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BRILLIANT!
10/10/2008 13:31
loved it; thanks Chris. keep the controversy coming - however disagreeable your views may be to some, there can be no denying you argue intelligently! - D |
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Awesome article man!!
10/10/2008 13:32
I enjoyed this article a lot!! Best one I've read in quite a while!!Prepare for some PO'ed Irks!! - FunnyStuff |
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What a joke
10/10/2008 13:34
Thanks for a great column.
Once again SA's "Irks" (read politicians) are going to be the laughing stock of the world.
Somehow I don't think Amaprotea protea will sound quite as good as Amabokka bokka - Amused |
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Ha,ha...
10/10/2008 13:34
Have mercy! The Irks!! All these youth league 'childrens' must go back to school. A few very big words uttered in the same sentence do not make you smart! Maybe we should all follow Julius to where the blue-light revolutionaries are, are they creating a new theme-park? Sounds like it would be fun! I wonder what he smokes....? - Michelle |
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Good one
10/10/2008 13:35
Really good one for laughs on this sad Friday afternoon. "The more things change, the more they stay the same". - LoudP |
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My precious!
10/10/2008 13:38
Oh no! the Irks are coming, Mr Frodo!
Bahahhaha! - Oom_Kosie |
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Ha Ha Ha
10/10/2008 13:38
Now that was funny.Well said.Only you Chris can take something as frustrating as this situation and make people laugh while reading about it. - Go Bokke! |
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Flowers
10/10/2008 13:40
Hier kom die Blomme, hier kom die Blomme, na na na na na na, Nah! - Shonilanga |
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Nice
10/10/2008 13:45
Well played Christopher. HAd a good laugh. Now just wait and laugh some more when the humourly deficient among us start posting serious comments. Some people just don't understand satire. Well done Sir! - Johno |
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The Plot thickens.....
10/10/2008 13:46
If they were clever enough....then the ANC would have sneakily started this revisit to renaming the springboks....and then turned around when it surfaced and say 'they dont want to see a change to the springbok emblem' (albeit after 'debate with stakeholders and supporters') Could this be a motivation seeking voters confidence....the ANC are the 'good guys'? I wonder if Malema will add his 5 cents and go against Jesse Duarte....then say 'kill the springbok' for zuma! - KS |
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He he he he
10/10/2008 13:46
Awesome article Chris, the okes in the office are "skeefing" me out cause I had a proper laugh at that one! Cheers! - Marc |
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Shame, poor Us
10/10/2008 13:53
SO SO spot-on Roper, WOW!! Can't wait to hear the crying and ranting from Kolobe and Co. (snif snif sob sob ......Racists!!!) I can hear it now. But the truth hurts, don't it K?. - we been havvvin eeet!! |
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Here Comes the Flower Parade
10/10/2008 13:53
We are the Protea's...and we look ffffabulous! Hahaha!!! Seriously though - what kind of a name with the Protea's be for a rugby team! Fair enough, England have the red rose - but our emblem will look like a cross between a cabbage and a cauliflower....the All-Blacks will have such a laugh! - KS |
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Marc is an Irk!
10/10/2008 13:55
Marc, you Irk! You should be working and being productive instead of Irking around. I'll irking irk you up! - Oom_Kosie |
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lol
10/10/2008 13:57
brilliant article! - cuba |
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HA HA HA
10/10/2008 14:04
with a (metaphorical) thin red line crossing it out - classic! - Sharon |
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Oom Kosie
10/10/2008 14:05
How ironic... Lord of the Rings is about how power corrupts. - HT |
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My blood is green. Plant green.
10/10/2008 14:07
Ha ha! Brilliant, Shonilanga, brilliant. Wish I'd thought of that. Go Blomme!! - Chris Roper |
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Bring it on
10/10/2008 14:07
Their kit can be changed to. It all fits perfectly. This is the rainbow nation, they'll be the Proteas. The natural thing to do is kit them out in colourful tie-dye, the symbol of Flower Power. - CTheB |
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Nokuzola is female (No - prefix for females)
10/10/2008 14:09
how ignorant of you!!! - mxhosakazi |
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Irks?
