. . . what the hell has the world come to – i mean seriously!

We came across this piece of info yesterday and this finally made me breakdown and cry! I mean if a guy cannot pay for a prostitute and take her wherever he wants to do what he wants then we are losing as a society – im getting desperately concerned today!

Its seems that due to the massive amount of prostitutes who are willing to do whatever needs to be done in full view of the public – the government has decided that it needs to act and act fast – so what did the super efficient Swiss come up with?

This . . .

“The idea itself is adopted from German cities like Essen and Cologne, and will be a way for prostitution to continue on behind closed, uh, doors.

The boxes will serve as quickie drive-throughs, so-to-speak, and will free up city streets from unsightly acts that haunt Zurich residents whose homes overlook the city’s red light district. “They get up to all sorts in broad daylight – and we’re sick to death of looking at it,” one resident told the U.K.’s Metro.”

Seriously dudes how f**king sad is your life that you need to pay some poor girl to get in your car and park in the most depressing space in the universe and do what i dont wanna know to you! The saddest thing is that this doesnt happen often or alot BUT it happens so much that the government had to put up these hideous things to stop children from being scarred for life!

And you always thought the swiss were civilized?

It really is a bit of an anti-climax now that so many years of build up and excitement has come to an end. We did really well and while you may also be feeling the extreme “Sunday night blues” (even though it’s not a Sunday), the good news is that we’ll be posting more of our usual sh|t; like mocking Twilight fans.

Here’s a prime example of the idiocy that is Twilight. I’m actually quite surprised that this person managed to go through the process of getting inked given how easily these people scare:

She’s aged really badly for a teenager.

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by British Petroleum is an environmental tragedy of huge proportions. For an idea of this, check out Boston Big Picture.

While BP need to be held accountable (all profits until there is no longer a trace of the spill going towards the clean up would be fitting in my book), it’s good to see they’re taking flack from all sides, as seen in this design contest.

See the rest.

On a much lighter note:

And just because I needed a context to post this:

This is one of those things that  is funny and sad in equal parts (in this case it’s a lot of both). Giving it some thought after the laughter subsided I found it really scary how these mindsets can exist. They show that as much as we may witness the development of humankind in certain areas, there are huge parts of the world that are very far behind. What’s worse is that it’s most likely the majority.

Strangely enough, this isn’t a reference to the upcoming Super 14 finals, but rather to a bull owning a matador. How tough are you now, barbaric little sword wielding man?

Yes, that is a horn coming out of his mouth!

Sometimes you’re in a position where you need to deal with a body. You know how it is? It’s not nice, but it happens. When you’re faced with this predicament, who you gonna call?…

Fanie.

An e-mail is going around about a drug bust where they uncovered a SH!TLOAD of cash at the dealer’s house. Besides the fact that you could spend the rest of your life only getting affection from Bubba and that you may ruin some lives along the way (unless you’re just selling weed, which is actually a good deed – crazy rhyme that!), this is great business. You’ll notice I struggled to categorize this piece…

Random fact: Apparently $1m worth of $100 bills weighs 17kgs.

Thanks Garth

I happened to watch an episode of Grey’s Anatomy for the first time in a while last night and was amazed at how an hour long show can have so little proper dialogue.  Instead it’s all been replaced with incredibly soppy monologues that are overacted to the sound of some or other shit emotional music. Wake up people! Life isn’t so full of drama, and when it is, it doesn’t always end in well rehearsed speeches.

On a side note, the only good thing to come out of this season was that George died. If only a couple more would too. Rant over…

We’ve discussed the topic a fair bit now, but for those who are still undecided on the movie (of which I’m one, having still not seen it), A Taiwanese man has died from a stroke that was likely triggered from Avatar induced over excitement. Screw the critics, that’s got to count for something. Read more here…

Thanks James

Malema threatens Nedbank

ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema speaks about the Caster Semenya saga at a news conference in Johannesburg. (Caroline Kaminju, Sapa)

Johannesburg – ANCYL leader Julius Malema on Thursday threatened to “mobilise society” against Nedbank following a decision to withdraw its sponsorship from Athletics SA (ASA).

“Let them withdraw. We’ll engage them and we’ll expose them for who they are. We’ll tell them the truth of why they are withdrawing, and we’ll mobilise the South African society to know what Nedbank is,” Malema told reporters in Johannesburg.

“That’s what defines our struggle today – of people who are refusing to accept the transformation, to accept African leadership, to accept new development.

“Why are people – instead of celebrating and putting more money and more sponsorship – are now withdrawing? Are they sponsoring Leonard Chuene or are they sponsoring athletics in South Africa?” asked Malema.

Warning

He signalled a warning to the Yellow Pages sponsorship: “Yellow Pages, we are watching this space very closely,” said Malema.

Nedbank pulled its sponsorship of the annual Matha Series races, the backbone of road running in the country.

