Virgin Atlantic have put together a legit way for all you lazy bastards to get off work for a while. It involves hitting yourself with a baseball bat (at least they let you chose where), and then taking the resulting printable x-ray and doctor’s note to your boss.
Sound like fun? It is, for about 10 seconds. But if that’s what it takes for a few days out of the grind, so be it, I guess. There is a larger point to what VA are trying to do with this little flash piece, but I missed it.
* Up to 1.5 Million people affected
* 300,000 children had to quit school
* 46,000 arrested, fined or had their goods confiscated
* 6 people dead, four of whom were children
All because of Zimbabwe’s prez Mugabe. Operation Murambatsvina (Drive Out Trash) was the cause of the destruction of tens of thousands of shacks, street stalls and veggie gardens (which were planted by the poor in the time of food shortages), and the African Union doesn’t care.
Better still, this massive destructive task was carried out by none other than the Zim police.
Now Mugabe and his team are carrying out the next phase of their plan, Operation Garikai, or “Let us be settled and live at peace”, which aims to provide residential and business accommodation to deserving people.
Who deserves a home better than people who don’t have one?!? And now, after he’s destroyed so many, he gets to build people new ones and act like the hero. Oh, and he thinks he’ll have it all started up by the end of August.
Think he’s built a house before? It’s gonna take a lot longer than that my friend…
My best: “…the Government says 46,000 people have been arrested and crime has dropped by 20 per cent.” That’s because there’s nothing left to steal!
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is meeting with Mugabe so as to understand and appreciate what they are doing. If he leaves relieved, this world is more fucked up than I thought.
Decisions decisions…
I prefer the 307 cc’s curvy shape, but like the Megane cc’s glass roof and interior.
If any of you have any experience with either of these let me know….!
Haha, thanks loads to Glen for sending me this killer pic:
Apparently the guy next to me at the blogging dinner picked it up too…!
When I read this I thought it was just bizarre, but when I got to the end I thought there could be something here.
Basic outline:
- A man was found dead in his freezer, still in his pyjamas and wrapped in a duvet
- He had an apple stuck in his mouth
- He was accused, but found innocent, of indecent assault of a 13-year old boy in 2001.
Linked? Perhaps. Why would anybody stick an apple in your dead mouth if not to make an example of you?
We’ll see what happens…
Rob from quirk has a cunning plan that may make everyone happy in a situation that’s boring us all.
Check it out here…!
I’m with eroux here, this deserves a post of its own.
They caught the mastermind behind the murder of 6-month old baby Jordan, and it’s a 22-year-old woman. Seems it was a murder-for-hire job related to a paternity dispute.
The bastards that actually did it are still on the loose though.
Much respect to the coppers that caught the bitch..!
Pop off to your favourite tattoo parlour promising your wife that you’re only getting a touch up done.
Get a friend to draw a picture on your left forearm.
Go home.
Look apologetic.
She damn near killed me…!
In January, Don wrote a post about Sasol’s plant blowing up.
Sanjay found it. (Then Martin found Sanjay)
So if you’re a budding plastics baron looking for talent, give poor Sanjay a shot.
This has been a public service announcement, brought to you by the nice folk at Jo’blog…!
An sms I just received from the local clothing company, Identity:
| We haven’t seen U @ Identity L8-ly : ( WERV U BIN? Give us a call, or to unsubscribe from SMS, ph: 0214607727 |
Are you joking? Is it Down-syndrome Day already? Are these guys specifically targeting the illiterate? I don’t appreciate bad grammar at the best of times, but the fact that someone actually said, “Hey! Why don’t we be cool, and attract clients by smsing our clients like we would four-year olds! That’ll get us the street-cred we lack!” both worries and irritates me. A lot.
I don’t know anyone, cool or otherwise, who sends messages like that. If one of the sales-people spoke to me with that approach, I would have hit them in the mouth and shopped elsewhere.
I challenge any parent (or anyone at all really) to read this and not be sickened to the stomach. What fucking savages do we have roaming our streets?
It scares me a little when I think about what I’d like to see done to these guys…!
Update: More here, seriously, reading this had me close to tears.
Update 2: Following his commentary on the issue, eroux released a manifesto
I’m a Mochachos fan, the chicken is in my opinion far (far) better than Nando’s. The burgers are awesome, and the strips are crazy good, yet most people will still eat Nando’s over Mochachos anyday.
Why?
Possibly because there are more Nando’s outlets, but that of course poses the argument, is Nando’s everywhere because people buy it, or do people buy it because it’s everywhere?
I think the websites (click thumbnails to view) tell the story nicely:
The Nando’s site tells a lot about why people are buying their chicken, the Mochachos site tells just as much about why people aren’t buying theirs.
The marketing tells you which chicken tastes better, not your taste-buds…!
Remember I mentioned Ian Fraiser’s “killing the pres” post? Some people of authority didn’t like it, and Ian is pretty pissed by the lack of support from M&G (who had the audacity to nuke the post themselves):
| If I am, then I trust bloggers will take note of the fact that this blogsite offers absolutely zero protection against the increasing fascist South African laws indirectly curtailing freedom of speech, and freedom of expression…
…I have to admit, I am still irked (a nice way of saying |
Now, I thought that the initial post was a tad weak, juvenile, and just plain wrong really, but I can’t help but feel a wee bit sorry for the guy.
As for M&G, their system is destined to fail, either they let people say what they want or they don’t, I think there’s too much of a conflict here, it’s tough being both the credible newspaper and the vent spot for angry citizens.
Nice try lads, now get out of the kitchen…!
Update: A follow-up here. Oh, and this is pretty interesting too.
A while back, I got a rap on the knuckles by GP for a post of mine that ended with a fairly harsh statement. While I do think he was being a bit anal about the whole issue, this iol article made me a lot more sympathetic of his argument:
| In all South African prisons, sexual abuse and rape are a common daily occurrence.
Now, the Human Rights Commission and the only prisoner organisation in the country are hoping a precedent-setting lawsuit, won by a man who claimed he contracted HIV and Aids after being sodomised in prison, will change this situation. The Chatsworth man, arrested in November 1998, was granted R500 bail but was unable to pay it. While in prison, the man claimed, he was gang-raped. |
This is bad shit. The article goes on to discuss how the man has received an out of court settlement for this. While that in itself is good news, I fail to see why this makes a situation where “For the 28 Gang, male rape is an initiation process.” any better. I’d suggest that this is an ambulance down in the valley solution/reaction, and thus not anything to write home about.
Bigger prisons, more guards, anything less is a cop-out…!
