Things That Suck

Lighten up, people. It's just a list! This is not just MY list. It was made up by scores of people around the world who sent in their suggestions. Don't forget to visit the Things That Don't Suck list too!

If your panties are in a wad about this list, then you'll like the other one much better.


  • Frank Luntz
  • Robert Novak
  • Tucker Carlson
  • Delays (such as "Tom")
  • David Norris
  • Alan Keyes
  • Karen Hughes
  • Karl Rove
  • Warren Sapp
  • Ann H. Coulter
  • Bill O'Reilly
  • George W. Bush
  • The Governator
  • Enron
  • cooked books
  • Rick Santorum
  • the price of gas
  • Blackouts
  • Halliburton
  • Raymond Peebler
  • Saddam Hussein
  • Uday Hussein
  • Strom Thurmond
  • Kim Jong Il
  • David Gest
  • Hair loss
  • TMJ
  • Trent Lott
  • Botox parties
  • Fruitcake
  • Hairballs
  • Donna Hanover (greedy ex-Mrs. Giuliani)
  • Ringworm
  • Arthritis
  • Slugs
  • Carson Daly
  • Charlton Heston
  • Osama bin Laden
  • Lock Vista Apartments
  • Suhrco Mgmt. Co.
  • Cottage cheese
  • Virginia McMillan, D.D.S.
  • Margaret Winkels
  • Dubya
  • Sinusitis
  • Taheed & Ytossie
  • Blindness
  • Sickle cell anemia
  • Pimento cheese
  • Andy Rooney
  • Insect bites
  • Fights/Arguments
  • Puppy Mills
  • Pet Stores
  • Rep. Bud Shuster
  • Tom Green
  • Bobby Knight
  • Bruce Harvey
  • Neal Boortz
  • Ray Lewis
  • John Rocker
  • Sarah Slagle
  • Clay Harbin
  • Cloud 9 "Pet Resort"
  • L. Ron Hubbard
  • LFO
  • Collective Soul
  • Slobodan Milosevic
  • Potholes
  • The Offspring
  • Artistic differences
  • Propaganda
  • Alcoholics
  • Prejudice
  • when coffee goes cold
  • Joan Rivers
  • Neal Horsley
  • Geocities banner ads
  • Monica Lewinsky
  • Leroy Lounibos
  • Lockjaw / Hydrophobia
  • Broken hearts
  • Braggarts
  • Brussel sprouts
  • "just be(ing) friends"
  • Animal Circuses
  • When Animals Attack!
  • P.M.S.
  • Silverfish
  • Paper cuts
  • Byron "Low Tax" Looper
  • Hypocrisy
  • Ethnic cleansing
  • Child abuse
  • Hard jeans
  • Tight jeans
  • Mutated genes
  • Federal Records Service
  • Shipwrecks
  • Melodrama
  • Cafeteria food
  • Paranoia
  • Wannabes
  • Nightmares
  • Guilt
  • Crowds
  • Drunk people
  • Earthquakes
  • Missing puzzle pieces
  • the American Family Association
  • Bad hygiene
  • Bunions
  • Guns
  • Puff Daddy/P. Diddy
  • "Goth" freaks
  • Running out of toilet paper
  • Reggie White
  • Beanie babies
  • seniors who still drive
  • Mike Bowers
  • Falling asleep at work
  • Paula Jones
  • Linda Tripp
  • Ken Starr
  • Full parking lots
  • Jellyfish stings
  • Aggressive drivers
  • Godzilla
  • School of the Americas
  • Burned toast / burned cookies / scorched popcorn
  • Local news coverage
  • Smoking
  • Tobacco
  • Jihad
  • Terry Nichols
  • George "the DUI Lawyer" Stein (Vehicular homicides are his specialty!)
