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Cape Town Rules
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Entries Open For First Friday Done Jack’s Way Of 2012 – Eat Like A Food Critic
14 Jun 2012 by silverstreak / No Comments
Hear ye, Hear ye! If you didn’t get the the memo, Friday Done Jack’s Way is BACK! To that end, this is the call to entry for Friday Done Jack’s Way, Friday 22 June 2012. Ready? And GO! This one’s a goodie so listen up. With Cape Town firmly in the grip of winter, there [...]
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Friday Done Jack’s Way – The Movement Is Back
08 Jun 2012 by silverstreak / No Comments
Did you just get a little shiver up your spine? I did. I really did. Do you remember that amazing time that we shared together last year? I remember it, so fondly. I really do. We were building something, something good, something great – a movement. A movement based on the premise that no one [...]
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Cape Town Named SA’s Boozing Capital, Western Cape Booziest Province
15 Mar 2012 by Matt McDonald / 1 Comment
The Department of Health has released the results of a study completed earlier this year that paints a grim picture of both Cape Town and the Western Cape’s rampant use and abuse of alcohol. Long story short, the study concludes that Cape Town is South Africa’s drunkest city, and the Western Cape its booziest province. Er, yay?
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50 Capetonians Answer The Same Question On Valentine’s Day [VIDEO]
17 Feb 2012 by Steyn du Toit / 1 Comment
Jade Adami and Mat Gardner, on behalf of Little Big Productions, recently asked 50 Capetonians the same question. They then compiled and edited all the footage into this huggable video – uploaded to YouTube on Valentine’s Day. But what was the question? There’s only one way to find out…
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Nevermind Denzel And Ryan, Check Out Cape Town In New ‘Safe House’ Trailer [VIDEO]
04 Nov 2011 by Matt McDonald / 3 Comments
Remember a few months back when the local rags were full of news about Hollywood stars, Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington seen out and about in the Mother City filming an upcoming action flick? Well, check out the fruit of those labours after the jump!
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Coldplay Record A Little Cape Town Souvenir
11 Oct 2011 by Matt McDonald / 6 Comments
Cape Town Tourism chiefs are grinning from ear to ear this week as they smugly proclaimed that just after filling Greenpoint stadium last Wednesday night, UK alt rock sensation Coldplay applied to the City authorities to record a new music video in and around the Mother City, as well as in the Klein Karoo.
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A Note To All The Companies Using Private Numbers
26 Sep 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 7 Comments
I don’t answer private numbers. Nor do a lot of people I know. But a lot of them haven’t reached my elite level. The “elite communicator” level is where you find yourself when you have absolutely zero curiosity as to who might be calling. You’re over it. You’re so far gone, that you only answer [...]
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Nedbank – ‘Make Nothing Happen’
29 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments
A strange number has appeared on the screen of my phone, twice a day, every day this week. I left it – as I do most phone calls – because I was/am usually doing something at the time. And even if I’m doing nothing, that does qualify as doing something these days. My voicemail message [...]
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Jack Friday – We Have A Winner! But Will We Be Able To Liberate Them?
05 May 2011 by silverstreak / No Comments
That is correct. We have a Jack Friday winner! The Princess Emma – Winning! We know who you are. Tomorrow, we’re coming for you, and we’re getting you on a yacht, and we can do it nice and easy-like, or the hard way. That’s all up to your boss. So employers of Cape Town. Ready [...]
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The 2oceansvibe Jack Friday Table Mountain Experience
04 May 2011 by silverstreak / 3 Comments
Alright, boys and girls. Brace yourselves. Over a month ago, 2oceansvibe and Jack Daniels combined forces to bring you Jack Friday. Jack Friday is the logical culmination of 2oceansvibe’s ongoing efforts to have Friday afternoon working hours abolished. (Read the extensive history at your own leisure, here.) So what did we do? We staged a [...]
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Jack Friday Strikes Back – Spend This Friday On A Luxury Yacht
03 May 2011 by silverstreak / 2 Comments
This coming Friday afternoon (6 May) you could be working – or you could be chilling with four of your friends on a yacht, moored off Clifton 4th Beach, with great food, great drink, and great music – in absolute comfort.
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The Rebellion Starts: Win Your Own Office Jailbreak, This Friday
31 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
How many of you caught the story, posted earlier in the day, about a Cape Town advocate who swore at a Cape Town High Court judge, and stormed out of the court room? Look, in no way do we condone his behaviour. Insulting references to another man’s female relatives, most especially The Mother, should never [...]
