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Please Enjoy The Sequel To Air New Zealand’s Hobbit-Inspired In-Flight [VIDEO]
21 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ opens in South African cinemas on 13 December 2013. In preparation for the film’s worldwide release, Air New Zealand is up to their old tricks with a new promotional video titled ‘Just Another Day in Middle Earth.’
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These Newborn Twins Refuse To Let Go Of Each Other [VIDEO]
18 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
These twins are cuddling each other, mimicking the position their positions in the womb, as they take a relaxing spa bath. Yeah, you read that.
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Mashable’s 10 Types Of Instagram Users
18 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We love Instagram because it allows us to explore our inner artist and to find and follow people who share interesting photos. As usual, however, there are those couple of people who take it one (or a hundred) steps too far.
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This Is How Vice Media Makes Money [VIDEO]
14 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Watch the videos and find out how the co-founder and CEO of Vice Media transformed what started out as a small, free magazine into a company that is worth $1,6 billion. Read that number again. Now press play.
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This Epic Breakup Letter Has Just Gone Viral
29 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
“I’m committed to a friendship” said her ex when he, very abruptly, called the whole thing off. Six weeks (and a few tubs of ice cream) later, and the newly single woman discovered that her bastard of an ex had been having an affair with his most recent ex on and off the whole time. After her initial confrontation with the guy, she wrote him a killer break up letter that the internet just can’t get enough of
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The Future Is Here – Space Travel Could Be A Regular Thing By 2016 [PICS & VIDEO]
28 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Well, we say ‘anybody’ – but by that we mean anybody who has R750,000 to spare on a trip to space. Yup, a small Arizona-based business, The Paragon Space Development Corporation, has used some existing technology to create a helium balloon that will take passengers to the edge of space.
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This Red Bull Mountain Bike GoPro Footage Will Make You Tingle Uncomfortably [VIDEO]
24 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you recall, we did a story on the biggest mountain-bike backflip in history just a few days ago. That was pretty special, but we can’t recall seeing anything quite as visceral as this before.
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Elon Musk Bought That Bond Submarine Car And Wants To Make It Work [VIDEO]
22 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Elon Musk – the guy is a super-achiever, and there seems to be nothing that will halt his imagination. This time, Musk is planning to go one-up on James Bond. Remember the Lotus Esprit submarine that Bond had in The Spy Who Loved Me? Well, Elon Musk just bought it for $997,000, and he wants to turn it into a real-life submarine.
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This Is The Longest Flight In The World
21 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Many of us are familiar with the pain of the long-haul flight. You emerge from your seat with your legs aching and feeling hollow. Your mouth is stained with drool,and you pants are covered in little bits of horrible airplane-food. It’s a nightmare, and people generally agree that the less time spent flying, the better.
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Shame Man: This Teacher Who Was Fired For Posing In Playboy, Has The Full Support Of Her Students
17 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is an absolute deusy!
A Texas-based Spanish teacher, Cristy Nicole Deweese, has come under fire from the school board, after students discovered she had posed nude in some full-frontal photos for playboy.
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God Bless America: Wounded Soldier Salute Goes Viral [PHOTO]
16 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Talk about going beyond the call of duty. Corporal Josh Hargis was with his special operations unit in Panjwal, Afghanistan, when a woman detonated a suicide bomb vest nearby, triggering the explosion of 13 other bombs. Four of Hargis’ men were killed, and 12 other soldiers were badly wounded, including Hargis himself.
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One Year Later, Red Bull Release POV Video Of Felix Baumgartner’s Jump [VIDEO]
16 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Has it been a year already? Geez. I’m sure we all remember trying to get our Wifi connections pitch-perfect to watch the most momentous skydive in history – only to be told a few minutes later that the jump was cancelled. But eventually, the magnanimous Felix Baumgartner did take the jump
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Pensioner Lands Plane In The Dark After Pilot Falls Unconscious
10 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
77-year-old John Wildey was the only passenger aboard a Cessna 172 flying from Skegness to Sandtoft Airfield, near Doncaster, when the pilot fell gravely ill and passed out. John naturally did what any true legend does and landed the plane himself, completely in the dark.
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Lunatic Woman Threatens To ‘Go Super Saiyan’ After Not Getting Chicken McNuggets [VIDEO]
04 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
We’ve all been there. Craving chicken McNuggets at ten in the morning. Nothing can satisfy the craving, except chicken McNuggets, of course. I don’t think any of us have been where this lady was though. This is a view into the ultimate craving, or an epic case of the munchies taken to the next level.
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Watch This Semi Truck Go Airborne And Explode Into A Ball Of Flame [VIDEO]
05 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Like a scene out of GTA, a semi-truck lost control on an Indianapolis highway this last weekend, sailed through the air, and burst into flames. The event was captured on camera and can be seen right here, for your viewing pleasure. The driver and his 7-year-old son, who was in the truck with him, both escaped the flight and subsequent explosion with only “a few scratches”.
