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@HabibiSouth

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My pronouns in bio are "hulle/julle" and "dié een/daai een".

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@HabibiSouth
Ian van Zyl
3 years
My dad was told by his local hospital in the Eastern Cape that he has an iron deficiency. Fine. They then advised him to drink Iron Brew to get his iron levels up. Not fine.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
Proud 🇿🇦 moment: 3 South African satellites, built by our team (my colleagues) in Cape Town, are being launched by @SpaceX on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle this Thursday, the 13th. Fingers crossed, Mr @elonmusk !! #Transporter3 #falcon9 #SpaceX #satellites #CubeSat #ISILaunch36P
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
Did you know that you can be an atheist and still be respectful towards people who hold religious beliefs, including refraining from belittling those beliefs?
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
Are there any other countries in the world beside South Africa where people have burnt down a COVID-19 clinic or hospital? Or are we just really, really special?
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
Can't believe I have to say this... It's not about being able to get a haircut. It's about allowing people to work who have had no income for three months, so that they can also feed their families.
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Ian van Zyl
6 months
Is there anybody else out there who has literally zero interest in Taylor Swift?
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
Orania's population is roughly 1,800 - Out of 60 million people in SA. It's not even 10 % of Glebelands Hostel's population of 22,000. If your mind is occupied by this tiny minority, you should seek help. People don't hate them because they are exclusive, but because they thrive.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
Question for people like @ZeldalaGrangeSA and @JJ_Stellies : If those of us who live in SA and pay taxes by the billions get the bare minimum in return from the state, why on God's earth should @elonmusk donate a single cent to this country run by the @MYANC criminal cartel?
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
Does anybody actually believe the reason the EFF is in Senekal is to protect state property? Does anybody believe they're not there to provoke? Anyone?
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
@stillgray Why is there always a woman shouting hysterically off-camera?
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
I bought three avocado pears from Food Lover's Market more than a week ago. All three are still as hard as trigonometry.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
Trending in South Africa: "Afrikaans". Every fucking day now. GET OVER IT. Millions of us speak this language as a mother tongue, and many millions more speak and understand it as a means of communication. We're not gonna disappear because you have hatred for us or our language.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
If you are an ANC member and/or voter, I don't want to hear a peep out of you regarding ESKOM and loadshedding. This is on you.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
Welcome to the police state. I was out walking and got stopped by the Police at about 20:50 and threatened with arrest and a R1,000 fine. They told me I had 4 minutes to get indoors. A fucking lie. Why is this fucking government turning ordinary people into criminals?
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
For me, one of the greatest failures of, and missed opportunities by, the ANC-led Government since 1994 is the collapse of the rail network. There used to be few places one couldn't travel safely and reliably to by train. This should have been modernised and expanded.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
My fellow South Africans. Blah blah Apartheid blah blah Brackenfell blah blah deep divisions blah blah painful past. Blah blah Covid. Blah blah economy blah blah green sprouts. Blah blah billion Rand.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
Sorry what? We live in a country where the accused has the ability to chase people out of court because he doesn't like their skin colour? What absolute bullshit is this?
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
Why didn't Tito go to a state hospital? You'd think a lifelong cadre of the ANC, a dyed in the wool ANC stalwart like Tito would have faith in state institutions like government hospitals. But no - private healthcare for Tito.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
What the actual fuck are the Australians doing to Novak Djokovic? Fucking shameful. (This language is totally warranted, believe me.).
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
I wish I could say this were a joke, but that was the medical advice given to him by the personnel at the A&E of Wilhelm Stahl Hospital. Very worrying.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
Orania's population is 0.003 % of South Africa's. Yet... CHEST PAINS. In South Africa the same number of people are murdered in just one month. Get a grip and deal with the real issues in this country.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
Everyday I reject soooo many calls from 087 numbers, and other call centres with 010 or 031 numbers. And no matter how many I block, they never stop calling. Every single day. Wasn't there some legislation some years ago to stop this kind of harassment?
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
@bonglez Black Business Council. Black Lawyers' Association. Black Farmers' Association. Black Business Chamber. Bursaries and jobs for which only black people can apply. Book festivals for only black people. A fund to support only black industrialists. All of these things exclude others.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
Gawd, Kim! I was out this evening to a nice establishment in Sea Point. R80 for a 750ml bottle of sparkling water. Look, I'm not stingy, but they're taking the piss. Anyone else with me on this, or am I wrong?
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@HabibiSouth
Ian van Zyl
1 year
Nobody is coming to save you. Not Cyril, not Bheki, not Elon and most certainly not the "international community".
