we just had tryhards who wanted to be in various gangs but were too retarded to even organise that
most of the kids who actually had parents in the mongrel mob/black power etc just thought they were tossers
I live in one of the most middle class areas in England. There were people in my school who acted like they were "gangsta's" and would say they were from the "ghetto".
Then mummy would pull up in a BMW. o_O
I had that. Although I lived in an area which is actually one of the EU's economically deprived areas, it just happened to have a private school in the centre.
At first i thought, man i need to be gangsta then Mum and Dad can have awesome cars like that.
Of course then i realised these kids were full of shit.
Shit in my primary school, my mother was part of the under-privileged children's feeding scheme, where it wasn't all that uncommon to give a packet of food to a kid, who would then turn and give the food to their siblings and walk away. If we stop them to give them another they'd go, "Oh it's ok. It's not my turn to eat today."
Those kids parents? Brand new Mercs.
Fuck.
The poorest family in the school, so poor their father couldn't even be a poser and drove a car held together by wire (no really), were five kids. They only had money for one pair of shoes and they decided to get the lone girl a pair, but once she outgrew them that was it. So most of the time none of them had shoes.
You could follow them around school in winter because of the bloody footprints they left everywhere.
Hilariously, every foreign person I've introduced myself to, gets my name right almost right away. My own countrymen? Mangle it like you wouldn't believe.
In a book we were studying in high school English, there was a character named 'Piet'. The teacher insisted on calling him Pee-et, even after the girl in the class with Dutch parents with a brother also called Piet corrected him.
Shit in my primary school, my mother was part of the under-privileged children's feeding scheme, where it wasn't all that uncommon to give a packet of food to a kid, who would then turn and give the food to their siblings and walk away. If we stop them to give them another they'd go, "Oh it's ok. It's not my turn to eat today."
Those kids parents? Brand new Mercs.
Fuck.
The poorest family in the school, so poor their father couldn't even be a poser and drove a car held together by wire (no really), were five kids. They only had money for one pair of shoes and they decided to get the lone girl a pair, but once she outgrew them that was it. So most of the time none of them had shoes.
You could follow them around school in winter because of the bloody footprints they left everywhere.
Shit in my primary school, my mother was part of the under-privileged children's feeding scheme, where it wasn't all that uncommon to give a packet of food to a kid, who would then turn and give the food to their siblings and walk away. If we stop them to give them another they'd go, "Oh it's ok. It's not my turn to eat today."
Those kids parents? Brand new Mercs.
Fuck.
The poorest family in the school, so poor their father couldn't even be a poser and drove a car held together by wire (no really), were five kids. They only had money for one pair of shoes and they decided to get the lone girl a pair, but once she outgrew them that was it. So most of the time none of them had shoes.
You could follow them around school in winter because of the bloody footprints they left everywhere.
Where do you live, and why hasn't the local child protection people intervened to remove these kids from their shitty parents?
Shit in my primary school, my mother was part of the under-privileged children's feeding scheme, where it wasn't all that uncommon to give a packet of food to a kid, who would then turn and give the food to their siblings and walk away. If we stop them to give them another they'd go, "Oh it's ok. It's not my turn to eat today."
Those kids parents? Brand new Mercs.
Fuck.
The poorest family in the school, so poor their father couldn't even be a poser and drove a car held together by wire (no really), were five kids. They only had money for one pair of shoes and they decided to get the lone girl a pair, but once she outgrew them that was it. So most of the time none of them had shoes.
You could follow them around school in winter because of the bloody footprints they left everywhere.
Shit in my primary school, my mother was part of the under-privileged children's feeding scheme, where it wasn't all that uncommon to give a packet of food to a kid, who would then turn and give the food to their siblings and walk away. If we stop them to give them another they'd go, "Oh it's ok. It's not my turn to eat today."
Those kids parents? Brand new Mercs.
Fuck.
The poorest family in the school, so poor their father couldn't even be a poser and drove a car held together by wire (no really), were five kids. They only had money for one pair of shoes and they decided to get the lone girl a pair, but once she outgrew them that was it. So most of the time none of them had shoes.
You could follow them around school in winter because of the bloody footprints they left everywhere.
Where do you live, and why hasn't the local child protection people intervened to remove these kids from their shitty parents?
South Africa, and poverty was/still is not a legal reason to remove children here. You must be able to prove willful neglect and abuse. In the case of the parents with the Merc, they eventually had the car taken from them because they actually were poor, they were just stupid douchebags as well.
