Category Archives: annoying people

Short-sighted Idiots

By 6000 | 6000 | January 28, 2010

As FIFA announced that 2 million tickets had been sold for the 2010 World Cup in June and took a well-justified pot shot at the idiots in the German and English media and “football family” (Uli Hoeness and Phil “Sphincter Face” Brown, they mean you) who keep taking unjustified pot shots at South Africa, [a [...]

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Another reason that South Africa can’t host the 2010 World Cup

By 6000 | 6000 | January 19, 2010

Forget the Angolans, the sharks and the naughty people with knives. Have you seen the number of flippin’ terrifying bugs there are out there? Even in my Cape Town garden (which is actually in Europe), there’s some nasty stuff about: And I haven’t even mentioned the killer bees and the moths, (which are probably, like, killer moths). Once the [...]

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Utter tosh

By 6000 | 6000 | January 15, 2010

But it’s not just the SA papers that write complete rubbish. Step forward our old favourite the Daily Mail – describing the shark attack at Fishhoek. Fiddling with his swimming goggles as he strolled across one of Cape Town’s most popular beaches, Lloyd Skinner did not notice anything amiss. With temperatures in the 90s, the sand was [...]

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Some perspective, please

By 6000 | 6000 | January 10, 2010

After the dreadful attack on the Togolese national football team, questions have been raised about the World Cup tournament in South Africa later this year. But why?  After all, France 1998 went ahead despite the Kosovo conflict, which was occuring on the same continent. As Danny Jordaan has pointed out, South Africa 2010 has nothing to [...]

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A negative end?

By 6000 | 6000 | December 31, 2009

The plan was to end off 2009 as this blog has seen 2009: a look forward with typical realistic optimism to what 2010 has to offer for South Africa. And then the Mail & Guardian reproduced this little gem from The Guardian in the UK. It’s one of those opinion pieces which is written with a cheeky [...]

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