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
Not being funny... but has anybody seen ANY footage of a single water cannon being used to disperse looters and arsonists?
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
I spent a considerable amount of time today sweeping the streets, gutters and pavements in front of my house and the business park across the street. I collected 4 black bags of trash. I'm so tired of living in other people's filth. What will it take to cultivate cleanliness?
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
Imagine having this in your mouth. #Malusi #Gigaba #MalusiGigaba
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Ian van Zyl
3 months
Has anyone checked in on poor Bianca and Robyn? And that greasy-haired pole dancer from UCT? What about Nickolaus Bauer? These poor freaks must be just about frothing at the mouth by now. We all love democracy till we don't...
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
The problem with South Africa is not only the government. It's the calibre of person who lives here among us. We see the gradual destruction of everything. Soon, nothing will be left. The country is ungovernable and unsalvageable.
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Ian van Zyl
13 days
When I was young, our country still had passenger railways that criss-crossed the vast interior. They weren't fast - Cape Town to Johannesburg in 24 hours - but they were wonderful. A whole generation of younger South Africans will probably never know the joy. This makes me sad.
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Ian van Zyl
1 year
Sad but true: Not having the taxis on the roads gives one a rare peek into what it must be like to live in an orderly, law-abiding society. {And you can keep your lectures to yourself - I'm aware of the devastating effect on people's livelihoods. It's just an observation}.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
The level of harassment by outgoing call centres in this country is off the fucking charts. I honestly cannot take it any more.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
Companies introducing vaccine mandates at this late stage.... I don't have words.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
Lemme get this straight... So you DO want unvaccinated people to be locked down and denied access to public places, but you DON'T think it's right that the world has put South Africa under lockdown and denied access to international travel?
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Ian van Zyl
3 months
I went for a walk yesterday afternoon here in Queenstown and was passed on the street by several boys in the uniform of Queen's College. Almost without fail, each one greeted me courteously with "Good afternoon, sir". It warms the heart that some youth are still taught manners.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
For decades you kept on voting for the ANC, even when it became apparent that the election promises were empty rhetoric. You did it because the ANC was your spiritual home. Now you want to lament because your actual home needs a diesel generator. Do me a favour...
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
I don't believe there can be a single sane person who looks at the South African cabinet and does not think that they are not in any way fit to hold any kind of office, even at town council level. And yet they are in charge of national portfolios with huge budgets.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
Toe ons laaities was. Wie onthou?
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
So there is shit at the SABC, shit with the taxis, shit building up with a view to a clash in Brackenfell, and at least one university burning today (with more loading). Remind me why this country is worth saving, because it's really got that "shithole" look right now.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
So which is worse - a healthy unvaccinated person going about their daily life, or a triple vaxxed billionairess travelling the world, spreading disease all over the place?
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
South African Black Twitter can be so predictable. Show them one video of a white South African being verbally abused overseas and they're all over it like a rash. It's their ultimate wet dream. 💦💦 I've got to laugh 🤣.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
A reminder that billions of rands of COVID relief funds are unaccounted for because ANC cadres cannot keep their grubby hands off money. #VoetsekANC
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
It's time people stop with their fuckery. Wanting to live in a safe, stable and prosperous environment does NOT equate to being an apartheid apologist or a desire to revert to that state. It's not only minorities who want safety, stability and a capable state. Stop vilifying us.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
I don't know the outcome of the LGE yet, but I'm pretty confident that Brett Herron will not be my mayor... and that feels... well, that just feels GOOD.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
Drive around Cape Town (or any other city) and pay attention to how many bikers are delivering food to people's homes. Yes, I'm sure many/most of you think this is progress. I think it is absolutely horrid that people can't even be arsed to go to the shop to buy food any more.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
I'm not religious, but I certainly don't feel the need for a Crusade against Christianity like these cringeworthy atheists who go out of their way to shit all over Christmas. For Chrissake, give it a rest for a few hours & let people rejoice without the poison of your negativity.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
I say no to vaccine mandates. Unequivocally NO.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
Do I - a fully able-bodied and more than capable man in my 40s - really need another man to help me unload my shopping trolley into the boot of my car in exchange for money? NO, I don't. Wish these guys would just leave me be.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
If your only take on people going to the beach in defiance today includes something about "white people" you're a bigger asshole than I thought. And you need to get a fucking grip on reality. And also, stay the fuck away from me because I have nothing nice to say about you.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
I'll tell you one thing for free though.... with Trump gone, people like Trevor Noah will have no material left. Will have to steal other people's jokes, like before.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
Wanna hear what's bullshit? In South Africa, a law-abiding citizen cannot buy alcoholic beverages, but someone who loots Tops or Pick n Pay liquor gets to take that loot home and enjoy it, no worries.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
I'd rather give birth to a harpsichord than watch this.
