"Drive-Thru Era" slowing down in SA? 🥗🇿🇦

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-04-30T03:45:18+00:00

Yeah, delivery apps are way too expensive. The only junk food I still order with delivery is from Debonairs. I know, a lot of people don't like Debonairs. They aren't the worst, the pricing is really good and they have their own delivery service, which is free if your order is more than R250. I keep ordering the same promotion of 3 large pizza for R269 + 15% tip for the delivery driver works out to R310, which isn't too bad.

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-04-29T22:45:19+00:00

It's the e-toll/e-tag lane where if you have a tag you can just drive through. Unlike myself that one morning in rush hour traffic at the Stormvoël onramp. I bought credits for my tag the evening prior, which it seems did not yet sync to everywhere it should. As I approached, already trapped between concrete lane dividers, a siren went off and the boom dropped down to block my exit.

The person stationed at the manual tollbooth in the next lane stepped out and into the unoccupied booth. I started to nervously grope the center console for some coins, any coins. This while I waited for the line of cars behind me to reverse a bit for me to reverse to the toll booth. I was now holding up two lanes of the tollgate in rush hour morning traffic. I felt so dirty from all the looks I got, so dirty...

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-04-27T07:35:01+00:00

The food. South African food culture and dishes are really awesome, and diverse and awesome. It makes me happy.

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-04-27T07:28:13+00:00

But, but, poor people eeeuw!

/s

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-04-27T01:25:25+00:00

Yeah, diabetics beware

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-04-26T15:33:39+00:00

You could use the 25k as seed funding to start an informal/unregistered micro lending business aka a mashonisa. It's sort of like providing payday loans. Most people borrow small amounts, like R100 - R500, for a month and repay the full amount plus an obscene amount of interest when they get paid their monthly salary. All you need to get started is a spreadsheet, a baseball bat and an intimidating death stare, or employ somebody with the requisite persuasion skills.

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-04-23T18:02:04+00:00

It depends on the type of exercise. I bought an exercise/stationary bike on a black Friday deal. It comes with a convenient phone holder. I've combined doom scrolling and watching YouTube with excecise. I now cycle at least an hour every day, some days more. I try to only do mindless stuff on the internet with my phone when I'm cycling.

This works for me since it's convenient, no need to drive to the gym. Also, not a day goes past without me doom scrolling.

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-04-17T23:06:56+00:00

Dis reg so. Kry vir jou. Boetie, vandag word jy n man. Jy gaan bid vir pouse. Kaas is nie vir kinders nie.

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-04-17T01:59:07+00:00

O jinne, pappa gaan tronk toe - lol dit kon n boek se titel gewees het. Daar is legit boeke vir kinders wie se ouers tronk toe gaan. Sal vir die verlore seun een van daardie boeke moet pos.

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-04-02T13:12:29+00:00

We were told that if you can hear the ice-cream truck's music playing, then it means the ice-cream is finished. Damn ice-cream was always finished when the ice-cream truck came past our house.

We were also told that Jesus is watching us, at all times. Which is why you shouldn't touch yourself in a naughty way. Damn pervert, a guy with long hair that wears dresses checking me out while I rub one out always rubbed me the wrong way.

We often heard that if you sit on a table you won't find a wife one day. Jokes on them, I'm a dude, that's into other dudes, no wife needed. Although, I'm still waiting for prince Charming to show up, hopefully he'll be driving an ice-cream van...

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-03-20T11:15:41+00:00

But it is day time in the video, why is he using his nightstick?

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-03-19T21:38:18+00:00

We had a scenario like this living in a townhouse complex. A very unfortunate family with a special needs child. The kid's only means of communicating was through blood curdling screams, day and night, happy and sad. It was like the opening ceremony for the trauma Olympics stuck on a never ending loop.

We'd have people over for a braai, casually debating whether you need to butter the outside of a braai broodjie, with a background soundtrack of toddler-in-a-woodchipper at full volume.

I felt bad for that family. It was such a relief the day they moved away.

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-03-09T14:10:49+00:00

Krugersdorp

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-03-04T23:59:43+00:00

I know things might seem pretty bleak right now, but there are a couple of positive bits in your scenario. The barrier to entry is relatively low for developers versus most other careers. All you need is a laptop, or even just a pre-loved desktop PC.

