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Sex is one of the topics that traditionally attract the attention of readers. What writer can resist not to insert a couple of juicy scenes into his work? Moans, sighs, and always more popular than falafels at a hipster party. But to spoil the description of sex is as easy as the sex itself, well, it’s not for us to tell you. Therefore, since 1993, the British magazine Literary Review has been giving writers an award for the worst description of sex in novels, and not in love or erotic, but in serious literature. At first, the award was given to all nominees, but since 1994 the jury has chosen to award one winner.
In 1994, Philip Hawke won the prize for his description of the kiss in The Breakers of the Stones: "Their jaws merged in a feverish mutual grinding." Oddly, the book also received an anti-award from the Dental Association.
In 1995, the award went to host Philip Kerr for an excerpt from his debut novel, The Grill: "His astronomical-length machine looked tense and very worried, because it had to perform a very elegant and at the same time mysterious and dark task." Do you understand what it's about? We are almost!
The award was also given to writers who compared the vagina to an exotic fungus in a tree crevice and to wet rubber in 1996 and '97. In 2001, the award went to the author of a passage about a member "cold and lifeless, like the North Pole," and in 2006 to a writer who compared a member to a shower twitching in an empty bath.
Last year's nominees were 2014 Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan with his novel The Narrow Road to the Far North, Haruki Murakami with Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Traveling Years, and Scottish journalist and BBC TV presenter Kirsty Wok with her debut novel. "The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle". Richard Flanagan's sex scene is interrupted by the appearance of a dog with a dead penguin in its mouth, Murakami describes a threesome using mathematical terms ("began to rotate her torso slowly, as if drawing a complex diagram in the air"), and Kirsty Wok's characters "keep lava in their cheeks." We hope you don't get excited!
Pigasus Award
The Pigasus Prize (its name combines the words pig and pegasus - "pig" and "Pegasus") has been awarded since 1982 for the greatest contribution to pseudoscience. Its founder, James Randi, a skeptic and debunker of the paranormal, personally selects nominees from those who claim to have supernatural powers. The award is given in several categories: "Pseudoscience", "Charlatan of the Year", "The Most Useless Research" and "The Most Paranormal Media". Winners include the Montel Williams Show, which regularly hosts a mentally ill woman named Sylvia Browne, and Canadian psychiatrist Colin A. Ross, who claims to be able to shoot electromagnetic beams from his eyes.
James Randi does not hand out awards personally, but sends them to the winners using telekinesis. And if someone did not receive an award, it is solely due to the fact that his paranormal abilities are not in order.
The most famous winner of the award was the British illusionist Uri Geller, who bent spoons with the power of his mind. The award even bore his name at the dawn of its existence. Uri Geller has repeatedly sued "Svinasus" for defamation, but has not won a single case. I'd rather use my energy to ruin cutlery in James Randi's house.
Lantern Rouge Award
The award has been earned since 1903 in the Tour de France bicycle race for the last place. It is a red lantern (as, in fact, Lantern Rouge is translated), similar to those that were hung on the last car of the train. Oddly enough, it was considered not at all shameful to receive it, and the racers even competed to come last. This provided them with the attention of the public and the press. In 1980, the Tour de France even had to make an official statement that cyclists who intentionally come last to receive the Lantern Rouge would be disqualified.
The most famous winner of the award is the Belgian cyclist Wim Vanselvenant, who received it three times. True, then he left the sport and became a farmer.
Ernie Award
Ernie, the most sexist speech award, is named after Australian Workers' Union Secretary Ernie Ekoba, a notorious misogynist in the area. He famously said that women are not even fit to shear sheep. Therefore, at the top of the Ernie Prize, respectively, a sheep flaunts.
The award is a gala dinner attended by about 400 women, and the winner is determined by the whistle that greets his name. The award is presented in several nominations, and famous politicians, lawyers, public figures, athletes and journalists have become its owners at different times. Women can also become winners of the prize for manifestations of misogyny.
The most famous winner of the sexist award is politician John Maloney, the mayor of a small Australian town who invited women to come to his native Mountain Is, since the men there are absolutely picky.
