Word: bummers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...longer emerging. It's here. The gap between what I cover as a journalist and how I live widens daily. Despite a long-held fascination with the shine and beep of all things high tech, I'm becoming more of a fumbling Luddite. And that's a bummer, because any digiratus will tell you that not only does technology change quickly but the pace at which it changes is accelerating. According to this logic, in 10 years we'll be buying newer models of obsolete gadgets still in development...
...Katey Stone said. “I don’t mean it in a derogatory way because they worked their tails off. But games like this you want to see it happen clean, so the bounce of the puck—that’s kind of a bummer...
California Recall? What a Bummer...
...Asia's hoteliers-seasoned innkeepers who have stared down many a crisis-this summer will be a write-off and SARS is the worst bottom-line bummer they can remember. It's worse, and much longer, than the slumps that followed 9/11, the Bali bombing, the Iraq war and even the Asian currency crisis. "Devastating," Palmer calls it. A last-quarter spike in visitor numbers is more than a prediction these days: it's an article of millennial faith...
...eyes, for those are the only facial features visible above surgical masks. (Oh, and the ears, if that's your fetish.) Usually packed hangouts?bars, clubs, karaoke parlors and restaurants?are no-go zones, while each day brings news of more concert cancellations. And it's an equal-opportunity bummer: the Rolling Stones, Santana and DJ Shadow have all said no. Even Mong Kok's celebrated prostitutes are losing customers. Hong Kong's new leisure activity? Breathlessly anticipating the Health Department's early-evening release of the number of new SARS cases that day. If the tally is more than...