Lifestyle

According to the SA Fact-a-Day website, about half the people who visited a casino to gamble last year did not have a matric qualification. I guess that this is significant, considering that people without matric outnumber those who have it by quite a margin. I generally discard this type of information into my “useless information” […]

Now is your chance to write a 50 000-word novel with a “fun, seat-of-your-pants” approach to novel writing. November is “National Novel Writing Month”, and thousands of people from around the world are taking the opportunity to become real novelists. This is how it works: You write a 175-page (50 000-word) novel, starting on November 1 and […]

When some genius told me that passive smoking is far deadlier than normal smoking, I was relieved. As a regular smoker I had a lot to be grateful for: imagine if I only inhaled second-hand smoke … I mean, with my form (Derby County and Pirates), what were my chances of making the right choice? […]

I have a morbid fear of “lang-arming”, that traditional Afrikaans dancing synonymous with certain folk music. For the life of me, I’ve never been able to figure out the moves. The town that I live in has a lang-arm club as its biggest night-time attraction. The venue, next to an Epol factory in the industrial […]

I published a blog called “The Sumo, all cut up!” two weeks ago where I took you through the horrible ordeal I experienced called a tonsillectomy, or “the worst pain I’ve ever felt”, as I fondly referred to it. On that piece I went through my emotional states before and after the ordeal: the physical […]

Here is proof that most education systems are not adequately keeping up or preparing students to deal with tomorrow today. That’s almost OK, because students are eventually going to adapt their experience and their educational choice accordingly, so something will have to give. But in the meantime, today’s students are in a major transition stage, […]

A news headline on BBC‘s daily newsletter practically jumped off the page at me. It says: “Obesity ‘not individuals’ fault’”. And it continues with the first paragraph stating that individuals can no longer be held responsible for obesity. Furthermore, it is now up to the UK government to act and do something about this. What? […]

(Here’s a little something for those suffering from Pikoli exhaustion. Did it ever occur to anyone that one day our national obsession would be a fired chubby guy who may or may not be missing a tooth, to quote a soon-to-be-Schabir’s-best-mate editor, when we risked skin cancer en masse on April 27 1994?) It is […]

Fat people are slow by their gigantic nature. This, to disillusioned thin people, may seem like a huge disadvantage; well, it might be most of the time like when you are being chased by Fluffy, the neighbours’ annoying poodle, but sometimes it is actually an advantage. See, being slow helps when it comes to observation […]