The 21 Absolute Worst Things in the World
April 21, 2012 7:26 AM   Subscribe

This post was deleted for the following reason: I kind of feel like a buzzfeed linkbait list needs to be sort of exceptional to make up for the fact that it's a buzzfeed linkbait list. -- cortex



 
OK, very thin, and it never gets anywhere near true anti-kitten territory (the true measure of "worst"), but 7 and 12 are pretty bad.

And, oh my god, #14! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:29 AM on April 21, 2012 [1 favorite]


You know, I rolled my eyes at this, but on reflection, yes, these are the 21 absolute worst things in the world - so, you know, good on them.
posted by kbanas at 7:30 AM on April 21, 2012


I literally winced on seeing #7.

The Youtube one was dumb though.
posted by kmz at 7:30 AM on April 21, 2012


Nice payoff
posted by fullerine at 7:32 AM on April 21, 2012


First world problems
posted by Slothrup at 7:34 AM on April 21, 2012


As a prodigious eater of pizza rolls in a past life, I have to say that scooping that leaked-out goop with a fork and eating fresh out of the oven was pat of the fun.

Fuck I want some pizza rolls now.
posted by griphus at 7:34 AM on April 21, 2012


#14 is totally the winner, in the sense that when I find one of those, I have lost.
posted by nev at 7:36 AM on April 21, 2012 [1 favorite]


My wife would agree with #14. We get those in our house occasionally. Sometimes the cats eat them and I find a pile of legs scattered about the kitchen. Once I smushed the back half of one with a shoe and the front half kept running. That shit ain't right.
posted by The Card Cheat at 7:36 AM on April 21, 2012 [4 favorites]


First world problems

As a second-world immigrant, I can assure you that we had toothpaste, pencils, bedsheets, hangnails and centipedes.
posted by griphus at 7:37 AM on April 21, 2012 [12 favorites]


#7 and #14 can sap one's will to live, especially when you spot #14 on the bedroom wall at 6:00 a.m. on a workday. I LOLed at #21 but I think you'd have to be on Facebook to understand the horror fully.
posted by Currer Belfry at 7:38 AM on April 21, 2012 [1 favorite]


No goatse? No two girls one cup? Where is tubgirl? The cake made to look like a woman cut in half? All your fucking base doesn't belong to some half assed attempt at ironic humor. At least get a Keith Olbernan joke in there if you are doing wyitw/wpitw.
posted by humanfont at 7:41 AM on April 21, 2012


As a second-world immigrant, I can assure you that we had toothpaste, pencils, bedsheets, hangnails and centipedes.
posted by griphus at 3:37 PM on April 21 [3 favorites +] [!]


Would you like the Black Eyed Peas?
posted by Reggie Knoble at 7:42 AM on April 21, 2012 [4 favorites]


Very true indeed. I thought the youtube one was dumb until I realized it had that video loading symbol in the middle that shows that it's not currently playing, even though it appears to have enough cached up. That drives me nuts.

But I think 4 and 16 are the ones I identify most with.
posted by crasiman at 7:42 AM on April 21, 2012


Why--in the name of God, WHY, in forty years, hasn't somebody fixed the Pringles can problem? WE CAN PUT A MAN ON THE MOON...
posted by Sing Or Swim at 7:43 AM on April 21, 2012


Get a toothpaste roller, and #6 goes away.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:44 AM on April 21, 2012


Can someone please identify #14? I chased one around my bedroom last night.

This was a lot better than I was expecting.
posted by oneironaut at 7:44 AM on April 21, 2012


#5, I hate those kind of door handles and I've gotten stuck just like that.
posted by octothorpe at 7:45 AM on April 21, 2012 [1 favorite]


I'll take the Black Eyed Peas over Barenaked Ladies, but will allow that the Peas are far harder to escape these days.
posted by The Card Cheat at 7:45 AM on April 21, 2012


"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."

-- Mel Brooks
posted by briank at 7:45 AM on April 21, 2012 [2 favorites]


Also Hitler.
posted by Artw at 7:46 AM on April 21, 2012


oneironaut: #14 is a house centipede. Creepy little buggers, though I've heard they feed on spiders. Still too creepy for me to tolerate though.
posted by smooshie at 7:47 AM on April 21, 2012 [1 favorite]


If y'all are going to keep talking about #14, I AM LEAVING.

I totally killed one of those in my bathroom two nights ago. And yes, I DO deserve a trophy.
posted by Elsa at 7:49 AM on April 21, 2012 [1 favorite]


There's a specific word for #19: lactomangulation.
posted by Malor at 7:52 AM on April 21, 2012 [1 favorite]


#12 has a solution: one foot extension cords.
posted by Nelson at 7:52 AM on April 21, 2012 [1 favorite]


RE: #14 (house centipede), I was about to take a sip of water from my glass that had been lying around and I almost drank one of those. I make sure to look at my drinks when I drink them now.
on preview, sorry Elsa
posted by arsey at 7:54 AM on April 21, 2012 [3 favorites]


Not only can a headphone cord get rolled over in .03 picoseconds of coming within two miles of a desk chair wheel, then for some reason it takes a bipartisan act of Congress passed by a 7/8 majority to get it out from under the wheel.
posted by Legomancer at 7:56 AM on April 21, 2012 [3 favorites]


Nooooo, #14 are great to have! They eat mosquitos, moths, and icky awful horrible disgusting cockroaches! And they're clean! I would much rather have an occasional freakout that plumbs the depths of my prehistoric instinctual reflexes than cockroaches.

I do #5 all the time, sigh. That type of door handle is ubiquitous in modern French construction. Glad I have an older place with oval porcelain knobs that never catch on anything.
posted by fraula at 7:56 AM on April 21, 2012 [1 favorite]


Wow, the logic part of my brain sort of broke for a second at the idea of the one-foot extension cord until I realized just how useful they are.

Why aren't all power converters made in the cord-brick-cord-plug manner instead of the cord-brick-plug manner? Is there that much of a difference in production cost?
posted by griphus at 7:56 AM on April 21, 2012


> #5, I hate those kind of door handles and I've gotten stuck just like that

I love those kinds of door handles and I've gotten stuck just like that in my own house. It is the worst thing in the world. The worst.
posted by The corpse in the library at 7:58 AM on April 21, 2012


"Movies as book covers" are awful. I hate the fact that they probably actually do work to spur sales. The worst offender in this regard is the cover of Bonfire of the Vanities, although Youth in Revolt is pretty bad as well.

The 127 Hours one doesn't look so bad, though, probably because it just makes it sound like a book about spending 127 Hours with a somewhat bored James Franco. Truth be told, the movie book cover for Trainspotting isn't so bad, either, so maybe Danny Boyle has a vaccine for this disease. But then again, maybe not, because look at The Beach.
posted by Sticherbeast at 8:00 AM on April 21, 2012 [1 favorite]


I love basement bugs. They are big and goofy and harmless and eat lots of littler nasty bugs.
posted by seanmpuckett at 8:01 AM on April 21, 2012


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