I think we can safely say that the Howard Centre in Pinelands is as exciting as waiting in the queue at Home Affairs, so when this old chap appeared infront of me at Pick n Pay I was stunned. Have we found the hive leader?
I have feared this for years. What happens if one day you switch off the television, but the McDonalds logo is still burnt into the back of your corneas, and it won’t go away until you buy the Biggest Mac that there ever was? Well, that day is today friends. Sort of. Once in a theatre in Germany.
The Silly Season is no better on display than in the hub of silliness, Camps Bay. Our brothers and sisters from the north have arrived, with their vests and muscles and costume jewelry. It’s quite beautiful to watch, my china! I took a little video clip of the action and you just won’t believe what I caught on tape, cycling past.
Well, obviously. It does most weekends. Mostly it talked about don’t-ask-don’t-tell being repealed, which is splendid – but I was focusing more on what was being said about bikes. Bikes and cars. Bikes and cars and pedestrians, and their relationship to one another. The word ‘prawn’ was implied, but not quite stated.
If you’ve ever been on a sports tour you’ll know there’s always one person who lifts the spirits of the squad. Graeme Swann is ‘that guy’ in English cricket and he’s called on fans to vote for him as the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. We have the hilarious video diary where Swanny shows us life on an Ashes tour. Awesome vibe.
You know that phrase ‘they put their pants on the same way we do?’ Well unless you dress yourself by doing a backflip, this doesn’t apply here. Please watch this stunt reel if you want to be inspired by the heights of badassery humanity can reach, or depressed by how much more badass than you this guy is.
Unicycling has arguably been around since there have been wheels and chairs. That’s just science. Charity has been around for a pretty long time too. So it’s fitting that these two ancient disciplines would come together in the Counter Balance ‘Freedom Revolution Tour,’ which is raising funds to provide disadvantaged school kids with shoes.
Brendan Venter would never have imagined how quickly his ‘protest’ would catch on. After giving one of the most memorable sports interviews in recent times, the source of his inspiration has been established. Mike Bassett: England Manager was a movie that he had watched on the team bus travelling to Gloucester. And we have the script for you after the jump.
Air New Zealand has cut a scene from its in-flight safety video, which showed All Black centre Richard Kahui reject a kiss from a male flight attendant. Their reason: such a scene has the potential to cause gay suicides and substance abuse. Outrageous slippery slope. [VIDEO].
There are few things better than watching minor natural disasters from the comfort of your own home/office/wherever the hell you’re watching this from. Granted, the Metrodrome is about as significant to me as the International Hopscotch Court, but watching the roof cave in from the past week of snow is pretty rad.
This is teetering on a hellish crossroads of genius, insanity, chemically-altered states of being, and too many concussions in the space of one life time. Brendan, what are you doing? What’s your secret? How? Why? As you’ll see from this video, these are all very good questions. Very good, very good, good questions.
So summer’s here folks. I’m not sure if you’ve been noticing the incremental increase in temperature, the gradually lengthening days, the proliferation of billionaires on yachts off of Clifton – the usual tell tale indicators that a change has been effected in the seasons. And you know what? Maybe, just maybe its time you learned to surf
Recent medical studies have indicated that a high number of hours spent on a cycling saddle per week is likely to lower your semen count.
Not all bad news, that is if we’re all aiming to be like Lance and Live Strong (read: sterile).
South Africa predicted it would generate £570million from the 2010 Fifa World Cup. Experts also expected 450 000 supporters to attend the tournament. In both cases the predictors were well wrong. Many SA-based companies also failed to exceed expectations. That White Elephant argument was never going to go quietly.
Alan Pardew is the bookies’ favourite to take over as manager of Newcastle United after Chris Hughton was sacked last week. Now, for some that may not be a bad thing, but let’s just say I never quite saw him in the same light after I’d heard him say on Match of the Day that Michael Essien “absolutely RAPED” Manchester City’s Ched Evans. True blunder.
