Life is smelly in SA's urinal city

I couldn't help myself when I caught Life's most rosy for people who live in Bloemfontein in this week's Sunday Times. Nice catchy succint title don't you think. Those crazy-cat newspaper editors and their puns. I had a stab at my own little one for this post. What do you think? An undiscovered career that's what. But I digress:

PE was rated number 9 out of our 9 SA's major cities. Ha! It was in the Sunday Times so it must be true! Let me contextualise this a bit. I have several mates from PE who go on incessantly about what a great place it is, how they want to breed kids there, grow old and die in amongst the smelting plants there, blah, blah, blah. I, on the other hand, think it is a smelly toilet of a place. They don't even have a respectable private all-boys school and have to make do with one of the public variety. And as we all know they aren't even well-bred enough to give courtesy reach around.

Anyway: Style and Sophistication and Not Smelling Like a Loftus Port-a-Potty 1 - 0 P.E.

News24

Long ago I gave up on the journalistic quality of everyone's favourite online South African news source. However, like any good car crash neck-crainer, I still pull their headlines into my Netvibes page. Thusly, I was treated to the little Robbers take TV, but leave R2 gem. My spidey-senses tell me that's front page news if I've ever seen it. I particularly love how "after the men fled with her television set, a DVD-player and a Sony Playstation, she ran after them, calling them names". I the spirit of newsworthy news the article was originally published in PE's Die Burger. I really do love the news coverage in PE. It is such an accurate refelction of it's people who sincerely believe the world begins at Dispatch and ends somewhere just after Colchester. Particularly close to my heart is The Herald; when the tsunami hit south east asia on boxing day 2004, The Herald still chose to run with the "Danny K plays boxing day concert at St Francis" headline. A friend of mine from the beloved village of PE once defended existence of the paper saying "well everyone buys it to see who has died". Bless their little souls.