Well it’s November so it must be time again to condemn. Here’s a 29th open condemnation thread. What’s getting up your goat this week so far? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious and other phenomena need condemnation? (Or loud denunciation?)
You can condemn anything you like except Patti Labell. Though you can condemn Moby if you like.
I condemn the lack of condemnation thus far.
Second! I condemn any bailout or money thrown at the auto industry, it’s a dying industry that needs to die not propped up like it’s Weekend at Bernies.
I condemn the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, His Holiness Stephen Conroy, for telling huge pork pies in a Senate Estimates Committee hearing in relation to his plan for national mandatory ISP-level Internet censorship.
Further I condemn the Prime Minister for allowing him to get away with this arrogant nonsense.
See:
Filter avocates need to check their facts
I condemn the constant use of the word “package” to describe government initiatives – a lazy and unimaginative use of the language, emphasising only the commercial aspects of public policy.
We don’t have public policy announcements any more, as a consequence of the neocon experiment that has wrecked the financial sector, we only have commercial “packages” of money delivered from on high to the grateful masses, and the greedy corporations, standing at their letter boxes waiting for a parcel of money to arrive.
For example, the ABC news bulletins are describing the announcement by the Chinese Government of huge expenditure to pump-prime a faltering economy as a “package”. Pathetic.
I, too, condemn Stephen Conroy and his ridiculous filter.
I condemn Stephen Conroy for not putting the necessary hardware into the “nodes” so I can have my fencing wire connected to fiber. And for not kicking arse to up the signal so I can at least receive wireless!.
In all seriousness, I condemn Peter Garrett for attacking classical music in this country.
The Federal Labor Government announced that it is ceasing all funding to the Australian National Academy of Music. This academy is esential for the future of bright and gifted young classical musicians. It costs around $2.5 million a year to fund. To put that in perspective, the Australian Institute of Sport costs over $600 million a year to fund. This cut will mean that the Academy will close at the end of the year .
The Minister, Peter Garrett, issued a statement only a couple of weeks ago saying that the government would cease all funding to ANAM effective next year. He has not at any time given any real explanation for this decision. Students have been left out in the lurch for next year as a result of the timing of this decsion.
This is not the only cut to classical music that the new government has made. Earlier in the year the new Federal Government cut funding to the Melbourne International Chamber Music festival. It would appear that they don’t truly value classical music.
If you are interested in this matter you can follow this link, which can take you to many other articles and blogs on this matter, and an online petition.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40621992847
If you feel strongly about this matter, I’d urge you to consider contacting the minister and/or your local member to let them know your feelings on the matter.
.docx and .xlsx files. Jeepers!
I too condemn Garret’s astonishing philistinism even though I don’t find it surprising.Have signed and circulated the petition.
I condemn the Rudd Government for the stupidity of their planned filter system, and in regard to Conroy wonder why some Xtans can’t stop lying about anything related to sex. One wonders why.
I’m going to join with Alastair and condemn Peter Garrett. I’m not really into classical music due to the lack of electric guitars and absence of a back beat but this decision does seem mean spirited and bizarre.
Me too on the classical music condemn (although the closest I get to listening to it is Arthur Lyman
I want to add a Conroy condemn here too like everybody else – it’ll simply line the pockets of overseas VPN providers (and I’ll be signing up for one of those VPN providers about 5 minutes after the great white elephant of Conroy goes live).
I condemn the moron who fitted the gutters to my house, placing them so close to the iron in some spots that the rain simply scoots over the top and onto the ground, but at the perfect distance to catch every leaf so they clog up uselessly.
I condemn chickpeas because they take so long to cook
Government to put Asylum seekers into the criminal database deserves condemnation:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/asylumseekers-on-criminal-database/2008/11/08/1225561202058.html
I also condemn the decision by the Government to put asylum seekers onto the criminal data base, and the ridiculous internet
censorshipfiltering plan. Sometimes you are forced to remind youself that this is indeed a Labour government.I also condemn so called information professionals who don’t seem to understand the basics of English grammar and usage. For example:
“Mr Tanner, can you give me a ballpark on that?” ABC – AM
“There are less people impacted than first thought” ABC news
“Neither group are giving a response” ABC news
I uncondemn long cooking times for chick peas because home-made hoummus is so much tastier than shop-bought hoummus.