“Nedbank’s dissatisfaction with the quality of delivery by ASA of some events in the City Marathon and Matha Series over the past years is well known and the negotiations to end the contract had commenced well before the start of the current controversy surrounding ASA,” the bank said.

Malema said the ANC Youth League held a meeting with ASA president Leonard Chuene, who has been embroiled in controversy around the Caster Semenya gender saga.

Chuene apologised 10 days ago for lying about claiming that he had no knowledge of the gender tests, which were done before and after Semenya won a gold medal in the World Athletics Championships in Berlin.

Chuene apology

“We said to him, ‘You know, we’re not convinced why you had to say you apologise. For what? Apologising for protecting one of our own? Apologising to fight for this woman to participate in the World Championships?’ We wouldn’t have apologised if it was us. There’s no apology,” said Malema.

Attacks in the media have left Chuene “weak”.

“Mr Chuene… you finished him,” Malema told reporters.

“It is in our culture in the ANC, we always sympathise with the weakest and in this… Mr Chuene is the weakest.”

No decision-making body in the ANC had decided that he must be removed from office, said Malema, adding that he would defend Chuene if the issue was raised at Monday’s national working committee meeting.

“The ANC…. will never call for Chuene to step down or be dismissed,” said Malema, adding that it respected the decision by ASA to retain their president.

He criticised Deputy Sport Minister Gert Oosthuizen for calling for Chuene’s dismissal.

Concept of hermaphrodite

Malema also said the ANCYL would make it clear to the International Association of Athletics Federations that it should not “impose” its concept of “hermaphrodite” on South Africa.

Australian newspapers have reported that IAAF gender tests on Semenya suggested that she was a hermaphrodite.

“Hermaphrodite, what is that? Somebody tell me, what is hermaphrodite in Pedi? There’s no such thing, hermaphrodite, in Pedi. So don’t impose your hermaphrodite concepts on us.

“You are either a woman or a man. When a child is born you are announcing it’s a baby girl or a baby boy. We have never heard in the village a child being projected, ‘we are given a hermaphrodite’. There’s never been such a thing in a village we come from.

“Why should we be told today our children are hermaphrodites? She’s a girl and why should we accept concepts that are imposed on us by the imperialists? We will never agree to that concept. You are either a girl or a boy and that’s it.”

Malema later said he was not speaking in “scientific” terms but in “cultural” terms.

“This girl [Semenya] must be protected to continue to run as a girl.”

Sponsorships

Malema lamented the fact that none of the three medal winners from Berlin had been offered any sponsorships since their return home.

He said the ANCYL would double the amounts of money it was planning to give the athletes.

“For the first time, we bring three African children with medals in an African country, South Africa. Corporate is not proud about that and we are told we must not talk about that we must keep quiet.

“If we talk about it, we are perpetuating divisions in this country… [but] we’ll never, never keep quiet.

“If it was somebody else [who had won medals in Berlin], they [sponsors] would have been lining up at the airport with already printed T-shirts and everything else in the name of their companies,” said Malema.

“Who controls big corporates in South Africa? if you know that, then it will give you an answer why these people cannot get a proper sponsorship and that is what we must keep quiet to.”

since when do we get to play god? I mean i understand the cloning / growing organs story but really what use can civilization have for a GIANT JUNGLE CAT i mean is this not really some sick yanks idea for a fake theme park that resembles AFRICA -- seriously dudes put your cash to better use!

Top 10: Lottery Tragedies

No.10 - Willie Hurt

Michigan, $3.1 million

Prior to 1989, Willie Hurt was a happily married family man who was fairly well known in his community. But all that changed when he won $3.1 million in the Michigan Lottery. Within two years, Hurt separated from his wife, lost custody of his children, blew through his fortune, and was charged with attempted murder. His lawyer claimed all the money went toward Hurt’s messy divorce and his crack cocaine addiction.

What AM would have bought: Honus Wagner baseball card and the bat Babe Ruth used to hit his first home run at Yankee Stadium.

No.9 - Suzanne Mullins

Virginia, $4.2 million

In 1993, Suzanne Mullins struck it big when she won $4.2 million after matching all six numbers in the Virginia Lottery. The kind-hearted woman planned on splitting the 20 annual payments of $47,800 with her husband and daughter. However, within five years, Mullins found herself in dire straights when her bills began to pile up. Desperate for cash, she resorted to a loan from a financial foundation. Eleven years after winning, Mullins now owes $154,146.50 in defaulted loan payments. She blamed the debt on the lengthy illness of her uninsured son-in-law, who needed $1 million for medical bills.

What AM would have bought: A private island in the Bahamas (Johnny Depp bought one for $3.6 million in 2004).

THEY GET BETTER AND DUMBER AS YOU GO DOWN!

There have been many tributes both en mass and personal to MJ but i like to think that he would have loved this one the most. It is a classic tribute to the power of his music, movements and the lasting impression he has left on the world as a whole! To top it all of the contribution of Janet shared the personal side and connection he had with his family that few people ever got to see.