@TVwithThinus
TVwithThinus
4 years
BREAKING. @Trevornoah to host the 2021 Grammy Awards on 31 January 2021: "Despite the fact that I'm extremely disappointed that the Grammys have refused to have me sing or be nominated for best pop album, I am thrilled to be hosting this auspicious event," he says in a statement.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
The fools have really come out of the woodwork these last couple of days. Jamil and Saul are the ugly face of intellectually insipid ideological slavery that forfeits common sense in favour of identity politics and sycophancy respectively. And they do it with such abandon.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
Parents of white kids: please remember not to celebrate your kiddies' good matric or other school results, as you are perpetuating white supremacy by doing so. You should keep it a very, very private affair, it you might (or will) offend @JJ_Stellies .
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
Last night I sat next to a Gen Z table. I heard them say things like "It's a form of bullying and that's not OK", "We're taking a breather" and "This is a safe space".... On a social night out. It's so incredibly hard to respect this feeble generation or take them seriously.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
I swept this area completely clean last weekend, again once during the week and TWICE yesterday. This is not even 24 hours later. I am so tired of living in the filth of people who do not value cleanliness in the same way I do. Or at all, for that matter.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
Get Vaxxed at the stadium and you're good to go? What vaccine kicks in immediately? I call bullshit fuckery on this.
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Mia Malan
2 years
Want to go to a sports game at a stadium? Here are the rules for entry: 1. Vaxxed people: Download your vax certificate from and present it 2. Unvaxxed people: - Get vaxxed at the stadium (for free) - Present a negative PCR test not older than 72 hours
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
You work hard to pay your bills, pay for a place to stay... Only for some asshole to come in the night and strip away all your copper pipes, leaving water gushing and huge problems to fix at tremendous cost. Sometimes this country really gets me down.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
If someone pays you $7 Million for an "interview", it's not "journalism". It's "entertainment". Tabloid "entertainment".
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
Dischem: "We need several blacks just to maintain the status quo". Yep, they totally view you as a human being with a good skills set, who can make a valuable contribution to the company. #dischem
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
I'm not particularly patriotic. I'm not religious. I'm gay with no partner or kids and therefore no family life... So why does this make so much sense to me? Because the alternative is a dystopian, chaotic and rudderless existence under mad, authoritarian tyranny.
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This is Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. I’ve never heard any politician so perfectly explain what we’re up against and why we fight. When you watch this video, you’ll quickly realize why the establishment is afraid of her.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
One of the most useless skills I ever acquired in the 80s and 90s: Covering school books in brown paper and plastic.
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Ian van Zyl
1 year
Chest pains because of an observation that roads feel safer because of the absence of those who drive without any regard for the law. Accusations of racism. Comparisons with Hitler. Because of my belief that public transport should be safe, reliable, dignified and efficient.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
My possums, I want you all to appreciate that I could have died on that damned mountain today! I encountered a Cape Cobra and the fucking thing recoiled. Toe hardloop ek soos 'n nancy-boy daai bergpad af. Vieslike ding.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
I have been dreading this all year. But today I have to go to the traffic department to apply for a new driver's licence card. I wanna just die.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
Young people, help Uncle Habibi understand... Beautiful hike in Newlands Forest, up in the gorges, away from urban life. It feels like we're miles from civilisation. Why the need to carry a Bluetooth speaker blasting hip-hop? I don't get it.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
But how has YOUR morning been? 🤭 Mine so far has been interesting, but not altogether bad. 😜
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
We're a long way from China. Why are Chinese vessels illegally fishing in our waters?
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
@MrAndyNgo Is that.... Jussie Smollett?
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
This is the rail network. When I was a kid one could travel to most of these places by train on a regular schedule. 15 years ago there were still daily trains to many destinations. Now look at the current passenger rail schedule. 2 Routes. Once per month? Is this all that's left?
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
Trevor Noah? I'd rather give birth to a chair. This guy stopped being funny the moment he realised the way to the bank vault is (1) racialising everything, (2) using every opportunity to make everything about a certain Donald Trump and (3) pontificating to ordinary people.
