Aint today’s headline grand?
Just another day in SA…!
July 2004
Monthly Archive
Or as titled by Adam in his great link blog: Reason #3465 why soccer is fucking crazy
It boggles my mind that I read this local news on a blog written by a friend in New Jersey. Then again, I guess it’s because the coach wasn’t a rich, white, Sandton girl.
Low blow? Possibly.
Callous? Perhaps.
Sad but true? definitely…!
Another notch on the belt
Posted by ../Ant under Current Affairs , Sports on July 29 2004 at 4:04 PM
“The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that Sam Ramsamy, President of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (NOCSA), will serve as member of the Evaluation Commission for the 2012 Olympic Games.” – (Read the whole article here).
Fantastic! Judging by the job he did on Spiderman and Spiderman 2, this is going to be an Olympics to remember!
According to two separate sauces, clothing stores in fare Durban are currantly being harrassed by a gang of overweight female thieves. They are still at large, and eating through shops at a rate of knots.
So far unstoppable, the crooks rush into a clothing store in mass (so two of them, I guess), scaring the clerks and patrons into blubbering idiots, before lunching a full scale attack, and rolling out with their loot, like dressings and scoffs. Before long, they acquire a new grazing area, and steak it out. Clothing store clerks fear they are all in gravy danger.
Rather than wearing the clothes themselves (the clothes are all in smaller sizes), the voluptuous villains are swelling their own pockets by selling off the stolen items to street hawkers, or dumping them in a gorge. .
The “large” women were first incriminated by an in-store CCTV system, which I find a little hard to digest. They were first thought to be part of a previous ‘plus-sized’ gang, who were rounded up a few years eggo. The ‘A-Team’ (the A is definitely not a measurement) are currantly stewing in their own juices in prison.
It will be a gorgeous day when these fatties are finally nabbed. I can’t weight. I hope the sentence is as heavy as they are.
From my perception of South Africans, I’d say we have a ‘fix-it’ culture when it comes to our belongings. But that’s just me.
Our washing machine broke the other day. A washing machine technician I ain’t, but we still tried to find and fix the problem. So after a lot of strain and cleaning up (not on my part), the outlet pipe was fixed, and then I broke the inlet pipe and had to buy another one. Eventually my washing machine is going to have all new parts, from all different hardware stores and all different makes. But do I care? Absolutely not, because I have a washing machine that works.
Which brings me to my point: Is it South Africans in general that feel this way? How I was brought up? Or to which social class I’ve been slotted into?
Do CEO’s of financial institutions call someone in to fix their fridge, or do they throw it out and buy another one?
Bored on your way home from a big night out? Jan and I found the solution:
The portion of highway stretch going through Pretoria East is a 100km/h zone, compared to the rest of the country’s 120km/h limit. People often forget / ignore this, so when you’re driving the limit and some punk comes speeding past you, pull out your digital camera and flash him one!
Check the brakes!
Rock ‘n Roll is far from dead
Posted by Don Packett under Music , Out & About on July 26 2004 at 1:39 PM
Backlit silhouettes move slowly on stage at The Nile Crocodile while the intro plays out. It ends, and The Slashdogs kick into their set. Chuck Berry meets Motorhead, throw in a bit of Murderdolls and you’ve got a kick-ass rock band with plenty of attitude. Frontman Ryan (ex-Fuzigish) has an amazing amount of energy, moving around like he owns the stage and performing like a rock vocalist should. Guitarist Andy (ex-Leek and the Bouncing Uptones frontman) still has the same on-stage flair, not forgetting his trademark eyebrow-lift. Bassist Liam was sickly, but that didn’t hamper his performance at all. On drums, ATFN’s Paul, who proved that he’s not just good with a git!
Next up, ATFN. I posted about a gig of theirs before, and I won’t hesitate to sing boo-ya praises to them again. Tight is not the word. These guys are phenomenal. From a young punk band four years ago, singing about their teddy bears, to what they are today. A slick progressive-metal-punk band with so much going for them.
