₦airaland Forum

boltwings:
I just have this strong urge in my spirit to fast. if you are in let's do this. I wan go for 6 to 6

You want someone to join you in self enforced hunger? Why?

Parents opposed their daughter marrying whom she wanted to marry but are glad she did marry him now 30 years later especially when their grandchildren visit.

Same parents also opposed whom their other daughter wanted to marry and now regret that daughter is unmarried and childless and a lesbian.

Parents are not always right. And the consequences of your action or inaction would be bourne by your very own self.

I plead sympathy on behalf of the op please. It's their first thread and post.

IjeBos:
Are you saying it is a common Nigerian idiomatic expression or a worldwide one?

It's worldwide in the English speaking world, considering where Chaucer stands at the foundation of English. Comparable to Shakespeare and King James Version, I'd say.

IjeBos:
You're slightly off.

It doesn't say what's in your quote.
Here is an analysis of it.

Note the "if you want to" in your post. You don't need any spoon if you aren't supping with anyone or thing or at all

IjeBos:
Read Canterbury Tales back in highschool, forgot that reference or didn't fully understand it when I did. It's basically saying keep your distance from certain people. But without understanding the culture of the time, the expression is meaningless. Why would one need a long spoon to keep distance if you're not eating off the same plate as someone? A long table like Putin has would make more sense. No?

It's generally meant as, be cautious when dealing with bad people if you must deal with bad people.

You don't need any spoon to not sup with bad people you keep a distance from.

IjeBos:
Yeah, explained it earlier. It's lack of cultural perspective. Raised in the US, and we don't commonly share the same plate of food. I have a friend who whenever I visit around dinner time asks me to sit down and eat fufu from the same bowl him and his wife are. I say no. I think it's weird and not sanitary.

Interesting aside: It's the same reason they say standardized tests in the US are biased against minorities. Because some of the idioms and ideas in the tests, minorities haven't been culturalized to understand. Same way I struggle with Taboo(game) in Nigeria, the majority of clues people use go above my head.

It's actually from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

I think it exhausting making up crap about one's neighbours instead of minding one's business unless one shares a bed with said neighbours.

It's getting much less worse for him not.

Ilamina:
Vultures

Look at this Sudanese vulture

Looks so bald and skinny and just so.ancient

Why not post a Nigerian vulture for comparison?

Probably because you know they are skinnier.

Yes! Depending how much effort you apply.

Dtruthspeaker:
And in both situations God still gives out a Hand or Rope or Pointer but it is left to the person to take it or continue towards the destination such a road goes to.

The roads are there. You decide which turnings to take.

wirinet:
No Democrat can ever vote McCarthy. He foolishly started attacking democrats even before the votes were counted. He promised to strip democrats of all commitee appointments. So what's the incentive for any democrat to vote for McCarthy?

Here's an alternative then. Better than letting the Taliban 20 call the shots.

Obrigardo:
The immediate, and speedy downfall of this alpha prick needs to be studied in universities.

All the cars the fool boasted with have been seized. Many men who follow the prick are feeling disappointed.

You saying their eyes have opened? You have far too much faith in their ability to look.

azraeljaheel:
Back

An ingrate

An ingrate sees no opportunity in anything

Pity this is true. My accountant is still deducting what you should have received monthly. And in January I got charged what would have been your bonus. And that's after the price of a Samsung a53 intended for the work was deducted too. All because no opportunity was seen in anything.

She says it's all an expense that must be booked in 2022, for tax purposes. I'm hoping it's deductable.

wirinet:
It's a pity Seun and the moderators have allowed this section to become a cesspool. It's diminishes the commercial value of the whole site. It's being taken over by uncultured and mannerless youths spewing vile insults every post.

Seun don't run NL!

psalm68:
That is the essence of stable coins my dear like usdc, usdt. They are pegged to Dollar. The volatility of Bitcoin and the rest is only for investment purposes. UN jobs pay in dollar, is it not same as paying in usdc.

Opinion though.

