Desember | 2006 | Die Pienk Zuit
Kyk vanaand se 19:00 nuus op SABC (en neem sommer E-TV sin op). Moet dit nie mis nie!
Een van die grootste stories rondom die Bokke se patetiese toer in Ierland en Engeland gaan mos oor die kontroversie daar rondom dat mense die ou SA vlag gewaai het. Nie net by die wedstryde nie, maar sommer ook op die lughawe toe die Bokke hier aankom. Brielie het ‘n hele relaas geskryf oor hoe almal oorreageer, en ek wil nie die punt herhaal nie.
Ek wil eerder skryf oor my mening dat ons die vryhede, o.a. vryheid van spraak, wat ons land so duur voor betaal het nie lief genoeg het, of goed genoeg beskerm nie. Ons behoort ‘n attitude te hê wat sê : “mors met ons konstitusie en jy mors met my land”. Of ek ‘n aanhanger van die ou vlag is of hom haat is nie ter sake nie (glad nie ‘n aanhanger nie). Ek is ook nie ‘n aanhanger van Jacob Zuma se gunsteling struggle liedjie “bring me my machine gun” nie. Ek voel dat dit net so veel doen om verdeeldheid in ons land te bring en net so konfronterend is as om die ou vlag te swaai, maar dit beteken nie ek wil hê hy moet verhoed word om dit te sing nie.
Soos Voltaire gesê het: “I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.”
Ou grappie wat ek weer raakgeloop het:
A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in an Armani suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie (Corb), leans out the window and asks the shepherd, “If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?”
The shepherd looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answers, “Sure. Why not?” The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone, surfs to a NASA page on the internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex formulas. He uploads all of this data via an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the shepherd and says, “You have exactly 1586 sheep.”
Minter is in da house
My goeie vriend en wit neger Silwer Minter spoel nou ook sy brein op die Net. Lees sy verbale diaree by http://dingeengoeters.blogspot.com/.
5. A normal person wouldn’t steal pituitaries.
6. Damn, I’ll burn you into a BBQ chicken!
7. Take my advice, or I’ll spank you without pants.
9. Quiet or I’ll blow your throat up.
10. You always use violence. I should’ve ordered glutinous rice chicken.
11. I’ll fire aimlessly if you don’t come out!
14. I have been scared shitless too much lately.
15. I got knife scars more than the number of your leg’s hair!
Amerika is in die moeilikheid
Keith Ellison is die eerste moslem om tot die Amerikaanse kongres verkies te word. Dit opsig self sê seker al klaar baie, maar dis nie die punt wat ek nou wil maak nie. Wat skokkend is, is hoe hierdie gebeurtenis die skokkende vooroordele van sommige Amerikaners na vore bring.
Eers voer CNN ‘n onderhoud met Ellison, waarin daar basies vir hom gesê word dat alle moslems terroriste is, hoekom is hy nie een nie.
Toe skryf Dennis Prager, ‘n konserwatiewe radio omroeper en joernalis, ‘n artikel waarin hy probeer om ‘n kontroversie te skep deur te sê Ellison weier om sy inswerings-eed op die Bybel te neem, hy wil eerder die Koran gebruik. Nie net is die nie waar nie (daar word geen boek gebruik in die inswering nie), al was dit waar: SO WHAT!? Hoe kan dit moontlik kontroversieël wees? Volgens Prager : “the act undermines American civilization”. Huh?
Rugby World Cup on SABC2
Niemansland (my gunsteling plek op aarde)