The Selfish Bastard

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1. Everybody decides to ruin a perfectly good evening of visiting, drinking, Nintendo playing, and lounging about by suggesting a game of Texas Holdem.

2. At least three people exclaim at the speed of light that they brought their poker sets with.

3. Spend 15 minutes in a conference to explain that Texas holdem and holdem are indeed the same game. Confuse everyone by mentioning that there are other holdem games like omaha. Watch everyone insist that there is only 1 holdem and thats texas holdem and thats final.

4. Even though everyone claims to know how to play and plays often, and nevermind that the entire lot makes decent money, suggest we play for $5 each so that it stays ‘friendly’.

5. At least two onlookers need to be dazzled and amazed that some people have their own chip sets. They should say something like, “Damn, you must do this for a living or something.”

6. All players spend ten minutes admiring the 300-piece-Walmart-set.

7. Wait 5 minutes so everyone can go get their sunglasses out of their cars then listen to those without sunglasses argue that those with sunglasses have an unfair advantage and that no one should be allowed to play with sunglasses.

8. Take 20 to 30 minutes to debate how to divide up the chips. Take another 15 minutes to assign values to them. Don’t be afraid to argue 5, 10, and 25 vs. 50, 100, and 250. At least 3 people should point out that the latter is too many chips.

9. Set the blind structure. My personal favorite is to start blinds at 10 and 20 after initially including chips worth 5.

10. Get the dealer button out and everyone looks at you funny when you ask why we need the dealer button when we are all going to take our turns dealing. Everyone tells you its so that no one forgets who was just the dealer. Everyone looks at you even funnier when you says its probably the guy with the deck of cards in his hand.

11. Argue for a further 10 minutes that the big blind is after the small blind to the left of the dealer and not to the right as opposed to what the in house guru says.

12. Its finally time to start so 2 should just now leave to go to the bathroom and 3 others should have already left the table to go chat and do other things. Call a ten minute break and then we start!

13. Get everyone back to the table. Just before dealing someone should insist that some random guy walking by also join the game. When random guy says he doesn’t want to play and also DOESN’T KNOW HOW and HAS NEVER PLAYED BEFORE and HATES CARDS just ignore that and keep insisting.

13. Everyone looks at you funny when you mentions there are no chips left over so we would have to redo chip structure.

14. The two remaining guys who brought chips should volunteer to get their chips at the speed of light.

15. Make room for the new player and find him a chair.

16. Watch 4 players get up to go get more beer.

17. Yell at the 4 players to get back to the table but bring a pen and paper so we can write out the hand rankings for the new guy.

18. All nine other players start hollering out random advice to the new guy. Be sure to use plenty of jargon so he has no clue what anyone is saying.

19. Argue for 5 minutes about drawing for seats.

20. take 10 minutes to take out ace through 9 and hang your head in shame when the dude doing it makes sure its all the same suite. Deal out 1 card per player face up.

21. watch people get agitated when their card is dealt face up because their card is showing and take another 5 minutes to explain that we haven’t started yet, just drawing for seats.

20. Argue for 5 minutes about who deals first.

21. Watch everyone get confused when you suggest that whoever drew the ace should deal, the 2 will be small blind and 3 will be big blind.

22. Agree finally that dealing out 1 card to each player and having highest card deal first is good idea.

23. Deal out the cards face down.

24. Convince the five players who don’t want to show their card to anyone else that its OK, we STILL haven’t started - this is just to see who the dealer is.

25. Take another 5 minutes to explain that what we did earlier was draw for seats, and this is different.

26. Explain to the new guy that this is not the actual game after new guy says that on TV they get 2 cards.

27. Obv new guy is first dealer. Cringe as you realize your 5-year-old shuffles better. Coach him to deal 2 cards to each player - one at a time. Cringe again as you can see every card he deals as he holds the deck straight up and down.

28. Every player must now limp every single hand for the duration of the night.

29. No player may ever post his blind - EVER! Everyone only posts their blinds after you reminds them. You must remind them EVERY HAND.

30. The dealer (everyone not just the new guy) should deal out the flop turn AND river before the action is done every other hand.