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Will Smith Freestyles For The First Time In Decades! [VIDEO]
31 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Fresh Prince is back! Recently, while at a celebrity friend’s birthday party, Will Smith took up the mic for the first in years and broke into a freestyle rap. Backed by the party’s official entertainer, Doug E. Fresh, Smith proceeds to steal the show and later teaches the crowd a very special dance.
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How To Grow A Moustache With Nick Offerman AKA Ron Swanson [VIDEO]
25 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s almost that time of year again when every man with even a tickle of fluff on his upper lip wears his whiskers proudly. Movember is upon us, and in the spirit of good competition we found this inspirational instuctional video from the Godfather of contemporary sitcom moustaches, Nick Offerman, to help you along.
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Podcast Host Bribes Tom Hanks With A Vintage Typewriter
10 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
How would you get the rather hard to get hold of Tom Hanks on to your podcast? Money? Women? Wine? A song perhaps? Nope, the correct answer is a 1934 Smith Corona typewriter.
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The Best Damn Marching Band On the Planet [VIDEO]
09 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Forget all the silly idea you may have about marching band members. I would become a fan of American Football if I got to see this at half-time. Hell, I’d even get into rugby if we had something similar.
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Is This Billionaire Actually Going To Try To Clone A Dinosaur?
02 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Mining billionaire Clive Palmer may be on his way to ignoring the single most important movie lesson ever taught – don’t clone extinct animals. Sources close to the man have allegedly claimed that he is in deep talks with the people who cloned Dolly the sheep to bring a dinosaur back into existence.
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Chad Meihuizen: Extreme Endurance Running In Aid Of Alzheimer’s
22 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 4 Comments
Chad’s father passed away last year. He had suffered from Alzheimer’s, and his deterioration into dementia was quick and incredibly painful. Chad’s father spent the last six weeks of his life in hospital, and Chad spent every one of those days at his side. In the end, he suffered more than any person deserved. Chad’s […]
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Coulthard Catches Golf ball In Car Going At 180mph [VIDEO]
22 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In terms of advertising, I would rather watch a race car driver catching little balls in a car going 180 miles an hour, than a dog talking from a bakkie. It’s a little silly, but definitely worth a watch, even if it is just to hear how genuinely excited Coulthard gets when he catches the ball.
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Internet Comes To The Rescue After Kids Bully Bus Monitor [VIDEO]
21 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
The internet is a bizarre place, filled with dancing robots singing Bohemian Rhapsody, crazy lawyers suing charities and cartoonists for no good reason, pages and pages of tentacle porn, and gigs and gigs worth of hate-filled YouTube comments. But every now and then the internet dons a cape and becomes a super hero.
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Boris Johnson: London Has Awesome Women, I Want An Airport In The Thames
19 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
In a typically outstanding interview with New York Magazine, Mayor of London Boris Johnson, has come out saying that London is a great city because of a “greater range of girls at the bar,” that he’s doing it all for fame, and he wants to “assume supreme power in England” to build an airport in the thames. Radical.
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Danny MacAskill’s Competition Is Here. Meet Andrew Dickey [VIDEO]
28 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Regular readers will be aware that we’ve been ardent fans of Danny MacAskill here at 2oceansVibe for years. We are now however proud to present to you an Australian, Andrew Dickey, who could arguably be as good as Danny. You’ll enjoy his skills.
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Richard Levi: Fastest Ever International T20 Hundred And Most Sixes In An Innings [VIDEO]
20 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Richard Levi, a former Wynberg Boys High cricketer, shattered two world records for the Proteas in New Zealand yesterday. Levi led our successful run chase in the second T20 against New Zealand in Hamilton ending on an unbeaten 117 off 51 balls, leveling the three-match series in the process.
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Awesome Fundraising Is Awesome
27 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Not even 24 hours ago, a user of the popular user-generated news link website, reddit, asked if readers wouldn’t mind helping out with a donation for an orphanage in Kenya. Humans went over and above what was required, by a long way. This is awesome.
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Even Superman Wants A Piece Of Julius
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I think it’s safe to say that hatin’ on Julius has now officially saved more conversations than the weather. Having said that, after a good rant most of us move on. Most of us. One Eastern Cape man, however, decided to put on a cape, jump on some cars and claim that he is a superman from the clouds, sent to kill Malema.
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The Average South African Drinks A Bakkie-Load Of Booze A Year
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
Some organisation by the name of “The Central Drug Authority”, is here to tell you how bad you are. Or, in the words of the authority’s acting chairman, Dr Ray Eberlein, “If we had a boozing world cup, South Africa wouldn’t even have to practise.” Duh, Dr Ray, we already had one. And I’m still hanging from it.
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Six Men Emerge After Year-And-A-Half Isolated Mars Mission Simulation
04 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Commercial space travel is now literally months away, and it appears that a mission to Mars is not too far off either. Six men that have been locked in large steel piped tubes for 520 days emerged from isolation earlier today after a bid to simulate a mission to Mars. This is taking Survivor to the next level.
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