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Those Zuma Procession Details

By 6000 | 6000 | March 16, 2010

Just who was in all those carriages? It’s the question everyone has been asking since JZ was spotted with Our Queen Liz on The Mall. Fortunately, Private Eye have revealed the full details of the Royal Procession in their latest issue. Dr Looni Mbarmi is a colleague of Professor Adams and also supplies Tall Penis Herbs.

Leave a comment| Tagged Jacob Zuma, private eye, shagga zulu, state visit | Also posted in politics, that's a bit mad, this is south africa

Pizza Confusion

By 6000 | 6000 | March 11, 2010

I’m confused. It does happen from time to time, usually over unimportant things like political history and tax regulations. And that happens to the best of us, doesn’t it, Julius? But this time, it’s altogether more serious. I am confused about pizza. There are several different sorts of pizza eaters and several different types of pizza to go with [...]

14 Comments | Tagged butlers, pizza, seth rotherham | Also posted in that's a bit mad, this is south africa

High & mighty prawn in town (just)

By 6000 | 6000 | March 9, 2010

Yes folks, it’s that time of year again when the months training done by cyclists on the local roads – free-wheeling through red robots, riding thirteen abreast, not bothering to buy lights, cycling along the freeways etc etc – come to fruition as they get some roads closed for a little while and then get [...]

11 Comments | Tagged Cape Argus, Cape Town, lance armstrong | Also posted in annoying people, this is south africa

The Daily Mail quandary – sorted

By 6000 | 6000 | March 3, 2010

I can’t be arsed with the Daily Mail anymore. Who could forget the infamous Peter Hitchens piece in the Daily Mail last year, covered so adequately in my “The Daily Mail Quandary” post? The quandary being that while the Mail is seventeen different sorts of crap and provides a platform to ill-informed and racist bigots, it also [...]

8 Comments | Tagged daily mail, Jacob Zuma, peter robinson, racist | Also posted in UK, annoying people, politics, this is south africa

After months of negativity

By 6000 | 6000 | February 28, 2010

As I sit here by the braai, with a locally-brewed wife and beer by my side, I am filled with hope, positivity and optimism about the future here in SA. And, for once, it seems I’m not the only one. After a wholly-unsolicited ‘I’m going out of my way to tell your viewers this’ quote “Let [...]

7 Comments | Tagged piers edwards, sensationalist media, World Cup 2010 | Also posted in World Cup 2010, annoying people, positive thoughts, sport, this is south africa

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Category Archives: in the news

Those Zuma Procession Details

Pizza Confusion

High & mighty prawn in town (just)

The Daily Mail quandary – sorted

After months of negativity

@6000 on twitter

recent entries

post from the past

cash cow

recent comments

what i read

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