Big Brother Award
Named after a character in George Orwell's 1984 dystopia, the award recognizes the most flagrant violation of privacy and freedom by a government or organization. Organized in 1998 in England, it quickly spread around the world and today is awarded in 18 countries around the world. (And if you don't know about it, it's only thanks to Big Brother making sure you stay in the dark.) The jury consists of scientists, lawyers and journalists, they decide who to "reward" for illegal data collection and intrusion into private life.
The winners of the award were Google for their controversial policy of collecting information about users, Vladimir Putin for almost all of his actions, and Tony Blair, who received the award in the “smiling puppeteer” nomination specially created for him.
Stella Award
The award for the most ridiculous judgment, presented in the United States from 1992 to 2007, was named after the American Stella Liebeck, who spilled coffee on herself at McDonalds and sued the company for $ 2.9 million.
For a short existence, the winners of the award were Mary Ubaudi, who filed a lawsuit against Mazda for the fact that her car did not have instructions for a seat belt, Christopher Roller, who sued David Copperfield and David Blaine for violating the laws of physics (Christopher himself, by the way, he considered himself God) and Judge Roy Person, Jr., who filed a $65 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner for losing his trousers there.
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World Award for Stupidity- the award, which from 2008 was awarded "for the most outstanding achievements in the field of stupidity and ignorance." The award was sponsored by the Just for Laughs comedy festival. The 2005 ceremony was held on July 22 in Montreal.
The last three ceremonies were hosted by American comedian Lewis Black.
Laureates 2006
In 2006, categories awarded included:
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(If someone is interested in the details of the real fate of Radomir, Magdalene, Cathars and the Templars, please see the Additions after the chapters of Isidora or a separate (but still in preparation) book "Children of the Sun" when it is posted on the website www.levashov.info for free copying).I stood completely shocked, as it was almost always after the next story of the North ...
Was that tiny, newly born boy really the famous Jacques de Molay?! How many different bizarre legends I heard about this mysterious man!.. How many miracles were connected with his life in the stories I once loved!
(Unfortunately, wonderful legends about this mysterious man have not survived to this day... He, like Radomir, was made a weak, cowardly and spineless master who "failed" to save his great Order...)
– Can you tell us a little more about him, Sever? Was he such a powerful prophet and miracle worker as my father once told me? ..
Smiling at my impatience, Sever nodded in the affirmative.
– Yes, I will tell you about him, Isidora... I have known him for many years. And I talked to him many times. I loved this man very much ... And I missed him very much.
I did not ask why he did not help him during the execution? It didn't make sense, since I already knew his answer.
– What are you?! Have you spoken to him? Please, will you tell me about this, Sever?!. I exclaimed.
I know I was like a child in my excitement... But it didn't matter. Sever understood how important his story was for me, and patiently helped me.
“Only I would like to know first what became of his mother and the Cathars. I know that they died, but I would like to see it with my own eyes... Help me, please, Sever.
And again, reality disappeared, returning me to Montsegur, where wonderful brave people lived their last hours - students and followers of Magdalene ...
Cathars.
Esclarmonde lay quietly on the bed. Her eyes were closed, she seemed to be sleeping, exhausted by losses ... But I felt - it was just protection. She just wanted to be alone with her sadness... Her heart suffered endlessly. The body refused to obey... Just a few moments ago, her hands were holding a newborn son... Embracing her husband... Now they are gone into the unknown. And no one could say with certainty whether they would be able to get away from the hatred of the "hunters" who filled the foot of Montsegur. Yes, and the whole valley, as far as the eye covered ... The fortress was the last stronghold of the Cathars, after it there was nothing left. They suffered a complete defeat ... Exhausted by hunger and winter cold, they were helpless against the stone "rain" of catapults that rained down on Montsegur from morning to night.
Everyone knows about the most prestigious award in the field of cinema - Oscar. But in this article I would like to talk about anti-premiums, i.e. awards for the worst or dubious achievements. So the 8 most popular anti-premiums.
