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Filashade:
Here it goes. Bashing Allowed

And don't be fooled. Am 20 yrs old


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I turned 21 on Wednesday 11/11/2015

happy birthday in areas

1. It happened some time ago but, I was in an audience listening to a motivational speaker. The speaker got out his wallet & pulled out a 500 Naira note. Holding it up, he asked, "Who wants this 500 naira note?"

Lots of hands went up. Including mine. A slow chorus began to build as people began to shout "Me!" "Me!" I began to wonder who the lucky one would be who the speaker would choose. And I also secretly wondered (and I am sure others did too ) why he would simply give away 500 naira. Even as the shouts of "I want it" grew louder, I noticed a young woman running down the aisle. She ran up onto the stage, went up to the speaker, and grabbed the five 500 naira note from his hand. "Well done, young lady," said the speaker into the microphone. The speaker simply say "Most of us just sit and wait for good things to happen. That's of no use. You've got to make things happen. Make a move" 'Simply thinking about doing something is of no use and not good enough'. Our lives are like that. We all see opportunities around us. We all want the good things. But the problem is we don't take action.

We all want the 500 naira notes on offer. But we don't make the move. We look at it longingly. Get up, and do something about it. Don't worry about what other people might think. Take action.

2. Later, the speaker got another 500 naira note and held it up for all to see, I thought I knew what's up. But he just asked a simple question. "How much is this worth?" "Five Hundred naira!" the crowd yelled in unison. "Right," said the speaker. He then took the note and crumpled it into a ball and asked "How much is it worth now?" "Five Hundred naira!" screamed the audience. He then threw the note on the ground, stamped all over it and picked up the note and asked one more time: "And how much is it worth now?" "Five Hundred naira!" was the response. "I want you to remember this," said the speaker. "Just because someone crumples it, or stamps on it, the value of the note does not diminish. We should all be like the 500 naira note. In our lives, there will be times when we feel crushed, stamped over, beaten. But never let your self-worth diminish. Just because someone chooses to crush you -- that doesn't change your worth one bit! Don't allow your self-worth to diminish because someone says something nasty -- or does something dirty -- to you."

Never let your SELF-WORTH diminish!!!