10/10/2008 14:09
We are blessed with so many animals and plants that the choices are mind boggling. If we use the bottle fly or bee we could nickname them Zoom Zoom. JZ will love it. At games we can sing "Die gezoem van die bye" or something similar. Any other ideas guys? - Sonny |
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Racial Diatribe.....
10/10/2008 14:10
Your anger at black people in particular becomes more and more predictable.I have yet to come across a blasting from you abt youths abusing women at a varsity or youths killing a homeless person or lately a facebook eg.then dis type of thing might be normal 2 u.But our anger towards that which has strong link 2 our mistreatment by yr forefathers seem fickle and a joke.At what point,insted of writing rascist rubbish will you get involved,engage with issues instead of patronising us with your views - Cape Town Kid |
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WOW
10/10/2008 14:12
Spot on. What a bunch of incompetent blubbering morons, have they got nothing better to do with their time? Chris, you are SO controversial, but in a way that SA needs it, we need you, because when I read your articles I remember that it's not only me who incredulously reads the paper and thinks "what the f&%#@*^ hell is wrong with this government? Am I going mad?"
Chris Roper for president. - clarence |
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Excellent!!
10/10/2008 14:12
I had the same problem as Marc - got few dirty looks for laughing out loud in the office!! Great article! - Nyx |
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Lets add another bokkie.
10/10/2008 14:13
Springbok emblem is a brown springbok (bokkie A), right boys? So we add a slightly darker springbok (bokkie B) running with bokkie A. So we have 2 differently shaded bokkies running together. Lekker unity. Then it is different, but not. And we can all be happy campers and stop the bitching. - HT |
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Emperor's New Clothes
10/10/2008 14:14
What a laugh - reminds one of the childrens fairy tale about the 'new' clothes for the emperor! - Trish |
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Quick question here...
10/10/2008 14:16
Can anybody tell my why the Springbok should be perceived as a racist symbol? I've always thought of it as a particularly apt symbol, because the Springbok is (a) nimble, (b) graceful and (c) beautiful to look at. OK, points (b) and (c) may not apply to some of our forwards ;-) but I think you catch my drift. How can an antelope be racist? Or differently put: if the Springbok is a racist emblem, why are the Protea (our national flower) and the Blue Crane (nat. bird) not? - Mark R. |
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@Sonny
10/10/2008 14:18
Mazda wont like your zoom zoom idea. But I vote for the MISKRUIER. Such a truelly South African little creature. And look. It also has a ball. - HT |
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A Ray of Light in the GLOOM
10/10/2008 14:18
Chris, you made my day, after reading all the racist snipes, on another forum. Irony though is wasted on the ANC's cohorts. - Sven Gohre |
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News flash
10/10/2008 14:18
ANC backs the Springbok name and does not want it to be changed. I share the same sentiments and I am black. Thought I should let everyone know before the insults hurl in. - bee |
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KIds play
10/10/2008 14:19
This ANC really needs to understand how pathetic they are about these name changes. I don't care if they want to rename the whole frigging country. They must just get it over with so they can focus on getting the important things in order. The problem is that they are so stupid, they don't have the imagination to be able to come up with enough names. - malcolmx |
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@Nomxhosakazi
10/10/2008 14:20
Sorry sorry sorry, us ignoramuses don't desev to liev. You guys are so peffect - the pot calling the kettle black |
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Protea is also an Apartheid symbol!!!!
10/10/2008 14:20
The IRKs and their cronies just show that their memory is as short as their hair. The Protea's was the Coloured rugby team from the Cape that play with the black Leopards team in the white competition during the 80's. They must crawl back into their holes and never come back. - Topgun |
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Good!
