There is a lot you can do with an iPhone these days and there is a lot that Australians will do for a beer or two. Not too long ago those clever buggers even invented a pair of slip slops that could open a beer. Naturally, they have now merged their love of beer with their iPhones.
Moscow’s mighty 10-lane Ring Road is famous for rather large volumes of traffic, and this morning was no different, except that this morning, fake money was responsible for the chaos. Russian radio station Echo Moskvy reported that scores of drivers hurriedly left their vehicles during peak hour traffic to gather what looked like 1000-ruble notes.
Just when it appeared that American moral fabric couldn’t get any worse, it did. Donna Simpson already holds the honour of being the Guinness Book Of Records’ fattest woman to ever give birth. Now she’s after the record for the world’s most obese woman. Did we mention she gets her daughter to feed her? Can you say child abuse?
Yesterday, police in Australia’s New South Wales state were handed more authority to remove burqas and other face coverings to identify potential criminal suspects. The move follows the recent case of a Muslim woman who was acquitted after a judge ruled her Islamic veil made a positive identification of her impossible.
Loyiso will be dropping by the 2oceansVibe Radio studios for a chat with Rich Hardiman and Lindsay Williams, hosts of The Morning Meeting about his new show, “Life and Times”. You can tune in live online by going HERE. Or you can listen on your phone by going to www.2ov.fm (on your phone). Loyiso stole the […]
Police in Chetumal, Mexico, have said they have caught a woman who was trying to smuggle her common-law husband out of a prison in a suitcase, following a conjugal visit. Judging by the photograph that has been released to accompany the incident, the prisoner hadn’t even put his clothes back on after the romp.
A fair portion of the smartphone market in this country belongs to BlackBerry, because unlike the rest of the world, we still pay rather exorbitant data fees to the carrier firms that run the market. And free messaging is like, so cool. Not internationally though, where BlackBerry maker, RIM, is in a serious make-or-break space.
If you take a little stroll down to your local market, you can pick up anything from a pair of Mikes (fake Nikes) to a pair of Maddibas (fake Adidas) to the best real fake Rolex you’ve ever seen. It’s now only a matter of time before you can pick up a new secretary, wife or girlfriend as well.
A female mayor from Davao City in the Philippines has punched a court sheriff, in front of numerous TV cameras, because the sheriff insisted on demolishing 200 shacks despite her request for a two-hour delay. She’s since been told by her husband to take leave for five days while the Department of Interior and Local Government investigates.
The Australian women’s football team, the Matildas, have recorded their first win in the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2011 after they defeated Equatorial Guinea 3-2 in their second Group D match in Bochum, Germany, on Sunday. Fortunately, a bizarre handball moment that occurred during the match didn’t go all Thierry Henry on them.
Come on, you all know what we’re referring to in that headline. It’s just a little bribe and you’re done. In there. RICA sorted. It’s actually hardly surprising, but it deflates the high we all experienced with the relatively hassle-free event that was reported in a lot of the mainstream media.
The twins officially launched their second studio album today, Running To Midnight, and with that, a rather interesting music video for one of the new singles – Stars Above You. The video is pretty well executed and features a rather intense looking Siberian Husky.
With team names like Hell’s Angelfish and Gold Fusion, it was always going to be hard to take this seriously. So, as we strike the hour that is the Cape Town Friday Rule, we bring you human torpedo racing. Think of the scene in Zoolander when Derek and Hansel and the boys spray petrol everywhere. Brace yourselves.
The Chinese often find ingenious ways of rectifying problems, but they’ve gone too far this time. A badly doctored image of government officials inspecting a new road in Huili, a modest county in a rural corner of south-west China, has produced some exquisite viral images indicating the public’s displeasure with being lied to.
8 bit Invader (maping) from Darkfejzr on Vimeo.
A projection mapping by the Czech designer Pavel Novák turns the façade of a university building into a mash-up of 80’s video games – running the gamut from Pac-Man to Space Invaders. It’s called 8-bit Invader. The initial screening was for the 5th anniversary of Tomas Bata University’s department of visual arts in Zlín, Czech Republic.