31. explain that this is not the way it is done because the reason for burning cards is to discard potentially marked cards and dealing the entire game out defeats that purpose, someone then pipes up “but no one had a chance to mark the cards yet”

32. The BB must never be given the option to check or raise. The very millisecond that the SB’s call hits the table you must deal out the flop. Everyone must Look at you funny when you point out that the BB had the option to raise.

33. After every player limps someone must comment that they think that player is bluffing. This rule applies to every round of betting and you don’t even have to be in the hand to say it.

34. At least one player must make a big overbet out of turn EVERY SINGLE HAND. Everyone looks at you funny when you make them take it back and wait their turn. When it gets to their turn, they defiantly put the big bet back out and say something like, “See, I just made the same damn bet anyway!”

35. Never push any chips into the middle after a round of betting. Leave them right in front of you and stack your future bets and calls on top of your old ones. Also acceptable here is just throwing them towards the middle so they mix with the other chips already in the middle. Everyone looks at you funny when you make them say how much they just bet.

36. The new guy should say this every single time it gets to him: “So how many do I have to put in now?” The table should now bombard him with advice on any and every possible holding he might have. After about five minutes of this he should repeat his question. At this point he should call if its a minbet (which it is about 95% of the time) and fold if its anything bigger. His cards are completely independent of this btw.

37. Have a big argument about whether a flush beats a straight or not after you push all-in on the river after you flopped the nut flush against someone’s straight.
The guy with the straight should quote the hundreds of times he has watched poker on TV and he KNOWS a straight beats a flush.

38. Someone new walks by - have a 20 minute discussion as to why he can’t just buy in and play too.

39. One player must start making huge overbets on 5 or 6 consecutive hands. This player should now start to get really arrogant and some of his friends should comment about how good he is because he won the last $5 drunken challenge.

40. Arrogant overbettor should now start to explain that he’s making the bets because a good player knows to bet out if everyone is checking to him. Only once in a great great while will there be anyone smart enough to lay a trap - it just doesn’t happen in these home games.

41. Everyone looks at you funny when you comment about the trap you just pulled off 3 minutes ago with the flopped nut flush. They STILL didn’t see it.

42. Vomit in your mouth when your aces get cracked. Twice. By king-rag off and 28 suited. Smile politely when donkey says “They were suited, I had you crushed.”

43. Even though the table has played SOOOOOOOOOOO passive all night - when you see 6 limpers and look down at KK and proceed to raise 12X BB - the following action should go call, call, call, fold, reraise all-in, fold, call all-in, fold, call, call. The douchebag overbettor wins with KT offsuit. Other hands are a pair of fours, a couple of ace-rags.

44. A bunch of the players should now comment how good douchebag overbettor is as it is quite evident that no one ever beats him. Comment that he must surely play a lot and probably plays a lot online also. Make no connection whatsoever to the fact that you were the only one who knew the damn rules and procedures.

45. Try explain that a pair of 7’s beating AK is not a bad beat.

46. Try explain that a flush on a paired board is NOT the nuts.

47. Arrogant overbettor should go on to win the game getting heads up with the new guy. New guy loses after limping and folding every single hand down to his last chip. Should be a huge roar when it ends.

48. People who didn’t play or watch should ask who won. Upon hearing this they should concur he won because he is so good - so good that he even has his own chips.

49. Agree with everyone when they say that its all luck anyway.

50. Make a comment about work in the morning and leave to go home and pull out your hair.

These are absentee notes from parents (including original spelling)
collected by schools all over South Africa.

1. My son is under a doctor’s care and should not take P.E. today.
Please execute him.

2. Please excuse Lisa for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot.

3. Dear School : Please ekscuse Shadrak being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and also 33.

4. Please excuse Gloria from Jim today. She is administrating.

5. Please excuse Blessing from P.E. for a few days. Yesterday he fell out of a tree and misplaced his hip.

6. John has been absent because he had two teeth taken out of his face..

7. Moses was absent yesterday because he was playing football. He was hurt in the growing part.

8. Megan could not come to school today because she has been bothered by very close veins.

9. Chris will not be in school cus he has an acre in his side

10. Please excuse Justice Friday from school. He has very loose vowels.

11. Please excuse Pedro from being absent yesterday. He had diahre
dyrea direathe the shits.

12. Please excuse Tommy for being absent yesterday. He had diarrhea and his boots leak.

13. Petros was absent yesterday because he missed his bust.

14. Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father’s fault.