10/10/2008 14:22
Brilliant article,except the cr#p comment on the bull supoporters...... - Johan |
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Sanity
10/10/2008 14:22
Brilliantly written, loved it and agreed, Just wonder when the sanity will prevail and realise that the emblem is there for all, I am just so tired of hearing how racist everything is. - Willie |
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AmaIRKIRK
10/10/2008 14:24
KS, the British do have the rose but they are called the LIONS.
If they have to change the harmless little Springbok to something else, make it a typically South African, like the Hadeda. That way you'll have a whole song.....AMAHADEDAHADEDA dum dee dum dee dum.! Go girls.....cheerleaders I mean! - Avril |
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I couldn't have said it better myself!
10/10/2008 14:24
I don't know who these "all important", "all knowing" a***holes think they are, but it's all about scoring cheap political points at the expense of a successful, nation unifying institution & the greater population (who, make no mistake about it, are pro-Springbok).
KEEP POLITICS & SPORT SEPERATE! Let politicains worry about politics, and let people who have a love for sport manage the game!
Can somebody remind me why we have politicians? When last did a politician do anything constructive - Jon |
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Shot, mxhosakazi
10/10/2008 14:24
Mxhosakazi, thanks for the information and reprimand. will change as soon as possible. - Chris Roper |
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PHEW!!!
10/10/2008 14:26
Ive been waiting for chris to let out his satirical self on this one, strangely enough,the entire day,ive been faffing about moping at how ignorant the sports authorities are for wanting to do this and along comes this article,looks like i will be having a good weekend after all!!! Cheers Chris,thanks for the laughs - NTBARIE |
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Here it comes
10/10/2008 14:27
Well done. I can imagine that my post is going to be followed by a 500 "You are a racist!" messages. Only the truth will set SA free. There are racist BOK supporters. 97% are not. Let the real SA show the 3% the way. Not the other way around! - Nell |
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@Bee
10/10/2008 14:28
I also read that report. "The ANC would like to state CATEGORICALLY that it would not like to see any replacement or change of the Springbok emblem UNTIL sufficient debate and consultation of all stakeholders, including rugby supporters, has taken place". But thanks for your positive sentiment. - HT |
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Not fair
10/10/2008 14:29
Great article, boet, but why are you allowed the f-word and I can't say: "Well done, F&^%ng good article"? - Jimmy Jackpot |
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Eish!
10/10/2008 14:30
Flip, some of you are just way to serious (Cape Town Kid) Chill out, it's Friday afternoon.... we don't want any racsits rants to spoil the weekend. We just want a laugh! And let's be honest, the stuff the okes in charge come up with are so ludicris, you can't help but laugh! - Michelle |
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More name changes
10/10/2008 14:30
In line with this racial tollerance change the Sharks to the Bannanas, The Bulls to the Donkeys ,The Cheetas can stay the Cheeters and the Lions can become the druggies.If you change the Boks then surely the provinces can follow suit. - Mr. E |
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@Cape Town Kid
10/10/2008 14:32
As you said. Mistreated by our forefathers. The people who are CURRENTLY so brutally attacking and killing people? Forefathers are dead, long gone. The violent youth are still here. - HT |
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Non-practicing Virgins
10/10/2008 14:33
Great article, Chris. Flippin' Irks. They must be really disappointed that the "All Blacks" is already taken. - 2s |
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Springbuck are as African as it gets
10/10/2008 14:34
What is wrong with the Springbuck emblem ? The gazelle is endemic to Africa and South Africa ! Or is the problem that almost everyone refers to it as the "bokke" in that ignorant apartheids babble that is only spoken in Africa? Good grief! Why don't they stop attacking soft targets like the names of world cup winning sport teams and try to get Bafana-bafana ("The boys, the boys" ????) to maybe score a goal or two and after they start winning world cups try and change their name as well! - vlakkie |
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re: Springboks
10/10/2008 14:35
Hi
I think that replacing the emblem would be a good thing, cause it will save the past history of the springboks being world champs x2.
