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A normal day in Africa

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Interesting Fact

Did you know that, the words”race car” spelled backwards still spells “race car”?

And that “eat” is the only word that, if you take the first letter and move it to the last, spells its own past tense, “ate”?

And if you rearrange the letters in “African National Congress,” and add just a few more letters, it spells: “Shut the fuck up you free-loading, progress-blocking, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking, violent and hypocritical racists, and deal with the fact that you are wrecking your very own country with your corruption and nepotism and lack of accountability and that you cannot run a piss-up in a brewery, never mind something as simple as a municipality.”

Now isn’t that interesting?


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Monday Morning Smile: Only in the Cape……lovely story

From Eric Sommer :

 

Only South Africans can appreciate this story (or those who’ve lived here a long time)

On Sunday I popped down to  the local convenience store at the Engen service station to return  some DVDs and pick up a few things.  On the way I passed a scrap metal cart  being pulled by a donkey.  Whenever I see this sight I feel the same as I  do at the scene of a car accident – I really, really don’t want to look  but some awful compulsion always makes me have a quick glance to ascertain  the state of the poor beast of burden.

I was standing in the check-out queue waiting to pay when my  attention was drawn by a sudden burst of noise and activity outside on the  forecourt. Through the window I saw that donkey and cart were pulled up  alongside the pumps for “refuelling”.  The donkey had its nose in the  watering can generally used to top up cars, and the cart passenger was swabbing  down the poor creature’s sweaty flanks with the squeegee thing usually used  to clean windscreens and score a  bigger tip.  The driver and passenger were having an extremely loud and  colourful conversation, none of which I could understand apart from the “voks” and  “jou ma” comments, but which must have been extremely funny judging by  the toothless guffaws.

The terrible misuse of the squeegee caused one of the (bored and  almost lifeless) pump attendants to amble across lethargically to this  comic tableau and confiscate the item.  There followed an  incomprehensible diatribe accompanied by lots of hand gestures which ended with the  attendant shambling reluctantly back to the cashier window and mumbling a  long story, at which the cashier shrieked indignantly and told him  “nee man, hulle moet vok off”.  She then explained to her intrigued audience that  the donkey would only move away from the pumps if it was given some  apples.

It seemed obligatory to  donate the bag of apples I had just purchased for my son.  This was met  with huge toothless grins, much bowing and God Bless You Merrems.  As  I returned to my car I had the happy honour of over-hearing the donkey  being told loudly that it must be the “most vokking fency-schmency blerrie  vokking perd on the whole of the  Cape-Flats, eating epples from vokking  Woolwurths”.

 


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25 Jeremy Clarkson Quotes

1. “I’d like to consider Ferrari as a scaled down version of God.”

2. [On the Porsche Boxster] “It couldn’t pull a greased stick out of a pig’s bottom.”

3. [When driving the Mercedes SLR McLaren through a tunnel] “When they debate as to what the sound of the SLR engine was akin to, the British engineers from McLaren said it sounded like a Spitfire. But the German engineers from Mercedes said ‘Nein! Nein! Sounds like a Messerschmitt!’ They were both wrong. It sounds like the God of Thunder, gargling with nails.”

4. “I’m sorry, but having an Aston Martin DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch.
If you’ve got even half a scrotum it’s not going to happen.”

5. “Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you.”

6. “Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what… being stabbed?”

7. [On Detroit] “God may have created the world in six days, but while he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place.”

8. “Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would.”

9. [On the Renault Clio V6] “I think the problem is that it’s French. It’s a surrendermonkey.”

10. [On the Enzo Ferrari] “I rang up Jay Kay, who’s got one, and said: “Can we borrow yours?” and he said, “Yeah, if I can borrow your daughter, because it amounts to the same thing.”

11. [On the Porsche Cayenne] “I’ve seen gangrenous wounds better looking than this!”

12. “The air conditioning in Lamborghinis used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw.”

13. “Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off.”

14. “If you were to buy a BMW 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends’ houses so they don’t see its backside.”

15. “That [Pagani] Zonda, really! It’s like a lion in orange dungarees. Kind of fierce, but ridiculous all at the same time.”

16. [On a Chevrolet Corvette] “The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!”

17. [On the Alfa Romeo Brera] “Think of it as Angelina Jolie. You’ve heard she’s mad and eats nothing but wallpaper paste. But you would, wouldn’t you?”

18. “A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.”

19. “This is a Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that’s much to shout about. That’s like saying ‘Oh good, I’ve got syphilis, the best of the sexually transmitted diseases!’”

20. “In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled – usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was.”

21. [On the Mercedes CLS55 AMG] “It sounds like Barry White eating wasps.”

22. “I’d rather go to work on my hands and knees than drive there in a Ford Galaxy. Whoever designed the Ford Galaxy upholstery had a cauliflower fixation. I would rather have a vasectomy than buy a Ford Galaxy.”

23. “Usually, a Range Rover would be beaten away from the lights by a diesel powered wheelbarrow.”

24. “Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It’s like making a hardcore adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You’d just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke’s sweaty face.”

25. “I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?”


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Brain dropping

If I had a beer for every time I got distracted, I wish I had a puppy.


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Buffalo Herd Theory

One of my all time favourites and so true