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  1. Paddaman
    Let us not forget that South Africa is both a deeply rural country (Trankei/KZN) and a ultra modern and industrialised country (JHB and CT), so if you take the traditional measurement of wealth (which scores traditional rural environments very poorly, and scores "cyber economies" highly) you will see a great discrepancy between the two different economies. The reason the rest of Africa does not have such a high GINI coefficient is simply because they do not have high levels of industrialization (and a long history of capitalised economies). If you want to, in Africa at least, live in a less equal country, live in the DRC or Rwanda, but remember the average salary will be much lower for most occupations. Remembers professionals normally are paid similar salaries world wide, and South Africa with the most active and modern economy in Africa will draw these people to CT and Joburg, thus accounting for much of the "top" salaries which make South Africa disproportionally wealth (in the African context) and disproportionally unequal. We should not really be worried about the GINI co-efficient but rather where the mean and the mode are and how compact the distribution is once the "outliers" are removed from the equation. Alternatively the best way to make South Africa "equal" is to simply close down the mining industry, ISCOR, the heavy industry, cut the electricity often and make it incredibly difficult to set up venture investments . Wait isn't that government policy at the moment
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    soon there is going to be a window tax and a sunlight tax.........
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    Hi all, my son is doing a science project on barefoot running for school, can you all take a minute to complete this survey for him https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxVzY1-7y_U38HhGKzuSzdfN7-5jjMdo04rTV6ucCoRZfAbQ/viewform?usp=sf_link much appreciated
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    OOPs, I forgot the farm house is about 15km in and it takes about 2 hrs to get there. The next ten km to the top of Mavis is another matter.......
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    Its only like 15kms........
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    Jewbacca is the winner of this most awesome entry. May he make many happy but frozen memories on the Lesotho border
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    Dear all, I have due to foreseen circumstances an entry to Rhodesrun I cannot use. I am musing on the best way to pass it on to a deserving runner. If you are such a runner please let me know. I will reserve the right to pass it on to the runner who is IMHO the most deserving. Please note that it is just an entry. Transfer costs, accommodation, transport, training and other expenses are not included. Also you MUST make it over MAVIS BANK before the 2 hour cut off, so I will be looking at your STRAVA to determine if you are fit enough. Graeme
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    Homeopathy.
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    No more park runs and trail runs........
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    It is definitely the frame. Give it to me, immediately. I will take this horrible frame of you for free. You do not want an on-one inbred at all. I will dispose of the frame for you at no extra cost. Please do not listen to anyone else, and send that frame to me now.
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    Can Vegan's stop appropriating our food. If it looks like sausage, then it is sausage, so please stop with the delicious looking fake meat products. Get your own format of packaging....
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    Who remembers?

    Paddaman replied to DPG's topic in Chit chat

    The phones still had battery charge.......
  13. Paddaman
    They still do in Brakpan
  14. Paddaman
    Where can I get one of these? They are awesome, can be put on the bike or worn in a race vest in place of a water bottle.. Park runs will next be the same again evil chuckle :devil:
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    My real fear is when some of the top trail runners come flying down a hill. I think some of them can easily pass a social mountain biker. Again, best approach is to run trails that are very technical and steep. Best training and fewer trail companions....
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    But they have paved paradise.....
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    Okay as a undercover trail runner, I will, from now on, slowdown and smile at mountain bikers whenever I pass them on an uphill. Maybe even help them by offering too push them up the hill.....
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    so many roadies now on the trails......
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    You do realise that plastic is killing the world?
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    Agree, a carbon frame will last longer and will give more smiles than a new set of wheels. Who rides carbon wheels on an alu frame anyway?
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    Catsuit lite
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    If she is going to die, it is a risk they willing to take.......
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    I do not like eating chocolate all day, every day, either
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    I love the wonderful circular arguments of those of the "progressive" persuasion. According to them we are living in the worst possible times (to quote Charles Dickens) and most of them, despite serious differences in their "causes" (socialist, race, feminism, veganism ext) all seem to agree that it is "capitalism's" fault. But when a classic liberal or capitalist points to the successes of free market and capitalism, such as production, life expectancy, roads, (to paraphrase "life of Brian":) then the goalposts move to "but we were healthier, happier and better" as cavemen eating roots and killing one another. Sorry this is where Steve Pinker, Niall Ferguson and Thomas Hobbes agrees, life was short and brutish, and the establishment of the state and free market was a brilliant idea and has done an awesome job of making life better, and even saving the planet.
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    What sexism. She is a bone fide Engineer moonlighting as a Bond Girl. She is a brainy girl with good looks. The geeks claim her as one of them........
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