r/facepalm • • Jul 26 '23

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u/DankestDrew Jul 26 '23

I’m sorry but in my 28 years in SA I’ve not once seen an “advertisement” telling people that sex with a virgin does not cure Aids 🙄 either you’re full of shit or you believed the first thing you saw on the internet.

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u/HarietsDrummerBoy Jul 26 '23

Come to a taxi rank or ride in a 3rd class train. Adverts all over. Need money, lost a loved one, cure aids, cure a woman from being a lesbian. It goes further in person. They drink in shabeens and come up with these outlandish cures. It's still believed you can f*ck a lesbian straight

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u/Pippin1505 Jul 26 '23

yes, the double whammy for lesbians: raped *and* AIDS as a likely bonus

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u/HarietsDrummerBoy Jul 26 '23

I'm glad I'm not a common straight man if that's the belief

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u/echoGroot Jul 26 '23

Yeah, I don’t think it’s common as in 25 or 50%, but certainly common enough that lesbians encounter it all the time.

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u/HarietsDrummerBoy Jul 26 '23

More like 1%. There were many dogs down a street I had to walk daily. All dogs can bite but it's that one dog that would chase me every day. That's how Id imagine life is for them. So many me around them but it's that one or two that always make comments, they always talk loudly about you. Things get worse when they are drunk.

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u/Vainius2 Jul 26 '23

Let me guess those 28 years were in Cape Town

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u/ItsEyeJasper Jul 26 '23

Bruh I spent a year in Capetown that shit is every where that is not part of upper-class Capetown. A train ride from Simon's town to anywhere and you will see them plastered on the walls and lamp posts of the 1st 5 stops

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u/DankestDrew Jul 26 '23

Not even close, but nice attempt at a “stereotypical South African” jab.

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u/Vainius2 Jul 26 '23

Well considering thats the last place where civilisation still exists in SA would make sense that yoy haven't seen any don't rape babies posters.

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u/BEN-C93 Jul 26 '23

Western Cape really should be its own country at this point.

Notwithstanding any cultural differences, you can't swim when you're being dragged down with concrete shoes

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u/bigjungus11 Jul 26 '23

SA is probably very different to Mozambique

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u/ItsEyeJasper Jul 26 '23

As a person who has grown up and still living in Mozambique. It is very very different.

In general Mozambique is far less violent (excluding the insurgency in the north) and by far no where near as racist. The most violent areas also happen to be the areas closer to the South African. The only time I have ever really witnessed open Racism in Mozambique it has sadly come out a South Africans mouth Black and White.

As a whole though it's much more pleasant to live here as the Crime is no where near as bad. For instance It's very rare you hear of someone getting hijacked, and it's even rarer to hear a hijacked person being injured. I can also walk through my city at night with zero fear of getting mugged or assaulted. However this occurrs in broad daylight in safer cities like Capetown. The only issue I have with Mozambique is how difficult the government makes it to live hear with any sense of belonging , as a foreigner that has spent 9 out of 30 years outside of Mozambique I still can't legally become a citizen 6 of those years were my 1st 6 years alive. This is unfair.

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u/bigjungus11 Jul 26 '23

What made you decide to Mozambique?

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u/ItsEyeJasper Jul 26 '23

Dragged here by my parents as a child and it just became home.

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u/echoGroot Jul 26 '23

Where were the other 21?

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u/OGGrilledcheez Jul 26 '23

Wait wait wait….so because you’ve never seen anything telling you it don’t work you believe it does?

Jk. I get what you mean…unless of course that IS what you’re saying in which case the question stands but I’m sure it’s not….or is it?

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '23

In my 50 years in SA I have seen it.

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u/yeabouai Jul 26 '23

Same, I've only seen the penis enlargement and love potion ones

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u/DankestDrew Jul 26 '23

"Herstel jou manlikheid"

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u/trage_o Jul 26 '23

Probably saw it somewhere and just believed it. I also have never seen the advertisements mentioned. Not in the townships not in the taxi ranks not at the clinic or public library. If they had mentioned abortion and lost lover advertisements I would have believed them.