It’s Thursday. It must be Cnut Time. Yes, nominations are now open for “Cnut of the Week”!
For those new to the game, we’re honouring King Cnut the Great who, as legend would have it, attempted to hold back the tide to prove to his sycophantic courtiers that he was a mortal man. Each week we ask: Who do you think is futilely resisting the tide of change?
Nominations are open to people, organisations, nations and even abstract forces of nature — but your nomination has to reflect the news of the last week, and you have to give reasons. As usual, I’ll select the shortlist at 8.30pm Sydney time, and you can vote during tonight’s edition of Stilgherrian Live from 9.30pm Sydney time.
Who do you nominate, and why? Don’t forget the “Why?”!
[Update Friday 27 March: Due to peacocks, the program didn't happen. I will therefore do a special catch-up edition of Stilgherrian Live tonight at 9.30pm Sydney time. Nominations for "Cnut of the week" are still open until 8.30pm.]
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The Fake Stephen Conroy for biting the hand that feeds him (fair enough and very funny) and then being surprised when the hand decides to slap him back…
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Honestly, he was not surprised. The man is fed up, not an idiot.
So you predicted what would happen, and yes, he did too, you’re not cracking the Da Nassar Code, people.
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Telstra for sacking FSC.
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Bad and ill-considered nomination. Leslie Nassar has been intemperate, immature and a loose cannon since being outed as FSC. If he had the emotional intelligence to have played by normal societal rules and not been a dick since last week, he’d have kept his job and this would all have blown over.
I counter-nominate Leslie Nassar for being incapable of shutting up. For not knowing when enough is enough. And for committing career suicide.
So that’s three votes for Leslie — me, Mungo and Mark Pesce.
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Oh please.
Here’s the ass-kissing, consultancy-fishing comment you posted to Now We Are Talking; the original NWAT article, the one where the “facts” they presented had to be “updated” because they were — what’s the word? — oh yeah, lies.
I particularly enjoy the way you mirror Hickinbotham’s framing; from his ass-to-mouth, facts-be-damned.
This strikes me as a tempered, even and sensible response. What Leslie ultimately does with the @stephenconroy account is in his hands.
Telstra’s response to this today – to an employee that has community support and no small amount of well-earned social capital through his entertainment the past few months – is laudable. Well done.
And thanks to Mike for bringing us the facts.
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Also, go fuck yourself.
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I’m with you, I think Leslie is abrasive but brilliant
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Can we go that new band, George Brandis and the Defence Machine?
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Dr Mark Gregory in relation to comments made in this article here.
Not really sure where to start seeing as 90% of what he says is laughable, but I guess, how about the fact that he is from ‘RMIT University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering’ and doesn’t seem to understand how the internet works.
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Last.fm (interweb radio station) for deciding to charge everyone except those living in US/UK/DE.
http://blog.last.fm/category/Announcements/
Although… Telstra gets a thumbs up from me too.
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Oh yes, I know, but the point is the discrimination. It harkens back to the zone encoding of DVDs bullshit.
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Both Telstra and FSC (together, as they rise and fall together). One for not getting it, one for taking it too far. And I’m not sure which is which. Which is why they rise and fall together.
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+1 for the joint nomination of Leslie Nassar and Telstra
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Sonia Morris for her: Re. to “IDF testimonials tell frightening version of Gaza war” (Wednesday’s comments on Crikey).
“As a Jewish woman and a Zionist … blah blah crikey is like SO one-sided blah”Is this not exactly like saying, “As an Australian woman and a Hansonite …”?
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Optus for cutting off a Wildlife Victoria mobile phone service, used to help manage their rescue of injured wildlife from the Victorian bushfires for racking up a large bill. No notice given, no bill unpaid, just no dial tone.
Ok, news item is more last month rather than last week, but sheesh. http://twitter.com/rmeredit for relevant tweet at the time.
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Yes it is, but the hansonists are a tolerant and non violent bunch by comparison
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optus for crap 3g coverage
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Telstra (Upper Management specifically) for bringing and keeping something in the Public Domain that should of stayed in-House..
@Stephen Collins
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Since it hasn’t been done yet:
The German Police for raiding Theodor Reppe’s house because he owns wikileaks.de. Just because he owns the domain doesn’t mean he controls the site.I’d also like to second the nomination about last.fm. I’m sure it’s not last.fm themselves doing it (why cut off a huge percentage of your audience) so I shall assume the nomination should be for the musicosaurus media companies (unfortunately) control teh tunez.
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Oooo it’s a thick list tonight! I’d like to add Mullumbimby conservative renters for shoveling pith and vinegar at woolworths who would like to open a shop in a small country town.
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The Tunisian Pilot located…. here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090324/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_crash;_ylt=Ao4cTnU14zU0BxnRa9umX0HtiBIF
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Oh dear. Due to an advanced case of peacocks, I didn’t make it back home in time to do the program. Explanations will follow later. I’m thinking there may be a substitute Friday night program instead. What do you think?
