What has 2005 meant to you? (1176 hits)
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Submitted by Hair (View user info) at 2005-12-30 23:38:41 EST
The Asian Tsunami... I know it happened at the end of 2004, but it consumed January for me. I had friends in Thailand at the time, they were at Bangkok Airport waiting to get on a flight to Phi Phi Island but they couldn't leave, the place hardly existed any more. My friends were OK, and I knew other people over there and my family has friends in Malaysia. All people I know were left unscathed, but our close neighbours are devastated countries. Australia donated $1billion out of the nation's coffers and private individuals kicked in millions more. See my Bali bombing point. I do have a question - why do hurricanes get cutesy names but a tsunami gets nothing? Couldn't we call this "Tsunami Sukki Sukki" or summink?
Idiotic young Australians getting caught in Bali with drugs - Schapelle Corby was the controversial one who allegedly took 4.1kg of pot to Bali. Then there were the "Bali 9" - nine bogans who were caught with heroin strapped to their bodies. Then the model Michelle Lesley who was caught with a couple of e's. Schapelle gets 15 years, the Bali 9 will get to taste red hot lead for their last meal and Michelle Lesley got off after 3 months in a Bali prison. Oh and then YET ANOTHER FUCKING AUSTRALIAN was executed in Singapore for trafficking heroin. He said he did it to pay off his brother's gambling debts... personally, I would have sent the fucker to a bank and a job agency. Here's the hot tip - ASIATICANS DON'T LIKEE NO DRUGS.
The Pope. No - no relation here, just wanted to say "out with the old, and in with the Jew hater". Well, he's not, but he WAS a Nazi, even though he had to be at the time. Ahh... those vakky Germanz.
Crown Princess Mary's marriage to Crown Prince Fredrik of Denmark. It's a nice fairytale thingy that's all gushy and stuff... mostly I am wrapped because I met her when she was just a normal person, and she's very nice. She's now popped out a sprog. Good for her.
The London bombings - as most Australians, I have family and friends who live in London, and some of them had close calls. I have to say that the links do appear to be tenuous with some of them, but my cousin's office was very nearby. Scares me that native born people can still want to inflict so much hurt, pain and hatred on their fellow country men and women.
Another bombing in Bali. The hatred the bombers have for foreigners is hard for me to understand. It's all consuming. They attacked people who are guests in the country, people the Balinese invite to their island to spend money there. I have to say that when my tax dollars and the money I have personally donated to Indonesia is spent helping out the unfortunate, the bombers have a think. We are all citizens of this dirty mudball circling the sun, when will we get it right?
Oh, Iraq. Afghanistan... others. Mk.
Then there was Katrina. What a motherfucker that was.
I lost three friends this year, one suddenly and naturally, one took her own life and the third passed away accidentally. I have written a eulogy and worn my black suit too much for one year.
My friend had a baby - it's the result of a one night stand. The couple, of course, are not together and I honestly feel OK about that. The reason is clear to me, I get to help raise a child. There's something that kicks in when a baby comes along and it's natural, we are all there helping. I love how this baby smiles when she sees me. Mostly I like the attention I get when I baby sit her in my local bar.
Oh, I graduated. Finally, at the age of 33, I have finished my academic career with my last degree, a Master's. Actually, I'm thinking of the PhD. But not now.
There were other things, I helped friends create a restaurant, I had a couple of great lovers - even though they were short term. I got a new, hot job. I expanded my social group and now count myself as a very lucky person, I have had a lot of laughs. And I still managed to donate some time for charity.
It's been a good year. I hope 2006 is even better.
What has 2005 meant to you?
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Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-02-04 05:30:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
fucking optimist...
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-01-25 16:48:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
http://www.solidsender.com/dstrbo/news/newyear_06.gif
2005 was not bad. Much much sex. I want to settle down a bit.
Submitted by Hennessy (user info) at 2005-12-31 20:26:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Hmmm... let's see... what happened in 2005?
-Asian tsunami (Jan. 2005)
-Lost two girlfriends (Feb. 2005 and Nov. 2005)
-Red Lake school shooting (Feb. 2005)
-Pope John Paul II died (Apr. 2005)
-Broadband connection fried (May 2005)
-Good friend died of cancer (May 2005)
-Lost crossword competition (Jun. 2005)
-Hurricane season start (Jun. 2005)
-Airline ticket to France stolen (Jun. 2005)
-Hurricane Katrina (Aug. 2005)
-Two relative's friends die in Katrina (Sep. 2005)
-Hurricane Rita (Sep. 2005)
-Hurricane Stan (Oct. 2005)
-Friend's grandmother died (Nov. 2005)
-Friends robbed (Nov. 2005)
-Broadband fried over Christmas break (Dec. 2005)
Submitted by Dead_0hi0_Sky (user info) at 2005-12-31 17:31:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
2005 was the year i accomplished my goal.
i moved out of the city, lost contact we everyone i knew, and fell of the face of the fucking earth.
now i am truly at peace.
