It’s been almost three weeks since we had a good condemn. Here’s a twenty sixth open condemnation thread. What’s getting up your goat this month so far? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious and other phenomena need condemnation? (Or loud denunciation?)
You can condemn anything you like except the old Beverly Hills 90210. And particularly Kelly. Although you can condemn the new 90210. If you find it worthy of condemn.
I condemn taken out, my current favourite car crash TV, being moved from 7 to 6pm.
I condemn Brenda.
X ten
V five
VI six
XX twenty
XXVI twenty-six
But I renounce condemnation.
Why can’t I condemn Beverley Hills 90210, seeing as it sucked?
I condemn Brenda too. She was better as a Heather.
Yep!
And I condemn those who condemn 80s/90s kitsch and its amusing revivals!
I condemn Janet Albrechtsen for today’s blatant piece of cheerleading. I know there’s nothing original about condemning her pulp-worthy ink-wasters but today’s effort “It’s game on now for Kevin Rudd” is especially worthy. To save you reading the drivel it goes something like this:
Malky, Malky he’s our boy
Beat up Kevvy, oi, oi, oi.
I condemn the ‘political commentators’ newspapers hire for blowing the polling out of proportion. This IS NOT the end of the Rudd Government.
I condemn The Australian’s war of attrition it has waged upon English and literacy teachers in this country. As a result of me presently reading Ilana Snyder’s “The Literacy Wars,” I am amazed and relieved to find a commentator that believes that the academic class of my future profession aren’t gibbering half-wits.
I condemn my right calf muscle, which has decided to cramp itself out of contention of going for a run any time this week.
I condemn hayfever.
I condemn youtube videos that are really just slideshows.
I condemn the Catholic Church, with regard to its threat of closing hospitals re the abortion legislation in Victoria.
I condemn finishing off the last of the leftover lamb neck and fennel tagine my Lady Friend made on Sunday. Now what am I supposed to look forward to all morning?
I second the condemnation of allergic rhinitis. I condemn my feline’s fascination with intimate apparel that has left me with third-degree gouges to both arms. I also condemn the uppity work colleague who took my lunch out of the microwave before it had finished cooking. I condemn myself for eating microwave meals.
I condemn inept foreign policy.
Smith and Rudd continue to make fools of themselves over alleged Ahmadinejad statement.
“Govt still pondering Ahmadinejad charge
Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith says the Federal Government is still seriously considering trying to prosecute Iran’s President in an international court…
…When Mr Rudd was opposition leader, he told Australia’s Jewish community he would like to take legal action against President Ahmadinejad for inciting genocide.
… Mr Smith says the issue is still being examined.
“We are continuing to have that matter under legal and other advice,” he said.
“It’s a very serious matter. We’re giving it serious consideration and we’ll make an announcement when that consideration has completed.” ”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/23/2372040.htm?section=world
“In October 2005 President Ahmadinejad said these EXACT WORDS in farsi: “Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e Qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad.”
Here is a literal word-for-word translation:
Imam (Khomeini)
ghoft (said) een (this) rezhim-e (regime)
ishghalgar-e (occupying) Qods (Jerusalem )
bayad (must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (the page of time)
mahv shavad (vanish from).
The full quote properly translated into English:
“The Imam [Khomeini] said that this regime [now] occupying Jerusalem must vanish [one day] from the page of time”.
Note that (1) the word “map” (“nagsheh” in farsi) is never used.
(2) The farsi verb “wipe out” or “destroy” or “eliminate” is never used. (3) The word “Israel” is never used.
The sentence is no more than a prediction that the Zionist entity would one day die a natural death; it expressed no desire whatever for the violent obliteration of that entity.”
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/andy8/8757840614845917621/?a=14308#339615
“I condemn my feline’s fascination with intimate apparel that has left me with third-degree gouges to both arms.”
I’m having trouble picturing this.
I would suggest said intimate apparel was not being worn by Emma at the time…
I condemn any horse that finishes ahead of Fiumicino in the Melbourne Cup (unless they’ve thrown off the rider).
