A while since we’ve done this. So, time again to condemn. Here’s a thirteenth open condemnation thread. What’s getting up your goat this week? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious and beach related phenomena need condemnation? (Or loud denunciation?)
In light of this exchange between Darlene and Mark on the Kevin07 thread, you can condemn anything except surfie chicks and the wonderfulness that was Puberty Blues.
But you can condemn the naughties’ version of the political tampon ad – Kevin07Kevin70s. Wayne Swan was a surfie once. Kevin was studying Mandarin and Chinese political intrigues at the time.
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Gosh, have people lost the taste for condemnation? I’ll kick off by condemning loud denunciations.
I condemn the collusion of the paltry english summer and my genetics for making me one of the whitest people in the universe
Noise pollution via leaky headphones on Melbourne public transport, which is now approaching Tokyo proportions in crowdedness.
Before you set me up as a reactionary who don’t like the modern stuff – I like black metal, speed metal and all sorts of complex musics – I just don’t like it interpreted as blowfly and white noise buzz. I’d much rather listen to my own thoughts (circular though they may be).
I condemn Mark the Poo for choosing a kitten over a cougar (like that was a surprise) …. I condemn anyone who thinks I watch this show…I don’t, (I just condemn on the basis of the ads and the spoilers in the paper.)
…er yes, I condemn the whole concept as well.
hmm, I’ve been Spaminated
In the other thread on Amalgamations – not here
I condemn my camera for hiding from me for the last week. It’s getting to the point where I’m going to have to tidy things before I can find it, dammit!
I condemn the weather outside my office window for looking sunny and calm, but the second I walk outside changing to squally and dreary.
I condemn -7 degrees celsius in the early morning, it makes the dog bowl hard to drink out of (apparently). I condemn t-shirt campaigns that have no young lovelies with them tied at 3/4 on the hip, in the sun, with a slight breeze to accentuate the pouting lips and hint of nipple that make t-shirts what they are. I now must condemn inappropriate erections.
perhaps unoriginal, but nevertheless…
I condemn Howard’s attempts at answering any of Kerry’s questions on 7.30 report this evening, and especially sidestepping questions of “dishonesty’!!
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I condemn Abram for leaving Ur.
I condemn the Kevin07 types for the above image encouraging resting in the sun without coverage of shoulders (or in the guy’s case, a whole back) given that they are obviously kickin’ back and not getting ready to go into the water any second. And Kev is from Qld, melanoma capital of the world! It’s almost as silly as having those youths smoking!
I condemn the Wilson Government for cancelling the TSR.2 Perhaps if we get a petition up?
And I condemn Neil Labute’s pointless remake of “The Wicker Man”.
I also join Roger in condemning second hand music on public transport. At least the overheard mobile conversations (“I’m on the tram, I’ll be there in five minutes”) have a certain found Beckettian quality to them – unlike the sight and sound of some hair-gelled or fluffed office drone in a Chapel St designer knockoff nodding his or her head to a faint douf douf douf.
Gee, it’s much more fun than I suspected turning into an old fuddy-duddy. Almost looking to contracting gout now.
I condemn all those christians, who according to rumour, are declining in droves to join in John and Kevin’s churchy chat on Thursday.
If the rumours turn out to be true, I may have to check myself into a Schadenfreude rehab clinic.
I rented that recently, Nabs. It was appalling.
The original was very very good.
I condemn Labute for a combination of misogyny and hopeless film-making. And I condemn Nicholas Cage, just generally.
Along with the hissing “stss stss” of treble from same bud earpieces – get decent cans for goodness sake.
Nabby, why not go the whole hog and condemn the Canadian government for cancelling the Avro Arrow?
I condemn Melbourne public transport for being horribly overfull.
I knew the bloke who wrote it and from he told me it would have been a bloody masterpiece if a combination of pennypinching and hamfisted editing by co-producers/distributors with no idea of how to market it hadn’t butchered the project.
