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Yes, it’s Monday – the day of the Great Twitter Blackout – but you might still have a bit of a hangover from Friday:


 
But even if you were awake, you will have forgotten some of the other stuff
(hopefully not if you’re Judge Mapisa though):

 
Saayman says:

Winner: I Love My Job Awards, 2014:

But then, why are we bothering with the whole trial thing anyway? We all know the outcome.

And even the journos are confused by those draconian reporting regulations.


I’m sure you can still tell us what colour tissues he’s using…

PistoriusBalls 5

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Friday! Maybe they’ll be knocking off a bit earlier today. Hardly worth turning up in that case.
But thankfully, everyone has turned up anyway. Let’s get the latest from our intrepid team.

Maybe he’s reading your stuff, Lucy. Is he an Android man? No. No, he’s not.

 

Eww.
Meanwhile, “murder accused appears unhappy” shocker:

Perhaps he should have had some tissues to hand. White ones.

 


Is this what we’re paying State attorneys to do? To sparkle?

Meanwhile, whimsical tweets are sometimes not enough. Rebecca Davis has taken things one thing further with a whimsical out-of-office message too:

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But back to the courtroom journo love-in:

Beautiful.

End of an era – Wong Kei staff to be nice to patrons

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My favourite dodgy Chinese restaurant in the UK is reopening shortly, with polite staff.

How depressing.

Wong Kei was always amazing, and it’s high praise for Xiang Yuan in Sea Point that it invoked memories of the place. But while the staff at Xiang Yuan were polite, friendly and helpful, you couldn’t always say the same for Wong Kei. But that only added to the character of the place. You didn’t go in there expecting to be treated nicely; you went in there expecting fantastic food and rude waiters – and that’s what you got.

Its patrons were cajoled, bullied, insulted and mocked by waiting staff. Perversely, many diners loved it. Each night scores would queue up at the 500-cover restaurant to be verbally abused over the chicken satay and pork fried noodles.
To its fans, it was a refreshingly abrasive anomaly in an increasingly sanitised service industry. But this notoriety has been consigned to the past. Wong Kei’s operators have pledged to adopt a new, politer waiting style after a revamp of the premises.

With the reopening plans, Wong Kei will have to base its reputation solely on the fantastic food, which I’m sure will be just fine, but I can’t help but be sad at what is obviously the end of an era.

PistoriusBalls 4

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Day three and four of the trial and all it’s getting a bit dull, what with all this evidence and cross-examining and stuff. Fortunately, there are still some other things going on though:

Smashing shoes:

 

Winner: No Shit, Sherlock Award 2014

 

It’s all too much for some:

 


Brave move with his brother in the place.


MOAR WHIMSY!!!!

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The fascinating updates keep coming:


And ahead of this next one, a reminder that we’ve had 2 days – two days – of the trial so far, amounting to about 8 hours of courtroom time.

 

Well done.

Man waves arms:

See? Like I said: whimsical.