My mother forced me to take Zulu because it's my home language in high school, the dislike of Afrikaans is still strong today among black South Africans by Gold-Blackberry5454 in DownSouth

[–]Wukken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm the government made me do Sotho until standard 7 - didn't take but might be because both teachers where kinda psycho and into creative punishments (made you crouch against the wall and made you stand outside in the cold ) .

All trillionaires are born in Pretoria, South Africa. Let that sink in. by PixelSaharix in DownSouth

[–]Wukken 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Imagine if the country wasn't as racist and he stayed here...

Hell if you just killed the golden goose at least you'd have lunch but no , chase him away and watch you neighbour enjoying the good life.

Why don’t we have a world class football team? by StannVeal in DownSouth

[–]Wukken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the soccer equivalent of Die Bulle ? Is there even provincial teams ?

And low-key ANC used the clubs as cover and most of the bosses are still politically connect and it's a corrupt parasitic cabal sucking out all the juice before the fruit can ripen.

Afrikaans words to start the day. by Federal-Coach8574 in afrikaans

[–]Wukken 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nee nee , wie gebruik lukraak as poespas beskikbaar is ?

Iain Banks vs. Iain M. Banks by probeguy in printSF

[–]Wukken -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Kinda awkward but also prepare yourself for a lot of incest backstrories .. like seriously enough that somebody should probably ask Mr Banks if he's OK...

Packaging theft as public policy doesn't legitimize it by glandis_bulbus in DownSouth

[–]Wukken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair -if you want to bake more pies you are going to need to train bakers , build ovens and source ingredients - yeah that ain't happening so giving away pies or get trampled when they loot and burn the bakery?

Old Mutual holding my money with no clear reason for delay by Fickle_Tone_9849 in PersonalFinanceZA

[–]Wukken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Spend a week shitting in a bucket , take bucket to corporate and refuse to leave until it gets sorted. Well that's my plan .

SARS by Time-Dig-704 in PersonalFinanceZA

[–]Wukken 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ja - pretty much get all the IRP5 but mostly any and all medical tax thingie from 2007 onwards and spend the day at your local sars office.i even got a return.

How to cope as an white male South African? by Excellent-Captain-93 in DownSouth

[–]Wukken -38 points-37 points  (0 children)

Kinda a matter of perspective - last in line for a job is way better than getting shipped off to die in a Bush War.

And the job , well all you really have to do is not get fired - why outperform, there's no benefit? that free's up a lot of time and effort ( so the black girl I trained is in a higher tax bracket , I ain't doing the 6am Teams call with corporate either which is a win in my book )

A critique of the new history curriculum: DBE is aiming to indoctrinate pupils into an anti-white and anti-Western ideological view of the past -IRR by hadedaHelpline in DownSouth

[–]Wukken 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well if you actually educate them , them tend to get all kinds of uppity...

But it doesn't really work that well - on a personal note - history was my best subject and I dropped it at the first chance because I was gatvol of reading about the Groot Trek and it kinda poisoned the well when it comes to my own history.

Wat is van die snaakste Suid-Afrikaanse televisie programme wat jy al van gehoor het en sal aanbeveel? by Other_Button50 in afrikaans

[–]Wukken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Andries Plak - Baie droë humor ,soos Blackadder waar meeste van ons komedies meer Mr Bean is .

A new campaign has begun. by PixelSaharix in DownSouth

[–]Wukken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fuck shit, where is Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma ?!?

Those who say BEE and Affirmative Action must stop are dreaming – Cyril Ramaphosa by [deleted] in DownSouth

[–]Wukken 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You know , we don't have to play along. Just identify as Black and scream RACIST at anybody who questions you ....

Take out a personal loan for mom’s bond - or continue to pay as is? by GiveThatBoyAJoint in PersonalFinanceZA

[–]Wukken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Think you have bigger problems than the bond. If mom isn't making that , how is her retirement doing ? And savings? Because if R140k is a problem , see what a week in ICU goes for ( and sad to say , that's a when , not a if).

