Reluctant raconteur.
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined March 2009
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If you ever have imposter syndrome, let's just start a thread of things that have been sold for ages that are absolutely useless. I shall start with the world's shittest braai tongs.
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A British podcaster visits Cape Town once, falls in love with the place and spontaneously buys a mansion. He then doubles the price and puts it back on the market. Some people might call it the classic capital growth that Cape Town property offers. To me, it looks like the looting of one of Cape Town's wealthiest suburbs.
The house in question is on the slopes of Table Mountain, and it exposes everything we still have not sorted out about how foreign money moves through South African property.
According to the deeds report, Steven Bartlett, the entrepreneur behind The Diary of a CEO, bought a seven-bedroom Bishopscourt estate for roughly R93.3 million in 2024. The last municipal valuation on record is for the year 2018, and the municipality valued the property at R20.3 million. That is not a typo. A municipal valuation is a rates figure, not a market price, and the roll it sits on runs years behind what buyers are actually paying.
Pam Golding Properties currently has the property listed for sale at R189 million. That is an eye-watering markup in a short space of time on a home he has, by his own team's account, barely had time to enjoy, given how often he is on a plane.
The three-level, contemporary-style home sits on an erf measuring 7 448m2, with 9.5 bathrooms and 12 parking spaces. According to the live online property listing, some of the amenities on offer include: a padel court, squash court, high-tech gym, heated rim-flow pool, plunge pool, spa room with a pedicure parlour, steam room, jacuzzi, wine cellar, poker room, and a cinema.
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Why does Burnt have such a stranglehold in Cape Town? I genuinely need to know. Is there some sort of fabric or fit they have patented that no one can get from other brands
Cape Town almost feels complete but I think we just need one more run club and perhaps a smash burger ‘joint’
I have had a severe addiction to alcohol. I also now run and have for the past 2 years or so. I do not see how running is addictive 😂
This could easily have happened in Cape Town as well 😂 Huge personality trait in these parts
I built a tool with Claude so you can now see the Amazon rainforest deforestation overlayed where you live. It gives it an amazing perspective of how much has been destroyed. Check it out --> runforestrun.earth
I have not written in a while but I made an Amazon deforestation website, and here's the process --> facebook.com/seanlloydct/pos…
Every hydration salt mix aimed at people sitting in an office ‘Brain fog? Fatigue? You’re dehydrated’ Our grandparents
For the Four Weddings & A Funeral fans here is Simon Callow reading his own funeral speech from the film. W. H. Auden's "Funeral Blues" youtu.be/V92erwrD7yI?si=2afd…
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MTV is shutting down 5 dedicated music channels on December 31st. Truly end of an era.
My favourite story on the network's peak influence was when Beavis & Butt-Head helped to blow up Radiohead.
In 1994, the duo reviewed the "Creep" music video with Beavis asking about the chorus: "How come they don’t, like, play that cool part through the song?"
Butt-Head's incredible response: “If they didn’t have a part of the song that sucked, the other part wouldn’t be as cool.”
"Creep" was the debut single for their 1993 album “Pablo Honey”. It was a commercial flop in the UK because BBC and other leading radio stations thought the song was too depressing.
However, the bit from Mike Judge’s uber-popular cartoon show took the song to another level in America. The band's US label (Capital Records) even marketed the single with the tagline, "Beavis and Butt-Head Say They Don’t Suck."
"Creep" is still Radiohead's most commercially successful song but the band hated its popularity.
They didn't think it represented their best work. Their next three albums — "The Bends" (1995), "OK Computer" (1997), "Kid A" (2000) — were all-timers but fans still kept clamouring for "Creep" when they performed live.
Radiohead stopped playing it live for years but eventually brought it back and people were again able to hear the "cool part of the song" in person.