I quote an infamous condemnation: “Well may we say, ‘God save the Queen!’, because NOTHING will save the Governor-General.”
11 Nov 2008
I too condemn Garret, but are you sure the AIS budget is $600m a year? That dosn’t seem right….
Hmm, yes, I had it at under $200m. But that’s going on my shonky memory.
I also condemn the criminalisation of asylum seekers. I thought we’d done with all that.
I condemn Ambigulous for not soaking the chickpeas overnight before trying to cook them (although I must admit that doesn’t help as much as you’d think).
I reject your condemnation David Irving (relation or not)!! We soaked them chickpeas on Sunday night in cold water, cooked ‘em last night and the hoummus will be made this evening. I condemn David Irving (no relation) for making me drool in anticipation.
I admire chickpeas and tahini paste. I condemn shop-bought hoummus. I condemn myself for not making hoummus often enough; then eating it immoderately when I do.
I condemn the Anglosphere that still, after 90 years seems to be unaware that 6,000,000 Italians fell during WW1.
Guido,
what did they trip on?
Tipsy on grappa, eh?
[You see, the Kiwis suffer sheep jokes from Spiros; though his countryfolk might be vulnerable to the odd, occasional goat crack. Now it's time for the Eyeties to cop it. We spread it around, us Aussies.]
I condemn the total condemnation of ALL shop bought hoummus.
Castlemaine Dips make a very tastey brew with no added preservatives or artificial colours.
I condemn the condemn thread – no, LP – no, some posters: for using multiple assumed identities, and becoming hopelessly confused.
Penitence of the Sock Puppetry
Boolarra Home for The Bewildered
I condemn myself for not having made hoummus for far too long. However, I admire the kickarse flaffles I made the other day, and only regret not having made hoummus to eat with them.
Anyone lazy wants some hoummos – just buy tahini paste then hightail it to your nearest middle eastern warehouse emporium of goodness (MEWEoG) and pick up a can of chick pea paste. Then you can do your own thing with the garlic and lemon (and smoked paprika if you’re anything like me) which is IMHO where most shop ones fall down. They use some crappy garlic powder or preserved garlic, and then citric acid instead of proper lemon juice, and in some cases put frickin’ cream cheese in it (I kid you not). And then surprise surprise, it like, totally sucks.
Good point Guido.
I was reading the GG in a cafe today (free copy): apparently an average of 1 person per year still dies in Belgium from unexploded WW1 ordinance.
Fresh WW1 casualties – 90 years later.
Lefty E
WW1: the War that Keeps on Giving!
I condemn WW1, the vicious brute.
“It’s no use blaming anyone now…. It is not that I fear death. I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea. On the evidence that has been given, no juryman could have given any other verdict. That is my opinion. But, as I say, if I’d examined the witnesses, I’d had shown matters in a different light… For my own part, I don’t care one straw about my life, nor the result of the trial; and I know very well from the stories I’ve been told, of how I am spoken of- that the public at large execrate my name… But I don’t mind, for I am the last that carries public favour or dreads the public frown. Let the hand of the law strike me down if it will; but I ask my story be heard and considered.” (Ned Kelly 1880)
I condemn those who overlook canned chickpeas as a way of making hommous at home (thus bypassing the soaking and cooking process). Is there something wrong with them? Do you think that your water adds something special to your end product?
Roger – they tend to have preservatives in them, and environmentally speaking it’s better to move dried stuff around the planet than wet stuff in metal cans. I can’t taste any difference though. Though Adelaideans might contend that their water does indeed add “something special”.
Here in the red centre (and other places in the desert I have lived where underground water is used) I have found that some pulses never soften when cooked, which I believe is to do with the dissolved minerals in the water. Therefore I have gotten used to using the canned version to enusre high quality (if i do say so myself) hommous. Of course the environmental impact of an Alice Springs resident is higher than those living in lots of other places due to the transport involved in moving food here (whether canned or dried), but I justify it both on taste grounds and a feeling that the environmental impact of using ancient water to grow chickpeas to make my own “local” hommous is too great (i do grow other vegies though!).
I also condemn docx
I also condemn Marion Scrymgour in relation to her recent stance on bilingual education in the NT
Roger – as I understand it chickpeas are pretty easy on water requirements. But in any case you don’t really harvest them ‘fresh’ – as with most pulses they dry on the dead plant at season’s end and you just thresh them out, so you’d still be faced with soaking. Never heard about different water having any effect on soaking, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
I retrospectively condemn previous LP Condemn Threads for not ploughing these rich furrows of hoummus-lore. Fresh garlic, freshly squeezed lemon juice, for mine.
