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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 [...]

11 Comments | Tagged butlers, pizza, seth rotherham | Also posted in in the news, that's a bit mad

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, in the news

Ashanti in World Cup u-turn

By 6000 | 6000 | March 8, 2010

It seems that Ashanti Lodge, whose exorbitant 309% World Cup price increase we noted in January and who still hadn’t sold their rooms for the tournament just a couple of weeks ago, have had to rethink their pricing strategy for June and July. Their rates page now has a little note for the dates over the duration [...]

3 Comments | Tagged ashanti lodge, Cape Town, rip-off, World Cup 2010 | Also posted in World Cup 2010, annoying people

Too much

By 6000 | 6000 | March 7, 2010

I do enjoy summer here in the Cape, but today was too much. My English enzymes can’t cope in these sorts of temperatures and have to be cooled and revived with a special mixture of Castle Milk Stout and Castle Milk Stout. The first four didn’t seem to get through, but after another four I fell into the pool [...]

4 Comments | Tagged Cape Town, castle milk stout, hot | Also posted in emigration, that's a bit mad

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, in the news, politics

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Category Archives: this is south africa

Pizza Confusion

High & mighty prawn in town (just)

Ashanti in World Cup u-turn

Too much

The Daily Mail quandary – sorted

@6000 on twitter

recent entries

post from the past

cash cow

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