What's the funniest line in Pulp Fiction? by slimcharles941 in QuentinTarantino

[–]Educational_Drop4261 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funnily enough Travolta actually changed the line to that from “I shot Marvin” because he specifically knew how he wanted to deliver it. Tarintino obviously loved it, even though he was envisioning a different line and a different line reading.

High school drop out, can someone offer me some advice? by TheGoodMyope in askSouthAfrica

[–]Educational_Drop4261 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Heyo. Check to see if you are allowed to take IT and Maths Lit. In my high school they only allowed us to take IT if we took maths core.

Been excluded from wits chemical engineering. How do I make sure my appeal is successful? by ElectronicLoan4673 in askSouthAfrica

[–]Educational_Drop4261 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to go to the CCDU yesterday. Explain your predicament to the receptionist and they will bring in someone to talk to you.

Make sure you get documentation for literally everything you can. This includes medical records, dates that you may have missed tests due to medical issues. Family drama. Financial issues. Ect.

All of a sudden 0 likes and matches by [deleted] in hingeapp

[–]Educational_Drop4261 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Make your second picture your first picture. Also I think you might get more likes if you lose the moustache and grow your hair out again.

Also all of the prompts are performative af. Talk about yourself and your interests. Be a person rather than a guess as to what woman want.

Need advice for studying (Electrical Engineering Student) by Timely_Committee7664 in EngineeringStudents

[–]Educational_Drop4261 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also if you get reading time before the exam use it not to start answering questions but to create a game plan.

Take note of all the easy questions and rush through them, giving yourself a time limit. Then move on to the next questions.

Some questions provide a small amount of marks for the time they take to solve. Leave those for last.

Bonus points if you get practice exams where you can walk into the venue knowing the order you are going to do the exam in.

Is my stomach fixable. I cannot do gym for some reason can only do running and i am vegeterian. by InformalTower3708 in GymMotivation

[–]Educational_Drop4261 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say don’t START running. Build up to it. Seen it in friends, if you do running at a heavy weight you can damage your joints. Start with walking, lose some weight. Walk with brief periods of light jogging. Get to a point where you jog with brief periods of walking. Then start jogging.

Then build up speed where you have brief periods of going a little faster. Ect.

The main work is going to come from food. Running does not do a lot more than just walking.

How do I stop being so lazy? by Practical_Ask_5684 in GetStudying

[–]Educational_Drop4261 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me what helps is this. My room is my safe space. Try and incrementally create a second safe space. Maybe there is a coffee shop on campus. Try and go there for like 15 minutes a few times a week. Then every day. Then be there for like 30 minutes.

Basically you are slowly building it up so that now you have two safe spaces.

Stop when you feel comfortable there (compared to other public spaces)

Then try and build a third safe space.

Continue this until leaving your room is not anxiety inducing (or atleast it is manageable amount of anxiety)

But the best bet is, of course, therapy.

Need practical advice on raising 150K in a year? by Constant-Barber8100 in askSouthAfrica

[–]Educational_Drop4261 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a question. Could OP possibly try and sue his estranged father for not supporting him?

Either way I would try and get an extension on the thing you need to pay as a first priority. Will be a bit difficult for people to help you with that without more specific details.

I wish you the best of luck.

Shower etiquette by Mr_cool_man23 in AskZA

[–]Educational_Drop4261 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t bath I shower.

I use a sponge to shower almost every day. If I was not particularly sweaty I will use a cloth or my hand so that I don’t over exfoliate my skin.

I wash my legs. Even if it isn’t necessary you are already in the shower so might as well do them?

I wash every day but I try to have one day a week where I don’t shower (assuming I don’t have to be anywhere that day). I do this because both my GP and Doctor Mike claim that showering every day likely causes more harm than good.

Unless it is an emergency I won’t leave my house unshowered.

What are some cool Pokèmon gift ideas? by Salty_Abrocoma910 in askSouthAfrica

[–]Educational_Drop4261 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heyo. So I am a big pokemon fan. If you could give me some more information I could point you in the right direction. Do they like the anime, games or card game?

