All things considered...

Over the past 5 or so years, I have noticed how more and more people tend to "roll" stop streets, hell, some don't even bother to slow down. In fact, once I actually pulled someone off to tell them off, after getting the middle finger from them, and had to drop the drug overdosed bum with a single blow to the side of the skull with a baton. Either that, or he would have taken me apart limb for limb. Anyway, I digress.

So, in this time of continued power outages, many of the traffic lights are also out. You'd think that solar power would have reached this part of the world, wouldn't you? So, you should expect that people approach the "dead" intersection with a bit of caution, and at the very least slow down. Well not for this young lady, who it would seem bought her driving license from either Shaik, or Selebi ( or one of their cronies).

She didn't pause, or even slow down, in fact she didn't even bother to look left or right, just drove straight through!
She's young, blonde, female, stupid, and white! I add this because it's common knowledge that black women are the worst drivers, but it would seem they learn it from their madams.....!














If you know her - tell her to read this!

Salagatle!

Now isn't this just soooo true...

Thanx Seaman!

Salagatle!

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A colored guy is walking on the pavement down in Cape Town. At some point he meets up with this seriously bad looking dude, who looks like death warmed up, and decides he's not moving over for this human toilet, let that thing move out of his way!
So they walk into each other. Typically, the colored guy pulls a knife on his opponent, and the Bad looking dude says, in his best Darth Vader voice " Do you know who I am? I am the Prince of Darkness!!!!!) (Ross, this is your kind of story!) To which the colored guy replies "Yo, Bro, I always wanted to meet the CEO of ESKOM!"

(Hey, you have to be South African......)

Salagatle!

In times of need

With the ongoing blackouts, there are always dozens of traffic lights out, and this causes incredible traffic back up's, / jams, etc. The normal response, for the traffic officers world wide would be to man the most critical of intersections, and to try to get the traffic to flow. You'd think!

Not in good old Johannesburg, Oh No!!! Here, traffic jams are boom time for our traffic law enforcement officers! They man their speed trapping equipment, and try and catch you speeding - this when the average speed is between 3 and 5 km/h!!! Or, as was the case this morning on my route to work, they stand next to road, or on the island (or both) and pull you over for a) Not wearing your seatbelt, b) talking on your cellphone without a hand free kit.....! To make it worse this morning, it was the SAPS (South African Police Services) that were doing the dirty deed!!! You would think they would be out there trying to catch the smash and grab guys, or those bastards who rape and murder and steal (just because they are hungry) or some other heinous criminal!

Anyway, on Talk Radio 702, there were a lot of calls coming in from irate drivers complaining of similar situation. The presenter asked for listeners to take photos and send them in. Every time this issue comes up, and they discuss it with the Spokesman for the GJMC Metro police, he denies it. So, I took these photos, and will be sending this blog, along with the pics, to the radio station.

This occured on 14th Avenue, traveling from Roodepoort towards Cresta, just past the entrance to the MTN Head Offices. The traffic was backed up almost to Ontdekkers, and if anyone was on their cellphone it would have been to call the office after taking over 30 minutes to travel about 1200m!













SAPS member on his haunches next to vehicle he had pulled off.
















SAPS member can be seen on the island, with his back to the camera!

Salagatle!

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Load shedding (what kind of a name is that anyway - it's more like rolling blackout's, but I digress):-
Load Shedding’ is nie Eskom se idée om krag te bespaar nie…
Dis ‘n slinkse plan van die AWB om blankes te laat spyker en so Die Volk te laat groei – in plaas van om 7de Laan te kyk!
Werk asseblief saam!

For those of you who don't speak the language:-
Load shedding is not ESKOM's idea to save electricity.....
It's a claver plan from the AWB (LIU) to the the whites to copulate more often, and so increase the white population - instead of watching 7de Laan! (a local soapie - LIU)
Please let's all work together on this!

Salagatle!

The Princess is on a roll today

I THINK YOU'RE THE FATHER OF ONE OF MY KIDS...

A guy goes to the supermarket and notices an attractive woman waving at him. She says hello.

He's rather taken aback because he can't place where he knows her from. So he says, 'Do you know me?' To which she replies, 'I think you're the father of one of my kids.'

Now his mind travels back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to his wife and says, 'Are you the stripper from the bachelor party that I made love to on the pool table with all my buddies watching while your partner whipped my butt with wet celery???'

