Rosewood Manor - B1 - B2 English Story for Learning English

This is the Robin Ross recap. There was a story during the rounds last week, somebody done an interview, the guy who was the CEO of Mixit's back in the day. And the whole conversation was like, what went wrong and why didn't it work? And he was like, "Oh, we made some mistakes here. We made a couple of decisions that didn't work out well and so on." And we got chatting about it. I don't remember being on Mixit, were you on Mixit? Yeah. I didn't even get it because everyone was spoken to about it. It's been like, "Yah, Mixit was this and that and that." Keanu. Hey. Yo, bro, who doesn't remember Mixit with all that mullah that you had to get just to mix it with someone? We don't understand this. It's me. Hi. I don't understand. How did I miss Mixit? What was I doing? Where was I? What is Mixit Mullah? Please, schoolers. What does that mean? Keanu says he's about to explain. I think you had to buy Mullah to be able to speak to someone in the Mixit world. I thought Mixit was all like multiple person chat rooms and stuff as well, all of that. What were you doing on Mixit? Was it for like, no t-shirts? Keanu. You know, I'm genuinely asking here. What was the main purpose of Mixit? Was this where we were chatting to organise a bribe or was this where we were trying to chaff cherries? Yeah. You know what I mean. Sonia. I met my husband in a chat room on Mixit. So I was right. Lorenz. Rob and Ros. I am judging you. I can't believe you guys don't know Joe banker. We? We are judging ourselves here, bro. We are the most confused people around because people were talking Joe banker and mixed Mullah and stuff. What was on? What is it? Like, I feel like I missed a whole life phase. Marie, what's your name Mixit? What did you do? Yo, what? What did you do? You see Rob? What did you do? What did you do? What did you do? I was four years out of varsity at that point. So is that why I missed it? Was I too busy joling? I think so. You didn't miss out too much. It was a lot of bad spelling and we had to do the most in dance and things like that. Tania is telling us in a very nice way something that you hate to hear Rob. I believe you are perhaps above the age of the general population that used it. Daneza. Mixit walked so that Blackberry could run. Answer me that question then. We're going to hit the news in a moment. Answer me that question so we can talk about this after half past five. Do you remember what your username was? What did you like to plan? Why was your spelling so bad? Did it cost you per letter? No, it was. That was. You didn't like it, did you? Explain me what you did. What did you do? Ah! What did you do on Mixit? What are people saying? Yes. The main thing is that I just wanted to say. I was just saying, "I don't know." But yes, lots of people coming through saying, "Meet best friends who I still chat to." Yes. The main thing is that I just wouldn't be able to survive on Mixit. Because spelling is an important thing for me. Now you're chatting to someone and you maybe like vibing and you think they're attractive and then they write to you with a "to" and a "you." Does that bother you? That makes me go, "you." EW. Now you had to flirt with the roles you had tried to hold paragraph with punctuation. But then you needed Mixit Mula to write more messages. I would have nobody. Or did you need Mixit Mula to write more messages? Rambariya, did this all producer, is. Just laughing. Laughing. Laughing at us. John says, "I was playing Moonbase on Mixit. You had Mixit have games now." That's it. I'm having one of those moments. How old am I? What happened? How did this just bypass me? Kiyano, please don't call it the Mixit. I will call it the Mixit Kiyano and you will like it. Text-based games. What's luck? Oh, those are rad. Yeah, good text-based games. What's that like a hangman? It'll tell you like your character has entered a forest. Do you want to turn left or right? No. See, that even missed me. That's fun. Text-based games. But I don't imagine the text-based games. Was the primary focus of Mixit considering what I'm seeing on this WhatsApp line? What am I hearing now from Philip, who says Mixit was a pioneering South African technology? Is Mixit a African? John, I know that much at least. Yeah, I could be it's men that was young. That was onsen, Chavius. But how cool that we had this thing that Robin and I knew nothing about, but that it was South African. I'm still trying to work out where this blank in