Oh noes! We haven’t done this since October.
So, it’s time again to condemn. Here’s a fifteenth open condemnation thread. What’s getting up your goat this year so far? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious and other phenomena need condemnation? (Or loud denunciation?)
You can condemn anything you like except Canadian indie band Metric. But you can condemn the Myspace live performance audience on the vid for being the lamest evah!
Excellent!
I condemn the fact that I bought low fat yoghurt instead of chocolate cake. Heading to Gerbinos to rectify same!
It’s about time for a game of ‘Will-you-condemn-a-thon’, defined as:
Amusing internet pastime, in which several Decents quiz a pro-fascist, repeatedly demanding denunciation of a vast range of randomly-chosen murders, atrocities, war crimes and military actions in an increasingly hectoring tone.
“I agree, Guantanamo Bay is an affront to democratic ideals. But Will You Condemn Palestinian suicide attacks on Israeli restaurants?…
It’s all in the Encyclopedia, friends:
http://decentpedia.blogspot.com/2007/08/will-you-condemn-thon.html
While not being a great fan of Rudd, I condemn those who assert he is moving too slowly. FGS sake Rudd is about ‘evidence-based’ policy. He believes good policy will triumph over policy on the run. No rabbits out of hats.
In fact you will notice he doesn’t even wear a hat while in the bush. Bad!
I condemn the strange attraction large , shiny SUVs have on many people.
The current holidays have lead to my home district being overrun by them .
Aren’t we all getting to grips with energy usage efficiency these day ?
I condemn Hot Cross Buns. Buns in shops are fine in January, but when it’s hot, I get cross!
In light of today’s events on the share market I condemn John Winston Howard for his encouraging us to become a nation of shareholders.Anybody with the slightest knowledge of modern boom-bust economies should have been able to predict the current near-crash (if its not already a crash) was going to happen sooner or later. The share-market guru, George Souris [sp.?]says this is the worst share-market creash since WW2. Thats code for the Great Depression, which was still going in 1939. I feel sorry for all the mums and dads and retirees who have lost their nest eggs because they were stupid enough to believe in Howard’s rampant capitalism. I didn’t, being a socialist, so I aint lost nothing - yet.
I condemn Mark Bahnisch for writing so prolifically about politics over the last 6 weeks that he gives the rest of us a bad name.
I condemn tradesmen that can’t fix toilet lights
I condemn mosquitoes; I condemn low irritant Aerogard and fly spray.
I condemn the Veronicas, I condemn them because they too aren’t low irritant.
I condemn the Bulletin Magazine for providing the most piffle filled Summer Reading edition in living memory.
I join the chorus of people condemning Brendan Nelson’s hair
I condemn the Washington Speakers Bureau for not employing the services of John Winston Howard 10 years ago.
I condemn inflation - apparently it’s the fashionable thing to do.
I too condemn Rudds sideburns - the last thing we need is anything resembling a forelock for people to tug.
I condemn snooty MSM op-ed types that couldn’t think for themselves if someone belted them around the ears with an originality stick.
I condemn Holden for not making a twin turbo-diesel V8 SS Commodore.
I condemn cooking shows hosted by people that cannot cook.
And I condemn people that buy the Financial Review as a fashion accessory to be tucked under their arm, without them ever reading a damn page of it.
Hurrumph.
I condemn myself too Possum. More PhD, less writing about politics (hang on, thesis is about politics!)…
I condem VB, Tooheys New/Old, fourex, West End Draught etc for pretneding to be beer.
I condemn State oppositions across the land for being so piss weak.
I would agree with Paul Burns’ condemnation of Brendan Nelson’s hair, but this is hardly fair if the shape of BN’s head is - as I suspect - the consequence of him being possessed by Voldemort. Right-thinking people people everywhere should start referring to BN as ‘Baldemort’ to warn those who might otherwise be tempted to assume that the bulging brainbox means he is intelligent.
I condemn couriers that take 6 weeks (and counting) to find the University of Sydney!
