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NASA Comet Picture Probe Success

By 6000 | 6000 | November 5, 2010

Remember when NASA bombed the moon? We all survived and it was a huge anti-climax, but one thing that did come out of it was the infamous high-five fail from LCROSS mission HQ: Ouch. Well now their scientists have had more success with the photographing of the Hartley-2 comet after a close encounter… somewhere… out [...]

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Another Pick n Pay Sausage Fail

By 6000 | 6000 | October 26, 2009

Who could forget the infamous Pick n Pay experiment of sticking Pap and Wors in one handy sausage unit - the Worst Wors™ ever? Well, not content with turning your stomach with that, it would now appear that they are putting Oyster Sauce and Rice Wine in their Boeries and have moved away from recommending braai’ing [...]

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Amazon.co.uk #fail

By 6000 | 6000 | June 23, 2009

I got my Dad two brilliant books for Father’s Day. He’ll love them, if amazon.co.uk and their “premium” courier company, ShittyLink, ever actually get around to delivering them. The story so far = two failed delivery attempts + a wasted day + a stinking email complaint + a grovelling reply. But still no books. Bring [...]

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Woolworths – in their own littleworld

By 6000 | 6000 | June 17, 2009

Over here in SA, we have our own Woolworths. It’s completely unconnected with the UK Woolworths which finally died the death in a blaze of media coverage in January. Our Woolies is more akin to Marks & Spencer, with food prices to match.   I occasionally pop in to Woolworths, usually for fresh produce – [...]

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