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The Open Letter In Today’s Cape Times – To The Employers Of South Africa
29 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 4 Comments
We’ve been contacted by a number of you who cannot get hold of a Cape Times and wish to read the open letter that we published today. No problem – here it is. Time to grow up a bit people. You shouldn’t be treated like a child. You’re better than that.
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Extend Your Weekend With These Convenient Sick Notes
25 Mar 2011 by silverstreak / 2 Comments
Yep, that’s right. We’re not screwing around. You don’t perchance recall this little announcement made earlier in the day? Well here’s the first of many benefits to come to you as part of the Jack Friday campaign (formerly known as the 2oceansvibe Campaign For The Abolition Of Friday Afternoon Work Hour Tyranny). Download these sick notes and submit them to your boss on your return to work on Tuesday morning.
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A Critical Development In 2oceansvibe’s Call For Ammended Friday Work Hours
25 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
You’ll have seen from the numerous banners on the site that we’ve embarked on a campaign here at 2oceansvibe to liberate the people of Cape Town from the tyranny of Friday afternoon work hours. A critical development has arisen, ladies and gentlemen, and we invite you all to read on.
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2oceansvibe’s Overtures To The Mayor Are Snubbed
18 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Hear ye, hear ye! Today is Friday. You know what that means. That means that we knock off at 12h00. Do you know why we knock off at 12h00? Because we’re not lying to ourselves. “I”M NOT LYING TO MYSELF.” You shouldn’t either. No one is working productively after 12h00 on a Friday afternoon. The [...]
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Add Your Voice To The Groundswell: Sign This Petition Against Friday Afternoon Work Hours
11 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 20 Comments
Gang, we’re facing a serious problem. It affects our daily happiness. It affects our ability to be effective human beings. I’m talking about the creeping, evil tendency for wolves among us to insist on work commitments on Friday afternoons. Or on Fridays at all. Don’t these people value life? Look, I’ve talked extensively about this [...]
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READ THIS: The Cape Town Friday Rule – A Reminder
09 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 7 Comments
Almost four and a half years ago a penned an angry missive in an effort to educate the tiny percentage of the population who didn’t know already that ‘work’ related activity on Friday afternoons in Cape Town (should be everywhere) does not happen. Let’s repeat that that for those of your whose minds are exploding at this point. Together now. Breathe in, and hold it, and… “Work does not happen on Friday afternoons in Cape Town.” Click through for an important announcement.
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Cape Town Named Second Best Beach City In the World
26 Jan 2011 by Marty VDB / 1 Comment
In it’s 2011 Traveller’s Choice Awards, Lonely Planet has named Cape Town the second best beach city in the world. Who was first? Barcelona. So we don’t feel too bad. We’ll take second, ahead of Rio, Sydney and a whole bunch of US cities.
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“Phone Calls Are For Emergencies” – TechCrunch
16 Nov 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
For something that started out as a ‘movement,’ has now manifested itself into an overwhelming crescendo of consensus. Random phone calls are OVER. In her article entitled, ‘The Phone Call Is Dead,’ Alexia Tsotsis from Tech Crunch touched on a few of the indisputable points that 2oceansvibe has been giving for the last few years.
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PleaseShutUp.com Joins The Revolution
15 Nov 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
A genius new website has launched which seems to be in full support of a cause that 2oceansvibe has championed for many years. PleaseShutUp.com clearly and humorously outlines the grossly antisocial, selfish and ridiculous behaviour found in modern day society – that of making and receiving random unplanned and unexpected phone calls.
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The New 2oceansvibe Didn’t Take One Phone Call To Develop
15 Oct 2010 by Seth / No Comments
There seems to be a lot of people still addicted to phone calls of late – desperately wanting to cover detail which has/could’ve been discussed and confirmed in email. So here we are – stuck between people who have progressed, and others who have replaced the phone cord with what seems to be an invisible umbilical cord. Which brings us to the new 2oceansvibe website – listen to this..
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Dilbert’s Scott Adams Agrees: Wireless Voice Calls Are Obsolete
01 Oct 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
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 [...]
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A NOTE ON CALENDAR INVITES
09 Sep 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Just a quick one to the people out there who are just learning about calendar invites on their computers. You know, the function in Outlook (on PCs) and Entourage/Mail (on Macs) that let’s you create an appointment in your calendar, with an invite that sends to other people involved in that meeting. Thing is this, [...]
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