That’s according to Mark Zuckerberg, founder of facebook.

This has been revealed after a discussion he had with a friend regarding the first few thousand users of the social networking site came to light. It apparently went like this:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Dumb fucks

He may have a point, but he still gets the cock of the week title. My main reason though is because he’s the youngest billionaire in the world and he looks like a dork (jealousy makes one nasty I’ve been told – not that I want to look like a dork).

While we’re on the topic of Facebook and privacy, it’s quite interesting to see how the default profile settings have changed from 2005 until now.

Then:

And now:

From here.

I’m not the kind of person who gets excited early for stuff -- i don’t start packing a month before my holiday -- i don’t get tingles thinking about a the weekend party on Tuesday and i don’t get caught up in the hype of the World Cup four years before it is scheduled to start (don’t get me wrong i support it MASSIVELY i just don’t get warm and pretty feelings till its here)

Now I’m not like this because I’m a sour bastard or because i don’t want to be happy BUT i just don’t like taking things fro granted and i don’t like to to live the future now! Having said this Friday night made me tingle -- it really start to get me fired up for an event that is going to change us a people, as South Africans and as a nation.  This event is going to be one of the most miraculous we have ever seen in the history of the sport and we will be on its doorstep!

The live draw for me was just the start and it filled me with so much hope and patriotism that i have been so sorely lacking these last few months!!

NOW YOU MAY BE ASKING YOURSELF WHAT THIS HAS TO DO WITH COCK OF THE WEEK -- OR DID I JUST GET THE HEADING WRONG?

Well unfortunately here is why;

After such a great Friday i headed out Saturday to go watch the magnificent United kick the living hell out of West Ham -- now when i woke up Sat morning i had no water (common occurrence in half of JHB the last few weeks) so i was slightly annoyed but easily maneuvered around- on arrival at the pub i begin to hit a few Peroni droughts as some Saturdays call for and after a few  i got a call to say the whole areas power was now off and there was no response as to when it would be fixed -- not only that but the water that should have been back at 5pm still was not on -- so now i had no power and no water -- sort of like living in Diepsloot (oh no wait they do have power and electricity now FOR FREE!)

So i began to wallow in self pity and began to bitch like i have heard so many ex South Africans do before (and funnily enough i didn’t tear myself to shreds as i always do them) half way through my bitching a massive thunderstorm broke and the DSTV lost signal which meant there was no second half of united!! Needless to say i was now steaming and stormed out whining like a spoiled brat all the way and resenting my fiance for disagreeing with me!

While trying to book a hotel room at Melrose Arch for the night (cause no water no power means no life -- apparently) and shoveling beef carpaccio and brie into my mouth all the while telling whoever would listen that this place is crumbling and falling apart!

After a massive decadent dinner, many cappachinos and grappas -- i stumbled home to find both my power on and my water running! The joke is all the while i had been crying like a little girl -- i wasnt even home -- i didnt get affected by it all for a second and yet i wrote off this place like ive hated so many for doing before me and as this dwaned late saturday night i realised i had to fall on my sword to day and apologize!

So to those i encountered, saw and spoke to on saturday im sorry! I am nominating my self as Cock of this Week and will graciously accept! I have no idea what the hell happened but im back and more focussed then ever and the butterflies of 2010 fill my belly!

I love Springbok Rugby -- i love the weeks build up to who the team is going to be and what the supposed game plan is -- i love putting on my Springbok jersey and settling into a draft in front of a massive screen with my friends -- but most of all i love the culmination of emotions i get with a sporting event that happens 10 times a year at best when i get to stand proudly and belt out the South African anthem as if i was on the park with those boys!

After that anthem i am ready to tear someones throat out and eat it!

Now come the long awaited Bok tour kickoff this Friday against the French -- the boys lined up for the anthem -- all 400 000 caps of them -- ready to belt out the anthem for the umpteenth time together and get on with what they know best -- KICKING ASS! Little did they know that someone managed to organise the most STONED RASTA on the planet to sing the anthem for them -- this idiot sounded like he had smoked 14 bongs and then came out to sing! He blamed it on bad equipment -- but you stupid COCK the equipment cant learn the words for you!!

After this annoying intro it is no wonder our boys were so crap (not that i blame the anthem for our shocking play -- we not completely the ref was a COCK too -- see below) -- it was summed up best by the commentator after the anthem “These boys have sung this anthem many times together but i dont think they have ever heard it sung quite like that!”

WELL DONE RASTA MAN YOU ARE THE COCK OF THE WEEK!

Special Mention:

This week was so tough to call between two massive Cocks -- the first and winner is the above COCK but there was another who pushed him right to the end! This was our brilliant ref Friday night -- he managed to completely blow the Boks out of the game which included two yellows and left most rugby scholars scratching their heads!