The other bunch did get shoes, it's when the kids finally told their teachers who the bloody footprints belonged to that something was done. They only had their father, the reason they were poor is because the mother stole a bunch of shit and ran out, afterwards he never could keep down a job mostly because of his shitheap car stabbing him in the back at the worst times. But he was an utterly amazing mechanic, that damn truck NEVER completely died. The damn driveshaft was split clean through and he held it together with wire.
They survived mostly from him getting odd jobs every now and then, plus plenty of food and clothing donations. The eldest son was super nice too... I wonder how he's doing, now. Saw him last year and he still looked a bit poor, but not as bad as you'd expect.
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edited November 2010
A mate of mine had a Dutch grandad who decided to 'Anglicise' his surname. Knowing that 'j' would become 'y', he switched the two around when he arrived in the country.
Unfortunately, he still wasn't actually fluent in English, so didn't realise that 'aa' isn't a double vowel that occurs in English. So now my mate has a relatively unique bastardised anglo-dutch surname, with a 'y' where the Dutch would expect a 'j', and 'aa' where the English would expact 'a'.
My coworker is Indonesian, and whenever he gets together with the other Indonesian guy and they speak it I just burst out into a fit of giggles. It is the funniest language I have ever heard, the Dutch influence on it is just so strong and it sounds ridiculous.
My coworker is Indonesian, and whenever he gets together with the other Indonesian guy and they speak it I just burst out into a fit of giggles. It is the funniest language I have ever heard, the Dutch influence on it is just so strong and it sounds ridiculous.
I knew a Dutch person once.
"We learn English so we don't have to speak Dutch."
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At first i thought, man i need to be gangsta then Mum and Dad can have awesome cars like that.
Of course then i realised these kids were full of shit.
The poorest family in the school, so poor their father couldn't even be a poser and drove a car held together by wire (no really), were five kids. They only had money for one pair of shoes and they decided to get the lone girl a pair, but once she outgrew them that was it. So most of the time none of them had shoes.
You could follow them around school in winter because of the bloody footprints they left everywhere.
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I wouldn't say exactly, but it's so subtle only native speakers can tell the difference.
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Someone should have gotten those kids some shoes.
And new parents
Where do you live, and why hasn't the local child protection people intervened to remove these kids from their shitty parents?
Apathy, Mehistan
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I guess. It's still a lot easier to get right than a name like Thijs or Sietse.
I have absolutely no idea how to pronounce those two names.
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People have so much trouble with Thijs. I wish my name was easy.
My name comes from my dad's best friend, who sadly died in a motorcycle accident before I was born. He was going to be my godfather.
Had he survived, I would be Steven (which became my middle name).
watching english speaking folks pull half their larnyx trying to produce a dutch ch or g is hilarious.
ecHHHHHhhggggggg
eggggkkkkk
*koff, koff*
*spit*
'fuck your language'
How else would you pronounce your name? I've never heard it said any other way.
"Kah-lin", rather than "Cole-in". As in Farrell, Firth, Hanks. If only I lived in Ireland, I would never have this problem.
and after they finally manage it, it takes them years to take off the emphasis... saying GGGGGodverdomme
and trundled off to the jungle
off she rode with a trumpety trump
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South Africa, and poverty was/still is not a legal reason to remove children here. You must be able to prove willful neglect and abuse. In the case of the parents with the Merc, they eventually had the car taken from them because they actually were poor, they were just stupid douchebags as well.
The other bunch did get shoes, it's when the kids finally told their teachers who the bloody footprints belonged to that something was done. They only had their father, the reason they were poor is because the mother stole a bunch of shit and ran out, afterwards he never could keep down a job mostly because of his shitheap car stabbing him in the back at the worst times. But he was an utterly amazing mechanic, that damn truck NEVER completely died. The damn driveshaft was split clean through and he held it together with wire.
They survived mostly from him getting odd jobs every now and then, plus plenty of food and clothing donations. The eldest son was super nice too... I wonder how he's doing, now. Saw him last year and he still looked a bit poor, but not as bad as you'd expect.
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I know Thijs, never seen Sietse before.
Of course we don't have the "ij" anymore so we just use "y".
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Unfortunately, he still wasn't actually fluent in English, so didn't realise that 'aa' isn't a double vowel that occurs in English. So now my mate has a relatively unique bastardised anglo-dutch surname, with a 'y' where the Dutch would expect a 'j', and 'aa' where the English would expact 'a'.
Sietse is more Frisian than Dutch, which might explain why you haven't seen it before.
*Ba-dum, tssh*
I knew a Dutch person once.
"We learn English so we don't have to speak Dutch."
Wat wilt u dat ik zeg, mijn lieftallige dame?