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by Retnev
11 Apr 2009, 20:11
Forum: Online
Topic: Twitter - Do you Tweet?
Replies: 83
Views: 12933

Re: Twitter - Do you Tweet?

jamin_za wrote:If it is outside working hours, the chances are strong that my honest answer to the one simple question "what are you doing" would traumatize my family, friends and co-workers.
:lol: Did you see 30 Ways to Lose a Job on Twitter
by Retnev
26 Mar 2009, 11:09
Forum: General Chat
Topic: I cannot believe it...
Replies: 44
Views: 910

Re: I cannot believe it...

Just saw this: The South African government admits that it had to choose between the Dalai Lama's visit to the country and risking diplomatic and trade relations between South Africa and China. Spokesperson Themba Maseko was responding to the continuing criticism over government's decision not to gr...
by Retnev
25 Mar 2009, 19:36
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Why do dogs chase their tails?
Replies: 12
Views: 315

Re: Why do dogs chase thier tails?

rustypup wrote:if the answer were "to correct the spelling in the title", would i win a delicious cake?
:oops: That was before the second cup of coffee. The cake is in the post. :)
by Retnev
25 Mar 2009, 09:01
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Why do dogs chase their tails?
Replies: 12
Views: 315

Why do dogs chase their tails?

March 24, 2009 -- A team of veterinarians has found a surprising link between compulsive tail-chasing in dogs and high cholesterol, according to a study published in the March issue of the Journal of Small Animal Practice. The finding adds to a growing body of evidence -- mostly from studies on hum...
by Retnev
24 Mar 2009, 20:21
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Send your name to Mars
Replies: 17
Views: 444

Re: Send your name to Mars

Scorp1on wrote:Why would you want to do that anyway?
Becuase you can! :D
by Retnev
24 Mar 2009, 10:13
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Send your name to Mars
Replies: 17
Views: 444

Send your name to Mars

This is your chance to go to Mars! Or at least your name can. Fill in your information and your name will be included with others on a microchip on the Mars Science Laboratory rover heading to Mars in 2011! Go to http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/
by Retnev
23 Mar 2009, 10:08
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Got my first tattoo!
Replies: 61
Views: 5700

Re: Got my first tattoo!

Prime wrote: And will you at least finish one of your mods when you are done?
Does a tattoo count as a "mod"?
by Retnev
23 Mar 2009, 09:54
Forum: General Chat
Topic: fmylife
Replies: 29
Views: 911

Re: fmylife

Today, my mother and I walked past my boyfriend, whom she's never met. After we casually greeted each other and went on our way my mother says, "He's cute. Who is he?" I paused for a second and replied, "That's my boyfriend." She then asks, "Does he know that?" FML
by Retnev
15 Jan 2009, 15:06
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Man takes 26 years to solve Rubik’s Cube
Replies: 6
Views: 194

Man takes 26 years to solve Rubik’s Cube

It has taken most of his life – but, after 26 years, builder Graham Parker has finally solved the puzzle of the Rubik's Cube. When he bought the toy in 1983, Yuri Andropov was leader of the Soviet Union, breakfast TV was a novelty and music CDs were in the shops for the first time. 'I cannot tell y...
by Retnev
15 Jan 2009, 14:58
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Jokes! - come have a laugh
Replies: 6603
Views: 274130

Re: Jokes! - come have a laugh

The Perfect Scam Durban Police have uncovered the following scam: A company takes out a newspaper advertisement claiming to be able to supply imported hard core pornographic videos. As their prices seem reasonable, people place orders and make payments. After several weeks, the company writes back e...
by Retnev
17 Nov 2008, 12:24
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Jokes! - come have a laugh
Replies: 6603
Views: 274130

Re: Jokes! - come have a laugh

Two IT guys were chatting in a pub after work. "Guess what, mate," says the first IT guy, "yesterday, I met this gorgeous blonde girl in a bar." "What did you do?" says the other IT guy. "Well, I invited her over to my house, we had a couple of drinks, we got into ...
by Retnev
14 Oct 2008, 11:07
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Family Crest/coat of arms
Replies: 11
Views: 526

Re: Family Crest/coat of arms

There are a lot of people the sell a family coat of arms but what they don't tell you is that is only for a certain person and not the whole family or everybody that have that surname. Some info from the National Archives ( http://www.national.archives.gov.za/ ) : "It is a popular misconception...
by Retnev
10 Mar 2007, 10:37
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Missing: Sheldean Human - Sad news
Replies: 43
Views: 2730

