Ashil_InRealLife

South African Entrepreneur. Occasionally Incorrect. BroScientist.

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

Went to Woolworths.
Bought 5 items.
Every item was packaged in plastic.
Go to pay.
They don’t sell plastic packets anymore.

Clown World

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

@stats_feed I like where I am, but if I had to choose, USA and nowhere else comes close.

It has always been and will always be the greatest country on earth.

[Pavel Durov @durov]

Unfair that CEOs who aren’t into Asian girls get fewer dating options from spy agencies.

Where are the French/Russian/Iranian honeypots? Not one spy girl sent my way. Are they even trying?

France is excused — their decision-makers aren’t into girls. Everyone else: try harder!

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

@DailyMail The word with asterisks end in an “a”

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

@elonmusk Chappelle, like Trevor Noah, used to be very funny.
They both had that unnatural ability to make you laugh without an actual punchline.

Chappelle has now become politically predictable and is now a Ted Talker with a cigarette.

[Meru @MeruOnX]

Breaking🚨: People in India are openly urinating on a busy roadside. Absolutely disgraceful.

Have some civic sense and basic decency!

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

@Lordmiles Without knowing this man I can tell you that he is not exaggerating.

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

As a South African, I can confirm that people wouldn’t need to cross rivers in drums if they collectively voted for the most competent people to run our government.

We have plenty of money to build basic infrastructure.

My empathy for these tribulations that people from my country experience on a daily basis has run dry.

For the vast majority of South Africans, the beatings will continue until the morale improves.

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

@AJA_Cortes @hellosimar @cartesia @krandiash AR Rahman is a class act!

Not many know that he’s a multiple Grammy award winner and a multiple Oscar award winner.

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

@_sun_yi I will keep my full salary.

My monthly expenses declined to participate in this team-building exercise and I’m not crowdfunding the company’s financial problems with my payslip.

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

@Dearme2_ 90%

[Tyler @TylerDurden]

People only ask what you do for a living so they can work out how much respect to give you.

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

Yes, that is definitely an alternate perspective to view Johannesburg as, but quality of life has definitely deteriorated over the past 3 to 5 years. This is undeniable.

I came across something a few years ago called Shifting Baseline Syndrome. It explains how and why humans start to accept and normalise the degraded state of their environment.

We will gladly accept 1 pothole but complain about 5 potholes. And by extension, we will gladly accept 5 potholes but complain about 20. In a nutshell.

This unfortunately applies to most parts of South Africa, not just Johannesburg.

When times are great, it’s great to have an allegiance to a location.
When times are not so great, it may be to our detriment to have an allegiance to a location.

By extension, this happened, for other reasons, in the US a few years ago, where there was an exodus of people from New York and California to Texas. After this week, that too may change.

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

@Rich_Cooper The biggest take away from the US midterms… Americans are not tribal and don’t like the wool being pulled over their eyes.

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

Pay very little attention to who wins the election in your ward, town or city.

It will NOT affect your ability to win at life.

Those that complain and project will be at a severe disadvantage as they will be competing with you, who will perform and compete regardless of your circumstance.

There will always be those who use politics and politicians to validate their own inadequacies and shortcomings.
Don’t be one of them.

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

Many people spend most of their lives facing challenges and adversity and still never learn a damn thing.

A lack of self-accountability in people, more especially men, that are in their 50s or older is a common trait.

Age is no longer an indication of wisdom.

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

@nypost This is a purposeless feat that a man has wasted the best years of his life on.

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

@Lolita721611021 This is completely false, from anecdotal first hand accounts of every single person I know that currently owns a Chinese-made vehicle.

You know not of what you speak.

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

@landbourainier In business, EVERY business model has a life cycle.

Many businesses, over time, tend to pivot from their original business model in order to remain profitable and stay in business.

[Ashil_InRealLife @ASHILinRealLife]

@BillWiIdin EVERYTHING is for sale, at the right price.