Well done on your runner up status you COCK and if any STMers see this COCK out there be sure to beat him for me!

Now this really is an apt story after the Castar Semenya story because is poor Castar got tested then how the hell did SERENA WILLIAMS miss out on the test -- i mean with respect she is built like Pierre Spies and we think he is a spartan!

SAME TRAINER?? I THINK SO!

She makes Semenya look like Reece Witherspoon!! So besides the fact that she and her sister have managed to dupe the tennis federation for years -- THAT’S NOT ENOUGH! Now she has to threaten the lives of the officials??

Has the world gone mad that we let our sportsmen AND WOMEN get away with crap like this? Now don’t misunderstand here -- when I play sports I get very emotional and needless to say i swear / break racquets etc BUT i never would swear at or threaten a referee -- i mean these people are the controllers of the game -- they are human / they cheat / they lie and sometimes they are crooked but they are the reason the game functions and to behave like a spoiled whiny little brat is just not acceptable!

Someone needs to ban her or make her serve some sort of penalty but to let this little prima donna run around grunting like a camel in heat and swearing at officials makes me want to slam a racquet down her throat! IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AND SOMETHING MUST BE DONE about her attitude and her gender testing!

THIS JUST IS NOT SPORT AND SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED!! WHERE THE HELL ARE THE GOVERNING BODIES (oh i forgot the tennis one is cowering in the corner like athletics south africa)

BY UNANIMOUS VOTE THIS WEEKS COW is the annoying and pathetic SERENA WILLIAMS!!

Now dont get me wrong – last weekend the boks deserved to lose. They were poor, unfocussed and uninterested – look you cant blame them having to play such a crap aussie team BUT what you get for it is a thorough BEATING which is what they got!

Hopefully they did learn their lesson – but put that all aside that doesnt inculde the ref making up rules as he goes along – i think there MAY be a body of intellegent people who make the rules so the moron with the whistle doesnt really have to think fo rhimself – in this case i think dear COW forgot to take his bi polar meds and managed to ruin an otherwise interesting day!

So without further delay i introduce the third instalment of COCK OF THE WEEK . . .

. . . this week REFEREE WAYNE BARNES!

I think Richie knows the rules – obviously not this COCKS rules!

Lets read a little about this mad mans history!

2007 Rugby World Cup Quarter Final

Barnes refereed the 2007 Rugby World Cup quarter-final match between France and New Zealand on 6 October 2007, which was his eleventh international match. His performance caused controversy among fans and commentators alike.Most notably late in the match, he sent All Black Luke McAlister to the sin bin (penalty box), reducing the All Blacks to 14 players, and then shortly afterwards missed a forward pass which resulted directly in a converted try for France. Following these controversial errors, Barnes was confronted by the International Rugby Board (IRB) in a disciplinary hearing, concerning his international career. An interview with a ‘top 10′ New Zealand referee in the New Zealand Herald suggested that while Barnes’ decisions may have cost New Zealand the match on the scoreboard, they still should have been good enough to win the game. He concluded that despite Barnes’ errors, his performance in the game was adequate. Following the quarter-final match several death threats were made to Barnes over the internet, including on Barnes’ Wikipedia article.

An ‘Independent Review of the 2007 Rugby World Cup Campaign’, conducted by Russel McVeagh lawyers and (Sport and Recreation New Zealand), found that Wayne Barnes and the touch judges had a significant impact on the result of the match. The report states that “The penalty count was 10–2 against the All Blacks, with none awarded in the second half, despite dominance in territory and possession (which statistically should result in penalties awarded to the dominant side). On anyone’s account the referees and touch judges made mistakes which worked against the All Blacks.”

In June 2008, All Black Lock Ali Williams criticised referee Wayne Barnes for his performance in their rugby World Cup quarter-final loss to France. Speaking about Barnes, Williams was quoted as saying “And you’ve got to look at the ref. Seventeen unawarded penalties, that’s bulls***.”

2008 South Africa vs Argentina Test Match

On 7 June 2008, the Dominion Post reported that Barnes was out of favour, as his performances during the past six months have not impressed the selectors, meaning he had not been given any new test appointments.” However, in August 2008 he officiated a Test match between South Africa and Argentina. His performance in this test has also been criticised. Rugby Journalist Spiro Zavos has stated that it was not clear which set of rules Barnes thought the teams should have been playing under, as Barnes applied different ELV to each of the teams.

