So my good little friend Shannon has another show up his sleeve, and you’re all invited.
“The masters of percussion bring you the ultimate drum off – Drum Cafe vs 1st Project!
A new show, full of rocking entertainment, where even the audience play drums!
On for a limited time only – 7th – 18th August 2007! Book now at Computicket”
Looks awesome, and if the previous show is anything to go by, I may just be right!
Very funny. Spotted by Gaff outside the Bryanpark shopping centre.
Great news for the SA movie biz. Local Academy Award winner Gavin Hood has been announced as director for X-Men spin off, Wolverine.
Not entirely sure he should start clearing a place on the shelf for his next Oscar though…!
I spotted this billboard in a few spots around Jhb last week. I noticed it, because I hate it when marketers speak down to the youth, or at least, when they try to talk street - It’s not cool, it’s stupid, condescending, and just plain wrong:
Absa just think for a moment, you were voted coolest bank in the generation next survey before you ran wanky ads like this, not because you did. Obviously SA’s youth was fine with your previous marketing strategy, apparently they did not need you to come down to their level.
Just because they’re younger, doesn’t make them naive..!
Just so that we are all clear on the rules of this game, go have a look at this page. It looks like you are supposed to play by making an “ok” sign with your hand and not that way we’ve been doing it all these years by touching the tips of all your fingers together.
World War Won in Cape Town made this very cool portrait of the man, out of M&M’s.
Happy Birthday big guy, 89 years, awesome!
Thanks to Cherry for the link.
Police in Cape Town confiscated liquor from a man when they suspected he was gonna sell it without a license. Problem was, it was actually for his 21st.
Confiscating the booze: valid.
Destroying the booze (without following proper procedure): not so valid.
My take: Yeah they destroyed it, right down their throats!
It’s way too fishy for them to have destroyed the evidence without following procedure. If, IF, they did, then they’re very very stupid, because something like this was bound to happen. Shit, if a cop stole anything from me, I’d come back fighting.
Crime, crime, crime. The news is full of it, so it’s not very often we post about any of it, except in special situations. This story, is one of those posts.
A 70-year-old lady was beaten and then robbed of some (or probably most) of her most sentimental possessions.
“I saw just two of them and the back one had something black in his hand. I assumed that it was a firearm. One of them started to say something but I just screamed.”
One of the men walked around the double bed and punched Havenga in the face. She screamed harder and another blow fell. Havenga does not remember what happened after that, but she woke up on the floor on the far side of the bed.
“I saw the blood and realised that I must have been lying there for quite some time. Both my hands and feet were tied up with scarves.”
What kind of a sick pig do you have to be to beat an old lady unconscious, then rob her home? Fuck. For once, I have no words.
Well at least one 
While flying back home to the South Coast after a hectic week in Joburg it was great to find that the guy sitting next to me in the plane had an iPhone. As he was pretty happy in showing it off, I was happy to check it out. I love the touch screen interface and how well everything seems to gel. The guy was using it through AT&T and paying $3 a minute to go through MTN, vodacom or Cell C, whichever operator he could get signal through. Anyone know whether if we had to get one from the US we would somehow be able to get it to work with one of our operators?
Awesome device, I can’t wait.
So here’s the deal:
Steve Morelli loves the environment, sick animals, underprivileged kids, you name it. That’s why he thought he’d offer his services, for one glorious night only, to help a charity in need. That’s where you come in.
The highest bid to win a date with Steve gets a night out with the handsome devil, batteries not included, all you have to do is donate your hard-earned bid to a charity of your choice! It’s that easy!
Venue to be decided between the two of you (in Jo’burg), happening next Friday night (27 July).
So ladies, check your wallets, and get started.
Bidding will happen in the comments, bidding ends C.O.B. this Friday 20 July. If you’re the winner, you could possibly get a sneak up close and personal with the legend at the Fall Out Boy concert on Friday night! Just call me Cupid…
Update: Bidding is closed. The winner, bidding a whopping £30 – Miss Tyelle de Castro. Congrats.
I think I’m a bigger fan of the All Black haka than I am of rugby itself. So when I was watching this vid just now, listening to our crowd singing their ole’s , I had to shake my head.
Firstly, we should show some respect. They kinda deserve it.
Secondly, we should get something like this of our own. Shit, eleven languages and cultures, we gotta have something we can shout about with pride.