I think I have been writing hoummus wrong (hommous). I shall not make the same mistake in future, however I will condemn, both retrospectively and in advance, those who write it “hummus”.
For mine a sprinkling of paprika for serving is required too.
I condemn my 19 yo washing machine from breaking an irreplacable part (patented diaphram); so I now have a new eco-friendly, multi-star, electronic “I ping at you” effort that takes 2 loads x 55 mins to do what the old one did in 1 load x 35 mins (it also recycled old water). But we did get back $200 from the government.
I also condemn the 18 yo dishwasher that broke an old (irreplacable clockwork) timer; so I now have an eco-friendly etc etc which takes 132 mins + “by hand in sink” pre-rinse to remove food (168 mins without rinse), to do a poorer job than the old one that washed off everything (even baked-on lasagne after several days, and the patterns) in 30 mins.
I could also condemn the 24 yr old frige which broke a freezer fan (ditto, ditto, ditto) because its eco-friendly etc etc replacement, bought in 1998, is already dying – apparently 10 years is a good age … (But our parents old Charles Hope, bought 1953, is still working AND still reparable – and both had had their the original gas replaced)
And I condemn myself for being unable to work out how these new machines can possibly be more “eco-friendly”; ie use less power (consequently less water & emit fewer “greenhouse gases” and particulates) both in manufacture and in running costs, than the ones that lasted twice as long and did a better job in half the time!
I condemn the ABC for showing a lot of boring crap on tv. That is, on so-called ABC1. To make it worse they tease people with ads about all the fab stuff they’re showing on ABC2. I am ongoingly condemning the ABC for axing The Glasshouse and replacing it with preppy Sydney rubbish (they know who they are).
I also condemn the commercial tv channels, of course; they are a waste of time and I wish they would go away and hand over the footy (aussie rules) and the test cricket to the ABC. Then I could enjoy watching tv.
Well, we can condemn the new conservative Taiwanese government for extra-judicial arrests of opposition party members this week, and for making concessions to China on Taiwanese sovereignty with little to show in return, and also condemn the international media for ignoring the days of huge public protests including 500000 people on the streets of Taipei last weekend in opposition to the visit by the representative of the PRC.
I gave up on some dried beans and legumes eg. chick peas, red kidneys, cannellini and a few other types – but do try to buy the Italian produce in cans, like their canned tomatoes – they are not over salted or over sweetened, nor with added preservatives etc- but just right. I still cook dried red lentils, green split peas, brown lentils and fresh broadies but discovering in the last five years that canned beans are A-OK meant that I upped my bean usage including making hummus more regularly.
I also condemn the Govt. for ignoring industry and expert advice in relation to the Internet filter. I thought the Rudd Govt was supposed to have been elected on core principles of evidence based research and independent advice being the basis of decision making, not the ideological obsessions of Ministers.
I hear you DeeCee – the buggers also know when you’ve got a few bob – ie. never talk about a tax return chq for example in front of your car or any white goods/electronic equipment.
DeeCee wrote:
You’re not alone DeeCee – our new dishwasher is basically a two drawer piece of junk that won’t wash anything more difficult than toast crumbs without farting about. I condemn the New Zealand based company that made me part with an agonisingly large lump of money to buy it, just because her indoors wanted that whole “hidden” look.
But, then again, I have to condemn myself for pulling the back off the old Westinghouse washer every 6 months to fix it, just so I can avoid having to buy a nice new front loader. It’s thin lips and hands on hips every time I crawl back out of there grinning with that big mongrel thing sloshing away successfully. She hates it, which is why I keep fixing it. Ain’t love grand?
roger – I reckon the problem with using fossil water to boil your legumes in is that, because of the dissolved salts, it has a considerably higher boiling point than normal (or even Adelaide) water. Elizabeth David reckoned if you boil your beans too hard, the heat pulls water out of them and makes them tough.
I condemn fossil water for making beans tough.
I condemn people who make hummus without enough tahini!
I also condemn the Rudd Government for its blatant prejudice against renewable energy and bizarre faith in geosequestration, as demonstrated by yesterday’s Senate activities.
