LarrySun: I'm not surprised; since our verbal communication has often remained badly ambiguous; we blame the government for everything evil. No one is ready to take responsibility for the defects of the society; instead, we make asinine (even evil) jokes to mask our discomfort. The first sign of headache can be a neckache. We may suddenly wake up one morning to find out that these unserious fiends are candidates for straitjackets who'd escaped the confinements of their mental asylums.

The theory that the crippled government is the cause of the imbroglio circulating all around the federation is, I feel, a somewhat too complacent half-truth; we are the architects of our own mishaps. The civilians allowed themselves to be held by the ears like rabbits and tossed into the thorns by imbeciles of higher echelons whose acidulated mien and balderdashing decadents has made them dizzy with their own intellectual altitude, all just for the paltry sum of thirty pieces of silver. I fear for the growing generations; for when even giants are toppled, what hope is there for the midgets?

We should rise up, take the bull by the flank and make our stands against these revolting oppressors among ourselves; the state of the nation has gone beyond the days of 'twinkle, twinkle little stars'...cracking jokes about our own misfortunes is a perfect show of 'suffering and smiling'.

continentalceo:

We are not cowards, Lazy and bloodsucking people only you, your hometown peeps, friends, Family and everyone you know.. Now how do you like the sound of that? LOL

imauri:

fun loving in the face of mass extinction!... everything is fun to nigerians . do you see people in Liberia making fun of this? no? don't worry, id check back on u guys to see how funny it is when the bodies start piling up. SELF DENIAL AND IGNORANCE disguised as fun loving ...

Tallesty1: I know but @least we should know where to draw the line. We are fun-loving-people, YES. It helps reduce tension.YES. But can it give us what we want? NO, is it really helping us? NO!. Our leaders are aware of our unseriousness and that is why they are looting us with pride. One terrible thing about us is this mentality of "If I Didn't Happen To You or Your Relative Then It Really Doesn't Concern You". It is very bad. We are not serious people and we prefer to spend time sending retweets of hashtags instead of taking real action. There was a time you cannot see a comment here without the #bringbackourgirls hashtagg. But now what happened? The girls have been forgoten. To blow hot air; shout and make noise is where we are perfect.We have remained silent for so long and failed to make our government accountable for so long and it is not and will never help us.

Ladystewie: ok
you've made your point

VivyGift: Sometimes it annoys me when I see some serious issues taken as a joke, instead of us to put our heads together probably to fight against it or find a solution to it.

LarrySun: I'm not surprised; since our verbal communication has often remained badly ambiguous; we blame the government for everything evil. No one is ready to take responsibility for the defects of the society; instead, we make asinine (even evil) jokes to mask our discomfort. The first sign of headache can be a neckache. We may suddenly wake up one morning to find out that these unserious fiends are candidates for straitjackets who'd escaped the confinements of their mental asylums.

The theory that the crippled government is the cause of the imbroglio circulating all around the federation is, I feel, a somewhat too complacent half-truth; we are the architects of our own mishaps. The civilians allowed themselves to be held by the ears like rabbits and tossed into the thorns by imbeciles of higher echelons whose acidulated mien and balderdashing decadents has made them dizzy with their own intellectual altitude, all just for the paltry sum of thirty pieces of silver. I fear for the growing generations; for when even giants are toppled, what hope is there for the midgets?

We should rise up, take the bull by the flank and make our stands against these revolting oppressors among ourselves; the state of the nation has gone beyond the days of 'twinkle, twinkle little stars'...cracking jokes about our own misfortunes is a perfect show of 'suffering and smiling'.

Ishilove:
We've been so badly beaten that we don't evem notice it anymore. That's rather depressing.

olushowunm: @Op... When I saw this post, I thought you will talk about our general attitudes to work, society and ourselves... But I was surprised to read about one aspect of our unseriousness. Nigeria to me still have a long way to go, most of our youths believes in civil service jobs and thinks when you have it, you are made for life. People have stop dreaming, our people have wrong ethics to work, life and everything. All of us wants to wake up a Billionaire like Dangote but we are never ready to pay the price. We all want a just and equitable society but we are always not seen when the time comes to ask for those rights. In short I have come to to tagged Nigerians; "Cowards, lazy and Bloodsucking corrupt people"...

olushowunm: @Op... When I saw this post, I thought you will talk about our general attitudes to work, society and ourselves... But I was surprised to read about one aspect of our unseriousness. Nigeria to me still have a long way to go, most of our youths believes in civil service jobs and thinks when you have it, you are made for life. People have stop dreaming, our people have wrong ethics to work, life and everything. All of us wants to wake up a Billionaire like Dangote but we are never ready to pay the price. We all want a just and equitable society but we are always not seen when the time comes to ask for those rights. In short I have come to to tagged Nigerians; "Cowards, lazy and Bloodsucking corrupt people"...

ITbomb: Nigeria is so large a country that happenings in some parts sounds like statistics in another. Until it happens to someone in the immediate community, that is when we know say water don pass garri.

Killings and bombing in the north sounds to people in the South like some Arcade shooting game which the Nigerian military are not playing well, the people killed end up as statistics.

Same with Ebola, people have this mentality that it is happening somewhere in some hospital in Lagos so no cause for alarm, until when the next dead body is in their Street.

For the demonstrations and bleeding for country, many still believe that people protesting are trying to protect their source of income, so if you are comfortable and independent of government contracts where you are, no time to protest. Na their turn to chop mentality, our turn dey come.
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Nigerians can be very serious when activated with strong physical evidence (not news flash)

Amelian:


Pls Am excluded from the. We'... Am a totally different Nija specie from the common 'WE'.... I knw a lot of Nigerians are unserious and laidback bUt. Pls. Don't generalise.

continentalceo:

We are not cowards, Lazy and bloodsucking people only you, your hometown peeps, friends, Family and everyone you know.. Now how do you like the sound of that? LOL

Ishilove:
I must disagree with you. Nigerians are resilient and very enterprising people. They are also following the footsteps of their leaders. The system is decayed but intead of fighting that decay, we are sitting behind computer screens and drawing funny cartoons.

tandj: @op, I get the point u r trying to pass across but let me digress a bit.
Nigeria is d way it is now because of religion.
Religious leaders tell us to always pray and leave everything to God.
They tell us we should not let d devil know we r suffering hence d suffering and smiling charade.
A sick person, instead of him to go to hospital, will go to church or mosque Where religious leaders have turned into physicians and scientists.
U wanna ask question, they tell u to leave it to God.
Yes, it takes a serious minded folks to unsit a bad government.

Go to politics section here, instead of them to demand for a good leader, party affliation is their only problem.

U tend to start reasoning well, u will be termed anti-God. How bad can it be.
Just look at d replies up there.
D truth is in d next century, we r not going anywhere.
One thing that differentiate d developed countries from us is d mind.
We r yet to start using our mind. If we do, arab spring will be a baby spring compared to what will happen here.

olushowunm: . @ContinetalCEO, you don't need to take my submission personal because you think you are an exception to my submission. We are where we are because of choices we make in time past and we will still be here if we kept repeating the same mistakes! The height of ignorance is not acknowledging that you are one! Even the great Albert Einstein said and I quote ; "it is insanity to keep doing the same thing you do everyday and expect different results". Acknowledge your weakness and gain some strength... Take care!