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Sports › Re: FORMULA ONE F1 Official SeasonThread - Revamped by budaatum: 5:20pm On Jul 21, 2024

Asking a driver to move over never bodes well in the end as you're stuck with having to do it.

A well deserved win for Piastri all the same.

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by budaatum: 4:37pm On Jul 21, 2024

Cyberknight:
My point (in direct response to your assertion) is that liberalism or advances in thought are not always guaranteed to change much about the underlying nature of the human being.

"Liberalism or advances in thought are not always guaranteed to change" anything.

Education, however, the sort of education that promotes the development and use of the mind to think and reason, does change a lot "the underlying nature of the human being" or at least that of most who are successfully educated, and the British do educate their young well.

Still, 2029 soon come. Well see then if we are as ignorant as electing Reform would suggest we are or if we've overcome the xenophobia that made us leave Europe.

Cyberknight:
Egalitarian educational systems in western Europe and large numbers of immigrants similar to the UK didn't stop a good number of young French voters from voting the far right last month, or the Germans from voting AfD or the Dutch from voting their Trump-haired chap's party way.

Britain is not France, and the UK education system is class and it is location and it is how knowledgeable one is to know to chose it and definitely not egalitarian at all. You will however learn history whatever school you go, and be shown the ignorance of past racism and the predominant preferred attitude today.

You'd even be asked to sign up to antidiscrimination laws if you wanna work, and nothing makes people align better than hitting money in their pockets.

The closest Britain would get to Trump is Boris, I reckon.

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by budaatum: 3:56pm On Jul 21, 2024

Cyberknight:
I can only think you are deploying sarcasm here.

You are indeed free to think what you want, but having to learn maths and science and critical reasoning till 16 does make the brain work better I think, unsarcastically.

If Nigeria had a similar homegrown version, we'd stand in much more brotherhood as races and tribes as we currently stand in fact. Likely why Tinubu has made us repeat and learn the past.

Anecdote. My sister in Bradford moved in next to a Pakistani family and went say hello. They invited her in, made her tea, told her who they were and how pleased they were she was their neighbour, the previous ones were a-holes.

Told her good secondhand furniture is at British Heart Foundation and if she needs handiwork done they know good people. Few weeks later she had to come London, "oh, we'll keep eye on the place for you".

Yesterday she said she visited and asked if they knew any employment agencies in UK. "What? You looking for work?". Father called a company he knew was opening and asked if they needed an accountant. Daughter rang her agency and introduced,"she's dedicated and hard working". Brother said cloths shop if she looking for just weekend.

My sister said she was in shock, making me laugh at her suprise at reaping the goodness and mercy she sows.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by budaatum: 3:32pm On Jul 21, 2024

Zahra29:
Erm no, King Charles is Defender of the Faith just like his mother was and monarchs before her. His other official title is Supreme governor of the Church of England.

The Royal Family does not dispense with centuries old tradition on a whim. Charles had indicated many years back that he might want to be styled King of the Faiths but that was quickly shot down.

It wasn't shut down in the millions of minds who appreciated even just the sentiment not to talk of his decades of history promoting interfaith.

The British do after all know by the fruits they see.

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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by budaatum: 1:31pm On Jul 21, 2024

Cyberknight:
I have to disagree with the bolded.
My opinion is the contrary - Farage/Reform has a very good chance of either becoming a kingmaker in 2029 or even taking control.

You funny.

By 2029, more children who have gone through the British liberal education system, where they would have sat in class with multiraced people and learnt together to think and reason critically and about each other and all gods will be old enough to vote.

They are not going to vote en masse for a hate your neighbour party when the opposite is their DNA, especially not when the King is The Defender of Faiths.

Politics › Re: Protest: Aisha Yesufu Replies Bayo Onanuga's Old Tweets Promoting Protests by budaatum: 12:47pm On Jul 21, 2024

Houseontherock1:
Indeed. "you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil"

Robert Green Ingersoll

T'is why my faith in this young generation is so hugely massively immense.

Romance › Re: If I Die To Night by budaatum: 11:42pm On Jul 20, 2024*

WhiteIverson:
Happy birthday sir. God bless your new age.

Thank you. Be blessed too.

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Romance › Re: If I Die To Night by budaatum: 11:37pm On Jul 20, 2024

abba09:
if i die tonight na hunger nothing else. i used to lie about having 1meal a day, today God done catch me. there were days that i had only 2meals but never in my life i had 1meal in a day untill today.

Never in your life you never had 1 meal a day?

Secondary was ogi in the morning back for 3pm lunch, but my hungry belly always took the 10 kobo for the 7 miles bus ride from school to home so I'd walk and miss lunch and hopefully have supper or stay up all night reading because I couldn't sleep on an empty stomach.

