Saw something really daft at Flora Shopping Centre.
They have revamped the shopping centre which was badly needed BUT when they installed the new escalators the architects decided to put two steps up to the base of the escalator.
Now I wonder what the point of those two steps are if the escalator is there to make your life easier, especially for older people.
It would make more sense to have a short ramp approaching the base of the escalator OR maybe they should just have done their measurements properly and installed the escalator correctly.
I mean if you are going to spend millions on an upgrade surely spending an extra R100 000 on proper escalators would be worth it.
‘Twas the night before Christmas
And all through Nkandla
The lights were ablaze
To the sound of “Amandla!”
While the rest of the nation
Was shedding its load
The power was strong
In this humble abode
Whose brilliant gleam
Could be viewed from in space
By a man in a sleigh
With a grin on his face
As he drove through the stars
In his dazzling red suit
He said “I’m coming to get you
To pay back the loot”
But the head of the house told him
Don’t be a fool
I spent it on building
This flaming big pool
So come sit beside me
And let’s get all boozy
In the Peace and Goodwill
Of my fire jacuzzi
I’ll raise up my glass
And say, “Ja, Noël Fine”
But I won’t pay the money
And I’ll never resign
But look to the lights
That shine over yonder
And let’s bring a halt to the
Blitzen and Donder
For now is the time to
Cease all your fighting
And shuttup complaining
That you haven’t got lighting
Joy to the world
Let the Angels sing Hark!
Enjoy your cold turkey
That you eat in the dark
Forget all the chaos
Ignore all the scandals
Let’s gather as one
By the light of our candles
And dwell on the things
That deserve celebration
As we dream of a brighter
More powerful nation
I wish this woman in her wheelchair would ride on the pavement where there are ramps. But no she insists on riding down the middle of the road. She may wish to be killed but I really wish she would do it somewhere else and not on the roads of Linden.
I used to live over the road from this house. Over the years I have watched the neglect and disintegration of it. This picture was taken on 16/12/2014.
So much for our wonderful ANC government.
Yesterday I had to take a friend to Joburg station to catch a bus.
Firstly, there is no boom at the entrance to collect parking tickets. It has been broken off.
I delivered the friend and then tried to get out only to find that there are parking ticket boxes and you cannot get out without breaking the booms.
So you have to go and park your car (one parking at the other end of the parking lot) get a ticket from the entrance and wade through piles of human excrement and pay R12 (immaterial that you have originally spent less than five minutes in the dump) at one of three (only) money gobblers (two of which don't work so you stand in a queue) then find the machine only takes R20 or less (and NONE of the shops will exchange R100 notes).
EVENTUALLY you do get out of the concourse and have to wade through same said excrement to your car and gett out of the station. What a downgrade for the once very nice Joburg station which I used to go to every day.
SHAME on you TRANSNET
I have no issue with belief systems. I have issue with religions and the way gullible people blindly follow what the leaders say and that they demand that their followers have to convert others to their way of thinking.
For instance some of these religionists blindly believe that the Earth is only about 4000 years old. And no matter how you argue with them they will tell you that it is scientifically proved to be obly that old. I wonder what science that would be? The science of thumbsuck.
Even Judaism, the founding religion for both Christianity and Islam, acknowledges that the Earth is older than their 7000 year old religion which dates from the Circumcision of Abraham at 96 years old.
Religions are for the gullible, non-thinking, lazy people. People who want to be led and want to be told what to do. Most of the Christian religionists that I have come into contact with will happily quote a random verse from their bible and then I will ask them to tell me what is in the verse before and in the verse after, which nine times out of ten contradicts the verse quoted.
I have issue with people who tell me I have to believe what they believe. I question everything, because I can and because I want to.
Recently I went to the memorial service of a man who was a confessed atheist. His family decided to do a religious service with a minister officiating. If there is a life after death I had an image of him sitting at the end of the pew, beer in hand laughing his head off at the religionists praying for him. If he has gone somewhere else I reckon he has gone to the big motor bike place in the sky.
I declare that when I die that there must be NO religious minister of any religion near me. Cremate me, and scatter me to the winds and drink yourselves to a standstill with whatever money there is in my estate.
DO NOT PRAY for me as there is nothing to pray for. I don't believe!!
LET ME DIE A YOUNG MAN'S DEATH
Roger McGough
O Let me die a young man's death
not a clean and inbetween
the sheets holy water death
not a famous-last-words
peaceful out of breath death
When I'm 73
and in constant good tumour
may I be mown down at dawn
by a bright red sports car
on my way home
from an all night party
Or when I'm 91
with silver hair
and sitting in a barber's chair
may rival gangsters
with ham fisted tommy guns burst in
and give me a short back and insides
Or when I'm 104
and banned from the Cavern
may my mistress
catching me in bed with her daughter
and fearing for her son
cut me up into little pieces
and throw away every piece but one
Let me die a young man's death
not a free from sin tiptoe in
candle wax and waning death
not a curtains drawn by angels borne
'what a nice way to go'
death
