If you happen to be playing a drinking game where you do a shot every time a piece of writing on the internet opens with a description of how hellish the year 2020 has been, then rack up the Aftershock, baby, because we’re going in for another round!No one is exaggerating when they say this year has been the fucking pits. Great unrest, however, does also bring great change, and 2020 has seen liberal helpings if both. Most of that change has not been great – the bar for what could realistically be described as “good” is an occasion wherein the worst possible outcome did not happen for a change. Say, Donald Trump losing the election, or, in the words of Tinashe, simply managing to make it through this year without getting sick or pregnant. But it hasn’t been all bad, either.
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With that in mind, let us take a breather during these last few days of one of the most historically eventful years on record, and think about the things, people and concepts lost to the sands of 2020.The first thing to go this year was anything resembling fun. Everything from house parties to karaoke to touching your face in public – banned, boarded up, out of reach. In the fully vaccinated future, not even the smallest of pleasures can be taken for granted. I never thought I’d be so excited to once again pick my nose in Big Lidl.OK, not really. But remember those few days in April when we all thought the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom legitimately might die of COVID?There were several points this year (and I’m sure there will be more in 2021) when fucking someone you didn’t live with was a chargeable criminal offence. A ban on casual sex was literally enshrined in British law, hampering the body count of slags across the nations and creating a steep rise in the amount of empty condom packets visibly strewn around public parks. Or; how years of political grifting by an inadequate Dr Karbunkle look-alike that even David Cameron disliked enough to describe as a “career psychopath” were undone by a trip to Durham.
A – ACTIVITIES
B – BORIS JOHNSON
C – CASUAL SEX
D – DOMINIC CUMMINGS’S CAREER
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E – ECONOMY, THE
F – FESTIVALS
G – “GOING SHOP U WANT ANYTHING? X”
H – HIGH STREET BRANDS
I – INFLUENCERS
J – JK ROWLING’S REPUTATION
K – KARDASHIANS, THE
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L – LANDLORDS
M – MEALS
N – NEW SEASONS OF TV SHOWS WE WERE ALL WAITING FOR
O – OFFICE CULTURE
P – PRINCE PHILLIP
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Q – QANON SUPPORTERS BEING A ‘NICHE INTERNET THING’
R – ROYAL FAMILY, THE
S – SOCIAL MEDIA
T – TIME, THE CONCEPT OF
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