  • the 7-10 split
  • Vanilla Ice
  • Milli Vanilli
  • Double-dippers
  • Scientology
  • Road rash
  • Getting dumped
  • Close-talkers
  • Nasal congestion
  • John Walker Lindh
  • Snuff
  • WWF/WCW Wrestling
  • Nat'l Org. of Internet Marketing
  • Spice Girls
  • Boy bands
  • Toothaches
  • Doom
  • Dread
  • Hate
  • Babies with pierced ears
  • Getting struck by lightning
  • Ignorance
  • Heroin
  • Intolerance
  • Last call
  • Paparazzi
  • Rejection
  • Road construction detours
  • Road rage
  • Constipation
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Short Notice
  • Being broke
  • Men with breasts
  • Gray areas
  • Noise
  • Rape
  • Divorce
  • Pedophiles
  • S.I.D.S. - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
  • Repitition
  • Hanson
  • Cocaine
  • Fur coats
  • Burning the rainforests
  • Fake boobs
  • Frank Gifford
  • Tim McVeigh
  • Spam
  • "Dixie" car horns
  • Chiggers
  • the Confederate flag
  • Jet lag
  • Teasing
  • Soap operas
  • Toll booths
  • Ineptitude
  • Uday Hussein
  • Depression
  • Repression
  • Ralph Reed
  • the Christian Coalition
  • the Plague
  • Lyme disease
  • Mike Tyson
  • People who don't vote
  • Stress
  • Adobe PageMaker
  • the N.Y. Mets
  • Stephen "Sue-em-all" Yagman
  • Beverly LaHaye
  • the Independent Film Channel
  • John Gotti
  • Sammy "the Bull" Gravano
  • "Cosa Nostra"
  • Sentences that end in a preposition
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Back hair
  • Forgetting how a dream ends
  • Almost sneezing
  • Growing apart from your friends
  • Lice
  • Beggars
  • Sunburn
  • Tardiness
  • Religious Cults
  • Montgomery Burns
  • Martin Lawrence
  • Robert Downey, Jr.
  • When a vending machine rejects your dollar
  • Doing laundry
  • East-West Rap Wars
  • Notorious B.I.G.
  • Refolding a map
  • Suckers
  • Charles Manson
  • the Iditarod
  • Erris Mail Order Marketing Business
  • Frat boys
  • Monkey movies
  • Leaving your headlights on
  • Hockey fights
  • Reverse discrimination
  • Yappy dogs
  • Coitus Interruptus
  • Plotless movies
  • Fighting with your best friend
  • Generic brand products
  • Leaky pens
  • Math classes
  • Melrose Place
  • Chess players
  • Smart-asses
  • Welfare cheats
  • Leftover Christmas lights
  • People who name their kids "Barbi," "Candi," "Buffy," etc.
  • The Grammy Awards
  • Celine Dion
  • Mariah Carey
  • the Cranberries
  • Conformists
  • Seafood
  • Mistaking baking chocolate for real chocolate
  • Fingernails on a chalkboard
  • When someone steals your idea
  • When someone takes your place
  • When you hit your funny bone
  • Magic: The Gathering
  • Dungeons and Dragons
  • Alanis Morisette
  • When an airline loses your luggage
  • Long-distance relationships
  • Ruptured discs
  • Gennifer Flowers
  • Sailor Moon
  • Female Circumcision
  • Priapism
  • Meteors
  • Fred Tokars
  • People who say things like: "Anyways", "Ick-cetera", "nuke-you-ler"...
  • the Apocalypse
  • "Wide-leg" jeans
  • When you can't get to sleep on Christmas Eve
  • Ebonics
  • When you can't stay awake on New Year's Eve
  • "Miracle" meccas
  • FORCES
  • ATMs That Charge for use
  • Charles Keating
  • Rubberneckers
  • Jerry Falwell
  • Freedom Airlines
  • the Abominable Snowmonster
  • Cheaters
  • Fat guys in Speedos
  • Drive-by shootings
  • MS-DOS
  • the Oasis brothers
  • Make-up companies that experiment on animals
  • Albert Belle
  • Forgetting your deodorant
  • Twinkies
  • Running out of printer paper
  • Taco Bell
  • Escherichia Coli
  • Gas Station restrooms
  • People who dis' the Suck List
  • Bubba the Love Sponge
  • Slow downloads
  • Liars / Lies
  • Dust mites
  • Goodbyes
  • Ol' Dirty Bastard
  • People who don't use keyboard shortcuts
  • Discrimination
  • Bob Dornan
  • K.I.S.S.
  • Indecision
  • People who leave their engine running at gas pumps
  • Leprosy
  • Violence
  • Pessimists
  • Accidently setting your alarm for p.m. instead of a.m.
