Awards nominations thread
Dec 15 2005 00:16
We've decided to do some awards to celebrate another year of our heroic struggle.
Please make some more nominations, or suggest new categories.
We're asking you to nominate people/groups/publications/websites for the awards and will then be asking you all to vote for the winners, prizes may or may not be given out, depending on our generosity/whether or not we get too many Terry's chocolate oranges this xmas.
Thread of the year
Toffbusters (even though it started in 2004)
http://www.libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3090
Out of jail again! (not another Anarchy 4 life post.)/Anarchy 4 life
http://libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6232
http://libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=60941&highlight=#60941
Who do you/other posters look like?
http://libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6318
RIP Anarch
http://libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3509
Poster of the year
gangster
the button
revol68
lucy82
wheresmyshoes
The ICC
Best newcomer (joined 2005)
oisleep
redtwister
Lazy Riser
lucy_parsons
Discussion of the year
The 'survey' as a tool of social change
http://libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3454
Are immigration controls racist? (even though some was lost)
http://libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4871
When White Males Attack: Larry Flynt, Racism and The Left
http://libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5904&highlight=larry+flynt
Worst poster
nuclearcivvy
revol68
Jack
Most illogical poor argument
open to nominations
Best single post
Quote:
Where is the proof that smoking harms your baby?
http://libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=72048#72048
nastyned wrote:
I think things as badly written as this don't really need replying to. Or as they might put it they're autocritiqueing
http://libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=62006#62006
Miss Congeniality award for excessive niceness
the button
rkn
Jason Cortez
Lazlo_Woodbine
Try and get your nominations asap so we can start the voting process and announce some kind of winners at some point not too far into next year...
Dec 15 2005 00:34
#2
revol68 wrote:
it's been a weak year for revol68, directed bitterness gave way to a general feeling of contempt and his posts suffered, young upstarts like redtwister shone through at the start before choking crucial at the end on a Hegelian looking banana skin.
I think that outburst's definitely going to hurt his chances. He could've been a strong contender, though I feel it's gonna be a battle between Lazy Riser and oisleep. It could be so close, that bribes to the admins could be the decider...
Quote:
next season will hopefully see a return to form but one gets the feeling that having seen off the primmos and assorted lifestylists the young boy wonder is feeling a drift, aimless sinking deeper into a Death cab for Cutie soundtracked abyss.
Yeah he definitely needs a new mission. A one-man war on the WSM is a far cry from the destruction of mAce, nuclearcivvy, plastic_life, crack-fix-propaganda, blackcladmessenger, username and that bunch. And Jack's not as good a sidekick as Wayne. But I spose at least this time you're not the sidekick 
We could have a best banning of the year category? Or best banned poster? Possible contenders could be:
- nuclearcivvy (who even set up this tribute site to us: http://www.soggymoggy.demon.co.uk/jwp/enrager.html)
- Mr lustbather/Dioclitianus
- Joe Hill/1 million other names
- that guy who said don't bother emailing him unless you wanted to kill cops in Newcastle to fuck shit up or something
Dec 15 2005 00:40
#3
Actually I see this thread went into this year. It was amazing! Probably my fave
Isn't veganism great, and why can't we all get along?
Dec 15 2005 00:57
#4
revol68 wrote:
it's been a weak year for revol68, directed bitterness gave way to a general feeling of contempt and his posts suffered, young upstarts like redtwister shone through at the start before choking crucially at the end on a Hegelian banana skin.next season will hopefully see a return to form but one gets the feeling that having seen off the primmos and assorted lifestylists the young boy wonder is feeling a drift, aimlessly sinking deeper into a Death cab for Cutie soundtracked abyss.
I'm seeing Death Cab next year 8)
[/smug]
Dec 15 2005 06:46
#5
It's probably not the single most illogical argument of the last year, but given that he's a mate I really have to nominate the following from Nick for most illogical:
Nick Durie wrote:
Nuclear technology at the moment is very bad tech. We have all suffered from eating sheep that have been irradiated. They can still measure the effects on sheep from eating grass that was contaminated when chernobyl went POW!I'm not saying that at the moment there is any case for using poorly understood and even more controlled nuclear technology, and I certainly don't see the pitiful 2 years worth of Uranium that technocrats hope will prove their salvation from peak oil as being something that should be utilized. I am even more against it being used under capitalism - whose economic system is too profit driven to even allow for the best - and yet nonetheless inadequite - safety checks that are available to humanity at present to be carried out.
