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So this happened yesterday to one of my close friends, thought I'd share even though not really on topic.my friend who works in the NHS posted:gently caress SAKE!!! I just had a white patient from South Africa say to me said "I'm not a racist BUT my country has gone to poo poo since the blacks took over" My friend is a British black man btw. She was looking directly at him when she said it, he didn't have any quick witted retorts, he says he stood there with his mouth hanging open She apparently followed this up by ranting about Mugabe
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 08:20 |
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# ? May 26, 2024 09:04 |
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Maybe not all SA people are racist but a friend of mine was once dating this rich boer failson, and one day she was out and I was at her place smoking weed and hanging out with this dude. We were watching Rugby (it was a Scotland v Springboks game, which Scotland somehow won). He got real mad and the mask slipped, went into a big rant about how there were too many bliks in the team and that Nelson Mandela ruined his country. Never really hung out again after that.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 08:26 |
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Spitting Image was right
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 08:44 |
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"The blacks" took over south africa? Sounds like they Took Back Control to me
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 08:58 |
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It certainly doesn't help South Africa's perception that their most famous example is an addled billionaire who is painfully unfunny, and is the child of Cruella deVille and "Consensual" Fritzl.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 08:59 |
Over the last 10 year, the corruption in SA has really started to overwhelm and degrade the countries economy and government. All of which while run by the ANC. Like, their power grid keeps failing and trains keep stopping because power cables, tracks, and signalling poo poo keeps getting stolen, and it's not like there's more poverty in SA than there was 10 years ago. There much more to it than "Blacks ruined this country", it's more than the ANC got more incompetent and corrupt while relying on the legacy of winning apartheid to win elections.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 09:16 |
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This is a true story. A woman is working in television. Through a series of ill-judged if understandable decisions she begins an affair with her boss. In a premier Inn, somewhere off the M6, she wakes to the sound of sweaty slapping. She turns her head and sleepy haze gives way to shocked confusion, he's wanking into my hair! She exclaims, as we all would, what the gently caress are you doing?! The man, with an air and a satisfied grunt; I'm Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, I do what I want.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 09:18 |
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Over the last 10 year, the corruption in SA has really started to overwhelm and degrade the countries economy and government.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 09:28 |
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-66102199quote:The Orange Order is considering changes to future Twelfth of July parades in Belfast, according to an internal document seen by BBC News NI. They can change routes when they want to, gently caress the tradition part yeah lads. And 10 mile to pledge allegiance to King Chuck? gently caress that.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 09:29 |
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Over the last 10 year, the corruption in SA has really started to overwhelm and degrade the countries economy and government. All of which while run by the ANC. Like, their power grid keeps failing and trains keep stopping because power cables, tracks, and signalling poo poo keeps getting stolen, and it's not like there's more poverty in SA than there was 10 years ago. I have to say, when I started reading this post and saw SA, I thought it was a reference to Something Awful. Having read the rest of it, I still think that's what it's about.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 09:29 |
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https://twitter.com/carolvorders/status/1676869601513046017
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 09:36 |
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happyhippy posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-66102199 Heard this being discussed on Radio Ulster this morning. Basically it’s because the orange order are now all decrepit old gits who can barely walk 100 metres unaided. And the only thing the youth care about on the 11th / 12th is burning things and getting shitfaced. Fantastic culture
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 09:37 |
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I’ve only ever met one white dude from SA and it legit only took about 10-15 minutes before he felt comfortable enough to tell me, entirely unprompted, that he’d moved to the UK because de bliks ROONED sith ifrica, and he was a big customer at my lovely job so I had to just kind of sit there He was pretty old so I figured it might have just been that, but it seems like everyone has the same story so
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 09:40 |
I've lost track now. How many byelections are we waiting on? At what point does this many byelections become untenable? Is anything coming of the report that Johnson allies bullied the Partygate committee?
