Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: >And she's weirdly paranoid about people breaking in during the night. She says is because she grew up in South Africa, but that's probably just an excuse to try and cover her butt. As a guy who posts on reddit for boxing training, I don't want to admit ....


Comment preview: I grew up in South Africa towards the end of apartheid so have hundreds of stories about racism but this is one that stuck with me. When I was in year 6 at school in South Africa our school was desegregated when apartheid ended. Previously the school had b ....


Comment preview: I grew up in South Africa, 7 miles away from Benoni. I am white and of Portuguese decent. I came to the USA speaking English. There are 11 official languages in RSA, 2 of which are Afrikaans and English. Most whites speak either one of these. If you are of ....


Comment preview: It's not because of "facts" about our NHS, welfare or jobs, it's because of "myths". Grew up in South Africa (born here), and still recall when people would come here for 2 years on a work visa, and tell everyone back home how good it was. They'd relate sq ....


Comment preview: I grew up in South Africa. When I moved put and started earning a salary I would buy and extra bag of non-perishables and a few treats and give it to somebody I saw on the way home. Sometimes at the KFC near my first flat I used to buy kids meals for the k ....


Comment preview: When I was a kid I didn't know what kissing bugs were. I fucking grew up in South Africa. Costa Rica. Texas. I should know better, because I spent 99% of my childhood surrounded by some pretty dangerous stuff. I knew to stay away from rattlesnakes, coral s ....


Comment preview: I am a muslim who grew up in South Africa and attended a madressah (islamic school) that was taught by a borderline radical sheikh. He once told us all in class that it was against the Quran to have infidel friends, and that we were religiously obligated t ....


Comment preview: This actually happened to me when I was kid. I grew up in South Africa and a buddy and I did a lot of stupid stuff. We once decided to go inside a large pipe line that was under neath a highway. We went under and went deeper and deeper. The tube got thin ....


Comment preview: SLEGS BLANKES. Actually, I grew up in South Africa as a white boy and saw the whole end of apartheid thing. Because of the previous regime a town would generally consist of white suburban neighbourhoods not unlike you'd expect in the US with a commercial ....


Comment preview: Not all zoos are bad. Some zoos are great and provide plenty of space and encourage natural behaviors by placing enrichment items in the enclosure. If you go to a bad zoo of course it's sad. Going to a zoo that is AZA (Association of Zoos and Aquariums) a ....


Comment preview: Ooooh sneaky. You should try to catch him if he goes out to wash or work on it. When I moved into my current place the neighbors across the street had a 2008 M6. Being the judgemental car snob I can sometimes be, I assumed he had bought it simply as a stat ....