I'm just philosophically opposed to saying that nuclear technology is always - even in the far, far future - something to be opposed and stamped out, which I think is quite a sensible measured opinion really. I think it's reactionary to always oppose nuclear technology in every hypothetical situation. And yes it is primitivist pseudo-relgious nonsense to assume that now that a dozen or so countries maintain bomb making facilities (nuclear power plants) we can ever hope to somehow 'uninvent' this technology. All that would happen in this hypothetical is that sometime 100 years later some bright spark physicist in our communist regime will just 'discover' the technology afresh and we'll have to uninvent it again. That kind of solution obviously necessitates some inner cadre who are somehow in the know. Bakunin's Red Association - some fucking polit-bureau. Is there something youse aren't telling me about this wonderful world of liberty?
Far better to just admit that it's there and enact legislation with a probity commensurable with this technology's use and potentially disasterous effects. Equally sensible research should continue into it.
And yes Button I think it would be worth retaining weaponry even if is never to be used. We cannot conceive of what threats may lie ahead for communist humanity, including imperialist aliens, which given the history of this planet, at least, there is far from an outside of such things existing.
Solidarity,
Nick
I'm currently watching all of the X-Files in order (I planned on just getting series 1 and 2, but their cliffhangers are eeeeevil), I'm half way through the 6th series, and while it is messing with my head a bit even I'm not this worried about alien invasion 
Dec 15 2005 11:03
#6
john wrote:
though I feel it's gonna be a battle between Lazy Riser and oisleep. It could be so close, that bribes to the admins could be the decider...
ahem
http://www.libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7073&highlight=christmas+present
i'll take best poster ta
Dec 15 2005 11:31
#7
Most illogical poor arguments - my nominations:
JoeBlack claiming that having forum tag-lines which included 'champagne socialist' would put off newcomers:
http://www.libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5292
888 denouncing the evil authoritarian Spanish Anarchist collectives during the civil war who prevented any random nutter sequester (rare and militarily valuable) motor vehicles for a trip to the sea-side:
http://www.libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6406&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15
Lazlo claiming that Direct Action has some inherent good, beyond its aims or results:
Dec 15 2005 12:27
#8
This is now officially my reason for being vegan
<prints small pile of copies to carry around>
Quote:
Since I like furry animals and think they're cute, I'm not going to eat the wee fuckers. And to be consistent I'm not going to eat the ugly ones either. Nor am I going to eat eggs from battery chickens, and I'm certainly not going to eat free range eggs 'cos then I'd be a middle class wanker. And I never liked prawns. A Brucey bonus here is that in turning towards a plant based diet we economise on land use and reduce the amount of labour involved in food production. Perhaps if we save on labour time enough you lumpen carnivore fucks will actually manage to pick up a pot and learn to fucking cook instead of eating the shite yous normally do. Also, veganism is a pure fanny magnet because it makes girls think you're quite sensitive and caring.
Dec 15 2005 13:54
#9
Lazlo_Woodbine wrote:
This is now officially my reason for being vegan
Was that Wayne?
Dec 15 2005 16:55
#10
Come on people, we need more nominations, or by the lack of nominations does that mean people are happy with the one's we came up with?
Dec 15 2005 17:11
#11
well the toffbusters thread is an out and out winner. I reread it last night and if it was a boxing match it would have been stopped on page 2. Gangster took such a hammering and he just kept coming. 
Dec 15 2005 17:19
#12
jimmer wrote:
Miss Congeniality award for excessive niceness
the button
rkn
Jason Cortez
Lazlo_Woodbine
Is it something in the water that makes everyone from SE London so nice?
Dec 15 2005 17:29
#13
martinh wrote:
jimmer wrote:
Miss Congeniality award for excessive niceness
the button
rkn
Jason Cortez
Lazlo_Woodbine
Is it something in the water that makes everyone from SE London so nice?
Jason Cortez is not nice he's a sneaky wee sniping cunt!
Dec 15 2005 17:44
#14
revol68 wrote:
Jason Cortez is not nice he's a sneaky wee sniping cunt!
And I'm not from SE London 
Dec 15 2005 18:12
#15
revol68 wrote:
well the toffbusters thread is an out and out winner. I reread it last night and if it was a boxing match it would have been stopped on page 2. Gangster took such a hammering and he just kept coming.
