Category Archives: that’s a bit mad

Seasick?

By 6000 | 6000 | September 8, 2010

Not sure where this link got tweeted from, so stop me and buy one if it was you, but having mentioned the nasty weather on the Isle of Man and my parents’ subsequent ferry trip – which was thankfully uneventful – it seemed apt to post this amazing footage: That’s internal CCTV footage from onboard [...]

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Anatidaephobia

By 6000 | 6000 | September 2, 2010

Up until today, my favourite phobia was arachibutyrophobia. It’s that one that always comes up in pub quiz questions and I know what it means. This makes me look good while others flounder around looking for links to spiders and stuff. But this is “arachi”, not “arachno”. And “arachi” refers to ground nuts. That’s why [...]

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Heavy Sacks

By 6000 | 6000 | August 27, 2010

Flicking through the Cape Times yesterday, I noticed a half-page ad for Cape Union Mart, the local camping, hiking and general outdoor sports suppliers. The ad in question (pictured here) detailed the wide variety of rucksacks which they sell, complete with stats on each and a brief blurb listing the features of the pack in [...]

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TRY ME!!!/Don’t try me!!!!!

By 6000 | 6000 | August 20, 2010

More shelf-edge goodness comes to us courtesy of Woolworths who are becoming confusingly selective when offering freebies in their fruit section. Take this example which I spotted (in their fruit section) just this morning: What Woolies appear to have done is to alter their policy on the TRY ME!!! freebies which they use to tempt [...]

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Too much plywood

By 6000 | 6000 | August 9, 2010

Not much time to blog this evening due to an afternoon of beer and braai and an evening of tidying and repairs after 5 small whirlwinds (average age 3.2) whirlwound through the house. So a quick recommended site post, because this one is always amusing but actually made me LOL this week. And I mean [...]

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