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Join @Trevornoah and his hair (hopefully) when he hosts The 63rd #GRAMMYs on Sunday, March 14 at 8pm ET/5pm PT on CBS.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
You hate to see it, but as I intimated on two occasions before, Bianca has very specific ideas about what constitutes black behaviour and the place of black people in society. Deeply racist cake under the sweetest woke icing. @WotanZA hope you don't mind my chiming in.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
Let this sink in. We live in a world where a woman saying she loves being a woman is slammed for being transphobic. This is the level of vitriol and intellectual pettiness we've arrived at. This is what happens when you humour and accommodate irrationality for years and years.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
My hunch is that taxi operators will not discard used facemasks as hazmat, but will recycle and reuse them. People are going to end up wearing masks that have been worn before, potentially by sick people. This is not going to end well. #CoronaVirusSA
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Ian van Zyl
1 year
@xxclusionary This is what happens when a doting parent entertains every whim of a misguided child. You end up with adolescents and young adults who never outgrow infancy. They are forever in a make-believe world of manga and cosplay, and demand that the rest of civilisation jettison reality.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
@newhorizanman Beetroot is a good source of iron! I forgot about that!
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
What a beautiful way to wake up in Rhodes.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
How I loathe these expressions: 1. "We are led." 2. "Leadership!" I equally loathe it when a politician refers to him/herself in the plural.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
@KatyMontgomerie @jk_rowling Why won't the Trans activists leave Rowling alone? It's nothing but hateful harassment on Twitter and elsewhere. Disgraceful behaviour.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
@TheBloodWeapon You need to understand also that we don't do it to hurt you. We cannot choose or change our same-sex attraction at random. So we are being truthful to ourselves. It is just wrong to want to pressure us into having sex with you when we're just not attracted to you. End of story.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
I identify as gatvol.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
The problem with South African suburban white liberals is that they really believe that a powerful politician will be less corrupt if they're relatively well spoken. They will call them "majestic" and experience all kinds of frissons when they see them adress the nation.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
@BassonArnold Yes, that's what I told him. Liver, raisins, spinach, red meat... just all in moderation. I think I will send him some supplements. The poor man.
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Ian van Zyl
1 year
In my nearly 46 years on earth, I have never lived under a government that I voted for.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
The SA Government, with the ANC at its core, is a crime syndicate.
@waldimar
Waldimar Pelser
4 years
A Joburg government agency paid more than R3,000 for 100ml of hand sanitiser (available for R29,99 at Clicks) and R1,150 per fabric mask (R50) because hey, who's counting, this is a national emergency! #SondagInRapport ? @RapportSA @Netwerk24
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
Sometimes Twitter is still worthwhile.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
Sooooo Bianca has unblocked me. To be honest, I prefer being blocked by that fruitcake.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
I drove back 800 km today from the Eastern Cape to Cape Town. I can only thank God I made it back unscathed, and to a house where everything is still in order. 🙌🏻
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
Controversial opinion: The reason the DA continues to grapple with issues of race and identity, while other parties don't, is that the DA is the only ethnically and racially diverse SA party in a sea of ethnocentric and populist parties. Simultaneous advantage and disadvantage.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
I get nervous when I see things like "Zimbabweans", "Indians" etc. trend. They never trend for anything good. Same with "whites". It's always - without fail - hateful and vile. Why are we like this as a nation?
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
Tonight I experienced first-hand the problem with many millennials: disbelief that someone could hold different beliefs to their own, inability to compute that their own views can be challenged, defensiveness, followed by offensiveness, held together only by cognitive dissonance.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
My kitty was put to sleep this morning. I don't know her age, but she was with me since 15 April 2012. We had ten very good years. But now she has passed on. RIP Leila Khaled. X
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
There's no city in South Africa that people enjoy shitting on as much as they do Cape Town. If you don't live here, why are you so pressed? And if you do live here and hate it, remember that nobody's asking you to stay here. Get over yourself. It's just a geographical place.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
@flowerofm4y Lesbianism has absolutely NOTHING to do with whether a person is trans or not. Literally not a single thing. Don't conflate sexual orientation with gender identity. They're not remotely the same thing.
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Ian van Zyl
4 years
Bianca, die oorspronklike Krismisdoos. Liewe fok, die ding is dom. Maar dis daai tipe dom waar jy SO dom is dat jy dit nie eens kan agterkom nie. Want jy's te donners dom.
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Ian van Zyl
2 years
Are you surprised that a group of people pouring fuel on to an individual and setting him alight is being framed as the fault of white people? I'm not. We live in a world where all ills are being framed as the fault of white people, past and present. No personal accountability.
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
Help me understand... We're told processed meats are bad for us. Why do I get the impression vegan sausage and vegan meat substitutes (that mimic meat, supposedly) are extremely processed and refined?
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Ian van Zyl
3 years
There are few things as infuriating as people who use their skin colour as a proxy for entitlement, and a licence to be belligerent, rude and utterly disrespectful.
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