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Efemena_xy: And what's wrong with that?

Don't we all want a man that is well groomed and makes the effort with his appearance? Who wants a foul-smelling tout reeking of BO (body odour)?

What's wrong with a man baby sitting and looking after his kids? Nor be im name dem dey answer?

What's wrong with a man eager to have his own kids and showing concern if they aren't forth coming? Is this not the point where he actively seeks to get to the root cause of the problem by seeking medical assistance if need be, rather than fold his arms and do nothing? Or get involved in "away matches" with other women?

What's wrong with a man going shopping? Is he disabled to the point of being bed-ridden and can't lift a finger to wipe his own backside?

You still don't get the gist, statistics shows that much more men do what are presumed to be feminine (female xteristics).
You would have asked 'why don't people fancy Mr world just like Miss world?
Most handsome man just like Most Beautiful woman?
We have been made masculine (muscular) in nature and should not waste precious time in trying to beautify bones, because we haven't got the flesh like women and hitherto...shapeless Adam

Efemena_xy: And what's wrong with that?

Don't we all want a man that is well groomed and makes the effort with his appearance? Who wants a foul-smelling tout reeking of BO (body odour)?

What's wrong with a man baby sitting and looking after his kids? Nor be im name dem dey answer?

What's wrong with a man eager to have his own kids and showing concern if they aren't forth coming? Is this not the point where he actively seeks to get to the root cause of the problem by seeking medical assistance if need be, rather than fold his arms and do nothing? Or get involved in "away matches" with other women?

What's wrong with a man going shopping? Is he disabled to the point of being bed-ridden and can't lift a finger to wipe his own backside?

You still don't get the gist, statistics shows that much more men do what are presumed to be feminine (female xteristics).
You would have asked 'why don't people fancy Mr world just like Miss world?
Most handsome man just like Most Beautiful woman?
We have been made masculine (muscular) in nature and should not waste precious time in trying to beautify bones, because we haven't got the flesh like women and hitherto...shapeless Adam

biolabee: The rise of the metrosexual male

'Heterosexual' i guess?

El Guapo: [color=#0066ff]@Op, I dont really think its about Standards falling or getting to lace our mentality on what 21st Century holds.

You'd quite agree with me that Men are of diverging traits and gazillions of 'em would label this research as Bollock, stressing that they've got better things to do than Shopping etc.

To Savor a new adventure could be the factor having Men delving into all U stipulated up there. As most Industrious men who hardly have a time of their own, they might Just love the Idea of taking a breather and trying out a percieved 'weird' trend In their Sparetime - Well u wouldnt bank on heralding a Caption like this on a daily ''Bill Gates Making meals at the Wife's Absence''

Thats savouring a new trend, its cool though - I'd Indulge in one wholeheartedly if the need be.[/color]

I agree with you, because we can't totally avoid some of these things, bt should be done at leisure, but some men take them as 'Hobbies'.

Skinni10ne: Yes a lot if them are!

Why should a man:
-Shop till he drops.
-Buy shoes he knows he does not need
-Check himself out in the mirror 20 times a day
-Take pictures of himself EVERYWHERE-bathroom (y was that a trend?), street, mall, restaurant, church?
-Text, text, text, text, text
-Upload pics of his 'outfit of the day' everyday on Facebook, Instagram, his blog
-Take an ab pic and use that as his cell dp
-Care about his hair, his "swag", his fashion sense

#prettyboyz

If only those who are arguing without critically assimilating the post would agree with you, then we don't have argument here, but accept that we have at one time or the other indulged in 1 or 2 of the aforementioned points. Thanks, it's a good back-up.

tpia@:
cant make head or tail of the post.

whats the op trying to say?

you rushed through it, so calm down and read it. That notwithstanding, the post is all about d research on the behaviour of men that are considered feminine(female like) nowadays...men are now addicted to shopping, taking longer time get dressed up, more worried than women when the child(ren) is/are not forthcoming, tend to baby-seat when jobless and loss a competitive jobs that were abinitio reserved for men. Hope the summary sticks?

achi4u: I think you have summarized the whole post with this outline.
But where you said and i quote "secondly, many men spend much time looking at the mirror"-This are few lazy fellows who watches to much nollywood home video, their percentage are 0.00001.