Which brings me to my third point “Ole ole ole ole” it’s not even South African, fuck people, it’s not even rugby, it’s a British football chant from before I was born.
My theory on the whole thing is that we have no national pride yet, we have cultural pride. We haven’t managed to get past our own differences, and that’s what’s needed if we want to unify as a country
We only have one history…!
Kevin Cadman is in love, and would like you to help him locate her. This is her:
If you know her, or if you are her, please pop over to Kev so the two of them can get together, marry, and make lots of babies.
Ta.
In the past two months I’ve been offered the ‘opportunity’ to join a pyramid scheme / multi-level marketing scheme / whatever you want to call it. That, to me, is two times too many. I declined both, I’ll tell you why:
I’ve been to one of these presentations before, only because I was tricked. How? The devil, I mean, person who’d like you to join, tells you he and his business associates are having a meeting and would like you to come have a listen to see what it’s all about.
He never tells you what it is, ever. Strike 1.
It’s not a meeting, it’s an organised presentation. Strike 2.
They only tell you, at the very end of the preso, that it’s in fact Amway.
Now, ahem, why would they wait till the very end to tell you what it actually is? Is it because most people would walk out if they were up front? Why don’t they tell you they want you to come to an Amway presentation? Is it because they know you’ll get the shits / flu / fall into a coma to get out of it?
Now why, pray tell, would people feel this way? Because it has such a bad stigma attached to it. Why? Because so many have paid a joining fee, and failed.
Amway only works for certain types of people. At the presentations they tell you that doctors, lawyers, judges and the like have quit their professions to fully focus on this scheme. I can totally believe this, because, for these types of people, any pyramid scheme will work.
A pyramid scheme, IMAO, is a selfish way of trying to make money by duping friends and family to join, because you get points from the people who have joined below you. The scheme works for these high profile individuals because they already have a trusting social network. I’ll say it again, a trusting social network. Why wouldn’t you buy stuff from your doctor? Or join something that he/she supports? Now imagine every day, a doctor sees patients, sneakily slips in the ‘great business opportunity’ talk that he and his wife are so positive about, of course you’ll join, you trust him.
After a week of seeing 10 patients a day, 50 altogether, if half of them sign up, he already has 25 people joined under him, while he was doing his daily job. Now these suckers, who don’t have a good network of people willing to trust them, have to work after hours, extremely hard, feeling like a door-to-door salesman trying to make it work.
Now, you might say, “Afraid of a little hard work?”
I might say, “Fuck right off.”
Hard work is what drives me, but work that I enjoy. I can’t see anyone enjoying trying to sell toothpaste or vitamins to people who really don’t feel like they need to change from Colgate or Maybelline.
So I appeal to all of you out there getting harassed by people to come and listen to ‘awesome business venture’ talks, without them telling you what it’s about, not to go, ‘cos you’ll leave there feeling like they really wasted your time, and it might inspire you to write a post like this.
To the people who have made these schemes work for them, well done, but it’s really really not for me. Ta.
Spotted at Mimmo’s:
“Meatatarian: Our famous vegetarian pizza, with ham”
Lol…!
It’s with mixed feelings that I read this story earlier.
Firstly I was angry about the whole situation, secondly, I was really sad for the family, thirdly though, it was nice to know that real heroes still exist.
From the article…
| Derick said his father came down the stairs and the two of them made their way to the front door but were confronted by the suspects. “We don’t have weapons, but I wish we had. “My dad pushed me into the study and I heard him hitting them. As I went up to the children I saw them shoot my dad. “I ran up to the room and tried to lock the door but it wouldn’t lock,” he said. He heard about five shots. |
It’s really sad, but I bet if the grandfather was given a second chance, knowing the outcome, he’d save his family again.
Respect…!
I only heard about this about 5 minutes ago, basically the ANC want to unify all SA sports teams by just using the protea as an emblem. I have to disagree, ‘cos proteas are flowers, and therefore girly! Very girly.
Springboks aren’t anything close to tough either, but they’re a hell of a lot better than pansies, I mean, proteas, and they can jump high and run fast, and they pronk too! Proteas just sit there and do nothing. Yes, it’s our national flower, but still, it’s a flower.
Have you say here, no idea how much effect this will have, but it’s worth trying to help SA not turn into a bunch of girly pansy girl’s blouses.
