South Africa

[Megas Methuselah]

Her arse is mine.

You in for a threesome, loverboy?

[Beefy187]

I knew a girl who came from South Africa.
She was pretty.

[naut]

2. the tourist beach had patrols with submachine guns literally every one- or two-hundred meters and some on quads driving around as well

The shopping centre near my Grandparents has guards armed with MP5s and kevlar. Ridiculous.

[Strike For The South]

For your information, Strike´s not a guy. In case you haven´t noticed, she´s been sending me all those and forever.


I´ve been saving up for a ticket to Texas for over a year. Her arse is mine.

Can we get married in France?

I would do nothing but feed you crepes (They are like really thin pancakes) under the louvre

[Louis VI the Fat]

Me, I think that everybody ought to see Africa at least once. Africa is in your genes. It is where the human species evolved, where we lived for millions of years. Africa speaks to you on a primal level, it resonates with your soul. All the sounds, the sights, the smells - it connects with something very deep inside of you.

This is what I mean:

Film scores mimic alarm calls of animals to heighten fear and emotion, study suggests
Film soundtracks like Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and The Birds mimic animal distress calls in the wild to heighten our emotions, a report claims.

Researchers say that the score for popular movies tap into our basic animalistic brain to evoke all kinds of feelings from sadness, to fear, to excitement. They believe that "non-linear vocal attributes", the rasping and distortion of voices used by mammals in times of duress, are used by film soundtrack composers.

This technique included the overblowing of brass and wind instruments and the metallic rasp of a French horn when a hand is placed in the bell. They also employed feedback loops from electric guitars and the crash and bang of drums and cymbals.

Professor Daniel Blumstein, the lead author at the University of California, compared a number of soundtracks from Hollywood blockbusters to the distress calls of marmots. He found that the deliberate distortion of sound and sudden pitch and harmony changes at times of dramatic tension and mimicked the alarm calls given out by the marmots at times of duress.

"Noise is associated with horror and fear," said Prof Blumstein who reported his findings in Royal Society journal Biology Letters. "Abrupt frequency shifts are associated with sad dramatic scenes. Noise is associated with horror and fear. I would say it taps into our primal fear which is shared with other mammals and birds.

"It scares us, but it also scares other animals."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7...-suggests.html

We are animals. We are African animals. Art is finding the hardwired African instincts in us, expressing the sensations of the African wild, the cruelty and beauty of it.


I had such a shock of recognition in Africa. Suddenly, while there, I realised why the sounds of my electric guitar excited me. I was only mimicking the far away shrieks of danger that I had never heard in my life before, but that reside in my soul, that are hardwired in my brain to raise adreneline levels for.

[Megas Methuselah]

So Africa is a wild place of animals and animalistic humans? When we go there, we want to jump around and howl like the natives?

[Louis VI the Fat]

The natives live in cities where they busy themselves with their cellphones and soccer matches.



This - for them as well as for us - is a thin layer of civilisation. Underneath, primal passions formed by millions of years in the wild govern man.

(If I may - there is more to life than evil white man and repressed natives. Life is wonderous. The fanatic will miss out on a lot of it)

[Megas Methuselah]

Hey hey hey, don't let me get in the way of you sailing out to someone else's continent and acting like a chimp.

[Zradha Pahlavan]

I remember reading somewhere about how car theft is so prevalent in South Africa that certain owners of automobiles have taken to booby trapping their cars, usually by modifying the airbag system. Supposedly some went so far as to install automated firearms, and in some cases even automated flamethrowers, onto their cars to protect them. Don't know if that's true or not.

[A Nerd]

even automated flamethrowers, onto their cars to protect them

I believe I saw this on 60 minutes a few years back.

[Moros]

Mexico 2 - Italy 1

Well, well, well... An interesting practice match to say the least. That's not really promising for Italy's tournament. Mexico does seem to be a capable team with good efficient forwards. Ofcourse there are no weak teams in this tournament. I think it's more showing Italy's weakness rather than Mexico's strength. I really can't wait till the 11th.

[Louis VI the Fat]

'So a Belgian football lover walks into a thread, and says '

[tibilicus]

A tourists first day in Johannesburg..

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/art...ts-day-in-hell

[Jolt]

A tourists first day in Johannesburg..

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/art...ts-day-in-hell

It will be interesting to see what the authorities will do once tourists start dropping like flies when South Africa WC starts.

[Moros]

'So a Belgian football lover walks into a thread, and says '

Hmmm looks like I posted in the wrong thread...