Category Archives: sheffield

The culture of entitlement

By 6000 | 6000 | March 2, 2011

While watching the Chelsea v Man U game on TV (and twitter) last night, I was thinking a lot last night about football and my feelings on it and I think I finally worked out why I dislike certain clubs more than others: why I dislike Barcelona more than Real Madrid and Man U more [...]

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Stellenbosch Hills Biltong & Droewors Adventure

By 6000 | 6000 | February 23, 2011

This sounds like it could be fun. Step forward PG Slabbert – winemaker and manager at Stellenbosch Hills: Stellenbosch Hills is the first cellar to combine two proudly South African delights with their Biltong & Droëwors Adventure to be enjoyed in the cellar door. The art of drying meat nowadays is as specialised as the [...]

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Jo Flo

By 6000 | 6000 | January 11, 2011

Incoming from my Dad: Did you know? Former Blade Jostein Flo is one of very few players to have a move or specific tactic named after him. In Norwegian, it is called “Flopasning” – translated into English as “The Flo Pass”. It gained prominence during a period of the early 1990s when the Scandinavians were [...]

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Altruism

By 6000 | 6000 | January 5, 2011

Altruism: Altruism is selfless concern for the welfare of others. Altruism focuses on a motivation to help others or a want to do good without reward. And today, I have a couple of examples of this selfless concern for you. Firstly: me. I gave my worms the once over this evening. Concerned (selflessly so) for their welfare [...]

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The Soutpiel conundrum

By 6000 | 6000 | December 15, 2010

I get called a lot of names because of this blog. Some are nice, but probably most are not. The less pleasant ones dribble limply into the metaphorical pond, like water off a duck’s back. But there’s one which is fairly regularly used each and every time I make any criticism of South Africa (that being the [...]

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