Pegged, you say. Like I peg my clothes to the washing line so the volatile wind don't blow my washing away. Remove the peg and you must please help me find my washing, because my washing can't stay on the line without the peg.

It's why UN pays in dollars, by the way. It's not as volatile as most currencies.

GRACEGLORY:
Hmmm.... You make a lot of sense. You have reeeeal good points, sir. Hmmm.... I actually agree with you.

But let's look at it this way, Our naira. Why does it go up and down, side to side... Even the dollar, the pound had a bad asss fall recently and still suffering. That brings us to one thing called, Currency volatility.

First, the volatility of our Naira is nowhere like that of bitcoin. For starts, Naira only goes in one predictable direction, and it's rate of going is much slower than that of bitcoin.

Second, we have not lost faith in Naira. Now, if it ever becomes as volatile as the Rouble or the Zimbabwean Dollar once was, or the German Papiermark between 1921 and 1923, we'd definitely lose faith in it.

GRACEGLORY:
This teaches me that, in the process of time, after regulations and full adoptions, CRYPTOCURRENCY WILL BECOME MORE STABLE, AND LESS VOLATILE.

If government regulates cryptocurrencies, it would not be any of those currently in existence I'd think, because they'd need to control it too, which is antithetic to Bitcoin, at least.

Full adoption will be government issued crypto, like eNaira.

SlyFoxxY2K23:
Shut the fvck up b!tch.

I wonder why you think I should do what you tell me to do.

GRACEGLORY:
Bitcoin is simply the evolution of money.

That's an opinion shared by many, but crypto is nowhere like money, yet, nor is it as secure as money. It's very unstable for starts, which makes it not "money".

Just think. You got a job last year and the pay was a certain amount of bitcoin say. You'd never know what you'd earn each month as bitcoin fluctuates like mad, and you'd be yelling for a payrise now as it has plunged from heights to current not so highs. And if you were a market trader, you'd have to constantly check bitcoins value to determine how much to sell your goods for or you might sell for less than you can restock. And how would your landlord determine what your rent is in bitcoin?

It would evolve there someday though, but has a bit to go, is my opinion.

basilico:
McCarthy already lost the sixth vote. 8 votes against him so far.

He's lost 12 so far in the seventh. Left to me, I'd get the last few Democrats to go McCarthy. That would pull the rug from under magas.

SlyFoxxY2K23:
Shut up fool.

Now if only you could turn a new leaf, but like dump you couldn't sincerely try.

Sometimes, being together can be a lot more damaging to children than divorce. Like if physical and emotional abuse is present.

Children do not thrive in such circumstances, and death might be the alternative.

Do you think we will not forgive you if you turn over a new leaf and stop being a pig?

Go on, try it. Stop being a pig and see if we don't treat you like a reasonable human being.

You'd love the Saul bit.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/articles/69395-did-robert-byrd-really-change-his-mind-race

basilico:
Not everyone is dead . Majority do not even get sick .

And is that not the purpose of vaxxing, to reduce the sick and the dead and keep you alive?

basilico:
What is incorrect ? Misinfo is the new liberal term for maintaining their safe space

Bas you are vaxxed. Why are you not dead?

fortunez1:
That is the aim of the write up. You are amongst those who don't read through or pay proper attention to details.

Please be sympathetic. Some are mentally disabled.

If my voice and my very being can be marginalised, what then of the voice of the average disabled Nigerian out there? What then of the Nigerian who doesn’t have the power to walk into a location with an army of armed escorts?

I am glad he is speaking up. Hopefully he'd continue championing the inclusion of the disabled.

OgaMadam:
He also said things that no man could have known).

He told you your name and your age and where you live and what you last ate?

I bet not, and you filled in the gap from the rubbish he told you, or he found out stuff about you from someone who knows you.

Some prey on one's weakness like that, and only the gullible fall for it.

Kobojunkie:
2. Man decides for self what course his life is to take.

I think it should be noted that all humans are not equal, contrary to popular belief. Some say go and some go, while some say come and some come, but it usually is not the same person saying come or go who comes and goes.

Basically, some humans decide for themselves, while some are decided for.