole that joke from [Julie Nolke](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms7capx4Cb8). Thanks for the link. That video, and its sequel, are pretty darkly hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/35 "2020-07-04T07:01:25Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > A couple of days ago, I was walking the dogs and one of them pooped on someone’s yard. Normally, I would have stopped the pooping in the wrong place, or I would have instantly cleaned it up. As it happens, I thought dog shit right in front of their MAGA sign was okeydookie, and walked away without a care in the world. Please give that most excellent and intelligent dog a special treat today, on my behalf. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/36 "2020-07-04T11:31:14Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > If [evil name redacted] gets re-elected… If that happens, I predict **MAJOR** rioting across the country. A perfect way to end this fucking year. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/37 "2020-07-04T14:12:08Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > A couple of days ago, I was walking the dogs and one of them pooped on someone’s yard. Normally, I would have stopped the pooping in the wrong place, or I would have instantly cleaned it up. As it happens, I thought dog shit right in front of their MAGA sign was okeydookie, and walked away without a care in the world. > [@wolfpup](#): > > Please give that most excellent and intelligent dog a special treat today, on my behalf. 😀 Next time, pick up that excellent poop with your baggie and smear it ON the sign. It makes me happy just to picture that. 💩 ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/38 "2020-07-04T14:22:23Z")
Is anyone keeping a list of all this shit? Honestly, Murder Hornets and Australian Fires slipped my mind completely. Didn’t the President darn near start a war with Iran? It is all running together. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/39 "2020-07-04T18:56:55Z")
> [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](#): > > Didn’t the President darn near start a war with Iran? Oh, yeah, [Qasem Soleimani](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani). But that was, like, a couple of centuries ago. All the way back on January 3. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128/40 "2020-07-04T19:27:21Z")
Usually it’s at least September before I wish the year was over already. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-2020/914128.md?page=3)