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World Cup Traffic

June 28, 2010 / flipside posted in Soccer / No Comments

Photo by deejayres of FlickSo whilst I see a whole bunch of people upset by the traffic to & from stadiums (okay mostly in Joburg dunno about the rest of the country), and regarding my last post…. I found myself loving the new found lack of cars on the road… now I am doubtful that everyone who hates soccer left the country and at the same time everyone who loves soccer took the whole month off from work… so seriously that only leaves the fact that moms are not taking their kids to & from school! Is that even possible… the simple act of not taking kids to school has eased traffic this much?? Seriously?? If it is, then I think kids should be home schooled from now on, or a new law passed stating that you must live within a certain distance from a school for your kids to attend that specific school. You know what… technically the same thing could be applied to people commuting to work! Wow! Talk about reducing the use of fuel, carbon emmisions and automatic traffic calming!!!

Coz seriously… suddenly as much as I could live without the world cup invading my life & my twitter timeline… i don’t want it to end becuase I know the traffic will go back to normal!!

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World Cup 2010

April 28, 2010 / flipside posted in Soccer / 1 Comment

Just for a bit of negativity, coz you all know we feed off of it… I am not feeling the soccer world cup vibes… and I don’t think the ‘whole’ country is behind it. I have quiet a few friends who couldn’t care less, some even leaving the country during that period. I remember before the Soccer World Cup in Germany, Switzerland marketed themselves as a great holiday destination… cleverly however that marketing campaign was aimed directly at women, women who had men in their lives going to the World Cup. I wonder if Zim has been doing the same?

Evening Soccer by Katie@! of FlickrI actually cannot wait for the World Cup to be over, then we will really be able to take stock of how much good it has done for SA. I also wonder if I should be stock piling food, due to supposed price increases, like many of my friends (those friends who are not leaving SA) are doing.

On a positive note, the fixing of our roads is awesome! High Five to SA for getting that sorted, but did we really need a world sport event to kick us into gear to fix the roads? What about all these flower beds and trees that have been planted in and on traffic islands through out the country. Who’s gonna continue to look after those or will the flowers just die, weeds grow between all the rocks and the trees grow so big that they actually become a problem.

Yes, I know I am being ridiculously positive about it all!! Actually you know what I am keen to see… the World Cup filmed in 3D!

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