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Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by VickyRotex(f): 9:52am On Jun 17, 2015
So true cheesy

I can never forget India vs Nigeria cheesy

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Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by biggybanty7(m): 9:53am On Jun 17, 2015
Any out side country is London and pregnant cum witout sex.FP TINZ na GODWIN
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by tobtap: 9:53am On Jun 17, 2015
AnneMomoh:


jaja?
miss annie grin grin grin ...u fine ooo shocked
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by Nokiae5: 9:53am On Jun 17, 2015
buhari dey travel you dey tell me kids stuff mtchewww aye okpe meji
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by Nobody: 9:53am On Jun 17, 2015
cheesy cheesy
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by loomer: 9:57am On Jun 17, 2015
I grew up knowing rice and stew na for sunday morning
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by koligs: 9:57am On Jun 17, 2015
AnneMomoh:


knife?
are u learning spelling or what??
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by Jammy2012(m): 9:58am On Jun 17, 2015
lol so true...if you raise a knife or cutlass playfully against someone,you must smash it on the floor thrice. or else you will turn to killer.
When there is rainbow,definitely heaven's leopard is in labour grin
If there is thunder storm or lightening,you must pop your mouth three times or else grin

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Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by Humblebloke(m): 9:59am On Jun 17, 2015
The world will come to an end.......
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by Timoleon(m): 10:00am On Jun 17, 2015
that one about fleet though...cant blame most kids though...they learnt it from theur parents.
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by IceDude(m): 10:02am On Jun 17, 2015
Christmas rice nai sweet pass grin
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by jornie(m): 10:03am On Jun 17, 2015
F

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Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by Kingbilo(m): 10:04am On Jun 17, 2015
Lol poor hausa ppl are called aboki
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by richgang(m): 10:05am On Jun 17, 2015
richgang:
I remember when I was still little I used to play, we will act a drama called "Mama and papa" I will be the papa and I will choose a girl I have been having crush on since as mama, then after the drama start, me the papa will now send our children to go buy snail, cos I know before they will see a snail will take up to one hour, so after they are gone, it will now be papa(me) and my crush( mama) all alone in the room, so I will now tell my crush (mama) to attend to me as her husband, grin .. I guess you guys knows the next step.....

I miss playing MAMA and PAPA cry
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by betty202020(m): 10:05am On Jun 17, 2015
Ochiske:
We grew up with the following mentalities below...

All soft drinks are called minerals.

All Fathers took first position while at school.

India beat nigeria 99-1 because the ball was turned into a Lion.

If your wealth starts reducing, it's your village people who are doing you.

Rice and stew... every Sunday afternoon.

Every commodity outside Africa is original.

Anybody with HIV/AIDS got it via sex.

She's a Calabar girl... so definitely, she must be good on bed. gringrin

Every seasoning cube is called Maggi.cheesy

You must finish the eba/amala/fufu before you touch the meat.angry

Every toothpaste is called Macleans.

Every insecticide is called a Fleet.

Every detergent is called Omo.

Any rich Hausa man is an 'Alhaji', the poorones are 'Abokis'

.Anyone who smokes is an armed robber.

If you find some money on the floor, pee on it before picking it up, else you turn into a tuber of Yam!cheesy

Only science students are smart.

Once you travel overseas (outside the country), you must be very rich.

Every girl who plays and jokes with a boy, has slept with him.

You must buy bread when traveling.

When you lose a tooth, throw it on the rooftop of the house and run round the house 7 times.

Every noodle is called Indomie.

Any girl who's very pretty is referred to as "Mermaids' while the very ugly ones are referred to as 'Witches'.

Any insects that bites you at night are definitely mosquitoes.

Any plane passing across the skies are going to America.

feel free to add yours.
u really grew up in the villa.
all pen is Called bic.
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by tziz(m): 10:07am On Jun 17, 2015
Very true!!! Only that in my case, all toothpastes wher called CloseUp..
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by Abuesism(m): 10:08am On Jun 17, 2015
all the cally girls i ve hv met are not gud on bed
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by Bruno3000(m): 10:10am On Jun 17, 2015
Built2last:
Permit me to go tribal

That all Igbos are fraudsters
That all Yoruba women are dirty
That all Yoruba women are promiscuos
That all Igbos believe in money rituals
That all Hausas are Aboki even when we dont know the meaning
That anybody accross the niger up north is Hausa ( Now we know Jos, Southern Kaduna and others)
that all hausas are lazy and unintelligent
That all Tiv people eat house rat
That all ekaite has degree in bedmatics
that Edo state has an unseen airline..edo airlines (as in, all are flying witches)
That all Edo girls are prostitutes and want to go to Italy.
That all Ijebu are stingy and diabolic (There was this unsubstantiated fear when someone says i will visit Ijebu for you)
That all Igala people are diabolic
that all Ebira people are are violent and full of hot temper


I have found the above listed to be blantant faulty generalisation
hv u met any gentle and cool-headed ebira person before?
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by ybalogs(m): 10:11am On Jun 17, 2015
I actually heard about virtually all but never really believed nor really CA these things by their assumed names.
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by Nobody: 10:11am On Jun 17, 2015
Lol.. So true
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by hotmatt2014(m): 10:12am On Jun 17, 2015
You're truly right, tender age is interesting
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by rashygenius: 10:14am On Jun 17, 2015
......evry sunday morning is always Bread/yam and egg with tea .......there's dis special cloth we wear on evry sunday called sunday tonic ........Tortoise has always been d bad guy in evry story ........
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by tunde1200(m): 10:16am On Jun 17, 2015
grin grin

India beat nigeria 99-1 because the ball was turned into a Lion.

Rice and stew... every Sunday afternoon.
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by Built2last: 10:19am On Jun 17, 2015
Bruno3000:
hv u met any gentle and cool-headed ebira person before?

LOL

If you need an honest answer, i have only seen a lady but for the guys na maga maga.
afraid they catch me for their boys but it will be faulty to conclude that all is like that
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by lawlex(m): 10:20am On Jun 17, 2015
All child birth came out from d anus......lol
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by Lilimax(f): 10:22am On Jun 17, 2015
Ochiske:
Any girl who's very pretty is referred to as "Mermaids' while the very ugly ones are referred to as 'Witches'.
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by lawlex(m): 10:24am On Jun 17, 2015
After watching spiderman,was forcing all d spiders 2 bite me,sumtimes I angrily killed Dem for refusing to bite me.

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Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by happney65: 10:24am On Jun 17, 2015
richgang:
I remember when I was still little I used to play, we will act a drama called "Mama and papa" I will be the papa and I will choose a girl I have been having crush on since as mama, then after the drama start, me the papa will now send our children to go buy snail, cos I know before they will see a snail will take up to one hour, so after they are gone, it will now be papa(me) and my crush( mama) all alone in the room, so I will now tell my crush (mama) to attend to me as her husband, grin .. I guess you guys knows the next step.....

I miss playing MAMA and PAPA cry

Bad Guy.. grin
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by dam4wummy(m): 10:25am On Jun 17, 2015
If u no play dis game u no be big boy.

Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by hahn(m): 10:32am On Jun 17, 2015
lollystiver:
eating too much of beans will make you tall

Are you an ex-may?
Re: Things We Believed While Growing Up by ghost80: 10:32am On Jun 17, 2015

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