22 Mar 06
Originally posted by LucardoThank you... Just to comment, this entire thread is tongue in cheek..
Just to defend asroma. We DO make jokes like that in South Africa.
In fact, I'm still not sure if aroma was a play on words (because my nic is AsROMA)
So really...
Nothing meant by it at all.
To answer your question Lucardo.
No I have never tried Marula achaar.
But then again, I'm not a big fan of any achaar.
22 Mar 06
Originally posted by ASROMAnah its orright man,safe...
Sorry if I offended you (or anyone else).
i was born in Cape Town and lived there for the first 17 years of my life. one of the things i miss the most is the non political incorrectness bred into every south african i have ever known, including myself. it pains me no end that everything you say has to be modified and toned down and homogenised and sanitised etc ..............
when we grew up there were jokes for everyone. If south africans were racist and no doubt about it they were, they took such pedantic pains to detail differences that in the old end I think people saw through the obvious stupidity of it and learned to judge people just on their own merits. the result is that ironically for a country that was once proud to enshrine racism at its very core, actually ended up producing a populace largely immune to the bitterness usually associated with racists.
22 Mar 06
Originally posted by ASROMAI wasnt sure how seriously you took your user name.My original comment was going to read: that opinion stank, smells the the odor of bum to me!
Thank you... Just to comment, this entire thread is tongue in cheek..
In fact, I'm still not sure if aroma was a play on words (because my nic is AsROMA)
But you never know do you?
22 Mar 06
Originally posted by kmax87Good points.
nah its orright man,safe...
i was born in Cape Town and lived there for the first 17 years of my life. one of the things i miss the most is the non political incorrectness bred into every south african i have ever known, including myself. it pains me no end that everything you say has to be modified and toned down and homogenised and sanitised etc ........ ...[text shortened]... ended up producing a populace largely immune to the bitterness usually associated with racists.
I think our generation (I'm 23) is largely indifferent when it comes to race.
I even think intercultural marriage will become quite common in about a generation or two.
Remarkable if you consider where we were 20 years ago.
22 Mar 06
Originally posted by kmax87Do you still support the Boks?
nah its orright man,safe...
i was born in Cape Town and lived there for the first 17 years of my life. one of the things i miss the most is the non political incorrectness bred into every south african i have ever known, including myself. it pains me no end that everything you say has to be modified and toned down and homogenised and sanitised etc ........ ...[text shortened]... ended up producing a populace largely immune to the bitterness usually associated with racists.
22 Mar 06
Originally posted by kmax87Sorry k-max... but I have to say, that went way over my head!
I wasnt sure how seriously you took your user name.My original comment was going to read: that opinion stank, smells the the odor of bum to me!
But you never know do you?
Bosse... while we are on the topic of patriotic pride, what did you think of the cricket (the greatest ODI in the history of the game)?
Do I have to ask who you were supporting Kmax?
22 Mar 06
Originally posted by ASROMAOne of the funniest comedians of late that I've heard is a guy called Russell Peters. I'm not sure how you guys take him, but his observation is that the world will be brown in the next 50 years or so.
intercultural marriage will become quite common in about a generation or two.
Remarkable if you consider where we were 20 years ago.
22 Mar 06
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Originally posted by ASROMAEven I had a lump in my throat. Terrific stuff.
Bosse... while we are on the topic of patriotic pride, what did you think of the cricket (the greatest ODI in the history of the game)?
On a different track: Aren't you as an atheist Muslim afraid of being hunted and killed as an apostate?
Is South Africa really becoming the most "unethnical" nation on earth?
22 Mar 06
Originally posted by Bosse de NageIt was terrific indeed.
Even I had a lump in my throat. Terrific stuff.
On a different track: Aren't you as an atheist Muslim afraid of being hunted and killed as an apostate?
Atheist Muslim - a paradox (not an oxymoron is it? Has to be one word?) if ever I heard one.
But yes.
I am.
I'm still allowed to be South African though, aren't I?
I've spent my whole life here.
I think hunted and killed is a bit harsh.
Disappointing my parents is probably more appropriate.
They wouldn't understand
My community for the most part knows what I get up to on weekends etc.
Not typical Muslim behaviour.
What prompted that question by the way, if you don't mind me asking?
22 Mar 06
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Originally posted by ASROMATo be honest i lost interest in cricket around the time of the whole Hanse Kronje thing. Then there were rumours about aussie cricketers and the pressures punters on the subcontinent were putting on the game.
Do I have to ask who you were supporting Kmax?
Apart from the fact that Australia refused to lose almost anything for a very long run ssort of took the spice out of watching the game. I got to australia in 78 almost at the very start of WSC and the pyjama party of cricket under lights. The 80's were brilliant because the windies were brilliant and I suppose i started supporting the aussies about then when in almost every matchup they were the underdogs.
Some of the Windies bowling line-ups made you feel sorry for the hapless home team. I have not seen such a consistently fast lineup of menacing fast bowlers as the windies put up in that era. the likes of Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall, Andy Roberts, Joel Garner, Curtly Ambrose......
To answer your question when South Africa re-entered world competition I hated watching the Boks vs the Aussies. I much preferred them bypassing each other in competition and barracking for either against the rest.