Air New Zealand has cut a scene from its in-flight safety video, which showed All Black centre Richard Kahui reject a kiss from a male flight attendant. Their reason: such a scene has the potential to cause gay suicides and substance abuse. Outrageous slippery slope. [VIDEO].
Bokang Montjane (24) was crowned Miss South Africa 2010 at the Sun City Superbowl in South Africa on 12 December 2010. Wow – that was yesterday! I had no idea. Apparently she was also named Miss Congeniality. Wonderful. (Photo by Gallo Images/Sowetan/Bafana Mahlangu)
Ozzy Osbourne is what’s right with the world. We’ve seen him drunk, we’ve seen him high, we’ve seen him possessed. He’s met the Queen and bit off a bat’s head. He’s a role model without equal and here he is summing up what we’re all thinking in six glowing words. Watch what happens when he’s asked his opinion on Justin Bieber.
When I mentioned to the Friendly store owner last weekend that they should look into stocking the Robertsons Salt & Vinegar seasoning (I use it on popcorn – like at the movies), I didn’t expect it to appear on the shelves so soon. One week later, BANG, there it was. Nice job, Friendly store.
There are few things better than watching minor natural disasters from the comfort of your own home/office/wherever the hell you’re watching this from. Granted, the Metrodrome is about as significant to me as the International Hopscotch Court, but watching the roof cave in from the past week of snow is pretty rad.
This is teetering on a hellish crossroads of genius, insanity, chemically-altered states of being, and too many concussions in the space of one life time. Brendan, what are you doing? What’s your secret? How? Why? As you’ll see from this video, these are all very good questions. Very good, very good, good questions.
One of 2oceansvibe’s favourite new acts to come out of the RSA, Wrestlerish, have released a splendiferous music video for their single, sleep. As the title card for the video states, the video is a composite of 921 still fan shots, snapped in and around Gauteng at Wrestlerish gigs (and one guy’s pool).
So summer’s here folks. I’m not sure if you’ve been noticing the incremental increase in temperature, the gradually lengthening days, the proliferation of billionaires on yachts off of Clifton – the usual tell tale indicators that a change has been effected in the seasons. And you know what? Maybe, just maybe its time you learned to surf
Artist Vincenzo Cosenza has redrawn the world map based on each nation’s preferred social networking site – ranging from the reasonably well-known Facebook and Orkut to the bizarrely unfamiliar (here) Draugiem – unless you’ve got some friends in Lativa you’ve not told us about.
William & Kate Release Official Engagement Photos – “They are in their prime and brimming with happiness. I have never felt so much joy as when I see them together.” With these words snapper-to-the-stars Mario Testino described what’s plain for all to see in his historic photographs. Prince William and Kate Middleton are intimate and […]
Julius Assange has been arrested and denied bail. Incidentally, it’s the same jail which held Shrien Dewani before he was granted bail. Some of you will be aware that Assange has not been arrested for hacking the US government, but rather sex-related charges. Turns out our boy is a bit of a heartbreaker..
Recent medical studies have indicated that a high number of hours spent on a cycling saddle per week is likely to lower your semen count.
Not all bad news, that is if we’re all aiming to be like Lance and Live Strong (read: sterile).
South Africa predicted it would generate £570million from the 2010 Fifa World Cup. Experts also expected 450 000 supporters to attend the tournament. In both cases the predictors were well wrong. Many SA-based companies also failed to exceed expectations. That White Elephant argument was never going to go quietly.
The story broke on the Mail & Guardian, and needless to say, it’s being picked up all over the globe. Police sources in Cape Town allege that there is high resolution, colour video footage of Shrien Dewani handing driver Zola Tongo a bankie of cash in the restaurant area of the Cape Grace Hotel.
Maybe it’s a little early to be getting nostalgic, the Google’s Zeitgeist 2010 has you ‘Re-live top events and moments from 2010 from around the globe through search, images, and video.’ South Africans can go ahead and skip to 2:05, though, because that’s where the important part of 2010 really starts.
Remember that song called “Jump On It!”? Sure you do. You used to graunch to that sing in your parents’ garage, with your Back to The Future hi-tops and lumo green laces. That one. This song is what that song is based on, it’s called “Apache”, and the video is face-palmingly awesome. Please enjoy the simulated keyboard dry-humping, among other delights.
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.
Our Science and Technology minister didn’t mince her words announcing the arrival of SANSA (South African National Space Agency) yesterday using terms like “launch” and ”local scientific research sector” at free will. She even went so far as to say a decade from now South Africa would be a thriving space nation. Let’s look at some of the pros and cons of Mzansi in orbit.
God, some headlines just write themselves. Happy Friday, by the way. PETA member and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee has angrily written SeaWorld protesting their apparent use of killer whale Tilikum as a “chief sperm bank,” collecting ‘deposits’ with “a cow’s vagina filled with hot water.” What happened, Tommy Lee? You used to not be crazy.
It’s the Premier Show on Friday this morning, ladies and gentlemen.
And it’s pretty much a feast of fashion on the show this morning, not least because we have GQ South Africa’s Best Dressed Man and a Rupert Everett dopleganger on the mics this morning. No sir.
Prince Charles’ Car Attacked [image:source] Prince Charles’ Car Attacked During Protest – A car containing Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall has been attacked amid violence after MPs voted to raise university tuition fees in England. A window was cracked and their car hit by paint, but the couple were unharmed. In angry scenes, […]
Every now and then I drop one of these public service announcements, because I love you and you should know about them. Love is an action, not an emotion, okay?
Think about that. I’m acting out my love for you.
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…
I remember when we were kids my parents used to take us horse back riding and one time I fell and broke my arm. Another time a filly bit my sister’s shoulder. She was never the same after that. I’m so glad my parents found that horse farm outside Kimberley and never had YouTube and never saw what they do with their kids in Russia.
The face of news is changing on a daily basis. It really has to. For as long as people have communicated, the basic premise of news has been one person asking another, “Tell me something new and interesting.” One person’s “new and interesting” may not be another’s news. News24 is very aware of this fact.
Watch the video – it should bring you up to speed. Oh, animated Taiwanese news clips. You educate, you entertain, you sort of fail to make sense despite sticking to the facts. What can’t you do? Are you free for lunch some time? Coffee, maybe?
Yes, I know that headline sounds like something you should be thinking about whilst in a dark room with a towel, but it’s actually rather funny. Sabine Schmitz takes CAR magazine’s Juliet McGuire around Zwartkops in a matte-black M3 Frozen Edition.
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.
On the whole, I am a fan of living in the future; video-phone calls, makin’ sheep immortal, that whole schtick. Except every now and then, slightly disturbing developments crop up, and I’m forced to consider a future where this is much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and zombies. Case in point: you can replace missing arms with robot tentacles.
Kim Jong Il’s thousand yard stare is known from all four corners of the earth. His enemies tremble before it, his friends allow it to fill them with the glory of ages past, and the certain hope of yet more to come. Our Dear Leader, as we like to call him (some us even get to call him Special K, but hey, each to his own, right?) enjoys staring at things. We should enjoy staring at him, staring at things.