Seriously though, I condemn, and will continue to curse, Mal Brough for masterminding the most ill-conceived, under-prepared, half-baked, hyphenated-noun, blatant attempt at destroying the Aboriginal Land Rights Act and using the chronic, trans-generational poverty and all its symptoms as a subterfuge, all of which will do nothing but ensure continued welfare dependency of aboriginal people, and ultimately, the marginalisation of indigeneity.
i condemn the universe for providing JWH with unparalleled positive economic conditions and being allowed to ride the boom - for which he did nothing to create.
And then allowing him to get kicked out, finally, just in time for the ALP to have the shit-fan turned on full blast.
bad universe.
I condemn mathematics (yet again) for making life both simple and difficult at the same time.
I condemn donuts for being so deliciously fatty and sugary.
I condemn my gym for being so crowded after work that it is discouraging me from going.
I condemn my new personal blog for being basically my old blog with a snazzy new title.
I condemn link whoring in all its forms.
I condemn myself for being a link whore.
I condemn interactive proof systems for being confusing.
I condemn error probability’s dependence on locality for being something tricky in the theory of fault tolerant quantum computation.
I condemn the tasty coffee from the cafe over the road that is beckoning me now.
I condemn Obamas, Clintons, Kodos’, and Kangs.
Oh come on now, the rightards are bleeding. Now is the time to indulge in stuff like this:
http://decentpedia.blogspot.com/
Take that, Hendo, Hitchens, and any other who wants to make an issue of it!
Well someone’s got to say it. I condemn Metric for ambling, unfocused and smug in-joke forward announcements and for ripping off late seventies new-wave grooves without at least pinching some decent hooks as well.
Feel free to correct me in person soon Kim. Mark has the details.
I also condemn:
- David Beattie for wimping out when he could have sent his battlecruiser squadron after von Hipper’s own squadron and so turned the Battle of Jutland into a decisive victory for the Grand Fleet;
- Pixar for not including any cats in Ratatouille. It’s Paris dudes. Would one Montmartreish Le Chat Noir scene kill the core story? I think not; and
- the complete Mongolian clusterfuck over redeveloping the St Kilda Triangle. No one can escape blame here from all levels of dithering, handwringing and arse-covering government to a greedy, dull-witted and equally incompetent private sector. And speaking as a former member of Save St Kilda, I can’t say the current local citizen pressure groups have really covered themselves with glory either during this latest contretemps about Melbourne’s sandpit.
I also condemn whoever’s handling the copyrights for the Gerry Anderson estate for not really thinking smart, hard and funky about you could really do with the IP. The Disney Thunderbirds movie was truly crap and Captain Scarlet in CGI completely misses all the clunky charm and chunky tech of the original.How about instead developing a gritty adult Captain Black and The Mysterons franchise on screen and in print? With bad Angels and a very Cloudedbase. It’d be be a hi-tech, sci-fi Hannibal Lector meets the 21st century vamped up Battlestar Galactica. Serial killers in snappy costumes from retro outer space. “Captain Black: Kill him again before he kills again.” Y’know, push some empathy, attitude and story angles for the legendary bad guys. Worked for the original Men In Black and Hellboy concepts. Sling Warren Ellis 50K to get a head of steam up for the bible.
I also condemn JJ Cale for only putting eight killer songs on Troubadour and this bottle of 2005 Heathcote Shiraz for only coming in the 750ml size. Time to spin some John Foxx-wired Ultravox and hit the distilled spirits I feel.
PRAISE VIA NEGATIVE SPACE DEPT.:
For the purposes of today’s business at least, I condemn all naturally-occurring paired song combinations in the world that don’t have the honor of being “Polythene Pam/She Came In Thru the Bathroom Window,” “Candle/Rain King,” or “16 Military Wives/Engine Driver.” Oh, and let’s throw in a special honor to the marvelous trifecta of Tori’s “The Wrong Band/The Waitress/Cornflake Girl,” even though the sequence woulda been broken up by a side change on the original vinyl. Wait, *was* there original vinyl for “Under the Pink,” or was it straight to CD? Shit, I can’t even remember the old days anymore…
“We’ll listen to that now. heh heh. Ooh, look out!”
