11 Examples That Prove 2016 Is The Worst Year Ever And Should Be Banned

With wet-lipped topee enthusiast, Donald Trump, taking the presidency of the US we've come to a conclusion: 2016 has been a big hape of shite. With more death and misery than a Game of Thrones season finale it has been a write off and we're still not done.

Here's our iron-clad argument for 2016 being an absolute mess.

1. Brexit

The British public voted to leave the European Union with the Brexit vote. This summarily sent the pound plummeting downwards while simultaneously stamping a big question mark on the future of the Irish economy.

Headed up by smug faced spokes-git Nigel Farage, Brexit was a jaw-dropping shit show from start to finish, and seen a 400% increase in hate crimes against ethnic minorities following the vote.

2. ISIS had its big year out

Black-clad terror group ISIS, had had a breakout year inflicting more misery and dread on the world than a thousand Eastenders specials. The jihadi jackasses spent the majority of 2016 committing atrocities in Syria, claiming other atrocities, like the Nice terror attack, and getting bombed by the Russians.

If they could keep up that last part that would be fantastic.

3. We lost David Bowie

Androgynous musical genius, David Bowie, passed away suddenly two days after his 69th birthday from liver cancer. His life was a cultural event that reestablished the meaning of celebrity and redefined music.

4. The many scandals of the Olympic Games

Ireland's performance in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games was marred by two prominent scandals.

First, boxer Michael Conlan was robbed of a gold medal after the AIBA announced that his opponent, Russian bruise collector, Vladimir Nikitin, had won their match. Conlan was understandably furious at the result, seeing as he had easily trounced the borsht-chugging cheater. He later calmly stated that “AIBA cheats, they’re f**king cheats."

Secondly, Pat Hickey, former senior Irish Olympic official, became the focal point of a media circus when he was arrested in his hotel room by Brazilian authorities in connection with an investigation on ticket touting and corruption.

5. Harambe memes

Staff at a Cincinnati zoo shot and killed a silverback gorilla named Harambe, after a child somehow fell into his enclosure. Harambe had been dragging the child around infant of terrified crowd, forcing the zoo staff to take action.

The death of the beast was a tragic incident but the really horror came when the internet got their hands on the incident.

For MONTHS Harambe memes flooded social media, fuelled by the guffaws of thick, small-minded morons. Like all memes it eventually died, but only once every single knuckle dragging churl with a WiFi connection had shared it in one protracted frenzy of anti-humour.

6. Prince died

Purple-clad song-dwarf, Prince, tragically died of an overdose of fentanyl in April. Regarded as one of the greatest musicians of all time his death shocked a world already reeling form the death of David Bowie. Though his output hadn't been as good in latter years we can all agree that Raspberry Beret is the best hat-related song of all time.

7. Clowns

In other idiotic-internet-in-joke news, 'Creepy clowns' suddenly became a major pressing topic as humourless dolts across the US and UK began dressing up in coloured wigs and make up in order to menace people. In the run up to the US presidential election the god forsaken clowns got nearly as much media coverage as the primaries.

8. Muhammad Ali passed

Muhammad Ali: black rights activist, philanthropist, and the greatest boxer of all time passed away at the age of 74 from a respiratory illness. His death prompted an outpouring of tributes from the international community and a convenient refusal to mention his controversial, but justified views on racism by the American establishments.

9. Suicide Squad was awful

Despite promising marketing, DC's latest dour-fest, Suicide Squad, proved to be a total joke of a film. Not even a energetic performance from Margot Robbie could save it.

It will regrettably go down in history as a film that gave awful indie-dross band, 21 Pilots money to appear on its soundtrack.

It also featured Jared Leto's joker, a villain with the mannerisms and menace of a 13-year-old who drank too much Red Bull at a teen disco.