Well done to MTV as always!

I must say – i hate a lot of facebookers – in fact so much so that the only reason i continue to connect with this time wasting, productivity sucking site is for the comedy value because to be fair it is brilliant! To see the crap people post about their lives thinking that anyone really cares is amazing – and the fact that people sit on this thing all day is even more astonishing – i mean come on people CALL SOMEONE!! My pet hate of these people are the ones who use it for speaking to their significant other – i mean really TEXT OR CALL people – no one gives a rats ass if its only two more hours before you see your baby boo boo and you miss him/her so so much! Certainly if you do care either you are a stalker or a mass muderer – either way you belong in a place with white coats and jackets!

Anyway here are the top ten most annoying facebookers (as if they had to stop with only ten!)

10. People With Middle Names

A fairly common way to elude to the fact that you are extremely pretentious and/or a douche is by speaking with a fake British accent, showing people pictures you keep in your wallet of your children that you’ve named after yourself, making hats out of papier mache` and having a middle name on Facebook. Just who exactly do you think you are? You are so important that you feel that you deserve to have one more name than everyone else? In the hierarchy of Facebook users you’re right below people who have nicknames instead of real ones on their profiles. At least on some level those people know that they are a joke.

Note: Maiden names are acceptable.

9. Anyone who writes on the wall of an event

“Hey Chad, sorry I won’t be able to make it to your birthday party this weekend. I’ll be in South America helping the local tribes. Drop me a line if you’re coming down that way.” Hey, wall-event-writer-guy, who gives a shit what you are doing and why you can’t come to Chad’s birthday? Nobody. If you really wanted to tell Chad why you couldn’t make it, you could send him a message or even call him. No one is really going to notice if you don’t come anyways. You were only invited because he sent an invitation to everyone he’s friends with. You probably haven’t spoken a word to Chad since freshman year of college and just wanted to tell someone on Facebook what your doing because you know that no one cares in real life. And for the record, now you know people on Facebook don’t care either.

8. Constant Status Updater

Similar to the wall-event-writer, this jerkoff treats his Facebook status like it’s Twitter. He, like the wall-event-writer, thinks we care what he is doing, what he has to say or what Shin’s lyrics he found particularly inspirational at that exact minute. This is the same guy who in middle school changed his AIM away message every 10 minutes. Hey, I didn’t elect to follow your Twitter. Cool it with the status updates. It’s like I’m the guy from ‘A Clockwork Orange’ with my eyes taped open being forced to see your constantly shitty updates. And it’s not nearly as entertaining as the good ol’ ultra violence, yet I usually feel equally as sick.

7. The People Selling me stuff

No, I don’t want to join your group, I don’t want to support your cause and I certainly don’t want to see your goddamn band play. If I wanted to be overwhelmed by advertisements for things I definitely don’t want, I would be looking at internet porn. And considering that’s what I was just doing, I think I would prefer it if you stopped trying to get me to play Mobsters. Okay? I don’t want to play Mobsters!

6. Facebook Couples

These are the two people who are not allowed to have a Facebook picture without the other one in it. They’ve also been known to exclaim how much they love each other via wall post. And we can’t forget their daily status countdown of days until they are reunited. Enough, we get it. You like each other. I didn’t know you could have a public display of affection without being in public. And now that I do know, I am pretty sure I hate it. I am also pretty sure that if I were to dine in the same restaurant as this couple, they would literally be making out on my lap. Excuse me Facebook couples, it’s 9:00pm, time for your Skype date. No, you hang up first.

Want to see the next 5 annoying people!

Now this really upsets me – it makes me flash to the cop who pulls you over just so he can feel like he isnt a fat load of lard sitting on the side of the road because its means he doesnt actually ave to do proper police work!This is the complete abuse of power and i think they should find the people responsible and lynch them all one by one outside of the home affairs office as an example to all other public servents that they are called that for a f**king reason!!

Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma burst into tears when she heard the contents of the suicide note left by a KwaZulu-Natal man who hanged himself after failing to get an ID document. ”What makes me unhappy about this is that my department is supposed to make lives easier for people,” said Dlamini-Zuma during Sikhumbuzo Mhlongo’s funeral in Nqetho outside Hillcrest on Thursday.

In a letter he explained that a Pinetown home affairs official tore up his application for an identity document, effectively preventing him from getting a job. According to the suicide note read during the funeral service, Mhlongo was informed by home affairs officials in Pinetown that he could not get an ID because he was not accompanied by his parents when he made the application.

His parents died when he was still young. ”I have persevered too long. I have lost my job because my ID application was turned down. It hurts to see my friends going to work,” Mhlongo wrote in the suicide note. The note also stated that Mhlongo had decided to hang himself because he did not want to become a criminal as he could not get a job without an ID.

He said a case of intimidation had been opened. It was announced during the funeral that Mhlongo’s sisters would get a house from government. The orphans had been renting a house in Nqetho. – Sapa