Makanyise's Quotable Quotes - 4th Five

1.   Common sense is not always common.

2.   Learning is a curve that must be negotiated slowly and carefully.

3.   Unless and until you take out all the fantasies you have, your spouse can never be the best person you wanted.

4.   There is nothing in life as important as knowing where and when to end your jokes, 'cause it saves your teeth, just a smidgen of an advice.

5.   The best way in any dispute is engagement, if it fails engage again until you find a common ground.

Social Media takes tall order

With the advent of social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Skype into the lives of people, information is now being disseminated without special regard to journalistic ethics, credence and reliability.

For as long as people get something to talk about, they chew every bit of news that goes through these new corridors of information. They are their own reporters, their own editors, their own readers and I shudder to think if news powerhouses like The Daily News, The Herald, Kwaedza, The Manica Post are still posting the same profit margins or still enjoys the same readership as before.

With information travelling as fast as the clicking of a button, the users of social media merely depend on news feeds that navigate through the cable news network at every click of the moment. That is enough to tell them what has been happening in and the world at every moment of their lives and that has generally become part of their daily living.

Truth or falsehoods, to them life is not straight anyway. They link websites from once credible sources as a way of driving the truth and one would not doubt the truth as a result thereof. If it is lies, they simply brush it aside and console themselves and say that one must never believe everything they read especially on social media.

Who would deny that social media has brought a great impetus into the lives of many people and with technology increasingly growing at such a faster pace, very soon few to no hard copies of newspapers will be printed – only electronic media will take the tallest order?

Gono, unconscious

The controversial Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Dr Gideon Gono was found unconscious this morning at an undisclosed resort hotel due to “cardiogenic shock” – a condition where the heart fails to supply blood to the rest of the body during sexual encounter, or simply put it as shock of “sweetness” during sex.

Impeccable sources at the hotel admitted that Gono was booked into the hotel yesterday evening with a certain strikingly beautiful young lady and has since been admitted at a certain private clinic in the resort town of Victoria Falls , but could not shed more light as to how the shock struck him.

This is not the first time that Gideon Gono’s name has made headlines in the media. First it was in 2010 when he was alleged to be bedding the old man’s queen, Grace Mugabe. He vehemently denied it and accused his detractors of trying to taunt their “good relations” with the first family.

Recently again, Gono is being accused of fathering three children with Dr Millicent Mombeshora, a former Power FM DJ and a wife to Zanu Pf’s Deputy Minister of Health, who is also an MP for Mhangura, Dr Douglous Mombeshora. It is believed their relationship dates back to ten years and the two lovebirds, Gono and Millicent, have been “hanging” secretly until last month’s bombshell.

So probably that explains Gono’s maniac desire for women. He is a bull that can sire any cow within his closet and who can deny his charming, his money, his education – a man of erudition? No one! It was not clear at the time of posting this latest news as to whether Gono had been treated and discharged from the clinic.