₦airaland Forum

geez.. that Siberian husky is exotic defined.. I read somewhere that it's not so advisable rearing them in such hot clime as ours.. this pic has cleared my doubts.

as usual, a frustrated fellow has jumped ship...

kazmanbanjoko:
Dont be a racist. Be like Mario. He's an Italian plumber; created by Japanese people, who speak English and look like Mexicans.

also runs like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew...

CountDracula:
Igbos...

get exposed, man.... leave that your enclave for once...

zendy:
I'm sure if ask well, they will tell you that you can kill any type of snake but never a python. The penalty for killing a Python in Igboland is to bury it as you would your own father with full funeral rites. But it is possible that there maybe some parts of Igboland that no longer observe this tradition due to Christianity.

definitely not all of Ibo land. there are some communities that actually eat pythons but protect other animals, say, monkeys

A Catholic priest was chased out in my home town in njaba, imo in the 90's for killing such python for eating his eggs in the poultry . he even had the guts to come to church boasting about it. My uncle saved the clergy ''s butt by inviting police to rescue him as masquerades and angry youths were waiting outside the church to flog him mercilessly.

boss1310:
yea you are right dear,that town is near my hometown and we were told frm childhood never to kill or harm snakes even in the city but guess what i have killed one in the city.
I won't take chances with my life hoping on the gods to save me when i dnt know them and they dont know me.i didn't let my people know about it but anyday i see a snake blocking my road i squash and maim i dnt take chances
i still remember how snakes used to enter someone's car in the indian movie SUNITA.
it still gives me the creeps

you didn't need to kill a python - which is the particular snake you were asked not to kill. it's even harmless to people as its only big enough to constrict small animals.

na wa for your source links @op

kingssmith:
so now the spacemen A, would it be a living body or dead? just asking ni o

That's the ethical and moral conundrum consequent. A different mind and different finger prints and DNA. What will his (their ) official identity be?

On Friday afternoon at the Westin Hotel in
Annapolis, Maryland, with the volunteer for
the first human head transplant by his side,
Dr Sergio Canavero made a bid to recruit
surgeons willing to help him perform the
procedure from an audience of fellow doctors
at the annual meeting of the American
Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic
Surgeons.
About a quarter of the seating was given over
to video cameras, tripods and lights stands.
In order to get the press-friendly doctor to the
front of the room, one of the attendees had
to take the podium microphone and bellow
into the scrum surrounding Canavero: “‘Scuse
me, press, I would like for you to back off,
please. Enough is enough.”
The topic of Canavero’s keynote was a
procedure he hopes to perform in the next 24
months , which he calls HEad Anatomosis
VENture, or “Heaven”.
“Today I’m here to give us all a vision,”
Canavero said.
The physician added that there was no such
thing as the self, and that the final goal of
his project was life extension.
For two and a half hours (the presentation
was scheduled for 90 minutes) in front of an
audience of mostly blue- and gray-suited
middle-aged surgeons, Canavero paced the
width of the long room in cream slacks and a
reddish-brown tunic, bespectacled, his head
shaved, looking like an especially hip monk.

He spent most of the first half-hour firing off
aphorism after aphorism, some by writers
including Kierkegaard and Arthur C Clarke,
others of his own devising.
“If Heaven is reckless, nature is crazier, and
nature must be given pause when it comes to
what it does to us all as creatures on this
planet,”he said.
The neurosurgeon, of Italy’s Turin Advanced
Neuromodulation Group, veered between
trying to inspire his listeners, digging deep
into neurobiology and goading the white-
haired medical professionals assembled in
front of him. At one point he compared the
procedure’s future success to the moon
landing, with an image of JFK on the screen
behind him.
“We must go to the moon to test who we are,
to test our skills, to test our confidence, to
see what kind of men we are!” he said.
“We must do it to test America! We must do
it to see if you are still Americans! When I
grew up America was the top.”
Promising high pay and backing from
“American billionaires”, Canavero told the
assembly: “I came to you; I gladly accepted
this invite to humbly come before you to
make a case that this is possible.”
He has said he plans to perform the
procedure either in the US or China.
Humility was not a quality the audience
seemed to sense in Canavero.
“You of all people have a definite sense of
self, not an illusion,” said the first doctor to
pose a question in the Q&A session. “What
self is the patient? The new body, or the self
that he suffers with?”
“Ask him yourself,” Canavero replied.
Valery Spiridonov, the man who has
volunteered to undergo the procedure, spoke
little at the gathering, but he was figure of
great interest. Spiridonov has Werdnig-
Hoffmann disease, or spinal muscular
atrophy. It’s a debilitating, eventually fatal
condition that had taken a visible toll on the
30-year-old Russian’s body. Spiridonov
emailed Canavero out of the blue when the
doctor’s project began to receive press
attention.


http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/13/neurosurgeon-first-head-transplant-america-sergio-canavero

seunmsg:
Looking at how things eventually played out in Libya, people like Mugabe who opposed the invasion of that country under the guise of enforcing a no flight zone resolution are right. Nigeria should also have opposed the invasion and maybe, Libya won't be in the current mess that it is in today. But then, would the west have listened to Nigeria if we opposed them?