I condemn the fact that most of the people I know would not have understood the previous (16) post and the spot-on-ness of it! How do they miss these great albums!
I condemn the Stralian MSM for mispronouncing eastern european fem tennis players’ names “-over” (to rhyme with ‘oaf’) rather than “-ova” (to rhyme with ‘of’).
I know it is hypocritical of me cos I pronounce Traminer as Tram-inner instead of Tram-meaner. And we invented the pavlova, so we can pronounce that any way we want. So there.
But when it gets to the stage where they talk over the official commentary (esp when they announce ‘advantage Sharapova/Kosnetsova etc) just so we don’t know the truth.
It’s a conspiracy, a dagger aimed at the heart of our democracy. Where will it all lead, tenisista’s names now, political bias in future?
Pierce Acupuncture, Andrew Blot, where are you when the big issues are up there?
I condemn all the faux-economists who think Rudd should break his election promise to slightly reduce income tax.
I condemn the Clueless News Network.
I condemn all the weekend newspapers who left their summer editions to be run by the work experience kids, making them even more innane than usual. And that in last weekend’s Australian the only cheerful section was Travel.
My condemn is for people who misuse the phrase “cannot be underestimated” when they *mean* ‘cannot be overestimated’.
The latest example is NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark who, at Sir Edmund Hillary’s funeral, said “Sir Ed’s achievement on that day cannot be underestimated.”
The semantics of her sentence are that no matter how little you think of Sir Ed’s achievement, you still wouldn’t be underestimating its importance…precisely the opposite of what one hopes she meant to say…
If your own grey matter is having trouble negotiating the semantic web, then consider the popular song lyric “so low, you can’t get under it”: that’s what “cannot be underestimated” means…
I condemn big grocery chains for not passing full exchange rate savings onto customers. I got so mad about it I e-mailed Rudd via my local member. Don’t know if it was a coincidence but that night Rudd announced his enquiry in grocery prices. Now that’s a quick response.
I too condemn Mal Brough for the reasons so excellently outlined by Jangari at 16.
I condemn Andrew Bolt for making a thing about Brendan Nelson not getting news coverage, and for being Andrew Bolt.
I condemn the NSW Labor Goverment for attempting to privatise electricity in that state.
i condemn myself for not getting out of bed in time to water the vegies, i condemn myself in advance for sloshing water all over the floor as i transfer the hbomb’s bath water onto said vegies for the rest of the week.
i condemn whoever implanted me with this ready sense of guilt. i have never been a catholic.
I condemn myself for being insufficiently aware of the film actor Heath Ledger, and hence being completely unprepared for what I expect will be a tsunami of “coverage” this evening on Mr Logie Baird’s quaint little machine in the corner of the lounge.
I join Mercurius in his quixotic campaign against verbal silliness, by adding the word “refute”: in a news broadcast we are told that Y has “refuted” X, but when they play the little sound-munch, it seems the reporter *meant* one of these: Y ‘diagreed with’, or Y ‘contradicted’, or Y ’scorned’, or Y ‘argued against’, or Y …. because in my book, “refuted” implies a certain proof, or production of convincing evidence that X made an error of fact.
I condemn the State Liberal leaders [a.k.a. Her Majesty’s Leaders of the Opposition] for being so slow to understand the damage the former PM was doing to their State parties; while applauding those amongst them who are now venting their distress in public.
I condemn sunny weather when I’m back at work.
I condemn the snobs who jeered at Casey Dellaqua’s shopping at Target [the boutique “Tar-zhay”]. I applaud Ms Sharapova’s sarcastic assessment of the tennis commentators when she was interviewed on telly after her victory last night.
cheerio
As Marks (18) was getting at, I condemn people who introduce decidedly English-sounding vowels (tense, in the phonetic nomenclature) into their pronunciation of names, places and languages that have lax vowels instead.
#26 - I condemn the field of linguistics for using “tense” to refer to something other than a temporal frame of reference.
