Whacky Stuff #5 (People, are you happy?)

I think this takes the cake for ‘Whacky Stuff.’

Saw it on the road I take to get from Wits to Kevallion’s house in Brixton. It’s a very interesting road, particularly since ‘Thomas’ Building,’ built in 1918, is located on this road. It also has many other odd buildings on it:

• Beautiful old buildings that are neglected yet somehow retain a fantastic charm about them;
• One of the first cementary’s in Joburg;
• The Hindu crematorium that Gandhi himself commissioned;
• Huge council estates that were built by the apartheid government to house poor whites; and
• One the tallest structures in the country – the Sentech Tower.

This sign was located opposite Thomas’ Building. There is seeminlgy no reason for it being there – no advertising, no branding, it’s in the middle of some field - some plonker just decided to stick it up. Just for just.

And it’s so ARBITRARY.

Well… Are you?

Whacky Stuff #4

This is dedicated to Buckles for two reasons:

1) She doesn’t like my blog at the moment. She prefers the strawberry one at Xanga. And I must agree with her, but alas there is nothing much I can do at the moment because I know diddly-squat about CSS, and so I do not know how to import strawberries into this blog.

2) When she sees this, she will squeel in delight. And that squeel makes me happy inside.

I found this on the omgblog.

Whacky Stuff #3

Sarah, Buckles and I always mock this one particular store in Killarney, because the clothes are sooooooo not our taste. N0 doubt they do very well with the old-granny clientelle that frequents Killarney, but we just think that the shop is kind of a surreal experience, in the sense that it feels and looks like a shop out of the 1950s. I mean really, meisie, look at that floral dress with that olive-green coat? How Paris Hilton of her!

The shop aside, however, what we found particularly funny were these signs, because they equate Killarney with the various fashion capitals of the world.

Which is just…. so funny, I cannot even explain it to you. Sorry. Guess your mind just has to be tainted by working in Killarney and serving it’s clientelle for three years. One just becomes jaded.

Anyway, here are the signs pointing you to the fashion capital of the world… hooo hoo, heee hee.

Whacky Stuff #2

I overtook this truck on the way back from Mafikeng yesterday. The truck looks a bit like an elephant, and so the construction company has very cleverly painted the back of the truck to resemble an elephant. Anyway, I think it’s whacky and funny!

Welcome to the Whacky Stuff category Miss Elephant Truck… teehee

Whacky Stuff #1

Welcome to the first ever Whacky Stuff from the Joburgboy. Whacky Posts will showcase all that is completely whacky in the world. the Joburgboy has decided to embark on this whacky escapade, for himself has been referred to as ‘whacky.’ How would one define whacky?

The Oxford Talking Dictionary defines ‘whacky’ as being a variant of ‘wacky,’ and is an adjective used to describe someone (or something, for that matter), who is… ”A crazy, mad, or peculiar person; an eccentric.”

The first Whatcky Stuff contains the three following characters/things:

• A building
• A billboard
• Robert Gabriel Mugabe

Spot the odd one out.

The building…

This building attracted me because it is old (from 1918), is rather decrepit and would look absolutely fantastic if it was spruced up and made it to an attractive, hip, hot and happening shop. But as it is, it has a charm that I find infectious…

I also like the building, however, because it is Thomas’ Building. And my name is Thomas. So it is now my building. Don’t I just rock?

The Billboard…

The Billboard comes from that fantastic blog, the Oh My God Blog, that posts either skandaaaal or pictures of famous men in the nude. It also occasionally posts photos of whacky/cute stuff… like this billboard. I suppose it’s message reflects a valid concern of many people: just imagine how many people have done the nookie-nookie on the comfortable bed you’re sleeping on? Hmmmm….

Robert Gabriel Mugabe (aka Bob)…

I shouldn’t really be placing this dimwit under my Whacky Stuff category, because what he has done is not a joke and is a very serious situation. It pisses off many South Africans, in particular, for this dimwit lives on our doorstep, and yet our government continues with it’s policy of Quiet Diplomacy, even though the actions of his government, such as Operation Murambatsvina and the recent torturing of opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangarai, violate our own Constitutional principles as well the values of the African Union. It also results in a HUGE influx of refugees from Zimbabwe, which in turn places immense pressure on our own scarce labour and social resources. But our government – oh no, they just tra la la their way through life as though nothing bad is happening – all is hunky dorey on our beautiful continent, neh?

Anyway, Bob’s response to the condemning remarks fromm the rest of the world (read: UK, USA, EU, etc. NOT CHINA) was quite comical, as he told them to ‘Go Hang.’