Category Archives: in the news

Shocking report was shockingly reported – shock.

By 6000 | 6000 | May 22, 2013

When that BBC report came out, someone remarked on Facebook: Kan dit nie glo nie. (I can’t believe it.) I commented: You’d do well not to believe it. Or indeed anything else that uses Ernst Roets as a credible source. But how was I to know just how right I was? Do 400,000 whites live in [...]

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jif

By 6000 | 6000 | May 22, 2013

Ever since I found out that Nutella, the delicious chocolate hazelNUT spread is actually pronounced NEWtella, I’ve been waiting for the pronunciation rug to be pulled from under me again. And it seems that me patience has paid off, because now it has happened. It came in a short interview with a man called Steve Wilhite in [...]

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In case you need to be told

By 6000 | 6000 | May 18, 2013

Because some of my FB friends do: Likes don’t save lives. That’s the tagline of a new campaign by UNICEF in Sweden. They’re encouraging people do donate money rather than just click a button. Because while the clicks are absolutely lovely, they don’t actually do anything. They’re just an easy way to pretend you’re making [...]

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Please Press 1

By 6000 | 6000 | May 17, 2013

Not (yet?) available in SA, but very handy for my UK and US readers, Please Press 1 is a genius idea. Brainchild of IT Manager Nigel Clarke, PP1 lists “shortcuts” to get through customer service hotlines’ automated menus, thus: Very simple, very clever and a great way to get around those really frustrating delays while [...]

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Dambusters anniversary

By 6000 | 6000 | May 17, 2013

Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of Operation Chastise – better known as the Dambusters raid – on the Ruhr Valley in German Industrial heartland. A bit like Maitland, but with fewer taxis. A new type of weapon, the bouncing bomb, was designed and tested by Barnes Wallis specifically for the mission. Two of the dams were breached [...]

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