Sharon Needles

I love celebrities, and I love the concept of fame, but it took me getting fame to realize that it doesn't exist, which was kind of a bummer. Fame is great if you're not famous, because it seems like this elusive impossible dream world. And it's not. It's a fancy word that managers and producers make up so they can keep hawking you for more money.

American Entertainer

Rachel Dratch

Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.

American Comedian

Hunter S. Thompson

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

American Journalist

Chelsea Handler

You can't fast-forward heartbreak, and you can't rewind love - and that's just one big bummer.

Selena Gomez

I feel like I look 16 sometimes, which is a bummer, because I would love to date older guys.

American Actress

Jennifer Aniston

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.

Lauv

I do feel like I'm a little too much of a bummer sometimes.

American Musician

Fred Armisen

I learned at 'SNL' that it's a bummer to bum people out.

Suze Orman

American Author

Ben Gibbard

Used informally among friends or in casual conversation, not in professional settings.

Colloquial Use

Commonly used to express sympathy when responding to minor disappointments or problems.

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Reserve for moments of genuine disappointment to avoid sounding insensitive or dismissive.

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May appear in historical texts or media set in the past, referring to American history.

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Carries a negative judgment about a person's work ethic or contribution.

Negative Connotation

 - String cheese, yeah. - I don't know if that's exactly what you feed a dog. At first he was, like, all and then he ate, like, like, half a chunk of string cheese. And I was like we better cut him off. I don't want him to-- And then didn't he poop in the cameraman's sleeping bag? - Yeah, he like-- - So, that was kind of a bummer.

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 light meter how would you know we see other examples of problems like this so here's the neonatal intensive care unit where moms come in to visit their babies and keep in mind that mom maybe just had a c-section okay so that's already kind of a bummer mom's visiting her kid she

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 honestly I was proud that I could rally while everyone else slept and besides I was liquored up on caffeine I didn't have time for a bummer reality check then she said that she had been going to be a meetings that's short for debtors anonymous now I'm thinking she's really

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 significant bite out of the Sun right I have to just point out real quick that my safety glasses are a little yes I'm losing all the bragging rights here and we should mention that they need to be ISO certified glasses there are some fakes out there which is a huge bummer

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 of a presidential command. So I know this is a bummer of an issue, and maybe you have that -- what was it? -- psychic fatigue that we heard about a little bit earlier. So I'm going to switch gears for just a second, and I'm going to talk about my imaginary friend,

The world doesn't need...

 dumping raw or partially treated sewage into our waterways. The other bummer going on here with our status quo is that half of all of your poop and pee is going to fertilize farmland. The other half is being incinerated or land-filled. And that's a bummer to me,

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 and you don't really have a point of reference; you're always relying on your ears and adjusting constantly. You just have to always adjust to what's happening and realize you'll have bummer notes come here and there

Theremin, the...

 And I said, "Oh, girls, Dad is a very important journalist, that just wouldn't do at all." And of course, they immediately concluded, "Oh, what a bummer, Dad. Journalists aren't allowed to have flashy wheels.

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 We need all of our bees. So what are we going to do? What are we going to do about this big bee bummer that we've created? It turns out, it's hopeful. It's hopeful. Every one of you out there can help bees

Marla Spivak: Why bees...

 Google said no, it's kind of a bummer." He said, "Well, we have the Bing searches." Yeah. That's great. Now I felt like I was -- I felt like I was talking to Nick again.

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