Giving 2020 the sendoff it deserves
December 27, 2020 2:40 PM Subscribe
2020 could not have been worse. So, let's give it the send-off it deserves. #EFF2020: A Holiday Campaign (NSFW, F-bombs galore (but are you really at work?)) to benefit The Mental Health Coalition. #EFF2020.
My sentiments exactly...
posted by jim in austin at 3:02 PM on December 27, 2020
posted by jim in austin at 3:02 PM on December 27, 2020
Huh. The first thing I saw was "that's a css color" (I do Javascript, please kill me). Depending on how you treat this value, it's either a shade of red, piss yellow, or a faded acid green.
posted by Old'n'Busted at 3:11 PM on December 27, 2020 [7 favorites]
posted by Old'n'Busted at 3:11 PM on December 27, 2020 [7 favorites]
2020 could not have been worse.
You had to say it before we’re over the line, didn’t you.
posted by mhoye at 3:12 PM on December 27, 2020 [12 favorites]
You had to say it before we’re over the line, didn’t you.
posted by mhoye at 3:12 PM on December 27, 2020 [12 favorites]
Imma let you finish but 2021 is going to get off to a rough start, it looks like
posted by thelonius at 3:18 PM on December 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by thelonius at 3:18 PM on December 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
See also Death to 2020, Charlie Booker's netflix year in review.
posted by zabuni at 4:05 PM on December 27, 2020
posted by zabuni at 4:05 PM on December 27, 2020
Same-ish to Old'n'Busted, I read that hashtag (truncated one of the 'f's) as an RGB color - an extremely bright red.
...too much time in Photoshop...
posted by notsnot at 5:03 PM on December 27, 2020
...too much time in Photoshop...
posted by notsnot at 5:03 PM on December 27, 2020
> The first thing I saw was "that's a css color" (I do Javascript, please kill me). Depending on how you treat this value, it's either a shade of red, piss yellow, or a faded acid green.
It's got seven digits so it's not going to work as a hex encoding of color values, unless you drop the trailing
posted by ardgedee at 5:04 PM on December 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
It's got seven digits so it's not going to work as a hex encoding of color values, unless you drop the trailing
0 in which case #eff202 is yellow tinged with green. Though if you treat the trailing 0 as an alpha value, it's transparent and there's no color.posted by ardgedee at 5:04 PM on December 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
I don't think I can take watching Black Mirror's take on 2020.
"Imma let you finish but 2021 is going to get off to a rough start, it looks like
Yeah, but I have four good things that happened: Trump lost, 2 vaccines, and the Gavle Goat didn't burn yet. At least three of those can't help but lead to SOME improvements in 2021.
I also just turned on this video while watching Hallmark Channel and the combination of Hallmark and a bunch of "Fuck you!'s" was really amusing.
posted by jenfullmoon at 5:19 PM on December 27, 2020 [3 favorites]
"Imma let you finish but 2021 is going to get off to a rough start, it looks like
Yeah, but I have four good things that happened: Trump lost, 2 vaccines, and the Gavle Goat didn't burn yet. At least three of those can't help but lead to SOME improvements in 2021.
I also just turned on this video while watching Hallmark Channel and the combination of Hallmark and a bunch of "Fuck you!'s" was really amusing.
posted by jenfullmoon at 5:19 PM on December 27, 2020 [3 favorites]
My mom died at 3:30 on Christmas day from covid, and that was after making the decision to put her on a vent on Christmas Eve. She had been in the hospital since the day after Thanksgiving. I am very tired. I know there are several days left in 2020..... but it can fuck off into a fire made of fires.
posted by Gyre,Gimble,Wabe, Esq. at 5:19 PM on December 27, 2020 [19 favorites]
posted by Gyre,Gimble,Wabe, Esq. at 5:19 PM on December 27, 2020 [19 favorites]
Condolences, Gyre,Gimble,Wabe, Esq...
posted by jim in austin at 5:41 PM on December 27, 2020 [12 favorites]
posted by jim in austin at 5:41 PM on December 27, 2020 [12 favorites]
I don't think I can take watching Black Mirror's take on 2020.
It's not Black Mirror, it's Charlie Booker's annual year end comedy show. It's more like regular dry humorous comedy, not pitch black ironic death comedy like Black Mirror.
posted by Liquidwolf at 6:06 PM on December 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
My deepest heartfelt sympathies, Gyre,Gimble,Wabe, Esq.
If it helps in even the very slightest, I still have many, many fuck yous left to give to this unbelievably terrible year, and I will send some up in memory of your mother if that's not too sacrilegious where you're from.
posted by vers at 6:37 PM on December 27, 2020 [7 favorites]
If it helps in even the very slightest, I still have many, many fuck yous left to give to this unbelievably terrible year, and I will send some up in memory of your mother if that's not too sacrilegious where you're from.
posted by vers at 6:37 PM on December 27, 2020 [7 favorites]
Yeah, before Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker was best known for Screenwipe, an extremely sarcastic program about the week in television, and how TV is made. It evolved into a year-end program, of which Death to 2020 is a clear descendent.
Presumably it has Philomena Cunk in it, who is a beautiful comic creation, a woman perpetually on the crest of the Dunning-Kruger curve.
