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RomanceRe: Why Naija Guys In The Diaspora Go Home To Marry by 4Play(m): 11:04pm On May 01, 2009
Time to go to sleep. These little girls have taken over this thread.
CrimeRe: Akinwale Arobieke The Muscle Squeezer. by 4Play(m): 10:52pm On May 01, 2009
His reputation has spread across north-west England where he is known by the nickname "Purple Aki" and is considered by many to be an urban myth, the jury was told.
grin grin

Purple Aki. See how they are maliciously defaming an innocent Nigerian? Just because someone is obsessed about body building, they call him a perv.
RomanceRe: Why Naija Guys In The Diaspora Go Home To Marry by 4Play(m): 10:47pm On May 01, 2009
People tend to marry those they have a lot of affinity with. So a Nigerian man brought up in Nigeria,even if living abroad, will probably prefer a Nigerian girl brought up in Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: Yar'ardua's Exclusive Interview With The Guardian by 4Play(m): 10:32pm On May 01, 2009
A talking corpse? shocked
PoliticsRe: Dora Akunliyi - A Wolf Finally Putting Off Its Sheep Clothing by 4Play(m): 8:03pm On Apr 30, 2009
@Denex

The problem started when she accepted the role in the first place. It's not like she needs the money.
FoodRe: Her Husband Must Be The First To Taste Her Food by 4Play(m): 7:38pm On Apr 30, 2009
At least she can cook, most young women these days can't cook.
PoliticsRe: I Did Not Resign, I Am Still In The Inec Family - Mrs Adebayo Ayoka by 4Play(m): 7:25pm On Apr 30, 2009
I have never seen an uglier woman than this INEC woman. Isn't that sufficient reason not to listen to her?
FamilyRe: What Method Was Used To Wake You From Sleep? by 4Play(m): 7:20pm On Apr 30, 2009
Where did you people grow up, boot camp?
RomanceRe: Why Are Black American Women Difficult? by 4Play(m): 7:11pm On Apr 30, 2009
@ Dim StarStruck

Who said I'm out to get them?
RomanceRe: Why Are Black American Women Difficult? by 4Play(m): 7:00pm On Apr 30, 2009
Ekiti women are a special case. Look at the ones on NL, complete pyschos.

The real question is why are Nigerian women difficult? Any reason why these dim Naija women are so impossible?
RomanceRe: Why Are Black American Women Difficult? by 4Play(m): 6:53pm On Apr 30, 2009
@Topic

They are not as difficult as young Nigerian women. Bunch of stubborn blockheads.
RomanceRe: Why Naija Guys In The Diaspora Go Home To Marry by 4Play(m): 6:54am On Apr 29, 2009
@Samparian

Your woman told you she's leaving at 1am? Good riddance, I say. Wasn't she an adult? People do travel around at that time of the night anyway.
Music/RadioRe: Hot New Naija Female Artist (Chelle) - Please Rate Her Song by 4Play(m): 10:21pm On Apr 28, 2009
How can I meet her?
PoliticsRe: Why Women Shouldnt Be In The Army by 4Play(m): 7:26pm On Apr 28, 2009
oyb:
mr dubious assertations . . .

we would appreciate it if you could kindly provide more than your less than savory opinions, thank you very much.
see, anyone can do that. i do not consider you to be all knowing, so kindly back up your arguments with more than hot air.
Look at this rabid copy and paste ignoramus. If you really wanted to learn the truth, you can easily find it. Let's see an article that compares the average US recruit to the average American:

In the early 1990s, DoD set a goal that at least 90 percent of enlisted recruits without prior service should have a high school diploma. (By comparison, 80 percent of the civilian youth population earned high school diplomas in 2006.) DoD has been able to meet that goal every year since it was established (see Figure 3). In the late 1980s and early 1990s, as the military was reduced in size and the number of new personnel who were needed fell significantly, the services were able to increase the proportion of recruits with high school diplomas, peaking at almost 98 percent in 1992. That number declined somewhat through the 1990s, in part because of improved job opportunities in the civilian sector (as evidenced by lower civilian unemployment rates for young people).

During the current decade, the share of recruits who are high school graduates has remained between 90 percent and 93 percent for the military as a whole, although it hasvaried by service. For example, the Navy has increased its figure in recent years as it once again shrinks its enlisted force, whereas the Army has fallen below DoD’s 90 percent goal. The proportion of new Army recruits with high school diplomas dropped to 87 percent in 2005 and 81 percent in 2006—the lowest levels in at least 20 years.51 The Army’s difficulties in meeting its numerical goals for recruiting in those years may partly explain the drop in education levels.
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/83xx/doc8313/07-19-MilitaryVol.pdf
Last year, 83 percent of Army recruits were high school graduates.
[url]http://www.army.mil/-news/2009/02/12/16846-army-recruiting-on-track-despite-challenges/
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What this hare brained faux scholar has done is repeatedly quote an article about a particular year - 2007 - where standards plummeted. However, this will buttress his claim that US soldiers are drawn from the dregs of society if virtually all US soldiers had been recruited in 2007.

He talks of a downward trend because of the dating of the article - 71% in '07 and 83% in '08. This is what happens when people try to bridge the chasm in their knowledge through the University of Google. 

