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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#676: Jan 6th 2017 at 6:40:33 PM

@Swanpride - Don't get me wrong, I don't think we need a new thread YET, but when we do, I think it should be a seperate thread.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#677: Jan 6th 2017 at 10:32:31 PM

I agree on having a separate thread.

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#678: Jan 7th 2017 at 12:24:15 AM

For the record, I am treating this thread as a thread about 2016. Starting a thread about 2017 being sucky is amazingly premature in my opinion.

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Stormtroper from Little Venice Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: I-It's not like I like you, or anything!
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#681: Jan 7th 2017 at 3:00:44 PM

To boil it down: Yes, it was.

Btw, quite a number of German celebrities died, too. To the people who died this year count Hans-Dietrich Genscher (best foreign minister we ever had!), Walter Scheel, Guido Westerwelle (Politian, former foreign minister and leader of the FDP, died of Cancer), Erika Berger, Peter Lustig (and damn, did my childhood die with him....he moderated German children shows. The educational kind), Uwe Friedrichsen (and there went the second part of my childhood, since he used to moderate the German version of Sesame street...but he was also a very serious actor, one of the best, imho, I was once lucky enough to see him live on stage, it was great), Götz George (another great actor), Manfred Krug....and those are just the most famous names I have on top of my mind.

Oleg Popow dying kind of seems like a bad sign overall, even though it was kind of expected. But it fit into this year.

edited 7th Jan '17 3:17:36 PM by Swanpride

FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
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#682: Jan 7th 2017 at 4:11:02 PM

Plus, Death seemed to visit the guy who sang "Last Christmas" just for Christmas, and then wanted an autograph from the woman whose most iconic character repetitively utters "hope" as Arc Words at the year's end.

edited 7th Jan '17 4:11:26 PM by FluffyMcChicken

alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#684: Jan 8th 2017 at 2:12:34 AM

I heard there were enough celebrity musician deaths to cause a rise in vinyl sales.Probably just an exaggeration.

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#685: Jan 8th 2017 at 2:15:02 AM

Vinyl sales did overtake digital sales, but that's probably more due to the popularity of streaming and pirating driving digital sales down than vinyl sales going up.

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Quag15 Since: Mar, 2012
#686: Jan 8th 2017 at 7:39:37 AM

[up]Well, that, and a nostalgic desire for vintage stuff. Vinyls are one of the peaks of popular vintage stuff in this day and age, and which has been proven to be one of the mediums with better sound quality (particularly in terms of warmth).

Besides, vinyl looks really cool. Especially the sleeves and artwork (not to mention the big liner notes, when they exist).

If only my record player was still working and vinyls weren't a bit too expensive for my thin wallet...

edited 8th Jan '17 7:40:49 AM by Quag15

FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
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#687: Jan 10th 2017 at 9:54:05 PM

[up] Here in the US (or at least southern California), you can get old record players and discs cheaply at Goodwill thrift shops.

edited 10th Jan '17 9:54:34 PM by FluffyMcChicken

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#688: Jan 10th 2017 at 9:56:56 PM

This year just got even worse for me as I found out my grandmother is in hospital and the doctors said she might not survive the night.

Edit: she died...

edited 11th Jan '17 8:46:06 AM by Bat178

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#689: Jan 11th 2017 at 9:03:32 AM

[up]You have my sympathy. On the plus-side (if not a very big one), at least she didn't suffer through months of critical. <hugs>

WhatArtThee Since: Oct, 2015
#691: Jan 13th 2017 at 12:57:53 PM

My condolences to you and your family, that's awful to hear.

Anyway, I have no clue how 2017 won't be worse than 2016 at least for America. Rest of the world not sure. Trump will take office, and couple that with a Republican Senate, House, a cabinet filled with people just as bad as Trump if not worse, and most importantly the SCOTUS picks, i can't see how it's going to be good.

People way exaggerated 2016. Until the Election it wasn't really much worse than other years this decade.

edited 13th Jan '17 1:13:22 PM by WhatArtThee

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Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#692: Jan 13th 2017 at 1:14:24 PM

[up] Yeah, but the US is not the world. It wasn't just the English speaking countries in which everything went wrong last year. This year there are a number of opportunities to do better. The French, Dutch and German elections for example are an opportunity to push back against the haters and the Anti-EU fraction. And while I don't like how it came surpass, there is a chance for peace in Syria.

If we make it to the end of the month without an epidemic outbreak it would already be a win.

edited 13th Jan '17 1:14:55 PM by Swanpride

WhatArtThee Since: Oct, 2015
#693: Jan 13th 2017 at 1:19:51 PM

There are lots of opportunities for those countries, but I just can't see people looking back at this year positively.

edited 13th Jan '17 1:23:30 PM by WhatArtThee

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#694: Jan 13th 2017 at 4:38:07 PM

It's not a matter of whether this year will be bad or not. Just exceptionally so. And, on balance (because as mentioned by Swanpride, the US isn't the world), we do not know how this year will turn out, as it is in its infancy.

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#695: Jan 13th 2017 at 9:49:59 PM

Well, the USA and the UK are gonna be in for a rough time, that's for sure.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#696: Jan 14th 2017 at 1:50:15 AM

Most likely, but it is also possible that both countries end up making better decisions than last year...article 50 hasn't been triggered yet, for starters.

WhatArtThee Since: Oct, 2015
#697: Jan 14th 2017 at 9:09:09 AM

2017's a lost cause for the US I feel. But 2018 has a chance to improve with Midterm elections.

I think lots of people exaggerated over Brexit, it's not happening until 2019 at the EARLIEST. It's not an immediate thing.

edited 14th Jan '17 9:09:49 AM by WhatArtThee

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#698: Jan 14th 2017 at 9:13:59 AM

[up] With any luck, the sheer enormity of trying to negotiate everything in two years while other countries and hedge funds circle around the UK like vultures will change enough minds.

Disgusted, but not surprised
CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#699: Jan 15th 2017 at 1:10:50 PM

Even if the British Parliament or government quietly dropped Brexit or even swore hand over heart to remain as part of Europe, would any EU state or institution ever quite trust them again? Or treat them as anything more than a loose cannon?

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#700: Jan 15th 2017 at 1:29:02 PM

[up]Is surprising they trust in britan in the first place since for a lot of time they were the "one who didn get alone", hell when brexit was a hot topic my mother said the same thing as Oliver: the UK have a deep desire in the heart to tell europe to fuck up.

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