Pranesh Luckan

Adulting since 2005

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@vaneshree02 @Cthulhucachoo Ya this is because you sleep with the windows closed. If they were open they would be inside the house as well. That’s what I’m saying, sleeping with the windows closed keeps the woonga boys outside with all the bugs

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@Cthulhucachoo @vaneshree02 It’s a thing I swear, mostly in KZN

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@vaneshree02 You sleep with the windows open they going to come in your house and steal your taps. Well at least that’s what happens in newlands…

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@Cthulhucachoo I would argue it’s more y’oll. What y’oll doing there? Smoking ganja!!

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

We need a commission of enquiry here. So the ticket prize has doubled. But the prize money for the powerball stays the same at R10. And then looking at the divisions the number of winners is almost consistently half last weeks result (half the tickets sold perhaps?)

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

So powerball went from R5 a line to R10 a line. Plus R5 if you take a plus. I know the chances of winning were infinitely small anyway but now if you play the same amount, your chances are halved. Who even approved this?

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@uncle_madness Ok found the results yes seems like someone did win it…but here’s the part that irritates me. The ticket price is now R10 and the prize for the powerball is still R10. When the ticket price was R5 the prize for powerball was R10

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

So powerball went from R5 a line to R10 a line. Plus R5 if you take a plus. I know the chances of winning were infinitely small anyway but now if you play the same amount, your chances are halved. Who even approved this?

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@uncle_madness I’m still checking results. I think what they did was guaranteed jackpot payout rather than someone winning but someone could have won. It didn’t make sense that the jackpot carried over from the previous system was still the jackpot on offer for me.

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@LahenR_ZA Aiyo hahaha

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@RoryPetzer 🫣😂😂 Rory we need to win a lotto money not pay it

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@RediTlhabi Perhaps they failed security checks?

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@LahenR_ZA Seems like an opportunity for a barnacle cleaning company. They should get a crew of walruses

[South African Wanderer @SAfricaWanderer]

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[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@Martin_ASFL Perhaps you think crafting the statement to specifically say black person you have cleverly bypassed the fact that there are millions of Afrikaans speaking people of colour. Your definition of Afrikaners is myopic if you call a banana a Piesang and you know it…

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@CiroDeSiena @firmino__09 Also the prompt for any ai would have to be more precise with some knowledge of investing and tax implications so it may spit out the wrong answer anyway…

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@Arfness @CiroDeSiena Sorry yes was just working off your stated 20% assumption. There could be other ways to reduced the tax liability. Using unit trusts or equity index trackers could switch the tax from interest to capital gains at the risk of losing capital but they all further complicate the calc

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@Arfness @CiroDeSiena Assuming no other interest bearing cash you have to discount the 20% for the first R23000 interest per annum allowed tax free. Effective tax rate for the first year then drops to approximately 14%, and compounding effects thereafter could also swing the equation further.

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

@NeilTStacey @CiroDeSiena In the last three years there would have been many options that exceeded the prime interest rate. For 2025 the JSE did 39% for the year. Obviously a more balanced portfolio would lower returns simply because you would not dump everything in equities or an equity index.

[Pranesh Luckan @LifeofPiLuckan]

Wtf is up with America and their power trip! The death throes of the empire?

[POLITICO @politico]

US has the troops in place to attack Cuba https://t.co/DitJYQWWdI