Jonas gaan vir sy lisensie

Jonas gaan vir die hernuwing van sy Swaarvoertuig Bestuurderslisensie.

TOETSBEAMPTE: Goed Jonas, kom ons toets jou algemene kennis – Jy ry teen ‘n afdraend af en voor jou is ‘n ander vragmotor, Jy wil verby gaan – Wat doen jy ?

JONAS: Is reg, Mener. Ek kyk hom die left mirror, die pad is skoon, dan kyk hom die right mirror, die pad is skoon – Dan ek slaan die indicator, trap die petrol, kom buitekant, ek gaan verby.

TOETSBEAMPTE: Toe jy nou so besig is om verby te gaan, kom daar ‘n ander vragmotor van voor af, Wat doen jy dan?

JONAS: Is nie mulakeit nie, Mener, weer ek check die left mirror, es skoon, kyk die right mirror, es skoon, dan sit hom die indicator to the left, vang biekie briek, dan steek ek die neus agter die ander lorry in.

TOETSBEAMPTE:  Raait, maar toe jy nou in die spieel kyk, het ‘n ander trok van agter die gaping toegemaak, Wat maak jy nou ?

JONAS: Aitsa bra, Dan maak ek mar my assistant Petros wakker.

TOETSBEAMPTE: Nou hoekom wil jy vir Petros wakker maak?

JONAS: Ek,  ek dink nie Petros hy het al so moerse ongeluk gasien nie.

A Brokeback story

A successful rancher died and left everything to his devoted wife.  She was a very good-looking woman and determined to keep the ranch, but knew very little about ranching, so she decided to place an ad in the newspaper for a ranch hand. Two cowboys applied for the job.

One was gay and the other a drunk.

She thought long and hard about it, and when no one else applied she decided to hire the gay guy, figuring it would be safer to have him around the house than the drunk.

He proved to be a hard worker who put in long hours every day and knew a lot about ranching. For weeks, the two of them worked, and the ranch was doing very well.

Then one day, the rancher's widow said to the hired hand, 'You have done a really good job, and the ranch looks great.  You should go into town and kick up your heels.'

The hired hand readily agreed and went into town one Saturday night. One o'clock came, however, and he didn't return. Two o'clock and no hired hand. Finally he returned around two-thirty, and upon entering the room, he found the rancher's widow sitting by the fireplace with a glass of wine, waiting for him.
 
She quietly called him over to her.
'Unbutton my blouse and take it off,' she said.
Trembling, he did as she directed.
'Now take off my boots.'
He did as she asked, ever so slowly.
'Now take off my socks.'
He removed each gently and placed them neatly by her boots.
'Now take off my skirt'
He slowly unbuttoned it, constantly watching her eyes in the fire light.
'Now take off my bra.'

Again, with trembling hands, he did as he was told and dropped it to the floor. Then she looked at him and said, 'If you ever wear my clothes into town again, you're fired.'

(Yeah, I didn't see it coming, either!)

Is it worth it trying to maintain multiple blogs?

Over the last few weeks I’ve written a few articles on MyDigitalLife, where, should you be deemed a good enough writer, you start getting paid per hit.  While checking on my hit count etc, I’ve fallen into the bad habit of reading the latest blog posts every time I visit.  I have to honestly say that I’m a worse person for reading some of the mind numbing posts out there.

There are a FEW of the bloggers there that write quality stuff, but mostly…Well let’s not comment any further, go have a look at this beauty.  And there are a few more of these.

I strive for constant improvement in my life, in everything I attempt, whether it be writing – in comprehensible language – or watching the grass grow – trying to see more detail every time :-).  And in this constant quest for improvement, I do not want to be associated with the likes of snake.

I have also been neglecting this blog because of my writing on that side, and I do not want to neglect my primary site, so I’ve decided to commit site suicide (removing my profile, not killing myself), but I have to say it seems that it may be more difficult than trying to commit FaceBook suicide, which can be nearly impossible, according to the few who’ve tried.

So, I’ll now move my articles from that side to this one, and see if the kick me off for breaking one of the rules of the site – linking back to your own blog.

So, back to my question, is it worth maintaining multiple blogs?  Only if you want to hide your political/personal views…

The few who spoil it for the rest of us

Let me start with some background…

Last night at about half past 10 my doorbell rang.  When I answered the
intercom, there was a guy outside asking me to come outside as he'd
just had an accident at the end of the cul-de-sac where I stay.  He had
just come from the local pub, and did not have a clue where he was…

Now, normally I would jump to the opportunity to help a fellow human
being, but unfortunately in our country you never know when it is a
scam to get you outside as an easy target for more sinister things.

In my view I made the right decision to deny the request, giving the
person my phone number to pass on to his relatives for directions to
the location, in case the story was true.

This morning when leaving for work I drive down to the end of the
street to check out the story, and lo-and-behold, he was telling the
truth, the fence posts of the compex there were bent, and you could
clearly see where he went off the road.

Firstly, whoever you are, I have to apologise for not coming out to
help, but I think if the roles were reversed you would probably make
the same decision that I did.

Secondly, whoever you are, you should not be driving at high speed in
the rain and dark on roads you don't know, even when you're sober, but
especially not after you've visited the local pub, that is just
irresponsible, and you would not have been in the position you were in
if there was a inkling of responsiblity in you.

