Fancy? Sure! Intense? Big Time! ‘Fancy Intense’ Pink Diamond To sell For R250 Million – An exceptionally rare pink diamond ring is to be auctioned – and could fetch £24 million. The enormous 24.78 carat gem is cut into a rectangular shape with rounded corners, and mounted on a ring in between two clear stones. […]
I am in a state of shock as I write this. I was just trying to remind myself when the Killer’s debut album, Hot Fuss, was released and Wikipedia told me it was 2004! As in nearly seven years ago. I dared Wiki to try lying to me one more time but it promised me it was telling the truth. “Why would I lie?” it asked. I had no good answer.
Marmite, Mrs Balls Chutney, Iron Brew, and Tropica. These are the flavours of my childhood, and every now and then, a craving hits, and the inevitable binge ensues. I know, I disgust myself. Happily, I’ve been vindicated by science. Get a child hooked on your product in their formative years, and you’ve got them for life.
What an end to an up-and-down, stop-start Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor. The Europeans have won, despite an awesome American comeback in the singles matches. The class of the Irish shone through as Graeme McDowell held a remarkable putt on the 16th to seize the initiative from Hunter Mahan, who conceded on the 17th to hand Europe a memorable victory.
There’s a lot to be said for the emancipation of the modern female. We haven’t done all that badly. But there is one thing that a woman could never get right: “Female freedom – The Freedom to Pee Standing Up!” Well because you know, you don’t have real freedom until you can urinate in a bank queue.
Sky Sports golf reporter, Di Stewart (former girlfriend of Jonny Wilkinson), is flexing her golfing intellect from course side at Celtic Manor as the Ryder cup moves towards its finale.
A recent study has revealed what many of us have known for years. If you make an unholy grunting noise as you hurtle a tennis ball towards someone at 180km/h, their reaction times might be ever so slightly diminished.
Strange, but true.
That’s what they’re calling it over at itweb.co.za. Round these parts we call it ‘logical.’ So does Howard Stern, who is making the move from satellite radio over to internet radio. And so are a number of big players in SA! Not to mention MINI, who are launching the ‘Countryman’ soon, which comes with built-in Internet Radio!
Remember those days when there was nothing quite like the excitement you felt when arriving at an air show with your parents? Well Jaguar has managed to create that same fuzzy feeling with their C-X75 concept which was unveiled at the Paris Motor Show last week
Didier Drogba proved yet again to be the scourge of Arsene Wenger’s striplings. Incredibly, his deft backheel was his 13th goal in just 11 starts against the Gunners and it’s as plain as the nose on one’s face that he relishes playing against them. Arsenal were dragooned off the pitch once again by a Chelsea side that ran out 2-0 winners.
The PigSpotter has been getting a lot of media attention over recent weeks. The Mail & Guardian has nailed the most readable interview thus far, with a few moments of awkward email correspondence passive aggression.
“You talkin’ ta me?”
I can imagine that the big worry when divorcing a comedian is having your private life dragged on stage for the world to ridicule. Doubly so if your name is Annelise Holland and you’ve been caught cheating on your comedian husband less than a year after your wedding.
A similar question has been asked countless times amongst South Africans after we successfully hosted sport’s biggest mega-event. India is the second fastest-growing economy in the world and has had to spend £3bn to host the games, 60 times the original budget!
A friend of mine once responded to a proposal for a new type of TV cooking show, with, “yes, that’s a great idea – because that’s all we need right now – another cooking show.” He was being sarcastic, of course – as am I when I say that ANOTHER Harry Potter book is just what the world needs right now!
[leaps off balcony]
Heidi Klum Says Goodbye Heidi Klum Hangs Up Her Wings – After more than a decade of representing one of the sexiest and well-known brands on the planet, supermodel Heidi Klum is hanging up her angel wings. Klum will no longer be one of the faces of lingerie giant, Victoria’s Secret. “All good things have […]
I’ve been accused of choosing form over substance in my time. Vacillating between the timeless elegance of a 1960s Porsche Speedster over a 2009 Audi being the most recent example. While it didn’t, the timeless very nearly usurped the practical. (Implicit in this is that I couldn’t get both, which is a topic for another day.)
Boring FYI to anyone concerned with the daily drama that is Julius Malema, man-child extraordinaire:
One of the highlights of the Bobs For Good Spring Ball was the video of Dave Levinsohn breaking in to Bob Skinstad’s house and stealing his shoes. The organisers finally put the video up on the web so that you can see it too! Absolute hilarity – check it out! Those same shoes appeared on […]
Jinxed, much? Please, enjoy this photograph of the front page of the New Zealand Herald, dated Wednesday 29 September 2010. That’s unusually arrogant for an agriculturally-based society, isn’t it?
One of the worlds front-runners when it comes to social observation, Dilbert’s Scott Adams, has joined the groundswell tsunami of support for a change in how we communicate in the era. In particular, voice calls vs emails and SMS. Here at 2oceansvibe, we have written REAMS on it (here, here, here, here, here, here and […]
Tony Curtis 1925 – 2010 Tony Curtis Is Dead – In the wake of the sad news that Tony Curtis has died of a heart attack, fans and celebrities from various corners of Hollywood are paying their respects to this fine actor, true movie star, six-time husband and man who, courtesy of “Some Like It […]
ITWeb has reported that the FCC of America will be freeing up the vacant airways, or “white spaces” between between television channels, making them available for long distance, low frequency, ultra fast “Super WiFi”. So does this mean EVERYTHING web related gets an upgrade? If so, what could we expect? A few predictions:
There are two major reasons to discuss the new Gulfstream G6. Firstly, there is a Top 5 song in the US iTunes charts called “Like a G6” by a group called Far East Movement. And secondly, tomorrow’s jackpot for the SuperEna Lottery is EUR 150 Million (R1.5 Billion) – which is probably the only way […]
That’s because the first thing that headhunted potential employees ask themselves is, “Is this company a sinking ship?” And SA Rugby, the company, is a sinking ship.
You know, I gave a talk recently and in the powerpoint presentation was a screenshot of an article from 2007. The article happened to be 2oceansvibe’s annual declaration of the opening of summer. I noted the date – 17 September, 2007. My goodness but it came early that year! Not so three years later as […]
Qaddafi Goes To Hollywood – Libya’s business ties are coming under scrutiny today during a new hearing over the release of the Lockerbie bomber. But it seems the Qaddafis have even grander aspirations, making films starring Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, and Mickey Rourke. In the same way that the U.S. has been drawn to Libya […]
That’s if you’re living in the UK. Indeed, recently-conducted research (which is is of course always reliable; remember the Da Vinci Code?) has indicated that Britons between the age of the thirty and forty are the most unhappy group of people in the whole world. What’s there to be unhappy about?
The Other Guys, from the same actor/director duo that brought us Step Brothers, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Adam McKay and Will Ferrell sure know how to get a laugh, taking the seemingly ordinary, flipping it on its head and surgically removing the funny. If they […]
Andy and the gang from Smart About What pulled through to 2oceansvibe Radio the other day, to get the lowdown on internet Radio. It’s a fantastic video and, dare I say it, quite informative too! Check it out by clicking the image below: Our boy kicks off with: As a 20 something Cape Tonian Caucasian, […]
Tape: Doesn’t help Die Pompmasjien ry nog weer! Steve Hofmeyr, a South African “music artist” best known for extreme fertility singing Neil Diamond covers and accusing South Africans of lacking originality in the same breath, has proffered his cutting insight on yet another weighty topic.