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Mental!

By 6000 | 6000 | November 11, 2011

Yesterday’s cricket at Newlands was a bit mental and broke all sort of records. And even those records that it didn’t break, it threatened with physical violence and actual bodily harm. Cricinfo’s chief statistician S Rajesh was watching it all from the safety of Bangalore and produced this wonderful summary of what happened, what didn’t happen and [...]

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Brisbane: The Span

By 6000 | 6000 | July 7, 2011

Those of you who got in touch regarding this post and the incredible photography on the Silent UK site (there were a lot of you) may also be interested in this blog from a similar individual in Australia. Today’s post showcases the Story Bridge in Brisbane: There’s plenty more where that came from as well, [...]

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The Great Aussie HippoPig Shoot Story

By 6000 | 6000 | November 17, 2009

More from the country which brought us the lunatic ninja kangaroo - a man has shot a hippo. A pygmy hippopotamus has been shot dead during a pig hunting expedition in the Northern Territory. Nico Courtney, 27, was out spot-lighting for pigs with mates in the Douglas Daly region on Saturday night when he accidentally shot [...]

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2 quota photos (and with 2 good reasons as well)

By 6000 | 6000 | November 1, 2009

Sunday evening quota photos, because a) My parents are currently in Cairns in Australia where the internet is still a decade away and are therefore missing their weekly Skype with their grandchildren and b) said grandchildren allowed us almost 3 hours of sleep last night.           Bigness here and here. Obviously, 6000 miles… will be my parents’ [...]

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Semenya has ‘no womb or ovaries’

By 6000 | 6000 | September 10, 2009

Australia’s Daily Telegraph is reporting (or will be, tomorrow) that it knows the results of Caster Semenya’s gender tests and if their reporting is correct, then it doesn’t look good for Julius Malema’s “Golden Girl”: WORLD athletics is in crisis over the gender of Caster Semenya after tests revealed the South African world champion has no [...]

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