That would have added another "clueless " feather to Jonathan 's cap by his haters...

I don't see how that's a problem.... I tell people outright I don't or hardly go to church and I've neither been ostracised nor attacked for my stance...

MANSARD insurance is yet to contact me 18 months after success sms... c'est la vie.. don't give up.

Tigers and bears??.... Gimme a break!

petermichaels:
Just read wat Naija is posting? I pity dis country. Sombody gav an insight of a wrong bn agreed upon,instead of condeming d wrong dey dcide 2condem d poster due 2 sentiments of dpast. God help us. Shey we shal al hav Children? Den we shal kno d disease of dis stupidity.

There's nothing wrong with the Bill ... Please read all the sections of the Bill. it proposes harsher punishments for under-11 defilers and rapists, while not making the age-of-consent rule obsolete at all..... Hence, having sex with say, an under-17 is still very much statutory rape but punishments are more severe (life sentence) for pedophiles (under-11 pervs)...

Seun, could you please bring a topic to the front page clarifying this Bill?... The ignorance on the Bill in Nigeria's blogosphere is brain-rottingly alarming....jeez

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nwadiuko1:
of what use will these technology be if there is no money for people to buy them?

It's the other way round.. Technology eases making money and wielding of power. How do you think probable oil fields are explored and discovered without seeing what's underground there? By prayers?

forbisi:
Knowledge? What's the benefit of this particular kind of Knowledge? And yes knowledge should translate to riches one way of another, or at least fulfilment, happiness etc..

Such knowledge are seldom for personal enrichment. They're mostly for the benefit of mankind.

JeffreyJamez:
People buy expensive cars for various reasons... showing off is part of them..... if I have the money to buy an expensive car, it's my choice to buy or not.....whereas knowledge that is not useful to my life IN ANYWAY.. is useless to me...and cannot really be termed knowledge but a waste of my valuable time.

Mother Theresa got a limousine gift, she sold it and used the money to build a church and help the poor- the limo wasn't useful to her.... Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician solved a centuries-old mathematical problem, rejected a one million-dollar price money for his endeavour-.. The money was useless to him.

JeffreyJamez:
Of what use is the knowledge when it can't help your life in anyway possible except to brag "I know this "..?

One can also relate that with driving expensive cars to show off.... It's ALL vanity....

SPAGGYYY:
so tell us what u av achieved with ur mathematical knowledge, and why u are yet to become famous

Dude, never underestimate the importance of human mathematical milestones. every single modern gadgets you're using were developed after extensive research by nerds ... Algorithms, the basis of computer science and to a large extent what gave zuckerberg and Bill gates their billions, was influenced by mathematics. The gsm innovation was launched in the 90's in Finland after twenty years of brain cracking calculations and experiments. You're using their product on your palms to trivialise them.

Misleading title.... having sex with a minor is still considered statutory rape... But they made the punishment more severe for under-11 defilers and outright rapists. (life imprisonment).. @OP pls change the title accordingly to avoid having more pregnant teens all over...

ECOTERRORS:
brain dead slowpoke that sees anybody from the South that's not yoruba as Igbo.

Mumu born throway

He's a filthy ba$tard....

MrCork:
..RADIANT WHERE??...that IBO woman that destroyed Nigeria globaly with her Pigieon English: I GO WAKA Ooooooo..

....WHere the hell is she Wakaring to? (no oofeinse)

you couldn't have been less ignorant..... Smh

UrennaNkoli:
Power from a man who killed someone, cut off his private parts and hung him up on a tree ? Which kain power be that na ?

Yawns... what's the fictional man's name?

ray48:
GEJ has no business establishing those universities at the twilight of his administration. Buhari will definitely review all these to ascertain the ones that have merits.

when were the universities at otueke, taraba, gombe, etc. established? When was fupre, maritime university and the rest approved and established. I guess "twilight" has got a new meaning.

Anybody that feels that establishing federal institutions especially in states where there weren't any is a useless demon indeed. Talk of stereotypes, his name says it all. All hail the Northern oligarchy.

fortunechy:
taken selfie wit snake.crazy!!!!!!!

It's DEAD...

naijainfogalery:
So from all this pictures i have been seeing lately it just proves that 80% of nairalanders live in Jungle, and they will come here and start shouting one politician till 2050.

Han han the way you guys kill snakes in your compounds, rooms etc these days is alarming.

Abeg you people shouldnt mention me ooo i dont wanna get involve in your snake attack

Snakes are common in suburbs too.... I've seen a couple of them in festac town.

Green snake.... Duh..

HAH:
I expect GMB to reverse and review all appointment,contract and promotion done after March 28 2015.

It is morally wrong to appoint people that will not work under your leadership , at best appoint people in acting capacity leave confirmation to your successor since you are leaving.

OK... same way wike will dissolve the kangaroo LG chairmen...