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 09:43 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isHZcy0RKEE
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 09:45 |
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith: The Novelisation Mentioning which, has anyone pointed out to this kid that the Sith were actually ruling the Empire? https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/05/teen-inspired-by-star-wars-films-to-kill-queen-and-destroy-empire-19072592/
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 09:49 |
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PriorMarcus posted:Is anything coming of the report that Johnson allies bullied the Partygate committee? I think everyone would just rather that they get on with the job and focus on delivering for working people by cutting waiting lists and stopping the boats.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 09:52 |
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What a useless oval office. People are loving broke and hungry and sick and Starman wants to level up their oral skills. At least until he abandons this idea, 6 hours from now (In saying this, I know if Corbyn had done this I would have been all for it, so really it's just another complaint about Kieths general uselessness on the big issues) E: v related https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1676856884052074497?t=hRahaUWoOzG9XCpoSppvGA&s=19 Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 10:01 on Jul 6, 2023 |
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History Comes Inside! posted:I’ve only ever met one white dude from SA and it legit only took about 10-15 minutes before he felt comfortable enough to tell me, entirely unprompted, that he’d moved to the UK because de bliks ROONED sith ifrica, and he was a big customer at my lovely job so I had to just kind of sit there I've met two white people from SA before and neither was racist. Maybe ya'll just have poo poo luck. e: in fact, one of them was pretty pissed that every time someone heard their accent, they assumed racism was ok and started letting loose at them.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 10:01 |
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Tesseraction posted:It certainly doesn't help South Africa's perception that their most famous example is an addled billionaire who is painfully unfunny, and is the child of Cruella deVille and "Consensual" Fritzl. Maybe South Africa just needed to do a bunch of "I'll gooi an extra parktown prawn on the braai for you" adverts in the 80s.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 10:02 |
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No need for a general election as long as every constituency has a by-election at most every five years.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 10:04 |
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Guavanaut posted:"I'll gooi an extra parktown prawn on the braai for you" Star Wars language
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 10:04 |
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https://twitter.com/BareLeft/status/1676867634107764736
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 10:21 |
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I just got what I assumed to be my regularly scheduled “we’re loving with your direct debit because we’re convinced you’re about to start a combination grow op/crypto mining operation” e-mail from Shell Energy only to find that they’re decreasing my monthly direct debit by nearly 25% What is going on
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 10:31 |
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Retail energy prices are going down. Body language? No...
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 10:33 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 10:39 |
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Guavanaut posted:You could just stick a pin in a list of the most famous books of all time and have a good chance of it having "the story of how boy-children become men" to some degree. Maybe they prefer Starship Troopers to show how a Civilian becomes a Citizen. PriorMarcus posted:I've lost track now. How many byelections are we waiting on? You could have a Parliament of Theseus. No general election but every MP has already been replaced at least once in a by-election.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 10:40 |
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Keith's on an absolute bender today. https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1676889526764027906
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 10:58 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:
Don't need no pens for oracy mate
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 11:00 |
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josh04 posted:Keith's on an absolute bender today. Perhaps some rich white men need to do some listening practice.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 11:01 |
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Escaping poverty with your oral skills is not a suggestion I want to hear from a politician tbqh.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 11:06 |
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Nothingtoseehere posted:There much more to it than "Blacks ruined this country", it's more than the ANC got more incompetent and corrupt while relying on the legacy of winning apartheid to win elections. Nice to see that African countries can be as badly served by their leaders as European ones.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 11:12 |
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LMAO... More tesco value bullshit: https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1676890916320169984 e: So they are going to make vandals and drug users remove chewing gum off of the streets fuctifino fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Jul 6, 2023 |
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When I was working in South Africa for a while, there was a guy in the office whose name had a click in it, and I was apparently the only white person who'd made an effort to learn to pronounce his name right. New staff would do literal double takes the first time they heard it. It was surreal, like I was living in one of those tall tales where everyone claps at the end, except it was for the most basic-rear end human decency thing that shouldn't ever have been worthy of comment. I still feel weird talking about it because I worry I'm using a minority person to make myself into some white saviour paragon of non-racism, but the point is more that, if you have a traditional african name in South Africa that has any sort of sound not common in English or Afrikaans, don't expect most white people to even bother addressing you by your actual name.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 11:15 |
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bessantj posted:Nice to see that African countries can be as badly served by their leaders as European ones. Is there a country in the world that has a decent leadership? I can't think of any. Decent leaders - when they appear from time to time - seem to meet with unfortunate accidents by foolishly placing themselves in the paths of bullets.
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 11:17 |
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I have this terrible feeling we are going to have another Tory government (even if labour gets in).
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 11:19 |
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josh04 posted:Keith's on an absolute bender today. Lol at this. He’s such a loving prick
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 11:27 |
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I think the speaking skills thing is a good idea, if it was part of an arrangement that also included, for example, a lot of extra money for schools. A good friend of mine works as a cleaner at a service station (after getting to his “if it sucks, hit the bricks” limit at, ironically, his teaching job) and a huge number of his colleagues there rely on him for basic language skills. He acts as an employment and relationship counsellor just by listening to people and translating it with a “right, what he means is…” and is held in huge esteem by the other staff. A bit of practice in sticking to your point and conveying it effectively would help a lot of people enormously. Shame it’s pledged, of course - that means it won’t happen.
Sanford fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Jul 6, 2023 |
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imo he wants to 'teach kids to speak' because he can't understand MLE and the variants
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 11:32 |
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"Immediate punishment for drug users" - can't wait for roaming ED-209s in little bobby hats to shoot my dick off for taking a hit from my vape
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# ? Jul 6, 2023 11:33 |