If the springboks become the proteas or whatever and turn out to be useless, (which will happen as south africa falls further and further behind the rest of the developed world and there will be less and less money for rugby as SA citizens become poorer) then we can always look back to the past when we were "Proud Springboks and world champions." - JuicyLucy |
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duh
10/10/2008 14:40
I'm not responding to your comments regarding the actual topic, but rather your first three paragraphs. Suppose you're a tourist in a tourist city (i.e. Durban) with road maps or directions with old street names. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to see the old name of the street you are looking for, if indeed the name has changed and you, as tourist, has no idea? So I can't really comment on the rest of your column because I stopped reading after that. - jiggaman |
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These irk's
10/10/2008 14:40
cannot even manage a sport where you just have to run in a straight line!! why do they even bother to think rugby!! - Valiant |
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Excellant
10/10/2008 14:43
Well done. I am disappointed to be a black South African when our government does things like this. The Springboks are the only pride of the nation that actually achieves things. Go the BOKKE - Zizwe Ndlovu |
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Rhinos..?
10/10/2008 14:48
Call them the Rhinos. Big and strong and some are slow (on field and mentally :-) ). Oh no - then we are back at the black and white thing. Zebras ? Equal parts black and white. - nico |
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Cape Town Kid....
10/10/2008 14:48
Get a life a****! Try to see the bright side of life a bit and get over yourself! It's not all about you! Why must you whine like an old man? Laughter is good like medicine! Not our fault the people running this country are Irks! - sd |
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Where is Kolobe?
10/10/2008 14:49
Is it just me or is one of the best letters ever? It is the first time I have laughed the whole way down. Awesome...... - James |
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bokkie
10/10/2008 14:49
Ahh, that racist little horned animal that some coloniest deemed to call the "national animal". I can just see how that must irk the Irks. Nice one Roper. Stock up on memrobilia however, this may well become a reality. - Honky Tonk Man |
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WHAT?
10/10/2008 14:53
Ha! Warn my wife, I think I have a male crush! Hahaha, dude great article, and I'm a bulls fan too (Well...at the moment closer to being a brumbie, but still blue blood!) - Neville Howard |
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Lions and Roses
10/10/2008 14:58
English are Roses. The British are the Lions. There is a difference between "England" and "Britain", Avril, you Irk!
Seriously, though, what did little Castro mean? Did he mean to say "Lekota and his ilk", or maybe he got the word "Irk" from the word "irksome"?
Or maybe Chris is right and he's just a big LOTR fan. He just wants his Precious (a BMW). - Oom_Kosie |
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ANC is too incompetent to make a decision
10/10/2008 14:58
Of course I love the springbok emblem and I don't want it to go. But all I ask is for a decision, ONCE AND FOR ALL, to be made. I am sick of these constant empty threats. If the ANC wants to get rid of the Bok, then they must please JUST DO IT! Don't be there, wearing the jersey, when the Boks win the World Cup and then talk about how much you hate the Bok before every election!As usual, the ANC wants to have their cake, their melk tert, their chocolate AND they want to stuff their faces all day! - Puhleez |
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Emblem
10/10/2008 15:00
I have to say that I think the name Protea is a stupid name for any sporting team as is Bafana Bafana.Huge hulking sportsmen being represented by a flower just seems idiotic and Bafana can be changed to Buffoon by opposing teams. Why not make the Zebra the emblem? Its a fighting animal and stylish and represents all the colours of our nation in its coat, black brown and white. Wont get confused with Oz colours either. - GailC |
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@vlakkie
10/10/2008 15:05
What is a springbuck? YOU IGNORANT FOOL!!! THAT'S A FEMALE SPRINGBOK - hau eish |
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@Mr. E
10/10/2008 15:05
Mr. E..you made my dull and dreary Friday afternoon. Very very funny!!! - Avril |
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Hold high the flower - pwfffffff
10/10/2008 15:06
The Springboks have done more for national unity than those bunch of bumbling idiots Bafana Bafana...yes yes 1996 Afcon - but we're starting to clutch at straws as its also the only thing they've ever done.Change the Springbok and you'll see a shit-storm like never before - and all you Pan-Africanists - sport is about sport. We all live in a equal, democratic society now (although it might not always seem so) but the ANC has created the country we live in today, so STOP BITCHIN! - Over-and-out |
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Divide & ...