  • Mondays
  • the Ku Klux Klan
  • Dot matrix printers
  • Running out of Halloween candy
  • PEOPLE WHO TYPE E-MAIL IN CAPS
  • Pork rinds
  • Sally Struthers
  • Out-of-order ATMs
  • James Traficant
  • Hairspray
  • People who wear too much cologne/perfume
  • Richard Simmons
  • When fast food joints screw up your order
  • People with nasal voices
  • Perky people
  • Amway / Avon
  • Speedwalkers
  • People who stare
  • Smudgy newspaper ink
  • Dirty public restrooms
  • Having to work on a holiday
  • Headaches
  • Infomercials
  • Olestra / Olean
  • Stale potato chips
  • Unwanted romantic advances
  • When dogs sniff your crotch
  • Rodeos
  • Newman
  • the Atlanta Falcons
  • When innocent people get convicted
  • When guilty people get off
  • Overpaid/Underpaid people
  • Denial
  • Being a latch-key kid
  • Pollution
  • When you have to explain a joke
  • Overcrowded prisons
  • Roberto Alomar
  • Trial Consultants
  • Kathie Lee Gifford
  • Sweat shops
  • John Tesh
  • David Nachman
  • John "Harrier" Leonard, Jr.
  • "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap
  • Unions
  • Bryan Ohno
  • Wet pet food commercials that show the food
  • Junk mail
  • Junk E-Mail
  • Pigeons
  • People who don't pronounce 'h's in words {EX: yoo-man (human), yoo-j (huge)}
  • Election issues where a "No" vote means "Yes"
  • Elitism
  • When things roll under the couch or fridge
  • Dying (but not quite dead) roaches
  • "Vote for (whomever)" signs left up from the last election
  • Drive-through window clerks who drop your change
  • Broken election promises
  • Wrapped patties of butter that are too cold to spread
  • the Macarena
  • Grungy buildup at the mouth of a ketchup bottle
  • Bald Tires
  • 3-Way light bulbs that only work 1-way
  • "Baby On Board" Signs
  • G. Gordon Liddy
  • Boxing
  • Worms
  • Vampires
  • Leeches
  • Dentures
  • Overdue library books
  • Mandy Allwood
  • Olympic Traffic
  • Militia Groups
  • David Duke
  • The Menendez brothers
  • Gary and Tealisa Downes
  • Unrequited Love
  • The Margaret Mitchell House (The "Dump")
  • Sour milk
  • Marion Barry
  • People who don't wear seatbelts while driving
  • Diabetes
  • Nazis
  • Jocks and Macho types
  • Mad cow disease
  • Homophobia
  • Stalking
  • People who talk to themselves
  • Chinese water torture
  • Dennis Rodman, and people like him
  • Poor sportsmanship
  • Dropping something jelly-side down
  • Broken bones
  • Computer Viruses
  • Dentist visits
  • Leftovers
  • Having a stupid song stuck in your head
  • Just missing something
  • Funny smells in small rooms
  • Physical therapy
  • Exhaustion
  • the I.R.A.
  • That not-so-fresh feeling
  • Dandruff
  • Dander
  • Women who complain that they're fat, when they really aren't
  • Learning Calculus
  • 9-Pin printers
  • Trekkies
  • Jackhammers
  • Car alarms
  • Presidential debates
  • Driver's license mugshots
  • the Budweiser frogs
  • the Energizer bunny
  • Tabloid newspapers
  • People who don't tip
  • Being the butt of a joke
  • People who put "quotations" around everything
  • Silent letters (gnat, pneumonia)
  • Pretentious middle initials
  • Rainbow-colored horizontal rules
  • No more Far Side cartoons
  • Touching ice with wet hands
  • Movies based on Saturday Night Live characters
  • Popcorn stuck between your teeth
  • Settling for less
  • Rain after you wash your car
  • Animals in cages
  • Bullfights
  • Tom Metzger
  • Racism
  • Allergies
  • Morning Breath
  • Bob Dole
  • Pat Buchanan
  • SnoopDoggieDoggie
  • Jebediah Springfield
  • Gum stuck to your shoe
  • The Spot / Web Soap Operas
  • Double spacing after a period.
