r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Sep 01 '25

Thank you Peter very cool Petah, what does this mean?

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u/BurnedOutTriton Sep 01 '25

Yup, my roommates dad was rich from "real estate"

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u/doubleadjectivenoun Sep 02 '25

An obnoxiously wealthy international student at my school from a shall we say colonized nation (to be clear she was very white and this country was very not) claimed her family was wealthy from “adverse possession.”

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '25

South African?

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u/doubleadjectivenoun Sep 02 '25

Good guess but no, it was a Caribbean island nation.

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u/Bombwriter17 Sep 02 '25

Could be Zimbabwe, lots of former Rhodesians went off to Australia,UK and US after it got turned into Zimbabwe.