This doesn’t happen very often, but it is happening today. We need you to help Craig find his beloved parrot. Check out the missing flier. Craig says: He flew out the front door yesterday, and shit dude, I just gotta find him. My lady is not taking it too well cause he’s basically family. He’s […]

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Three robbers enter a police station, lock up the officers on duty and steal a whole lot of stuff. There is no punchline. This happened in the early hours of this morning in the Eastern Cape.

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Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170. According to some, this is reportedly higher than Albert Einstein’s was, although Einstein himself never took the test. Jake is now so far advanced in his Indiana University studies that professors are lining him up for a paid PHD research role. He also finished high school at eight years old.

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I’ve only just noticed this, but Richard Simmons could very well have been Pauly Shore’s dad. This fierce fitness queen is part of a slew of video goodness on the Air New Zealand YouTube Channel – starring in his very own fabulous “Fit To Fly” series. They also throw in Snoop Dogg and some body-painted stewardesses.

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This was not a very difficult prediction to make, but I did kind of predict that this would happen. Our glorious rugby union has seen it fit to move the Springbok emblem off the front of the jersey, and have relegated it to the left sleeve for the World Cup. And today it has been unveiled for an already miserable South African public to see.

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MTV Germany, which is a thing I didn’t know existed until just now, is trying to spread the word to the masses: there is no such thing as accidental sex, please wear condoms. To emphasize the point, they’ve put together a series of comics in which people accidentally have sex and don’t wear condoms.

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There is no doubt Watkin Tudor Jones has worked hard to get where he is – joining the throng of thousands of South Africans that queue everyday at TV castings – hoping to make it big. Check out this classic Nando’s ad featuring Waddy and Marc Lottering.

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Not even designers of world class video games have thought of this one yet. I bet the Qatari engineers are hunched up and sniggering through their beards into their cupped, fist-shaped hands right now. Their World Cup is only in 2022, but these guys clearly have the money to blow to make magic. Very Bruce Almighty of them.

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Tom Ford is a well-known American fashion designer and the film director of A Single Man – the movie that earned Colin Firth an Oscar nomination last year. And according to Tom, a “gentlemen don’t wear shorts. Unless it is on the tennis court or to the beach. Thoughts?

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Good news, ye trodden under masses of South Africa! ‘Anonymous’ has finally taken note of your plight and you can expect deliverance from your daily misery as soon as before the Rugby World Cup ends! So rise up and conquer, People! What are you waiting for?

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This looks to be pretty rad – a look at the the lives of four photojournalists working in South African townships between 1990 and 1994, based on the book of the same name written by two of the original group. Unfortunate accents aside, the cast and crew are looking pretty rad. Checkit.

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Die Antwoord’s “Zef Side” has been chosen by the Guggenheim Foundation, the people who decide who’s who in contemporary art, as one of the top 25 videos on the internet in the last two years.

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I’m all for advances in alternative medicine but this is a little too alternative. A German doctor has been found guilty of endangering the lives of 25 patients due to his highly eccentric methodologies which included using lemon juice to sterilise his surgical procedures.

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This the long-awaited preview to the upcoming Ayrton Senna movie, which looks to be the greatest film of all time about the greatest driver of all time. The last time I cried in a movie was when MaCauley Culkin died in My Girl, but I’m fully expecting tears of raw man-emotion to roll during this one. Video after the jump.

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Guys, let me start of by saying that I am very proud of you. We were only beaten by those sneaky Colombians! If you are from China or India, rather not read further. Ladies, I’m afraid there’s some work to be done. Except if you are from Russia. Inside you’ll find the The World Map Of Average Breast Cup And Penis Size. You are welcome.

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There were even rumours of a planned party in Cape Town at one stage, but it appears nothing more than a low key gig went down for Wills this weekend. It has emerged that his stag do took place at home on Mud Island too, reportedly on a friend’s estate in Norfolk.

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Willie Nelson is just…awesome. No, really. He totally rocks those two braids. And let’s also not forget admission – live – on the Larry King Show to being stoned. His latest stunt involves getting off marijuana charges in exchange for a performance in court. Like I said: Awesome.

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Hoo, boy. Somebody at Guinness had best be working on some serious back-pedaling. Rebecca Lanier just turned 119 years old, which should make her the oldest person now living. As the daughter of former slaves, however, she doesn’t have the right documentation, and therefore doesn’t count.

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Long-time readers will have noticed that 2oceansvibe has undergone significant changes over the course of the last year. All of the change has had one goal in mind: to bring you better content, every day – you know, stuff that people really talk about. To that end, we’re happy to announce that Sipho Hlongwane will […]

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The government is going to be launching its own printed propagand… err newspaper, and it will be published by the head of government communications, Jimmy Manyi. Yes, Jimmy who doesn’t like coloured people that much. Basically we shouldn’t get our hopes up and expect much investigative journalism.

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Yep, that’s right. We’re not screwing around. You don’t perchance recall this little announcement made earlier in the day? Well here’s the first of many benefits to come to you as part of the Jack Friday campaign (formerly known as the 2oceansvibe Campaign For The Abolition Of Friday Afternoon Work Hour Tyranny). Download these sick notes and submit them to your boss on your return to work on Tuesday morning.

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Borre Erstad and Paul Age Olsen from Bergen in Norway waited patiently for the search engine’s car after receiving a tip off that the drivers were in the area. This is the sort of stunt that you can only dream of pulling off, but, these guys actually did it. Awesome ambushing footage after the jump.

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The mankini-clad cyclist who sent South Africa’s cycling community into a heady froth over his BMX and lumo green couture has been identified. But there is so much more to this story than the superficial…

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What’s in my bag? Free songs by Olinosterfant, Don’t Panic and Danti Daxi. Step inside.

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Who knew that Johnny Walker was also a plumbing business? Check what I spotted driving along Buitengracht yesterday morning. Don’t you love the slogan, “keep it running.” Pure class I tell you. Not sure how the actual Johnny Walker would feel about this though?

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Hey, you guys know that photo, right? The one with the tennis-playing girl lifting up the back of her skirt in a way that’s sort of sexy but also obliviously enough for people to call it art, rather than sexy-tennis-photography? It’s by Martin Elliot, who died recently, so the model’s decided to let us know who she is.

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Here’s a totally non-creepy idea, that’s just won an Australian design award. It’s called “Prevue” and it straps over the pregnant ladies tummy and then mummy and daddy and all and sundry can see the Phoetus as it grows.

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Government has decided that we need a new nickname for our national soccer team. The affectionate monicker Bafana Bafana was a nice idea at the time, says Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula, but now we need ‘lions that will roar’.

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I know we did this last week, but this is unfortunately the reality of the hour that one officially applies the Cape Town Friday Rule. It’s called habit, and there’s no better way to form a habit other than through repetition. Essentially you should now start embracing everything non work-like, so let’s celebrate with a naked shower protest.

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I can actually hear Michael Stipe singing, “that’s me in the corner…”, as I’m typing this. A study using census data from nine countries indicates that religion will all but die out altogether in those countries. Have a look at who made the shortlist inside.

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