I condemn the confusion brought about by the various spellings of “hummus”, such as, hamos, houmous, hommos, hommus, hummos, hummous or humus and also my own incorrect spelling of it as “hoummas”@23.
I condemn scrotes. And toerags!
Mow, leg it.
I condemn that I didn’t know that Miriam Makeba had died yesterday at 76.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ure2RdTZm8c&feature=related
RIP Mama Africa.
No chemist I, but David Irving (no relation) – I believe a higher mineral content would lower the boiling point of water. Try chucking a handful of salt in a simmering pot some time – it will suddenly come up to the boil.
Seconded, Jo.
and a second one in that case, LE
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=MF_FP2ICstk&feature=related
Thanks Jo – and here’s my fave, in Xhosa, with those wild throat clicks. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxkiXALQjU&feature=related
sorry FDB but it’s definitely boiling point elevation when you add salt to the simmering pan
I condemn the people who have produced my organisation’s Christmas party invitation. It’s in PowerPoint. It has to be saved (immortalised?) before it will open. When you open it, you see badly-done Christmassy cartoony things. Dancing. That’s all. To get the info, you have to click your mouse, and keep clicking. With every click, a line of text whirls round before plonking onto the page. Five or six clicks later, you know all the details and have a migraine starting.
You would never guess that we TEACH people how to send e-mail…
And for all the hommus/hummus/etc makers: it’s widely believed that you should not add salt to the water when cooking legumes, as it keeps them hard. I suppose this means the Adelaideans shouldn’t use tap water for cooking beans.
ObCondemn: Adelaide tap water.
I too condemn Peter Garrett. For being a useless slaphead git.
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Get a job Peter.
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And I condemn Graeme Bird for wiping all the nasty infective I post at his blog.
adrian @ 14 -How about this from an ABC correspondent on the night of Obama’s election: “racial epitaphs can still be heard on a daily basis.” I kid you not.
Jo2 @ 43 -at least it wasn’t misspelt “Hamas”.
I condemn rainbow lorikeets, introduced to Perth in the late 1950s and now in plague proportions. They out-compete truly native birds for nesting hollows and have made “28″ parrots all but extinct in my area, and their screeching is abominable.
David Irving ” 41: Elizabeth David notwithstanding, not the heat. The high salinity of the cooking water is what dehydrates the legumes, due to the osmotic pressure. Similarly, drinking sea water will dehydrate people by sucking water out of their less saline body tissues, even at room temperature.
but
FDB @46: wrong, sorry. David and others were right about dissolved salts raising the boiling point. However, if you have water which is already at simmering point but is having a hard time nucleating bubbles of steam, then adding a sprinkle of little solid particles will trigger bubble formation nicely.
I condemn Adelaide water, hard legumes, and modern chemistry education. And Garrett and Conroy.
I condemn the Melbourne-based company Genetic Technologies, which licenses the (BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer detection tecnology) patents from (Utah based) Myriad, (and) is insisting (that)..From November 6, says the company, public hospital laboratories can no longer conduct their own testing for the inherited breast cancer gene mutations known as BRCA1 and BRCA2. Instead, samples have to be sent to the company for processing. Genetic Technologies warned laboratories, “in the interests of avoiding costly and time-consuming litigation” not to contest its demand.
I condemn Australian politicians and their regulatory agents, (being in the main male), for being unlikely to do anything (like showing the guts, heart and good sense that the European Patent Office did in telling the patent holders where to get off with their attempts at legalised blackmail) until it’s their mothers, wives, daughters, sisters or otherwise significant female others are affected.
I condemn teh media for not making everyone, and in particular Wayne Swan, aware that the same mutations in males, which the condemned company seeks to exploit for their, and their alone, uber-profit, predict a five-fold increased risk of prostate cancer compared with the general male population, and a much more rapid disease progression.
I condemn Colin Barnett for preferring North Head on the Dampier peninsula as his preferred site for a Kimberley gas hub. I also condemn his assertion that it will have ‘no environmental impact’. I condemn him for suggesting that locals will come round to the idea and that if they don’t – too bad.
I condemn the DLP for their stance on gay rights:
http://www.ozforums.com.au/viewtopic.php?id=4167
I condemn the NSW government for trying too hard to win the race into recession with their unnecessary and contractionary mini-budget. They should be out building stuff and investing in job creation.
I condemn the term mini-budget because it’s stupid.
Yes — protein. I condemn Adelaide water.
