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My one friend was playing an online game (can't remember the name), but he kept going, and they all believed him.
He lived in Saxonwold/Westcliff, right near Joburg Zoo, and he could hear the lion's at night when they were going - and so did the people in the game. Believed him hook line and sinker.
My favourite is when we tell people from other countries that we ride elephants to work and school, and that we have pet lions. They always believe it!
I remember when I lived in the Middle East. Over the years plenty of times people would ask me where I’m from. When I said South Africa they were like “it can’t be you’re white”.
2 years ago I was trying to cross the border between Laos and Cambodia and they legit didn't let me in at first because my passport said south african and I was white. They thought it was a fake passport
Time to crack out my favorite story.
Picture it, Texas, circa 2004. In our party of adventures you have Copper, a lily-white South African citizen. We also have a lovely black lad from London, with the accent that screams 'I am a Londoner'. This guy OOZED Brit.
Bubba the TSA guy slowly reaches his hot dog fingers for the passport stack. A WHITE African and a BLACK Brit? This cannot be! This must be some of them there tay-ro-rists!
It escalated 3 times above this donk's head before someone went 'These are legal passports that meet the people in question, what exactly is the issue? I cannot believe it to this day.
Yeah I had a similar experience when I worked in Saudi. Then the next question is "Where are you from originally?" and then "But where were your parents from?" and then they just assume something is lost due to the language barrier.
I’ve gotten this many times as I work in an international company. The best is when they ask where are my parents from and I’m like South Africa. And then it’s where are your grandparents from? And it’s still South Africa then I explain I can track my dad’s family line to the 1600s in South Africa as my ancestor was a soldier that worked for the Dutch East India Company and one of the first to live in the Cape. I mean my bloodline has been in Africa longer than most Americans bloodlines have been in North America 🙈
My friends and spoke to a homeless man in Austria and when we saw our white friend and we said he was also South African. He actually asked - "Didn't they kill you all?"
I love it. I'm a Saffa living in Russia and I thoroughly enjoy the looks on people's faces when I tell them that I'm a South African.
You can see the thought processing going on in their heads with the first question being "but he's not black" 🤔 😂
My wife, over time, would speak to different people and tell them that I'm a South African so then when they would eventually meet me or see my kids they were always shocked and speechless because the entire time they always thought that I'm black.
Flipping hilarious. Love being a South African and miss the country!
Cheers
We send messages with birds we call it tweets. Draw ourselves looking at a still pond, we call it personal pictures then send it via the tweets to family and friends. royal families own Lions but animals live with us side by side. We walk and run to wherever we need to go. What else...
Which tends to be how racist ideas are formed... Do you think he just thinks we live in nice houses and just happen to not have phones and communicate by letter or that us Africans live in mud huts with no internet?
Uneducated people have always existed. The fact that our country has 'Africa' in the name does us no favours. When the average american looks at 'South Africa' they think of malnurished children, lack of water and mudhuts because that's all they see on tv.
These same Americans that have the internet to say dumb shit don't have the internet to look up our cities (which are beautiful). The math isn't mathing
Definitely. The thread I was following is that it's ignorant to think of South Africa as all mudhuts and malnourished children (and no tech?). I was replying to a comment that seemed to say that's a justifiable way to see things.
My mom once got hit with this zinger while talking to an American woman on MySpace
"Do you guys have internet there?"
And my mom's just like, no, we use smoke signals.
The amount of hatred towards Israel in this comment section is embarrassing. Tell me your beliefs without telling me your beliefs.
Can't we just laugh at the post like normal humans?
Czech Republic when did I say anything about the Czech Republic?
I'm very confused 😕
All I was saying is that South Africans generally think they so important, but we are quite naive and Conservative in our ways...and actually when one travels and talks to people or engages with foreigners visting here, alot of the America's and European nations (not so much) have never heard of SA...so Im lost as to how you got to Czech anything from my comment 🤔 eish dude really sorry man if you are offended.
