Argus season is here - opening shot by the motorists

[G e r h a r d Odendaal]

Would be nice to have a face to face conversation with this Dr

['Dale]

Ai ja nê...

Some peeps with titles believe at it adds credibility even if they weave some bull nonsense in print

 

[BSG]

Yesterday I had someone phoning me to make an appointment for services to be rendered, the old lady kept on reminding me that the service to be rendered is for PROF SO AND SO. I have a business that involves the removal of sewerage from septic tanks with vacuum tanker trucks and I would like to know what does a title do to the scent/colour of your sh!££?

[Jigghead]

Yesterday I had someone phoning me to make an appointment for services to be rendered, the old lady kept on reminding me that the service to be rendered is for PROF SO AND SO. I have a business that involves the removal of sewerage from septic tanks with vacuum tanker trucks and I would like to know what does a title do to the scent/colour of your sh!££?

Reminds of a time, quite a while back, I was driving behind one of those tankers you speak of. Like most commercial vehicles, this one had company details one, and this one started with:

 

"?????? Septic Tank Removals

We Take Your Sh~t"

 

Always amuses me when I think about that.

[Jaco Steyn]

Reminds of a time, quite a while back, I was driving behind one of those tankers you speak of. Like most commercial vehicles, this one had company details one, and this one started with:

 

"?????? Septic Tank Removals

We Take Your Sh~t"

 

Always amuses me when I think about that.

And the one I saw stating 'If you are not 100% happy with our service, we give you 50% more back.' They never get any complaints!

[JGR]

Any relation to Jonathan Ancer?

[LeTurbo]

 

Shame, the poor retard...

 

Dale Kenmuir

(1945–), South African–born fisheries scientist and writer. His adventure stories draw on his experiences in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Namibia. Most of the stories portray what has since become an outmoded approach to conservation, as a semimilitary operation against poachers, although he does explain how game reserves have to take into consideration local residents and the need for funding through commercialization. His hero, Tom Finnaughty, features as a teenager visiting a game reserve on the Zambesi (Dry Bones Rattling, 1990; Ol’ Tangletooth, 1990), and as an adult game warden (The Tusks and the Talisman, 1987; Sing of Black Gold, 1991). This is a stereotyped masculine world, in which women are identified with nature. Lyrical, evocative descriptions of the bush and wild creatures are interspersed with passages of clichéd, tough dialogue. If boys have emotional problems, the problems arise from troubled relationships with their fathers, as in The Catch (1993) and Song of the Surf (1988). The latter portrays a sensitive eleven-year-old whose rejection of his father is confused with his revulsion when his father leads fishermen in obtaining a permit to cull seals because they threaten their catch. Father and son are reconciled, but the tension between conservation and commercial exploitation remains. 

 

Bwahaha! They sound to be dreadful books, sort of "That Wilbur Smith chap has done so well, I think I'll do the same and make a fortune."

[BSG]

Reminds of a time, quite a while back, I was driving behind one of those tankers you speak of. Like most commercial vehicles, this one had company details one, and this one started with:

 

"?????? Septic Tank Removals

We Take Your Sh~t"

 

Always amuses me when I think about that.

The slogans on my trucks are the following 1. Your nr2 is our nr1 2. Yesterday's meals on wheels.

[Cat2forLife]

Um... Excuse me... Carbon contraptions

[Hackster]

Sure, it's not the funniest thing I've ever read but I don't think it's something to take offence at. It's clearly written in jest.

 

Some of the responses on this thread seem to serve only to highlight and validate the negative attributes he describes...

 

That said, his letter does call for a clever rebuttal though, any literate motherhubbers up for the challenge?

[porqui]

It's not a case of taking offence.

 

It's just that there are so many out there with that real attitude that he displays.

In fact the truth is more "unreal" than any fictitious story.

 

Scary times ahead!

 

The two worst thoughts that come to my mind at the beginning of each season is:

How many deaths this year - yes and there will be.

How many hi-jackings?

 

And one more - how many incidents of road-rage (physical) and there will be.

 

Will I be one of the statistics? (That is if it gets registered)

 

God keep me safe on the road this season and help me be tolerant of ALL road users.

[Pieterg]

Sad sad sad

[ThaStig]

Sounds like the stereotypical octagenarian who has retired to Fish Hoek (probably from Rhodesia) and has nothing better to do than think of things to complain about.

There, fixed

[DJR]

.................That said, his letter does call for a clever rebuttal though, any literate motherhubbers up for the challenge?

I nominate River Rat

[Shebeen]

Sure, it's not the funniest thing I've ever read but I don't think it's something to take offence at. It's clearly written in jest.

 

Some of the responses on this thread seem to serve only to highlight and validate the negative attributes he describes...

 

That said, his letter does call for a clever rebuttal though, any literate motherhubbers up for the challenge?

I've got the ghost writer from 2008's "burry stander olympic diaries" onto the job.

[Shebeen]

i got sent the copy over lunchtime...any comments' suggestions......

 

Response to “ It’s a jungle” By Dr Dale Kenmuir False Bay Echo 18/09/2014

Dr,

These ‘Cloglodites’ as you call them are actually sub sets of the broader genus, the Roadii. They are close cousins of the Sedanists, but it gets even more confusing as some Cloglodites are also Sedanists. This is what causes the chaos, as all of them seek to find harmony on the common resource, the road itself.

Where you are definitely mistaken is that the Cloglodites are not new, they’ve been around for much longer than the Sedanists.

Where you are even more mistaken is the belief that the Sedanists ‘own’ the road, infact the Cloglodites have just as much right by law to be on this road. Using a Zoology example, just like the Lion is the strongest and most aggressive in the wild, he does not own the savannah. Please don’t think that an annual car licence pays for the road, it’s the taxes that we all pay that contributes the ‘lion’ share. You mention this species being a hazard to motorists, peruse any road death figures and you’ll see the Sedanists are the chief cause.

Where you are the most mistaken is that the Cloglodites clog these shared motorways. You only need to look at any traffic jam of Sedanists to see that many of them are not carrying passengers. An excellent current example of this stupidity can be observed at the Kalk Bay stop/go, where the Sedanists frustratingly line up for miles on end – right alongside a perfectly functional railway line.

It’s actually the Sedanists who need to be culled. You might have noticed that the city is allocating more resources to other classes of Roadii, like the Busiusco and Trainoldlii and our Cloglodites, like they have always to the Sedanists in the past. Don’t lose your soup over this thought, many world class modern cities operate this way, efficiently.

Your observations are, however, not without merit. There are indeed many Cloglodites who act flippantly like those four letter words you mentioned. It’s just a few who give a bad name to the majority of well natured road users. In the same way many Sedanists take their anti-social behaviour onto our roads and make it a nightmare for the rest of us. We all need to accept two things:

a)      We are both here for the long term, we all have rights to and should respect the road and other road users.

b)      If we don’t do a) things will just get much worse.

Kind regards

Ike Rider cloglodite/sedanist