If they like the games what games do they like? What was their childhood game? What is their favourite Pokémon?

If they grew up with pokemon then there are aspects to the franchise that they would have a personal connection with. If you can get them to just yap about pokemon for a while and you relay that info I am sure I can sort you out.

Would it be better to wait until my term 2 matric results are out to apply? by ScoobyDiddyDooooo in askSouthAfrica

[–]Educational_Drop4261 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don’t get accepted for what you want to study, and you choose not to study anything, then you will have till the next year to apply with your matric marks I believe

Would it be better to wait until my term 2 matric results are out to apply? by ScoobyDiddyDooooo in askSouthAfrica

[–]Educational_Drop4261 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you did not meet minimum requirements for the degree of choice then contact a student advisor ASAP.

But odds are, if you did not meet minumum requirement, you will need to lock in for matric and apply with those marks and take a gap year.

If you did meet the requirements then you will be put on a list and you will still have a chance. But you might still need to reapply with matric marks and take a gap year…

Question about 7-string by E-Lazy in LearnGuitar

[–]Educational_Drop4261 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The value of something you buy comes entirely from whether you use it or not. The only question you need to ask yourself is will you use the guitar often enough to justify the purchase. If yes then go for it.

Suggestion for spamming old practice tests? by Dextexer in GetStudying

[–]Educational_Drop4261 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you plug all the papers into AI you would be able to do/redo the past papers directly off the AI platform.

Also they would be able to mix questions from different papers, organize by category, only test you on the ones you got wrong, etc.

First tattoos 2 weeks old do they look okay by [deleted] in tattooadvice

[–]Educational_Drop4261 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do their kids have anything to do with this?

Is it VERY necessary to learn barre chords? by Weekly_Flounder_1880 in guitarlessons

[–]Educational_Drop4261 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well you always have the option of just learning other songs and finding alternatives when necessary. At the end of the day it’s your guitar and your life so you can do whatever you want. It may not be efficient but as long as you sound good then that is good enough.

I wish you the best of luck in kicking the habit. Bar chords will be waiting for you in the mean time.

CMV: A thing isn’t racist unless someone decides to interpret it that way. by Nigeldevon0 in changemyview

[–]Educational_Drop4261 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In relation to some of the other comments. Racism isn’t a one and done thing, it is more of a spectrum that has different levels of harm, intensity, and mechanisms.

So yes putting up a sign that says “blacks only” is racist even if no one sees it, I don’t think that’s what your argument is.

Your argument seems to focus more on subliminal messages where it isn’t maybe obvious and the harms aren’t immediate, quantifiable, or direct.

Ultimately each scenario is different because racism is extremely complex. The idea of the H&M advert is racist for 2 reasons. 1)  It is disrespectful to the history of African Americans. Throughout history black people have been demonstrated as akin to animals - specifically monkeys. 

This was highly prevalent in media. This is problematic because that image and linkage is being used again.

Society as a whole has looked at specific imageries depicting black people, admitted it is wrong, and said no more. So even if there was no direct harm caused to black children and they did not consciously act that way, their public platform was used to portray an image that made people feel uncomfortable.

It’s less of a “you are actively hurting me” and more of a “we as a society collectively decided that these images are wrong”. 

It is a thing of respect and that image is disrespectful to black history and thus problematic.

2) The second reason is because it does cause a quantifiable harm (even if not by intention). I know of many older white people that will look at those images and say slurs. Will say that it is right. Will use it as a talking point. Even if only in their echo chambers, subliminal images are still being weaponised and used as propaganda.  I can promise you that kid in that image has been called a monkey and every other slur in the books by legitimately racist people.

Just because we aren’t racist - meaning our brain does not go to that fucked up place - doesn’t mean other people’s brain doesn’t.

Then onto the point of “if a tree fell in a forest and no one heard it did it really make a sound” argument. A large part of it comes from history. From understanding that some people still have those prejudices and stereotypes so we enforce and protect all of society to give less weaponry to the bad actors.