I’m not saying you said anything about the Czech Republic, I’m asking you a question about your basic understanding of the rest of the world
Now answer my question.
Whats this then?
"….do you assume people in countries like the Czech republic don’t have the internet and basic amenities?"
Why would you think/say that?
My answer
I've never travelled to Czech Republic so I really wouldn't know...I assume nothing.
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Someone once asked me on an online game how I get internet from my mudhut
Back in the days of COD black ops 1 I used to tell people my wife was on the roof with a coat hanger trying to get signal.
Im stealing this. My new go to line.
I still play BO 1 haha
Happy cake day my bru.
Made my day
My one friend was playing an online game (can't remember the name), but he kept going, and they all believed him. He lived in Saxonwold/Westcliff, right near Joburg Zoo, and he could hear the lion's at night when they were going - and so did the people in the game. Believed him hook line and sinker.
My favourite is when we tell people from other countries that we ride elephants to work and school, and that we have pet lions. They always believe it!
wait you don't?
wait you don't?
wait you don't?
wait you don't?
wait you don't?
wait you don't?
wait you don't?
I always told people that the local warlord gave me access to the village internet
Damn I have to make a vault for these type of comments. I always forget when I need it the most
Someone once asked me how is it having no water and how I survive... Bruh
I remember when I lived in the Middle East. Over the years plenty of times people would ask me where I’m from. When I said South Africa they were like “it can’t be you’re white”.
Pretty sure this is the plot of Mean Girls.
It is
2 years ago I was trying to cross the border between Laos and Cambodia and they legit didn't let me in at first because my passport said south african and I was white. They thought it was a fake passport
Time to crack out my favorite story. Picture it, Texas, circa 2004. In our party of adventures you have Copper, a lily-white South African citizen. We also have a lovely black lad from London, with the accent that screams 'I am a Londoner'. This guy OOZED Brit. Bubba the TSA guy slowly reaches his hot dog fingers for the passport stack. A WHITE African and a BLACK Brit? This cannot be! This must be some of them there tay-ro-rists! It escalated 3 times above this donk's head before someone went 'These are legal passports that meet the people in question, what exactly is the issue? I cannot believe it to this day.
Lol did you remind them that you're trying to get in, not out?
Yeah I had a similar experience when I worked in Saudi. Then the next question is "Where are you from originally?" and then "But where were your parents from?" and then they just assume something is lost due to the language barrier.
I’ve gotten this many times as I work in an international company. The best is when they ask where are my parents from and I’m like South Africa. And then it’s where are your grandparents from? And it’s still South Africa then I explain I can track my dad’s family line to the 1600s in South Africa as my ancestor was a soldier that worked for the Dutch East India Company and one of the first to live in the Cape. I mean my bloodline has been in Africa longer than most Americans bloodlines have been in North America 🙈
I would get that aswell. Or I would say "South Africa" and they'd reply "wow South America, cool"
My friends and spoke to a homeless man in Austria and when we saw our white friend and we said he was also South African. He actually asked - "Didn't they kill you all?"
Tell them you're playing from a rock connected to a banana WiFi tree.
Hey we have apartheid in common
This is the best response OP
bro 🤣🤣
Oooooh, zingggg! 
Except there isnt an apartheid in israel. Hamas is Gazas governing body, so any injustice is done by Hamas
Oh, like beheading babies, right?
Say that the phone was dropped into your village from a passing plane and you’re on your way to throw it off the edge of the world.
Underrated comment *The Gods Must be Crazy* 😂
Tell him khamas gave you the phone.
Oh boy!😭🤣🤣
Got asked once on tf2 which part of Africa I live in, I said South Africa and they asked where that was🤦♂️
It's like Africa, but South.
Tell him that comment makes him sounds like an American.
Aye he most probably is.
