Dummy Spit of the Week

Sunday, 9 March 2003

I had intended to leave this till Tuesday (I'm taking tomorrow off, blogwise) to allow time for more nominations. Instead, after a brief tour of Ozblogistan, I've decided to bring it forward a day in the interests of timeliness.

As I don't have any candidates from the op-ed and political worlds, this week's Dummy spit award is going to a blogger. Aaron Oakley gets an honourable mention for this post bitching about the fact that Margo Kingston has been ignoring him for the past two months. James Russell also gets an honourable mention for this complaint that John Quiggin overlooked his on-line quiz where he asks readers just what price they are prepared to pay for peace.

But the clear winner, by several long-winded lengths, is the Wog for this attack on the snobbery of Phillip Adams and Tim Dunlop. In it, the wog also provides a list of the things he likes:

... Opera, art, architeture, industrial design, chess, European history, restraurants, horse racing, museums, reading, public radio, ABC - I can handle all of it, cos I like it. But then we add country music, comics, car design, Tony Roma's Deep Fried Mozzarella Sticks, porn, that F1 racing game at the TimeZone etc etc.

Allow me to paraphrase the Wog's post.

Phillip Adams is bad because he is a snob. Tim Dunlop is bad because he is a snob. I am not a snob. I like "culture" stuff but I like common people stuff too. That makes me better than a snob. Because I am better than a snob I am better than either Phillip Adams or Tim Dunlop.

Now that sounds like snobbery to me.

Nominations are now open for the next "Dummy Spit of the Week".