Anti-prizes of the world
1. Ig Nobel Prize (Antinobel Prize) - The award was established by Mark Abrahams and the humor magazine Annals of Incredible Research in 1991. This award is given for dubious achievements. This award is presented at the beginning of October each year by the real Nobel Prize winners, and the award ceremony takes place at Harvard.
2. Stella Award - This award is given for the most ridiculous judgment in the United States. It is named after Stella Liebeck, who in 1992 spilled hot coffee from McDonald's and sued him, thereby suing the fast food for $ 2.9 million.
3. Golden Raspberry - anti-award, anti-Oscar. The award is given for achievements in the field of cinema. It was founded in 1981 by American John Wilson. The nominees for this award are announced the day before the Oscars.
4. Silver galosh - Russian anti-prize in the field of show business. The award was established by Silver Rain Radio in 1996.
5. Darwin Award - An unofficial award for the most ridiculous death (or at least for the most ridiculous loss of reproductive function). The prize is awarded to people who died in the most ridiculous way, thereby leaving no offspring, thereby clearing the gene pool of mankind.
6. The Glass Bolt Award - established in 2011 by blogger Ilya Varlamov and awarded to Russian officials for the most idiotic and ridiculous decisions in terms of arranging the city of Moscow. In 2012, the award became officially all-Russian.
7. Latern Rouge - the award is given to the cyclist who takes the last place in the Tour de France race. Translated as "Red Lantern" and this award is named after the red lantern on the last car of the train.
8. Paragraph - Literary anti-award. Created in 2001 and awarded in the following categories: "Worst Proofreading", "Worst Translation", "Worst Editing" and "Complete Paragraph" (for complete violation of all book publishing standards). "Honorary illiterates" are also awarded.
A prize or award is awarded, as a rule, on a competitive basis to a person or organization for outstanding results in a particular field of activity. Below is a list of the ten most famous world awards.
Opens the ranking of the most famous awards "Pulitzer Prize" - the most prestigious US award in the field of literature, journalism, music and theater. It was founded on August 17, 1903 by newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer. The award has been awarded annually in twenty-one categories since 1917. The amount of the award is $10,000.
MTV Video Music Awards is an annual award given by the MTV channel for the creation of video clips. The ceremony was first held in 1984 in New York. The record holder for the number of statuettes won, the so-called "Moonmanow", is the American singer Madonna, who has won 20 awards.
BRIT Awards
The BRIT Awards are the UK's most prestigious annual pop music awards. The award was first presented in 1977 as part of the Silver Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II. It has been awarded annually since 1982. The record holder for the number of nominations is British singer Robbie Williams (17 BRIT Awards).
Seventh place in the list of the most famous awards is occupied by the Grammy - the annual music award of the American Recording Academy, founded on March 14, 1958. Awarded by voting in 78 categories across 30 musical genres. As of February 2009, a total of 7,578 awards have been presented.
The Cannes Film Festival is an annual international film festival founded in 1946. Held at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. The most prestigious award given at the Cannes Film Festival in the Best Film category is the Palme d'Or.
Fifth place in the list of the most famous world awards goes to the Golden Globe. It is an annual American award given since 1944 for motion pictures and television pictures, as voted by some 90 international journalists based in Hollywood. The record holder for the number of nominations is Meryl Streep (29 awards).
BAFTA
BAFTA is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes arts such as film, television and computer games. The organization was formed in 1947 under the leadership of David Lean. The first BAFTA award ceremony took place in 1948 in London. The winners receive a golden mask as a prize.
Third place in the list of the ten most famous awards in the world goes to the Booker Prize. It is the most prestigious literary award given annually in the UK since 1969 for the best original novel written in English. The winner of the award receives £50,000.
Oscar
In second place in the list of the most famous world awards is the Oscar - the most prestigious American film award on the planet, annually presented since 1929 in Los Angeles, at the Dolby Theater for various achievements in the film industry. From 1953 to the present, the ceremony has been televised in more than 200 countries. Walt Disney won the most Oscars (26).
