rubbishness

As each part of it emerges, Tik Tok slowly turns into one giant warning klaxon informing you of its own rubbishness: a 2 Unlimited sample, a song title still clammy from Ke$ha's Jack Daniels-stained paws and the dreaded words "Feat Sean Paul".

This week's new singles 2011

I'd argue that it's a mixture of the rubbishness of the Jubalani beachball and the preponderance of 4-2-3-1, which makes it harder for teams to play through and thus have shots from closer range.

World Cup 2010 live blog: 12 July 2010

Their writing becomes infected, their originality degraded, and a kind of malign self-perpetuaing miasma of rubbishness settles over the whole field.

Archive 2010-06-01 Adam Roberts 2010

But there are perhaps half a dozen spots of textual time here as beautiful as anything Raine has ever written; if not quite enough to redeem the book, then at least enough to make this a book worth reading despite its rubbishness.

Archive 2010-07-01 Adam Roberts 2010

So instead, I admit to my rubbishness, and add below the two relevant links, the contents of which I invite the world and her sister to reach their own conclusions about.

Trans woman imprisoned indefinitely ‘for the public’s protection’ 2008

But there are perhaps half a dozen spots of textual time here as beautiful as anything Raine has ever written; if not quite enough to redeem the book, then at least enough to make this a book worth reading despite its rubbishness.

Craig Raine, Heartbreak (2010) Adam Roberts 2010

Sidebottom – blissfully oblivious to his utter rubbishness – was a satire on the business Sievey loved.

Frank Sidebottom ... 'He'd have died to be in the charts' 2010

Their writing becomes infected, their originality degraded, and a kind of malign self-perpetuaing miasma of rubbishness settles over the whole field.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time (1990-2005) Adam Roberts 2010

If does end up turned down, I'd rather that at least it's on the grounds of unmarketability rather than out and out rubbishness...

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2009

But oh my goodness, your comment:'If does end up turned down, I'd rather that at least it's on the grounds of unmarketability rather than out and out rubbishness...' rang such bells with me as I wait for the decision on Not One of Us!

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2009