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Some quick notes (unedited) below, but yes, I was wrong. Don’t blame Apartheid; blame that damned collective ancestor that every perfidious Albion white inhabitant of South Africa is blessed with. Our president got it quite correct to say that the problems started when ole Jan set foot ashore, right here in Cape Town. (Freedom of speech et al, only set foot ashore here on the morning of 7 January 2015)
They locals were just on the point of developing that round conning instrument with them spokes to steer the ships that would have been used to explore the wild oceans, navigating by stars and rudimentary maps, right back to the carry cot of humankind and away from the invading crusaders. This was also round about the same time that Autshumato started trading in livestock for small amounts of alcohol and tobacco with the foreigners. (See Wikipedia if you don’t believe me)
Wikipedia does not mention which month in 1652 the black people arrived at the castle. References from learned historians will be welcomed, please! Anyway, someone’s troubles started, if not then, then surely in 1948, or was it 1994?
Ok, I am attempting (at the mercy of N24), satire, irony, sarcasm, (note to self -search Google to pick intellectual sounding word), so it gives me the right to talk !Xroot X!ak. (Autshumato’s words for excreta –lots of it); but then again, I did not make a speech about load shedding, did I?
This somehow, (very convoluted), brings the absurdity of using race as a political tool, and the utter obsession about race we have, to the fore. Heard today that there is still a law on the books that deals with the mixed marriages act, albeit I am told this refers to mixed marriages outside of the borders of South Africa only. It is reported there are concerted efforts demanded and much energy expected to be expended to have said piece of legislation removed,. Xanadu has spoken and priorities were established!
Same guy told me the Government is meanwhile saving money on electricity. Candles are the prime source of illumination, while the illuminati is searching for the offending piece of legislation. Picture the widow who lost one of her 10 silver coins and the Holy Ghost Busters searching for, and then finding it. Sort of the same scenario.
Obviously white candles will be used to drive away the dark night. The Atheists use black candles, and we do not want to have anything to do with them who eat babies and sushi, do we? Nor tempt fate in case JC in a fit of pique contemplates an early arrival, just because black candles were de rigueur in a moment of darkness weakness. There’s an election next year, so don’t, [insert swear word here], around! Mind you, global warming is buggering the system, what with half of the world not having clouds anymore, but don’t spoil a good story with solid facts.
Is it true that we have a national energy crisis? Note to self: ‘Research and write expose on the Jan & Autshumato conspiracy to prevent Eskom building power stations ‘cause they deported the sparky, young electrical engineer from Mapungubwe who sold them the dud Chinese energy saving bulbs.’ Deported all the way to THAT PLACE (Candela), he said very sotto voce.
Well then maybe mathematics should be taught at school again. It’s hoary, but pie are square and not round. Provided it is not a very small pie, then it would not matter what bloody shape it is. As long as the price comes down since the petrol price did come down, and the goodhearted Woolies should feel sorry for us poor consumers.
Anyway, what I am trying to say, is that it is very handy to know, (and to be able to calculate), the surface area of a pie. All one has to do is to multiply that with the height of say a silo, and knowing the mass and volume of the coal in it, (plus the mass of the water absorbed when it rained and someone forgot to cover the top); it would lead to some simple calculations of how thick the walls must be to contain the coal. Given the tensile strength of reinforced concrete it would even be within the realm of constructing one (bar the strikes of course), that would contain said coal, without bursting at the seams it seems.
Which all makes it all very clear, Jan is the culprit. No doubt. I of course believe otherwise; something to do with the Abdomenable Snowman and the ban against building one which puts Santa’s paunch to shame.
The guy who told me about the marriage legislation thing also told me that Nero blamed Stradivarius for inventing the fiddle, and Prometheus for not being careful with the Lion matches. So there you have it. A short period in history.
Je suis De Silusio Nada.....
