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#NotOnOurWatch: That’s not my name!

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#NotOnOurWatch: That’s not my name!

i stopped to fill up my car with petrol today and got really mad and jumped on to my phone and wrote this as my Facebook status: Disclaimer: this post will not have the amount of swearing i feel it deserves. Caltex, Main Road, Diep River, know that i am gunning for you. How DARE you have petrol attendants working for you who have to change their isiXhosa names for English names because their names [...]

By brettfish|2017-01-26T17:33:59+02:00January 26th, 2017|activities, race vibes, shtupidt people, South Africa, things to wrestle with|3 Comments

Don’t you DARE let them give you an “easier” name.

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Don’t you DARE let them give you an “easier” name.

i was chatting to a black grade six girl yesterday afternoon as we struggled through some Afrikaans homework together about Vasco de Gama. Before we got started with the homework, i asked her what her name is. She said it for me, followed by the words, "It's very hard." She then added her nickname and the english name her sister gave her. i said her name back to her with a question mark intonation at the [...]

By brettfish|2016-05-27T13:56:03+02:00May 27th, 2016|inspire-ations, shtupidt people, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|4 Comments