Category Archives: annoying people

Alastair Campbell in SA

By 6000 | 6000 | March 29, 2011

Lucky us. Tony Blair’s PR (spin) man was in town (fortunately not this one) to chat to government communicators about communicating government issues. And that alone should set alarm bells ringing amongst the population of South Africa. But it was one of the lines from his presentation as reported in the Cape Times that got [...]

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Fracking follow-up

By 6000 | 6000 | March 29, 2011

Arguing over whether people actually read stuff before commenting on it (they don’t) is so last week, and thus it’s time to add a couple more thoughts from my fracking post, which was ever so trendy (like Lewis Pugh was last week). Firstly, there were a couple (literally two) objections to my use of the [...]

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Do some fracking reading

By 6000 | 6000 | March 26, 2011

I generally have no issue with people having opinions. The only issue that I occasionally have is when those opinions are poorly considered. When people have simply chosen one side of an argument to be on simply because they think it’s the cool side to be on or because they have read or been told [...]

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Chalk and Cheese (and Wine) (and Whine)

By 6000 | 6000 | March 23, 2011

With some tourists in tow, it seemed that the most obvious thing to do was to continue the great tradition of Cape Town tourism and head out down the Constantia Wine Route – once described as “one of the most underrated attractions in Cape Town”. And some of it is. Klein Constantia is always a [...]

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Next year?

By 6000 | 6000 | March 13, 2011

As hundreds of cyclists veered and wobbled all over the Main Road and ignored the traffic lights through St James and Kalk Bay this morning, as they do most Sunday mornings, I came up with a brilliant new Sunday morning drinking game. And what’s not to love about Sunday morning drinking games? Today was, of [...]

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