my memory is. Why don't I remember Mixit? I could say, Jackarandafm.com/drive Mixit was one of the most popular platforms in South African history. So what made it crash and burn? There's the article. I mean, yeah. It is on our website at the moment, Jackarandafm.com/drive. You are Mixit is back in the news. If you remember, you're old user name, by the way. If you still have it or have it jotted down, it will be an 08485 00942. Hi, Robin Ross. I think you guys were in the Miss Generation when Mixit was out. It was very popular with the teenagers in the mid 2000s. And so obviously, we called it Teenagers New of it and then the parents who had teenagers knew Mixit. But I think the sort of 23 year olds had no clue what Mixit was. Is that true? Did you also miss Mixit? Is there anyone else who missed it along the way? It seems like everyone had it, but me I was what, 24? It was just coming sort of the end of our city. I didn't really spend time. Yeah. Or per Mixit. I had just moved up here from Cape Town. I remember going straight to BBM. And I remember the old IRC chat rooms before that, but that middle one is lost on me completely. Yeah, I never got to BBM either. I was just not on BBM, I was not on Mixit. And the chat rooms I think I was on because I was still a student back then. Yeah. And I used to send like SMSes from the IT department. (Laughter) Some. Somebody commented on that article, what are the benefits for Mixit? Yes, they said, "Your, when Mixit times, please bring it back, I was never single during Mixit days." (Laughter) Mixing it up. Do you know who's still not single from Mixit days? Hello, Sonja, Hennet. I'm going down the hill. Tell us your story quickly. So, me and my husband were on chat rooms. They were different kinds of chat rooms that you could join. Yeah. And then you just go on the chat in the bundle. And then whoever you like, you just send them your number. And then you chat it on Mixit. Okay. So this is if Freya need a bottle, need this chat and a bottle. Oh, yeah. Freya. It used to be your pick-up. Okay. And. Wow. You guys are still together. Yes. First thing is later, two daughters. Oh, the war from Mixit. You know what, Sonja, gets me. You're not the only one. TK sent us a message saying he made his wife on Mixit. They've been together since 2004. They've got two kids. Yeah. That's a yellow clump. People who come with love, say, "Nee, our wife, our daughter, our daughter." So, that's all from Mixit. Yeah. Lana says she made her husband on Mixit. It would be like a pin-pile set up on it that you could use. That was 13 years ago. Mm-hmm. Your man has been here for 20 years ago. Yeah. Dominique, invite a chat room, Sonja. (Laughter) Do you guys still. does that ever come up? Do you guys still think about Mixit every now and again when you meet someone in Lafraut? Which is the best car in the world? Every single time. And we've got a friend that also makes her boyfriend at that stage on Mixit. That being there, you guys. But I guess it's like now. How many Tinder weddings have you been to? Yeah, really. Where did you meet? We met on Tinder. Like, I guess it's what it is now with all the apps and stuff. Back in the day we had Mixit. This was just the app before the app. Exactly. But now. oh, so you're chatting in the bottle and now all of a sudden you're going to be like, "Hey, would you like to exchange a private message there?" Yes. But you just send each other a message, would you like to pee, pee, pee? And then you would say, "I just remember." And then you go, "But isn't that like what reddit is like now?" I'm too old for reddit and too old for Mixit. You're not too old for reddit, Betts. No, but reddit will be like, "Okay, cool. We're chatting about this topic that we both feel quite passionate about." And then you're like, "Oh, okay, I like your vibe." And I like your opinion. Eagle eye, 757. And then. Oh, if you go. Thank you. Eagle eye, 757. Are you chatting to Sonia's husband there? Oh, oh, oh. Lays the sonia, thank you very, very open, black and red. Thanks for being such a good spender. Oh, thank you. What a legend. Thank you. So many people. Great stories. Oh my word, Candace. Oh, and the cost of data at that time. Jania Kike, good memories. Do you want to hear some of the, some of the usernames? Yes. Rock, diva. Strawberry, lips 25. Hey, now. But with an etsyne and a three and a capital R. And then someone says, yo, I was miss swagger for some reason. And then the best. I had no business being miss diva at age 12. This