Ricky Ponting and his team have every reason to feel decidedly morbid. Yesterday’s annihilation has brought a collective grumble from local newspapers that have likened the national side to a “toothpick trying to derail a speeding bullet train.” There have even been calls for Shane Warne to drop the commentary mic and grab the kookaburra. Desperate times.
With the year rapidly drawing to a close there are various sporting awards handed out. Richie McCaw scooped the IRB player of the year award for an unprecedented third time last week, but now the lads at Keo.co.za have presented their own: The 2010 Keo.co.za Awards. Prepare yourselves for some heavy analysis and jocular categories!
The Italian Football side did it for D&G. Helen Mirren et al did it for a local hospital in the movie Calendar Girls. Now, UCT’s MC Marais XV have stripped off for charity and an annual tour. Ladies and Gentlemen (although this one is definitely more for the laydeez), I present the 2011 MC Marais Naked Calendar:
Two cricket enthusiasts are following the Ashes a little more closely than the rest of us. They’re using the power of social media and ‘vlogging’ (video + blogging) to promote their series, ‘Two Pricks At The Ashes’, where they travel around the stadiums, chatting to sweary fans, parodying the players and soaking up the vibe. Stellar idea. [VIDEO]
Beyond R.E.M. sleep there’s the Nedbank Golf Challenge Coma. Both enjoyable. Both now available since with rugby season officially over (the Barbarians game is a circus) we’re all forced to venture into unchartered waters this weekend and tune in to golf. Or ‘Africa’s Major’ as they call it.
If you read between all the English dejection after they were foiled by Fifa for the second time in 2010, you’d have noticed that Qatar was cockahoop that they’d won the rights to host the World Cup in 2022. The proof is in the pudding: these guys have plans to create the most irie stadiums ever. Think Cape Town’s is awesome? Check these badboys out.
The seventh annual Wavescape Surf Film Festival is upon us, girls and boys. To avoid missing out on the event that will undoubtedly set the scene for a most successful summer, click through. We promise you good news, and very, very pretty pictures.
Spotting a prawn in full attire with a helmet on, in a public place, will alarm even the most relaxed individual. But imagine how it felt for Nick H, as he wandered through Media24’s reception area and was presented with THIS! In his own workplace! Poor thing. The irony of the ‘No Firearms’ sign (a […]
It was just the other day that someone sent out a tweet, asking the difference between the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate and another event involving horses. I scoffed at the notion, adding that it was akin to comparing chalk and cheese. But not just any cheese – I was referring to a rich blue stilton cheese […]
I love Twitter. You know why? Because some sportsmen and women speak their minds instead of regurgitating cliche’s from the “Sportsmen and Women’s Book of Hackneyed Ways to Respond to Interviews”. KP once referred to the ECB as a bunch of muppets in a tweet. Now he is having a go at the Adelaide groundsmen ahead of Friday’s second Ashes test.
Singapore’s national water polo team is in a bit of trouble with the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts for their latest uniform design – which places the crescent moon and stars from the Singaporean flag right about where a crescent-moon-shaped part of the anatomy would be if they weren’t wearing anything.
South Africans have first hand experience of disappointment in World Cup bids after missing out in 2006 to Germany. England’s 2018 bid has seen nothing but controversy since then. Now the public broadcaster is climbing on the Bandwagon of Shame.
An American woman has unwittingly become the talk of the town on Twitter. Or should I say, the talk of thousands of Ashes followers. Of course we all know that the Ashes pits Australia against England in a 5-test match series; unfortunately this poor woman doesn’t even know what a wicket is. Tweedicament.
I must say that for all the cynicism surrounding recent Springbok performances, one overwhelming positive is that pundits are speaking their minds. However, after all the whingeing it’s time for some serious reflection and Jake White’s recent blog will take you through the key battles ahead of the biggest test match of the year at Twickers.
Want to waste some time in the office this morning? I have found the perfect procrastination tool. FIFA have released their shortlist for the best goal of 2010. There are ten candidates and all of them will leave you dribbling on your papers. All ten.