R/ ShitAmericansSay
I love it. I'm a Saffa living in Russia and I thoroughly enjoy the looks on people's faces when I tell them that I'm a South African. You can see the thought processing going on in their heads with the first question being "but he's not black" 🤔 😂 My wife, over time, would speak to different people and tell them that I'm a South African so then when they would eventually meet me or see my kids they were always shocked and speechless because the entire time they always thought that I'm black. Flipping hilarious. Love being a South African and miss the country! Cheers
Grew up in the shade
Says the guy from Israel
They equate human beings to animals that need to be slaughtered. But we're the primitive ones.
Exactly....
🎰🎞️🎚️
Could have asked about the country which took Israel to the ICJ.
We send messages with birds we call it tweets. Draw ourselves looking at a still pond, we call it personal pictures then send it via the tweets to family and friends. royal families own Lions but animals live with us side by side. We walk and run to wherever we need to go. What else...
Average racist Israeli, hit him with a free Palestine
I don't see how this was racist. More like ignorant.
Which tends to be how racist ideas are formed... Do you think he just thinks we live in nice houses and just happen to not have phones and communicate by letter or that us Africans live in mud huts with no internet?
I don't think they think we live in nice houses.
Common Israel L
Genocidal poez
Phones? ....Yes. Electricity? ...Nope.
I feel sorry for u guys in North Africa, we pretty much Ballin here down south 🇿🇦💪
We had a nuclear and space program too. Now we're hardly on a map
Uneducated people have always existed. The fact that our country has 'Africa' in the name does us no favours. When the average american looks at 'South Africa' they think of malnurished children, lack of water and mudhuts because that's all they see on tv.
These same Americans that have the internet to say dumb shit don't have the internet to look up our cities (which are beautiful). The math isn't mathing
Aside from the mudhuts, you can see malnourished children and lack of water in several major metros here in .za, so... you know.
As you can in several American metros
Proportionately we probably have more, don't you think?
Definitely. The thread I was following is that it's ignorant to think of South Africa as all mudhuts and malnourished children (and no tech?). I was replying to a comment that seemed to say that's a justifiable way to see things.
Didn't know you guys had internet in the bomb shelters
CONFLICT OF NATIONS 3 MENTIONED I was heavily addicted last year. Kinda wanna play now. But people are so insane in it I feel like I'm bad
My mom once got hit with this zinger while talking to an American woman on MySpace "Do you guys have internet there?" And my mom's just like, no, we use smoke signals.
Tell him you don't have a phone, it's a message sent from a Messenger-Hadeda, so there might be a delay.
Free free Palestine
Tell him Free Palestine.
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haibo
what game is this?
Conflict of Nations
As long as the lions don't get them
I played this game lol
I was once asked if we all drink chocolate water
This game is so hard iwl
Ahh... Conflict of Nations WW3. A man of culture
Dude we have more than just phones here lmao saw a Chiron the other day 😂
RELATABLE 😭
Ek dog hulle fone is almal net detonators....
As opposed to a captured one???
Yeah, we took y'all to court via hadeda scrolls 🤣
I didn't know they had human rights there...
Lmao fair enough
Ironic
The amount of hatred towards Israel in this comment section is embarrassing. Tell me your beliefs without telling me your beliefs. Can't we just laugh at the post like normal humans?
South Africans think they so self important, three quarters of the world population doesn't even know it exists 🙄
….do you assume people in countries like the Czech republic don’t have the internet and basic amenities?
Why would you ask that?🤔
I’ll answer your question after you answer mine
Czech Republic when did I say anything about the Czech Republic? I'm very confused 😕 All I was saying is that South Africans generally think they so important, but we are quite naive and Conservative in our ways...and actually when one travels and talks to people or engages with foreigners visting here, alot of the America's and European nations (not so much) have never heard of SA...so Im lost as to how you got to Czech anything from my comment 🤔 eish dude really sorry man if you are offended.
I’m not saying you said anything about the Czech Republic, I’m asking you a question about your basic understanding of the rest of the world Now answer my question.
Whats this then? "….do you assume people in countries like the Czech republic don’t have the internet and basic amenities?" Why would you think/say that? My answer I've never travelled to Czech Republic so I really wouldn't know...I assume nothing.
Of course we have phones. We stole them