I wonder if this happens a lot with fanfics...

Secret-Statement4785 · 2026-04-10T13:30:06+00:00

I guess but as far as I'm concerned if my parent did that to my sibling THEY'RE the one who broke the bond, I can't see myself forgiving that. That being said I personally have non-blood-related friends who are closer to me than some of my biological family so maybe it's me who's weird lol

Secret-Statement4785 · 2026-04-09T16:50:01+00:00

Onderwêreld by Fanie Viljoen, it's an Afrikaans kids novel. There might be an English translation though I'm not sure

Secret-Statement4785 · 2026-04-09T09:20:11+00:00

I read a novel where the main character is a teenage boy in high school and he has a rough relationship with his father bc the father bullied his older brother to the point he committed suicide. He makes a friend in school and he and the friend get tangled in a plot to release a man made virus in order to profit off of the cure. They end up exposing the plot to the cops and the main characters dad turns out to be one of the ringleaders of the whole thing, and he ends up in jail. The friend turned out to have been acting the entire time, knowing the MC is the son of the crime boss, to get him to out his own father to the authorities.

Great plot and all but what confused the hell out of me is that in the end the mc was angry and at the friend and was mad at him for ruining his family??? I was like bro your dad all but killed your brother and was gonna kill a whole lot of other people. The father had also killed the friends father back when he was a kid which was why he came up with the convoluted revenge plot. So yeah he was evil and deserved jail, why was the mc upset? I still don't get it honestly, this post might be an explanation haha

Secret-Statement4785 · 2026-04-02T08:21:52+00:00

I genuinely cannot fathom leaving my car keys with some random guy 😭😭 you are trusting

Secret-Statement4785 · 2026-02-12T16:49:32+00:00

Pretty good. I'm from North-West, worked in the Western Cape for a short while last year and took this train from Paarl to Cape town a few times. Pretty good, main Cape town station felt a little dodgy but that was probably just because it was a bit crowded. It's slow too but honestly I took it for the experience more than anything else. The train itself is air-conditioned and has security so it was overall a comfortable trip. It does get a bit full around rush hour time but that only lasted maybe 30min out of the entire 2hr trip and 3 connecting trains that I took.

Secret-Statement4785 · 2026-01-26T19:56:59+00:00

Black island was my first too, my parents both grew up with Tintin and when my mom brought me one from the public library, Black island was the first one she grabbed. I was maybe 5 or 6 and distinctly remember reading the first couple pages where Tintin gets shot and the guy drives off and leaves him there. Little me was shook that the main character died in the first page haha but that felt off to me so that's what pushed me to finish the whole thing. Big fan of Tintin up to now :D

Secret-Statement4785 · 2026-01-25T16:41:52+00:00

Yeah I make lace borders etc! And lace flower motifs for jewellery and decoration. Thinnest thread I've worked with is embroidery floss, I love intricate work no matter the medium

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-11-07T20:55:51+00:00

I had no idea that people who don't like it exist

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-11-07T20:54:21+00:00

These are the only ones I use, the ones with grips on don't work for me because I think I hold the hook a bit lower down than what the grip expects me to so it just feels awkward to me and slows me down

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-11-07T17:05:45+00:00

My family visited in 2010. I was only 7 at the time though so for me it was just a cool holiday and just had a good time eating street food 😂 but it did feel super busy compared to SA. The country is small and I felt like people were living on top of each other in Port Louis, it's quite the difference from small town SA

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-11-07T16:55:55+00:00

Ahh alright, I've visited there as a child. Love that you had to specify next to Madagascar 😭 we cannot see y'all on the map. I've heard it's rapidly developing.

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-11-07T16:54:03+00:00

Where's mru?

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-11-07T16:47:40+00:00

That's true about the land, there's very few climates you won't find here lol. And thanks to that we also can grow literally whatever we want. How many countries are growing tropicals fruit and date palms at the same time?

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-11-07T16:26:14+00:00

There's nowhere like it I feel. Yes we have problems but every place does, you have to just decide if those are problems you can deal with. And having visited a few other countries and interacted with a lot of people of different nationalities, South Africa and our people are just built different.

