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Culture
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Float Like A Butterfly Sting Like A Bee – It’s Schabir – Now Rearrested
14 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You may or may not have noticed the Sunday Times front cover yesterday. The headline was gripping and revealing. One usually sees this when tabloids have a secret they’re unable to keep. This time however, tabloids aside, the headline had every right to froth in its very large font. Behold: “Shaik In Mosque Punch-Up”
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The Half-Fro Mug Shot
10 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We love a good mug shot here over at 2oceansvibe. Paris Hilton’s array still being amongst our favourites, admittedly, but this dude is rolling with quite a mesmerising vibe. Half a ‘fro actually. We’re sure there’ll be a couple of guys on the inside having a good laugh at his expense.
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Facebook Causes 20% Of American Divorces
10 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, I mean not totally – it’s the evidence found on Facebook as grounds for the dissolution of marriage which causes 20% of all divorce cases in the US, but still. Big number. Increasingly, social networking sites form the primary source of evidence in custody battles and divorce proceedings, so heads up.
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The “Super Moon” – Let’s Have That Chat
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Everybody loves a little bit of sensationalism, especially when the majority of news starts becoming rather bland and repetitive. Take for example the way The Sun headlined this piece: “Disaster as moon closes in” – awesome vibe. Fact is though, that no disaster should technically happen and surfers should actually be getting amped for a mission, bru.
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Camel Milk: In Fridges Soon
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
That’s right, camel milk demand is on the up and the word is getting out. Demand from diabetic patients, parents of autistic children and sufferers of Crohn’s disease has resulted in them becoming their own powerful lobbyists. Internationally that is. So when will camel milk sail into the mainstream market here at home I wonder?
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National Geographic Finds The Average Human
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So hey, congrats to all you non-male, non-Chinese folks who were worried about looking average! Because according to a decade’s worth of research by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing for National Geographic, a 28-year-old Han Chinese male is the mean. Numbers, explanation after the jump.
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Lion Cited For Voter Registration Intimidation Over The Weekend
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
That is correct. A real lion has been fingered (no) as reason why potential voters from the Vhembe region in Limpopo were not able to register to vote this past weekend for the upcoming local government elections. I’m thinking The Ghost and the Darkness and humming the chorus to Bon Jovi – Wild In The Streets.
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Exclusive 2oceansvibe Interview – Battle: Los Angeles Director
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
2oceansvibe caught up with the director of the biggest forthcoming sci-fi film of the year, Battle: Los Angeles. Jonathan Liebesman is a born and bred Joburg boy making big waves in Hollywood, and an avid Proteas fan. With subject matter ranging from film research and alien weaponry, to comparisons with contemporary director Christopher Nolan and […]
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Five Things You Never Knew About Pac-Man
07 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Pac-Man has been around for more than three decades. This little yellow mouth has adorned cereal boxes, had its own cartoon series, and appeared on virtually every gaming platform to have ever been released. But here are five facts you probably didn’t know about him.
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The Burqa Ban Deadline Is Fast Approaching
07 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The French are preparing to sail themselves into unchartered waters when the ban on wearing the Muslim burqa and other Islamic face coverings in public places comes into effect in just over a month. Racial tensions in that country have already begun to boil with the John Galliano “I love Hitler” incident. This will be interesting.
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The Story Behind The “Bearded One”
07 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
If you, like me, weren’t able to get to a television for whatever reason this weekend, you may have tuned in and listened to the blokes on the couch on 2oceansvibe Radio and their alternative commentary. You may also have heard them speaking in awe about the cult-like properties of the “Bearded One”. Here is his story.
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$8 Million Dollar Diamond Stolen In 2008 Recovered, Man Arrested In Sandton
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This has Blood Diamond 2 written all over it. In fact I’m going to tweet DiCaprio about this just as soon as I finish writing this piece. Don’t you want to hear more of Danny Archer’s bru’s and boets too? Either way, this is a big diamond we are talking about.
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Professor Allows Actual Sex Demonstration In Lecture
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The professor did what? Yes, I also mumbled it back to myself in trepidation when I came across this little beauty. An actual sex demo, with a toy, was conducted for a class of psychology students at Northwestern University in Illinois in the States this week. Taking it to the next level prof, next level.
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The “Manyi” Bill, Let’s Crunch Those Numbers
03 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Oh, you didn’t know that cabinet has already approved this little racial nugget? Well, basically it’s just waiting for a few more signatures now before it forces change upon us. According to the SA Institute of Race Relations, who kindly did crunch the numbers for everyone, a lot of job loss and not much job creation is in order.
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The Pinncale Of Culinary Technology: Cheese & Scallion Rocketships
03 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, I’m pretty proud of that headline. Cornell University and the French Culinary Institute have developed a food printer that runs off puree and spits out sculptures – like rocketships made of gouda and scallions. And now we can have coconut sans awful coconut texture.