I also condemn Adelaide weather: 34+ degrees today and 36 forecast tomorrow and we’re not even halfway through November yet.
Oh and Peter Garrett. Shocking.
“Jo2 @ 43 -at least it wasn’t misspelt “Hamas”.”
So true Ozymandias @54.
As ardent followers of Allies foreign policy we should condemn any tendency to spell the chick pea dip in this non-kosher fashion; indeed, isolate this so called “hamas”, at the very back of the fridge, with the unopened, passed its use by date, flaxseed oil.
I condemn David Irving (NR) for not supplying his falafel recipe.
I further condemn the Victorian government for breaking their 2006 election promise to protect all old growth forest henceforward, and then reneging on that promise to log extremely high-value old growth at Brown Mountain (Valley of the Giants.)
They’re now claiming that the forest at Brown Mountain isn’t significant, based on an obviously hastily prepared (DSE?) map – a map which according to the AGE journo, includes regenerating young forest and a cattle paddock in the areas to be protected, but excludes Brown Mountain! They really are a bunch of pricks!!
I join Helen in her condemnation of Brumby, the environmental vandal. If anybody still wonders why Labor in Victoria is on the nose, this case is a very good example.
See Wiki for a good summary of the Brown Mountain matter.
http://www.greenlivingpedia.org/Brown_Mountain_old_growth_forest
I condemn ABC 1 for going to show lots and lots of boring repeats over the summer period. (Except for Bastard Boys, which I’ll happily watch again.)
And I condemn SBS for just about everything nowadays, but especially for showing movies far too late, and putting all their movies on World Movies on pay-TV in a transparent attempt to persuade people to participate in one of this country’s biggest white elephants.
I too condemn the Victorian government for the reasons already cited, and because they don’t know how to run a railroad.
I would also like to condemn the Victorian government for ensuring that the condition of Adelaide water has reached a new low.
Yep, Brumby’s going down next election. If the ALP has to learn the hard way that the only majority progressive vote in town is now ALP + Greens – then so be it.
And how about a referendum on lower house PR in all states and territories? You can keep the national system, but Im not convinced the key argument for the transferable vote system (stability and tendency to majorities) matters as much as as accurate popular represenatation at the state level.
This is only way to keep state govts relevant inot the future, IMHO.
I condemn Mt. Coot-tha for bollixing the TV reception in my area; I can only get the ABC as grainy black-and-white.
I condemn myself for erroneous conclusions based entirely on my reliance on crass empiricism.
Must try harder next time.
*slaps wrist*
I too condemn the Brumby Government and its pubic tranposrt handling. Given I ride on the Werribee line – the worst affected by the timetable changes – I agree that the diontent is swelling to a point of no return for the government.
Of course I meant public in the last post … public, public public.
I condemn my inability to type and my cactus-damaged typing fingers.
Oh I dunno, Chris, I’ve been on some Melbourne public transport that was pretty pubic. What is it about men who masturbate on trams?
Cast Iron Helen – I’m at work, so don’t have the flaffle recipe to hand. I’ll post it from home this evening, if I remember.
In essence, it’s derived from the one in “Cooking with
KermitKurma”, except I replace the yellow asfoetida powder with onion and garlic. (As an aside, I condemn the Krishnas for being so worried about having their physical passions aroused by members of the Alliaceae family that they put yellow bloody asfoetida powder in everything instead.)David – what is yellow asafoetida? Mixed with turmeric or something?
Oh is that what the lack of onions is all about? lol
foetida? foetid?? i think i condemn that….
Have you smelt it Ambi? The name is no coincidence. Really.
I love the stuff, and the pungency is reminiscent of garlic. No substitute though, for bodily passions.
As far as i know asafoetida powder is the root of some plant that hare krsnas use where others would use onion and garlic (I am not saying it is a substitute, it just sounds like it- like mock duck). I think that there is something about the way the onions and garlics reproduce that the hares find objectionable but would like to know more- I condemn myself for having only a vague knowledge of the hare krsnas objection to onions and garlic
FDB, I think they dye it with something as the stuff is apparently naturally grey. The seeds are quite nice as a spice in curries, btw.
I condemn myself for not having Ian Hemphill’s excellent spice book to hand (I’m at work) so I can astonish everyone with more details.
Spice Notes, eh? Love it to pieces, that book. Way to worm your way into my affections, stepmomther!