Good morning all

Cc Lalasticlala obinoscopy

It's likely that 400 years from now no one will ever have heard of any of these shows.
Think about how much content is being produced every single year, month, week, day, second. We've expanded beyond TV and film. We've gone to YouTube, Vimeo, Vines, etc., and we're just in the infancy. Then, we have other content providers like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and they're all doing their own content.
Imagine 400 years of content. 8 years of the Kardashians won't even be a blip. Hell, can any of us tell the difference between, say, 1814 and 1815? Or, let's go bigger. Can we name the differences between the 1820s and 1830s? Can we name a single book that was published between 1820 and 1830?
Let's go back 400 years. What happened in 1643? 1624? 1693?
Seriously, in 400 years, people will lump the 1900s together and likely have no concept of the difference between 1950 and 1990, even though to us it's a completely different world and lifestyle. In 400 years, 1990 won't be different from 2000, which won't be different from 2010. But in 1990, we couldn't even get online and we had 8 bit video gaming. In 2000, internet was a pretty regular thing among households and we had the PlayStation and were just a 1-2 years away from PS2. In 2010, we have the beginning of touch screen smartphone wars where we have internet online and have streaming television.
1990, 2000, 2010....they're a WORLD of a difference to us right now.
But in 2400, people will lump all of 1900-2100 into maybe 4 or 5 periods, like 1900 -1980 as one era, 1980-2020 as another, 2020-2050, then 2050-2100, or something like that.
A show like the Kardashians won't even be remembered. What's scarier is that a show like Breaking Bad won't be remembered, either. There were so many great films in the 40s, 50s, and 60s -- back then, people would have discussions over the best 25 films. Most people couldn't even name 5 films from that era, and if they do, it's the same 5-8 films most people name.
In 2400, all these Marvel films won't matter. Iron Man 1-3, Avengers 1-3, Captain America 1-3, etc.... Batman vs. Superman... just a speck of dust in the grand scheme of media. Sad to say, but even Star Wars won't matter much beyond its historical aspect as the first big blockbuster series -- the quality will be looked at as "horrible" but "likely amazing for its time." Even now, we look back at the 1977 film and think about how wooden the performances were and how bad a lot of the elements were, but we overlooked them because of nostalgia. In 2400, no one will have nostalgia over Star Wars, and it will have just a tiny little corner in a film museum that gets virtually no visitors.
400 years....that's a really, really long time. So much of what we feel is SO SIGNIFICANT, like Donald Trump, the Kardashians, or even real issues like North Korea, Africa, the Middle East, by 2400 things will likely be figured out, optimistically. Or maybe not. None of us will be around to see it.
And nothing we have done, we have created, we have experienced....NOTHING that represents us, you, me....NOTHING will exist in 400 years. How many people who lived 400 years ago can you name? I bet the first instinct is to say "Christopher Columbus!" Wrong, off by about 120 years. Really, none of us will matter. Given a long enough time frame, even the most famous people from today's era -- Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Stephen Hawking, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Lady GaGa, James Cameron, Stephen Spielberg, Katy Perry, Tom Cruise, Lionel Messi, Ronaldo, Tom Brady, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk -- it's likely that almost all of these people will have ZERO PLACE in the average person's head in 400 years. In 400 years, there will most likely be someone who will play better basketball than Michael Jordan, make even more groundbreaking computer innovations than Bill Gates (I can't even name the person who first built a motherboard or the first person to write software), and in 400 years there will definitely be so many actors to have lived and died that Tom Cruise won't be more than just a trivia answer and one-line mention in an online tome of entertainment history, like "Tom Cruise was a famous actor in the 1900s and early 2000s," and people will think that he lived in 1940 and died in 2010 or something similar.
You think schools will teach "Steve Jobs invented the iPod in year 2001 or "Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook in 2004" or "The Kardashians were a TV show in the 2010s" when there are 400 years of history to teach on top of another few hundred years of world history before that (American Revolution, World War I and II, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, etc.)?
Nope. We are all very lucky to be living on pretty much the razor's edge of modernity -- just "old" enough to enjoy technology, but just "young" enough so that we're not inundated with "too much content," as in, there aren't literally 300,000 studio-signed bands to go through and listen -- there are only about 50-60 years worth of music to sift through, and we have dedicated fans who can help you with recommendations. We are "young" enough to be able to differentiate the difference in the sound of the music of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and so on. Imagine being in 2400 and trying to figure out what music sounded like in the 2240s and the 2380s and the 2130s etc -- there would be just TOO MUCH CONTENT.
Same goes with TV. Even if there is ONE BREAKING BAD-LEVEL TV SHOW PER DECADE, that's 40 shows on the level of Breaking Bad, and you couldn't even figure out where to start, especially with them spread across 400 years. People of 2400 will have little clue what's going on in Breaking Bad, as they see the cars, the architecture, the concept of how TV works, etc. Content in the year 2100 will be a world of difference from 2200 from 2300 from 2400. I can't even imagine what life would be like in year 5000 if we don't all die off. Think of how much life has changed in the last 100, 200, 300 years and apply that forward, except with technology moving exponentially faster.
But yeah, that's my long way of saying that in 400 years, everything in our lives now will have ZERO relevance and people will have absolutely NO idea what life is like right now.
TL;DR -- In 400 years, the Kardashians will likely be literally unknowns, and even the most well-known people will be likely unknowns, even the Steve Jobs and Michael Jordans and Mark Zuckerbergs and Tom Cruises. We are lucky to be on the razor's edge of modernity, where we aren't so "old" that we have hundreds of years of pop culture but aren't too "young" that we have no pop culture (like being in the early 1900s with nothing but radios). In 400 years, ALL OF US WILL NOT MATTER.
No, not high. Just went on a tangent that spun into an existential crisis of sorts.

Source: https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3jk0ow/til_an_executioner_in_the_1500s_left_a_diary/cuqb96y?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C6605619005

Cc Lalasticlala obinoscopy

FuhckYhu:

k.

FuhckYhu:

nvm.!
I wunt say more dan daht.

he has never been a girl and he has never claimed to be a girl

None of my business

FuhckYhu:

sense, yhu no get.
ßrain...dat1 is missinq.

Keep chykinq ur fellow girl.!

What makes you think she's a girl?

seapson:
Okits either u guys ar trying to show sarcasm or u only watched d pics buh didn't read the post...

God knows I did. And I know those celebrities are wax replica but all the same, GOOD FOR THEM

How true ?

