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Well we haven’t condemned since, well, forevah, so it must be long past time again to condemn. Here’s a 37th open condemnation thread. What’s getting up your goat? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious, and other phenomena need condemnation? (Or loud denunciation?)
You can condemn anything you like except The Michael Garrick Sextet. I do condemn myself for not blogging for ages!
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Kim, I condemn whatever kept you from blogging. Welcome back!
I condemn the evil forces of lethargy that have stopped me from blogging for waaaaaayyyyy longer than Kim.
I also condemn the Iranian security services for cracking down on all those blogish-twittery types who have been doing such a sterling job these last few days.
I condemn Japanese respectful language (sonkeigo, for what it’s worth), which I will have to use in a telephone interview on Thursday. Just because they have a different language and culture and stuff they think they can expect me to learn how to be polite to them just so I can get a job. I roundly condemn that. And I condemn myself for being so pathetically rainforest-alliance leftist that I’m worried about being all culturally-appropriate and stuff.
For good measure, I roundly condemn overuse of the word stuff.
sg you have my sympathies. Affected obsequiousness in the interests of personal gain is one of the more odious of the many hypocrisies it seems we must endure else we starve. It’s stuffed.
At least on the telephone, if its not a video phone, you will be able to pull faces. This will help.
Good luck and happy eating.
The thing is, it’s natural as bowing to the lucky sod on the other end of the phone. It’s just me who has to sweat the affectedness, and by god it’s going to be affected. And it better damn well not be on a video phone, I have to get up at 6am as it is and I don’t want to have to wear a suit! I condemn suits! And starvation, for that matter…
sg – do you have to put on the higher pitched voice too?
Ah the memories of the elevator women at Mitsukoshi. Just for effect you can always start off with “Ore,….”
I condemn Kevin Rudd for keeping the punitive powers of the ABCC in his revamped edition of it. Kev, you’re not supposed to be John Howard.
I condemn ABC2 morning TV breakfasrt show for being boringly repetitive.
I condemn ABC2 for scheduling Torchwood against Friday night Crime on ABC1.
I do not condemn the Reader’s Digest Most Trusted List for putting Turnbull and Abbott near the bottom of the list. (I don’t read Readers Digest. I saw it on Sunrise.)
I condemn the public support by mariners who should know better of ever younger adventurers to sail solo around the world. The latest is a 15 year old Australian, Ms Watson (can’t recall her first name) who is getting uncritical acclaim for her youthful attempt to beat a 16 year old Briton who accomplished the feat last year.
Somewhere along the way someone should be telling them it is dangerous, mentally antisocial and that they will be missing a good bit of their teenage fun as landlubbers in trying to break a silly record.
I condemn myself for my uncanny ability to be behind another car whose driver is about to reverse into my car because they aren’t looking.
Optus! I condemn them to HELL.
I condemn shonky organisations who send me e-mails trying to get my credit details. Well, I stuffed them. I got onto my bank and they asked me to send the details onto their fraud busting squad or whatever it is they have, so I did.
I condemn those responsible for the death of Mr Ward, and the fact that this tragedy has received so little attention in the wider media. Imagine if it had been a white man.
I condemn attempts by the Victorian Government to spin the letter threat to the CEO of the Hazelwood coal-fired power station into an attack on environmental activism per se:
Energy and Resources Minister Peter Batchelor’s views on the matter are reported in The Age as follows:
This is nothing but a cheap PR ploy to tie individual (and rare) acts of extremism to broader, legitimate environmental activism. Of course, as many have pointed out, the real threat is to the climate from the massive greenhouse emissions from Hazelwood and its coal-burning ilk. Spin as distraction by the Victorian Government.
Get in line, Laura. I have been condemning Optus to Topeth and back for so long I can’t remember when I started…
Paul,
Correct response. If you tell the banks they can watch for a particular type of suspicious activity. After all – if you are the victimof fraud through your bank account it is generally up to the bank to reimburse you for the loss: but you have to spot it first.
Personally I condemn Telstra for charging me too much. Optus I switched off years ago when I worked out that their coverage sucked.
I add to Adrians condemn. We are special out here in the West, no daylight saving and we cook black people in the back of vans. Pack of racisist bastards.
I condemn Eric Roozendaal.
I too condemn the treatment of Mr. ward. I was in tears watching 4 Corners last night. The pity is, its by no means unbelieveable this happens in Australia.
I condemn Mr Brumby’s slowness (following the slownesses of Mr Bracks, Mrs Kirner, Mr Cain,….) in removing the canker from their midst and from their councils.
