Note: Every once in a while it is useful to pause and acknowledge a simple truth: some people and some things just suck.
This list began as a running private inventory of small irritations, cultural curiosities, and a few genuinely unpleasant phenomena encountered along the way. Over time it grew into something closer to a catalog—part complaint, part humor, part observational anthropology. Some of the items here are serious. Others are petty. A few are probably irrational. That mixture is intentional.
In several cases I have written about particular entries elsewhere on the Kibbitzer in greater detail, and those pieces are linked where appropriate. The list itself, however, is not meant to be exhaustive or authoritative. It is simply a snapshot of one person’s occasionally cranky view of the world at a given moment.
Readers will almost certainly disagree with some items and feel strongly that other deserving candidates have been unfairly omitted. That is perfectly fine. In fact, it is part of the point.
If you have your own additions to the great and growing archive of things that suck, feel free to leave them in the comments.
Note: This list compiles people and things that suck. I have written about a few of these before at greater detail, and these pieces are linked. You think some things suck too. If so, feel free to drop a comment.
i) Liars, Posers, Nicholas Nassim Taleb, Joy Reid, Neil DeGrasse Tyson
ii) Bill Gates, Microsoft, Skype, Soft-water
iii) Orthodontists
iv) CNN (RIP Larry King)
v) Prince Andrew, Child Traffickers
vi) Gluten (just because I’m allergic. Of course pizza is awesome, but…)
vii) Corn Nuts, Corn Syrup
viii) The Bangkok Airport, The Seattle Airport
ix) Mia Zapata’s Murder, Death of Kurt Cobain
x) PUAs (Neil Strauss found them interesting but they pretty much suck)
xi) Hoarders
xii) People Who Disrespect Old Folks
xiii) Car Air Fresheners (especially vanilla), Vanilla Candles
xiv) Most Prog-Rock (including the band Yes)
xv) Game of Thrones (I’m not sure it sucks but there sure are a lot of hairy people in the forest)
xvi) Vomiting
xvii) Homophobes
xviii) Chat GPT’s Mr. Model Spec, the nasty little gremlin.
xviii) The AI Claude (Paging Mr. Editor, paging Dean sempai!)
xix) Centralized Digital Currency, Sneaky Upcharges
xx) Random Credit Card Holds (super sucky)
xxi) Bad Service, Impolite People Generally
xxii) Members Only Clubs (I wanna go where I wanna go, baby)
xxiii) Munchausen by Proxy, the Conservatorship of Britney Spears
xxiv) Most Conservatorships
xxv) Quicksand
xxvi) Cigars (sorry they just do)
xxvii) Being Broke
xxviii) The Film Nocturnal Animals
xxix) Milwaukee’s Best (the Beast)
xxx) Starbucks’ Food
xxxi) Lists
xxxii) The Color Brown