Super Strikas

Not the comic as nothing is funny about thugs leaving babies to die.

We can't help but think that in this case the striking is more akin to blackmail of the worst kind than a geniune request for more money.

A person earning R10 000 will only get R160 extra on the 1.6% being fought over, so it will take a while to get back the R5000 they will be docked if on strike for two weeks. So what gives?

Of course COSATU is the main instigator, but they are also part of the Tripartite Alliance, which makes them playing on both sides - a clear conflict of interest if ever there was one.

What if they are flexing muscles in order to show the ANC who is boss? Can we even consider this? The strike as a cover to demand not more money for the workers they claim to represent, but to get more of a say in the policy decisions and economic direction of the country?

COSATU blowing their vuvuzela and shouting about the power they have from the top of the dung heap. Look what we can do, make the country ungovernable, kill innocent people, listen to us!

Truly scary, and a thought we think should be considered and perhaps become a parliamentary question - which will not happen as COSATU is not a political party but merely an alliance partner, perfect cover for getting away with the worst abuses without the responsibility.

Being on strike is one thing, but picketing and protesting while preventing volunteers from saving lives which you do not care for is something else altogether. Go home, but do not kill in the name of money.

Dangerous Shortcuts

Not the type that ends you up in Hillbrow, but that gets you fired... Consider driving to work along Republic and just as you pass the Brightwater Commons you happen to look up...

Look closely.

They did promise to get you more attention, but maybe not of this kind...

After 1976, it's a bit late for more

So, on 5 January 1976 the Powers That Be finally caved in and allowed television to be broadcasted freely, provided you were white.

Dstv came in only after apartheid ended and now finally, we will have a competitor for them as well.

I am not promoting them, but head over to ondigitalmedia.co.za (ODM) to see what they are about - they are the first to start challenging MultiRepeat.

Perhaps that is why the good folks over at Dstv started floating the idea of a dedicated porn channel, which I will promote, the more the merrier.

And before I get blasted, one of the licenses approved at the same time as ODM was for Walking On Water, a dedicated Christian service. So if you are too goody-two-shoes to admit peeking at the naughty now and then, you can switch over without having to froth at the mouth about paying extra to satisfy your carnal desires.

Now that I got that out of the way, what is your thoughts?

Would you switch over, considering that at half the cost you get as much?

FIFA Marketing Sucks

What is the Confederations Cup and what is it all about?

Which Confederation of what?

Read in the paper today that it kicks off sometime in the next week, surprise, surprise.

And then another article that compares the Confed Cup with the IPL promotion and marketing campaign which made the same point we have been spouting around the braai fires the past few weeks.

How quick did the IPL happen and how fast and good were the ads?

How long have we known about the Confed Cup and how much time has there been to prepare and promote it?

What little ridiculous promotion has been done?

All I remember is the one silly TV ad with the guys in cheap halloween masks scaring the kids with their dribbling ability.

And tonight a brand new one with stupid graphics and Joseph S. Blatter spouting crap about Telkom while you can see his eyes following the lines on the teleprompter.

The quality of some YouTube clips are better than the stuff they have come up with.

With the prices they charge for the matches we would actually like to see, we would have thought that they could at least hire someone with more than an attendance certificate in video 101 and access to a dictionary to look up what marketing and promotion means.

We do not want to blame it all upon whichever company they hired, but we do wonder who came up with the ideas and how they got approved.

Perhaps that is the problem? Brilliant ideas lying on the boardroom table while the lawyers haggle over the legalities of the soccer ball logo used on the proposal cover?

Maybe it will get better, but we are not holding our breath; and looking forward to the next IPL.

BEE en die Bybel

there has been talk about a sunset clause, about making the so-called born-free's exempt and various other ideas when a mention was needed in the press or political points to be scored.

but seeing that according to the lies we tell the Census people, just under 80% of the population is Christain, we would need to turn to another source to see what it says.

Genesis 4:15 '...Wie vir Kain vermoor, sal sewe maal gestraf word.'

of course, there is some interpretation and what it comes down to is that if you kill your brother you should/will be punished as well as your children and their children until seven generations has passed.

so if we believe that BEE is punishment or even not, brother killing went on during the Apartheid era. (brother in this case being another person, another human being with no regard to race or colour.)

thus the 'punishment' of BEE will have a specific end, not through the government, but a higher power and it cannot be regulated by the government either because the generational time frame would be different for each person who was guilty.

the unpopular implication is of course that thus BEE is also sanctioned in the bible and based upon biblical precedent.

just try and tell Pieter Mulder this one.

superfly?

is there a correlation between the size of brains and sunglasses? the smaller the former, the bigger the latter?

do they really think that they are superfly? in our estimation - yes, not in the good way, but actually looking like flies...

the phenomenon has been around for a few years so it is not a new thing, but has reached epidemic proportions and is getting ridiculous.

sure, Jackie O was the first to do so and she is also the most famous of big sunglasses wearers, but didn't she also once pose in Hustler? (not that we have an issue with risque' photos per se, just that she could have chosen Playboy and left it a bit more classy.)

and then we also have Paris Ho...

the reason why it bothers us so much is that the look is also quite reminiscent of battered woman trying to hide bruising - is that perhaps the reason? do they think it is cool?

how much neck pain do these poor lollipop-heads get from wearing them?

where is the line between so called cool and stupid?

and it is not just me that is posing the question, when you have some time out from doing more important stuff like flushing the loo, view the dedicated blog, it's that bad...

Headlights and Rain

It has been South African law for a few years now, and since 2006 also across most of the US.

Most modern luxury cars come with sensors to automatically switch the lights on when the rains come down, but some stupid fokkertjies still refuse to do so, or think they are being clever to only use their parking lights which are not bright enough.

The reason why this is such a issue for me is that there is still a lot of older cars on the road without demisters in the back and bakkies do not come with them either.

If you do not switch your lights on good and properly, you may not be seen.

Sure, you can look ahead and see and expect to be able to stop, but the person in front of you with a misted window cannot see you. And the tricky thing about driving into somebody else from behind?

According to the law, it is your fault, because you should have seen them.

What if you do not have enough space and aquaplane?

Still your fault because you did not make yourself visible enough.