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Thinking? On a Friday!!!!!!
NEVER!!!!!
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Yes, due to “popular demand” there will indeed be a special catch-up edition of Stilgherrian Live tonight at 9.30pm Sydney time. Nominations for “Cnut of the Week” will remain open until 8.30pm.
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Pingback from Stilgherrian · Special catch-up edition tonight! on 27 March 2009 at 2:15 pm
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two nominations this week:
* telstra for giving FSC the boot
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I would like to nominate myself for self promotion and not allowing my kids go to the Newcastle Show.
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Telstra.v.FSC is minor-league compared with Conroy.
Also, those who’re nominating FSC are doing so for non-cnut reasons. What tide was he holding back?
I guess we’re looking to expose new cnuts each week, but after last night’s #Q&A I can only sound like a broken record and nominate Conroy again. That studio audience was tide enough.
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I agree, after last night’s Q&A I’d like to nominate Conroy. (the real one)
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I’d like to nominate Andrew Bolt for his years of contributing hundreds of thousands of column inches of hateful bile. He hasn’t learned to move on from hate.
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Oooh ooh – can I change my nomination to Bolt? Since starting to follow FSC I have enjoyed his smackdown on the Russian mob, and only consider him a cnut in an affectionate way. I certainly don’t want to have him in the same company as Bolt and the German police.
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I’d like to nominate the bearded gentleman who during Q&A last night decided to ask Conroy if he understood that ’1984′ was supposed to be a warning and not a manual. FFS, what a total waste of a question and the opportunity to see Conroy dance /squirm a little bit more.
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Can I nominate beardy spaced out question wasting man as well?
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I’d like to nominate Fake Stephen Conroy because he drank all my beer last night. And then the whiskey. What a dick.
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Tide of change, people, tide of change! Some of the nominations coming in, now that I review them, seem to be missing this vital element.
You may now add this vital element to your contributions, or face ridicule on tonight’s program.
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Sorry, I’ll withdraw my nomination and take my kids to the Newcastle Show tomorrow.
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Andrew Bolt for the following comment:
I think it’s incredible and it’s not as if there’s only one right at stake, which is the right to masturbate over photos of children being raped. I mean, that’s not the only right at stake here. — Q and A, Thursday 26th March
It’s people like this who destroy the ability to have serious debate on this issue.
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The Russian Mob. What a bunch of cnuts for hacking that dentist.
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Obviously the Russian Mob deserve a nomination. They seem to be almost as dangerous to the Internet’s prospects for survival as Senator Conroy.
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The person(s) within Defence that have destabilised this country by making a mockery of dear leader joel fitzgibbon. do these ‘diggers’ realise what they’ve done? it’s lamentable that dear leader jeopardised national security (manifest as a rift) pursuing political survival, does he not realise the ‘indo knee asians’ are watching. how can we not accept dear leaders ‘omissions’ as nothing but a rookie mistake, i for one do, and congratulate him on his tireless quest for a new quality in accountability.
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Alfie Patten, the English teenager who thought he’d impregnated his girlfriend at the age of 12, but recent DNA test proves NOT!!!
He couldn’t resist the Cnut of his girlfriend, 15-year-old Chantelle Steadman.
In fact, the whole of their family should be given the award for resisting evolutionary change and holding back humankind.
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OK, my Bolt nomination for his continual and unrelenting climate change denying, despite all evidence to the contrary… not as ‘humorous’ as my previous entries, but my nomination is now new — with added ‘tide of change’.
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Bolt. Cnut.
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Bolt.
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In the chat last night (at one stage there were 28 of us waiting for you and commenting on QandA), many people asked if it was too late to vote for Andrew Bolt or Jesus Bolt as someone referred to him, as Cnut. So I will go with Bolt for my nomination as belated Cnut of the Week too.
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Michael Malone and iiNet for trying to hold back the progress of those nice filter trials by demanding things that would deliver actual usable data and avoid self-selection bias. The utter cheek.
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And finally, Andrew Bolt. Who is the very fucking definition of a Cnut.
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just watching q&a on iview and have to say bolt
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Oh please, Conroy’s appealing to Moore’s Law now… sorry… know you’ve all seen it already!
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I must say the appeal to Moore’s Law was endearing. First of course he got the time interval wrong, and then screwed up the entire concept. Poor old Conroy clearly has an advanced degree in fail.
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Bolt again. Here’s the tide of change he’s resisting: the audience has a fucking clue now, yet he persists in speaking to us as though we’re as uninformed, thick and easily deceived as his imagined stereotype of the Daily Terror readership.
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Deadline? What deadline? Oh, curses.
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I nominate Stilgherrian as Cnut for having deadlines.
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@Viveka Weiley and @Laurel Papworth: Alas, there has to be a close-off at some point so I can choose the shortlist and prepare the graphics for the program. I can thoroughly recommend this wonderful new, helpful technology.
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