In most Euro languages it’s been given a variation on the name The Devil’s Shit.
But hey, I wouldn’t use shrimp paste as incense either. Doesn’t mean it has no place in the kitchen.
I condemn myself for putting garlic in the frijoles last night. Onion, but no garlic, is definitely the way to go.
Somebody mentioned mock duck: I condemn the fact that it’s use is not more widespread. For a decent mock duck dish, I’ve got to go to King Street, and I haven’t yet found a reliable local supply for home cooking.
They serve a mock *uck in King Street, Melb; Sleaze Street [one sectoin thereof]
I ruthlessly condemn the tabloid press for hounding the “sex slave”.
This unfortunate, probably immature young woman may have been sily enough to lay a heavy on the lad involved, and that incidentally makes it much harder for future events of seduction by female teachers.
However, nothing excuses pasting her face all over the papers and internet by Conroy/Miranda Devine-type bigots in editorial offices.
I condemn the Fairfax press for falling even lower than the Murdoch press on a consistent basis of utter sleaze and mindlessness and finally SBS for breaking in on the climax of an interview for ads, on “Insight”. That SH-T could have waited for the end of the interview and if Conroy had been doing his job, need never have seen the light of day except on commercial stations.
I condemn all men (and women) who masturbate on (over?) trams, who get sprung..
Yeah. i also condemn Conroy for not getting rid of the ads at SBS. He’s too busy dreaming up ways to censor the internet, it seems.
I condemn Microsoft Office and especially reserve condemnation for groups.
If I get one more email sent to me by some lazy bastard at our chief customer’s office who is so indolent that he can’t think of anything better to do than send emails to a grouped email address, of which I am (by inheritance from the last bloke who had a nervous breakdown reading emails) a member, but of which I care not one whit, I will condemn them all who have fallen for the paperless office trap.
Ringe me up and tell me to read your frickin minutes of your frickin meeting because they concern my area. Don’t just blanket email me because you’re too goddamn lazy to bloody-well think.
I also condemn the guy at the next desk to me sending me emails, especially emails that have graphic pictures of car acident victims.
Aussie B
does he also send you emails inviting you to morning tea, or asking what the weather outside’s like?
I condemn my escape artist dog who was waiting for me this afternoon on the footpath after I had been out all day. Confounded animal!
I condemn myself for going off-topic here, but having been condemned by Cast Iron Helen for not sharing my flaffle recipe, I’m now redeeming myself.
1 1/4 cups (or thereabouts) chickpeas, soaked overnight and drained (duh!)
1 onion, cut up a bit
1 clove garlic
3/4 cup parsely (or so – the idea is to use enough to make the cooked flaffles pale green inside – maybe a whole bunch from the shop)
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp cayenne (or some other chili powder) (I might try smoked paprika next time … )
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
1/2 tsp baking powder
lots of oil for deep frying
Dump everything except the oil into a food processor, and whiz it around till it looks pretty finely divided and evenly mixed. Leave for about half an hour if you can be bothered. Form into balls about the size of a small hen’s egg, and flatten slightly. (You should get about a dozen.) Fill an electric wok or equivalent with the oil (to about 2 – 3 inches deep if you have enough). Get it pretty hot (test with a fragment of flafle mix). Deep fry the little buggers about half a dozen at a time until they’re evenly golden brown, turning once or twice (particularly if you’re short of oil). A slotted spoon is good here. (Kermit reckons about 5 mins, but I usually do it a bit longer, more like 10.) Remove from oil and drain on paper towels.
Don’t get too anal about the quantities, you can adjust the spices to taste. You can never have too much cumin or coriander, in my view. Elizabeth David liberated me from precise quantities. (Thanks, Elizabeth.) Also, the oil can be strained and re-used (once it’s cooled down enough to put it back into a jar).
I condemn SA Industrial Relations Minister Paul Caica for forcing SA teachers into arbitration to settle our EB, which will presumably no longer be an EB but an award variation. With supplementary condemns to Mike Rann, Kevin Foley and Jane Lomax-Smith.
Good work David Irving(NR) condemned for OT as you are. I plan to give this recipe a go and not cheat as I usually do with the packet mix. Kermit Kurma was the first to give me the idea of using a coffee grinder to make up my own curry powder mix etc. I found one in an op. shop, many years back, and only use it for that purpose.
David Irving (NR), I withdraw my condemnation!
