Forgive me, if you will, one last indulgence…
You know how it is when you’re standing in your outdoor shower, watching the dolphins playing in the waves and trying not to think about the 300+km of Eastern Cape roads you have to ensure later…
Category: this is south africa
Chemtrails? You’re Welkom.
I mean, we see them over Sheffield all the time, and we don’t get them over Cape Town (save perhaps for the odd occasion when SA223 takes a slightly southerly track), but now “they” are spraying chemtrails all over the Free State, affecting the weather patterns and effecting “their” mind control on the citizens of Welkom. (Good luck with that.)
Don’t believe me? Just check out this video evidence.
Obviously, it couldn’t just be vapour trails from one of the numerous daily Cape Town to Joburg flights which pass almost directly over Welkom, could it?
Although, of course, that’s what “they” want you to think. Because that’s how “they” disguise “their” nefarious acts, isn’t it? I’ve been fooled.
One of the commenters on that video is a one Jo Rautenbach. Jo is no fool when it comes to the truth about chemtrails:
maybe you and I are the only ones aware of this stuff if 82 people have watched this and nobody has anything to say!
Or maybe nobody is allowed to comment, Jo… hashtag mind control.
Jo’s Youtube profile makes vaguely interesting reading, with likes on videos by US loons about the Pope, and CERN and ley lines, and crop circles in the Netherlands and 12th planet observation, interspersed with the highlights of various sessions of the Co-operative Funeralcare European Masters bowls tournament.
If you ever happen to read this, Jo, then yes, obviously I am a secret agent from the CIA/Mossad/The Illuminati/Project Nibiru sent with the mission of ridiculing you and your beliefs.
And I’d just like to say a big thank you for making it so very easy to do.
Durban…
Durban has been cool. It’s a scruffy place, but that’s not necessarily a criticism. It handles its scruffiness well. It’s part of its character.
We’ve seen giraffes, zebras, a steam train, a host of exotic birds, dolphins and several (or more) water slides.
One thing we haven’t seen is any reasonable way of uploading photos to Flickr, and as we move on, there seems even less chance of that being sorted in our Wild Coast home for the next few days.
I know this will hurt you, dear readers, but not bringing a laptop along was very much part of the idea of this whole trip.
Pam Golding on Main opens today
It’s all rather exciting. From small beginnings (a near derelict building with a disused art gallery inside), via demolition (during which they found this) and several months of construction has risen this:
PGOM already houses a PicknPay Local (Mon-Sat 7-9, Sun 8-8 according to the leaflet that dropped through our door), a Knead, a Sorbet (nails dun rite) and a Bootleggers Coffee store. The three floors of office space are nearly ready for occupation and I’m reliably informed that the views are to die for.
This is just down the road from us and I’m looking forward to spending some weekend mornings with the kids, the newspaper (not really) and some coffee. The only thing that is missing is a bottle store, but hopefully that – and more – will come as this new building helps to regenerate this bit of Main Road.
DOOM ANTS / W DU TOIT / 655F
Indeed. Wouter du Toit (for it is he) has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASASA) about an insecticide commercial which – somewhat implausibly – contains scenes of insects… being cided killed.
Wouter se case is as follows:
The complainant is of the opinion that the commercial “makes a sport of killing innocent and harmless ants”. He adds that it is harmful to portray the killing of any living creature on television. The complainant pointed out that viewers (especially children) should rather learn about the role ants play in the world, and how they factor into the eco system.
Wouter has too much time on his hands.
“Yeah, ok,” said the legal people representing the insecticide company, “but hang on…”
Firstly, insects aren’t animals, according to the What Is An Animal? Act of 1962 (also known as the Animals Protection Act, No 71 of 1962); and
Two, they weren’t killing ants in the veld. Ants in the veld are lovely. Ants in your kitchen though? Nah, dude; and
C. What harm have we really done to kids by showing this? Really? and
Anyway – this ad was flighted during a 16-rated film which kids shouldn’t have been watching.
Too shay.
Before bodyslamming Wouter’s complaint into the polished concrete floor of their Burnside Island Office Park home, the ASA then went on to also note that:
…there is no cruelty depicted beyond the killing of these pests. They are not dismembered, disfigured, or otherwise made to suffer before being killed. They are effectively either hit by a soccer ball, or killed with a pesticide, but death appears to come almost instantaneously.
Which sounds like the insecticide in question might be just what you’re after if you don’t have a football to hand. Or… er… foot.
This is a wonderfully sensible ruling by the ASASA, which makes a pleasant change given their previously general arseholery here and here.