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The most dangerous Island(s) in the world!
You have to hand it to the talented guys at cracked.com. Billed as “America’s only humour & video site since 1958″, the digg regulars write what can be only described as the internet’s staple diet in terms of article format. Lists. Their “top X of (insert strange/funny/wierd/scary topic) so-and-so” articles cover a wide range of just anything that you can think of, from ‘competitive eating‘ to ‘baffling sports‘.
Cracked follows the traditional list formula, where they number increasingly strange facts about the particular chosen theme. And recently, they’ve written a real cracker of a list, ’6 Real Islands More Terrifying Then The One On ‘Lost”. For want of alot of giggles, click the link to read the article, and pay special attention to the number one island.
Onz 
And remember, while their write up is based (generally!) on facts, its all tongue in cheek mate. All fer fun.
Straight through the Core!
If you’ve ever plotted as a kid to dig right through the earth to end up on the other side of the earth, then you arn’t alone. Personally, I blame that movie I saw as a kid, where the main character gets shot through the earth and ends up in china. According to the National Geographic though, not everyone in the world who fantasises about doing the whole “The Core” thing isn’t going to end up in China.
The diagram above illustrates just where you’ll end up if you were able to enact your digging fantasies (since, you know, it’s really hot down there), or in science gibberish, your antipode. Most people in America would be disappointed to find out that they’d come out on the wet side of the Indian Ocean, with the exception of Colorado, who’d find themselves sitting pretty on Amsterdam Island.
Fascinating stuff, as you can pretty much imagine. Of course, as a fijian, your immediate thought would be, on which side of this beautiful earth where would we end up? For some strange reason known only to the producers of the article, out of all the pacific islands out there, the nice people at National Geo decided to highlight where Fiji would end up. Right smack bang in the middle of Timbuktu, Africa.
I’ve always suspected we had something in common with the people from Africa, aside from our genetic love of curly hair and winning IRB matches. Now, when someone says “From here to Timbuktu”, you can claim with a slight tilt of your nose that Timbuktu is actually our antipode, so it isn’t as bad as was mentioned.
Then you can smile with content while you get your head smacked for being a smart ass.
Youtube Video of the Month – Free for All Brawl
Boxing in Fiji hasn’t been too kind to its followers. Amongst the long line of mishaps, including Joy Ali’s much talked about no-show, Saturday night’s all out brawl between Joe Naleca and Tevita Vakalalabure can now be added to the dismayal list of unprofessionalism in the ring.
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Who am I kidding. The best part about boxing is when the boxers disregard said professionalism and go all out against each other, trainers and fans in tow 
According to reports, Vakalalabure seemed to be the bad boy of the fight, insisting on adding a few knocks on Naleca after the referee stops the fight 3 times. In the first round he landed a couple of jabs on Naleca after the referee had called for a break. The second round had the same thing going twice, and was appropriately penalised…by having a point deducted. Yay. By the third round, Naleca was beginning to warm up to the idea of taking the fight to Vakalalabure, referee or no referee.
And that’s when the real fun starts, with the respective trainers leaping into the ring to stop the punchout. Soon fans of both sides join in the fray, with the police not far behind. The video ends with some goliath guy dragged out to the left of the screen, probably screaming “LAI VI AU! LAI VI AU!” (LEAVE ME! LEAVE ME!)
I almost wish I was there.
Fiji is cool…really
Yet another abuse (or free marketing? You decide!) of our country’s name.
Earlier I scoffed at the idea of placing a copyright symbol on “Fiji“, but after seeing this, I’m starting to get slightly nervous. If Fiji can be used with air conditioners, whats next? Fiji Woopie cushions? Fiji replica katanas? Or…God forbid – Fiji FijiansTM – Straight from the islands of Fiji!
Scary thoughts indeed.
PS: Yo dawg I heard you like fijians, so I put a fijian in your fiji, so you can have a Fiji while in Fiji. Dawg.
Stranded fiji citizens finally rescued from island!
(/afk)
As of late I’ve been finding it harder and harder to get back onto the blogging bandwagon due to lack of err mostly the need to write. Call it writers block, or in my case, writers slack/block. As a blogger, the way I blog is that unless I’ve got an actual proper article to post, I won’t post anything. Awesome cake, in his usual persistent mode, wisely said that when that happens, it’s usually good to keep a verbal deluge (or as he put it, a verbal ‘diarrhoea’) going, so you don’t lose out on (a) your readers and (b) your own writing mood/skills.
Fair enough.
(/afk mode off)
The Onion, home to all that is fake and funny, has this ‘in other news’ segment about the grand and epic rescue of the 800,000 or so people who have been ‘stranded’ on the island(islands?) of Fiji for…quite awhile now (thanks for the link Thrashor!).
Favourite part: “…many are quite reluctant to leave their homes and towns behind, but we will get them back to civilisation…”
Jonathan Segal observed that now that Fiji is in The Onion, we are now (dare I say, officially) mainstream*. I concur.
*Fiji Water not counted.
Life in Fiji is Sweet
Posted by Wilson in funny, television, video on October 14, 2008
So says Garageland, a New Zealand indie rock band with a penence for little toy monkeys (Mr Splinky!), influencial bands such as the Pixes, The Clean and The Velvet Underground, and happy, bright tunes that make you want to snap your fingers and go out and smile the world up.
And who would say otherwise? In their music video Life is So Sweet, our protagonist, Mr Jean Paul Paul Jean Jean Paul (yes, this isn’t a typo/tired fingers post at 3am in the morning mistake) dons the spy shades and shadows a mysterious man around the main section of Sigatoka Town (correct me if I’m wrong, could be Nadi…any help from the West? Just where is he shadowing?), and the Outrigger Reef Fiji Hotel. In fact, half of the music video seems like a giant ad promoting Outrigger Reef Fiji, showing off its swimming pool, lovely yard and even the awesome dance club complete with rotating lights and black walls.
Inbetween his ‘Chuck’ tailing moments, Mr Jean Paul happily skips on a sunny beach with histrusty radio on his shoulder, admires the local women (see 1:52) and even manages to do a ninja flip/tumble in the greenery.
I have to admit, he did have a lot of fun. Almost makes me want to join a indie band so that I could make crazy ninja flips and do bad 80s dance styles in a music video.
Almost.
Lulz Photo of the Month
Posted by Wilson in ...ofthemonth, advertising, funny, pwnd on October 1, 2008
50 Brownie points for whoever can point out what’s wrong with this picture.
Filler Post till I get my Net Connection Back
Shifted recently but still haven’t set up my net, so I’m posting this as filler, or to let you know that no, I haven’t yet abandoned this blog. Not until I get my net up and start raiding seriously in them 25 man dungeons before WOTLK – .
Ahem.
If you are a fan of Heroes, and you find the japanese mainboy Masi Oka quite the funny guy, then you’ll be pleasantly surprised that he is kinda funny in real life as well.
Here’s a clip from teh internet teeveez that has Stop Time Boy fishing out from the crystal blue waters of Fiji something that doesn’t quite seem at home in the sea…
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