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Joburg Residents Charge Mayor Amos Masondo – Hello Karma
18 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You’ll recall just last week we chatted about the atrocious conditions our Joburg friends are having to put up with as a result of what can only be described as the complete and utter mismanagement of local jozi municipal services. Well, finally they have heeded their consciences’ advice and done the right thing by charging their rogue sheriff.
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Church Peddles Religion As A Cure For Aids
04 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In November ’09, Aids activist group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) launched a campaign to remove an ad on ETV by the Christ Embassy church. In the ad the church claims they cure Aids. This week, finally, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) managed to force ETV to pull the ad. A little too late as it turns out.
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They’re Churning Up The Karoo For Gas
02 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Karoo is seeing a lot of action lately. Just the other day the semi-arid wonderland saw off some cult defectives now every major gas company with a drill wants a piece. Companies are lining up to upend most of the Karoo in search of shale gas. Shale gas is the latest “it” gas in the energy game and the Karoo has a lot of it.
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It Sucks To Live In Washington
25 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Unless you are pretty keen on bestiality that is. The United States of Shame is the internet’s latest creation of aggregated data, and serves up the statistical shameful speciality of each state. For exampple, North Dakota has, statistically-speaking, the highest rate of ugly people in America. Shame.
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Fear And Loathing In Le Sutherland – More Info On The French Cult Killer Couple
19 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Philippe Meniére and his life partner, Agnes Jardel, the French Couple who shot dead one police officer and critically wounded another, are still at large somewhere in the surrounding area of Sutherland. As police continue their search, some seriously bizarre details have begun to emerge about their cult and the 12 years they spent cultivating weirdness on the Karoo farm.
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Audi R8 Car Guard’s Are Facing Fraud Charges
17 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When deceased property developer and sky-diving enthusiast, Rob Taylor generously donated his Audi R8 to two car guards at the foot of table mountain in January 2010, he probably didn’t bet on those same car guards would have fraud charges brought against them by Taylor’s business partner, and de facto owner of the car.
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That, Is An Ex-Parrot
14 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
750 African Grey parrots perished on a 1Time airlines flight from Johannesburg’s OR Tambo airport to Durban’s King Shaka Airport on Christmas Eve. The parrots had been captured in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and were transported to South Africa for resale as pets in the second stage of a three-part transaction of a larger group of parrots.
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Australian Flooding In A Global Context
13 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
While the floods in Australia are devastating, there are a number of natural disasters unfolding on a significantly larger human and geographic scale – and we don’t seem to give a damn.
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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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Rob Taylor May Have Been Haunted By Drugs, Depression, And Guilt
12 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday we had a comment on our story, Rob Taylor Took The Ultimate Jump which prompted us to do a little extra digging. Professionals suggest that his unusual behaviour leading up to his death may have been a result of drug use or a mental health ailment.
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They’re Making A Fight Club Musical
12 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I don’t know how to feel about this. I loved Fight Club the way you love an eccentric uncle; it was weird and it stank of smoke and made people feel uncomfortable, but it was awesome. The fact that it’s director, David Fincher wants to revisit it is great; the whole ‘musical’ angle is where I start panicking.
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Half-Naked Facebookers Arrested On Gautrain
11 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Your buddy calls you up and asks if you want to join him and 32 others to stand around in your underwear on the three fifteen to Blackheath. Says he read about it on Facebook. You tell him to go screw himself, right? Wrong. You ask him what colour boxers he’ll be wearing because you take Facebook very, very seriously.
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It’s Been A Strange Few Days In Cape Town
10 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Skulls in lighthouses, unidentified bodies on Table Mountain, and mass food poisonings in Somerset West – it’s been a fairly strange three days in Cape Town.
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The Arkansas Wildlife Purge
04 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Arkansas state suffered two major wildlife anomalies this past weekend. Arkansas residents’ first indication that all was not well with their fauna friends was the mass exodus from the sky of more than four thousand Red Wing Blackbirds. The birds didn’t just land on the ground – they plummeted from the sky, stone dead, at night.
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Severed Arm Found On Golf Estate
29 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’m writing this at a golf course, pre-round. I’m testy about heading out on to the fairway, to say the least. Why? Because officials have found a severed arm on the Centurion Golf Estate. The condition of the arm has been variously described as “putrid” and “neatly removed at the shoulder”.
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Last Minute Shopping: Baby In A Box
24 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Toys R Us have taken to selling babies in boxes. We’re uncertain how long this horror has been going on for, or how much longer we can expect the youth of our society to suffer such visual carnage.
