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Well it’s October so it must be time again to condemn. Here’s a twenty seventh 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 Emma Peel.
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I condemn the islamic fundamentalists for trying to look keen when Dianna does the dance of the seven submissive Kleenex.
I condemn even more forthrightly, the decison of the Young Libs on their latest MacCarthyite academic witch hunt, for describing Catharine Lumby as “leftist”.
I will condemn Kevin Rudd until such time as he relaxes sufficiently to tell a fart joke. It’s un-Australian
Leader of her majesties flopposition Moneybags Bullimore Turdbull.
What a fucking loser.
He can’t be bothered fighting for a republic anymore or any Australian artists rights for that matter. What makes you think he’s better than beans-and-jam Brendon?
Terminal flatulence?
Loudmouth, lamer, loser Mal. Get back to yr flat Jack.
I condemn human nature for its failure to conform to neoliberal models of it.
twenty-seven? seventeen? MMVIII ?? It’s just getting TOOOOO difficult to keep up one’s Latin, ipso facto, idem, de facto, de jure, pro tem, copulo ergo sum, et cetera
I condemn Larvatus Prodeo for running ads for online share trading. Do you want to bankrupt your readers?
I condemn the small number of aggressive magpies that have contributed to the scars on the top of my bike helmet. The sensible option (avoiding the area) was unfortunately impossible, as two of them operated on an intersection I had to traverse.
Thankfully that mum+dad pair that tag teamed me for six weeks have finally settled down again, although apparently from a distance it was quite hilarious to see two magpies in organised attack while I shouted and ducked.
I condemn myself for giving a written undertaking that I would review all work submitted to me within 48 hours and failing to anticipate the perfect storm that landed on me yesterday. I further condemn myself for writing this post at a time I should be frantically reviewing.
I condemn economies designed to work only with growth.
I condemn Kevin Rudd for suggesting pension increases might be off the table (assuming it isn’t a News Ltd. Channel 9 beat up. im which case I uncondemn him). This is both disgraceful and disgusting behaviour from a Labor PM. Not even Hawke and Keating were that bad.
I condemn showers that develop low water pressure problems and agents who take ages to send a plumber round to fix it.
I condemn the current state of the Australian dollar which makes it expensive for me to buy books on-line.
I condemn 007 Orthodoxy. The kind that posits “Of course Sean Connery was the best Bond, the only Bond… the Australian guy was the worst…”
There can be more than one good portrayal of Bond (or any character). Connery was the right Bond for the time. Then the times changed (quickly).
OHMSS with George Lazenby and Diana Rigg and Blofeld’s alpine lairrr is a cracker.
I condemn my renovated Foodworks with its impossible to find coconut cream, mi goreng and plentiful supply of crappy anglo versions of ‘Asian Food’
I condemn the bloke who told me last night that it is possible to buy crème brulée flavoured ice cream. The Size 24 kaftan and tiny black teeth that figure in my worst nightmares have just come a step closer.
I condemn:
a. that f*ckstick Fielding
b. the hacks at Vic ALP HQ that were responsible for his random generation as a senator, under our
c. ludicrous, Lewis Carrol inspired upper house ATL electoral system, otherwise known over at Keating Towers as the primary threat to Australian democracy.
This is an oldie but still rankles. I condemn Crikey for jumping on the MSM bash-Ponting bandwagon started by Peter Mr-spankey Roebuck last year. I abandoned Crikey forever for that outrage and my fury is reignited every time they send me another begging request to renew. Never forgive. Never forget.
I condemn Streptococcus pyogenes for giving me this incredibly sore throat
I condemn the studied, relentless use of the “word” “learnings” by those in the public sector, particularly the human services.
I can haz learnings, anyone?
I condemn …no, there’s just too much to condemn. I’ll be here all day.
I condemn hayfever, as per last month. May the acupuncture and tiny green TCM tablets bring relief.
I condemn my front bicycle light for falling off my bicycle.
I condemn it for not being quittin’ time for almost another four hours!
I condemn myself for being a whinger.
That’ll keep me quiet for a while. Thanks, peeps.
I condemn materialism as the common good!
I condemn 90% of the architects currently practicing in Australia who are responsible for the ugly monstrosities we call buidings in the early 21st century.
Following Emma, I condemn the “rolling out” of policies around the country. I keep looking for the mechanisms (giant rolling pins perhaps?). Let’s start a movement for implementation. We have nothing to lose but our implements.
I condemn Margaret Thatcher and co. for starting the ball rolling with financial deregulation two decades ago.
I condemn the odious Michael Costa or taking the money and running a line of crap, as per another LP thread.
I condemn my ex wife (again) for being four hours late to pick up the kids and take them swimming, thus ruining the last weekday of their holidays.
I condemn the UQ Liberals for anonymously distributing slander-leaflets in university lecture theatres falsely accusing their opponent in the student union elections of belonging to a paramilitary and Holocaust denying organizations, with a photoshopped picture of him in Nazi uniform.
I condemn LP for not being on Daylight Savings Time. I could have been FRIST! on the Saturday Salon, but noooooooo.
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I condemn plumbers who are due here at 5pm Wednesday and still haven’t arrived
I uncondemn Kevin Rudd as he appears to have relented on adopting a Howard policy on pensions and instead condemn the Howardistas in the public service who gave him the idea in the first place and Channel 9 and News Limited for beating it up.
I condemn Kevin Rudd for not getting rid of the Howardista running dog lackeys who encourage him to put old Liberal party policies in place, instead of true Labor policies.
I condemn Country Energy for sending me a water saving shower head that gunked up and had to be replaced.
I condemn Armidale water for gunking up the shower-head. (You should taste and smell the stuff in summer. But at least we still have water.)
I condemn the financial system for its lack of foresight.
