Category Archives: annoying people

High & mighty prawn in town (just)

By 6000 | 6000 | March 9, 2010

Yes folks, it’s that time of year again when the months training done by cyclists on the local roads – free-wheeling through red robots, riding thirteen abreast, not bothering to buy lights, cycling along the freeways etc etc – come to fruition as they get some roads closed for a little while and then get [...]

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Ashanti in World Cup u-turn

By 6000 | 6000 | March 8, 2010

It seems that Ashanti Lodge, whose exorbitant 309% World Cup price increase we noted in January and who still hadn’t sold their rooms for the tournament just a couple of weeks ago, have had to rethink their pricing strategy for June and July. Their rates page now has a little note for the dates over the [...]

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The Daily Mail quandary – sorted

By 6000 | 6000 | March 3, 2010

I can’t be arsed with the Daily Mail anymore. Who could forget the infamous Peter Hitchens piece in the Daily Mail last year, covered so adequately in my “The Daily Mail Quandary” post? The quandary being that while the Mail is seventeen different sorts of crap and provides a platform to ill-informed and racist bigots, it [...]

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After months of negativity

By 6000 | 6000 | February 28, 2010

As I sit here by the braai, with a locally-brewed wife and beer by my side, I am filled with hope, positivity and optimism about the future here in SA. And, for once, it seems I’m not the only one. After a wholly-unsolicited ‘I’m going out of my way to tell your viewers this’ quote [...]

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Helen talks mainly sense

By 6000 | 6000 | February 26, 2010

Grand Emperor of the Western Cape, Helen Zille has been talking up a storm after a police briefing on World Cup security. She warned of the dangers of sensationalist media and their attempts to stoke up negative sentiment about the country and the tournament. Well said, Helen. We warned you about that over 3 months ago. “There [...]

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