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You Shouldn’t Have
10 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Drop what you’re doing, get on your feet and put your hands together: Mark Zuckerberg joined the Giving Pledge movement and is donating most of his wealth to charity. Bravo. He joins Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Michael Bloomberg and Ted Turner – truly selfless individuals with some of the biggest hearts in the world.
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Amazon.com: The Face Of Hypocrisy
09 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We live in a world where business ethics trump their moral counterparts with ease, so perhaps we shouldn’t get too upset about this.
You may well remember that Amazon.com abandoned WikiLeaks after suffering less than subtle diplomatic pressure from the United States.
While disappointing, that kind of move was inevitable, perhaps even understandable. If the negative attention damaged the brand, Amazon has since committed public relations hara kiri. Cue global brandfail for Amazon.com in three, two, one…
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Jayzus This 3G
09 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
If Vodafone based the design of their 3G modem on a device that takes up three USB ports unnecessarily they succeeded. On a grand scale. Is this 1998? Are we in the Stone Age? Behold, the great plastic death is reaping its harvest. This is the technological equivalent of the fat guy who takes up one and a half seats in economy class.
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Anni Dewani Murder: The Zola Tongo Indictment
08 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
For your reading pleasure: The criminal indictment of the taxi driver who has since been sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of Anni Dewani. The 32 page document includes allegations of Zola’s employment as a hit man by Shrien Dewani, Anni’s husband. You can download it after the jump.
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Julian Assange Is Worse Than The Klu Klux Klan
08 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
PayPal, the online payments service that recently bitched out and froze the account of Wikileaks, citing terms of use violations completely unrelated to the recent US diplomatic cables leaks, has some interesting clientelle that it hasn’t dropped yet – the KKK, for instance.
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Over The Line, Period
07 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Those Scandinavians, darem. Not only do they have lovely fjords, now they’re also setting trends in the workplace. The latest management technique to come from Norway involves women wearing red armbands when it’s that time of the month. I kid you not.
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Dewani Murder – Feel Free To Roll Your Eyes
07 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The investigation of the murder of Anni Dewani, a newly married British tourist who was gunned down in Gugulethu last month, has taken a spicy twist this afternoon. Yes, you can all roll your eyes and gesticulate wildly. Feel free to throw in a “I told you so” if you like.
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How Not To Win Friends And Influence People – The Hitler Shirt
03 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 11 Comments
2oceansviber, Sugar, a regular on Cape Town’s bustling Kloof Street, spotted this Hitler t-shirt in the window of one of those shops where you might expect to see this sort of thing, if you know what I mean. Here we have an example of one man’s smug irony being another man’s reason to kick the former man’s ass. Check out the pics below.
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Facebook Stalking: Even The Israeli Military Does It!
25 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Poor Israeli military. You’re like that lonely guy, going through a pretty girl’s photos to see if she really does have a boyfriend, like she said that one time at that club. Except replace ‘boyfriend’ with ‘Orthodox Jewish background,’ which is a way better excuse anyway.
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Nicely Done: Blogger Deals With Sexy Airport Searches By Stripping [VIDEO]
22 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Fantastic. Self-described sex blogger, ‘Furrygirl,’ opted to go for a patdown instead of undergoing TSA scanning at a Seattle airport, citing health concerns about radiation; to protest the TSA’s super-invasive new procedures, she stripped down to sexy underwear prior to her interview, and videoblogged the whole thing. Mildly NSFW, but hey, it’s okay if it’s political. […]
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Australian Rugby Player Raped A Dog (No Spice)
19 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
There’s literally no excuse for getting drunk and taking pictures of your team-mate’s Labrador performing a sex act on you, as Canberra Raiders winger, Joel Monaghan did. I’ve tried and I can’t think of a single scenario where that would be an appropriate course of action.
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Take That, Old Spice: Fat People Smell Better
16 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Wait, no, that’s not right. People who are overweight have a better SENSE of smell. In the continuing search for the real cause of obesity, researchers at the University of Portsmouth have established a correlation between obesity and heightened sense of smell. Presumably those who can smell the bacon first get the bacon first.
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Great Job, Freedom Of Speech: Man Convicted For “Menacing” Tweets
12 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Paul Chambers, a 27-year-old UK accountant has been charged with and convicted of making “menacing” Teets. He had hoped that the case would be dismissed as the stupid prank that it was – and angled for a knocked down £1,000 fine. Instead, Judge Jacqueline Davies had his appeal dismissed on every count. Sorry, what?
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Fancy A Strange Cuddle?
02 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Are you feeling lonely? Need some affection? You could always seek out a Cuddle Party. A safe place ‘to touch,and to be touched’. I’m thinking NO!
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