Category Archives: that’s a bit mad

Frozen Divers’ Faces

By 6000 | 6000 | July 30, 2011

From The Telegraph: Sports photographer Ezra Shaw, employed by Getty Images, captured divers’ faces frozen in concentration during the men’s 3m springboard preliminary round at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai, with hilarious results. Concentrated gravity + concentrating minds makes for some oddly disturbing images. That’s Sweden’s Jonathan Joernfalk. More faces only a mother [...]

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BMW driver proud to be last Koeberg lane cutter

By 6000 | 6000 | July 29, 2011

As the new ramp from the M5 North onto the N1 North was opened this morning, with it ended an years-old tradition for many Capetonians – the opportunity to cut-in to the queuing traffic at Koeberg Interchange. In a press release announcing the opening, a city spokeswoman stated: The question, much posed in the local [...]

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I’m not dead…

By 6000 | 6000 | July 25, 2011

“He says he’s not dead!” So begins the dialogue in Scene 2 of Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail. That’s a British comedy film, full of utterly ridiculous scenarios – like a bloke who’s not dead being taken away because some relative thinks he knows better. Some say that, even by Monty [...]

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It’s just bread

By 6000 | 6000 | July 21, 2011

Forgive me for this. I recognise that different people have different passions – I’ve even heard it said that some individuals don’t support Sheffield United, although I’m sure this can’t actually be true. But it’s wrong to expect others to be interested in your passion – even to understand it, no matter how great your [...]

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Pining for nuts

By 6000 | 6000 | July 15, 2011

Let it never be said that life here in South Africa is easy. Sure, the weather is ridiculously good, despite this being midwinter, and the views, the expats and the beer are utterly spectacular, but there are always difficulties as well. I’m talking about allegations of corruption in Government, violent strikes in the engineering sector, [...]

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