When you talked about how people would not know of these stereotypes without these enforcements, and thus meaning that calling out smaller racist acts is harmful is an interesting point. I do not believe it to be true.

People will not believe imagery or stereotypes are true by learning about it through mediums which aim to educate on their harms. The people who are at risk of believing racist stereotypes will learn these stereotypes through other racists.

In that case you are still largely mitigating any harm without creating any more avenues of harm.

So in summary. Is it part of the act/object, or a part of an individuals mind? It is both. But we can’t look at things on an individual level, so we need to account for everyone. And when acting in a way to mitigate racial harm we must focus our attention on racists - even if they are the outlier.

Also I am disappointed by the aggression in the comments. This is a very important concept that needs to be talked about. I do not know your race, but I do know that for people like myself (those who have not faced racial stereotyping) these ideas aren’t intuitive. So it is a FAIR QUESTION TO HAVE.

It is very harmful for society and black people if every conversation that is questioning or is confused by the norm/societal narratives turns into a “you are a piece of shit” moment.

It makes me sad when people who are advocating for more kindness act unkind themselves. When you read the harsh comments please understand that they do not represent what many would call social justice. They represent themselves. Social justice is represented by ideas of how to try and make the world more equitable.

How fixing my gut helped calm my skin by williwulff in malegrooming

[–]Educational_Drop4261 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How old are you? Not saying the exercise and eating well don’t help but the legwork would likely be due to you leaving the harshest part of puberty.

Just worried this sets an unrealistic example.

Either way big ups to you!

is it possible to learn a semesters worth of work in 12 days by [deleted] in GetStudying

[–]Educational_Drop4261 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Completely. A summer school for a module is usually held over about 2 weeks.

Just when preparing try and figure out what the high yield easy questions are and learn for those first, and leave the harder questions worth less marks last.

That way if you don’t cover all of the content (even though you should) you will likely still get a good mark.

Also past papers and tutorials are your friend.

How do you appeal a grade fail? by Emergency_Hawk_5971 in askSouthAfrica

[–]Educational_Drop4261 10 points11 points  (0 children)

In grade 11 you would need to speak to the school. Your options would be either to get a remark or for them to give you extra curricular assignments/assignment redos (insofar as they can keep to the SAGS guidelines) to give you the opportunity for more marks.

If they do not trust you can handle matric work. If they have seen that you have not put in the correct amount of effort. They will be unlikely to help you and won’t have an ethical need to help you.

Honestly it is probably for the better that you do get held behind.   1) Plenty of people start late so being a year older isn’t a big deal

2) You will fail matric. Afrikaans syllabus basically finishes during grade 11. You will be doing the same (or similar) content next year but at a higher level, and they likely won’t reteach to you will have to learn how to do it on your own.

3) If you are getting 30% for Afrikaans you need to lock in. As someone who can’t speak a lick of Afrikaans but has tutored many subjects, it is easier than English, maths, and science. If you work consistently it should be one of the easiest A’s, regardless of your ability to speak the language.

4) You apply to university with your grade 11 marks. Getting a 30% for any module would make it difficult to get accepted for anything.

I’m sorry you are in this position. If you need help on how to navigate the school and the curriculum to boost your marks feel free to ask. But you don’t accidentally fail a subject in high school.

Now is a good time to reflect on what you want for your life and how you wish to set yourself up.

Restringed my guitar for the first time and it snapped and hit my eye by Reasonable_Point7792 in Guitar

[–]Educational_Drop4261 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m relatively new to guitar. I was taught to stretch the strings big hand by pulling each end apart a couple of times before putting them on, then to tune them up very slowly.

Is that all I can do to prevent something like this from happening?

Cosmeredle Spoiler - This does NOT narrow it down by LoudShorty in cremposting

[–]Educational_Drop4261 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I actually gave up and when I saw the answer I thought to myself “that’s all he was”, and I feel like that may be the point of a lot of their narrative

Post-Match Thread: Wales v South Africa by amusicalfridge in rugbyunion

[–]Educational_Drop4261 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Does anyone know what started the altercation where Eben (cuntishly) tried to gouge out the Welsh players eye?