Back to the heading of this post. 

Why is our country in this position, where people have to think twice
before answering a call for help.  Where criminals have sunk so low as
to target people's natural will to help fellow human beings, to turn
them in to easy targets.  It's despicable behaviour, and our government
is still doing very little to curb crime…

Foreign substances in our food

After enduring the whole uproar about the Melamine found in all kinds of food products from China, I had a look at Wikipedia about what Melamine really is. 
Now that was a very scary article to read.  Basically it is an
extremely poisonous substance, which will kill whatever ingests it in
big enough quantities.  And it will be a very painful death on top of
that, with guaranteed kidney failure.

Then on Saturday I heard a statement from a Nestle spokesperson that
the Melamine found in their condensed milk on local shelves was well
within the "globally accepted maximum limit".

What BS!!!

I don't care what the "acceptable" limit is.  I don't want any
poisonous substance in any of the food I or my family consume.  I don't
think that any long term studies have been done about the damage these
substances can do to the body if consumed in "acceptable" quantities
over a few decades.

Now is it just my imagination that more things tend to go wrong with
people at an earlier age than what happened when our grand parents were
young….

With all the added hormones and steroids to make plants and animals
grow faster to get to our tables quicker and make the producer a bigger
profit, and with all the poisons contained in our foods at "acceptable"
levels, it is no wonder things are'nt as they used to be.

How do we get around this?  Do I have to start planning to buy a farm
and create my own food?  I hope not, but if it comes to that, I'm more
than happy to go for it if it means my family will be healthier for it.

Your thoughts?

Is the Springbok emblem really racist?

According to this article on News24, most definitely.  But now I have to disagree!

In my honest opinion, and I hope you read this Mr Komphela, I have identified one of the biggest racists left in the country.

One Mr Butana Komphela!!!!

In yet another attack on rugby in SA, he wants us to drop the Springbok emblem in search of something else.  Go forbid it be a rabid leopard with green spiky hair.

Mr Komphela, have you ever stopped and considered what the Springbok means to any rugby player?  Whether they are white or black, or any color in between?

To pull that green and gold jersey over your head and have the Springbok on your chest, is the ultimate goal for any rugby player, regardless of the colour of the player.  Now you want to go take that away?  Get real.  Clean up your own act first.

He further pukes up some drivel about uniting the country under one symbol.  The springbok did more for uniting our people last year than any of the other symbols.  We won the world cup, and once again you could see everyone celebrating this together, regardless of colour.

Mr Komphela, you made a bold statement there, but in my opinion, the problems in South African soccer are much bigger than your perceived problems in rugby.

Crisis after crisis happens, yet you say nothing, is this because the administrators are the same colour as you?  It sure looks that way.

While we're on the subject of soccer.  If we did go the route of having one symbol, and that symbol be the protea, as is the standard in most other sports.  How many of your soccer "boys", that's the translation I understand of the current team name, are going to be happy to play in a team named after a flower?  Should I hazard a guess?

What rugby did right in my eyes, and this is probably where you picked up your issues, because you perceived the transformation to be slow.  Rugby slowed their transformation, to developed players of colour with enough skill to stand their ground in the international arena.  If we tossed these guys onto the field with a fired-up All Black team before they were ready, we probably would have lost the player to rugby for good, because of some injury.  Rugby is a hard game, and if your body is not conditioned to take the knocks, you'll never make it through the first match in one piece.  That's reality.

Rugby also had to slow their transformation to keep the team at a level where they would not lose too many supporters.  Supporters are the key to any sport, especially if that sport is a business.  If you lose to many of them, you may as well close said business, and go back to the club system.

Now Mr Komphela, what have you done recently to aid in the upliftment of previously disadvantaged players?  I've only ever heard about you spewing criticism about what's wrong, but I've never seen any news of you taking any action to help the players at the grassroots level get a step up.  I'm talking about school players here, in case you missed that. 

I do see the current players and administrators of the sport actually jumping in and helping, but you still sit and criticize.

Then you go on to say that the failure of the Shark players to wear "Say no to racism" on their jerseys is blatant racism from their sponsor's side.  Get real sir.  Have you ever stopped to think that there isn't significant racism problems in their  province, and that they therefore have the choice not to make a big issue out of it, because people of all colour may be more upset by seeing that statement, than not seeing it.

I await your reply, but I definitely will not be holding my breath for it.

Playing the system

According to this article on News24, judge Dennis van Reenen of the Cape High Court came down on attorneys who appeared to be incompetent because of missing documents in court files, and a number of other reasons.

Now, judge van Reenen, have you thought to yourself that these attorneys may not be as incompetent as you believe?  Don't you think that they may have found yet another way to play the good old South African injustice system.

If you're guaranteed to get a postponement every time you "forget" something important, then why not play it for all its worth?  And some of these attorneys play it so long the judge gets tired of it and dismisses the case outright.

The only way to get these guys to stop "forgetting" and "misplacing" important documents is to start fining them for contempt every time they do it.  This way you'll quickly start seeing court cases getting wrapped up at the speed of a teenage boy the first time…

I for one, would love to see swift justice being done in this country, for a change.  And the faster you can get the small cases through the system, the more time there would be for the more important criminal ones.