I never seethe. I made a dumb comment that got misinterpreted and maybe that was my fault, I thought it was funny, inside my head it was hilarious, but probably shouldn’t have expected non South Africans to understand what I was saying. My bad. If you laugh at everything there’s no time to seethe at anything 😊
You made that all up in your head and you want me to justify it? Lol, stop trying to be triggered over nothing and accept that I made a dumbass comment about something I found funny that you chose to willingly and unnecessarily take offence to like some fucking wet eyed Karen on Facebook. Look at you clutching your pearls and writing long assed essays of outrage because I didn’t explain my fucking dumbass probably poorly delivered joke in a way you could understand.
I SHOULD be offended you think lumping together multiple tribes and peoples as one ‘black people’ is ok but if I gave a fuck about any of them I’d still be living in that shithole country.
Now stop with the fake wailing and gnashing of teeth and go make a sandwich for someone.
I don’t know, maybe an equivalent would be someone saying their wife went to America and got a feel that the blacks aren’t happy. Which blacks? The blacks in Chicago? The blacks in Texas? The blacks in the hood? The blacks earning millions? The famous blacks? The top of the charts blacks? The black cops? To me it’s funny for the assumption to be made, not offensive, just haha that’s funny, how dumb, more haha.
Sweet Jesus.
How are you this outraged and flummoxed over a comment. Why are you like this.
I made a fucking throwaway comment about something I found funny. It amused and tickled me as a South African to think some tourist can speak to a few blacks out of 50 mil in the country and know the full picture. Maybe it’s too much of an inside joke that only other South Africans would understand. Maybe I should’ve worded it better and asked which blacks she spoke to, the Zulu’s, the xhosas, the rich Sandton blacks, the tswanas, the Vendas, the Nigerians, the ones living in kwamashu, the blacks in the high rises in Soweto or the camps bay kids? Is it the eff blacks or the anc blacks? The private school blacks or the township blacks? Because they all have different opinions, views and beliefs. Maybe my delivery just confused you. Or it went over your head. Or I’m just really shit at getting my blunt humour across. Whatever. In my head it was hilarious and I wasn’t even laughing at you or your wife or her fucking friend. Let it go 🙄
No apology needed. My dry sarcastic sense of humourous (to me haha!) retort was essentially a joke that only other South Africans would probably get. It was assholey of me not to make that clear from the start, I assumed people would get it. Having to explain it reminds me why I don’t people.
Sooo weird. Life is crazy and shit right now, I don’t question what makes me laugh any more, I just laugh and don’t apologise. The guys comment made me laugh. Me laughing made a bunch of you howl in outrage. That made me laugh harder. Before long I didn’t notice the grey miserable rainy sky that I struggle with every year at this time. You all did a service, frens. I’ll try remember in future you can’t see the deadpan on a screen.
I’m 50, nothing embarrasses me, haha. If I said something stupid or incorrect I’d be the first person laughing at myself. I’ve got no problem admitting I fucked up if I believe I did. Humility is my second best quality, after my eyes. For real.
I’m going to try type this really slow for you …
I was laughing at your ‘my wife spoke to the blacks’ comment. I get that it went over your head. I get that you didn’t get the joke. I get that you’re outraged and indignant and can’t let it go. I can’t help you with that.
As a native South African, I still find it funny as fuck. I hope you’ll get over your outrage soon 😘
Psst! South Africa has 50 million blacks and 11 official languages. You’ll get it eventually 😂
I mean, he could’ve just said ‘my wife went on holiday and spoke to lots of blacks and the general feeling is …’, or he could’ve just laughed along with me and said ‘haha no she spoke to a few …” but then I wouldn’t have got to laugh so hard on a miserable grey English day watching the fake outrage bubbling, so thanks!
Sure, a child would understand that. A child would also understand asking ‘the Japanese’ in Japan or ‘the Jews’ in Israel. A child may not understand South Africa has tens of millions of people who look the same with the same skin colour but are part of multiple different tribes, cultures, languages, beliefs, goals etc. Almost as if they’re not a monolith because they share a skin colour, weird huh. But you believe what you want, it’s all good 😊
Nope, no comment deleted. At this point having to actually explain the joke makes it not funny any more.
SA is home to tens of millions of blacks from numerous tribes, cultures, languages, beliefs. Plus millions more black migrants from across Africa. SA has super rich blacks and super poor blacks. Same for Indians, whites, coloured. Opinions vary widely from group to group.
He said his wife met ‘the blacks’ and now knows how they feel. I wasn’t offended. Wasn’t outraged. Wasn’t bothered. Just found it funny. It made me laugh. As in, ha ha, that’s funny. A million different opinions and tribes etc. She must have spoken to all 50 million to know how ‘the blacks’ feel. Wasn’t even speaking for ‘the blacks’, it just made me chuckle.
South Africa is not like any other country, it has 11 official languages ffs 😂
Well when I started I was laughing at you in a mild mannered way, I’m now howling at this ongoing outrage 😂 I didn’t misinterpret anything, I was laughing at your ‘my wife spoke to the blacks’ comment. Not in a mean ass way, but in a ha ha that’s hilarious way. Look at you, hours later still steaming because I laughed at the dumbassery of your statement. You must be the funnest of fun guys, everywhere you go 😂
I was taking the piss at the guys claim his wife spoke to ‘the blacks’, in a vast country of millions made up of multiple tribes and cultures of blacks, sensitive snowflake pedes still wetting their knickers as I type. Quick, if you listen real hard you can still hear it flying right over your head.
What physical segregation? The country is yuuuuuuge, maybe he could be more specific about what segregation his wife told him she saw and then we could respond to that? It’s like saying I know someone who went to America for a holiday and saw a university with segregated dorms so wah wah America is racist and evil now someone explain. Seems a bit facebooky to make such a claim. Seems kinda reddity for others to jump on defending it with literally zero context or info?
Did you saying 50 mil blacks? Uhh … you said ‘the blacks’. I asked, all of them? All 50 mil? It went over your head. No worries. Happens to the best of us 😘 most people would say they spoke to some black people, or spoke to many blacks, but your wife be special, she spoke to the blacks. Lucky you, she be special.
No I got what you were saying. Your wife and her friend went to SA on holiday for 2 weeks and spoke to the blacks and found out how they feel. Not a few blacks, not a dozen or a hundred. Just, the blacks. No worries 😉
Imagine being so culture blind that you lump a dozen different tribes and cultures into one category based on their skin color. Hey, next holiday they can go visit Europe and ask ‘the whites’ what they think 😂 taking the piss at the culturally ignorant, mate. No need to stress 😘
Well, good to know she found out in 2 weeks what ‘the blacks’ think. Black South Africans belong to multiple tribes, languages, cultures and beliefs and practices. I reserve the right to be mildly insulted when my fellow countrymen are all lumped together in one group called ‘the blacks’.
Praying is choosing from the infinite possibilities open to you. Jesus said give thanks. Not ask or beg and plead. Ask and it’s given. Just give thanks, it is already yours. So not ‘please make me healthy’ but ‘thank you I am healthy’. It is claiming what you already possess, which is everything. Like choosing from a catalog, you choose from the quantum field of infinite possibilities and persist in the belief that it is already yours until the wave hardens into particle and matter.