Submitted by Deconstruction (user info) at 2005-12-31 16:11:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
2005 blew like every year
now shut up mommies trying to take a nap
Submitted by detective_mike_ohara (user info) at 2005-12-31 15:47:13 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Oh cynical pictures.
Submitted by Zol (user info) at 2005-12-31 15:36:06 EST (#)
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Go Siren. And then, let me know the details. Anyway, 2005-Fucking shit.
Submitted by Beer_bong (user info) at 2005-12-31 13:38:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I won enough money playing poker to cover the rest of my education, and my grandmother died within 24 hours.
2005 is the fist year I'll legally have to file a tax return. That'll be fun.
My first girlfriend ever died.
I moved into a house with 3 of the best people I have ever met.
One of my best friends got a tatoo of a penguin on her back. For no apparent reason. What. The. Fuck.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2005-12-31 11:19:21 EST (#)
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Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2005-12-31 10:47:21 (#)
Ranking: 2
I met the man I want to marry. He's sleeping in my bed right now. :)
...think I'll go give him a bj.
*dies*
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2005-12-31 10:47:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I met the man I want to marry. He's sleeping in my bed right now. :)
...think I'll go give him a bj.
Submitted by missflibble (user info) at 2005-12-31 10:35:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-12-31 08:28:04 (#)
Ranking: 2
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No! I have chronic hypothyroidism. my thyroid gland does not work. I have to take replacement thyroxine and the dose keeps going up.
And I aparently have a problem connected to it with my hypothalamus that they cant investigate until FlibbleFoetus is out. the second prob could explain my short stature though so that's an upside.
Submitted by KatHunter (user info) at 2005-12-31 09:06:05 EST (#)
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Ah yes... You know, we Danes are awfully proud of Crown Prince Frederik, and Mary is extremely popular, especially after they just had a son. She's also refreshingly down-to-earth. I'm glad Frederik didn't marry some princess or whatever...
Submitted by sebcharrot (user info) at 2005-12-31 08:34:45 EST (#)
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What's the difference between the new pope and a nazi anyway? I was just wondering. He hates homosexuals, he doesn't deal with jews, and only wants to look after the "chosen" catholics. He's already gone back and changed most of the positive things that the previous Pope had done, for Christ's sake.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-12-31 08:28:04 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
you have aids?
Submitted by missflibble (user info) at 2005-12-31 08:03:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
mo' money, marriage, using my wedding corset as part of a kinky dress-up session in france that probably resulted in my current pregnancy (quick workers-honeymoon baby), leaving my job, feeling like a beachball, moving house twice, meeting mr flibb's mum for the first time, mr flibb getting promoted so now he earns more than my dad, my mum finally getting a job and it totally changing her life for the better, the discovery that I have a chronic auto-immune disorder requiring drugs for the rest for my life and finally another discovery that's somewhat better than the first; I get 15% off at The Pier and we have one in Basildon so I don't have to travel to Nottingham or london to use my discount card.
oh, and finding out that my extended family obviously do not know who I am any more.
wow. big year.
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2005-12-31 04:02:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
if i could trade places with anyone on that picture, i would have had a better year
Submitted by Yams (user info) at 2005-12-31 03:46:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
It means the end is near.
It also means that Fight Club still sucks. Post forthcoming.
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2005-12-31 01:22:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
A dead friend and a broken heart.
Better hopes for '06.
Submitted by PokeyPecker (user info) at 2005-12-31 00:22:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
It meant one year closer to Bush leaving the White House. Hopefully, he's the last Bush that'll ever see that place alive.
Submitted by Gunslinger (user info) at 2005-12-31 00:20:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
The dad totally looks like Tetsuo.
+2 for that!
Happy new year!
Submitted by Hairsphincter (user info) at 2005-12-30 23:59:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
a reader - no, my Grandmother has always said it - but then, yes, a fan.
badass - that is badass. Go your spermz!!!
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2005-12-30 23:56:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
actually I googled 'happy'
funny how different paths lead to the same destination
all in all I think its been a good year.
of course I just found out I'm to be a daddy again, so I'm a little blinded.
Submitted by a_reader (user info) at 2005-12-30 23:54:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by Hairsphincter (user info) at 2005-12-30 23:46:35 (#)
Ranking: 0
badassmofo - no, I am more of a "the glass is too big" kind of person.
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A George Carlin fan?
Submitted by Death_Metal_Dude (user info) at 2005-12-30 23:50:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
ucla beat cal in football
Submitted by Hairsphincter (user info) at 2005-12-30 23:46:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
badassmofo - no, I am more of a "the glass is too big" kind of person.
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2005-12-30 23:43:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
so you're a half empty kind of person then?
I'm so glad I posted before you.
Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2005-12-30 23:43:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
that's a shitty basketball
Submitted by a_reader (user info) at 2005-12-30 23:43:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
2005: The year Mother Nature fought back.
I was cheering for her, too. It's about time she put up a good fight.