The trouble with tribles

I was really shocked by this headline: "Triple bypass leads to trible trouble". Those damn cute little critters can really be a pain in the arse! Imagine my disappointment when upon reading the article I realised that it was just a typo, the 'b' was supposed to be a 'p'. It reminded my about the bad spelling error in a headline last Friday they had "Enoga Gay" instead of "Enola Gay". What gives, don't the folks at iol have proofreaders? Also it's pretty special (as in special-ed) to type a 'b' instead of a 'p', they are nowhere near each other, and neither are the 'g' or the 'l'!

This is an amusing little story about how two fugitives from justice were turned in by their cab driver. How did he know something was up? Well they claimed to be Amway representatives going to a conference, but the cabbie saw right through them when they didn't try hard enough to sell him stuff! LOL!!

In local politics Ngoro did it again. For those of you not following the story Roderick Blackman Ngoro was the Cape Town mayoral media advisor until he got fired for making some really stupid remarks about all coloureds being drunks and saying that africans have a superior culture. If you thought that was bad wait until you hear what he's done now.

On his website, where you can leave comments, he has stated that no one may use the word "coloured" instead they must refer to this racial group as "Khoisan". I mean, what a fucking idiot! First of all, Khoisan is an artificial grouping of two distinctly different groups, the San and the Khoi-Khoi (strandloopers and bushmen for you old apartheid educated folks). While they are the same race they considered themselves very different people because of their way of life, much as the Zulu and the Xhosa do today. Secondly the Khoisan were virtually wiped out by both the European settlers (mostly through disease) and the Xhosa (who were running from the Zulu and required land). Those that were left eventually ended up being renamed Griquas and relocated to the Karoo and what is now called the northern cape. Thirdly, while the Coloured culture has been influenced by the Khoisan (so has the Bantu by the way) if the Couloureds were really Khoisan wouldn't they speak the language, and if they spoke the language wouldn't somebody have realised a little sooner that the motto on our coat of arms means "going to take a leak" in Khoisan? As it is there are only like five people in the country that actually speak the language fluently.

This whole thing started when people began voicing descent over the ANC marginalising the Coloured community. What was their response? Tell them that it's their own fault for being hopelessly drunk the whole time and then just pretend that the group doesn't even exist. Basically throw up a smoke screen that will confuse the issue and allow the current situation to go on unchanged.

All I can say is: Hah! Kenya we got you beat. This month's moron of the month is here in South Africa. Click here if you want to read more.

Man there's so much I want to rant about, but I need to keep it under control. Instead I'll just ask a few questions.

Do you think that next time a bunch of idiots decide to strike for higher wages they'll realise that they have to work for two years just for the increase to pay for the money they lost while on strike?

Why do you think a country where the majority of the population had to fight in a bitter struggle to achieve the right of self-determination is there such apathy amongst the youth of the majority that funky TV adverts have to be created in order to entice them to vote?

Why do good shows get cancelled?

Why does all research lead to Star Trek? Seriously they do!

Why will no one click my ads?

Anyway that's it for this week. Look out for a new SchpatDope hopefully by the end of the day, Moonflake has asked a doosie!

oh yes, the Simpson’s is back on, yay!

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