Later, 18 thereabouts was find rent pay college buy books, so it really was 1 meal a day. Till one day a friend arrived crying that his brother spent all the money he worked and saved up for 10 years and my one meal a day became half a meal a day.

58 today. This too will pass is my point.

Crime › Re: US Woman Freed After 43 Years In Prison For Murder She Didn’t Commit by budaatum: 11:09pm On Jul 20, 2024

Disgusting police colluded to keep her jailed for so long in the United States of America.

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Romance › Re: I'm Losing It! by budaatum: 11:06pm On Jul 20, 2024

GiftCardShopper:
Please, I need a job...

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 8:15pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
🤣🤣

You smirk, but it does make for a better society than one where police bully people with guns and army and teargas.

Though it must be noted our rioters and burners don't have guns neither, and our fire brigade is top notch and even rioters and burners make way for them especially when told people might be burning.

And we do educate better, I daresay.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 7:44pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
😂😂😂😂😂

When they cover their faces who will the police arrest after they allow them to riot till they are satisfied 😷😷😷😷

We have technology that unmasks faces, and we may collect finger prints and dna as evidence.

Besides, it is British and many humans wherever their from's values and culture for mothers to report their rioting and burning sons to the cops. Or wouldn't you report your kids if they were stupid enough to go riot and burn?

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 7:21pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
When police continue to withdraw you get more of this.

It's the same thing with shop lifting in the US.
Remember how this riot started.

Your logic is for police to withdraw, let the place burn down then come back the next day with rioters are tired 😂

When the rioters are tired and are caught and are charged and are sentenced and have to serve at his majesty's pleasure for what they burned down, many others will be seeing the British values and the British culture and they will learn from what they see and decide for themselves if they too want to go and riot and burn things down in UK and serve at her majesty's pleasure or be assimilated in to our values and culture of a society of law and order.

Some will break the law, but the law will catch enough of them to deter others.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 7:09pm On Jul 19, 2024

7, in your obtuse "math is racist" reasoning would be, "Hamas is the police".

Go on. I dare you. Lol.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 7:04pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
With the superior brain this is orderly riot
https://youtu.be/uG kkbQ7yVdA

With superior brain this is hamas getting more powerful

It is superior to see the wisdom of police withdrawing instead of wadding in with force.

Below is the culture and values of the British Police. Note 4 in particular but read all 9.

https://lawenforcementactionpartnership.org/peel-policing-principles/

Nairaland General › Re: Yesterday Was My Birthday! by budaatum: 6:54pm On Jul 19, 2024

Happy belated. Many more will follow.

seun, we really do need to grow more instead of letting the years just pass by.

We must evolve!

Tomorrow is the birthday of buda.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Riot In Leeds, United Kingdom Over Child Services (Video, Pictures) by budaatum: 6:49pm On Jul 19, 2024

TechBaron:
Yankee!

Even their riot sef dey orderly.

The policemen containing the demonstration are unarmed.

The whole thing is looking like a movie set.

In my home country, trigger happy special forces of the Nigerian Army, Airforce, Navy, Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Civil defence, Immigration, Customs, etc would have been on ground with assault rifles to shoot live rounds.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

budaatum:
See what TechBaron sees with better eyes and superior brain and mind.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 6:49pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
You can lie and deflect all you want. I saw the police run away like little girls and did not return for a day.

Cultural enrichment is good as it brings more problems

See what TechBaron sees with better eyes and superior brain and mind.

TechBaron:
Yankee!

Even their riot sef dey orderly.

The policemen containing the demonstration are unarmed.

The whole thing is looking like a movie set.

In my home country, trigger happy special forces of the Nigerian Army, Airforce, Navy, Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Civil defence, Immigration, Customs, etc would have been on ground with assault rifles to shoot live rounds.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

Crime › Re: Court Awards N800m Against Nigerian Army, 10 Others Over Murder Of Tax Officer . by budaatum: 5:21pm On Jul 19, 2024

Would have been great for the judge to breakdown who pays what to avoid confusion, but still a good show of justice working in Nigeria.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Africa Is Splitting In Half And A New Ocean Is Forming... by budaatum: 4:54pm On Jul 19, 2024

mrvitalis:
Oga none of us would be alive to see it... Quickest it can happen is 10,000 years

10,000 is very conservative.

While Africa is not expected to tear for at least another five million years, Somalia and half of Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania will form a new continent when it does.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 4:47pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
I saw police go to a place to enforce the law and they ran away not returning for a day. What's wrong in that understanding? Is it that not what happened?

You also "saw" a book and claimed "maths is racist", so you might see how your misunderstanding is not what happened despite what you claim you saw.

Its after all not as if you went to Leeds to look with your own eyes and 'saw' now, is it?