90% of current servicemen and women have at least a high school diploma. You need a link for that? That's better than the average American. So much for less savoury characters, such consummate ignorance.
PoliticsRe: Why Women Shouldnt Be In The Army by 4Play(m): 12:42pm On Apr 28, 2009
oyb:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1706118,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1889152,00.html
Mr Copy and Paste, what does the above link have to do with how the average enlistee compares to his peers in the general population?

Take your average 18 year old recruit and compare him to the average 18 year old Yank, he's better educated and has a better criminal record or more aptly 'non-record'. Recruiting standards may have been relaxed briefly, but that tells us more abut the average recruit in a particular year compared to the average recruit in another year which the link deals with.

The idea that recruits are drawn from the ''less savory'' members of society is BS when the contrary is clearly the case.
Foreign AffairsSex Education For Five-year-olds To Be Made Compulsory In British Schools by 4Play(op): 7:44pm On Apr 27, 2009
The UK government has announced plans to make sex education compulsory for pupils aged five to 11, dividing faith groups and safer sex campaigners.

Under the plans all secondary schools will have to teach teenagers about contraception, safer sex and relationships, but faith schools will also be free to preach against sex outside of marriage and condoms.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/apr/27/sex-education-contraception-schools
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only by 4Play(m): 7:42pm On Apr 27, 2009
If Milan is Beyonce, Arsenal must be Susan Boyle.
Foreign AffairsRe: Swine Flu: Time To Stop Yanks & Mexicans From Entering Nigeria by 4Play(m): 7:35pm On Apr 27, 2009
My biggest fear is the potential impact if, in a worst case scenario, the flu takes off in Africa. I think we should ban all travel between the West and Nigeria. grin
PoliticsRe: Yar'adua To Declare 'power Emergency' Next Month by 4Play(m): 7:33pm On Apr 27, 2009
A nation ruled by the living dead.
RomanceRe: Prettiest Girls On Nairaland by 4Play(m): 7:05pm On Apr 27, 2009
Where have all these girls been hoarding their boobs?  shocked  shocked
RomanceRe: Prettiest Girls On Nairaland by 4Play(m): 7:02pm On Apr 27, 2009
@Sauron

Whose boobs are those?
PoliticsRe: Why Women Shouldnt Be In The Army by 4Play(m): 6:52pm On Apr 27, 2009
oyb:
the armed forces have always had a cavalier attitude towards molesting women. remember tailhook?

even worse is the fact that its not exactly better members of society that are inducted as recruits(i'm not referring to officers here. . not that they are much better, but the less than savory characters that make up the grunt class in armed forces across the world.
This is a long discredited canard. The average US army recruit, compared to young people within the same age bracket, is better educated.

Won't be surprised if a majority of Nigerian women have also faced sexual violence as well. The significant thing here is not the existence of sexual violence but a growing willingness to confront it.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Champions League: Can Barca Prevent Another All-English Final? by 4Play(m): 4:09pm On Apr 25, 2009
Schalke is murdering Bayern right now. Make una put Dayo on suicide watch.  grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Champions League: Can Barca Prevent Another All-English Final? by 4Play(m): 3:20pm On Apr 25, 2009
tkb417:
ol' boi, wetin u dey talk na
oya, lets start like this
tell me the best league in europe with ur reasons and ill be so quick to pick holes just like u did mine.
its now ur turn to tell which is the best
For the reasons I have outlined, it's virtually impossible to say what is the best league. What I know for certain is that all the talk that the EPL is the best on the basis of UCL performances by the same top 4 is ridiculous.

The UCL is one competition ,why stop there? What about the international tournaments, why wasn't the Final of the Euro '08 dominated by EPL players? Why wasn't the World Cup in '06 dominated by EPL players? Why isn't the EUFA Cup dominated by the EPL? Surely, the EPL should be able to replicate the performance in the UCL in another European competition.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Champions League: Can Barca Prevent Another All-English Final? by 4Play(m): 3:05pm On Apr 25, 2009
@tkb417

If the EPL is without doubt the best league, it should be able to replicate UCL performances in the UEFA cup, no be so?

My point is that no matter how you look at it, the top 4's performance doesn't tell us much if it's the same top 4 season after season and if the top 4's gulf with the rest of the league is quite large.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Champions League: Can Barca Prevent Another All-English Final? by 4Play(m): 2:59pm On Apr 25, 2009
debosky:
That may be so - but would you ever evaluate the Scottish League sans Celtic/Rangers? Would the league hold any significant attraction or value without those teams?
Take for example a comparison of wealth between a given set of people. In one case a group of 99 paupers(each with a net worth of 0) and Bill Gates(net worth $50bn). In another, a group of 100 people(each with a net worth of $100m).

The overall wealth of the first group($50bn) is higher than the overall wealth of the 2nd($10bn). Does that mean the 1st group is better off than the 2nd?

In the EPL, the top 4's permanence and chasm from the rest distorts the picture of the real worth of the EPL. In that sense, trying to assess the strength of the Scottish league by measuring the performance of Celtic/Rangers alone in the UCL will not really tell you much about the Scottish league any more than measuring Bill Gate's wealth will tell you much in my example.

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