Suppose there are ten men who go to dinner every night. Six of them are Black, one Coloured, one Indian and two Whites. The one White guy is middleclass and the other is rich. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
Author: Baldy
What have we learnt in 2 millenia?
“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
— Cicero, 55 BC
Evidently, nothing….
Blonde mortician
A man who just died is delivered to a local mortuary wearing an expensive, expertly tailored black suit.
The female blonde mortician asks the deceased’s wife how she would like the body dressed. She points out that the man does look good in the black suit he is already wearing.
The widow, however, says that she always thought her husband looked his best in blue, and that she wants him in a blue suit. She gives the Blonde mortician a blank cheque and says, ‘I don’t care what it costs, but please have my husband in a blue suit for the viewing.’
A quote we can all relate to in South Africa
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
Continue reading A quote we can all relate to in South Africa
The pricing of luxury goods
I’ve been following the complaints by a large number of people about the pricing of Apple products in South Africa, and have even heard these complaints extend to other electronic products like digital cameras etc.
Charity work
Some time last year I was approached by a friend of mine, who had just started a charity, for some help on a website. At that point they had nothing, but needed to get a portal out to the world to showcase their work. Normally I would not just give something, because I believe that a lot of people take advantage of charity, and become lazy. The proof is standing at just about every traffic light in Joburg.
The basics of copy & paste
A popular motivational speaker addressing his audience said: “The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who wasn’t my wife!” The audience was in silence and shock. The speaker added: “And that woman was my mother!”
Laughter and Applause