And when I say “SA”, I mean Saudi Arabia. Of course, I couldn’t possibly be talking about the South Africa “SA”. We don’t sever the spinal cords of our criminals. We send them to cooking school. But enough of such tom foolery. Where were we? Ah yes. Corporal punishment. You see, they’re quite keen on […]
My God, when we announced the Boschendal Cooling Towers competition, we didn’t expect anything this world class to appear! We asked you, the 2oceansvibe readers to send your best footage of the Athlone Cooling Towers (or, rather, the “Ladies of Athlone” – a title which I have NEVER heard before) going down last Sunday. Obviously […]
The Church Bans Vuvuzelas Pope Bans The Vuvuzela – The pope has banned faithful followers from bringing vuvuzelas to his public appearances on his UK tour next month. The controversial horns made famous by fans at South Africa’s World Cup in June, were among a number of banned items at Pope Benedict XVI’s events during […]
www.magicmomentsfc.com If you’re pining for a post-World Cup pickmeup, the fine men behind Magic Moments FC have it for you. The “A Team”, as they’re modestly called, are not only incredibly skilled at re-creating the greatest Football World Cup goals in history, but they’re also intelligent, smart, and devilishly good-looking. And you can be, too, […]
It is beyond me that something is not being done about the prawn epidemic on a government level. For something that started in the coffee shops of Cape Town, to have spread across the globe as far as Japan, London, Venezuela and Putney, I think the urgency of the matter could never be greater. Especially […]
James: Doesn’t take hints well Every now and then Bond movies get a little bit carried away with themselves, and throw the baby out with the bath water. The baby would be logic, and the bath water would be narrative. Remember Quantum of Solace? Or the airport scene from Live and Let Die? Remember any […]
That’s right – you and one other person could be indulging in one of the year’s most anticipated lingerie event! The Cosmopolitan Lingerie Fashion Show – 26 August, 19h30, Upper East Side, Woodstock. You want to be there. You NEED to be there! That’s where you wanna be.. The September cover The Lingerie special – […]
Tiger Woods and family – when he wasn’t banging cocktail waitresses Tiger And Elin Finalise Their Divorce – After months of speculation, the marriage between sex robot Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren Woods is officially over: The couple were present on Monday for the execution of their divorce agreement. The settlement was undisclosed, but varying […]
We picked up this video on PopYaCollar, featuring La Muse backstage at Cape Town Fashion Week! Check it out: Very cool! And well done to verster-cohen photography for doing the vid!
Word is afoot that a film version of my all time favourite childhood comic, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is in the works, with the writers of the Iron Man franchise on the case. Although, whether this film will work for the generation that actually cared about the comic remains to be seen. After all, […]
Just when you thought the joke was about to get tired, someone brings out another Jay Z / Alicia Keys New York State Of Mind rip-off, and absolutely kills it! This one is to do with online entrepreneurs, “startups” and social media in general. It is so goddamn brilliant and funny I might urge you […]
The Guardian reports that an Italian soccer show, Quelli Che il Calcio (of course), has been used as a communications hub by the Mafia to communicate with the Men of Respect doing hard time in the chookie. You know those shows where illiterate viewers text in with their cell phones, and the show scrolls the […]
Judging my the number of emails I received, it seems that quite a number of you caught the FIN24 article about playing overseas lotteries and their legalities, here in South Africa. They featured a quote by me (lifted from a previous article I wrote, I assume), which confirmed that each and every 2oceansvibe Lottos winner […]
Van Gogh’s “Vade With Flowers” Stolen.. Faulty Alarms Blamed For Van Gogh Theft In Egypt – None of the alarms and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras were working at a Cairo museum where a Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen, Egypt’s top prosecutor said Sunday.Thieves made off with the canvas, known by the […]
NOTE: It was “videos” but is now just “video” as we have finally found the best footage possible! By all accounts the live footage of the Athlone Power Station Cooling Towers coming down left a lot to be desired. This was apparently due to the demolition people deciding to blow the towers up 4 minutes […]