[2008 Scotland vs New Zealand Test Match

Barnes has since refereed the All Blacks again, when they beat Scotland 32-6 in November 2008. Despite a convincing victory, Steve Hansen, All Blacks Assistant Coach said that he could not comment on Barnes’ performance because “if I said what I thought, I would probably get fined so there is no point in me saying that, is there?” However he did say that All Blacks management would be writing to complain to the IRB head referee, Paddy O’Brien. Rugby Journalist for the New Zealand Herald, Wynne Gray, identified several issues with Barnes’ refereeing skills, including: a player from each side being sin binned for committing penalty offences, being inconsistent for watching other players commit those same offences and not sin-binning them, several forward passes or knock-ons not being called, and that he is incapable of dealing with the scrum.

2009 Australia vs South Africa Test Match

In September 2009 Barnes refereed a match won by Australia 21-6 over South Africa. His performance throughout the match has been described as that of “a frightened schoolboy”. Sports journalist Paul Lewis has noted that infringements that Barnes did not see and/or rule upon included the following:

1. A “flying crunch” by South African Heinrich Brussouw on Wallaby Tatafu Polota-Nau. This offense is normally punishable by a penalty or yellow card.

2. Matt Giteau’s drop goal before halftime. Barnes was standing in front of the posts but had to ask the video referee if it had gone over, even though in Lewis’ opinion Barnes should have been able to see it clearly.

3. At least two forward passes.

Lewis also states that Barnes could have played the ‘advantage’ rule better, as he was using it “like a typical northern hemisphere ref”.

During this match, South African coach Peter “De Villiers couldn’t fathom the nature of the scrum infringements awarded against his side by English referee Wayne Barnes”

This weeks COW is not so much figurative but rather more literal – let me explain a bit better. STM hit the bush this week and i dont mean local. Nothing like an hour plane ride with a few beers to kick off a good weekend and then arriving in the luxurious Sasbi Sands! For those of you in our borders you will have an image in your head but for those of you not let me give you the two days of games viewing;

- 7 lions eating a buffalo

- 5 rhinos

- a cheetah chilling on a termite mound in the sun

- mating leopards

- herds on ellies and buffalo

- jackals

- wild dog

- zebra / impala / kudu / eland / duiker / sprinkbok etc etc

And that excludes chamelons / birds / tree and the rest of the stuff – but the BIG 7 in under two days (4 game drives) is pretty damn impressive which excludes the joys of eating breakfast lunch and dinner in the middle of the bush / leopards and elephants walking through the camp and of course the BOKS kicking the living hell out of the AUSSIES – oh and did i mention beers at 7:15 AM!

So now that i have set the scene our COW story – while watching a bull elephant slowly graze his way through 20 kilos of thorny bush he decided he needed to relieve himself – at this poitn ill show you how just so you can get the picture in your head!

Yes i know what you are thinking – and yes this was said but in a moment of calmness in the bush let me tell you the story!

There were three couples in our landy – STM and Fiance / STM friends / STM Cuz and hubby! And the comments went as follows

STM Fiance – ‘What is that?’

STM firends fiance – ‘It looks like its birthing something’

STM Cuz – the simply uttering of the word “WOW!” laced with a tone of amazement / excitement and appreciation!

The laughing that following scared off half of Sabis animals BUT not the bulls third legs as he stood with pride following my Cuz comment in all his glory!

CUZ you and the bull win this weeks COW!

Now if you want the top story to experience yourself in pure luxury go check the pics on the lodges site!

THANK YOU INYATI FOR AND OUTRAGEOUS WEEKEND!

I have decided to introduce a segment to appreciate and jointly mock someone who behaves contrary to the interests of the human race – hence Cock of the week!

No wi must start at the beggining for you to really appreciate this man. As my friends and i sat on the deck of a local celebrating a birthday we saw the entrance of a man (late 50s) in a BMW convertable (black of course) with his blonde belter sitting next to him (mid 40s blonde hair decent body – looked late 30s) so as you can imagine this wasnt a jaw dropping site – average car, average woman, average man! This prompted our surprise when with the top down and driving with one hand on the top of the steering wheel like he was 50 cent – looked in our direction and smiled as if he was in a Bugatti Veyron with Heidi Klum next to him. This was understandable and enjoyable but the real fun STARTED when he parked his nice new car a little to close to the barrier and crashed with a rather loud bang! This was the start of the abuse. He left the vehicle disgruntled and began to drink away his pain in the same establishement. Apon leaving he was destined to prove his waining coolness and with massive intent floored the accelarator hoping for a ‘cool’ speedy exit. HOWEVER he forgot to move the gear stick to R – and was stuck in drive – this meant he launched his new baby over the barrier and got stuck on top of it!

This caused about 10 car gaurds to spring into action and help the poor stranded soul – they managed to build the moron a ramp and finally get him off – all the while this genius didnt lend a hand – yes you are thinking it – HES A COCK!

After a sheepish exit it was decided to point out men of this fashion! So well done Sir you are the inspiration for and the first recipient of the;

STM COCK OF THE WEEK!