Amalgamblog

As each decade dawns, there is anticipation and excitement over what the next ten years will bring. Sometimes the decade lives up to the hype, but more often there are huge disappointments. A quick disclaimer, some of you may disagree with what counts as a disappointment. So just remember that this is one man’s opinion. Here are ten of the biggest disappointments from 2000-2009:

10. Y2K

The computers aren’t programmed to withstand changing to a double zero year. What are we gonna do?! Store up water, grab some canned food, load up the shot guns!! But wait . . . nothing happened. This decade (along with this list) started of with a disappointment and Y2K delivered.

9. X-Men Origins: Wolverine

I am a big supporter of both the X-Men in genreal and the movies, so when the Wolverine movie was announced I was a bit anxious. Then I saw the Wolverine movie. Between the atrocious CGI and countless characters falling from the ceiling just in the nick of time, it was hard to be anything but let down by this movie.

8. Snuggies

The disappointment here isn’t the product itself . . . even if it is just a giant backwards robe. The disappointment is that they are still being produced and dare say it “improved” upon. Why people? Why? Are old fashioned blackets really that complicated?

7. Twilight

Vampires! Fighting werewolves! Good music on the movie soundtrack! How could you lose? Start by not using vampires, write it all at a third grade reading level, and have every person with way too much free time to hype it up to the point of annoyance. Disappointment delivered!

6. Auto-tune

Pioneered by Daft Punk, a techno/robot band from outer space, the effect was created to enable people with no real singing talent to sound like robots with no real singing talent. This was all well and good when used by Daft Punk about four other groups you’re never going to hear but then something horrible happened: T-Pain. After he started using auto-tune, the radio was flooded with robot singing non-singers and auto-tune earneds its number 6 on the list.

5. Seesalt staffer and Amalgamblogger Anna Ruffner

She knows what she did.

4. Sesame Street

A staple for youth since the 70s sesame has always tought the lit’lens about numbers and reading and such. But in the past decade the street has started to look a little different. It started out with the corruption of a staple character, Cookie Monster. Apparently enjoying a sweet snack every now and again isn’t acceptable. Changing his name to the veggie monster most viewers turned a blind eye to this discrepancy. The biggest disappointment however came with the elimination of classic characters: Oscar the Grouch, Grover, Bert and Earnie. These were my favorites!!! And now they’re gone.

[Editor's Note: Okay, I had to jump in here. The entire previous paragraph is pretty much lies or at least distorted truth. The Veggie Monster thing is an urban legend. The furry blue guy still downs chocolate chip cookies; he just also promotes healthy eating habits. Also Oscar, Grover, Bert, and Ernie haven't been eliminated. They are just not featured as prominently (which is a disappointment). Nice use of the word "discrepancy" though.]

3. Obama

No matter if you supported his election or expected the end of the world Obama in office instantly set up expectations. And what has happened since? Nothing. No utopia nor the end of the world. I rest my case.

[Editor's Note: Probably a good time to mention that the Amalgamblog has readers from all over the political spectrum.]

2. Segways

Back in 2001 the country had just settled from Y2K and was getting used to not writing 19 in the year when an announcement came down the line to shake our very foundation! A new invention was going to be revealed that would effect the world more than the light bulb! What was the exciting machine? The Segway. Your already disappointed in just reading the name aren’t you? The hype behind this machine was intense only to have nothing to show for it. This was supposed to revolutionize personal transportation and i don’t know one person who owns one. Heck, i don’t know one preson who knows one person who owns a Segway.

1. The Past 10 Years

That’s right people the biggest disappoint of the past decade is, in fact, the last decade. Let’s go back to a simpler time when people looked to the new millinium as a time of pure invention and miracle cures! Robots to do our physical labor and mankind in prefect harmony with earth and machine. This wasn’t that long ago, I’m sure some of us remember these hopes and dreams. What do we have to show for ourselves? Personal robots? No. Hover crafts? No. Jet packs? No. Food in pill form? Nope. Laser blasters? Almost . . . but still no. If this isn’t a disappointment for us all I don’t know what is. So in closing a leave you with this cry of disappointment: “Where’s my Jet Pack, 2000s!? Where is it!?”

Tags: 2000-2009, Anna Ruffner, Auto-tune, Obama, segway, Sesame Street, Snuggies, Twilight, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Y2K

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