Comments on: The seven highly annoying habits of boardroom prawns

By: Thobekani

Thobekani — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:52:25 +0000

Hlongwane, South Africa’s circumstance(s) from whichever way you look at it, is like the walls of Jericho, and we have to use all the amunition and spaces we have to hold it up, from the lowest levels of our society as said, invoking sense of humour must remain suspended for now until the progress is in sight, use the resources you have to contribute to the struggle, that way you’d not only be appreciating your position and certain powers and priviledges but also releasing the freedom fighter in you,

cat, the nature of the first part of your response shows the color of your charector and YOU also have a right to be, we are greatful for that.

By: Lihle Tshabalala

Lihle Tshabalala — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:20:44 +0000

Hahahaha. I know acouple of prawns, the type that will ask a stupid question just to mess with your train of though.

Well written Sipho, I like, I like.

By: No Nukes

No Nukes — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:10:12 +0000

@Sipho

If you are a blogger I am sure you keep up with current affairs. I see reports indicating South Africa’s nuclear Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) project could be scrapped which is excellent news.

Germany terminated its experimental PBMR project in 1986 after an accident when radioactive material leaked into the environment.

If the billions of rands of tax payers money wasted on this pie in the sky project had instead been channeled into renewable energy, South Africans and our beloved Eskom would not be in the mess we currently find ourselves. Heads must roll for this monumental scam, with no golden hand shakes, in fact those responsible for this grave injustice should pay back our communal capital they have squandered, or face the wrath of the hardworking tax-payer.

Maybe you feel for the SA public, I don’t know?

By: Mandrake

Mandrake — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:35:31 +0000

this post and its comments are the most random i’ve ever seen in my 2 or so years of dropping in here….

anyway, i like prawns. especially with lots of tabasco sauce. i like them staionary as well…

By: Green Bean

Green Bean — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:40:44 +0000

Sipho

That is great, I think you can be really creative with a new name for your blog page, something that epitomises you and your writing.

By: Cat

Cat — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:08:09 +0000

You tell them, Sipho. Poor old Liewe Heksie and Thobekani completely missed the point, being so PC they scare me. Although if you go and read the Liewe Heksie stories you will find that she is not the sharpest tool in the shed by any stretch of the imagination. As for Thobekani, I suppose anyone has the right to be anal.
But back to you now: the worst boardroom/meeting prawn must be the one that pitches up 15 minutes into the meeting, didn’t prepare, and then raise points under “general” that have been addressed already during the first 15 minutes of the meeting. When the revolution comes they will be the first against the wall, I tell you!

By: Sipho Hlongwane

Sipho Hlongwane — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:21:33 +0000

Khalsa,

I didn’t “steal” the nick from anyone. There are literally hundreds of websites, blogs and suchlike bearing the name “jaundiced eye”.

It’s a common English expression. Broadly speaking, it means a prejudiced or slanted viewpoint.

However, in deference to the fact that Mr. Saunderson-Meyer and I share a blogging platform, I will think up a new name for this blog.

By: Sipho Hlongwane

Sipho Hlongwane — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:25:49 +0000

Thobekani & Liewe Heksie,

Have you ever imagined what it might be like, living in a country that has no humour, a country populated by citizens who cannot laugh at themselves every now and then?

It would be hell.

Also, just for the record, I am no “journalist”. I am a blogger. This is a blogging platform.

By: Vegetarian Boardroom Prawn

Vegetarian Boardroom Prawn — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:49:48 +0000

Yes Sipho, vegetarians irritate you and so do boardroom prawns. I get irritated by fat people who always stop in the middle of passages and doorways oblivious that others want to get past, they also irritate me when they sit on a public toilet and groan in exertion then sigh with relief while answering nature’s call. Shop tellers that carry on a conversation in loud voices with passers by while they are serving me piss me off, and taxi’s that stop to pick up or drop of passanges on busy motorways where it distictly says ‘no stopping’ also irritate me.

At least you don’t have to be exposed to what irritates you, but I get exposed to what numberous times a day.

By: Thobekani

Thobekani — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:54:17 +0000

let’s allow our thoughts to live in about the same vicinity in these troubled times SA is experiencing, that we are one of coutries topping the list on child abuse/molestation, what about the highest number of infant mortality, matenal mortality, human trafficking, the fact that our economy has low levels of savings making us the least preferred economy for investment – compared to CHINA, INDIA & BRASIL,

these issues and a whole lot more need more consideration as discourse at social level, WHY’s and HOW’s need addressing as a matter of urgency