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RunX, away, as fast as you can…

…and the hits keeeep on comin’!

Toyota RunX Rsi Lotus edi­tion R220 000, thats Two hun­dred and twenty thou­sand rand.Not Neg.Also will­ing to swap for C63 AMG with reas­on­able mileage.Car was fully impor­ted from Australia.Engine ser­viced by Boencha.Contucci suspension.Micro par­tice fil­tra­tion fuel injection.Ettonoich steer­ing control.Contronaught under­car drag reduction.True 157kw, 0–100 in 6,8 second dead.Tops out at end of clock.Car stock stand­ard from Lotus fact­ory. Looks liek stand­ard Rsi, but will give M3 a hel­lava fright.Very hard to part with,no joy riders or people that have no know­ledge on this edi­tion please. Rather research before you call.Only ser­i­ous EMAILS will be given fur­ther details.

Cap­tain, we’ve detec­ted large amounts of fail in this sector.

 

I don’t know, I’m rather intim­id­ated by this rare beast. How about you?

106 Kws of pure kit­chen appli­ance POWAH!

This thing must be SUPER rare! To ensure it doesn’t attract the ‘wrong’ type of atten­tion, he’s pur­pose­fully only shown us the really crappy-quality pho­tos of it, and no shots of the mega-exclusive Lotus badges.

Thanks to the “Con­tranaught” drag thinyma­jig, I bet that things pulls smoother than Ol’ Blue Eyes on an ice-rink wear­ing a satin mankini.

I was a bit wor­ried about my neigh­bour beat­ing me, but his ricer M-fwee does 0–100 km/h in 6.832, not “dead”, so you know I can whip him some and have plenty left over to charf the dol­lies with.

We can even be kewl like Ice, sport­ing big flames ‘n wild zorst-muzak right at the end of the clock. Chicks dig that.

With all of those lek­ker good­ies under there, Pimped ain’t gonna know what to do when I send the pho­tos in to ‘em.

I “liek” it a lot, but I can’t find nuffin on da Google about this dope ride, yo!

Be kewl man, be kewl, I’m just gath­er­ing up my “Two hun­dred and twenty thou­sand rand.

I’m all out of C63 AMGs.

BARGAIN!

Posted: February 17th, 2012
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Wanted: External Drive

In line with the ‘Pack­aging’ post, here is another wonder…

NB! To sim­plify find­ing sim­ilar posts, I have begun tag­ging all posts relat­ing to dodgy ads with ‘Bad Ads’.

This chap is on the lookout for an external HDD, but not an empty one. It must come loaded with, pre­sum­ably pir­ated, music OR movies.

Cheeky, rebel­li­ous and greedy, all in one.

His mother must be so proud.

…I’d sug­gest he con­tact the seller of this HDD, but that appears to be one of those clunky rel­ics that still uses elec­tri­city. Poor soul.

 

Posted: February 16th, 2012
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Never Taken Out The Box!!!!!!!

If you’re try­ing to play coy and sly with your antique-selling by mar­ket­ing an item as never hav­ing been removed from its ori­ginal pack­aging, dis­turb­ing the ori­ginal pack­aging to remove it for a photo is pretty much put­ting that claim to bed, wouldn’t you say?

Look here! The Vir­gin Mary is on offer today, untouched, pure and chaste. Let me hold open these here flaps in order to show you.

Posted: February 15th, 2012
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Don’t be evil — Be Anonymous

When you search Google,

and click on a link,

your search term is sent to that site,

along with your browser & com­puter info,

which can often uniquely identify you.

That’s creepy, but who cares about some ran­dom site?

Those sites usu­ally have third-party ads,

and those third-parties build pro­files about you,

and that’s why those ads fol­low you everywhere.

That’s creepy too, but who cares about some herpes ads?

Your pro­file can also be sold,

and poten­tially show up in unwanted places,

like insur­ance, credit & back­ground checks.

But there’s more.

Remem­ber your searches?

Google also saves them.

Your saved searches can be leg­ally requested,

and then come back to bite you (hap­pens).

Or a bad Google employee could go snoop­ing (hap­pens).

Or Google could get hacked (hap­pens).

That’s why we don’t send your searches to other sites.

Or store any per­sonal inform­a­tion at all.

That’s our [DDG] pri­vacy policy in a nutshell.

So don’t get tracked when searching.

Use Duck­DuckGo instead.

Pri­vacy is just one of many reas­ons why it’s awesome.

