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2012-05-05 Africa Subsaharan

ANC used me like a condom, says expelled Malema

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Posted by Fred 2012-05-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 OK, is there some unknown South African meme or idiom that makes this less yucky and stupid sounding?

Posted by SteveS 2012-05-05 01:08|| 2012-05-05 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 You're lucky, kid. It coulda been a bald Michelin full of gasoline...

Posted by tu3031 2012-05-05 01:37|| 2012-05-05 01:37|| Front Page Top

#3 He's slicker'n a Clinton cigar.

Posted by crosspatch 2012-05-05 03:14|| 2012-05-05 03:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Malema was more radical than even the ANC could tollerate.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-05-05 08:05|| 2012-05-05 08:05|| Front Page Top

#5 "We are used like toilet paper or like condoms."

Well, it at least didn't involve a caller with an icepick. Yet.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-05-05 08:23|| 2012-05-05 08:23|| Front Page Top

#6 More radical or simply a timing problem (demanded proceeding too fast)?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-05-05 08:28|| 2012-05-05 08:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Wasn't South Africa supposed to become an absolute utopia following socialist/communist principles after the end of apartheid?

Wha hoppened?

Posted by AlanC 2012-05-05 09:02|| 2012-05-05 09:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Wha hoppened?
Posted by AlanC

Same thing that is happening here, only they are on steroids.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-05-05 09:12|| 2012-05-05 09:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Besoeker, is there a tag for a rhetorical question? Maybe "/rhetq"?

Posted by AlanC 2012-05-05 10:47|| 2012-05-05 10:47|| Front Page Top

#10 "/sarc" works pretty well to signal to those like me who are less subtle that a comment isn't meant literally, AlanC dear.

I think I shall make up a pot of chamomile tea -- it seems that kind of day, as we wait for Israel to bounce some rubble on the Persian side of the border.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-05-05 17:32|| 2012-05-05 17:32|| Front Page Top

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