The Nobel Prize is an international annual award given for outstanding scientific research, revolutionary inventions, or major contributions to culture or society. The award was named after the Swedish chemist, engineer and inventor Alfred Nobel, who in his will ordered part of his capital to be awarded as an award for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and the world. Between 1901–2015 The Nobel Prize was awarded to 870 laureates and 26 organizations.
Ig Nobel Prize
For achievements that make you laugh and then think
The prizes are given by the real Nobel Prize winners, only with false noses and make-up, and the time of the recipients' speech is limited by little Miss Sweetie Poo, who after 60 seconds says "Please stop, I'm bored!".
Since 1991, at the behest of founder Mark Abrahams and the scientific publication Annals of Improbable Research, Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded along with the announcement of Nobel Prize winners. Rarely does an anti-Nobel award express criticism, more often it draws attention to a work with an amusingly formulated theme or a ridiculous subject of research. For example, the research of two Austrian researchers who applied mathematical methods to determine whether the Sultan of Morocco, Ismail the Bloodthirsty, could have conceived 888 children between 1697 and 1727.
The medal parodies the Nobel
Several times "Schnobel" was received by citizens of Russia. For example, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chemist and crystallographer Yuri Struchkov received a literature prize for publishing 948 scientific papers between 1981 and 1990, that is, one scientific article every 4 days. In 2012, our compatriots received three Schnobels. Igor Petrov, the owner of the Russian company SKN, received the Peace Prize for the synthesis of nanodiamonds from old ammunition; the prize in physics (“for the study of how to properly wear coffee so as not to spill it”) was awarded to a former citizen of the Russian Federation, scientist Ruslan Krechetnikov (together with the American Hans Mayer); the prize in psychology went to Tulio Guadelupe from the Institute of Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, representing Russia and Peru, for his scientific work "The Eiffel Tower seems shorter from the left corner." In 2000, Andrey Geim, a native of the USSR, received the Ig Nobel Prize for an experiment with diamagnetic levitation (he made a frog fly), and ten years later he was awarded the Nobel Prize for the practical production of graphene.
"Golden Raspberry"
For dubious achievements in the field of cinema
Sprawling and golden, like an Oscar
The Golden Raspberry Awards was invented in 1981 by publicist John Wilson, author of a guide to the worst films. The name comes from the English slang expression (to) blow raspberry (tongue) - to snort in mockery, blowing into a protruding tongue. While the Oscars are drowning in tolerance and predictability, members of the Golden Raspberry Foundation, as they say, keep filmmakers in a sporty tone. The 36th awards ceremony took place on February 27 on Broadway - as always, the day before the Oscars. Like last year, nine failed nominations were diluted with a berry of mercy: “redemptive raspberry” became an indulgence for someone who was able to bring his career out of a steep dive. Among the applicants were Night Shyamalan (for the film The Visit), Elizabeth Banks (for Pitch Perfect 2), Will Smith (role in The Protector). Sylvester Stallone got it for "Creed" (by the way, he was named the worst actor of the 20th century when summing up the film results of the century). Among other favorites of the 36th Golden Raspberry ceremony, Jupiter Ascending and the Fantastic Four were named, but as a result, almost all the statuettes were taken away by Fifty Shades of Grey.
Runet anti-premium
For the brightest, unformatted and dubious projects of the Russian Internet
Users fell in love with the informal anti-premium much more than its source - the Runet Prize, which, for example, did not award Pavel Durov for VKontakte, which is why he staged a DDoS attack on the site with popular vote. The Runet Antipremiya remains in memory, if only thanks to the nominations - risky, witty and surprisingly accurately showing key events. For example, in 2014 Lenta.ru won in the “Not a Runet Cake” nomination, Meduza made its debut in the “Bombed!” section, and Lentach became a leader in the “BDSMM and other PR poses” category. Sites - winners of the anti-premium regularly found themselves under the yoke of Roskomnadzor: for example, "Lurkomorye" (winner of 2014 in the "Underground" nomination) and RuTracker.org (nominee "Mom, I rocked again in a dream"), it is hardly possible in the same nomination note the social network "VKontakte", where there is less and less pirated content, sidelong glances periodically catch the Kermlin Russia account (the winner of the nomination "Kitten named.GOV") and the public "The Decaying West" ("Fun of the Year"). The award did not last until 2016.