  • Satan
  • the late Helen Kushnick
  • Boredom
  • Puck
  • Wal-Mart
  • Falling and not being able to get up
  • Spit
  • Chewing Tobacco
  • Lawyers
  • Rumors
  • The Nanny
  • Dennis the Menace
  • Joey Lawrence
  • LaToya Jackson
  • Psychic Hotlines
  • The hole in the ozone layer
  • People who don't believe there's a hole in the ozone layer
  • Net Censorship
  • People who quote an entire e-mail message, (w/ signature), to reply to 1 question
  • Non-sequiters
  • Rev. Jim Jones, Jonestown, Guyana
  • People with 13 items in the "10 items or less" line
  • Non-functional outdoor water fountains
  • Barely functional dribbling water fountains
  • People in theatres who talk during the movie
  • 13
  • Cold toilet seats
  • Warm toilet seats
  • Fuzzy toilet seat covers
  • Plastic wood finish toilet seat covers
  • Sanitary napkin / tampon commercials
  • Spaghetti splatter on a white shirt
  • Hairs in your shirt after a haircut
  • Warm salsa
  • Flat, warm soda
  • Forgetting where you put the cordless phone
  • Opera
  • Hand-me-downs
  • People who don't knock
  • Renting 2 movies, but watching just 1
  • Knock-knock jokes
  • Kevin Costner movies (except "Fandango")
  • "404, not found"
  • Drooling on your pillow / desk, while take a nap
  • Pringles commercials
  • Running out of Post-It's
  • Saved By The Bell
  • People who don't write back
  • When you get together with friends, but can't decide what to do
  • "Freeing Willy" ... again
  • When cool TV shows get cancelled
  • Baywatch
  • Thinking of a great comeback after an argument is over
  • Driving behind an open bed truck that's hauling pebbles
  • Driving behind a truck that's carrying logs
  • When you can't get the fire started in the fireplace
  • People who take over 10 minutes at the ATM
  • Home Shopping channels
  • When people hang up on your answering machine / voice mail
  • "No U Turn" intersections
  • Power Rangers
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Close-mindedness
  • Running with scissors
  • Thieves
  • Pickpockets
  • Felons
  • Bigotry
  • Blink
  • Mononucleosis
  • Lynx
  • The Big Sleep
  • Pessimism
  • The Mafia
  • New Kids on the Block
  • Innoculations
  • TV Producer, Tony "2Pay" Hoffman
  • Biscotti
  • Herpes
  • Eggnog
  • Ephedrine
  • The Windoze-Only CD in Bill Gates "The Road Ahead"
  • E-Mail Chain Letters
  • Freezer Burn
  • Gold Teeth
  • The Grinch
  • Cats that bite and/or scratch
  • Moose and Squirrel
  • Forgetting where you parked your car
  • Operation Rescue / NRLC
  • Tupac Shakur
  • Materialism and excess
  • Jay Leno
  • That tingly feeling when your foot falls asleep
  • Hypothermia
  • Frostbite
  • Saturday Night Live
  • Divine Brown
  • Waltons Thanksgiving Reunion Shows
  • Homelessness
  • Government Shutdown
  • Plaid
  • Beverly Hills, 90210
  • 2400 bps baud
  • People who park where it says "NO PARKING"
  • Dr. Pepper
  • Mentos Commercials
  • Bob Saget shows
  • "If it bleeds, it leads."
  • Canker sores
  • Blisters
  • the way Ivory soap disintegrates after a few days of use
  • The new Pert Plus formula
  • Mold / Mildew
  • Parents who don't put their kids in car seats
  • Gnats
  • Fleas
  • Poison Ivy / Poison Oak
  • the (first) O.J. verdict
  • Mark Fuhrman
  • Hurricanes
  • Tropical Storms
  • When the electricity goes out
  • When the cable goes out
  • Resetting all your clocks after the electricity goes out
  • Hiccups
  • Spiders / Snakes
  • Bad Hair Days
  • Wrinkles
  • Stains
  • Video Rental Late Fees
  • Ants
  • Mosquitos
  • Flies
  • Fraud
  • Ambulance Chasers
  • Johnny Cochran / the "Dream Team"
  • Missing socks
  • Flat tires
  • Job interviews
  • Typos
  • Pauly Shore
  • Floods
  • Jenny Jones, Ricki Lake, Jerry Springer, et. al...
  • Gas-Powered lawn tools
  • The Bible Belt
  • Psycho Ex-Girlfriends
  • Tornadoes
  • O.J. (the murderer, not the beverage)
  • Tom Shane commercials
  • Nausea
  • Cold Sweats
  • Flop Sweat
  • Warm beer
  • the DT's
  • Atlanta Summers
  • Insurance payments
  • Broken shoelaces
  • Biting your tongue (figuratively and literally)
  • Jock itch
  • Loan payments
  • Losing things
  • Breaking the tip off a freshly sharpened pencil
  • Picas
  • AIDS
  • Traffic Jams
  • The Sunshine Slowdown
  • When the bottom of your foot itches
  • Exploding Ink Pens
  • Debt
  • D.U.I.
  • Jesse Helms
  • Pepsi
  • Teflon-coated bullets
  • the Unabomber - Ted Kaczinsky
  • Power Surges
  • Rhetoric
  • War
  • Poodles
  • "Attention K-Mart Shoppers..."