15. I kept Beauty home because she was to go Christmas shopping because I don’t know what size she wear.

16. Please ekxcuse Wiseman for missing school yesterday. We forgot to get the Sunday paper off verunda, and when we found it Monday, we thought it was Sunday.

17. Sally won’t be in school a week from Friday. We have to attend her funeral.

18. My daughter was absent yesterday because she was tired. She spent a weekend with the Marines.

19. Please excuse Jason for being absent yesterday. He had a cold and could not breed well.

20.Please excuse Mary for being absent yesterday. She was in bed with gramps.

21. Gloria was absent yesterday as she was having a gangover.

22. Please excuse Burma , she has been sick and under the doctor.

23. Maryann was absent December 11-16, because she had a fever, sore throat, headache and upset stomach. Her sister was also sick, fever and sore throat, her brother had a low grade fever and ached all over.
I wasn’t the best either, sore throat and fever. There must be something going around, her father even got hot last night.

24. Please excuse little Jimmy for not being in school yesterday. His father is gone and I could not get him ready because I was in bed with the doctor.

[qh][2h] that was my final hand that I had to win.

Made a flush on the turn and I put the last player all in and won the R500 freezeout.

I like winning, in fact I love winning but even though I won a big game today I feel sad for 2 reasons.

a ) I sucked out against Sascha (a very good player )
b ) I knocked out fivecard on the final table

we started off with 10 000 chips, I had a player to my right who was limping with HUGE monsters, AK, KK, JJ, all the dude would do would be to limp, regardless of his position, so it was difficult to figure out where you stood against this dude. I was bleeding chips to him.

I make top pair with an ace kicker, he has a higher pair that he limped with, I fire 3 bullets with AK at an unpaired board and he flats calls me all the way to the river with pocket 4’s. So eventually I decide to wait , bide my time and take all his chips when I have a made hand.

Eventually I was down to 3500 in chips, made some moves with some cards and managed to claw my way up to about 9000 chips when I get pocket 3’s

board comes AA rag, I call a small raise from someone in early (even though I would normally have just mucked) , the monster - limper dude calls behind me, checked the turn and found a 3 on the river.

Push and the monster - limper dude calls me with ak, bonus! no preflop raise, no raise on the flop, no bet on the turn.

He slow played himself into trouble. not my fault.

Next hand I make another boat, 10’s full of kings, take another 8k in chips.

anyway I start getting some great hands, jj, kk , qq, again qq , get my stack up to 60 k then I find KK, some other dude limps, I make a FAT raise, 3.5 BB, he flat calls, the board is queen high, he bets, I shove, he thinks then calls, flips 9 10 suited and goes runner runner to make a straight.

I was livid!!!  He still tunes me that he thought I was bullying him, yet the entire game I was only playing premium hands.

so I am down to 25k, at this point fivecard (paul) tells me to go have a smoke and not tilt, I obey then play a few more hands, make a position steal, up to 28k.

Move tables, still bitter about my beat, Fivecard sends me an sms telling me to byt vas and hang in, that really calmed me down.

I lose a big pot, down to 14k, double up, double up, make some steals, find some cards and land up with about 80k in chips when the last 2 tables are joined with the last 11 players.

I called a massive raise with 8 10 ( I Initially thought the raise was 3 x bb and the raiser normally tries to steal, she uses position well , anyway I misread the raise and called it anyway after saying call )

I catch my 10, theres a potential straight happening, she bets out another 20 k and I shove. she contemplates for a long time before calling, missing her straight and doubling me up to about R170k.

Paul’s set of 7’s knocks Henry out, crushing Henry’s QQ.

then something awful happened, fivecard who was sitting very strong in chips, called some blokes all in, as did Sascha, fivecard catches an ace on the flop and decides to check (collusion check) to just knock the other player out, the board goes A2345, Sascha shoves and Paul calls the huge all in, Sascha shows pocket 6’s against Paul’s AJ.

I have never in my life felt so horrified! it was a tad unfair but hey, that’s poker for you.

couple more players get knocked out, I raise Paul with my AJ, he calls with k10, I hit a jack I think, and knock him out.

