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medusa
Joined: Oct 18, 2006
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From: JHB, South Africa
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Mango's special is only till the end of december, after that who knows how much a ticket will cost. The grootkop of Mango says that tickets will sold at about 20% less than any other tickets on the market. They say the planes are more economical and use less fuel, but there's a higher seating density, and can carry up to 186 passengers (more than any other airline). Drinks and snacks will be sold and they will charge for overweight luggage and hand luggage. The next route on their list is JHB to Bloem. They also want to start selling tickets via retail and food stores to reach a wider market and will let us know in the coming weeks when this happens.
Hopefully they start flying to PE soon for dirt cheap, but do I really want to sit all squashed up between 185 people?
My airline of choice is SAA but only locally, because they are cheaper than Kulula. They suck as an international carrier. SAA and British Airways are on par with their tickets at times. I've never ever managed to get hold of one of those "cheap" tickets that Kulula claims to sell when they have specials, for me its just a myth! Like and urban legend in my mind...
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francoislr
Joined: Jun 15, 2006
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From: Pretoria, South Africa
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@ Wanqa, yes, I did see 'Flight Of The Phoenix', and that bit was just so cool. Saw that a month or two after discovering Massive Attack...Are you sure its the first track on the cd? I always thought it is the second one, but maybe its just my version.
Saw a mention about the new airline, and the price has already risen by R40 since last night...a bit much too quick, i mean, they have not even started yet!lol!
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francoislr
Joined: Jun 15, 2006
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From: Pretoria, South Africa
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Okay, so for my Halloween post, follow this link and enjoy...
"Ghouls, beasts, and the little kid next door."
http://www.the-pub.co.za/node/66
...it is not exactly Dave Barry, but it is my little effort....
For Dave Barry, go here...Very funny, this one..(as if Dave Barry ever wrote anything that is not!)
"Making fun of Halloween"
http://www.miami.com/mld/miam[....]mnists/dave_barry/15773086.htm
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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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@ Francois,
I think it is the first track; I'll check again tonight just for the sake of curiosity.
I'm off to the SA High Commission (near Trafalgar Square) this afternoon to collect my new passport. I'm quite impressed; it only took 2 months to arrive instead of the more normal 4 months from here.
Next week I have to write a 'Life In The UK Test', which I have to pass (it's not that difficult) and submit with the rest of the plethora of paperwork to the local authority for our 'Naturalisation' status. This can take 4-12 months. Once this has happened, we have to attend a swearing-in ceremony, after which we are officially classified as British...and then we can apply for that burgundy passport.
I have the permission letter from the SA High Commission which allows me to keep my SA nationality, and thus dual citizenship.
Ja-nee, dan is ek n egte 'soutie!' 
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francoislr
Joined: Jun 15, 2006
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From: Pretoria, South Africa
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@ wanqa, that is actually cool. I would like to have dual citizenship in two countries, just to be able to legally be in both no mess no fuss. But I would stay here in SA...I should become famous and move to the k...then get it there...if I am famous, SA surely would not stab me in the back=)
@ brix, interesting article...Now if that happens I will not feel as guilty having to pay money to vodacom...Who knows, maybe they scrap the weasel! lol! But I would sure as hell be glad not to have involvement with Telkom. Just hope Vodafone goes to the SNO, makes calls cheaper, and provide better service...only problem, I see MTN doing similar things anyway. This, even when I read the title, is just a way for Telkom to get into Africa...Why not screw the rest of the continent? Really, Telkom is like a loose canon. Africa, beware!
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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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Yeah, I do miss SA a lot, no question, but I'd be pretty dof to give up what has been offered to me here.
We'll see what the future holds; my options remain completely open with dual citizenship status.
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francoislr
Joined: Jun 15, 2006
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From: Pretoria, South Africa
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@ wanqa, it is better that way...we live in a day and age where there are wars, rumors of wars, violence, terror, good bad and ugly. Scary days. Now dual citizenship could be quite handy in this day and age...but if the new world order settles in and the world becomes one, then we are screwed...I think that could be closer than we think. Despite Europe rejecting the last push in that direction, the push is still there, and sooner or later they will be pushed into that...From there, downhill...