  • Never a cop around when you need one
  • Fillibusters
  • Overexposed Film
  • Underexposed Film
  • Dishpan Hands
  • Poverty
  • Flesh-eating viruses
  • LDL Cholesterol
  • Pot bellies
  • Censorship
  • Potheads
  • Hangnails
  • Car dings
  • Pennies
  • Getting up before the sun
  • 80's slang
  • Panhandlers
  • Bad egg salad (isn't that a band?)
  • Egg salad
  • Enriched Wheat flour
  • Tap Water at the Beach
  • Speeding tickets
  • Pat Robertson
  • Hootie and the Blowfish
  • Greg Kucera
  • Humidity
  • Insomnia
  • Narcolepszzzzz
  • only 24 hours in a day
  • Working the graveyard shift
  • Joey Buttafuoco
  • The fact that the "Things That Don't Suck" list is shorter than this one
  • Brain Freeze
  • Forgetting things
  • When you're down to your last Mento
  • Condiment Crust
  • Fat Free Chocolate
  • Rainy Weekends
  • Expired coupons
  • Voice mail jail
  • That damn "chicken/egg" argument
  • When someone steals your license plate (5/2/95)
  • Getting used to the startling vibrations of a new pager
  • Phone tag
  • Pencils with no eraser
  • Pens with no ink
  • An itch that you can't reach
  • Helvetica and Times Roman
  • Bus Fumes
  • Blunt thumb tacks
  • Ticketmaster
  • When your Girl Scout Cookies run out
  • Terrorism
  • Squeaky brakes
  • Modem line noise
  • Freaknik
  • Running out of gas
  • Delinquent debtors
  • Dust bunnies
  • Losing an hour to that "Spring Forward" crap
  • Acid Indigestion
  • Hazing
  • Dead Ends
  • One-way streets
  • Dry skin
  • Static Electric shocks
  • Pollen on a freshly washed car
  • Bullies
  • Babies in Movie Theatres
  • Busy Signals
  • Mind games
  • Splinters
  • Termites
  • Roaches
  • MSG
  • Morning Eye Crud
  • Soap scum
  • Zacarias Moussaoui
  • People who don't use turn signals
  • Myclonic jerks
  • Radio D.J.s who put you on hold for 30 minutes
  • Newt Gingrich
  • Mr. Blackwell
  • Slow Putt Putters
  • Gangrene
  • Bow ties
  • Deer ticks
  • Congressional deadlock
  • Mudslinging
  • Postscript errors
  • Crack
  • Traffic Court
  • Taxes
  • Bruises
  • Braces
  • Static Cling
  • Stamp glue
  • Asbestos
  • Litter / Litterbugs
  • Nuclear weapons / waste / fallout
  • Cigarettes
  • Second-hand smoke
  • Barney the dinosaur
  • Bounced checks
  • Rabid dogs
  • Deadbeat Dads
  • Anchovies
  • Ingrown toenails
  • Styrofoam
  • People who can't pronounce: nuclear, amphitheatre,...
  • Dry heaves
  • Full parking lots
  • Waiting in long, slow lines
  • Frivilous lawsuits
  • Parties where you don't know anyone
  • Rats
  • Last place sports teams
  • Inflation
  • Disgruntled Postal workers
  • Bullets
  • Weak Condoms
  • AM radio
  • When you learn the truth about Santa Claus
  • Blue Laws
  • Colorized classic movies
  • Poorly-dubbed foreign films
  • Telemarketers
  • Rust
  • Plaque / Cavities / Tooth Decay
  • Cold Feet
  • Warts
  • Pencils without erasers
  • Dead batteries
  • Things made only for right handed people
  • Radio commercials
  • Lost keys
  • Going Bald
  • Toupees
  • Ear wax
  • Vacuums
  • My love life
  • Zits
  • the heel of a loaf of bread
  • Fabio
  • Used Car salesmen
  • Michael Bolton
  • Sanford 'Spam King' Wallace
  • Rush Limbaugh
  • Car mechanics that change your radio, mirrors, and seat position
  • Morning people
  • Decaffeinated coffee
  • Reruns on TV
  • the NRA
  • the Flu
  • Country & Western Music
  • Homework
  • Wet matches
  • Broccolli
  • Televangelists
  • Deadlines
  • Dirty Diapers
  • Halitosis
  • Diaper Rash
  • Toxic Waste
  • Long lists

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