Pigasus Award
For contributions to pseudoscience and paranormal research
The Pigasus Award was created by James Randi, an illusionist, scientific skeptic and fighter against paranormal crooks. Back in the 1970s, Randy was involved with the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. The Pigasus Award is another achievement by Randy in the fight against sorcerers and psychics. The name Pigasus itself is a derivative of "Pegasus" and pig, referring to the expression "when pigs fly" ("when the cancer whistles on the mountain"). The ceremony takes place on April 1, and the prize is a flying pig on a stand, "which the winner takes with the help of telekinesis." In total, the award has five categories: the scientist who did the most stupid thing (in 2012 - Stanislav Burzynski for selling an expensive cancer cure); organizations - for supporting parapsychological research (in the same year - Pumpkin Hollow Retreat Center for supporting the healing laying of hands on the sick - "Therapeutic Touch"); the media - for the assertion of paranormal phenomena as facts; the performer who fooled the most people; and finally, an award "for the most desperate refusal to face reality."
Bent Spoon Award
Australian Award for Paranormal Stupidity
Bent spoon given to Australian charlatans
A special anti-award from the Australian Skeptics Society, named after Uri Geller, who allegedly bent spoons using telekinesis. In 2013, the Bent Spoon Award was won by the Australian Chiropractic Association, which refused to insure its members, and in 2014, by Dr. Larry R. Marshall, President of the state scientific organization CSIRO, for supporting dowsing. The most recent winner of the Bent Spoon is Australian celebrity chef and broadcaster Pete Evans, who has been nominated for his praise of the Paleo diet, a diet based on the alleged ancient diet of humans during the Paleolithic.
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year
For the strangest, funniest and most ridiculous book title
A detailed guide to blowing gas on a date won an award in 2014, although not only is the title outstanding - the topic of the book deserves a separate prize
The idea for the award came from The Bookseller magazine and the publishers Diagram Group, who wanted to draw attention to the 1978 Frankfurt Book Fair. Since then, every year, with rare exceptions, a prize is awarded - a bottle of champagne or Bordeaux - to active readers who send in the strangest, funny, or absurd title of a book that came out during the past year. The first nominee for the award was the non-fiction Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Naked Mice (1978); following books deserved public recognition: "Madam as an entrepreneur: domestic prostitution and career management" (1979), "Significant moments in the history of concrete" (1994), "The Joy of Sex. Pocket edition” (1997), “Knitting adventures with hyperbolic planes” (2009), “Managing a dental clinic in Genghis Khan style” (2010) and many others. The latest winner was Margaret Meps Schulte's Strangers Have the Best Candy (2015).
Bad Sex in Fiction Award
For the worst erotic scene in literature
The winning scene featured "a giggling full copulation snowball" and a "sexually violent rollercoaster loop"
Until last year, the BSIFA prize was more of a local meme for readers of the Literary Review magazine, but in 2015 the news of the award spread all over the media when it was awarded to The Smiths vocalist Stephen Morrissey for the book The List of the Lost. The author described the plot of his book as follows: “A team of American runners from the 70s accidentally kills another athlete, thus releasing a demon from him. This demon is the devil in the flesh, and death awaits every killer. But it all ends up being a ritual of exile, so the death at the very beginning of the book is just an illusion.” The author himself did not come for a prize in the form of a naked woman on an open book and did not comment on the situation.
