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Sagamite: So because there was some teenage pregnancy in Nigeria in the past I should ignore if my child is watching [i]p[/i]orn or sexting?

with the proper upbringing, i doubt he/she would sext or porn.
but then porn does not necessarily make a child bad.

What you said was far majority of the kids don't speak English.
How did immigrant kids that cannot speak English become majority or represent majority in US/UK/Nigeria?
How did we get to using immigrant kids to be representative about kids in general or the kids of majority of people on this thread?

the thread asked if a child should own a cell phone.
you said no......and i bring up a scenario where the kid's first language
is not english. what provision should be made for kids in such category?

Brite02: my 2 young nephews one almost 10 the other 12. Have since, pressing and pressing hard the nokia torch light phone in the house, even going to the length of playing games on it,, they now know to save number, call numbers, receive calls, what can i say? It is now necessary these days for that age range to own a phone, a low end phone for that matter is a necessity, i tell u.

Then maybe, by 2020, will start thinking of giving our children internet-enabled phones.

or tablets.

Sagamite: The issue of sexting and p[i]o[/i]rn by my child and who my child is mixing with is very significant when my parenting style is considered!

how would a nokia 3310 be a tool to pornsites?
teenage pregnancy was rife before mobile phones became popular.
are you telling me kids didn't get pregnant in nigeria in the 80s
and 90s? how is the mobile phone the cause of the unruly behaviour
in teens?

Since when did we start talking about immigrant kids?
How did immigrant kids that cannot speak English become majority or represent majority in US/UK/Nigeria?

so the outright prohibition of mobile phone usage by children should
not put immigrant kids into consideration? can you hazard a guess
how many immigrant kids are in the uk particularly from bangladesh,
india and pakistan?

Sagamite: How can the remote possibility of danger be priority over other more imminent dangers?
You can as well just hire two professional body guards that are 6ft 6 with muscles like a Rhino and make sure they don't go out without the guards.

what are the imminent dangers? these phones would be
monitored. the parents check the on-goings on the phone
so it's not like i would be in the dark.

the issue of sexting n other related stuff is insignificant.

Majority of the Kids in UK, US or Nigeria don't speak English?
Really?

those immigrants, asylum seekers who don't speak english?
how do you expect them to communicate? are you going to
allow those in this category alone to use the mobile phone
and restrict the others or what?

moremi2008: My baby brother has had his own phone in Nigeria since he was 9/10 yrs old! But then, he's a spoilt brat (and has always been in boarding school) so I can't exactly use him as a standard for most Nigerian kids. My mum wanted him to have a phone for emergencies (but the few times I have been there when he called, it was to ask for more money or just say "hello". They (mum and son) are both very happy with the arrangement (the school has seized his phone twice but my Mum keeps buying him a new one). Mothers mostly do it for a false sense of peace-of-mind. It's little money to pay to calm the nerves!

that's the point.
even though the sense of security is apparently false, it still lowers the blood pressure.

Sagamite: I never said it is not here to stay. But it, in my view, is more likely to do harm than prevent it.

i disagree. any device that adds to the safety of my child cannot be harmful.
his safety must take priority over his tendency to watch pornsites, etc.
like i have said, it's going to be a nokia 3310 or sagem. nothing spectacular.

- Take the parallel street or tell the police that is your only way home. They are sane people, they would let a 10 year old through to go home.
- That is a good one. Elevators now have alarm bells and the next person would know it is stuck.
- The doctors are trained to call parents when minors are brought in. I am sure medical schools are as good as that.
- When they are suppose to be at home? They better let the family member notify Daddy or ensure the errand is very brief.

conveniently ignoring far majority of these kids don't even speak english as their first language.
so a kid bought freshly from the dungeons of congo republic or the pits of afghanistan to stay in
the uk having the problems mentioned by mrbrownjay should do what? hire a translator?

the rule must cater for all n sundry fairly to work.

Sagamite: Unfortunately what you need for them is not a mobile. You will need to get them a bullet proof vest if you really worry that much about shooting.

and since i cannot afford that ant it's not permitted for him to wear a kevlar vest in school, the mobile phone
becomes a very good choice to offer that security i want.

If you REALLY want to be certain, then you will add giving them a personal gun to the vest, so they can gun the mudafucker back. Mobile would not be much help. The school's security, dinner ladies, teachers and co would have enough mobile phones to call 999 when they hear someone shooting at kids in a school.

personal guns are not legally permitted to minors as well so the mobile phone trumps this option again
even if the mobile phone adds just 1% security to the safety of my child then it's an essential tool to have

payless: There are seventeen core courses in criminal justice/criminoly fields. and there are twenty five other courses to take before your obtain a degree. Clueless is the right word to describe you.

this boy is such a toad!
the crux is not the number of core courses but the fact that they
do take law courses(a fact you disagreed with).