Other point you made are very correct.

At the end it is a men's world

It's a man's world no doubt, but change they is inevitable. We must watch it before it turns to a woman's world.

Efemena_xy: @OP, maybe it's a sign that men are moving with the times. 21st century and all that...

We are no longer in the stone ages though, are we?

we are not in stone age, i quite agree with but that make us behave like Weird MC

Efemena_xy: @OP, maybe it's a sign that men are moving with the times. 21st century and all that...

We are no longer in the stone ages though, are we?

we are not in stone age, i quite agree with but that make us behave like Weird MC

achi4u: To put it straight! this can only be obtainable in the western culture for now,but due to our inferiorty complex and our copy copy attitude all what is in the west must surely come to Africa. lol
Again, this research and many more any only done in some of the european countries -Africa excluded.

We are too cultural here to copy that scrap.

Op hw levels nag?

You may be right to some extent, but to be specific, many Nigerian men still baby-seat, as their wives become the bread winner.
Secondly, many men spend much time lookimg at d mirror.
Lastly, many women tend to be more favoured in the labour market than men, prompting men to sit at home and do the women's house chores.
Achi i hail u ooo!

I am really dumbfounded and astonished as a man. If these are what we (men) are turning into....then we must retrace our steps.
But what do you think about this disheartening research?

Link
http://mobile.uk.msn.com/device/him/article.aspx?cp-documentid=251006758

Men are Displaying Similar Shopping Behaviours to Women.

We fall in love at first sight, shop badly and
worry about our bodies. Are men the new
women? So, are modern men becoming more feminine? For those of you who balk at such a suggestion, don’t shoot the messenger. Fact is, an almost endless stream of polls, research studies and new social trends suggest that, in many ways, the gap
between the genders is closing at an
unprecedented rate. Some of those ways are trivial, and some more
profound. But do they suggest that the age of the manly man is dead? Read on and decide foryourself.

SHOPPING.
According to new research for disability charity Scope, men love shopping as much as women. What’s more, we are picking up shopping habits that seem distinctly, well, womanly. For example, the Scope research - conducted as part of the charity’s Great Donate - One month, One million Items challenge, which aims to get people
thinking about what they could donate to Scope shops - found that 89% of male respondents
admitted to having between one and 15 unworn items of clothing in their wardrobes. The poll found men had bought clothes for special occasions that never happened, were convinced into buying clothes they didn’t really want, and even shopped for garments they hoped to slim into. Nearly one in four also confessed to being guilty of impulse buying when out spending. In other words, we’re starting to make all the shopping mistakes we accuse our wives and
girlfriends of making. Is that important? Not on its own, but does buying clothes we hope to “slim into” suggest an increasing male focus on body image and beauty. It wouldn’t be the first piece of evidence to point that way... Body image Our new shopping habits may be partly explained by a new focus on body image. In fact, research by
psychologists at the University of the West of
England published last year found that, against all expectations, more men worry about their body shape and appearance – beer bellies, man boobs or bald patches – than women do about how they look. The research found that more men than women
(80.7% against 75%) “talk in ways that promote anxiety about their body image”. In other words, we’re now more likely to mention our flaws and imperfections than women are. “These findings tell us that men are concerned about body image, just like women. We knew that 'body talk' affected women and young people and now we know that it affects men too," said Dr
Phillippa Diedrichs, who conducted the study. Not all the research on the subject suggests men are now more concerned with body image than women, but nearly all of it finds that men are becoming more focused on how they look. In other words, in this specific area, we appear to be becoming more feminine.

