Category Archives: annoying people

Cell use ‘worse than driving drunk’

By 6000 | 6000 | October 24, 2011

Interesting quote from Gary Ronald of the AA in the Cape Times this morning: Driver distraction is probably six times more dangerous than driving drunk. If a driver over the legal alcohol limit of 0.05 already has the potential risk of being involved in a crash 15 times more than a sober person, the context [...]

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Sweet and Sour

By 6000 | 6000 | October 21, 2011

Today’s big news was that I was a big winner of one of the week’s most prestigious awards: The Sour Service Award of the Week on the notoriously bitchy controversial Whale Cottage Portfolio Blog. In receiving this honour, I join other luminaries such a Sea Point parking marshall [sic], Coco’s in Hermanus (is that a [...]

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Private Eye on shale gas

By 6000 | 6000 | October 20, 2011

South Africa isn’t the only country to have potentially economy-changing amounts of shale gas underneath it. The UK has some too. According to the usually politically-left In The Back section of Private Eye magazine: Cuadrilla, the gas exploration company drilling for shale gas in Lancashire, has announced its discovery of 200 trillion cubic feet of gas – a [...]

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Whale Clamped

By 6000 | 6000 | October 18, 2011

Word has reached us here at Chez 6000 that there was much amusement after the Cape Town Tourism AGM and the launch of the new marketing campaign for the city last night, as delegates emerged from the meeting to find that the car of Whale Cottage supremo Chris von Ulmenstein had been wheel-clamped in the [...]

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That Biased Cover

By 6000 | 6000 | October 17, 2011

The Big Issue isn’t a magazine that I read very often. Our political standpoints are far from aligned and while I’m obviously aware of the good work that they do in assisting the homeless, I’m rarely interested in the content and politics of their articles. This month was different, however.  This month featured opposing columns on [...]

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