Gangster was so good. I well miss him.
Dec 15 2005 18:13
#16
Lazlo_Woodbine wrote:
revol68 wrote:
Jason Cortez is not nice he's a sneaky wee sniping cunt!And I'm not from SE London
Ah, but Lazlo, you are the exception that proves the rule.
And, in Jason's defence, he's merely pointed out that if Revol adopted some self-discipline and stopped treating these forums in the way of a particular sub-culture, the good things he said would be easier to spot and he might be taken more seriously by those outside the subculture.
At least I think that's what he's getting at. In his nice way.
Martin
Dec 15 2005 18:20
#17
my behaviour on these forums is no more a sub culture than Frank Lampard is the best midfielder in the world.
Dec 15 2005 18:41
#18
Frank lampard is the best midfielder in the world.
Dec 15 2005 18:45
#19
well i'm honoured to be nominated. do we get to attend a big bash like the MTV awards?
(btw, the cheques in the post. no, it really is. if it gets eaten by christmas gremlins let me know)
and i fucking hate christmas although this worst christmas song lyric in the world sort of cheers me up:
*Whitey Christmas*
I'm dreaming of a whitey Christmas
Like ones they show on tv shows
'Cus I'm a minority
and all my life I've lived in poverty
So I guess I'll just sit here and dream.
just wanted to share that with my public
Dec 15 2005 18:46
#20
Glory hunter wrote:
Frank lampard is the best midfielder in the world.
Dec 15 2005 21:52
#21
I feel at this stage it is necessary to post a picture of Brian McClair, I don't quite know why though, cos A) he doesn't even play now, and B) he wasn't a midfielder.
Dec 16 2005 09:23
#22
Just sneaking in under the wire, nomination for best single post:
Quote:
The ICC wants to express its solidarity for alibadani faced with such an attack.
Dec 16 2005 10:11
#23
best new political discussion board?
i would nominate www.thetollinggang.org 
Dec 16 2005 10:13
#24
spammer!!
ban/bin/boom
Dec 16 2005 10:33
#25
Quote:
i would nominate www.thetollinggang.org
alas though mr lustbather rears his ugly head there, the strange strange person he is
i liked his pictures though
Dec 17 2005 12:51
#26
Just remembered this candidate for best post:
Lazlo_Woodbine wrote:
gentle revolutionary wrote:
As to SolFed's & AF's positions... they have condemned themselves to eternal impotenceThat makes me think of a string of spamming adverts for generic anarcho-viagra
BE ROCK HARD FOR HOURS IN THE CLASS WAR NOW!
MAKE YOUR COMRADES SCREAM!
SURPRISE THE BOURGEOISIE BY GOING ALL NIGHT!
Dec 17 2005 15:40
#27
surely this is the best post ever, by the best poster ever?
wheresmyshoes wrote:
I'm sorry, I was too busy having SOOOOOO MUCH SEX OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!111111THREETHOUSAND!!!!!!!!!! man we will bum later on msnland I have much to tell
Dec 18 2005 00:30
#28
GenerationTerrorist wrote:
surely this is the best post ever, by the best poster ever?wheresmyshoes wrote:
I'm sorry, I was too busy having SOOOOOO MUCH SEX OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!111111THREETHOUSAND!!!!!!!!!! man we will bum later on msnland I have much to tell
Reading back over that veganism thread makes me remember how good Wayne was. I miss him 
Dec 18 2005 17:28
#29
Glory hunter wrote:
Frank lampard is the best midfielder in the world.
Yep. Although we are at present one nil up against *spits on floor* arsenal thanks to none other than Arjen Robben.
Dec 19 2005 09:18
#30
Glory hunter wrote:
Quote:
Frank lampard is the best midfielder in the world.
Erm, two words: Ronald and Inho. Then Pavel Nedved, then Frank Lampard. Possibly.
it's been a weak year for revol68, directed bitterness gave way to a general feeling of contempt and his posts suffered, young upstarts like redtwister shone through at the start before choking crucially at the end on a Hegelian banana skin.
next season will hopefully see a return to form but one gets the feeling that having seen off the primmos and assorted lifestylists the young boy wonder is feeling a drift, aimlessly sinking deeper into a Death cab for Cutie soundtracked abyss.