10.28.07
Posted in Sport at 19:26 pm by Guy
It has been 12 long years, but South Africa are finally world champions again. The world cup in France (plus Scotland and Wales) has been an undoubted success, mainly thanks to the French hospitality and the teams coming to the party. The so-called ’second tier’ nations were fantastic and provided entertainment right through to quarters. The pacific islanders deserve special praise after a pretty ordinary start with Samoa getting tanked by the eventual champions. Tonga and Fiji stepped into top gear, and Fiji were at one stage 20 minutes away from extra time in the quarter against SA. It is worth pausing to consider how much better these sides would be right now, and indeed how good they will become, if those dodgy kiwi’s stop hijacking the islands best players. And, the kiwi’s only got as far in the tournament as Fiji, so perhaps some of the ‘kiwi’s’ should think about going back to their homeland. Enough about the Pacific, more about Africa….. Read the rest of this entry »
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10.02.07
Posted in General at 14:25 pm by Guy
Why would you drive a car that you are not comfortable driving? Riding a bike in peak hour London traffic gives you sixth sense – the sense of knowing what a driver is going to do next. So not only do you have to; watch the road and other road users carefully, listen for traffic coming up behind you, smell the disc brakes and taste the fumes from cars in front that drop anchor for no apparent reasons thrusting you ever closer to the exhaust pipe, and constantly feel for the brakes to prevent you from actually entering the exhaust pipe of the car in front, but you also have to constantly second guess drivers. Which brings me to my question – in one of the busiest cities in the world with an undeniably over complicated signage system, do you drive in rush hour, in a car that you are clearly not comfortable in? You know the people I am talking about – the ones that hug the left hand kerb despite the average road width being over a metre wider than the average car with the driver’s side on the oncoming traffic side of the road, the ones that can’t pass turning vehicles on the left because they have ABSOLUTELY no idea how wide the car is and whether they can pass without mowing down everyone at the adjacent bus stop, those that aren’t confident enough to take a gap because they can’t put the car into gear, signal thanks to the oncoming traffic for the gap and turn the wheel at the same time, and those that think that two cars can’t pass on suburban and city rods with parking on both sides of the road. There is another category of drivers that do my head in – the ones that don’t use their indicators to signal where they are going – but that is another story.
Surely, if you are not confident on the road, behind the wheel, then driving in rush hour must be an incredibly stressful experience and for the sake of your health (I am always looking after other people) you should rather go on the tube or the bus? Or, if you’re driving a freakin’ VW Taurus and you’re not comfortable, then buy a smart car?
Riding a bike in rush hour has disadvantages though, in that it can make you prejudice and stereotype – but, after 6 months of riding through traffic in London, sure as the summer days are long and the winter is grey, you don’t need to be special to have the sixth sense you just need to take a look at the driver……
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Posted in Sport at 14:12 pm by Guy
After months of speculation, rumour and behind the scenes planning, the one-and-one-halves are back. At this point I only have sketchy details from Mr Jono Nienaber, but it sounds as though the first opposition were saved only by the weather. Jono’s match report:
Duh-DUH Daaaaahhhhhhh….!!! - the infamous One and One Halves were called into action yesterday after a 3 or 4 year retirement…. - there were a few new faces - and many old(er) ones….. - our capain Wichie (birthday boy - 30 - sounds like a good number) Nienaber lost the toss and was instructed to bat. - on what must be said was a mud patch, due to the incessant rain…. Stu (Balls) Tuna opened the batting with the most eager player in the history of the one and one halves - Mr H Bom himself!! (he had that morning gone for a net at Mr Price and bought an entirely new - and matching Wasp kit, socks incl.)
- Tuna got us off to a great start with a bounday off the first ball….
the game was eventaully called off due to the incessant rain - 60 odd off 6 overs and for the loss of one Mr Bom… who scored 10 -
the usual fines meeting ensued….
We are back!
Please send more details boys.
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