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Gingers Hold Massive Confidence-Boosting Weekend Conference
13 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
More than 1 000 gingers held a massive confidence-boosting weekend in Breda, Holland, to celebrate International Redhead Day this last weekend. News reports coming out of the area have been slow because national news agencies were weighing up whether or not such distressing information would serve the public interest.
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Let’s Drink Tonight Helps You Find People To Drink With
12 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
If people keep telling you that drinking alone is a sign of alcoholism, then you either need to drink less, or find a way to make sure that there are people to drink with all the time. The geniuses behind the social network app ‘Let’s Drink Tonight’ figured the latter choice made more sense too.
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Old Spice’s Sea Captain [VIDEO]
08 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It looks as if 2oceansVibe was right when we thought that Old Spice was going to start using multiple spokespersons for the continuation of their viral campaign. Isaiah Mustafa versus Fabio came and went, but the show must go on for how ordinary guys can be transformed by the brand’s scents. Introducing: Sea Captain.
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Lab Chimps Laugh And Hug As They See Daylight For First Time In 30 Years [VIDEO]
07 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
OK, so, this is a pretty horrific story, but it has a happy ending. After a 14-year battle, these Chimpanzees have been set free from captivity after being taken from their mothers shortly after their births. They’d been kept in a research facility in Austria, undergone medical testing, been injected with HIV and hepatitis. But, at least they’re happy now.
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Gautrain Jinxes Bokke
07 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Look, let’s not beat around the bush here. We are a confident nation, and we do like to win. But, we don’t jinx ourselves here in South Africa. Especially when it comes to something like playing a Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, because, well, that’s just silly. Gautrain marketing department, we’ll remember this if anything happens.
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Finally Someone Is REALLY Doing Something About TripAdvisor’s Lies
02 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Previously known as the breakthrough company for holiday reviews, TripAdvisor has come under attack for false reviews quite a bit recently, and been sued quite a bit too. Now the British advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority, has launched a formal investigation into the hugely popular travel review website because the company is probably in breach of the advertising code.
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Hundreds Of Greek Orthodox Mourners Served Biscuits Sprinkled With Cocaine
31 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 15 Comments
In what must have seemed like a scene straight from a movie, hundreds of Orthodox Greek mourners were mistakenly served kourabiedes, a traditional Greek biscuit, at a funeral reception. Shortly after tasting the biscuits, the guests started acting incredibly strangely and the funeral bureau officers called the police.
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Massive Underground River Discovered Beneath Amazon
26 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Scientists have made a unique discovery in the Brazilian rainforests of the Amazon: a subterranean river that flows underneath the Amazon River, some four thousand metres below the actual Amazon River. It’s also roughly the same length of the Amazon River, according to the scientists.
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Real Life Snatch Documentary: Gypsy’s Battle For Family Pride [VIDEO]
26 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A ground-breaking new documentary called Knuckle shows one mans 12-year mission to infiltrate some of the most closely guarded communities in Britain: pikeys. Director Ian Palmer spent over a decade filming James Quinn McDonagh, nicknamed King of the Gypsies, and his family, even living with them, while documenting three feuding gypsy families for a new film.
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Specialised Doggie Daycare Comes To Cape Town
25 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
We live in a progressive city here in Cape Town – we like to think out of the box. And that’s just what Kristin van der Hoven has done by launching Proud Hounds Doggie Daycare in the city. Sick of leaving your precious pup at home while you’re at work? Then bring it to Kristin and the crew for the day.
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Our Dear Leader Kim Jong Il Visits Russia, Probably Wants Help
22 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Our Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, has caught a train to Russia and will meet and attend an energy summit with President Dmitry Medvedev later this week. The summit is expected to focus on energy cooperation and nuclear disarmament, no spice. But, Our Dear Leader is probably also after a business opportunity that will make money out of South Korea.
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Google Street View Boats And Tricycles Start Mapping The Amazon Rainforest
19 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Google has begun to map parts of the Amazon and Rio Negro Rivers, as well as small areas of northwestern Brazil, in an attempt to capture panoramic images of the remote region and its communities for the world to see. Google enlisted the help of locals and will use camera-equipped tricycles as well as boats to capture the imagery.
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Anne Hathaway Raps About Paparazzi’s “Dark Knight” Obsession [VIDEO]
18 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Anne Hathaway decided she should show off one of her hidden talents to Conan O’Brien on his show: rapping. She was on the show to chat about her latest film, One Day, but of course she will also feature as Catwoman in the next installment of Batman. The “Paparazzi” rap proves that Hathaway is not just a pretty face.
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Unprecedented US Hot Dog Wars Are Taking Things To The Next Level
17 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Normally hot dog stories are about who shoves the most hot dogs down their gullet. This one is different. It’s hot dog maker versus hot dog maker in a US federal district court, as each claims their product is better than their competitor’s. It’s Kraft Foods versus Sara Lee Corporation. It’s a $1,6 billion sausage product war.
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Just So You’re Aware, Horsemaning Is The New Planking
15 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Surprisingly, the act of posing for photographs as if you have been beheaded was actually popularised just over 90 years ago. Horsemaning, so named after the Headless Horseman (a character from folk the story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) seems to be making a comeback.