ROMANCE.
Maybe it’s no surprise that we’re so focused on how we look, given that we’re always on the lookout for “the one”. Yep, popular culture would have you believe that women fall in love at the drop of a hat, and men fall in love only when they’re good and ready. If that were ever true, it certainly isn’t now. According to research published in the Journal of Social Psychology in 2011, a vast majority of both men and women assume women are the first to fall in love and the first to say “I love you”. And as it turned out, the very same people, when asked about their own relationship histories, reported the opposite. In real life men reported that they fell in love more rapidly and that they said
“I love you” first. All that was confirmed by a worldwide study of over 10,000 people published earlier this year. It found that, while 28% of women had fallen in love
at first sight, 48% of men had. So it appears that the desire for love and romance
(as opposed to sex) - once considered such a
female trait - is becoming increasingly a male one. Family Modern men may be more desperate to leap into loving relationships because of their yearning for a family. It used to be said that women had a biological clock that men did their best to ignore, but the new truth is not so black and white. In research presented to the British Sociological
Society in March, sociologist Robin Hadley found that childless men were even more broody than childless women. Hadley claims that his research “challenges the
common idea that women are much more likely to want to have children than men”, and his research showed that four out of 10 childless men feel ‘depressed’ about their childless life, compared with three out of 10 women. Seven out of 10 men confess to a ‘yearning’ to have a child. Of course men have always wanted to experience
fatherhood - the human race would have died out without that basic biological imperative - but it seems that, today, we want it just as much as women want motherhood, and regret not having children more.

WORK and HOME
That perhaps chimes with the well-documented idea that masculine jobs are in decline, and more feminine workplaces are becoming the norm. Perhaps more men yearn for family life as work life becomes more competitive (with increasing numbers of women in the workforce), less secure and less fulfilling. In fact, statistics show that the number of men who stay home and look after children while their partners go out to work reached an all time high last year. There were 227,000 men staying at home to look after family between September and
November 2012, a rise of 19,000 compared to the same period in 2011 and the highest increase since figures began in 1993. Meanwhile, a recent European Commission report said that the sole female breadwinner was on the rise, and now accounted for 10% of households. Of course, there are still many more households where the man is the sole breadwinner, and far more stay-at-home mums than dads, but the gradual flattening out of gender roles - to a point where couples choose the best division of paid
and domestic work based on circumstance alone - seems to be a long term trend.
And that might even be having a knock on effect in the dating game. A study by researchers at York University found some evidence of the reversing of the traits men and women traditionally deem desirable in the other. As societies become more equal, the researchers said, men place more value on intelligence and earning potential, and women place more value on looks. So are men becoming more feminine? We may be
more romantic, family oriented and body
conscious than we used to be, but whether that is a good or bad thing is open to question. Perhaps men are just changing with the times and adapting to new realities. Perhaps the most successful men will be those who adapt best. Or perhaps we are
heading for a fall?

rodeo0070: But seriously, is the passing of the "useless fluid" recent, if yes, then I suggest you talk to your Doctor...

yes it is barely 2 weeks now and i also think d level of my blood sugar is high.

@OP, i hope u r a medical Dr? Cos my own probs now is no. 6, i hardly sleep well this days and i wake up 2-3 time at 9t 2 pass out the useless fluid. I feel very weak and dizzy at dawn. My ? Is what is wrong with my system and how can i control it?

In the matches, played at the same time, Plateau United Feeders reportedly scored 72 of their goals in the second half to beat Akurba FC 79-0. Police Machine swept 61 goals past Babayaro FC in the second 45 minutes of their 67-0 game.



This is arrant nonsense! 72 goals in 45min, means an average of 1.6 goal/minute. In critically analizing this, suggest dt there was no time for celebrations, d ball flew from inside net 2d center circle 4d opponent 2 pass or their passings were within d 18yard box after scoring. I still can't believe this story!

ujchief: N19,800 x 11 = N217,800.
That's what I saved. Except the first allowee that was paid at camp, I didn't go to bank once to touch that NYSC account. Well, it was easy for me b'cos I had somewhere I was doing a secondary assignment so it will be wrong to measure other corpers savings with mine.

As for my plans for the cash, I've already paid N50k for NISP safety professional course (levels 2 and 3) starting on monday thru friday at ph. After this, I will still find other professional courses to enroll with the cash, and maybe pick my Msc form with it.

Trying to empower myself with the cash so when I remember my service year, I wouldn't say it was a waste.

Bros abeg enlighten me on d NISP course, i really want 2 do a safety prof course. I know abt NEBOSH, bt it's very xpensive, at 350k.