(I did not like this video because I am all for saying 'fuck 2020' but it pretty rapidly went into saying 'fuck you' to specific people, which feels very American right now but is not at all how I feel, where We all pulled together and mostly kept COVID out of the country.)
posted by Merus at 7:47 PM on December 27, 2020
Presumably it has Philomena Cunk in it, who is a beautiful comic creation, a woman perpetually on the crest of the Dunning-Kruger curve.
(I did not like this video because I am all for saying 'fuck 2020' but it pretty rapidly went into saying 'fuck you' to specific people, which feels very American right now but is not at all how I feel, where We all pulled together and mostly kept COVID out of the country.)
posted by Merus at 7:47 PM on December 27, 2020
Thank you vers, send away!!!
posted by Gyre,Gimble,Wabe, Esq. at 9:00 PM on December 27, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by Gyre,Gimble,Wabe, Esq. at 9:00 PM on December 27, 2020 [3 favorites]
Flo and Joan's 2020 Song sees your NSFW quotient and raises it with some zero-day-exploit level British swearing.
posted by rongorongo at 2:10 AM on December 28, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by rongorongo at 2:10 AM on December 28, 2020 [1 favorite]
2020 could not have been worse.
Ahh yes - - it brings back fond memories of the halcyon days of Fuck 2016.
posted by fairmettle at 2:11 AM on December 28, 2020 [1 favorite]
Ahh yes - - it brings back fond memories of the halcyon days of Fuck 2016.
posted by fairmettle at 2:11 AM on December 28, 2020 [1 favorite]
Flo and Joan's 2020 Song yt sees your NSFW quotient and raises it with some zero-day-exploit level British swearing.
I was aware that Brits are much more free with use of the "c-word" than we are on this side of the pond, but this was the first time I've heard it used as a verb.
posted by Daily Alice at 5:27 AM on December 28, 2020
I was aware that Brits are much more free with use of the "c-word" than we are on this side of the pond, but this was the first time I've heard it used as a verb.
posted by Daily Alice at 5:27 AM on December 28, 2020
I'm so sorry, Gyre,Gimble,Wabe, Esq. I wish you and all her loved ones peace.
posted by droplet at 5:53 AM on December 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by droplet at 5:53 AM on December 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
I'm staying up for midnight on December 31st.
Not to ring in the New Year, but to make sure this one stays dead.
posted by NoxAeternum at 7:09 AM on December 28, 2020 [1 favorite]
Not to ring in the New Year, but to make sure this one stays dead.
posted by NoxAeternum at 7:09 AM on December 28, 2020 [1 favorite]
This is the poem I included in my holiday cards this year:
Burning the Old Year
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Letters swallow themselves in seconds.
Notes friends tied to the doorknob,
transparent scarlet paper,
sizzle like moth wings,
marry the air.
So much of any year is flammable,
lists of vegetables, partial poems.
Orange swirling flame of days,
so little is a stone.
Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,
an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.
I begin again with the smallest numbers.
Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves,
only the things I didn’t do
crackle after the blazing dies.
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Gyre,Gimble,Wabe, Esq., I am so sorry. My family lost someone December 11, so I have a small sense of how this holiday is for you. Thinking of you and your family at this difficult time.
posted by gudrun at 7:29 AM on December 28, 2020 [4 favorites]
Burning the Old Year
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Letters swallow themselves in seconds.
Notes friends tied to the doorknob,
transparent scarlet paper,
sizzle like moth wings,
marry the air.
So much of any year is flammable,
lists of vegetables, partial poems.
Orange swirling flame of days,
so little is a stone.
Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,
an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.
I begin again with the smallest numbers.
Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves,
only the things I didn’t do
crackle after the blazing dies.
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Gyre,Gimble,Wabe, Esq., I am so sorry. My family lost someone December 11, so I have a small sense of how this holiday is for you. Thinking of you and your family at this difficult time.
posted by gudrun at 7:29 AM on December 28, 2020 [4 favorites]
I'm going to keep this memento for the ages.
It's a sign notifying people of the prohibition on dancing, and the threat of a 6000$ fine. 2019 me would have thought of Gilead or the taliban if they'd seen this.
I'll show it to the kids and explain, yeah, they outlawed dancing, and it was absolutely the right move. The dancing had to stop so we could all live.
Fuck 2020.
posted by adept256 at 9:32 AM on December 28, 2020 [1 favorite]
It's a sign notifying people of the prohibition on dancing, and the threat of a 6000$ fine. 2019 me would have thought of Gilead or the taliban if they'd seen this.
I'll show it to the kids and explain, yeah, they outlawed dancing, and it was absolutely the right move. The dancing had to stop so we could all live.
Fuck 2020.
posted by adept256 at 9:32 AM on December 28, 2020 [1 favorite]
I was aware that Brits are much more free with use of the "c-word" than we are on this side of the pond, but this was the first time I've heard it used as a verb.
You can also have nobbing, cocking, arseing and titting, among others. British swearing has quite flexible rules, ones that have proven quite useful over the last twelve months.
posted by How much is that froggie in the window at 7:35 PM on December 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
You can also have nobbing, cocking, arseing and titting, among others. British swearing has quite flexible rules, ones that have proven quite useful over the last twelve months.
posted by How much is that froggie in the window at 7:35 PM on December 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
One more for 2020: Honest Trailers | 2020 (feat.Patton Oswalt)
posted by zabuni at 9:44 PM on December 29, 2020
posted by zabuni at 9:44 PM on December 29, 2020
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