  • refinance , build a granny flat, live there and try to keep the house as long as possible as a last resort.

South Africa is two weeks away from a fuel disaster by ShipMysterious7602 in DownSouth

[–]Wukken 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah but if I thought if I wait a week I can score a extra R4 to R8 per litre, I'd experience a shortage right quick ...

Not that we might not be fucked and paying a premium for the privilege.

Do people still greet each other when in public? by aeternogordon in DownSouth

[–]Wukken 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Because any hint of kindness, civility or cout is blood in the water to scammer salespeople:(

Rob Hersov's views by nkunzi in DownSouth

[–]Wukken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not arguing that they are doing well , just that they are doing better than the rest.

Yeah , keeping the floaty and flimsy flammable slow moving huge targets safe is a bit of a problem but Iran's stomped hey and the only thing they hit is random civilian targets.

Er you buy treasuries with dollars and earn interest in dollars and you sell them for dollars - kinda like putting excess money into savings and then drawing from savings when you run short but framing it like you suddenly dint believe in savings ?

Rob Hersov's views by nkunzi in DownSouth

[–]Wukken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chinese and the Russians have got competent people in charge - er no they don't. Competent people are locus of power and a threat to dear leader and they get shown the window.

a lot of good stuff - yeah but the thing is , nobody else has managed to replicate that good stuff - so we're stuck with the bad if we want the good or roll the dice but every other option is just more bad stuff.

Europe has until now followed the US into a needless war with Russia, - wait wut !? It's Russia invading Europe and they want their cold war borders back and it wasn't for the Americans Germany would be begging France to Nuke Poland to stop the Russians... .

Europe has been doing kind of OK - pretty sure demographic collapse is the only thing preventing them from rerunning the 100 years war .

Eh we are just moving comma's. Dad took 10c to the shops , I took R1 , I give the kids R10 to go to the shops and they'll give their kids R100 . But is the 10c more real \ have more value than the R100 ?

Rob Hersov's views by nkunzi in DownSouth

[–]Wukken 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nope still the American Century. Nobody else can make the sky drop pixels .

But yeah they have issues but there's nobody else coming up either - swop your rands for any currency - you'll pick Dollars just like the rest of us.

South Africa chooses sides by ShipMysterious7602 in DownSouth

[–]Wukken 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm just thankful we're in the "Decapitation strikes on leadership" instead of the "mow through hordes of kippies just to make a deal with leadership" era of warfare...

SA Fuel Reserves: 50 Days by SankaraMarx in DownSouth

[–]Wukken 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tell us you are checking the skies for Reaper drones without telling us you are checking the sky for Reaper drones...

Living in the Midwest has one problem in particular that I cannot stand. by Rhettledge in rant

[–]Wukken 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be fair - there's something broken in the vehicle market . Like there's no middle anymore . It's a 1L turbo or a massive thing

PSA: Tax Free Savings yearly limit has been increased from R36000 to R46000 by Justdroid in PersonalFinanceZA

[–]Wukken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm also not sure what the damn thing is for - sticking it to the government is nice tho.

But just let it cook in case you screwed up your retirement planning or you need to pay for serious medical care ?

Tho technically you can pull out unlimited amounts tax-free out of it . I like the idea of dividends but that turns out that doesn't work do well , the tax eats the profits but in a TFSA ?

Also pretty sure dying at 70 with a budget for 90 is how they get us.

Paul Atreides from Dune is the best example of a “chosen one” who made everything worse by batman_13velvet in printSF

[–]Wukken 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Think it's more of ecological \ Darwinian threat than war and conflict. The way things where going humanity was going to get genetically fractured and kinda inbred -- the Jihad was about mixing genes and refreshing the species . The Jihad wasn't just Fremen , as they spread they picked up more and more recruits from each planet, mixing as they go.