You know you are proudly South African when…
Yes, yes, I know you are bored with them... but come on.... you cannot have read all the others and not read the one from my country.... this one if frighteningly accurate;-P
Prisoners go on strike.
You call a trunk a “boot”
You call an elevator a “lift”
You call a hood a “bonnet”
You call a Barbeque a “Braai”
You call a traffic light a “robot”
You call a pickup truck a “bakkie”
We sing “Ole’ Ole’” before we’ve won!
You travel 100′s of kilometres to see snow.
You paint your car’s registration on the roof.
You call a bathing suit a “swimming costume”.
You know the rules of Rugby better than any referee.
You can do your monthly shopping on the pavement.
You have to prove that you don’t need a loan to get one.A bullet train is being introduced, but we can’t fix potholes.
You know what Rooibos Tea is, even if you’ve never had any.
To get free electricity you have to pay a connection fee of R750.
More people vote in a local reality TV show than in a local election.
“Now now” or “just now” can mean anything from a minute to a month.
You know someone who knows someone who has met Nelson Mandela.
You get cold easily. Anything below 16 degrees Celsius is Arctic weather.
You know a taxi can move twice it’s certified number of people in one trip.
Travelling at 120 km/h you’re the slowest vehicle on the highway/freeway.
The employees dance in front of the building to show how unhappy they are.
You have to take your own linen with you if you are admitted to a government hospital.
The SABC advertises and shows highlights of the programme you just finished watching.
You produce a R100 note instead of your driver’s licence when stopped by a traffic officer.
You go to braais regularly, where you eat boerewors and swim, sometimes simultaneously.
You’re genuinely and pleasantly surprised whenever you find your car parked where you left it.
You can sing your national anthem in four languages, and you have no idea what it means in any of them.
The last time you visited the coast you paid more in speeding fines and toll fees than you did for the entire holiday.
You continue to wait after a traffic light has turned to green to make way for taxis travelling in the opposite direction.
And…
You get emails like these from friends and post it as a blog.
thnx xena...quite interesting to know about SOUTH AFRICANS.
lag my stukkend...Xena is jy dan nou 'n draadsitter."I love SA yes... its the land of my birth and my family are all still there, but I am not such a big fan of what goes on there... "
Either you love to hate SA or Hate to love it.
Alo you know you Souf African if you sit in a train and you don't know what the hell people next to you is talking about but they shouting.
>You call a trunk a “boot”
>You call an elevator a “lift”
>You call a hood a “bonnet”
>You call a bathing suit a “swimming costume”.
>More people vote in a local reality TV show than in a local election.
>“Now now” or “just now” can mean anything from a minute to a month.
>You produce a R100 note instead of your driver’s licence when stopped by a traffic officer.
Yeah Xena it was us who inspired it all..we rock =P
Xena..who ever moved to india no more lankan...lol.
you will have to ask FathimaH...
'FathimaH said Xena.. ...
I actually found quite a few traits to be common among us Lankans too..nice to know we are not as weird as we think =)'
:-D
Fathi...Wot did u find over here common to SL?
Well it would be the Lankans who moved to India, who then moved to SA... so it all started with you;-P
Its all the Lankans fault:-P
Lol Xena...
Yeah Deepb...go on..
I actually found quite a few traits to be common among us Lankans too..nice to know we are not as weird as we think =)
Travelling at 120 km/h you’re the slowest vehicle on the highway/freeway - I'd say that for the Germans too ;-)
Go on now =P
I love SA yes... its the land of my birth and my family are all still there, but I am not such a big fan of what goes on there...
Alot of what I wrote above is very sad.... but its the norm for us Saffers... cause we live like that daily:-P
Hmmm Fatimah reminds me.. Did we have a Sri Lankan thread up yet? :P
lol, thank you for clearing that up jack. I was about to call up my parents and ask if I was adopted from South Africa :P
TFS Xena..You proud South African you =D
well... technically, we do have a huge Indian population that might have brought all those with them from India, originally;-P
same same India the foll points exactly:
You call a trunk a “boot”
You call an elevator a “lift”
You call a hood a “bonnet”
“Ole’ Ole’” ...is hindi song...may be copied from SA
You travel 100′s of kilometres to see snow....no 1,000km
You call a bathing suit a “swimming costume”.
You can do your monthly shopping on the pavement.
You have to prove that you don’t need a loan to get one. A bullet train is being introduced, but we can’t fix potholes.
More people vote in a local reality TV show than in a local election.
You produce a R100 note instead of your driver’s licence when stopped by a traffic officer.
And…also
You get emails like these from friends and post it as a blog.
You know you are proudly South African....
when you think its normal that police stations are protected by private security companies...
where did you learn that.... exactly right;-P
You know you are South African when a normal trip to the bank entails being x-rayed, patted down and had a dog sniff your crotch to make sure you have no weapons;-P
and once inside the bank its quite normal for you to have to shout through the bullet proof glass to be heard by the teller;-P
or
when going into a shopping mall carpark, it seems normal to see heavily armed men staggered at different areas around the car park while protecting the money being stored in the ATM at the entrance...;-P
Hmmm I use some of those terminologies... I might be South African.... :O
You are South African if after a night out you have the "babalaas" :O)
Lol....the last line is so true for everyone not only South Africans :-)