She looks into his eyes and says calmly, 'No, I'm your son's teacher.'















Salagatle!

ESKOM - It didn't take long

before the jokes started.... not that's it's funny you understand, but that's how humans deal with pain....

From the Princess:-











And from another source:-

Dear Electricity Consumer,

Just a little note to let you know we understand your anger in the
recent price hike & power cuts.
But it should be noted that you have no choice.
We are a big company and you will pay what we tell you.
You have no choice.
We have the power, you need the power.
So sad, too bad. Sucks to be you.
We have enclosed a little picture to help outline our response.
Have a nice day and keep those cheques coming, loser!
Regards
ESKOM



















Salagatle!

It's out there - all the time

Flirting.

Sitting at a coffee shop watching some people....

Yea, that thing you used to do as a young man / woman, flirting with the opposite sex (for some maybe the same sex, however, that don't count)! Just for fun, or to score - or maybe just because you could. Well, it's still out there, and both young and old still do it. All the time - flirting that is.

Why is that? To prove "you still have it". Can still turn a head, catch an eye? I wonder. Maybe it's just the way we are. In the animal world (them of four legs), the "hunt" is a never ending thing. Even those males who don't have a harem / pride / whatever, are always looking, trying to get it on. Birds are always doing the dance, building nests, getting them trashed.....

SO, maybe it's just in our makeup. Maybe it's supposed to be like that, and I suppose, if it does not lead you astray, it's ok.

But, for many it's more. It's going out to prove they can. Can get the other man / woman. Can break up that marriage / engagement / item. Maybe they can, but what then? If the 3rd party here can / will do it once, what's to say they wont do it again? I mean, how often does a secretary and her boss get it together, they leave their spouses, shack up / get married. She becomes the kept housewife (can't have the wife as a secretary) and 3 years down the line he's doing it with his new secretary?

So, back to flirting... (amazing how you can go off on a tangent all the time), it's done, and it's ok, as long as it's all in good fun. Keep an eye on it though, it could lead to serious trouble.

Salagatle!

Times are tough

Times are tough for everyone
No one now is spared
Even those who are wealthy
Can feel it, that despair!

For some it's just financial,
For other's, well it's more
About keeping body and soul together
Whilst the world around them roars

The planet is unstable, it's
Running on extremes
And everywhere you look
Are the remains of shattered dreams!

I know that time is changing
I know some will survive
What I don't know however
Is who will or won't arrive!

Salagatle!

As I inch

my way to 10,000 views, of which I suppose 8963 are my own visits here, I start to wonder at this blogging thing. For some time I have been writing stuff, which some other people have come to read and comment on.

You have to ask why? It's not that I write very well, or am amusing. It's not that I offer an intellectual opinion on anything, or that I am making offers of free TV's or money and stuff. Yet, my stuff gets read. It's great actually, it has given me a third dimention to my being. Yea, some of you reading this are thinking, ("Shame, what a lonely soul") or ("What the fuck is he talking about?").

Well, truth be told, I don't really know, other than I have had this thing to vent my anger through, and have written poetry (well it is to me) which I probably wouldn't have done if I didn't have this space to do it in.

I have been able to brag about my successes, and my family, and show off my family, and all this to strangers! Well, some of you are, most know who I am, but, be that as it may.... It's been great!

I will continue to write here, even if no one reads it anymore. It's my online diary, punching bag, space.....

And one day, I will be able to post my real name, and picture, without worrying about who can see it!

Salagatle

It's pretty obvious that

in Africa, things just work differently.
Take for example the racism thing. If a white person attacks / kills / robs / does anything to a member of another race, he/she is a racist. The news reports it a a racial incident, the tribes go on the march and demonstrate / picket / riot / burn... You get the gist of it. However, when it's a member of the white race who has been affected by a member of any other race, it's blamed on poverty, apartheid, etc.

In fact, a black guy who phoned in on 702 Talk Radio (LIU) this morning said:-
He's never met a racist black person! In fact, you can only be classified racist if you believe your race to be superior to any other, and only whites think that. Blacks don't.!

Can you believe this shit? I mean, his statement alone is racist, not that he would think so!!