I second Ambigulous, and condemn Vic Labor for not lancing their State secretary, the suppurating boil on the arse of the body politic.
Thanks Helen,
your comment reminds me of that nice Mr Humphries and his stage character Lance Boyle.
Branch stacking is the theft that keeps on thieving, year after year.
I condemn winter.
I don’t mind winter; it’s just the frosts killing some of the garden, the cold, the fogs, catching a cold, the dark mornings, the early sunsets. But winter? It’s a lovely season.
Do you have bone dry winters in Adelaide to match your bone dry summers, BTW?
I condemn Apple for doing stupid stuff like this.
I condemn the passing of time, inasmuch as it entails the passing on of totally awesome family pets.
Siggi the retriever, may your belly be eternally scratched by the nimble fingers of the heavenly host, and may your sticks forever be recast upon the waters, dinner time be damned.
I was at a talk about the Natural History of Adelaide a year or two ago and the presenter, a well know ecologist, described Adelaide as having a cold monsoon…that is, a very high % of our rainfall is in the coldest months….thus began the driest winter on record, another followed. I blame that guy for our winter droughts. However, we have had above average rain this month.
I condemn the end of the financial year…I really can’t stand this arbitrary deadline for all my contracts..it’s particularly difficult with the weather.
Really, I condemn the month of June in general, it’s my least favourite time of year. If it’s not cold enough to freeze yer tits off in the morning it’s because it’s really grey and miserable outside, if it is clear and sunny, then you can guarantee it’ll be bloody cold out and you’d rather stay in bed.
I condemn musicians that tour Australia and don’t come to Adelaide.
Finally, I condemn the person I was talking to at the weekend who hasn’t heard of Augie March…..wtf?
I condemn the miserably cold weather we’re having in Sydney, and my laryngitis.
I condemn the little note from school about nits.
The death of Mr Ward is, I think, something that would only happen to an Aboriginal person in Australia — I can’t think of anything more condemnatory of our society than that. And how do those drivers sleep at night?
vale Siggi
Yep, bye Siggi. Chase that stick all the way across the water.
Sorry to hear of your loss FDB.
Thanks guys.
He was pretty sick for a long while, and had porterhouse for his last meal, and was surrounded by people and dogs who loved him, so not such a bad deal in the scheme of things.
It sounds like he was a much loved hound and a had a great life FDB.
I condemn the increasing trend for opinions to be formulated based purely on left or right ideology, rather than on merit. Examples include the apology to the aboriginal people, abortion, national debt and gay marriage. But I could have listed anything. I don’t single out either side as being more deserving of condemnation. I know that in the final years of the Howard Government I reacted to most issues in exactly the same way.
Unfortunately, this trend is now been applied to an issue of enormous importance: climate change. Because it’s been seen through the filter of ideology, there are substantial numbers on both sides of the debate, with both sides reacting to each new pronouncement with the objectivity of a football crowd. I suspect that if rainfall permanently ceased, countries were inundated and the Earth turned into a dustbowl, RWDBs would still see climate change as a left-wing conspiracy. And vice versa. It seems inevitable that with opinion evenly divided, drastic measures will never be taken. I only hope the scientific community have got it wrong.
I condemn Eric Abetz, coz he deserves it, and coz Bob Brown delivered to him what IMHO is one of the greatest put-downs in recent political history:
Why does the SMH (and plenty of other websites) think that ads with sound that start playing immediately are good for business? Don’t they realise that most people read their sites at work? Don’t they care that they’re encouraging people not to use them by doing it.
Turn off the sound, dammit. If I want to hear your ad/music/whatever, I’ll press the play button myself.
I condemn them loudly.
I condemn PETA for condemning Obama for swatting a fly.
Vee, they didn’t? Really? How incredibly stupid. Forgive me all you irritating bloody horrible little insects, I don’t mean you any harm, but I condemn PETA for idiocy.
PETA: Persons Emotive Tending Asinine
You are JOKING about the fly swatting are you not?
I could believe they’d be against little boys removing fly wings for their sport, but a fly swat is specifically designed not only to kill the insect humanely, but to crush very tellingly the little half-maggots that tend to emerge from the deceased parental blow-fly. None shall call this infanticide. Fair suck of the Mortein can.
I condemn Bacardi Breezers for their new highly misogynist advertising campaign…..aimed at women!
http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2009/06/bacardi-says-hot-accessory-this-summer.html
I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but… in PETA’s defence it sounds like they were set up, sort of: