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Phones / Re: Mtn Zlt M30s 4g Lte Mifi Review by atheistandproud(m): 10:28am On Jul 22, 2023
ajog1:




Hello big fam and the op, many thanks for this thread, I just got the mifi two days ago, and I noticed something strange while using it.
It disconnected, and the green blinked through all indicators one-at-time, not all of them at once like when you switch-on the device
And again, I barely used the device before the battery light turned from green to amber( thanks to jboixxx for the amber info). Does that indicate that the battery would last?
Please, another question, when getting the device, is the yellow seal (covering the box) suppose to be intact??

1. Of course the seal is supposed to be intact.

2. Did you do a full charge before use?
Romance / Re: Why You Should Keep Your Woman In The Dark - Illimitable Men by atheistandproud(m): 1:35am On Jul 22, 2023
ozome15:
So what you say is we should do women the more they look the less they see


Hmm...
Phones / Re: Power Bank Capacity. Do I Need To Worry? by atheistandproud(m): 8:54pm On Jul 21, 2023
pat077:
okay. How much did u get it?

25,000 minus shipping

Picked it up today
Romance / Why You Should Keep Your Woman In The Dark - Illimitable Men by atheistandproud(m): 12:01pm On Jul 20, 2023
Keeping Women In The Dark:

Sometimes a man has to say "Don't worry I've got this" or "I'll fix it" or "I'll work something out" even when he has absolutely no idea what to do, not out of egoism or a desire to be deliberately misleading, but because he doesn't have the luxury of "not knowing".

He has to say these things to reassure the woman, to protect both himself and her from the ravages of her runaway neuroticism. If he tells her he's improvising and lacks a plan, she will worry, and when she worries she will increase his stress load with negative emotional outbursts, making it harder for him to address the source problem he's already struggling with.

He doesn't have the luxury of not knowing, because the only thing worse than not knowing what to do is not knowing what to do whilst a woman panics, her neuroticism triggered by the situational uncertainty, he will have to divert his attention away from the source problem to fix the more emergent and pressing problem that's resulted from her believing he can't handle it - calming down the hysterical woman.

This is why the man always has to seem like he's got it all under control and knows what he's doing even when he doesn't and hasn't got a clue, often figuring things out along the way by himself - because if he was fully transparent and included his woman in the process, she would worsen the situation with her worries, necessitating further emotional labour from him with the amount of reassurance she requires, which only further undermines his ability to fix the problem by diverting his attention away from the source issue. More efficient then to just reassure her off the bat even when you don't know what to do, than being honest about not knowing what to do and having to reassure her ten times more because your uncertainty is stressing her.

And before you deride women for being like this - this isn't even a conscious or malicious choice on their part, it's just one of the drawbacks of their neuroticism - making bad situations worse by overreacting and mounting further stress and pressure on the shoulders of the men they expect to fix it.

They just "want the bad thing to go away" - they don't want to hear the man who is meant to "make the bad thing go away" say he doesn't know how to make it go away.

This is why we keep woman in the dark - to stop them worrying and to make problem solving easier on ourselves - life's hard enough without adding a worrying woman to the equation.

Copied: Illimitable Men (Twitter @tellyoursonsthis)

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Webmasters / Re: Is Your Whatsapp Responding? by atheistandproud(m): 9:35pm On Jul 19, 2023
Lol
Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by atheistandproud(m): 2:03pm On Jul 19, 2023
synticate:
Good evening y'll,
Pls how can i get the redmi 20000mh powerbank in Benin edo state

Aiwanfojoy
Romance / Re: Her Ex Still Calls Her Even Though She Is Married. by atheistandproud(m): 1:18pm On Jul 19, 2023
ahnie:
Is the husband too dumb to change the wife's simcard?
Just asking .

That's the first every sensible husband would do to avoid roaming ghosts from the past aka lord faquard's ghost cheesy

If a man does this, won't y'all call him names like insecure, domineering, making her age 10 years older and all the other petty names that are conjured as per need basis?

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Romance / Re: My Take On Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends. by atheistandproud(m): 8:27am On Jul 17, 2023
Postinor:
Just reminded me of my secondary school days this guy liked the girl so much but the girl don already friend zone am since🀣🀣🀣, meanwhile the guy would even still be performing manly responsibilities like sponsoring her, chaii

Another solid example. Hope say no be you sha πŸ˜ŒπŸ˜ŒπŸ˜ŒπŸ‘€πŸ‘€πŸ‘€

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Romance / Re: My Take On Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends. by atheistandproud(m): 8:17am On Jul 17, 2023
1Sharon:


If the man is gay, then yes. A woman can go and be friends with him. Some gay men and women make the best friends because of shared interests

This gay thing can be a scam. I don't want to post private chats but I have a lesbian friend in Texas who said that a so-called gay man was thrown out of an LGBTQ lodge for sleeping with a quarter of the femme lesbians 🀣🀣🀣🀣. The butch lesbians were so mad.

They couldn't sue him because Texas law doesn't formally recognize them yet.

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Romance / Re: My Take On Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends. by atheistandproud(m): 8:14am On Jul 17, 2023
1Sharon:
Yes I've learnt this recently that men hardly want friendships with women.

But women are much more naive and think we can be friends with men. The reason is because men approach women under the guise of friendship, knowing they wanted something deeper.

There are men that intentionally friendzone themselves, it's not always the women!

Some women are very naive but not all of them are. I think women are very much blessed with the intuition to smell intentions from afar. The problem is that the lure of possible benefits override the intuition.

The last paragraph is me these days. Whilst I do come out cleanly with my intentions, I like to allow for a definite time period to see if and where our outlook and interests overlap. If they don't, I will gladly friend zone myself and allow the connection to wither. So I totally agree with you.

I wish more guys will come out cleanly and be bold enough to speak their mind instead of behaving cowardly.

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Romance / Re: My Take On Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends. by atheistandproud(m): 10:37pm On Jul 16, 2023
marlow1962:

Na foolish guys they be friend gal because of sex. The moment you don't send any lady, watch them beef you cus you no send them. But bitch niggas will do anything to please them because they know one day she might pity him and tell him to do small


Lmao

Once ladies start to praise you as a guy, have it in mind that you're doing something very wrong! Very very wrong!

Of course if they cannot manipulate you, then you are not useful to them. Funnily enough, you please them, they'll still look down on you. You no please them, they'll still look down on you.

If men can control konji, 99% of our problems solved, just like that.

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Romance / Re: This Man Don Overdose Him Self With Redpill by atheistandproud(m): 10:32pm On Jul 16, 2023
blazepascal:
This guy no get joyπŸ˜„πŸ˜„πŸ˜„


This man puts the T in transactional. grin

Romance / Re: Must Watch. Has relationship In Nigeria Degraded So Bad? by atheistandproud(m): 8:28pm On Jul 16, 2023
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Romance / Re: My Take On Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends. by atheistandproud(m): 7:52pm On Jul 16, 2023
Abi1985:


I agree with the exception if boundaries are set right from the beginning, then friendship can flourish . When boundaries are set by both mutual sexes such as there is no Romantic feelings or we cannot be alone together. Then the relationship can happen.
Not all men wants to have sex with all the women they met. Some are just friends without the intention of having of having sex or being in a romantic relationship, then the friendship can flourish. I am one i had female friends who i respected and never thought of being in a romantic relationship. She gave me good advices and helped me out a lot in life. I keep saying not all woman who are friendly with you that you must knack , you can control your urge to have sex if you have sex regularly with your significant other.


Apart from the rare occasion, what is generally the aim of a man who is chasing a friendship with a woman or women; or a lady who is chasing friendships with men?

Take note of the bolded.

But that's besides the point, let's talk about the need to set boundaries. Would you set those exact same boundaries with a male friend?

I presume not.

Why so? See point number 5. Feelings.

Thus female friendships feel more like friendship lite or acquaintanceship pro plus (to use a smartphone analogy) than actual friendship. So what's the point of that?

Again many Nigerians confuse acquaintanceship with actual friendship and call their acquaintances friends.

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Phones / Re: Power Bank Capacity. Do I Need To Worry? by atheistandproud(m): 7:38pm On Jul 16, 2023
pat077:
would have like to go for xiaomi but seems they don't have higher capacity Powerbanks

I just placed an order for the Xiaomi Mi 3A 30,000mAh powerbank via Jboixxx. When it lands, I'll do a review and post the video.

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Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by atheistandproud(m): 7:34pm On Jul 16, 2023
WHITELIGHTER:


Is this playing or what? Bro, don't come here to start capping all shades of rubbish

Did you follow the exchange from the beginning?
Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by atheistandproud(m): 6:54pm On Jul 16, 2023
Meister:


Lol, Oya wallow in your ignorance please

Bless you. Lemme join you in sipping water.
Romance / Re: My Take On Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends. by atheistandproud(m): 6:50pm On Jul 16, 2023
wahalawahala:
I once tried this shit... Before I knew, we Don dey fuvk each other πŸ˜‚

Exactly!

The only way these "friendships" actually last is if one party allows themselves to be used. That is the girl allows herself to be a fck-mate or the guy allows himself to be tool.

Other than that, they never truly last. Because they were never built on the same solid foundation that women-women or men-men friendships are built.

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Romance / Re: My Take On Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends. by atheistandproud(m): 6:47pm On Jul 16, 2023
ibkonekt:


Excellent write up, detailed and properly delivered.
It is in a woman's nature to manipulate, deceive and pretend because this is the only way she can obtain power. No matter how much you expose female nature they will always deflect, this is to maintain the illusion of power. Men know this aquire knowledge and power

It's the nature of soft power. Soft power cannot use brute force so it manipulates, obfuscates and meanders it's way into total and absolutely control.

As a guy never give that much power away. Even women will never give that much control to a fellow woman. It's why female friendships no dey last.

A woman will quickly spot manipulation tactics and more often than not will not tolerate it. This is why they quickly quarrel and stop talking to each other.

To quote Al Bundy, "Don't try to understand women women understand women and they hate each other".

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Romance / Re: My Take On Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends. by atheistandproud(m): 6:40pm On Jul 16, 2023
marlow1962:
When you're friends with a girl, just ready to be a mugu.

Oh my!

Been there, done that, never ever doing it again. Ever!

When there's real job opportunities or connections, she'll give it to the boyfriend. When there's problem in the relationship, that time is when she'll remember you exist. That's when you'll become psychiatrist + psychologist + therapist. You'll listen to family and relationship problems that absolutely do not concern you.

She'll steal money and time that should be used in bettering yourself, relaxing, looking for better jobs or chasing another woman. The day you say you're busy, you're not a good friend. You will suffer all the boyfriend responsibilities with zero boyfriend benefits.

Money you won't get, knack you no go get, she will not position her friends for you to knack because of jealousy, cash you will spend, time you will waste, mumu you will be.

🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣

So when I hear he's my friend, it's two things

1. The guy wan knack
2. The guy na big mumu


It's usually 1 out of the two but sometimes it's both.

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Romance / Re: My Take On Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends. by atheistandproud(m): 6:34pm On Jul 16, 2023
fyzaila:
Can please summarise? You can summerbeans too

I'd rather not. Sorry.
Romance / My Take On Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends. by atheistandproud(m): 12:51pm On Jul 16, 2023
Now it is important that we draw a clear line between acquaintanceship and friendship. The two are not the same.

An acquaintance is someone that you are just familiar with. Someone that you are cordial to and share greetings and small talk with. Beyond the surface, they do not know anything deep about you. Such a person is an acquaintance and not a friend because Nigerians tend to abuse the word friend.

A friend is something much more different. Someone who knows you all the way in. Not just on the surface. If you hit "Friend definition" on Google, what you'll get is

a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection e.g. "she's a friend of mine"

I want you to take note of the mutual affection part because it will come back in soon.

So back to the topic, why is it that men and women cannot be friends?

1. Aim

Believe it or not, every friendship has an aim even when it seems like there isn't any. A friendship can have a parasitic or mutualistic aim.

Apart from the rare occasion, what is generally the aim of a man who is chasing a friendship with a woman or women; or a lady who is chasing friendships with men?

Some of you are thinking that you're the exception. Poppycock and nonsense. Odds are that you're not.

You don't need me to spell out the obvious.

2. Foundational interests

There are friends that are your crypto guys, others for football, or sports in general, betting, gaming, politics, work, academics etc. These are the foundations on which friendships are built.

How many women bet or enjoy sports? How many men truly love Zee World or Telenovela? Are you seeing a pattern here?

3. Costs

It is no news that male friendships generally cost nothing. Zero. Even if you're broke, your guys will chip in to cover your part of the bills if you guys go out. Whatever resources are doled out in the course of male friendships are done mostly willingly and without coercion.

On the flip side, female friendships are expensive! This is more so if you're the guy. You must spend money, by hook or by crook. You must spend time, expertise, physical energy etc. You have to be the psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist, electrician, engineer, phone technician, driver, escort, body guard, teacher, assignment solver etc.

On the other hand all she mostly has to do is show up, be nice to you and maybe make food for the both of you. Of which more often than not, you paid nothing less than 50% for.

4. Benefits

Besides sex, there's no benefit to female friendship. In fact, you get to see her jump from one relationship to another and trauma dump on you. She would block your opportunities with other girls because that would mean losing you. You will stay single and miserable.

5. Feelings

The way men and women express feelings is patently different. The way one person expresses the same feelings to different people is absolutely not the same.

If two real men were to share the same space for a while, (if they don't hate each other) there is usually forged a brotherly union. Both men will stand up for and defend each other.

However if a man and a woman were to share the same space when they're not biologically related. More often than not, it's romantic feelings that develop thus defeating the friendship aim.

Conclusion

This is why when ladies say they have serious male friends, the first male instinct is to laugh but if she's actually serious, we feel pity (for the guy).

During my NYSC days, I met this Yoruba babe from Kwara, three years my senior and her male friend from Fed. Poly Offa. They attended the same CAC from home and after camp soon moved into the same CAC family house at Koko road in Sokoto.

True story.

I always told her that this your friend wants you but she'll maintain that they're just friends. This lady left Sokoto to my village PPA for premium knacks and I still went to their family house to give her premium knacks under his nose.

One night he was outside calling her phone while we were getting it on inside the room. She didn't pick so he left her a message. The next day she admitted that she knew he likes her but he's not her type.

I felt really terrible and couldn't look him in the eye the next day because he was absolutely very nice to me. I returned to my PPA and never went back. Ever. I also stopped picking her calls. Last time I checked, she was with someone else whilst he was still there. A friend indeed.

It may be the other way around, it could be your man parading different ladies as his friends.

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Phones / Re: The Gallery (Mobile Photography/Art) by atheistandproud(m): 9:51am On Jul 16, 2023
Gptech:
🌈
Mi 9t + LR

You dey inside Warri? shocked shocked shocked

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Romance / Re: Davido Is The Average Nigerian by atheistandproud(m): 10:42pm On Jul 15, 2023
skywalker240:


Am telling you, what a very annoying joke πŸ˜‚

I've been offline for sometimes, extremely busy, i only visit as a guest nowadays


* = Names with asterisks are fictitious.

Same my guy, same.

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Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by atheistandproud(m): 8:15pm On Jul 15, 2023
eteebanky1:


You must be so uncultured, Thunder strike you

23jerryking:
Can you try not to take weed on Saturdays at least? grin grin
Where did you spring forth from?

Person dey frustrated and una dey answer am 🀣🀣🀣🀣

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Phones / Re: Power Bank Capacity. Do I Need To Worry? by atheistandproud(m): 1:33pm On Jul 15, 2023
pat077:
which product is better

Baseus
Anker
Aukey
Xiaomi

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Phones / Re: How To Play PS2 Games On Your Smartphone by atheistandproud(m): 6:14pm On Jul 14, 2023
Emilokan1:
thanks bro. It's running now. Na games remain o.
Abeg, wia i fit see offline games my bro? are you in Lagos ?

Go through the thread, you'll see directions on where to get games that are safe.
Phones / Re: Power Bank Capacity. Do I Need To Worry? by atheistandproud(m): 10:59am On Jul 14, 2023
pat077:
experiencing same with my remax 30k mah. It shuts down at 45%

Na why I dey avoid Remax
Phones / Re: Power Bank Capacity. Do I Need To Worry? by atheistandproud(m): 8:00am On Jul 14, 2023
Jeffy1206:
well I guess you were unlucky then... May I ask what issue you encountered with?

See someone else

Phones / Re: How To Play PS2 Games On Your Smartphone by atheistandproud(m): 7:57am On Jul 14, 2023
Emilokan1:
what do you mean by download your own bios image from the internet?

Enter Google and type "download PS2 bios" or come to Telegram lemme give you mine.

A bios is a small file that enables the emulator to run.

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Phones / Re: The Gallery (Mobile Photography/Art) by atheistandproud(m): 8:05pm On Jul 13, 2023
My old RN9 pro still balling

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Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by atheistandproud(m): 4:33pm On Jul 12, 2023
wahalaO:


Nokia 8.3 β€” $1000+
Nokia 9 Pureview β€” $1000+
Both using pathetic B rank processors, and still sold at that price in 2023. Even iPhone users no get mind like that. Too much resale value won kill am πŸ˜’

Lol. I no too rate HMD. In my opinion, they're just trying to destroy whatever is left of the Nokia brand name

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