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Flash Mob Wedding Proposal In Sandton City [VIDEO]
10 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
More often than not these kind of feel-good stories seem to emanate from other parts of the world. Not this one however. This one is proudly South African and happened in Sandton City this past Saturday when a man cleverly orchestrated a flash mob to intercept his bride-to-be for a romantic proposal opportunity.
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Upmarket Nudist Resort To Open In The Cape
08 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
I’m quite sure this new resort won’t pull the usual folk that hang out in Sandy Bay. They have their vibe. This resort will have its vibe. Anyway, a report in the Weekend Argus has said that so far, Somerset West residents (where the resort will be situated) have expressed mixed reactions, but a summer 2011 opening is definitely on.
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Google Has First Self-Drive Car Accident – Who’s Responsible?
08 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
When I first heard about Google’s self-driving cars I was excited. Google weren’t the first to experiment with this kind of thing, and technology is evolving, but deep down I always knew it would be hard to trump KITT from Knight Rider or DeLorean DMC-12 from Back to the Future. Prius on Prius car love after the jump.
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Rowan Atkinson Crashes His McLaren F1, Again [PICS]
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
The British actor more commonly known as Mr Bean has crashed his purple McLaren F1. The R7.5 million supercar spun several times, smashed into a tree and ploughed into a road sign before catching fire on the opposite side of the road. This isn’t the first time he’s had an incident while driving his purple passion either.
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NASA Launches Spacecraft To Jupiter
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just when we thought NASA was going to take a backseat and let privatisation take the wheel for a while, they squeeze out yet another project. It just happens to be one of the space agency’s most ambitious missions too, and will attempt to discover the secrets behind the largest planet in the solar system – Jupiter.
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Old Spice Duel Draws 22 Million YouTube Hits
04 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Recently 2oceansVibe told you about a certain duel that was going to happen live on YouTube, well kind of, between Isaiah Mustafa, the old Old Spice Guy, and Fabio Old Spices, the new Old Spice Guy. Isaiah defeated Fabio after some heated bathroom exchanges, but the real point of interest is that 22 million people have watched.
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Los Angeles Television Presenter Shot With BB Gun Live On Air [VIDEO]
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
What was obviously an awesome idea at the time, hasn’t ended up working out quite so well for two teenagers from Los Angeles. In the old days, one could probably get away with an old prank like this, but not with modern policing unfortunately.
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Rock Climbing, Surfing, Or Sandboarding This Weekend? It’s Practically Free
30 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That is, if you book with Groupon. Go peak your head out the window. Do you see the sunshine that we’re dealing with today? It’s an absolute joke. While the rest of the country is “gripped” by a cold spell, Cape Town is rocking the city’s collective faces off with a stiff little 24 degrees […]
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Real Life Sat-Nav Racing Game Grips Britain As Drivers Attempt To Beat The Clock
29 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The idea behind the game is pretty straight forward: you must beat your satellite navigational system’s estimated time of arrival. I’m quite sure this has crossed some of our minds a few times but apparently some seven million British drivers are actually partaking in the potentially lethal new craze.
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Russians In Bikinis Patriotically Wash Cars For Vladimir Putin [VIDEO]
28 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
There are two aspects to this video. The first is very obvious: girls chose to wash Russian-made cars in bikinis for Vladimir Putin, as the headline suggests. And the other is the awkward on air moment between the two television news presenters that happens after they cover the story.
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Old Spice Guy Vs Fabio, Mano-A-Mano, Live Tonight [VIDEO]
26 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Where are you going to be at 18h00 this evening? I know what I’m going to be doing – and let’s be honest about this – you know what you should be doing too, right? Something awesome might happen. The Old Spice Guy has accepted Fabio’s challenge and they will have some sort of bathroom face-off, live, on YouTube.
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Jordy Smith Wins Back-To-Back J-Bay Titles
25 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
There was a fair amount of sport to watch this past weekend, but I was particularly looking forward to watching the closing rounds of the Billabong Pro surfing event that was on at J-Bay in the Eastern Cape. Jordy Smith had been surfing well and it looked like he could make the final. He did, and he won, again.
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New York Grocery Store Pulls A Heston Blumenthal, Uses Artificial Scent Machines To Increase Sales
22 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Some of us will probably always be enthralled by the way Heston Blumenthal, world renowned scientific food chef, comes up with what he does. Now, a New York grocery store has started applying one of Heston’s techniques. Namely, pairing real food with artificial scents infused into the air in the store via scent machines, to induce sales.
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There’s A New Old Spice Guy, But Why? [VIDEO]
21 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Former NFL star Isaiah Mustafa, the character from the Old Spice adverts, has received some new competition from former romance novel cover-boy, Fabio. Old Spice did some rebranding last year and Mustafa’s campaign is regarded as one of the greatest viral campaigns ever conceived. One has to wonder what Wieden+Kennedy, Old Spice’s agency, is up to now.
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Brooke Mueller Goes To ‘Extreme’ Rehab in Mexico, Will Take Hallucinogenic Drug As Treatment
19 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Normally, when one goes to rehab, it’s to break the cycle of abuse and addiction, not to test out some hallucinogenic drug for a week to see if it distracts you from your other addictions. But, if you’re Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife, you probably still have that mindset that you only have one gear: go.
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