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This Week In Racism (A Summary)
03 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Racist fisticuffs are breaking out everywhere like the pimples on a young man’s greasy teenage skin. If it wasn’t enough when Kuli had a go at the coloureds, now the big guns have greased up their bodies with baby oil and are basically free wrestling with each other in the media.
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Imprinted Thighs: This Is Probably Monday Morning Badvertising
28 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A couple of benches in New Zealand were altered to imprint advertising for Superette short shorts on the back of people’s thighs. This is creepy on a couple of levels, but I’m mostly curious as to how somebody could get the back of their thighs stamped with words and not notice.
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Google Unveils Recipe Search Function – Google Recipes
25 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The giant has realised a gap in the market with this new feature it’s adding to the existing structural layout of the site. Like you’d click on the left toolbar to access news or images, soon you’ll search for a recipe based on quite specific criteria. Even real chefs are amped.
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The Cornish Pasty Now A Protected Species
24 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In sticking with the theme of striving to keep you up-to-date with all the latest information concerning matters of investment and business, we now bring you a story to tickle your taste buds in a new way. Brussels has declared the pasty is now no longer in any danger of being plagiarised.
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Floridian 18 Hole Country Club’s Now A Steal At Under $1 Million
24 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
No, we’re not trying to pull any wool over anyone’s eyes here. We know how some of you enjoy a good round of golf from time to time, and what with Pravin Grodhan going hard at the “sinners” again this year, what better way to spite him than buying your very own country club in Florida?
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Zimbabweans Charged For Attempting To Watch Video
22 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For days rumours have bounced back and forth claiming Zimbabweans and the people of the Kingdom of Swaziland should follow the example of the Egyptians and Tunisians and themselves revolt against their dictatorships. Now 46 Zimbo’s have been arrested for attempting to watch some BBC and Al Jazeera videos on a projector.
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Woman Arrested For Eating Out Of Tesco Bin
17 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Eating out of dust bins has been all the rage here in South Africa for quite a while now and our rubbish is sorted by bergies long before it even reaches the recycling area back at the depot. Now, a certain Sasha Hall has been arrested in the UK for “theft by finding.”
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Drug Dealer Caught Peddling Stock On Cruise Ship
16 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Somehow, Steven Krumholz of West Hollywood managed to sneak a large amount of drugs aboard the MS Allure of the Seas (that’s not a joke name) for what was billed as the world’s largest gay cruise. Authorities discovered his on-board party shop a little too late, though.
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A Spat Is Quietly Brewing In The Valley
15 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A Constantia Uitsig Wine Estate development application to extend the commercial nature of the business it conducts is being opposed by the Constantia Property Owners Association (CPOA). Why? Because 30 new residential houses and 12 new hotel rooms being built will result in, like more traffic. And like, effect the environment and, like, its World Heritage Site chances.
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Woman Dies From Silicon Bum Injection
09 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a bizarre story a young woman has died hours after undergoing a cosmetic procedure to enhance her bums appearance. This is the first time the procedure has come to my attention but apparently bumplants are nothing new in the world of very very good looking (Zoolander voice) people.
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Thank Facebook For Your Social Skills
01 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You might have been in the ‘cool group’ at school and you might even think you are ‘cool’ right now. Are you? Doesn’t matter, either way, it’s only fair if you give some credit to your social guidance counsellor – Facebook – for helping your coolness vibe resonate onto others. A study says so.
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Rap, Drum ‘n’ Bass, Charismatic Church – A Match Made In Heaven [VIDEO]
27 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
You gotta love the happy clappy church. They’re happy and they’re clapping about it. Sometimes they get so happy they hit the floor and convulse. That’s a lot of happy. Now watch what happens when you take all that happiness and put a funky drum ‘n’ bass beat underneath it. Who’s willing to go crazy? Is everybody readyyyyyyy!
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GPS Technologies Are Making Us Slaves To Small People In Machines
19 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Deep inside a homing pigeon’s head is a detector cell that picks up the earth’s magnetic field and sends it straight to its destination. No hardware, no software – just a natural sense of position for thousands of kilometres. I know people who get lost in malls where they have lit up maps on eye level. Are pigeons smarter than us? I’m beginning to think so.
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Monk Grave Digger Caught Smuggling Remains
19 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This story is sweet and horrific rolled into one. A monk dug up the remains of a nun in Athens and tried to smuggle it to Cyprus to give her a proper burial. He reckons she was a saint. The Greek Orthodox church disagrees with him on that one. They also condemn his behaviour and would like him to stop being a monk for now.
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This Guy Will Murder Daniel Radcliffe One Day
13 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That’s a pretty big call. I know. Alright then, I’ll hedge my bets. He’ll definitely murder either Daniel Radcliffe or JK Rowling. After long, protracted periods of stalking, high court judgments, and coincidental midnight run-ins on apartment stair wells, this here guy will eventually figure out that he has been jilted. And he will be pissed off.
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