"Paragraph"
Award of the newspaper "Book Review" for dubious achievements in the field of book publishing
Not every anti-prize has a budget for such a commemorative sculpture
It is a twice broken pen in the form of the letter Z on a stand, is awarded in the categories "Worst Proofreading", "Worst Translation", "Worst Editing" and "Complete Paragraph" (for complete violation of all book publishing standards), and for "particularly cynical crimes against Russian literature" give "Honorary Illiteracy". "Illiterate" at one time was received by Andrei Fursenko for the reform of education and Konstantin Ernst with the wording "as the physical embodiment of the largest rating share of television, stupefying the common man, tearing him away from books and reading, from any manifestation of culture." In addition to them, Anatoly Fomenko has a “Paragraph” for “New Chronology” (2004) and Boris Akunin for the book “History of the Russian State. From the origins to the Mongol invasion" (2014).
Turnip Prize
Parody of the Turner Prize - for the worst works of contemporary art
Work shortlisted for 2011. Called "First Class Mail" by TeamGB
In response to the controversial decisions of the Turner Prize jury, the organizers of the Turnip Prize say: "You can submit any work to us, provided it sucks." At the same time, the leitmotif of the anti-award is the hypothesis: “We know that it sucks, but is it art?” Before the final decision, each candidate receives an assessment of his creation: “not enough effort” and “well, isn’t it shit?” - go to the finals, and the work with the marks "too tried" and "not enough shit" are eliminated. In 2003, the winner was James Timms with "Take a leaf from my club" (raw chicken in leaves). In 2007, Bracey Vermin won the award with his work "Tea P", which consisted of several soaked tea bags laid out in the shape of the letter P. This year, the artist Bonksy won the prize with his work "Dismal And" - an homage to Banksy with his thematic park Dismaland, is a piece of wood with a sad muzzle 
Winning Job as an ampersand.
Location London, Great Britain
years 1999 - present
Golden Fleece Award (1975–1987)
For grant-eating and stupid research
The first prize was awarded to the US National Science Foundation in 1975 for spending $84,000 on a laboratory study of the phenomenon of love. Later, NSF would again be the winner of the Golden Fleece Award - for analyzing the aggression of moon fish, one of which drank tequila and the other rum. The US Department of Defense received an award for spending $3,000 on a study that found that soldiers should use an umbrella when it rains; Ronald Reagan - for spending $ 15.5 million from the pockets of the taxpayers (the money was needed for re-inauguration). The Golden Fleece Prize was established by American Democratic politician William Proxmire and awarded it until 1987.
Location Washington, USA
Years 1975–1987
Doublespeak Award
For the most cunning political rhetoric
This anti-award, established by the National Council of Teachers of English, is awarded for the most ambiguous statement. The very first was received by US Air Force Press Officer David Opfer for calling the bombings in Southeast Asia "air support." In 1986, the NASA contractors who tried to hide the meaning of the disaster with the Challenger shuttle became the winner. The explosion was called an "anomaly", the bodies of the dead astronauts - "a detachment that returned to Earth", and the coffins - "containers for transporting the team." It is interesting that in England there is an analogue of the anti-premium called. Among the champions of absurdity there are Naomi Campbell ("I love England, especially your national food - there is nothing tastier than pasta"), Silvio Berlusconi ("I'm truthful quite often") and Donald Trump for reminding McCain of the Vietnamese captivity ("He not a war hero. He was a hero because he was taken prisoner. And I love people who were not taken prisoner").
Darwin Award
For idiocy. Posthumously
American Larry Walters made a balloon flight
This is one of the most cruel, famous and funny anti-prizes. Awarded annually to persons who died or deprived themselves of the opportunity to have children through stupidity. It grew from the ancient usenet forum launched on August 7, 1985. Eight years later, in 1993, biology student Wendy Northcut created a website dedicated to the Darwin Prize and that same year began compiling obituary books for "human lemmings." For selection, Northcut was guided by five rules: the nominee must die or be sterilized as a result of his actions, self-harm must be as stupid as possible, a person must harm himself on his own, while being over 18 years old and mentally healthy; Finally, the incident must be verified. In 2014, a posthumous award was given to a young magician from Spain who tried to use his body as a current conductor in order to light a light bulb in his hand; in 2015, the Darwin Prize was won by a South African woman who fell off a cliff while trying to take a selfie.