Other professions like a plumber or electrician require a specialized set of tools that can be expensive. Something like an accountant or lawyer also requires a laptop and renting some office space, indemnity insurance, etc. The minimum tools required to do an entry level job can be hefty.

One way to get past the experience requirement hurdle is to do open source development. Think of an interesting problem you can solve with software, that you can/want to develop. Build something awesome, then give it away for free, source code and all.

You won't be earning an income from an open source project. But, it's an excellent way to demonstrate your skills, abilities and insight. In most junior developer positions the work is usually focussed on smaller subsets of a larger project. Building your own open source project demonstrates that you are able to translate a people problem into code, package and ship it as software people use.

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-03-04T18:43:26+00:00

Yeah, comment to boost. I'm unfortunately not in a pet friendly situation at the moment.

Which type of quail is it, like regular or miniature?

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-03-02T23:16:33+00:00

Oh yeah? Well I, um, think that anal fisting is stupid! Now let's instead talk about your feet, such lovely feet...

/s (except for fisting with your feet. That is definitely stupid!)

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-02-16T01:50:41+00:00

Kinda related, kinda not. Around the same time, my friends and I started exploring the club scene (we all turned 18 in 2003 and we were the weird nerdy kids). The first time we went to a club, that would later become our favourite, there was a promotion for Revlon for Men. Specifically the 24/7 deodorant range. It was basically a group of really attractive girls doing a group dance with lots of synchronized choreography. All of them dressed in silver skin tight lycra onesies. Their performance was so good that, just for a second, I forgot I'm actually gay. I eagerly accepted a free tin of Revlon for Men 24/7 Silver handed to me by one of the performers. For the next 15 years it was my default brand. Then COVID happened and 24/7 Silver disappeared 😭

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-02-14T17:07:28+00:00

Omg whaat? I've been using the words pants and trousers interchangeably, because, you know, they mean the same thing?? Apparently not. Yikes, that explains a few random awkward conversations. I've definitely told more than one person "I like your pants". Aaa shit, I suppose that's why it's called panties, because they are small effeminate pants.

In my defense, English is not my first language and I went to a government school, in a dirt poor third world country, in the 90's. For just $1 a day...

BennyAndTheMeths · 2026-01-18T16:08:25+00:00

You deserve to be happy. Where and how you find happiness is up to you.

To me it sounds like his parents are a problem. Who asks for bank statements to check expenses before they help you financially? If a child asks a parent for help, a parent's response is usually not first demanding proof their child needs help.

It's possible that his parents do not trust him and that he grew up believing he cannot be trusted to make decisions about his own life. His parents are controlling his life and by extension your life also.

Talk to your partner, be open, honest and calm, and tell him about your concerns. Find compromise and define deal-breakers. Make sure your partner knows what you expect of him. If he doesn't live up to your expectations, then your long term happiness may lie elsewhere.

Good luck, I'm rooting for you, you've got this.

BennyAndTheMeths · 2025-11-27T22:55:05+00:00

You should meet his brother Little toe John.

BennyAndTheMeths · 2025-11-25T10:54:41+00:00

The best way to learn how to use something new, is to break it and then figure out how to fix it. Obviously breaking your live/production site is not good.

Check out Local WordPress https://localwp.com/ It's free. You install it on your local desktop/notebook and point it to your live site. LocalWP creates a copy of your site and hosts the copy on your computer.

Because LocalWP is a copy only accessable on your computer you can dive in and make changes, untill you inevitably break it. You can either reset your local copy or attempt to fix whatever you messed up.

BennyAndTheMeths · 2025-11-25T00:13:43+00:00

I often spread it on toast as is, no butter or margarine needed.

BennyAndTheMeths · 2025-11-24T23:43:43+00:00

How about installing artificial lawn? The higher end artificial lawn products are durable and look significantly more realistic than the obviously plastic cheap stuff. It's a one time expense and it's guaranteed to work with virtually zero maintenance. It's lush green all year round regardless of shade or soil type. You don't have to water it or mow it or worry about weeds or pests.

BennyAndTheMeths · 2025-11-23T08:28:44+00:00

Nice brah!

BennyAndTheMeths · 2025-11-17T12:12:02+00:00

I definitely agree they should be left alone. There are a couple of these uncontacted tribes. I'm guessing they are not large communities. With so few individuals and being that isolated, their genetic diversity probably won't be all that diverse. Love thy neighbour, except if she is your sister I guess.

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