Message from @Malcolm the Seceder

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2018-07-31 22:37:41 UTC  

:/

2018-07-31 22:37:47 UTC  

Aye so... stick that in the “not great” category ?

2018-07-31 22:38:10 UTC  

solid 4/10

2018-07-31 22:41:34 UTC  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXiuO5Guds4 @Crumplepoint some background context on the current government(ANC/SACP alliance)

2018-07-31 22:46:09 UTC  

@Crumplepoint in a nutshell it was a system to assist each group to own their own country.

2018-07-31 22:46:25 UTC  

the government spent trillions on uplifting these countries

2018-07-31 22:48:25 UTC  

jerm's always going on about his prepper farmer friends(and himself)

2018-07-31 22:50:28 UTC  

@rob Not a fan?

2018-07-31 22:51:04 UTC  

if someone doesn't know the benefits of a vehicle, he will burn the tyres.

2018-07-31 22:51:22 UTC  

No, I'm a fan

2018-07-31 22:51:27 UTC  

that's IQ and democracy in a nutshell

2018-07-31 22:51:33 UTC  

just saying, it's a hobby of his on twitter

2018-07-31 22:52:31 UTC  

Top Comment on (In Brazil, it is considered rude to be on time to a party):
"My impression as to your cheap labour was soon disillusioned when I saw your people at work. No doubt they are lowly paid, but the return is equally so; to see your men at work made me feel that you are a very satisfied and easy-going race who reckon time is no object. When I spoke to some managers they informed me that it was impossible to change the habits of a national heritage."
This excerpt appears in Ha-Joon Chang's book "Bad Samaritans" and it was written by an Australian consultant with regards to Japan in August 1915. Chang also mentions Sidney Gulick's 1903 book "Evolution of the Japanese" which also stereotypes the Japanese as "'easy-going' and 'emotional' people who possessed qualities like 'lightness of heart, freedom from all anxiety for the future, living chiefly for the present.'"

I don't have details on Brazil, but I am almost certain that this "Brazilian time" is just a symptom of some completely reversible, systemic problem that is making it difficult to do business with high-technologies in Brazil.

Possibly relevant to us?

2018-07-31 22:53:19 UTC  

@rob Was genuine question. Just interested in your opinion

2018-07-31 22:53:57 UTC  

not avoiding answering, was just commenting, I have no problem with it

2018-07-31 22:54:19 UTC  

maybe the tone wasn't communicated

2018-07-31 22:55:14 UTC  

Lol and I read the wrong message thinking you were answering me

2018-07-31 22:55:36 UTC  

Britain in the 17th century was superior to the rest of Europe

2018-07-31 22:59:32 UTC  
2018-07-31 22:59:32 UTC  

Ditsem! @AltCapRight, you just advanced to level 1!

2018-07-31 23:00:54 UTC  

that is not accurate

2018-07-31 23:00:57 UTC  

no

2018-07-31 23:01:08 UTC  

it is mixing lies with truth

2018-07-31 23:01:35 UTC  

it is saying we stole dingaans cattle

2018-07-31 23:01:48 UTC  

and we said we will give it back if he gives us land

2018-07-31 23:01:51 UTC  
2018-07-31 23:01:57 UTC  

You stole his dog!

2018-07-31 23:03:40 UTC  

it does

2018-07-31 23:03:56 UTC  

This is getting confusing 🤕

2018-07-31 23:04:09 UTC  

@9:10 ou oom jy jok lekker. Old man you are lying through your teeth, Dingaan knew who stole the cattle and he knew it was not the voortrekkers. The treaty was, go get dingaans stolen cattle and the thieves who stole it and then we can start negotiating.

2018-07-31 23:04:17 UTC  

sorry for the afrikaans

2018-07-31 23:04:28 UTC  

that was me pointing out to him that he wa slying

2018-07-31 23:05:42 UTC  

have a look at this link and let me know what you think

2018-07-31 23:07:07 UTC  

yes our government back in the early 1900s made a movie

2018-07-31 23:07:15 UTC  

but i think it's all in afrikaans

2018-07-31 23:07:25 UTC  

@theeChristopher ja that's a pretty bad spot @AltCapRight compare 9:10 in that video vs wikipedia on that episode: In October 1837, the Voortrekker leader Piet Retief visited Dingane at his royal kraal to negotiate a land deal for the voortrekkers. In November, about 1,000 Voortrekker wagons began descending the Drakensberg mountains from the Orange Free State into what is now KwaZulu-Natal.

Dingane asked that Retief and his party retrieve some cattle stolen from him by a local chief as part of the treaty for land for the Boers. This Retief and his men did, returning on 3 February 1838. The next day, a treaty was signed, wherein Dingane ceded all the land south of the Tugela River to the Mzimvubu River to the Voortrekkers. Celebrations followed. On 6 February, at the end of the celebrations, Retief's party were invited to a dance, and asked to leave their weapons behind. At the peak of the dance, Dingane leapt to his feet and yelled "Bambani abathakathi!" (isiZulu for "Seize the wizards"). Retief and his men were overpowered, taken to the nearby hill kwaMatiwane, and executed.

2018-07-31 23:08:16 UTC  

there are some (large) inaccuracies but the dates and map/territory details should be correct