In Sheldean Human's memory, South Africans should take initiatives to reclaim the security of their homes and communities, said Tshwane mayor Gwen Ramakgopa at her State of the City address in Pretoria on Friday. "Only criminals will thrive if we point fingers at each other and at our leaders....
by Retnev
10 Mar 2007, 09:46
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Missing: Sheldean Human - Sad news
Replies: 43
Views: 2730

As terrible as this tragedy is, how is it different to the murders of all the other children that happen on a daily basis? Such uproar doesn't happen everyday, yet children are killed everyday, why not? I don't know if this is the answer you are looking for but it is a quote by Marisa H on the eBlo...
by Retnev
07 Mar 2007, 22:57
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Children should be seen and not hurt
Replies: 10
Views: 659

We got the sad news on Monday evening but the Pink day will go ahead. DEAR FRIEND / COLLEAGUE / CARING PARENT We recently forwarded numerous communiqués regarding the dissapearance of Sheldean Human, throughout South Africa. Newspapers, radio and television channels carried updates on a daily basis ...
by Retnev
07 Mar 2007, 22:39
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Missing: Sheldean Human - Sad news
Replies: 43
Views: 2730

I am sitting here crying again. We stopped at Sheldean's home today to give her mother a letter that my daughter wrote. What do you say to the mother..... My daughter is almost 12. This week was only the second time that she ever saw her dad cry ( I think she don't even remember the first time) What...
by Retnev
05 Mar 2007, 22:17
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Missing: Sheldean Human - Sad news
Replies: 43
Views: 2730

Sorry but it is sad news. 702 Eyewitness News can confirm that Police have found and positively identified the body of missing seven-year-old Sheldean Human. It is understood her badly decomposed was found in Premos, just outside the Tshwane University of Technology, in Pretoria earlier this evening...
by Retnev
04 Mar 2007, 09:49
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Children should be seen and not hurt
Replies: 10
Views: 659

I also don't have a pink shirts but what I forgot to say above was that the "Pink ladies" suggested that men/boys or ladies that don't have or want to wear pink shirts to please wear a white shirt with a pink or pink & blue ribbon. . If you go to the "Pink for Sheldean" websi...
by Retnev
03 Mar 2007, 23:08
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Missing: Sheldean Human - Sad news
Replies: 43
Views: 2730

The following is article was on News24 ( I think ) Virginia Keppler, Beeld Pretoria - Sheldean's friends, school staff and parents turned out in force, dressed in pink and denim, in a show of support for the seven-year-old who has been missing for nine days. The message from Tuinrand Primary School ...
by Retnev
03 Mar 2007, 22:55
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Missing: Sheldean Human - Sad news
Replies: 43
Views: 2730

Some of you maybe heard or seen something about the "pink day" protest on 28/02/2007. Some people on the eBlockwatch site ( http://www.eblockwatch.co.za/ ) decided they want to hold a second "Pink day" on 09/03/2007. They hope that it will be a "Welcome home, Sheldean" ...
by Retnev
03 Mar 2007, 14:29
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Children should be seen and not hurt
Replies: 10
Views: 659

Children should be seen and not hurt

I posted a message about Sheldean Human that went missing on 18/02/2007. Some of you maybe heard or seen something about the "pink day" protest on 28/02/2007. Some people on the eBlockwatch site ( http://www.eblockwatch.co.za/ ) decided they want to hold a second "Pink day" on 09...
by Retnev
03 Mar 2007, 14:10
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Missing: Sheldean Human - Sad news
Replies: 43
Views: 2730

Missing: Sheldean Human - Sad news

http://www.jtsoftware.co.za/sheldean/images/SheldeanHuman2007.jpg Sheldean Human went missing on 18 February 2007 between 18:00 and 19:00. She was wearing a blue denim skirt and pink t-shirt. She was last seen in Ernest street, Pretoria Gardens in front of her home. Please contact the following peo...
by Retnev
28 Feb 2007, 20:02
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Are there such things as Good parents?
Replies: 73
Views: 2938

I don't know who wrote this, but I found it on http://www.jtsoftware.co.za/sheldean/ and I know some of the ladies on the eblockwatch site ( http://www.eblockwatch.co.za/index.php?view=missing&id=66 ) mailed it to other people Beautiful Mean Moms Someday when my children are old enough to unders...
by Retnev
14 May 2006, 20:52
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The history behind the name
Replies: 176
Views: 7337

Zell wrote:Lol... Retnev sounds Russian, while Venter is pure Afrikaans. :D
Started using Retnev in the bad old days when the Rusians were the big bad enemy.
by Retnev
14 May 2006, 20:41
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The history behind the name
Replies: 176
Views: 7337

Nera wrote:my nick is my first name spelt backwards
:D

Mine is my surname spelt backwards