Yesterday (or the day before) a 17 year old farmers son took his dad's .303 hunting rifle, walked into a neighboring squatter camp / township / area, and randomly killed 4 people, among them a 3 yr old and a 3 month old (I think - look it up if you want exact info here, their ages are unimportant to the message).

He has been arrested, along with his father who will / can be held responsible for not securing his firearms properly.

Now, immediately the news reported that there had been a racially motivated attack / killing. No one, none, mentioned that MAYBE this kid is mental! He might well have a psychological condition which, if nothing else, would make him not responsible for his actions. He might just as easily have done the same to a bunch of white people had he been in a town and not on the farm where his immediate neighbors were these black people. He may also have been reacting to an incident where he had been the victim! In fact, it came out this morning that he was arrested about 4 years ago for also killing / trying to kill by shooting, another black man.

Anyway, that black bastard who will break into your home, rape your wife and daughter, beat up your sons, shoot the dogs, piss in your fridge, maimed you, and then steal the TV - he;s not a racist, no, he's doing it because he's a product of the apartheid regime, and he's poor, and starving.

Come to my home bastard, I'll show you racism!!!!!

Salagatle!

Another day another

oh, what the hell.
Anyway, I think I mentioned in one of my previous posts that I had re met two of my old "girlfriends" on Facebook. In chatting to one of them, she reminded me that old years eve of 1980, we had a "date", we were supposed to meet at the circle. This was the hang out spot in Westonaria (LIU) at the time, the town that I grew up in. She also reminded me of the fact that she stood me up!! Now, like I really needed her to do that - remind me that is!

Had a good laugh, and then blamed her for the problems in my life since then! Oh, those were the good old days. I probably just went my way and got hammered again, as usual, not cause she stood me up, but because that's what I just always did.....

Salagatle!

Ok, so I capitulated

and bought this for the Princess, very pretty flower - indoor or out.....



















And while I was at the nursery, I also got these:-














CHILLIES!!!! Long tapered one's, bullet shaped one's, and those black one's!














And this plant, a cactus of sorts, I have a grey / green version, this one is blackish!














And these - one of each leaf type. Looks cool!

Salagatle!

Trivia from the Princess

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand .
And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'. (Are you doubting this?)
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this one.)
There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You're not doubting this, are you?)
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.' (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is.)
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.!)
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that also)
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that.)
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Now you know more than you did before!!

Salagatle!

Old friends

Over the past month I have "met" up with some old "friends"! Through Facebook, two friends have now found me, and we have "chatted" a bit on line. It's crazy to think how this damn thing is actually working! People you might not have given a second thought about in 30 years are still out there, and remember your name, and find you.

Well, if nothing else it brings back some good memories, i.e. not all that happened to me in my youth was all bad!

Not that it was, mind you, but it does enhance the good memories.
An interesting "group" is the one set up for the town I grew up in. Now there are a bunch of people I have never met, and many who, even though they enjoyed growing up there, will never go back! Interesting.....

And then some who must be the kids of those guys I used to hang with.... Boy, do I have some stories for them!!

Salagatle!

Truly we are now a banana republic

Not for one minute do I say that the "rolling blackout's" "load shearing / shedding" that is taking place in South Africa is not warranted. i fully understand and appreciate why this is happening, and why it is required.

BUT, and this IS a big but, to cut power to one town 3 times in one day is, as we say here in good old SA, "Jy ruk die poepol uit die hoender uit!", or as the English would say, "Give a finger they take the whole fucking arm!".

Yesterday in Krugersdorp, the power went out from 08H00 till 10H30, again from 14H00 till 16H45, and again at 18H30 till 20H15! That's a total of 6 hours 20 minutes of blackout!!!
When I called 08600ESKOM, the ignorant bitch that answered the phone after I held on for 15 minutes said that if the consumption in the area is too high, they cut the power to that area! WHAT? I said? Most of the population of Krugersdorp actually leave town every morning, with the exodus starting way before 6 am. They go to JHB, PTA, Midrand, Roodepoort, all the surrounding area where they work. Kids all go to school. SO, you tell me how the consumption can be exsessive at the time that most of the users are absent? Oh, she didn't know, and you know why? Cause she's reading from a fucking script, that's why! I just hung up on her. Can't discuss this with a tele operator, she has no value to add, zero input, less influence than a fly in a spiders web....

Yup, Banana Republic stuff. Watch this space!

Salagatle!