3 players left if I remember correctly, (I think Paul went out in 4th) dude shoves with king high on my BB I had to call, with my j2, and flop comes 22 rag.

Heads up me and Sascha, She’s got like a 7th of my stack, she had 60 k when we started HU and I was sitting with about 360 k in chips but I double her up twice.

then find q2, call her raise, 2 hearts on the flop, call her bet, heart on the turn and I raises her all in, game over, R10k first place prize.

Even though it was a huge win, I was disappointed in the way that things turned out.

Of the Final Table, I am friends with 5 of the people that played, Paul, Sascha, Leroy, Bianka and Henry.

Familiar faces always. The other players however I was not familiar with.

I despise the fact that I like the people I land up beating. I hate the fact that I am friendly and make friends with people that I lose to or crush with my check raises.

But that being said I am still amped about my win and the way I played today.

I’ll say this much, I did not make any mistakes the entire day, as in call bad hands and lose. The pots I did lose were not pots I called and lost, I got called and lost to better hands, but I made few, if any calls where I was behind in anyway.

I mucked a few good hands, and even mucked top 2 pair on an unpaired board. For once I played almost flawless poker, sucking out when I needed to and winning the hands that I set out to win.

oh yeah and I got myself uninvited from a poker game on Friday after getting a late invite, rocking up and knocking out the resident top player 15 minutes into the game.

I wont forget the one dude’s words to Paul (fivecard) who got me the invite :

“You sposed to bring fish, not sharks :(  “

I used flock when it first came out (www.flock.com)

Back then all it was was firefox slapped with makeup

The newer version I must say is somewhat better, in fact its a lot better.

it’s totally a blogger’s ultimate browser, packed with some really neat features which integrates with all the big web 2.0 social, blogging, bookmarking, networking and video sites.

Seriously cool RSS Handling and it integrates nicely into sites like facebook, del.icio.us, flickr, youtube and even photobucket.

It has a startup page which lets you view your feeds at one glance, and lists your favourite site and most viewed sites.

Flock also supports extensions, although there are not as many as firefox, but still alot of useful ones.

Flock’s rss handling is far superior to firefox’s.

Don’t let the fact that flock isn’t firefox perturb you, because it is, just on steroids.

I am not crazy about the search engine handling, flock uses yahoo as it’s default SE, but that can easily be changed.

I like the fact that you can add facebook, urban dictionary and others to your list of SE’s.

Once you have configured delicious, adding a site to your favourites is as easy as clickong the big blue star that appears to the left of the url in the address bar.

Once you set up your blog’s intergration via flock, blogging about something you just found on the next becomes as easy and right clicking an image and selecting BLOG THIS from the context menu.

I am not way fond of the blog editor but it will do.

So all in all, it’s a web2.0, social browser built on mozilla.

hmm…

I think I just found my favourite new browser

Blogged with Flock

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Lesson 1:
A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her
shower when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a
towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob,
the next-door neighbor.

Before she says a word, Bob says, “I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel.”
After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked
in front of Bob.

After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves. The woman wraps
back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom,
her husband asks, “Who was that?”

“It was Bob, the next door neighbor,” she replies.

“Great,” the husband says. “Did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?’

Moral of the story: If you share critical information pertaining to credit
and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to
prevent avoidable exposure.

Lesson 2:
A priest offered a nun a lift. She got in and crossed her legs, forcing
her gown to reveal a leg. The priest nearly had an accident. After
controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg.

The nun said, “Father, remember Psalm 129.” The priest removed his
hand, but, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again.

The nun once again said, “Father, remember Psalm 129.”

The priest apologized. “Sorry sister but the flesh is weak.”
Arriving at the convent, the nun sighed heavily and went on her
way.

On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm
129. It said, “Go forth and seek further up and you will find glory.”

Moral of the story: If you are not well informed in your job,
you might miss a great opportunity.

Lesson 3:
A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch
when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie comes out.

The Genie says, “I’ll give each of you just one wish.”

“Me first! Me first!” says the admin clerk. “I want to be in the
Bahamas, driving a speedboat, and not have a care in the world.”

Puff! She’s gone.

“Me next! Me next!” says the sales rep. “I want to be in Hawaii,
relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply
of Pina Coladas and the love of my life.”

