It's going to be a bummer to lose the hemlocks".
It doesn't have to be a bummer to talk about your relationship if it's a regular thing that you do, not something that you only do when one of you is super pissed.
Even one or two drinks can be enough to register on a breathalyzer test, leading to a bummer of a birthday night.
This collective dream begins to disintegrate rather fuzzily (cue the Vietnam War), coming to a bummer climax in the 1970s (cue an unsmiling Jimmy Carter in a cardigan) and culminating in the ascension of the Smiler in Chief, Ronald Reagan, whom Mr. Moore introduces as a "spokesmodel for president".
And in its modest, at times awkward, way, this little movie with the big movie star tries to bring us into a conversation that, at least in this country, is often relegated to the bummer front pages of your daily paper or glimpsed on television in between diet tips and, yes, news about Brangelina.
It is this want of resolution — of the will to believe that a movie, like a poem, can deliver a person or a predicament straight into our hands — that leads to a bummer like "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
The rock band Dinosaur Jr. played a gig at Warsaw in Brooklyn on Tuesday night, and awoke at its Long Island City hotel yesterday morning to a bummer: "Their trailer had been broken into and all of the gear has been taken," read a posting by the band's manager at the Web site for J Mascis, the guitarist.
Your friends party is canceled and you looked forward to going, bummer, but now at least you can have a family movie night.
It is a bummer to have to leave your newborn at home if you aren't ready to".