That li’l excerpt is from Don’TrackUs, a promo’ site for the Duck­DuckGo search engine. If you weren’t aware of how these things work and thought that Googling and ‘Lik­ing’ all and sun­dry was good fun, I hope your eyes are a little wider now? ;)

At what stage does ‘Don’t be evil’ become being evil? I won­der…

DDG has a fant­astic approach to ‘clean’ search with an easy-to-read and detailed explan­a­tion of what’s on offer, why you need it and what it’s pro­tect­ing you from.

Stay­ing mostly anonym­ous requires a hol­istic approach though, so be sure to check out the neat-o Fire­fox add-ons on the DNT site and think before you click.

DuckDuckGo.com

Posted: September 7th, 2011
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Dancing In Paris — Isuzu Gemini

Motor vehicle man­u­fac­tur­ers often present us with the biggest load of bol­locks, hop­ing we’ll spend our overly-taxed earn­ings on what is usu­ally cr*p of the highest order.

We’re shown images of empty roads, smil­ing drivers and of laugh­ing kids in the back. We’re bom­barded with stats on how their cars go a mil­lion miles an hour, save the endangered purple-dotted green-slashed micro giant fruit-eating wom­bat of Tjakibolly­bog­stan due to bet­ter fuel eco­nomy and how eas­ily we can afford to enjoy all of this — moreso than the last one, which was updated six months ago but is now old.

Over the years we’ve seen cars thrown out of planes, driven to the arc­tic, driven around the world, sub­merged in water and so on and so forth.

Every so often though, they come up with an idea that, while truly Mind-boggling, suc­ceeds — even twenty-five-plus years on — in get­ting you to talk about the product, have fun with the product and per­haps — they hope — buy the product on the wave of non-sensical fun you’re enjoy­ing as a result.

In 1985 ISUZU released Dan­cing In Paris, a three-and-a-half minute extra­vag­anza of co-ordinated stunt driv­ing in Paris, France.

It does noth­ing to show off the Gem­ini in prac­tical terms and it cer­tainly never reached my side of the world, but in 2011, thanks to the Inter­net, I got to see, enjoy and love the ad’.

Would I have bought a Gem­ini as a res­ult? It’s hard to say, with hind­sight, but the ad’ is twenty-six years old and I — and other local motor­ing enthu­si­asts — are still talk­ing about it. Now that’s impact.

Posted: August 4th, 2011
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Salt, Cellar Vie

(Not the salty beef noodles in ques­tion. ;) )

A court in Taiwan this week ruled against a female food-blogger who said a local restaurant’s beef noodles “were too salty,” and that she’d seen cock­roaches scur­ry­ing around in the res­taur­ant. She gets 30 days in deten­tion, two years of pro­ba­tion, and must pay 200,000 Taiwanese dol­lars (about $7K US dol­lars) in com­pens­a­tion to the res­taur­ant. The court didn’t argue she was lying about the bugs, but ruled that “Ms. Liu should not have cri­ti­cized all the restaurant’s food as too salty because she only had one dish on her single visit.”

From the Taipei Times:

After vis­it­ing a Taichung beef noodle res­taur­ant in July 2008, where she had dried noodles and side dishes, Liu wrote that the res­taur­ant served food that was too salty, the place was unsan­it­ary because there were cock­roaches and that the owner was a “bully” because he let cus­tom­ers park their cars haphaz­ardly, lead­ing to traffic jams.

The res­taur­ant owner, who sounds like a total dick (I can say this because I’m not in Taiwan!), said “he hoped the case would teach her a lesson.”

Again, from the Taipei Times:

Huang Cheng-lee (黃呈利), a law­yer in Taichung, said that blog­gers who post food reviews should remem­ber to be truth­ful in their com­ment­ary and sup­ple­ment their com­ments with pho­to­graphs to pro­tect themselves.

We’re long past April 1st. This crazy story is true — as sad as that is.

Just think of the ludicrous pre­ced­ent this situ­ation sets…as an example:

Sir, I find your body odour to be quite repug­nant.” “Be gone, foul fel­low. Your ill-deserved smat­ter­ings of repug­nancy dis­respect all that I stand for. I demand reper­a­tions equi­val­ent to one Guinea for your forked tongue.”

Mr. Stinky would be in line for a credit des­pite his odor­ous physicality.

China has long been infam­ous for its anti-free speech and Inter­net usage policies, but surely, crim­in­al­ising the over­use of salt on one’s noodle of choice is far too far.

China’s teeter-totter between Cap­it­al­ism, Social­ism and Com­mun­ism is per­haps lean­ing a little too far in the regressive?

Pass the salt, please.

Source: Boing Boing

Posted: June 28th, 2011
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