10/10/2008 15:07
Ever heard of divide and conquer? We are being kept busy with the emblem, yet again, while the rest of the country falls apart...but we will all be soooo glad the emblem remains, that all will be forgiven! Hello ANC booboos, it aint working - we know the country is in shambles, well except for SARS - but we need something even as small as an emblem to stand up for and fight - no not kill... - MJS |
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What Next?
10/10/2008 15:09
Lovely article gets ones emagination going. Leave the BOK without it's horns and rename it IRK? - WM |
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WHAT !!
10/10/2008 15:11
I raise serias objection to this excellent, very funny article. Some of my best friends, and me, are Irks, and we all wear Springbok jerseys on occasion... - JHR |
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Spot On
10/10/2008 15:13
Chris, thanks for a great way to close of the week - it's been tiring listening to our racist politicians squandering away our children's future (black and white). Pity Mxhosakazi is probably embarred on hearing the naked thruth and decides to lash out at all racists - lately, this refers to all black people in this country. Keep up the good work Chris. - Etienne |
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Boks to become Irks
10/10/2008 15:13
You've cheered me up on an otherwise dismal Friday. As a native Scot and someone who's heading back there for a six month Sabbatical (nah, of course I'm not selling up and abandoning SA for ever), I'm going to find Scottish politics excrutiatingly boring.I might have found Scottish rugby boring too if it still existed! Reckon the thistle boys would give there eye teeth to have access to a tenth of the rugby talent we're lucky enough to see taking to the fields every weekend. - Norma Kelly |
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Just curious Chris
10/10/2008 15:15
Why did you want the Bok removed in 1994 prior to being converted by Madiba? It has been a symbol of many things to many different people,but first and foremost it was merely a sporting emblem based on our national animal,not a Swastika.It was the Nats who hijacked it first as the ANC are doing now. - The Truth |
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@ Avril - Re: Hadedas
10/10/2008 15:15
Brilliant suggestion! A large-bodied, ungainly-looking animal frantically running around while loudly squawking its little head off. - Odette |
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Nokuzola Mndende
10/10/2008 15:18
... is out of her tree. One thing though, Mandela's birth name is Rolihlahla, not Nelson- but I think it should be up to the man himself to decide how he wishes to be addressed. - The_Assimilator |
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Ek se dankie...
10/10/2008 15:20
Mr Roper u r the MAN. It is Friday, most of us have to be at work, well obviously NOT the politicians - we needed a big bad freak of a smile and u gave it. Come on peoples, the springbok is a little animal, ok it has little white bums, but hey. Mr BK in the admin office obviously has nothing more constructive to worry about in SA sport - HELLO start working at sorting out SOCCER, then start at breaking down stuff that works! - MJS |
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@vlakkie
10/10/2008 15:24
You're doing your ignorant apartheids babble name proud!! - jou vlak seun |
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The right to change the name?
10/10/2008 15:25
Well done Chris - the Irks are attention seeking buffoons with not a positive idea about anything.
Here is a question - what moral right has any government or political party got to interfere in a sport which was established ages ago without the dubious benefit of government intervention?
In fact, what legal right exists? I can understand that companies formed to regulate sport must obey the normal law of the land, but what section of the Constitution allows for such gross interference? FC - FC |
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Go Chris Go!