There is nothing worse than a wailing infant. It has to rank up there with one of the most irritating sounds known to humans. And when you’re paying a cool R70 000 for a return ticket to travel in a first class suite aboard an Airbus A380, you certainly don’t need to hear a baby crying.
The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) is seriously considering expanding the taxi industry to cover further modes of transport, including buses, trains and aeroplanes. There is no word on what the airline, due to take to the skies in November, would be called, but there is the very obvious question of: “Where would the gatjie sit?”
Personally, I took Shakespeare as more of an opium den kind of a guy, but I’ve been wrong before and I’ll be the first to admit that. Anyway, a South African anthropologist from Wits University has set in motion a request to open the graves of William Shakespeare and his family to determine, among other things, what killed them.
Here, at 2oceansvibe, we are quite familiar with some of the unusual pat-downs that the American Transportation Security Association (TSA) has conducted, but this one is surely the most controversial yet. They actually said they had identified something “wet and firm” and that they needed to remove the diaper to complete their checks.
The elimination of runners for injured players, the use of two new balls from each end in one-dayers, and new regulation around when the batting and bowling Powerplays can be taken, are among the key recommendations the ICC Chief Executives’ Committee has made after its meeting in Hong Kong.
The infamous red leather jacket worn by the deceased king of pop, Michael Jackson, in his renowned Thriller video, has sold this weekend at an auction in California, for $1.8 million. That is a cool R12.4 million at today’s exchange rate. The jacket also boasts Jackson’s signature on the one sleeve.
South Africa’s first ever reality television porn show appears to have gone limp halfway through the auditions because broadcasters are reluctant to ‘excite’ the public. Although South Africans are generally fans of reality television, it’s hardly surprising that the conservative forces have decided to pass on a deal to air the show.
Anderson Cooper is your classic American television news presenter. He could’ve been an old guy with grey hair doing expensive wrist watch adverts, but he’s not. Instead, he’s one of CNN’s better journalists and his confidence grew exponentially after he went to report on the Egyptian revolution. His social commentary is also getting funnier too.
It’s bizarre enough when a person is declared dead for whatever reason, but then somehow miraculously wakes up from this death to surprise everyone. Obviously, it isn’t the kind of thing that happens very often. Now, a Russian woman has had a heart attack at her own funeral upon waking up and seeing the mourners that were attending it.
We’ve been following the developments of the Greek financial crisis closely here at 2oceansvibe. What’s more is that dogs have been absolutely killing it this year and so we bring you, Loukanikos, who has hated Greece’s austerity measures, corrupt politicians, and the plight of the Greek people since 2008.
The pilot probably already knows this, but now we know too. He will have to go and warm his own chicken or beef whenever he flies now. He was having a go at flight attendants, and referred to them as a “continuous stream of gays and grannies and grandes,” according to a transcript of the March 25 flight over Texas.
Sometimes talent is just so gobsmackingly obvious that you cannot prevent the inevitable from happening. This talent will rise to the top, similar to the best cut of steak at a braai – everyone will notice it and make a comment. The young lad made this appearance after winning the World Junior title in the under-10 division 12 years ago.
Some of the British media decided to lambaste Gordon Ramsay for tweeting a few photo’s of himself engaging in the act of planking yesterday. If one ignores the love-hate relationship Ramsay shares with the British media, then he actually pulled off quite a funny plank on the engine of a Gulfstream G4 jet.
This week we have seen two interesting reasons why the information bill, in its current form, needed amending. We learned of South African sniper weapons in Libya, and we have now learned of the many millions Gauteng tax payers will likely fork out for the lack of passengers using the Gautrain.
So Nonhle Thema – from Vuzu reality show Nonhle Goes to Hollywood, and the former face of the Dark and Lovely brand – seems to be having a bit of a freak-out on Twitter. She’s eager to tell everybody that she is “young and RICH……….LOL…..DEAL WITH IT PLEASE…” Over and over again.