Unless when I try it, it goes all crumbly!
I condemn the ‘captcha’ door-bitch at stoush.net.
I dont wanna be a poo, Liamista, but the codes are basically illegible dude. I swear some of them arent even actual characters.
Anyway, what I would have said is that the orange tie guy loooks like Christpoher Pyne.
Your complaint has been placed in a queue.
The first available operator will answer your call.
Thank you for waiting.
Your call is important to us.
[Whistles Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier]
Heh.
I condemn doctors who think that the key to a long and healthy life is to not have a life.
I condemn the AMA for running a closed shop, agitating to keeping graduate numbers down to line their own pockets; for supporting the wasteful 30% public subsidy on private insurance – and THEN turning around pointing fingers at governments alone when hospitals are overcrowded.
Physicians Inc, heal thyself.
I condemn Liam for whining about Well Tempered Clavier when, as everyone knows, Fuer Elise played on a stylophone is the call-waiting torture du jour.
I condemn the ALP for AGAIN sending out leaflets during a local election (council, this time) claiming the Greens are going to shut down MacRob Girls High. From your usual suspect: S. Newnham.
#96-I’m intrigued. Any more details forthcoming?
Yes, Helen – and I predict the usual cyncial stunts will no longer be bought by the electorate. The major parties are on the way out in local govt – and there’s no way this trend will cease. Its over – give it away, ALP and Libs, and focus on wher you’re still relevant.
Frankly, the ALP is far more likely to put the Libs into govt (*cough* Tasmania) than the Greens are.
He looks like this Helen@99 and I condemn him too.
http://www.umad.com/Alfred-e-neuman.jpg
Hummus is perfectly fine and all that; still, I condemn the misuse of perfectly good fresh chickpeas to make hummus (canned are just fine for this purpose), when they could have been used to make Indian-style spicy chickpeas with potatoes or what-not. A far better bang-for-the-rupee, as it were.
Helen: is there a real chance Melbourne could get a Greens mayor?
Bemsha Swing, the only differences between canned and dried chickpeas is the time until they’re usable and the cost difference.
If you want a chickpea curry as well as hoummos, why not just rehydrate and cook twice as many?
Danny, as I understand it, the frontrunner is Robert Doyle.
*Headdesk*
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
Expect more of the same old same old for quite a while.
I condemn that desk for making my head hurt.
Adam Bandt has to be a chance.
He HAS to.
http://www.makemelbournegreen.com/council-elections-2008/adam-bandt/
Holy crap! Shamahan condemns Julie Bishop http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24647513-17301,00.html
I condemn Telstra who replaced a failed 70 year old cable from the pit to my house with a “temporary” cable back in June and promised to come back and trench in a permanent replacement. 5 months later and we still can’t find out when their coming to put in the permanent cable. And the temporary cable causes our ADSL to fail to sync most days and when it does work, go glacially slow. I also condemn them for not caring that the temporary cable crosses above ground over a public footpath, thus causing a hazard to the walking public, so much so that the local council had to come and put warning signs and traffic cones on the cable.
I suspect they will put the permanent cable in sometime in 2012. Probably on a Tuesday. And they probably won’t warn me they’re coming and still expect me to stay home from work to let them into the house to connect it.
You know, if you were living in Zimbabwe you wouldn’t have a temporary cable.
I’m turning into a grumpy old man, I will not tolerate bad service from the likes of Telstra.
We’re not in Zimbabwe, Reason. And it’s my tax dollars that built Telstra, and my consumer dollars that keep it functioning. They can damn well give me some service in exchange.
I continue to condemn Peter Garrett and the Federal Government for cutting off all funding to the Australian National Academy of Music which will result in the closure of the Academy at the end of this year .
This could have been handled in so many different ways which would have allowed ANAM to stay open. The closure of ANAM is uneccessary and will be detrimental to the training of classical musicians in this country.
I notice that the matter has been receiving some attention in Federal and State parliaments:
http://alexmillier.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/anam-in-parliament/
I congratulate the members of parliament who have brought this matter up before their respective parliaments and are lobbying to keep ANAM open.
I would again encourage anyone who feels that ANAM should be kept open, to consider signing the online petition.
http://www.petitiononline.com/saveanam/petition.html
Thanks very much to anyone who has already done so, and even more thanks to anyone (like Paul Burns) who has passed the message about this topic on to others.