I condemn the sound engineers responsible for the mass hearing damage inflicted at The Police concert at Suncorp last night.
I condemn Perth’s weather, not so much for the heat wave we will be getting over the long weekend, but for the easterly wind that brings with it pollens and other particles that aggravate my allergies and make my sinuses congest and my eyes become bloodshot and watery.
I condemn the use of the expression ‘could care less’ to mean its opposite, as per Mercurius at #22.
I believe I’ve already condemned this (in which case I preemptively condemn repeat condemnation [or should that be conemptively condemn, as I’m doing a thing while {triple} parenthetically condemning it]), but while we’re on linguistics I’d like to condemn the “repeated is” phenomenon. Wherein someone says, “the thing about ‘x’ is, is that ‘x’ sux to the max.”
Substitute ‘the repeated is phenomenon’ for ‘x’ to get an idea of what I mean. Why the second ‘is’? WWWWHHHYYYYYY?????
p.s. I hate you.
Odd, an even number of just 2 posts have condemned lil johny.
Have LP’rs gone to sleep, is the hate Howard mania over, is their exhaustion from the past ten years of Labor protest product.
Surely it cant be. I wonder what the stats are on Howard hating of last October were?
“I wonder what the stats are on Howard hating of last October were?”
Still on linguistics, I condemn that sentence.
Seriously though, Howard is receding into well-deserved and long-overdue obscurity.
Get used to it.
I condemn the superfluous expression, ‘make no mistake’, although I admit that it is a fairly reliable indicator that a preposterous load of bollocks is about to be served up. The ‘you would do well to’ beloved of John Greenfield is also awful.
Such facile waffle is probably more deserving of contemn than condemn but as there are no contemn threads I’ll have my whinge here
“Contemn”
I like it!
That is, I have for it no condempt.
I condemn local, aunty, melbourne for spending the whole day concentrating on the death of one celebrity. It is sad about Heath Ledger but is indicative of how dumbed down a once great broadcaster has become that producers, of all daytime shows, have milked this story to cream.
I condemn the fact that I have nothing to condemn today.
Everything went right. It was a clear sky all day, the dam is full, my car was fixed for less than I expected, I just had a nice meal and am sitting on the mosquito-free verandah on a pleasant evening, knocking back my very successful first attempt at mango wine, watching the sun go down across my freshly mown paddock. I feel no angst.
It just isn’t right.
I condemn the lack of commination threads.
I condemn Possum Comitatus for seeking to take credit for something that his soon-to-be-spouse has quite evidently drafted, given its scope and vehemence. I’ll be speaking to her severely too, so tell her to get ready:-)
So there, as they say.
I condemn paper writing in all of its forms.
Following on from Dylwah, I condemn the Victorian government for setting up water restrictions so that I could go wild with the water twice a week if I wanted, but I can’t water vegies every day even though the amount of water actually used might be less.
I condemn my son for making weird noises while I’m trying to read. Time he went back to school.
Helen @ 41: agreed, and I condemn those water authorities who haven’t yet responded sufficiently to the idea of “quotas” so that vegie-gardeners may CHOOSE to spend more water on vegies than on baths or dishwahers.
joe2@36: I join you in condemnation of local radio 774. The other news source that’s plummeted in the last year is “The Age” website, whose ‘celeb’/singles/sex/rock content has increased sharply, as its “good old-fashioned news” content has decreased. But joe2, others here may condemn us for living in Victoria, and I hesitate to begin a Sydney vs Melb or Qld vs Victoria stoush.
I condemn Aussie parochialism.
Equally, I detest those who are too quick to condemn: they should condemn *only* at precisely the same rate as my good self.
cheerio
Hmm, I condemned the Bulletin and now they’ve folded.
Be afraid Veronicas, be very afraid.
VVB - I can only encourage the severity!
I have little doubt that she deserves every bit of it
I condemn the widespread incorrect use of the word ‘literally’. Especially in news reports - eg: Perth literally melted in a heat wave today.
I condemn my swimming pool for turning green.
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