The armpit bra? the under-shoulder-nightie-strap?
the Borat exquisiting G-stringer bathings costume helding up from high straps with shouldersblade?
or just a very vicious feline??
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It’s the deodorant. They like the deodorant. Cats are weird little creatures. I’m guessing the third-degree gouges were sustained during attempted cat removal.
They also like moisturiser (no particular brand, anything will do) and will lick it right off your face if allowed. See ‘cat removal’, above.
I condemn turning 40. Makes me grumpy.
I also condemn the Freemasons, not the fraternal organisation but the remixers, for making me listen to Kelly Rowland and enjoy the experience. Put it in!
Emma
I condemn Helen Clark, for showing a hitherto unremarked ‘saucy’ side. I preferred the no frills version. NB I did not say the ‘no bra’ version.
I condemn socialism purely for big business and only when they demand it, when ‘things go bad’(read: US govt bailouts for major financial firms).
If a public, through its taxes and government, is to get involved with coordinating the commercial practices of some of its major financial firms then this should be a two way street (read: ongoing holistic regulation and not just large isolated hand-outs to fix dodgy dealings when they go bad).
I also condemn unfettered free market economics, which achieves internal consistency as a collection of theories only by assuming that the purely self-interested players who maximise utility for the whole in an unplanned/unregulated economy awlays act perfectly rationally. I think lending to a whole hoard of people who are unlikely to be able to repay is pretty irrational. I think taking out a loan that one is unlikely to be able to repay is pretty irrational.
The cause of the US financial crisis was utopian faith in the benefits of unregulated interplay between free supposedly ‘rationally’ thinking human beings. Bring back realism!
Quote “You can condemn anything you like except the old Beverly Hills 90210. And particularly Kelly.”
Too bloody right, and anyone who does will have to answer to me as well.
Paul Norton, I think that will be about 23 horses who you will be condemning.
“the Borat exquisiting G-stringer bathings costume helding up from high straps with shouldersblade?”
Ambigulous @20, Shocked I was to see, yesterday, a Borat video with a bonus pair of those fash bathers, with every copy.
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What? Denied! Can’t I condemn Steve. C’arn everyone condemns Steve…
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Oh alright. I condemn people who didn’t watch the last season of Melrose Place. It was sublime and ridiculous at the same time.
Hmmm. Maybe it is ok to condemn Steve. But definitely not Kelly! I still have an unrequited crush on Kelly.
I condemn Party of Five though.
I condemn youse all for not watching this.
The steampumk kicks in around 2.40 and the moral of the story at the end. Which is a very good place for a moral of a story.
Plus bonus guest appearance by electric eels.
Catholic hospitals in Melbourne
Fine, let me do you a favour and take my advice – get on the $26 fixed-price Sportsbet odds on Fiumicino while they last. I’ve invested $40 on the $51 they were offering prior to last Saturday afternoon.
“Kevin Rudd” was actually my sock puppet of yesterday afternoon.
And whilst I’m talking horses with Fine, I condemn those racing journalist and other “experts” who have failed to mention the obvious historical parallels between Weekend Hussler and Kingston Town, Gunsynd, Tobin Bronze and Sky High. I also condemn Lloyd Williams for not disclosing that the real reason he’s entered Weekend Hussler in the Melbourne Cup is to ensure he can get better odds for Efficient, who Williams is actually trying to win the Cup with.
But Paul Norton, Williams doesn’t own the Hussler, so he has nothing to do with it. But apart from that, agreed the man is a liar and thief (I condemn him heartily, as this is a condemnation thread) and I think Efficient will win the Melbourne Cup. I also think the Hussler will win the Caulfield Cup and the Cox Plate.
I can see what you’re getting at with the parallels you’ve mentioned. Can you see the parallels between Weekend Hussler and Rising Fast, btw?
Kevin Rudd I’m happy you’re taking an interest in the fine sport of horse-racing. But you need to guarantee me an absolute bog track for me to risk my hard-earned spondulicks on said horse.