Good for them

prettytasha:
hello

Hi

prettytasha:
gv the government sme time

VANITIES OF LIFE (CHIEF DEINDE FERNANDEZ R.I.P)

He was born in Lagos southwestern Nigeria into the Fernandez family that originated from Brazil and the first European migrant to Lagos State. He has been in diplomacy since 1996.In 1982, he served as advisor to the Angolan Government on Economic matter. He held this position for two years until his appointment as Deputy Permanent Representative of Mozambique to the United Nations in 1984.He runs an oil company called Petro Inett which obtained a 50% share with South African-based Energy Africa Limited in a deal with the state oil company for exploration rights in a 4,700 km2 area of Angola's coast in 1996.[2] In 1992, he was appointed as Special Adviser to the President of Mozambique on International Economic Matters, a position he held for three years.

He was formerly married to Aduke Fernandez, whom he divorced in July 2003 following a £ 300m divorce suit in Scotland filled on July 1, 2003 by her counsel.Lord Brodie presided over the case. He was asked by Aduke through her counsel, Charles Macnair QC, to compel Chief Fernandez to pay her a lump sum of £ 5m and an allowance of £75,000 monthly for 3 years but the case was dismissed by the court.She died in 2013. He married Halima in 2003.

Chief Fernandez is the father of Princess Antoinette Oyinkansola Fernandez, from his relationship with the current Erelu Kuti of Lagos.

Chief Fernandez is the father of Abimbola Fernandez, a Nigerian model for Vivienne Westwood during Edinburgh Fashion Week. In 2009 her face was the album cover for platinum selling artist Cobra Starship's CD "Hot Mess".She also modeled for the cover of the single "Good Girls Go Bad".

He died on the 1st of September , 2015 in Belgium.

Chief Fernadez lived life like a king . He has one of the best yacht and private jet in the world . One of the biggest mansion in England, France and many part of the world .

I first got attracted to this man when Ovation did a cover of him and he took 40 pages of the magazine at that time . He was the richest man in African then as Dangote is today. His walking stick was made of pure gold , his shoes the best of snake and leopard skin like Mobutu Sese Seko his friend .He was so powerful because of his money . Everything in his mansion is made of gold .

With all these money , I have never heard he has a foundation taking care of the less privilege or granting of educational scholarship to poor bright kids . Rather , the only things I know about him is his life of opulence and splendor . I can confidently say he was one of the men who redefine exotic high street fashion in modern Africa .

He has SIX Private Jets. He Owns A Chateau In France, Once Occupied By Napoleon Bonaparte, The Emperor Of France. Friend Of Mobutu. Ally Of Kofi Annan. Associate Of Mandela. I Call Him The Emperor of Blinding Swagger. Terrific Swagger. He Is So Classy That Whenever He Enters A Restaurant To Eat, Everyone Else Must Leave Because He Cannot Eat With The 'Commoners'. He Takes Over Entire Restaurants For The Night To Avoid Encountering 'RiffRaff'. (Chai! Poor Man Don Suffer). Of All The Richest Nigerians I Know, None Comes Close To This Man When It Comes To The Level Of Style, 'Tooshness' & Money-Backed Aloofness. After all of these he still ran away from his gold house to lived in an hotel for months after he fell out with his wife and they later divorce. Money cannot buy true love after all.

There is absolutely nothing on earth . Every little time and money you have make sure you use some for those around you who need your help . The best investment in life is to invest in human beings because when you die you will be remembered in the good book of history and those people you help will make you live forever even though you are gone .

Everyday life teaches us a lesson . As much as I sympathies with his family over his loss and may his soul Rest in peace , I also seek to use this moment to task us on how we are living our lives . It's time for sober reflection , life is too short and there is absolutely nothing in life . It's all vanities .Start helping out the poor today

Culled from Facebook
Cc: lalasticlala

Teeboy22:
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Sorry to ask, is that you on your dp? How old are you? 11?

This Nairaland is not interesting. It's too dull and boring. My friend lied

Kingsamurai pls what is gurgle?

They are cute

whose picture did you view?

Mrsanity please leave me alone. Let me be. I didnt register because of you
Thanks

Mrsanity why are you insulting me? What wrong have I done to you? Is it a crime to ask to ask for directions?

I'm new here. Pls I need someone to guide me on how things are done here

Spaxon:
lol
Wen a soldier punish you finish n com release
you
to go, you com climb ur bike and shout 'officer
thunder fire you.... Ur bike no come start again
remember the hymn 'Take my life and let me be'

How is this your boring shii related to the topic?