@Heil_Honkler@leespringfield1903 Just say the name out loud. I am constantly disappointed in the inability of people here to detect the obvious joke in the name and take it as gospel. There are plenty of real ones saying the same thing. You* don't need to use the bait account to illustrate the point, it just makes you* look like a imbecile
@TrevorGoodchild@Hoss@Heil_Honkler@Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta Something to bear in mind: Britain is about to try and get an IMF bail out due to catastrophic govt mismanagement, france is objecting saying they're going to need it too. And both of us have a lower debt to income ratio than the US. Things might get fruity more quickly than you think.
@suquili@InvictusManeo@SavvyLevie@Shadowman311@TrevorGoodchild That old am-ren piece on abstract thinking is an absolute goldmine >White rule in South Africa ended in 1994. It was about ten years later that power outages began, which eventually reached crisis proportions. The principle reason for this is simply lack of maintenance on the generating equipment. Maintenance is future-oriented, and the Zulu entry in the dictionary for it is ondla, which means: “1. Nourish, rear; bring up; 2. Keep an eye on; watch (your crop).” In short, there is no such thing as maintenance in Zulu thought, and it would be hard to argue that this is wholly unrelated to the fact that when people throughout Africa say “nothing works,” it is only an exaggeration.
@suquili@ailatan@Shadowman311@TrevorGoodchild Ahem: >In this context, I recall some remarkable discoveries by the late American linguist, William Stewart, who spent many years in Senegal studying local languages. Whereas Western cultures internalize norms — “Don’t do that!” for a child, eventually becomes “I mustn’t do that” for an adult — African cultures do not. They rely entirely on external controls on behavior from tribal elders and other sources of authority. When Africans were detribalized, these external constraints disappeared, and since there never were internal constraints, the results were crime, drugs, promiscuity, etc. Where there have been other forms of control — as in white-ruled South Africa, colonial Africa, or the segregated American South — this behavior was kept within tolerable limits. But when even these controls disappear there is often unbridled violence.