Most Depressing Years?
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Obviously depressing and bad things happen in every year but some years are just non stop misery one thing after the other. Two particular years scream out at me
1989
2001
Having read my history books it seems nothing went right in these two years, packed full of disasters
What years do you think are among the most depressing?
1989
2001
Having read my history books it seems nothing went right in these two years, packed full of disasters
What years do you think are among the most depressing?
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I agree with you about those two. Both were certainly momentous, if nothing else - and momentous years are often very stressful ones.
I also found 1998 quite depressing as well.
Foot and Mouth in 2001 - piles of burning cow carcasses
Tiananmen (sp) Square in China in 1989
Fall of the iron curtain in Autumn 1989, preceded by months of trouble in the countries concerned. End of the (then) existing world order.
Surely that was a good thing.
The good part was the London Olympics and getting to enjoy it with the people here on DS.
On the major downer side it was the year my dog was put to sleep after having her for 17 years and the year my sister found out she had cancer.
It was the year Princess Diana died, and there seemed to be an air of depression for weeks on end. It was a weird and unsettling time. Anyone who can remember it will know what I'm talking about.
They aren't depressing years for me inparticular, i don't even remember '89, i was 4! I was wondering what years were generally depressing for the world in general not for a person individually. Or for me. I'm just asking a question out of interest and to have a thread
i wasn't anymore depressed in 2001 than i always am
Omagh bombing
Kosovo War
Second Congo War
Guinea-Bissau Civil War
Manila school siege
Sidi-Hamed massacre
US embassy bombings
Eschede train disaster
China Airlines Flight 676
Swissair Flight 111
Indonesia riots
Afghanistan earthquakes
Papua New Guinea tsunami
Yangtze River flood
Nigeria pipeline explosion
Hurricane Mitch
Exactly. You'd be a wreck if world events affected you personally.
They don't.
I just wanted a discussion, nothing personal about it
Bradford City fire
Hysell Stadium ( Juventus v Liverpool)
Challenger Shuttle
Lockerbie
kegworth plane crash
The Great Storm
Clapham Train crash
Kings Cross fire
Herald of Free Enterprise ferry capsize
And Hillsborough
My own personal year was 1982
My mother died
Lost my job
Lost my holiday money on the way to my holiday
Failed my driving test
Anyway as a wise person once said
Always look on the bright side of life
One of the worst winters on record,
Kennedy murdered and his supposed killer also murdered,
The Profumo scandal,
The Great Train Robbery,
The Moors Murders,
Death of Pope John XXIII who made a lot of welcome reforms,
Hurricane Flora in Cuba & Haiti, kills thousands.
Dam bursts in Italy, several thousand die.
The jobless or those in receipt of wads of benefits are those most likely to be up this time of the morning.
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But on the plus side the Beatles got their first number 1 single and "From Russia With Love" the second Bond film came out, although it was a rather slow adventure. And I celebrated my minus seventeenth birthday.
I second 2001, seemed the Millennium had been a bit of a high with the world getting more advanced and more progressive, in terms of the internet and technology and there were loads of tech companies cashing in on the internet, people trying to become dot com millionaires, then 2001 came the dot com crash, everything started to slow down, we had the foot and mouth scourge on the countryside, it set the tone as pretty depressing in comparison to '99 and 2000 even before 9-11 which seemed to go on to cast a shadow over pretty much all the noughties that followed it.
Personally in 2001 I got seriously depressed dropped out of college courses etc.
It's interesting that 1989 should be mentioned, I don't even know much about the year, I was really much into my childhood and not really interacting with the outside world to have any substantial memories of it, but it's a year that seems as if it would have been depressing, even from just the point of view of some of the pop music we got in that year, it seems that it actually was quite a drab year.
2002 was also a pretty depressing year as well, as was 2003 with the start of the Iraq War.
Yes. The year that Labour took over:o
Can you please explain what that has to do with the topic of this thread?
Or the students
Well done for that old chestnut. They might be shift workers or work from home.
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As for me personally, it would be 1991. December specifically, where I lost my job, my girlfriend (at the time), wrote my car off and got assaulted (meaning I couldn't spend Christmas with family) all in the same month.
Or people that work night shifts even.