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With natural disasters like the floods in Pakistan, fire tornadoes in Brazil, impending hurricanes off the Carolinas, and LeBron James ... was this the worst summer ever?One writer over at Salon thinks it's certainly up there with the worst summers on record, dubbing 2010 "The Summer of Suck."
It was hot and everybody was so broke that somehow those vacation plans never came to fruition. (Not even the picnic!) Our favorite bands came out with lackluster albums and the normally reliable pop machine failed to produce a hit, so much so that a placeholder video for a patently bitter Cee Lo song became the last-ditch song of the summer (while, coincidentally, the biggest news stories revolved around dramatic, angry exits from crappy jobs).
Politically? Everything was such a gigantic mess that we don't even want to get into it, so instead we'll just say did you hear that Bristol Palin is going to be on "Dancing With the Stars"? Did you accidentally catch a glimpse of Miley Cyrus's crotch? Hey, remember that oil spill thing that happened? And the Glenn Beck rally and vuvuzelas and ohmygod what is wrong with everything?
How much did your summer suck? Share your back-sweaty nightmare stories -- or refute us with your precious moments -- in the comments.
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Friday 03 September
By bethany
This was definitely the best summer of my 18 years! i worked at a boyscout camp and learned a lot and made so many new friends! i also worked up the courage to break up with my obsessive boyfriend of almsot 2 years and start my own business!
needless to say its been amazing!
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Sunday 05 September
By Purplesquirrel
we lost a baby, our first. There will never be a summer as soul-crushing as this one.
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Monday 06 September
By Avisha
It was a bitter sweet summer for me. My boyfriend of 6 months broke up with me via text message. I learned that may have been cheating. Either way, he had another girlfriend two months after. I took three months, before I started dating again. In those months, I had so so much fun...getting to know myself, visiting Rome and Florence, hanging out with friends, etc. For everything we go through, I believe that things happen for a reason.
Purplesquirrel: I'm very very sorry to hear about your loss.
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Wednesday 08 September
By newgradstudent
It started out with one of my boyfriend's best friends going around and telling every single attendee at my boyfriend and I's joint college graduation party how I was awful for him and how he deserves someone better, and managed to convince my boyfriend's sister. I've been dating my boyfriend for over two years. He had known me that entire time, and NEVER mentioned to me that I was doing anything wrong. I had in fact considered my boyfriend's best friend to be one of my closest friends. And I now have crippling self doubt and horrible self esteem.
Later that summer my boyfriend's mom was hospitalized (twice), I was hospitalized three times, I lost my job, my sister joined the army...
And my uncle's brain cancer came back.
So this was the summer of suck.
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