The inventors and perfectors of binge drinking, the British, have come up with a handy little tool called the Booze Calculator. This highly scientific test will help you find out exactly what you did to your body and your wallet this weekend. Click through to take the test.
Is your toddler impulsive, easily frustrated, restless and unable to think about his/her long-term future? If they are, you’re unfortunately the proud parent of a future alcoholic, drug addicted, criminal with no future prospects whatsoever. No, really, that’s a scientific fact.
Anne Hathaway is a lady. One of those well-to-do women, who lifts her pinkie when she drinks tea and waves like the Queen. She’s fit for royalty, blessed with great beauty, intelligence and a coy smile. So it was quite something when she just whipped out a boob in Love and Other Drugs.
Nic Dawes, editor of local investigative news publication, the Mail & Guardian, has said that the paper’s website, MG.co.za, is the victim of sustained organised hacking attempts.
Oh, good! Somebody with a PHD decided to speak out against ‘the twitters,’ on the ground that social networking websites are making us “less human” by isolating people from reality. Presumably also responsible are trading card games, Playstation, and books.
Representatives of Sky Sports said they had no hesitation in sacking football pundit Andy Gray over ‘unacceptable behaviour’ after footage emerged of him directing a lewd request at Sky Sports presenter Charlotte Jackson, before roaring with laughter. Well, YouTube has further implicated colleague Richard Keys. This just keeps getting better.
The 2010 Academy Award nominations is, essentially, one of the least surprising events since the election of our great president.
The producers of Idols South Africa have let Mara Louw go after three seasons of racist slur, violent outbursts, faux couture and drunken shenanigans. Boy, that was fun. She was the single judge who could always be counted on to do something unscripted and rash at around the 40 minute mark of every episode. What do we do now?
A dyslexic individual hacked into Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook profile and posted his philanthropic thoughts on how the site should distribute wealth. Facebook quickly deleted the page and has not commented on the matter. Give up all their money for social good? Not going to happen.
God, these headlines just write themselves. Um. But seriously, the Burrouch Council in Redditch is putting together a over a plan to use heat generated by the local crematorium to warm up the Abbey Stadium swimming pool, to save£14,500-a-year. Which somehow doesn’t sit right with everybody.
Judge Finds SABC Guilty Of Lying – A HIGH court judge in Johannesburg has found the SABC guilty of manipulating the news in 2005 and 2006, in a ruling that will boost criticism of the way the public broadcaster covers politics. Judge Neels Claassen ruled in the South Gauteng High Court that there had been widespread […]
If you were sitting on the fence with that condo purchase on Greenpoint, now really is the time to put an offer on the table. A number of consortiums, most notably the functionally-named Cape Town Grand Prix Bid Company are making bids to bring the F1 Grand Prix to Cape Town.
So this is pretty cool! Sort of. If you find random bits of information that you can start awkward conversations with cool. And you should. You really should. The folks at The Economist put together a map of the USA that matches each state with an economically comparable nation, using GDP to measure. And we match with Maryland!
Right, now I’m not really one for social activism, but I have a problem with insecure men with erectile dysfunction killing everything to “get it up”. I’m sure you, like me, despise those who kill rhinos simply to get at the horn, to help the horns of insecure men with erectile dysfunction.
There’s this billboard in Albert Road, Woodstock that smacks of brilliance the first time you read it. It’s a pro bono piece done in bold, black letters and probably took the creators all of 10 minutes to produce. It looks authentic. Like some passer by grabbed a cokie and scribbled what’s on their mind. Turns out hipsters did it.
A woman in Argentina flung herself off the top of a 23-story hotel, but her suicide attempt was unluckily thwarted when she landed on a taxi cab, thereby prolonging her life. The lesson being, if you ever find yourself plummeting towards the earth, try locate an empty taxi and get into the ‘bum-first’ position, unless you actually want to commit suicide.
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.
If you’re a rugby fan in Cape Town, and you haven’t heard of the Neo Africa Tri-Series, then you’ve been missing a trick. This year’s Tri-Series is the second of the annual event, designed to test the mettle of three local Super Rugby teams prior to the kick off of the Super 15. This year, […]
Because this convenience store conveniently has samurai swords just hanging around, I guess. Hey, you guys saw Pulp Fiction, right? Apparently this robber guy had knocked over fourteen 7/11’s before getting chased around and caught by samurai-wielding store clerk over here.
We managed to nail down another exclusive music video – this time from one of our long-time favourite SA bands, The Dirty Skirts. It’s always too long between albums, for fans of the Skirts – but the boys managed to put this little beaut together to satisfy our cravings. And what a powerhouse song it […]
LA Noire is Grand Theft Auto in 1940s Los Angeles. Awesome. Well, Rockstar have announced a release date for my fellow nerds and I and provided a new trailer to accompany it. The countdown to the latest sandboxing, abuse-hurling, road-raging and gun-slinging title is on and we have the trailer for you right after the jump. On dad.
Foreigners have been meddling in US affairs again and told them that they’re not allowed to have any more sweets. Except in this case they’re not allowed to have any more sodium thiopental. Sodium thiopental is the drug that US States use to lethally inject their murderers, terrorists and other beastly miscreants, and the US can’t get its hands on any of the stuff.
Oprah Winfrey had all of America giddy yesterday when she finally revealed the “miracle of miracles” she’s been hyping for a while now. The big woo ha? She has a half-sister the same full size as herself. Named Patricia for now, Oprah’s half-sis hails from Milwaukee and loves the media mogul’s new network launched recently. Publicity stunt with a p, right?
The Pope Reckons It’s Not All About ‘Hits’ On The Internet – Pope Benedict XVI told Catholic bloggers and Facebook and YouTube users on Monday to be respectful of others when spreading the Gospel online and not to see their ultimate goal as getting as many online hits as possible. Benedict called for the faithful to […]
Well I don’t know about you, but I think marine biology just got slightly more interesting. A 2005 paper observing a menage a trois coupling between right whales recently appeared online, with photos that are NSFW but only if your boss knows what you’re looking at or has a working knowledge of whale genitalia.
Gone are the days of true superheroes. We want to see a world of “every-day” superheroes who are just like us, but with more courage/ stupidity. And stay-at-home film makers are pumping these babies out every second.
This short time lapse film of Cape Town was put together by Silver Bullet productions, and it is pretty stunning. Everyone knows that Cape Town is aesthetically beautiful, and when it comes to its treatment on film, this beauty can be to its detriment. This film shows Cape Town through a darker, gorgeous lens.
Keep your shirt on. No really, keep it on. Apparently people start undressing in the presence of TV’s nip and tuck butcher hoping he’ll dish out some advice. Thankfully this didn’t happen at the Houghton Golf Estate Saturday night where he spoke to some plastic fans. The well-mannered crowd did hang onto his lips though. Their own aching for a refill.
American comedic genius Stephen Colbert once famously said, in reference to Wikipedia, “if you make something up and enough people agree with you–it becomes reality”. Check out this link to 15 of the best Wikipedia hoaxes and blunders. Special mention to the person who managed to edit Sepp Blatter’s middle name to ‘Bellend’, cockney slang for ‘tip of the penis.’ Classic.
Yes, our little country has its issues, but before we all start whinging like the DA on a slow day at parliament, lets just take a moment. It’s Monday, but things could be worse, at least we will never wake up to weather like this…