10/10/2008 15:36
YOU SIR ARE A STEELY-EYED PC-BASHER! DAMN, I LOVED YOUR ARTICLE-GIVE US MORE OF THE SAME. NO PC-HOLY COWS WITH YOU SIR; AN HONEST MAN - AT LAST! HOW ABOUT SOMETHING ON BANANA BANANA? THIS BUNCH OF LOSERS AND THEIR MINDERS NEED SOME OF YOUR TRUTH-MUTI! GOOD STUFF!!! - Walt |
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comedy of errors
10/10/2008 15:41
Man its hard not to hate this place. - alex berti |
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Whats in a name..
10/10/2008 15:46
..if anything, please change the name of Bafana Bafana to...anything! - Andy |
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The sad, sick mind of the underDOG politician
10/10/2008 15:48
Those promoting the change of the emblem really would love to see each and every white person leave SA... my reasoning behind this is that they won't stop until each and every little thing that links up to the past is gone. I was born white so I'm screwed here with many others who have been repairing what those before us broke. - ElectroMan |
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good one
10/10/2008 15:49
I like your views.
But I am unsure why you letting yourself get so exited abou the whole thing. In a few years 80% of the English Cricket team will be South Africans, and about 70% of the English Rugby team.
And their loved ones will be safe over in the UK, and they will be able to pronounce all he street names, get decent medical care, education, jobs, police servies, be safe on the roads and have a stable government, a decent currency, etc, etc, eetc . . .
ha ha ha - bob |
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Hier kom die IRKS, hier kom die IRKS
10/10/2008 15:50
Guys we need a new song to go with the new name or shall we leave that to the esteemed Mr Mal-ema? Check it out guys, this issue is going to be left floating, coz some people can simply not finish what they started, mediocrity rules - but seriasly though all jokes aside, plse do not stop Mr Roper writing on a Friday. - MJS |
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let them also plunder the emblem of some success
10/10/2008 15:59
let 'them' continue the plundering of anything that was not of their making. I for one have stopped caring! What does bothers me is that so many people simply sit back and accept the systematic devastation. In this regard we should learn from the ANC who had the guts to resist the things that were wrong! - TC |
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Mickey Mouse
10/10/2008 16:00
i liked your article. Maybe we must approach Disneyland for the use of Mickey Mouse as our new team badge, would fit bafana too - Pieter |
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Lets make a deal....
10/10/2008 16:07
If Bafoon-a-Bafoon-a can win the World Cup, then we will give up the Springbok emblem, no wait, lets not give the soccer team an IMPOSSIBLE task, lets make it easier, if the national soccer coach can complete a single full sentence in english, then we will give up the Springbok! hahahaha, Kont-pela, go intefere somewhere else. - Skiballas |
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Good stuff from the past
10/10/2008 16:07
It's eating away at politicians that something good came out of the past and so they need to change the image to enable them to claim responsibility for the greatness of the Springboks. - ElectroMan |
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just a name
10/10/2008 16:08
ya people we'll always know them as the springboks, but its just a name... they only do it because they know it will pi$$ us all off. so rather just clap their efforts and enjoy the game. letting them get under your skin isnt worth it eh... - tommo |
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Springbokke
10/10/2008 16:09
The Springbokke is a name that will stay whether it is changed or not. Personally I think that the old names in Durban hasn't been taken down, because everyone prefers the old names. The new names are just there to shut the Irks up!! - Jimmy Jackpot |
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Springbokke
10/10/2008 16:10
The Springbokke is a name that will stay whether it is changed or not. Personally I think that the old names in Durban hasn't been taken down, because everyone prefers the old names. The new names are just there to shut the Irks up!! - Jimmy Jackpot |
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TGI Friday
10/10/2008 16:12
Incredible. I get about 50% less hate mail and insults on a Friday than on my usual Wednesday column day? Are you people all drunk or something? Or is it that when weekends approach, South Africans mellow out and take life far less seriously? Either way, I might be tempted to stick to a Friday from now on! - Chris Roper |
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Name to beat the boks
10/10/2008 16:16
Surely we want a new name that will truly signify the fact that they are no longer Springboks. The rugby team can therefore be called the Shamboks! No cultural baggage there surely? And they can still whip anyone's backside! - Alan |
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Bafana Protea
10/10/2008 16:28
The reasoning apparently behind the change is that all sport teams must bear the Protea emblem. Will Bafana Bafana also now be changed to Protea Protea?