And from what he also told me, it was a pretty saucy shoot behind the scenes as well.
Also that Christopher Lee regards it as the best project he’s ever been involved in and spent considerable amounts of his own money and time in promoting it into the cult film it’s now become.
The neg and master print ended up buried as roadfill under an English motorway due to an truly idiot decision by Pinewood to throw out all the old film stashed in their storerooms.
Look, the Labute version had some nice touches (like subsituting bees for apples) but overall it was sluggish, lifeless and utterly predictable. Like a wedding band subsituting a synth line for rhythm guitar when covering ‘Jumping Jack Flash’.
And Nick should have quit acting and gone into production after peaking with “Con Air”.
(insert “I condemn” as needed above.)
I condemn the Government Gazette for claiming itself to be “heart of the nation” by attaching itself like a kangaroo tic to genuinely worthwhile Australians like lifesavers. Makes me miss the prostate problem ads.
Re: Nabs
I condemn Nick Cage for becoming the anti-Walken/Depp/Chan by guaranteeing that any film he’s in will be pants and to be avoided at the DVD shop..
And condemn people who have been giving ‘The Rock’ a hard time as a movie and making me doubt myself.
.. and for rhyming ‘answer’ with ‘cancer’
I condemn loud ipod headphones in quiet public computer labs at uni.
Can I have two?
I also condemn camera phones at rock concerts.
Every prick has got their camera held aloft for the entire show these days. Combine this with the ipod complaint above, and I completely understand where Ted Kaczynski was coming from.
Ew!
Which reminds me that I have always condemned Joni Mitchell for rhyming ‘years’ with ‘mirrors’, even though in her Canadian accent it practically does. But it is not worthy of her.
And I loudly denounce John Brumby for implying that fathers only need apply for senior political positions — a mere ten days after his predecessor resigned to spend more time with his off-the-rails offspring. Der.
On the evidence of Torchwood tonight (whose relegation to the midnight hour I denounce) it’s a valid rhyme in a Welsh accent.
I rented that recently, Nabs. It was appalling.
The original was very very good.
I condemn Labute for a combination of misogyny and hopeless film-making. And I condemn Nicholas Cage, just generally.
I am so with both of you.
And I condemn all the video hire places in my entire area for not stocking the original Wicker Man (or any films I particularly ask for, either.)
I condemn Connex for launching their stupid, stupid ‘etiquette’ campaign.
Ahhh, I saw Puberty Blues some years ago at the Fortitude Valley cinema (what was it called?), and it was on a double bill with The Rose. I condemn The Rose for being pretty boring (mind you, I was only 2 when I saw it), except the theme song which was quite evocative.
“Some say lurve….”
I condemn the maker of Notes on a Scandal for including a completely silly scene with Cate Blanchett screaming like a banshee. Yikes. Otherwise it was an interesting film.
As for Connex, well they always stand condemned.
I condemn Catherine Deveney. She is easily the most intellectually-challenged writer for The Age. She reads like a Year 10 ‘issues’ paper – she is still using idiotic phrases like ‘free health care’. Why not ‘free’ food as well? That’s an essential service, isn’t it?
Now a plausible alternative theory is that she is engaging in an elaborate parody. I don’t think so, though.
Cheers
BBB
I condemn intellectually vacuous political parties with thinking so fresh that no-one knows what it is.
The one on the left is “a surfie chick”?!
Jeez, I’ve been away too long. Or not long enough.
Sorry, got lost on the TimDunlop denunciation of Kim & Co. I tried to copy it to Word but it blew my dial-up connection – is that (FGM) the longest thread ever?
Kina – Bad enough he left Ur but to add ‘ah’ to his & Sara’s name (wonder if he asked her – yeh, for sure)just to cozy up to the maniac of a Mountain Madman.
You’ve seen Kevin 07, Now check out Howard 007 !!
Beats Sydney’s…
I condemn Lily for not sleeping.
Is that too harsh?
Poor Lily.
I condemn Howard for ruining my polling figures!