May I remind you he only just beat Dealer Principle on Saturday. A horse who was basically banished to Sydney this time in, because he finished 8 lengths behind the Hussler in the Makybe Diva.
If you’re looking for a bit of value, let me recommend Zagreb. A Zabeel 4yo who ran an absolute bottler last Saturday.
Yeah? Well fuck you, Nabs. I condemn you for not dressing up like a bear to cover “Umbrella”, on an accordion, with a Russian accent.
Our hero tears up the solo at 2:09.
Fine, thanks for the correction re Lloyd Williams.
Re Fiumicino, he is bred to only be seriously good at 2400 or longer, but to be very seriously good at those distances. Due to a combination of equine flu last spring, and what I suspect to be his connections’ recourse in the autumn to a legal, but somewhat unsporting, stratagem which was frequently employed successfully by connections of Melbourne Cup aspirants during the 19th century, he hasn’t raced over that distance since bolting in with the 1997 Australian Derby (in which he beat Tuesday Joy by 7 lengths; she has since made that form look very good indeed).
Conceding, for the sake of the argument, your point about absolute bog tracks, let’s not forget that this year’s Melbourne Cup will be run in Melbourne during a La Nina cycle.
Start doing your rain dance Paul Norton. But another thing. I just have a bias against Sydney horses for the really big Melbourne races. I need to see them handling the left-handed tracks.
I have a suggestion. Why don’t do a racing post before the Melbourne Cup? You and I will have fun, if nothing else.
And have you had a think about the Rising Fast/Weekend Hussler connection? It’s very interesting.
And regarding Rising Fast, he only really came good at the age of four, and all his major wins were from a mile up. He hadn’t been a sexy sprinter/miler at a young age, as Weekend Hussler has been.
That said, regarding the other comparisons I made, Tobin Bronze did win one Caulfield Cup, and Gunsynd’s 4th and 3rd were behind horses of comparable class to himself – they weren’t cases of being simply outlasted by a less classy beast. So I won’t be totally astounded if Weekend Hussler wins the Caulfield Cup, although I think he’s not great value at his current odds.
Good point. Remember Tie The Knot – almost invincible in Sydney, but an under-achiever in Melbourne.
Yeah, and he was a truly lovely horse too.
Of course, it can cut the other way. Northerly never won in Sydney.
Wekend Hussler is shocking value and although I think he’ll win I won’t be backing him. I’ll be looking for a trifecta.
But the really fascinating connection between the Hussler and Rising Fast is this. (And I agree, they’re totally different types).
Rising Fast is the only horse who’s won the Caulfield Cup/Cox Plate/Melbourne Cup treble. He was trained by Fred Hoysted who had two sons who were also trainers; Bon and Bob Hoysted. Bob has recently said that they were the ones who really trained the horse as their father was too ill at the time. Bon’s daughter is Margaret McDonald, who’s married to Ross McDonald, Weekend Hussler’s trainer. So, Uncle Bob can give them some good advice about how to pull off the treble, which is what they’re aiming for. I just find it fascinating that with all the horses racing around, there’s this connection. Can they do it? I doubt it. But it’s exciting to watch.
On a personal note, Bon Hoysted gave me my first horseriding lessons when I was 10 years old.
This one is for Emma.
Admin magic?
I condemn our paternalistic internet & email policy accordingly to which i no can has cheezburger.
I again condemn my feline for refusing to lick moisturiser off my face.
All the more reason for Mindy’s ‘admin magic’ request. I could describe the kitteh, but in my experience LOLcats translate to words rather poorly.
I’m sure a member of the LP collective will be along shortly to embed teh kitteh.
Ask and thou shalt receive…kittehs!
I condemn the IT dept for finally getting around to blocking a popular networking site which shall go unnamed. *coughfacebookcough*
KITTEHS!!!!
I condemn Party of Five though.
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And let’s not forget Dawson’s Crack.
The deficit mindset. How Western. How damaging. How arid.
I condemn public servants responsible for signing seven figure IT contracts who don’t know that Vista is not a server operating system
Wait! Dere r moar kittehs!!!
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