Category Archives: that’s a bit mad

A matter of survival

By 6000 | 6000 | February 7, 2011

Before you read this post, please: If you do not have expendable liquid funds available to you, to cover as a minimum of one point five million euros for each member of your family, please do not continue. Just kidding – 6000 miles… is free to read and probably always will be – but that [...]

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No fly

By 6000 | 6000 | February 3, 2011

Love this from American site loweringthebar.net: According to the Daily Mail Online, an immigration officer who worked for the UK Border Agency managed to get his wife out of his hair for three years by putting her name on the no-fly list while she was visiting the in-laws overseas. Officials confirmed on January 30 that the [...]

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Now Ehrenreich targets “racist fires”

By 6000 | 6000 | February 3, 2011

After his extraordinary claims that the new Cape Town cycle lanes were racist: Cosatu is outraged that the DA in the Western Cape and the City of Cape Town prioritises bicycle lanes for the white wealthy citizens, while poorer communities on the Cape Flats are subjected to over-crowded and unsafe public transport Cosatu provincial secretary [...]

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Forty… Forty-five…

By 6000 | 6000 | February 2, 2011

Those who listen to the Gareth Cliff Breakfast show on 5FM each morning will surely have heard the “forty… forty-five” meme which seems to somehow slip into the show in some form or other. What you may not know is where it came from originally, which is here: Series 2 of the Harry & Paul [...]

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Just another ANCYL press release

By 6000 | 6000 | February 1, 2011

I swear, you can’t make this sort of thing up. But someone does. This one goes out to all those overseas people who will think that it was me that made it up. First came this, from ANCYL President Julius Malema at the pre-opening party of the ZAR nightclub in Cape Town: Helen Zille will [...]

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