Puff! He’s gone.

“OK, you’re up,” ! the Genie says to the manager.

The manager says, “I want those two back in the office after lunch.”

Moral of the story: Always let your boss have the first say.

Lesson 4
An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing. A small rabbit
saw the eagle and asked him, “Can I also sit like you and do nothing?”

The eagle answered, “Sure , why not.”

So the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested.
All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing,
you must be sitting very, very high up.

 

Lesson 5
A turkey was chatting with a bull. “I would love to be able to get
to the top of that tree,” sighed the turkey, “but I haven’t got the energy.”

“Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my droppings?” replied the bull.
“They’re packed with nutrients.”

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave
him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree.

The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch.

Finally after a fourth night, the turkey was proudly perched at the top of the
tree. He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.

Moral of the story: Bullshit might get you to the top,
but it won’t keep you there.

Lesson 6
A little bird was flying south for the Winter. It was so cold the bird
froze and fell to the ground into a large field.

While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him.
As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize
how warm he was.

The dung was actually thawing him out!
He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.

A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following
the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and
promptly dug him out and ate him.

Morals of the story:
(1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
(2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
(3) And when you’re in deep shit, it’s best to keep your mouth shut!

In November, Michael Richards (best known as Kramer on Seinfeld) launched into a racist tirade during a stand up act at a comedy club, insulting patrons and mouthing off at 2 black hecklers.

After an attempt by 4 of the patrons and a handful of Black activists, including a former supreme court judge and 2 lawyers to get Richards to attend a “mock” trial, Richards defended himself by questioning racism and had the following to say.

Someone finally said it.
How many are actually paying attention to this?

There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, etc.
And then there are just Americans.

You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction.
You Call me ‘White boy,’ ‘Cracker,’ ‘Honkey,’ ‘Whitey,’ ‘Caveman’ … and that’s OK.

But when I call you, N!gger, Kike, Towel head, Sand-n!gger, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink …
You call me a racist.

You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you, so why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?

You have the United Negro College Fund. You have Martin Luther King Day. You have Black History Month.
You have Cesar Chavez Day. You have Yom Hashoah. You have Ma’uled Al-Nabi.
You have the NAACP. You have BET. If we had WET (White Entertainment Television) we’d be racists.
If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.
If we had White History Month , we’d be racists.
If we had any organi za tion for only whites to ‘advance’ OUR lives we’d be racists.
We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce.
Wonder who pays for that?

A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant, but any color can be in the Miss America pageant.

If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships you know we’d be racists.
There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US . Yet if there were ‘White colleges’ THAT would be a racist college.

In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists.

You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you’re not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.
You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug-dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.

I am proud.
But you call me a racist.

Why is it that only whites can be racists?

Childcare for dummies

Someone emailed this to me, it had me in tears, I may as well share.

No idea where it came from so I can’t even credit to to anyone, nonetheless, whoever you are, thank you

You know, I was born in South Africa and have been proudly South African all my life, I refused to pack up and leave when things got rough, I wanted SA to remain my home, sure I travelled but came straight back to SA because I missed it, the people, my family and friends.

I put my faith in the new government and decided to give them time to adjust and iron things out.

12 years later however I not only have my doubts, I am beyond disgusted.
There is something seriously seriously wrong with South Africa and we are undoubtedly heading tobecome another banana republic.

The problem is that South African’s have become so complacent with problems that affect every single one of us.

I realized this last night at 8:30 when the electricity died (while I was in the middle of an online poker game) and my father shrugged and said “oh well, off to bed”

and THAT is the exact thing that pisses me off, we accept it because there is little we can do about it and we just accept it as being normal. Soon its going to get worse, Water is next.

Let’s just take a look at the entire picture.

