A place to submit your stories of failure in Africa.
Rule: you must provide at least ONE alternative idea, or suggestion, on how this could have been a success.
Suggestion: use the helmet sitting right in front of you on the handlebars… Really, I’ve seen a lot of guys who had to make do, but this guy has a workable helmet that’s unused.
When a chair that probably had seen better days decided to go asunder, right under the very eminent Mr. Nene, who at the time was being interviewed live in studio on SABC2’s A View from the House, it shot him to instant interweb celebrity.
The horror of it all as he looks, desperately hopeful that there would be no aftershocks after the initial thunderous crack as some seemingly important bits of the chair suspension gave in followed seconds later by the full collapse right in the middle of his reply.
What I think takes the cake here is that the presenter skipped right onto the next news item like dude had not a scant instant previously, vanished under the desk! A right trooper, I know I would have definitely joined him under the table clutching my sides as I laughed my head off.
He was apparently retrieved and handed a new chair and the interview proceeded after a short ad break.
“In an effort by the ministry of education to illustrate the concept of redundance to it’s students, the Ghanaian government had signs placed along the roadside. The funny thing is, there really aren’t very many bumps, just holes.”
The 2010 World Cup logo by South Africa is a travesty. A player is doing a bicycle kick overlayed against the colors of South Africa in the shape of the continent. Someone has even created a “Not the 2010 Logo” site in response.
One man’s reaction:
“[It looks like] a frog jumping over a pork chop.”
What could they have done to make this better? A different design - something less busy.