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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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Francois, it is an interesting train of thought, and point taken.
However, Europe is one thing, getting the likes of North Korea and others to sing the same songs is quite another.
Right now the rest of the world still seems extremely distant from sharing and adopting generic one-world ideologies and standards, particularly if ones are generated out of , say Western principles.
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francoislr
Joined: Jun 15, 2006
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Very true. There is definitely HUGE differences between the west and the east, but lets face it, technology goes against these differences. The result can be that sooner or later extreme forms of culture will die out and you will just have different type of groups instead of cultures I recon. Okay, all in context of course, and maybe not as fast as I think it will, thet is, if it does, but yeah. Tech brings everyone together. Then there is also the next Secretary General of the UN. Think he will definitely play a big part in the relations between east and west.
Sometimes I think that before all these things really happen we will all be wiped from the face of the planet. There is just so much intolerance, and people don't just suck up, they eventually oppose.
I do not say I know how things will go the next few years, but humanity tends towards chaos, and chaos leads to destruction eventually. Like I have said before, if there is any intelligent life out there, the big proof would be in the fact that they have not made contact with us=)
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jmash
Joined: Jan 18, 2006
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From: Nelspruit,South Africa
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One Lucky Fella.This guy,a collegue,bought a brand new Samsung E370 on Friday.On sunday he fell into a dam with the phone in his pockets.He gets out and the phone is completely DEAD.On Monday l suggested he takes it back and never mention anything about the little accident.Today when I come back from my lunch I spot a new E370 charging on his desk,and he says they gave him another after telling them it just stopped working.
I gues lieying sometimes help!
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Hobbs
Joined: Oct 07, 2006
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From: Cape Town,South Africa
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Thats one lucky guy and one hell of a stupid service provider. |
brix25
Joined: Aug 20, 2003
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From: Cape Town, South Africa
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@jmash: I'm in two minds about the fraud your friend committed...Good for him if he had been screwed by service providers all his life but I also feel lying about something like a cellphone sets a bad precedent...where will it stop? Next up he might be contemplating an insurance scam.
One word that comes to mind when I hear of people trying to beat the system is: Karma.
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francoislr
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@ brix, yeah, the karma drove over your dogma thing:) Funny enough there seems to be these universal rules. No matter what you believe they apply. Karma's christian equivalent would be the what you sow is what you reep thing. Dont know what the other cultural equivalents are. And sometimes i become aware of the Biblical ones. Like the tithes thing. So many times i have been in financial trouble, and i meet my obligation of paying my tithe. Next thing i know money comes back in. I dont know if there are similar things in other religions, but it is weird how it works. I almost dare compare it to gravity-whether you believe in it or not, it applies to you. But that is all the eerie spiritual stuff. So why is everybody so quiet lately?
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psychonymphe
Joined: Sep 03, 2006
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From: Stellenbosch, S.Africa
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I agree. He was lucky, but at the same time what do we learn if we manage to evade the consequences of our actions?
My feeling on karma / cause and effect is that it works in ways that aren't always 'logical' in our understanding of the word. Sometimes we act in ways that we know are not right, and we sit with a deep sense of unease and shame for months. Karma doesn't mean that our actions will return in the form that they left in; sometimes karma is a lasting happiness brought about by a gesture, or shame that creeps so close to the bone that it causes insomnia.
I'm not getting off topic. I'm trying to say that karma usually tries more subtle reform before it whacks us through the face with a baseball bat.
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psychonymphe
Joined: Sep 03, 2006
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From: Stellenbosch, S.Africa
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@francois, my patience wears thin with Christianity for various reasons. The texts are contradictory, over-edited, and it's been proven time and again that the bible is not an objective or fair representation of the original Christian tenets. What really has me is the way Christians will cling to their beliefs mercilessly without reading through spiritual texts from other religions / sources. I'm not condemning all of Christianity, i'm predicting that the world is fast opening its eyes to the scientific facts of life. The bible, these days, is best interpreted in allegorical terms.
But yes. We will reap that which we sow. I just wish the Christians who feel it's their mission to convert the world would listen to Jesus re judgement.
Sorry for this one guys, had a bad bad encounter with a Bible-waver this weekend.
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