Mayweather takes $41m payday, despite elbow trouble. Scarlett Johansson stars in porn addiction film. Your police chief’s PR man owns a brothel. Plane lands on N1. Porn industry allowed to carry on ‘bareback.’ NY Nicks fixed games for coke dealer.
Please indulge me. I’ve put up two blinds (6mm masonry) and two shelves (10mm masonry), whilst sampling some good cheese and Grolsch beer. I’m getting all emotional. This song has had 15 million views.
Yesterday it occurred to me that ADT’s systems are bordering on illegal and we once again urge everyone that subscribes to their services to address this incredibly serious offence with them.
Google Street View is making it harder and harder for us to find reasons to leave the house. This week marks the 178th anniversary of Darwin discovering the Galápagos Islands, and Google has launched an amazing 360 degree tour of one of the most biodiverse archipelagos on Earth.
Hood 8 is bordered by Roeland, Hatfield and Mill streets. Submissions for names have closed, and now it’s time to vote for the Top 1o shortlisted names! Voting for your favourite shortlisted name closes on 8 October 2013, with the big reveal happening on 24 October.
Footage has come to light that once again underscores the brutality of the conflict in Syria. A photojournalist embedded in that country has handed this series still shots to Time for publishing. Knitted together, the video documents the execution of a young Syrian (whose political or military affiliation cannot be verified) in the town of Keferghan, near Aleppo, on August 31, 2013.
Are you boycotting Stolichnaya vodka in protest of the anti-gay laws in Russia? You may want to think again. A gay rights advocate in Latvia, Kasper Zalitis who joined the forces boycotting Stoli, recently found out that Stoli vodka is actually made in Latvia.
Court documents filed this week recommend that a man going by the online moniker of ‘Fat Longpig’ should be jailed for 27 years for planning the kidnap, rape and eventual cannibalisation of children.
On 6 September, NASA’s rocket Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) took off from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. At the same time, a frog took one giant leap for amphibiankind and photobombed the whole thing. Take that, rocket ship.
If you are a Harry Potter fan, prepare to squee. JK Rowling has been lured out of retirement. That’s right, she’s back and ready for action. She has signed a deal to write a series of new films based on the wizarding world exposed in the Harry Potter series.
Remember ‘Lost In Translation?’ Of course you do. It’s the iconic Tokyo love story between a young Scarlett Johansson and much older Bill Murray. Yesterday marked a decade since the film’s release, and the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind the hit, Sofia Coppola re-visited the romantic-comedy by doing an interview with the Daily Beast.
If you’re voted the ugliest animal in the world, do you see it as a victory? We sure hope that’s the way the ‘blobfish’ is taking the news that he is the winner.
Are you looking for an office space? Would you be willing to pay R1,500 a month for this place, with internet speeds of almost 40Mb per second? This is for real. Take a look inside.
The Independent is reporting that Pope Francis has stated that non-believers would be forgiven by God if they followed their consciences. Here’s exactly what he said:
Got heirlooms? Sure you do. Ever had the odd trinket go missing after hosting a dinner party? Sure you have. You never know who’s hiding a raging kleptomaniac beneath that nice private school exterior. But you don’t have to suffer shrinkage of your valuables and decorative smalls anymore if you box smart. And you know, you can put other stuff in there, too.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief election rival has sparked a storm by flipping the bird on the cover of the weekly magazine supplement of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily newspaper’s Friday edition. The middle finger, or “stinkefinger” (note: best vulgarity name, ever) is a fairly big deal in Germany. Cranking one out in public can earn you a fine of anywhere between 600 to 4,000 Euro.
Nicole Kidman was knocked to the ground and out of her heels by a paparazzo on a bicycle as the man attempted to snap a pic of the actress in New York, yesterday.
Twitter files for IPO. Armstrong returns Olympics medal. Assad agrees to giving up chemical weapons. Squatters to sue Cape Town. Zuma refuses to sign info bill. Mad scramble for whopping R3 billion lottery tickets.
Okay, okay so last week we may have been a tad off with our predictions, but after the Bok win we were happy to forget about the multiple and rather revel in the joy of getting one over the Aussies. That said, we have had a report from one happy camper who signed up using the 2OV voucher code (see below) who placed a R180 bet last weekend and won R3,600.
This is the latest full length international trailer for ‘Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom’. The film chronicles former president Nelson Mandela’s life, from his childhood to the monumental day he was inaugurated as the first legitimate President of South Africa.
A 20-year-old man has been discovered living alone in a mud hut in the wilderness of Siberia, three kilometres from the nearest settlement. The man states that until the date of his discovery, he had never known any humans apart from his parents, who are alleged to have brought him to the forest when he was four years old
A Toronto woman has been arrested trying to leave Colombia with two kilograms of cocaine inside her fake pregnancy belly. 28-year-old Tabitha Leah Ritchie was stopped while trying to board an Air Canada flight out of Bogota, when an inspector noticed that her pregnant belly was cold and hard. This video shows police removing her […]
I’ve got one of those glass-door cast-iron fireplaces at The Residence, and I’ve been spending a small fortune on wood from the shops. Not anymore. Now I get it delivered – for less..
No doubt many of you would have driven past this debacle en route to your office this morning. If you’re a fan of The Butcherman in Green Point you will be devastated to hear that you’ll have to go elsewhere for the rare and delicious lamb shoulder that you’ll no doubt have been planning to roast this evening with garlic gloves, rosemary and mint – because a car just drove through their front window.
Rooibos is one step closer to joining the likes of Champagne, Darjeeling Tea and Columbian Coffee as a member of the exclusive geographically-protected product club. Rules governing the use of the term “Rooibos” on new product trademark applications stipulate that applicants cannot call a product rooibos unless it contains 100% rooibos or it is the main […]
We’ve been wondering for a while who would pickup the SA Swimsuit headline sponsorship, so a big congrats to Bridgestone! Let’s take a look at Nicole Meyer and Jayden Ashley Robinson.. 2oceansvibe caught up with Bridgestone’s SA Advertising and Marketing Manager, Jan Maritz to find out about their association with this SA institution: The employees […]
I’m not sure if you noticed this morning as you lolled about your satin sheets waiting for your servant-lover to bring you an espresso and a cornetto, but the sun is rising earlier of late. One might say that Spring is definitely sprung, which means one thing: you’re running out of time to find your summer residence. Aren’t you so lucky then that we took the time to find you a facemelting beach front villa for a nippy R29 million.
NASA has plans to capture an asteroid, using a robotic space lasso, then tow it in to the moon’s orbit where it can be explored and studied by astronauts. How do they plan on doing that?
Eskom has the very serious problem of trying to increase electricity output while managing the already stressed grid. Of course, they could do this by discouraging electricity use, but that would cause shrinkage in production and consumption, hurting our economy. Lucky for Eskom, a South African company called Illuminate is producing a light that will take a load off our electricity grid without asking us to turn off the lights
Well this is just adorable. Check out these little surfer dudes and dudettes ripping waves like pros. This is sure to make you smile, unless you are a robot, then I’m afraid there is no hope for you.