• Starting with the load shedding, yes I blame the government. Stop supplying neighboring countries with power they can’t afford to pay in the 1st place and look after your own. Charity starts at home.
• Crime - Let me not even get started with this, maybe if you stop employing criminals to be policemen and comissioners we may be in with a chance.
• Wasted Money - Why on earth is the government so focussed on changing the names of roads, cities, provinces and towns when the MILLIONS of Rands that are spent on changing these things should be better spent on the infrstructure of South Africa, like, I dunno, maybe another power plant?
  Thank God they haven’t realized that the word for our currency, The Rand, is actually an Apartheid Era Afrikaans word, or we’d be spending BILLIONS of Rands so we can have MILLIONS of Pula.
• Unemployment - Maybe with tougher border control and harsher deportation laws, we’d have less illegals in the country, making it easier for our people to find jobs. in 1996 it was reported that we had nearly 5 million Illegal immagrants living in South Africa, that was 12 years ago, that number has easily tripled by now. Hell, we have more Nigerians living in Berea than there are living in Lagos.
• Presidential hopeful is a criminal - JZ is without a doubt, guilty of a lot of things, maybe he got away with Rape, but he is corrupt and rotten and is spoiling the rest of the barrel of apples.
• Ignorant Leaders - JZ, the anti Aids shower, need I say more? Manto Babalas Msimang - Beetroot and Onion anti aids diet? These people are ignorant beyond comprehension and yet we have them as leaders? Sure, they may have a bit more savvy than most Black South African’s but then again, in the land of the blind - the one eyed man is king.
  This is not a racist remark, it is a “Who is the best person for the job” remark.
  Why not put the best people for the job, in the job? I am not saying employ more white people in goverment positions, not at all. But put educated, savvy people of any colour into meaningful positions.
  Cyril Ramaposa or Tokyo Sexwale would run this country like a business - if a particlular part of a business is failing, you don’t get rid of the people at the bottom, you start at the top. Without smart _LEADERS_ any organization is in for a world of hurt and by leaders I don’t mean popular people who can pull the wool over the eyes of just enough people to be voted in, but I mean people who can lead by making an example.
• Telecommunications - another ignorant”leader” Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has no idea half the time waht she is talking about, we are without a doubt the most expensive country in the world when it comes to telecomms. She fails to act on behalf of the masses and I’ll out and say it, CORRUPTION! Maybe if Icasa and Telkom stopped slipping her a few bucks to shut up and say what they want her to say, we’d have someone on our side.
• Drunk Judges - but he claims he was “drinking tea”
• Reverse Racism - AA policies are nothing but reverse racism, fucks sakes give the best person for the job the job.
• Politics in Sports - hoo boy… why is it that there exists a policy to enforce more players of colour in our cricket and rugby teams but there exists no policy to enfore more non-black players on the SA soccer team? Smells like hypocrite bullshit to me.
• Important Jobs pay the least - this was carried over from the old regime, but if anyone had any insight, they would seek to change this. Let me put it into perspective, Police and Teachers are 2 great examples of important jobs that pay shit. In my most humble opinion, these should be the jobs that pay the most, thereby forcing a strict policy on who can become a teacher or a cop. There’d be less corrupt cops, less criminals becoming cops and less cops likely to be bribed. If its a sought after well paying job, people will queue to become a cop.
  Teachers - no disprespect to those people who want to be teachers, i think this is great, however the number of people who started out studying that wanted to become teachers is far less than the number of people who became teachers by accident because they did not get sufficient points at varsity to go onto other fields and they settle for teaching. So essentially what we have are people who maybe scraped through varsity, some with crap marks that are going to be teaching our kids. Now I ask you, would you want a less than qualified person to teach your children ?
  Or would you prefer that teachers get paid a fortune, thus making the qualifications to be a teacher rather stringent and again people will queue to go for these positions and thus meaning that our children are taught by the best minds in the country? Those that don’t make it as teachers can go and do some other arb job, like become a rocket scientist or something.
• Aids - we have a fucking problem people, excuse the pun.

I could go on and on.

What other countries are there in the world where power cuts are the norm? where there is a task force to look after the police force? where the heads of police are linked to criminal activities? where the minister of health embarasses themselves due to their ignorance? Where the police are corrupt and will let you drive on if you slip them a few bucks? Where Accused rapists and corrupt officals are heads of political parties?

This has stopped being a joke.

While I kinda like the new msn live, apparently some people don’t.

Then after unsuccessfully trying to install msn live onto my work machine, I decided to look around for options seeing as I hate web messenger.

I came across a site with a link to microsoft’s software library and a download link for msn 7

So for those people who hate the new one

enjoy