I really thank God 4 my service yr. I saved my 11months out of 12months Alawee. I had 2 pay in 2k into my account after 6mths 2 make up d #200 VAT, cos i needed a round figure and d 1500 bike pay on d POP day. At d end of it, i still hv #221,300.00 in my a/c. I came bk home wt 58,000 cash accrued frm PSA, skul, church and LG council sentforths cos there is no bank around dia. I'm stil being owed 22,000 frm my PSA (Private Secondary Assignment). Am still thinking of what 2do wit d money though i ll soon go for a safety professional course.

I have sat with my legs crossed probably starting when i was a little boy. I still cross them most time i sit down, eventually after a long period of crossing, my top leg gets numb. I have heard that crossing your legs can cause vein, back and hip problems. I don't have any at all, but is it true that it is bad? It is also said that leg crossing by women is a taboo, but they still indulge in the act. Do you cross your legs also and are you aware it might be bad?[color=]I have sat with my legs crossed probably starting when i was a little boy. I still cross them most time i sit down, eventually after a long period of crossing, my top leg gets numb. I have heard that crossing your legs can cause vein, back and hip problems. I don't have any at all, but is it true that it is bad? It is also said that leg crossing by women is a taboo, but they still indulge in the act. Do you cross your legs also and are you aware it might be bad?[/color]I have sat with my legs crossed probably starting when i was a little boy. I still cross them most time i sit down, eventually after a long period of crossing, my top leg gets numb. I have heard that crossing your legs can cause vein, back and hip problems. I don't have any at all, but is it true that it is bad? It is also said that leg crossing by women is a taboo, but they still indulge in the act. Do you cross your legs also and are you aware it might be bad?

GoldCircle: Abeg na where person fit watch this match? Whether online or offline..

you can watch it offline in my street!

[quote author=o'boy]Onitsha is cool,markets shut,soilders malingering about looking for whom to feed Groundnuts[/quote

LWKMD....which 1 be Groundnut?

Hmm! What can i say? Just a simple prayer... Our Kaki have turned to Suits, Alawi to Salary, Jungle Boot to Corporate Shoes, CDS to Board meeting, Clearance letter to Cheque In Jesus Name. If u believe it write Amen!!!

oweniwe: 7th. . No dulling

I dey feel u bro, same with me.

nerdicusprimus: I will certainly leave for the same reasons you gave. I am a Batch C corper, though.

My fellow go 2go corper, u r right because staying also mean spending d little u have saved.

Some of my confreres have kept reiterating the need to stay back at one's host community, probably to search for the job opportunties that abound their. Some others have prepared to leave for their various homes from the POP ground. I personally, will take my French leave a day or two after Thursday, because there are no job opportunities here and life is very unbearable. My question to my fellow good to go Batch B corps members is, will you stay back or go home after POP? Stating ur reason(s).

[quote author=chris365]Se boko haram get special body odour? Abi hw the dogs take sniff and identify dem na. Please oga general don't just give us highlights, if you're not going to give us visual evidence, at least explain better.
nigerians are not as dull as you think na

I think JTF said they arested Boko haram ''suspects''. I fit go buy cow 4 Bornu and jtf go catch and label me BH suspect. 80% of those arested so far are not BH boiz.

I never dreamt of this happening in my father land (9ja), i watched this only on CNN when US invaded Iraq. Our military has 2 showcase what she got in her Arsenal. They used 2b termed 'best ground Troops in int'l peace keeping'. We r watching...may God help them!

So some Nolywood actresses do give birth out of wedlock (Grace Amah). Even learned one behave like village champions.

I can still remember vividly, when this happened about 3 yrs ago. The woman was actually trying 2 k*ss d guy at the airport in Lagos. She spent about 2 weeks, but the American embassy refused the guy visa cos dey also knew d game plan and d mama-P went bk 2 US. Still better than human trafficking.

That place is just a Geothermal power plant, where electricity is generated through the steam being emitted. Why must we believe every cock and bull unproven scientific stories?

Media reports said the vehicle was mistakenly filled with diesel rather than petrol.

This is a blatant lie, we all know that Isreal is an Holy land and Obama is an illuminati. Light and darkness can't cross path. 1 day his cup ll f*ll and he rather than his vehicle ll drink alumo bitter!



"Situations like this are planned for extensively by our advance teams so that the President's itinerary is unaffected by these types of issues."

http://news.sky.com/story/1067480/barack-obamas-limousine-breaks-down-in-israel[/quote]