Between sets they held a tattoo competition sponsored by Phoenix Tattoos. Basically, the two best looking tattoo’s got a R400 tattoo voucher, and first prize got a bottle of whiskey too. The idea was a little flawed I thought, ‘cos if you have a nice tatt, well done, let someone else have a nice tatt too, so I told Andy that next time they should consider the winner to be ‘tattoo with most potential for growth’. The arm on this image is mine. I tried to sneak in a pen drawing of the Slashdogs logo to try win the prize, but the judges were all over it. Bummer. So I showed them my real one and that’s when I thought of the potential for growth idea.
I believe, without a doubt, that both these bands have international potential. A few years ago young punk bands were popping up all over the place. The ones that have stuck it out have either stuck to their punk rock style of music, or evolved. ATFN have definitely evolved into a rock machine, and I think that newcomers The Slashdogs are hot on their heels. The event was organised and put on by Breath Of Fresh Air. Keep ‘em coming guys!
In an attempt to keep the office up-to-date on public holidays, Helen posted all of them on an iCal calendar that we all get to organise shoots when we need to book cameras.
It’s official ladies, treat your pubes to the best holiday ever. Spa baths, mud packs, massages and more.
Can’t wait for Men’s Day Pubic Holiday.
When you’ve moved to the big city from a small town like Welkom, like I have, it’s always nice hearing stories about what’s been happening lately. But when you read a story like this, it’s kinda sucky.
The lowdown:
Thieves are stealing funeral equipment for re-sale or to start their own funeral homes.
Leigh Matthews, the 21 year old who was kidnapped almost two weeks ago, was found dead in the south of Joburg.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. May those fuckers rot in hell.
You know I hate to laugh at the misfortune of others (okay, that’s a lie), in this case though, I couldn’t help myself. Alon spotted this at Fourways High while we were playing inline hockey last night:
To help you out here, refer to the following key:
– “A.” Entrance 1 of 2
– “B.” Entrance 2 of 2
– “C.” The wheelchair access toilets
Now with that in mind, do you think the architect was:
– A: One of the stoopid people (they’re everywhere)
– B: A compulsive practical joker, or
– C: Just pissed off with people in wheelchairs (they do get all the best parking after all)?
Talk about adding insult to injury.
For best results, leave all taps running…!
This is a card from a gym one of our guys joined a while ago.
Apparently you can buy caps and t-shirts sporting the big guy as well. But why would you? Gym Reaper? Why? Really. Why? Methinks Roger and Craig dost pusheth over the benchpress limit… -eth.
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Don’t just do it for you though,
Do it for the children…!
What are the Mail & Guardian trying to say really?
Nothing like a little objective journalism to get the day off to a cracking start.
Can’t say I disagree though…!
I’ve posted this snippet as it appears on this Gauteng Blog post:
| …a Chinese family currently on asylum in Durban are mourning the loss of a family member, who was killed for an empty lunch box at the intersection of Albert and Queen Streets.
Police said De hua Lin, 48, had been walking with his brother-in-law, Mokung Chen, from Chen’s clothing shop in the Berea Station when they were attacked by two youths on Friday evening. The youths had tried to grab a plastic bag from Lin but he refused to let go of the bag, which contained an empty lunch box and papers. One of the youths shot him in the face killing him instantly. The robbers discarded the plastic bag after discovering it contained nothing more than an empty lunch box and papers. |
Wow, on asylumn? Here? That’s out of the frying pan mate…
How do we react to this? We seriously need to reclaim the streets. Of course I say this, but it’s all rhetoric, I’ll go home and shit myself in the comfort of my suburban residence, where I’ll bow my head in shame; because I don’t have the answers. Where’s Charles Bronson when you need him?
I feel sick…!
Sex sells, as, apparently, does a healthy offering of nipple.
Spotted these in YDE Sandton.
Hello indeed…!