I condemn American authorites for finding Palin guilty instead of her victim, or Obama.
I loudly denounce the loonies who are conducting a price war in the crayfish industry.
I condemn the spider who sunk its fangs into my foot 10 days ago. I hope you die a rotten death for the pain and swelling you’re still causing and for making me an extremely grumpy old woman. Well, maybe not a grumpy old woman, because that was a pre-existing condition.
I loudly denounce the loonies who are conducting a price war in the crayfish industry.
I condemn the spider who sunk its fangs into my foot 10 days ago. I hope you die a rotten death for the pain and swelling you’re still causing and for making me an extremely grumpy old woman. Well, maybe not a grumpy old woman, because that was a pre-existing condition.
I condemn computers which stutter and send my condemnations twice, making me even grumpier.
Some of us would like to know if this is to the advantage of crayfish eaters.
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I condemn ye of little faith. I like the stuff. I do freely admit to being a little lonely there.
I condemn the new Brideshead Revisited movie and everyone / everything associated with it. How dare they. Down with this sort of thing!
I condemn that interminable thread on Ronan Lee for repeated infractions of the three paragraph commenting rule.
Kim and All:
[1] I condemn all those who say that XVII is twenty-seven and that seventeen is XXVII.
L-O-L!
[2] I condemn the very annoying assumptions that because someone has retired and has to get by on a meagre pension, they must ….
Have all the spare time in the world.
Have no obligations and no priorities of their own.
Have money to burn on playing the pokies or bingo or on going to the pub.
Be able to just hop on the internet for however long as takes their fancy.
Be able to get something fixed or replaced immediately it gets broken. [However, in my own case, if anyone has a big bag of money they want to get rid of .... just leave it at the door; I'll dispose of it for you.
]
Be able to do things as quickly as they could when they were twenty, or to lift, dig, carry, climb or push what they could at that age..
Be old-fashioned and incapable of undertanding and using new technology …. nor of adapting to social change and current attitudes.
[Ooops. this has broken the three paragraph rule. Sorry].
[1] Yikes! We stand condemn as Latin innumerates – I’ve fixed it!
I condemn rain on Saturdays. Just two weeks into the season and both days have been rain affected. Given our home ground is almost right on the beach, I’d like to get a swim in a few times before a game.
Agree with you Graham.
Laura, new Bridehead Revisited movie sort of got panned in the Guardian. But is apparently giving more emphasism to the Catholicism. Think I will just re-read the book.
I condemn the cold virus that is making me ache, and the cough that is straining my back muscles. Apart from that, I’m good.
Sorry PC @35, at $85-$90/kg beach price, I suggest bunging a photo on a plate and just drinking the seasoned vinegar, lemon juice or whatever is your condimenty substance of choice. You could toss up between buying a crayfish or paying off the national debt of a smallish third world country, if you’re feeling charitable. Or consume half a tonne of prawns!
I condemn unnecessarily suggestive idiom. Leave my goat alone.
I condemn the dude who just scared the fuck out of me by sidling out of a toilet cubicle and peering over my shoulder while I was trying to take a piss, and who’s response to my somewhat alarmed ‘Do you mind?’ was to grab his crotch and ask, Borat style, ‘You want?’
Can’t top Disgruntled in the trauma stakes, but lavatory condemnation goes out to horridly over-fragranced ‘toilet seat wipes’, and most especially the dispenser in my work toilet for said wipes which drips said horrid fragrance onto the floor.
I come out of the dunny able to actually taste the chemicals. Frankly I’d prefer the good honest stench of turds. I think.
I condemn all public urinals that haven’t switched to Desert Cubes.
No, not dessert cubes. Do not eat the little green cubes!
Have you read American Psycho?
“It’s just…so minty“
Disgruntled, maybe you should ask your toilet friend whether he’s read it (ask him while sharpening a knife). It might stop him from the over-shoulder peering. I condemn those who don’t obey the unwritten rules of urinals, especially “no talking”.
This girl I know burnt my copy of American Psycho. It was a long time ago, but I still condemn her. (though it wasn’t really a very good book.) Interesting critique of capitalisnm, though.
I did not condemn, but I applaud Mark who caring enough to correct little signs of innumeracy, even though it be in a Language Less Used. Pax vobiscum.
[ahem] “for caring enough”… “though they be” – enough from this illiterate, posing as numerate.
Mark [40]:
Four possible causes have been identified:
[I] the key was not depressed hard enough to make electrical contact – so the first “X” did not appear, [II] the writing stylus was used too lightly to make the impression in the wax distinct enough. {III} the writing tablet was left near heat or out in the sun so the wax in that spot melted back into flatness. or [IV .... or IIII for all you clepsydra and hour-glass watchers] an inattentive slave failed to write down the master’s or mistress’s words correctly. [It's so hard to buy decent slaves who are both literate and reliable these days, isn't it?]
Paul Burns wrote:
I reckon it’s one of the few cases where the movie was better than the book – largely because the horror and violence were toned down. Still, burning a copy of of it (I presume because it is perceived as highly mysogonist) is a little extreme. I condemn myself for laughing so much at the long thoughtful descriptions of Huey Lewis and the News songs – I knew people just like that in a previous life (note – not in terms of music snobbery, but in terms of inflating the importance of ephemera).
I condemn the eye-searingly loud tie that Lindsay Tanner wore during today’s question time. I also condemn the fashion sense of Catherine King, whose question time outfit rivaled, for bad taste, the worst excesses of Vanstonian polka-dotism.
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“US President George W. Bush and his Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson were Tuesday to unveil details of a comprehensive financial rescue package that includes investing hundreds of billions of government US dollars into several troubled banks.”
I condemn American-style syntax.
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I condemn syntax American-style.