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 4:30pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
My point is, the police were chased out and they did not return for a day. It shows they are powerless.

That's not only your point, its your understanding of the situation which is incorrect.

The police would have been there recording evidence that would be used in court to prosecute the offenders. Or do you think they fled back to the safety of their police station?

bemeruca:
In some countries around Europe, they bring in water canon and make sure these guys don't roam the streets unchallenged

Water canon and teargas, but that is clearly not British culture now is it.

Protesters and property damagers are free to "roam the streets" as much as they want. We have cameras everywhere recording their roaming and whatever damage they may do to property, which will be used against them in court. They can decide for themselves how free they are to roam the streets unchallenged and damage property when they are incarcerated at his majesty's pleasure.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 4:12pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
It says life and property not life first. But yes, there should be priorities. That said, this is what you said.

Well, I'm very certain even you have a brain in your head and can use it sometimes to know most humans will prioritise life over property, but you are very welcome to apply to the British Police to prioritise property over your own life.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 4:00pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
Hmmm.

Protection of life, first. They would not protect property before protecting life, and they definitely will not stupidly protect property with their life.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 3:52pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
It is their duty to protect properties.

No bem, it is not the UK police duty to protect properties that can very easily be replaced. They are not security guards.

Their duty is to protect irreplaceable lives including the bus drivers and their own, which they smartly rightly did by removing themselves from harm.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 3:48pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
How am I imposing culture on anyone by saying live and follow the culture of the land?

Are you suggesting rioting is not British culture?

If you knew your history you'd know many cultures have migrated here from the beginning of time and will continue to migrate here till the end of time.

It is the culture of the land of UK to be multicultural, which you have opposed here. We are the Borg. We assimilate or we'd be bigots like some.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 3:04pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
They left their patrol car and flee on foot. The car was destroyed. It takes time to set a bus on fire, if they did not flee, that would t have happened

They smartly and intelligently moved themselves to safety instead of trying to protect a patrol car.

If they hadn't they might have been hurt, but they are rather more wise than to let that happen to them since they have lots of patrol cars to replace the destroyed ones.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 3:01pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
We are seeing the results. When you are in rome, act like the Romans. I live according to the culture here. If I love my culture so much I will leave n go back home.

It is not anyone's culture to burn buses in rome or anywhere, so your point is rather pointless.

Its like saying when Nigerians come to live in UK they should not bring their yahoo culture, as if you've preached "when in rome" when they bought their ticket and they accepted your preaching.

If true though, you should come live here so you can act like we Romans who don't object to multiculturalism instead of trying to impose your bigoted culture on us.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 2:46pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
Like I said, multiculturalism is the downfall of a nation.

I so love the way you refuse to leave your village to go and be multicultural in a city.

It is in fact commendable of you not leaving your country to go and be multicultural in a country that isn't your culture.

There should be more like you who remain in their own village so they don't go and downfall other nations. Fortunately, not everyone is stupid and ignorant to think their migration ruins where they migrate to.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 2:42pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
The power set a bus on fire, the police flee, ....

The police do not flee. Its after all not their job to protect a bus.

The police stand back and record evidence of you committing your crime and will come arrest your ass afterwards.

Travel › Re: Man Becomes Bus Conductor After Being Duped Of N15M For Relocation To Canada by budaatum: 2:38pm On Jul 19, 2024

Conductor no easy.

I got caught short at Ikeja a second time except this time it was way late at night. I figured I'd beg a bus driver to please take me to Ikotun, but before I could, one sharp guy jumped in front of me and begged instead, then a police got in too.

I felt, that's 2 free seats already. It wouldn't be fair to ask for a third. Fortunately, he had no conductor, so I offered my services, and yelled "Ikotun Ikotun wọle" and collected fairs, and that's how I arrived at Ikotun from Ikeja. Except I wasn't home yet, and still had to get to Cele, and further still to last busstop.

So I asked the driver for 50Naira, to wit he said, "you're not from here are you?" I think he counted the money I'd collected for him and was rather pleased. "No", I said. "I'm here from UK and got caught short", and he laughed and gave me 100Naira.

I got a bus to Cele for 50, but every time I tried stopping a bike to last busstop, out my mouth would come "Ikotun Ikotun wọle", so I walked.

On arrival home, my worried sister asked why I was so late back and I told her. "Why didn't you just get a taxi and I'd pay when you got here", she said. But of course bush me didn't know that was even a possible thing to do.

Next day, I couldn't talk. I had lost my voice on just one trip, and felt for those who did Ikeja-Ikotun all day.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 2:08pm On Jul 19, 2024

bemeruca:
You like to deflect

More like I don't let you set the agenda of my thought or interests.

You lack the powers, you see.

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