Exxon Mobil positions it’s brand at the vanguard of innovating clean energy for the world. It has a clean, 21st century look. The employees on it’s corporate advertising posters are friendly, sharply dressed, multi-ethnic. It produces print advertisements in National Geographic like this: And they like to chat quite a bit about water on their […]
Feeling a little bit wonky… When their students aren’t quibbling over gay kissing, UCT and Stellenbosch University are waging beer war. And beer is most certainly worth waging war over. Consider these wise words of wisdom from greater men than I: “You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline […]
The Tables Have Turned.. Bull Leaps Into Crowd And Injures 40 People (Video) – A bull injured forty people on Wednesday in Spain when it jumped into the stands to attack the crowd at a bullring in the northern town of Tafalla. Raw video of the event posted online on Thursday showed the bull leaping […]
The Sun (the vanguard of high-integrity journalism in the United Kingdom) reported this morning that residents of a council estate in West York are being terrorised by monstrously-sized rodents. One man, known only as “Brandon” was the hero of the moment, after he shot one of the beasts twice in the head, thereby smiting it […]
Being a rapper is good for business. Or rather, “bidness, yo”. So much so that Forbes has compiled a list of the top ten highest-grossing rap artists of the last year, subtly titled “Hip Hop Cash Kings” And it goes somethin’ a little like THIS, fool.
The cover of the latest Rolling StoneAs seen on an iPad near you.. True Blood Fans Get It All – Just in case you didn’t work out what the real attraction for women is, when it comes to TV show True Blood, it’s the connection between teeth, blood and sex. I gotta say, I love […]
Online encyclopedia and paragon of humankind’s collective knowledge, WikiPedia, has proven it’s unbridled accuracy once again. Remember the story about WikiPedia referring to Sepp Blatter as a dickhead? And how the South African presidency made the fatal error of pulling that corrupted biographical info from WikiPedia and pasted it on their site? Well, we hope […]
Screw G.I. Joe, The A-Team are the quintessential All-American action heroes from the ’80s… destined to be everyone’s favourite crack commando squad of mercenaries from now until the end of time. I can tell… I had a Murdock action figure (don’t judge me). Action, adventure, comedy and mild peril… The A-Team had it all and […]
The greatest Canadian scourge since Brandon Huntley Celine Dion, Justin Bieber stirs grown men to panic. The vapid, androgynous, lesbo-chic music has taken the pubescent world by storm, and the boy girl with the pudding bowl kop chop seems to wield genuine power. As demonstrated by his latest foray into social networking, where he tweeted […]
The New Mini Takes Internet Radio Quite Seriously The 2011 Mini “Countryman” Takes Internet Radio Quite Seriously – BMW’s Mini brand is getting a little bigger soon, with the Countryman bringing a taller stance and some AWD to the party, but that won’t be the only exciting addition to the mix. The Countryman will be […]
Those of you who are Stellenbosch University Alumni may perhaps remember the annual “Soen in die Laan” (“Kiss in the Lane”) event, at which scores of students clench lips in a moment of heady abandon. Such a lovely Casablanca vibe, hey? Yeah, it is. Except…
It’s not everyday I follow in the footsteps of the 2oceansvibe Weather Girls – but I couldn’t resist the chance to shoot the breeze with Julz, who has previously featured the likes of Cape Town’s very own smoking hot sex kitten, Lyndall Jarvis on her show! And that’s before we even get into Julz herself […]
Remember the JetBlue flight attendant who pulled off the greatest self-termination of employment ever recorded?
A sketch of a liger Ligers Born In Taiwanese Zoo – A private zoo in Taiwan has become the island’s first to breed “ligers” – a hybrid of a lion and a tigress – but officials seized the cubs and said on Monday they may fine the owner. The three liger cubs were born on […]
Are you a business executive? Do you find yourself tempted to remain at work until the wee hours of the morning, churning out directional missives, illuminating memos and pep-rousing employee bulletins? You may be adding too much douche to your vocab. Not sure? Test yourself. Do you, or have you ever used one of these […]