Showing posts with label old South Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old South Africa. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

All Over A Parcel Of Fish And Chips

Last year a bill of secrecy was passed because our no-good government decided they did not want to be embarrassed any more.  This certainly does not count up for the fact that they are embarrassment to the whole of South Africa. They government claimed they were "updating a legislation that was drawn 30 year ago"..yes because 30 years ago."We had Apartheid so they definitely didn't want anyone to know what crap they were getting up to.

This bill was simply given out of anger by many of thieves who run our country and a tantrum by the president who didn't want people to know he liked vrieting slap chips with hake.
Where else in the world would dite be taken so seriously?




GET REAL!!!

It seems nobody in government cares what other think of their petty crimes and downfalls, but they do care about cartoon adverts. As the old people like to say,"It's a Mickey Mouse show".

There were many outcries by big fancy intellectual people who gave their opinions in the newspaper and many complaints from the public smses section on how this demeans South Africa's "adolescent democracy".


Spot the difference!

To be honest, we have been a democracy for almost 20 effin years...how young are we as a democracy?? When will it grow out of it's diapers and stop kakking all over the place??
Most countries who had changed to democracies out of dictatorships take about a maximum of 10 years to go through a complete revolution in policies and economic re-structuring. This type of restructuring is also dependent greatly on how unified the society is and willing and not how indifferent they are too other's problems.

There's probably a good reason why South Africa have an ill-fitting government like this. They cannot work alone and are certainly covering up for all the other skelms (thieves) who walk among us everyday with their shitty employee conditions and low pay.

Well, if the people who are supposed to help raise it are giving tantrums about fish and chip parcels or avoiding responsibilities, then the country will only reflect what it has been taught. 

Here you can watch the evils of the South African media in all it's glory....



Thursday, February 23, 2012

I wanna be a Robocop



This has got to be one of the best scenes in the Robocop movies and film history EVER!


Robocop was the beginning of a long line of fantasy cyborgs to begin in popular culture. The idea of creating a half human half machine to create the utimate superhuman has always fascinated scientists. The very idea of it is supposed to make a super human who is physically superior and void of unnecessary spontaneous emotion. Cyborgs are always created for a reason bigger than their own personal needs. Let's face it, its is a clear indication that cyborgs are only greedy capitalist bosses' fantasies where they don't have to deal with the nagging human resources department in their companies and deal with the "human" side of makin' money.


Vacation? Paid leave? Terminal illness? Salary increase? Not for me......no thank you sir!


I suppose the fantasy of having humans/labour entirely under your control and your reason is any boss's dream machine...literally.
The best Robocop film was Robocop 2, directed by Frank Miller who was still a good comic book writer back then. The whole film has brilliant scenes, and questions the ethics of turning poor 'ol Officer Murphy into a cyborg of 100 kgs of metal.
These movies were done in the 80s when most movies plots portrayed capitalism and corporate greed in the most extreme ways. Even in the beginning of one of the movies, besides the police department being a monopoly, the greed gets so bad that there are power stations smack bang in the middle of the Amazon jungle.


Talking toys? Already training young minds to admire robotic slaves under their will perhaps...
When Robocop came out, I don't think many down here in South Africa even knew of the subliminal plots and commentary on U.S capitalism. I think most adults saw it as a kid's thing and kids thought it was damn cool. After all, we call traffic lights robots...'cos they think for themselves...just like people duh! I can't blame South African society for this, after all we only really got television in the 70s (censored no less). We were, and have always been, somewhat behind technology and the availability of it to the general public. Hence, things like cyborgs and computers are always a bit of a mind boggle and something that belongs on "Mannemarak" in the minds of our parents and previous generations. In those days, abominable ideas such as cyborgs were a violation of the very religious society South Africa once was. 
It will be years before our grandparents stop thinking a computer monitor is a T.V screen.



It's 2012, and South Africans are still having difficulty having access to cheap, unlimited internet. Never mind, the complete failures of providing basic electricity to the masses.


Mannemarak: "Besoek ek die aarde eenmaal 'n week!
Op my planeeeeeet, wil ek alles weet
en wat ek weeeeet, sal ek nooit ooit vergeet!"


'Cos every spaceship should be covered in Paddywax tin foil


I guess Mannemarak was and is as close to South Africa's technological leap thus far, even though he was an Afrikaans speaking alien who explored the local 'potlood' (pencil) factories and what 'potjiekos' was made of. I guess him and his cardboard computer (named "Kompie") could be accepted in old South Africa, as long as he wasn't aired on a huilige Sondag (Holy Sunday) and seen as nothing but a heathen alien not of the Good Lord's creation.
Amen


Here you can watch Mannemarak in all his "not-so-innocent diabolic technological" glory: