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Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by glorina: 10:29pm On Nov 24, 2008
Whether it's on a public forum, on comedy shows, at work, at home. They never relent from using their sharp mouths to yab people, is it in our genes or WHAT?
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by arramyjay: 11:31pm On Nov 24, 2008
I really dont why they do that. undecided
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by lucabrasi(m): 12:38am On Nov 25, 2008
@poster
a combination of genes and deep seated phsycological issues
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Cayon(f): 12:50am On Nov 25, 2008
lucabrasi:

@poster
a combination of genes and deep seated phsycological issues

aye lucabrasi:

Re the subject heading.

bias towards me I see eh. hmm, no warning of not to generalize (nigerians) from you? I guess in your case - What's good for the goose is NOT good for the gander. say it aint so

Peace
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Sauron1: 12:51am On Nov 25, 2008
Is this the same Cayon??
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Cayon(f): 1:01am On Nov 25, 2008
~Sauron~:

Is this the same Cayon??
wait until he respond and you'll understand what i am talking about. He knows

Peace
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Sauron1: 1:02am On Nov 25, 2008
Cayon:

wait until he respond and you'll understand what i am talking about. He knows

Peace

I wasn't talking about your comments but the username.
Were u not the same chic that got under ma skin when i was still "Xerxes"??
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Cayon(f): 1:10am On Nov 25, 2008
~Sauron~:

I wasn't talking about your comments but the username.
Were u not the same chic that got under ma skin when i was still "Xerxes"??
LOL.  grin grin i need proof here. when, where and why I got under  your skin.   Oh, so you are guilty of holding malice over the internet? So that's why you were hating on me, hmm.  That's why you didn't answer my question to you yesterday. I am hurt, you really hurt me feeling. cry cry And what did i say about me holding malice? 

Here is an internet hug (((((((((Sauron))))).  Please accept my apology if i got under your skin.

Peace
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Sauron1: 1:11am On Nov 25, 2008
Cayon:

LOL. grin grin i need proof here. when, where and why I got under your skin. Oh, so you are guilty of holding malice over the internet? So that's why you were hating on me, hmm. And what did i say about me holding malice?

Here is an internet hug (((((((((Sauron))))). Please accept my apology if i got under your skin.

Peace

Holding grudges against u?? I am not sure we have crossed path since then.
I just remembered now u had a topic of me and ur naked pic in the bathroom(something nasty).
I don't hate on peops on the net. . . . . .Internet hug?? U better cross the Atlantic to come gimme that.
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by omega25red(m): 1:40am On Nov 25, 2008
Because misery loves company a lot of our people are miserable so they insult others to make themselves feel good instead of getting therapy
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Cayon(f): 1:47am On Nov 25, 2008
~Sauron~:

Holding grudges against u?? I am not sure we have crossed path since then.
ur naked pic in the bathroom(something nasty).

God, I feel like I am on trial. How long ago was this?

First, it was not a naked.  It was a pic of a black girl (her ass was visible) and there was nothing to see[/b] -

The pic was not me ( can provide the link to that beautiful black lady grin).  But i remember that picture b/c i got in trouble for it.  Funny, when i posted that  pic (a black/dark skin girl) - it was all good. The crowd went wild. why?  I posted the pic of a black girl because i was new to NL and wanted "to fit in" the crowd.  But as soon as i revealed I was a half breed and posted my real pic - y'all (some)started hating on me.

Could you post that thread?  Would like to know what i said to offend you - as I don't remember your old moniker  "Xerxes"

Ok, i see what you are doing.  You are putting a guilt on me to make me feel bad.  Guess what?? its working.

It hurts and again i apologize if I got under your skin
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Cayon(f): 1:48am On Nov 25, 2008
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Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by omega25red(m): 1:57am On Nov 25, 2008
Cayon:

Please keep out and let me settle this with Sauron

Thank you
dude seriously get off you bloody high horse i wasn't talking to you i was responding to the topic

Harlem is it?
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Akinagirl(f): 2:18am On Nov 25, 2008
Because people don't know how to give advice without insulting. Maybe because they are miserable.
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Sauron1: 2:50am On Nov 25, 2008
Cayon:

Ok, i see what you are doing.  You are putting a guilt on me to make me feel bad.  Guess what?? its working.

Honestly, things like that don't enervate me. . . . .It's been o'utta ma mind since until i saw ur moniker and it clicked.
The matter is now a dead n buried issue.
Happy now??



It hurts and again i apologize if I got under your skin

Apologies accepted. cool
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Ifygurl: 2:15pm On Nov 25, 2008
NIGERIANS HAVE A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM.

WE'RE CRAZY.
NIGERIANS ARE CRAZY.

NOW THAT WE KNOW THE REASON, What can we do to stop?
Egusi Soup and Akpu will do just fine. Just eat it day and night, you'll see it soothes Nigerians down.
Have you ever noticed when a Nigerian (especailly Naija guys) are mad or angry and they yelling at you, as soon as they eat some pounded yam or Akpu with some soup. The anger melts down.
That's our remedy

Akpu with a Egusi soup that's the only way to stop Nigerian crazy insults on other people.
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Ifygurl: 2:28pm On Nov 25, 2008
But serious Note

Nigerians just don't know how to give an advice without insulting others.
I've some Nigerian do that. I know there intentions was meant to be Good but somehow instead of an advice it will turn to an insult.
Even some Nigerian parents do that.
I think that's our way of advicing others
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by kokoye(m): 2:43pm On Nov 25, 2008
Ifygurl:

But serious Note

Nigerians just don't know how to give an advice without insulting others.
I've some Nigerian do that. I know there intentions was meant to be Good but somehow instead of an advice it will turn to an insult.
Even some Nigerian parents do that.
I think that's our way of advicing others

@ post and poster

Una dey cruaze, abi na warri dey worry you? grin
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by JustGood(m): 4:51pm On Nov 25, 2008
Have you guys ever mixed (really mixed) with other nationalities to see that many negatives you ascribe to nigerians are actually human?

self hating humans
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by lucabrasi(m): 4:52pm On Nov 25, 2008
@canyon
this is different,its not generalization because most of us nigerians do it, even parents notice i wrote "genes"and not genetic anomaly or something negative, im trying to say it ll appear to be something in born going by the majority of nigerians and yabis or insults, the others fall into the second category,of which majority are on this site, grin
u gerrit now? smiley
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by JustGood(m): 6:14pm On Mar 26, 2009
when you really mix with foreigners, you'll realise that its a human thing and Nigerians are even better then many. The reason we say these things is because Nigerians are always too open and loud about what they do so it's easy to notice them.
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Epiphany(m): 3:22pm On Mar 27, 2009
correct me if i am wrong, but is in not a 'black thing'? I have always wondered about the similarities btw naija yabbin and some black Americans/Caribean people. Comedians like Eddie, Chris Rock, Tucker, Bernie Mac (RIP) always yabbed people in their jokes. Listening to the typical american rap songs, tv shows, documentaries, movies, etc, the blacks are always at each other as well as the white guys - and anyone else that happens to rub them the wrong way!

What would you say about this?

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by JustGood(m): 5:12pm On Mar 27, 2009
Have you ever heard of British comedy? Its based on nothing but insulting other people, races and nationalities.

Go to predominantly white places and REALLY mix with them to understand that its a human thing.
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by wanville(m): 12:58am On May 10, 2009
wink
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by biina: 6:55am On May 10, 2009
JustGood:

Have you ever heard of British comedy? Its based on nothing but insulting other people, races and nationalities.

Go to predominantly white places and REALLY mix with them to understand that its a human thing.
comedy? no need to look that far. All you need do is watch a seating of the parliament. Below is an excerpt from a bbc article: A House full of insults

Some of the language has been so insulting that it would cause shock and outrage outside Westminster. But while some of the catcalling is considered par for the course, other remarks - at first seemingly innocuous - incur the wrath of the Speaker and must be withdrawn.

For instance, former Labour MP Martin O'Neill had to take back "without reservation" his description of Tory front-bencher Angela Browning as "a second-rate Miss Marple". She remained remarkably unbothered by the epithet.

Equally, John Major, when Prime Minister, was ordered to withdraw his summing up of Tony Blair, then Opposition leader, as "a dimwit".

Yet the former Labour MP Tony Banks escaped rebuke for accusing Margaret Thatcher of acting "with the sensitivity of a sex-starved boa-constrictor". He also once described - with impunity - the former Tory MP Terry Dicks as "living proof that a pig's bladder on the end of a stick can be elected to Parliament".

Mr Dicks himself once described Scottish football supporters as "those pigs from Scotland" and got away with it.

But accusations of lying always mean expulsion from the chamber unless withdrawn or amended. Only Winston Churchill got away with describing a lie as a "terminological inexactitude".

Labour's Tam Dalyell was twice ejected for calling Margaret Thatcher a liar. On one occasion, after describing her as "a sustained brazen deceiver" he went further, adding: "She is a bounder, a liar, a deceiver, a cheat and a crook." The two of them did not speak to each other for the next 17 years until they "got on famously" when he escorted her at a formal dinner at the Colombian Embassy.
Excerpted from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4511352.stm

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Gabry(f): 9:22am On May 10, 2009
So that life would be interesting! grin tongue
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by sjeezy8: 10:05pm On May 10, 2009
LOL  who knows but if thier was an award given to a country for the best insults nigeria would win year afta year no doubt.  we all can insult like no mans business in fact a reality show should be aired on naija life it would definately recieve high ratings lmfao  grin

everyone in my family except my mother(so sweet and kind) has a raza blade for a mout lol

SO FUNNY prime example of a naija
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxxTrMtOxrY&feature=channel
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by SeanT21(f): 4:57am On May 11, 2009
sjeezy8:

LOL who knows but if thier was an award given to a country for the best insults nigeria would win year afta year no doubt. we all can insult like no mans business in fact a reality show should be aired on naija life it would definately recieve high ratings lmfao grin

everyone in my family except my mother(so sweet and kind) has a raza blade for a mout lol

SO FUNNY prime example of a naija
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxxTrMtOxrY&feature=channel


I find nothing hilarious about this pikin at all.

@topic

If U think Nigerians can insult then U should come and visit the Liberians here in Charlotte. Liberians in general like to abuse people. Its part of our culture.
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by sjeezy8: 8:18pm On May 11, 2009
Ok if that is you in your profile pic your are lookin SWEET but DAT HAT GOTTA GO, das anoda one eh hen liberians are cool i've them insult ALOT before but that english you guys speak mehn cannot be understood i mean SHETTT


NOREASONABLE PERSON CAN UNDERSTAND YOU PEOPLE CHECKIRRROUT 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j5CeHyzZKI
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by morpheus24: 9:11pm On May 11, 2009
@ poster

Because we too many and if we no develope aggressive life skills including "Insult", people go chance you.
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by MrCrackles(m): 9:14pm On May 11, 2009
Topic

Because it is in the blood!
Re: Why Do Nigerians Like To Yab(insult) people? by Nobody: 10:08pm On May 11, 2009
i think there's a difference yab and insult.

most nigerians yab pple. i personally do not have a problem with yabs going back and forth. its fun.

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