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ha
10/10/2008 16:30
BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - jonty |
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To Cape Town Kid
10/10/2008 16:38
I can't talk for Chris, but from my point of view, I'll stop patronising people like you at around the time you learn to be grateful for all the advantages of colonisation. 360 years ago Southern Africa did not know about the wheel, mathematics, sea faring, science, money, etc etc. Now, less than 4 centuries later, we have uplifted (some of) you to the same level as the civilised parts of the world. - KoosS |
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Springboks
10/10/2008 16:39
Punish the Springboks for the failure in Peking and Bafana not making it into the African Cup. Miskruier as an national emblem will be great.
The Lions are selected from English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish players where the Rose is strictly English. They have there old flag, the St Geoerge Cross (Red cross) Unlike in SA they love their old flag. Don't no what the Irsh thinks about it though. - Willie |
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Irk
10/10/2008 16:53
The term irk has been around for at least 20 years and refers to a little man who resides in your armpit. He makes his presence known when you reach for the sugar at the breakfast table, by crapping in your corn flakes. - frank |
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typical
10/10/2008 17:24
Talk about stifling debate, so U?ve already labelled every body who dis agrees.. eish.. Hypocrites.. lea nyontsha! - PBR |
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If the Springbok emblem reminds ppl of apartheid....
10/10/2008 17:34
....then why not tear everything else in this country that was around during apartheid?? Hell, and don't stop there...go for the REALLY big stuff, like Table Mountain. That's gotta be a BIG reminder. - Joe Doorn |
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Sport in general
10/10/2008 17:51
The soccer insults made me cringe! I passed a Parow primary school at 16:45 where the kids were enjoying an impromtu game of soccer on the rugby field! By the way, I'm a rugby fan ... - Navarac |
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@ Oom Kosie & Chris
10/10/2008 18:25
Chris thank you for making my rather cr*p Friday. Ek stem SAAM!! And Oom Kosie: I completely "breeked" myself for that "my precious" comment. - Cynthia |
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Cricket
10/10/2008 18:30
Now hold on here. There is already a cricket team called the Proteas. Now we'll end up confusing the cape town kid totally. He'll be off to bitch about some rugby game/players and end up watching or talking about a cricket game. Imagine how confusing that is going to be. So, it's back to the drawing board, methinks. What a good way to start the weekend. Thankyou Chris. - Bemused |
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@shonilanga
10/10/2008 19:20
I nearly wet my pants, and I sprayed beer all over my laptop!
"Hier kom doe Blomme, Hier kom die Blomme....."
Jeez, man, that was classic, thanks.
(Wonder what Leon Shuster is gonna do now.....) - Jakes |
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Durban
10/10/2008 21:39
I live in Durban and think you've let the place off lightly. Surf made of sewage, Son of Stalin as City Manager, Edwin Swales Drive to be renamed after some Gulag torturer and drivers who just cant understand how 4-way stop streets work. - New fan of da East Rand |
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I dug the dig at Durb's, dude!
11/10/2008 02:29
...but seriously, where are we going with all this? If we call them Proteas, will they be more firmly "rooted" against the evils of apartheid (which is kept alive only by those harping on and on and on (ad nauseum)about it), or will they become like real proteas, something nice to display (look, we are not racist!) to the world? Has the springbok become politically in-correct? - JL |
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"Irks"
11/10/2008 07:51
You owe me a new keyboard, sprayed coffee all over the old one, could at least given a warning that this was going to be so good !
And when I visit the stuck up family in Natal, I'm JUST going to HAVE to ask them where I could get a Mahatma Ghandi :-) - G.Kuhn |
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Irks et al
11/10/2008 07:52
Oh God, what a joy to read this was! Thank you, Chris. - taurus |
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