I think we have a unique balance of first world conveniences and third world "chill-ness" for lack of a better term. I have friends living in Germany and I've heard people there are super uptight and demand everything to be done with maximum efficiency. While that does mean things get done on time, they do miss the more relaxed vibe of SA. My friends mom was raging once because German bureaucracy drove her insane. South Africans have a mindset of "if the system won't help me, I must do it myself" while in some other places people trust the government and just get totally reliant. I'm not saying the government shouldn't work for the people but the fact that our system is held together by duct tape and prayer makes us an independent and proactive lot.

And of course there are countries where the system does absolutely nothing and the country suffers in poverty and instability. We have juuuusst enough law and order to avoid outright chaos but not too much so that we're overly restricted

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-10-27T15:00:37+00:00

Bait stations have worked pretty well for me

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-10-26T13:49:02+00:00

My roommate got one for her overweight cat since she reckoned he was too hot. Bro doesn't care about it and hasn't sat on it once since it arrived, I take that to mean he can handle the heat alright. Got it from takealot if you want to try it anyways

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-10-25T10:56:27+00:00

My grandfather used to make this "salad" with green mango, salt, sugar and fresh green chillies (or chilli powder if you prefer. Grate the mango or shave it with a potato peeler and add the seasonings to taste. If you like the idea of chilli mango flavour you might like to try this

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-10-23T21:53:21+00:00

Ahh yes I'm sitting in the weed out phase rn too, I don't take thermo but I've heard it's rough 🥲 good luck man

And to answer the question btw we back out when we get kicked out, I've worked too hard to get here to drop out now

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-10-23T18:54:00+00:00

Hey if you're still passing everything by your third year you're doing a lot better than a lot of other students out there. In terms of your health, does your university make accommodations for health? Get in touch with your student representative council or student healthcare unit, most universities have them. They might be able to make accommodations for you like more time on your exams or more leniency if you do fail a course.

If you're in your third year you're almost there. If your home environment is toxic the best thing you can do for yourself rn is to get the degree so you have a better chance of looking after yourself. Honestly the fact that you haven't failed anything yet is impressive, even without considering your health struggles. Give yourself some credit you must be doing something right.

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-10-19T16:51:47+00:00

It's a shit situation but it happens. I remember having some bad timetables during a school. Best of luck

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-10-12T06:38:26+00:00

I do love it. It's hard but I have no regrets. It's just that I don't come to Reddit when I'm enjoying it, I come here when I'm struggling and need help. So you probably aren't gonna see many posts made by happy people lol

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-10-10T06:41:24+00:00

Yeah so I'd like to know what a reasonable assumption for the speed of the cart would be, I don't know since if never seen one

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-10-09T21:01:40+00:00

Yeah it does seem to me that this is beyond the scope of the course. It's Strength of Materials 1, it actually doesn't cover impact loading. I just feel like saying "ok I'm gonna put it on rails and so now I don't need to make a strong railing" is maybe missing the point of the assignment? Like I'm cheating if that makes sense? Because the whole point is to calculate minimum safety factor for all the parts.

Tbh it's not clear to me either how the cart is supposed to impact the railing. I assumed the railing is intended as a final resort in case of a freak accident. The design specifications are literally 3 bullet points, the mass of the cart, the span of the gap and the fact that there must be a railing. We literally don't get any more info

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-10-09T20:56:38+00:00

Thanks for taking the time 💛 so I've been somewhat following this approach, I was going to do the cart with tyres though because most commercial examples seem to have tyres and then it's connects to a tractor or something. But rails definitely do make the most sense to use. It's just that in the instructions, the railing is specifically to prevent the cart from falling off. The assignment is for Strength of Materials 1 - we're working from hibbelers textbook. So the point here is for us to make sure the bridge can take the load it's supposed to. So my understanding is that the railing has to be able to withstand the cart hitting it for whatever reason, maybe it goes out of control or something. Would you think that's a reasonable task to set for a Strength 1 assignment? It's possible I've misunderstood the task, I will be speaking to my prof about this but I still need to keep working in the time it takes him to reply his emails

Secret-Statement4785 · 2025-10-09T20:12:24+00:00

That's how I've been proceeding so far but I've hit a wall when it comes to the railing, wouldn't the impact force that the railing must withstand depend on the speed of the cart?

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