Sagamite: No.
There have always been deparaved animals in history. More so in the past.
Shootings have been occuring in US schools for years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting#History_of_School_Shootings_in_the_United_States

your link shoes the trend continues to increase year in year out.
there are even more sophisticated means to carry out terrorism in school
these days and this is the more reason kids should have mobile phones.

A phone would hadly save them from bullets, it will, as you said, just add a 'sense'-of-security to a parent.
I am not really that paranoid about my child's safety, and I [would] love them as much as anybody else. I just don't buy into the whole cotton-wool parenting and fear consumerism.

i would expect my child to dial 999 the moment he hears shooting in the other classroom.
without a mobile phone, he's a sitting duck waiting to be slaughtered.

payless: You are a really dumb bastard that needs mental evaluation. You said you "went further to list the law courses they must take to cop their degree", so in your coconut like head of yours, do you think those courses you listed are the courses one must take to obtain a degree in criminal justice? I have to ignore you because I didn't know your are depply in the gutter. The British governemnt needs to put you in psychiatric ward.

What about CRJ 2002- Police Role In the Community
CRJ 4205- Working with Minority
CRJ 2202- Criminal Investigation
CRJ 3002- Correction in America
CRJ 3000- Curbing Terrorism
CRJ 4000- Introduction to Law Enforcement
CRJ 4001- Criminology Today 1 (Lab. Setting)
CRJ 4002- Criminology Today 2 (Class Setting)
and the list goes on..................

you are a tool, the courses i listed forms the core of the
courses you must take to bag a degree. since you know nothing
about harassment in employment, how do i even expect you to know
what core courses one must take to cop a degree in criminology.
the more i nudge you, the more disappointed i get which goes to show
i was right in my assessment. you epitomise walter mitty!

Bawss1: How would a mobile phone help in the assault rifle scenario you mentioned?

the good ol' 999 call to metro police!

Sagamite: My father was not around me all the time, the same for everyone around my age.

We did not even have drivers to take us to school, except you are mistaking the danfo driver as some kind of personal driver.

You can't speak to them through the driver's phone?

and you would agree there are more depraved criminals around now
than the way it was in the 80s when you went to school. nobody
was bringing assault rifles in the 80s but these days, anything
can happen in the school. mobile phones just give an extra sense
of security to the parents.

MRbrownJAY: it is also as heavy as a brick, lol....while you can get a cool looking light phone with a GPS on it.
kids of today are very conscious of such items and therefore some would rather go out without the phone,rather than be seen with such prehistoric looking phone.

i don't need the gps. if i need to know where he's @, i
call him or send a text message. a kid of 5/6 just wants
to play brick-breaker or tetris on his phone.

payless: I can picture how confused you look right now. You can only wish yourself and entire family to attend a great school. You came here listing three criminal justice courses as what you do in order to attain a degree in Criminology, that shows how clueless you are. There are 40 courses more to your list.

so i have to list all the 40 courses needed to attain a degree
in your discipline? you brain-farting lunatic! i said criminologists
know the law like the back of their hand. i went further to list the
law courses they must take to cop their degree after you said they
don't need to know anything about law.

payless, you're a fraud!

MRbrownJAY: are you saying that you would still get a Nokia3310, even though you could get a nice looking one with no cam and internet access, for the same price or cheaper?!

i just love the cuteness of nokia 3310. jeez, it's very reliable, durable
and user friendly. it doesn't matter how many times he drops it on the floor,
the phone still works. it's even a turn-off to pickpockets and
robbers which means i don't have to change his phone 12 times a month.

mrbrownjay, way to go........

MRbrownJAY: fair enough but how you go add to possible bullying at school with such hideous phone? there are many phones that you can physically block from internet access, who dont have cam and that look hip.

bullying at school is part of growing up.
with time, he would grow up to have kids to bully as well.

Sagamite: You intend to send them to church or school on their own when they are 5/6?

yes! i am a businessman, i can't be around my child at all times.
while a child minder picks him up from school or takes him to school,
it's important i know how he's doing myself - from the horse's mouth!

mobile phones are here to stay. much so these days when you have
idiotic kids bringing guns to school to maim their mates.
i'd be raving mad to be kept in the dark when a cheap mobile phone
would at least assure me of my child's safety.

MRbrownJAY: kai, Nokia 3310!!!!! you want that child to be the joke of the whole school/neighborhood?! you can get a BS cheap looking nonsense phone for free, and they would look 100times better than a 3310, lol!

let him be the joke of the school. better safe than sorry.
the moment the phone comes armed with camera or the internet, then
it becomes an addiction. pornsites, happy slapping and many vices
become the order of the day.

nokia 3310 is a cute supersexy fone for any kid under 10.
if he doesn't like it, i would take him to nigeria to see
what kids of his age cope with. i believe that should
knock some common sense into his greasy head.

payless: You are trying to show you know something about criminal justice courses. Don't come here to tell me criminal law, constitutional law and criminal theory are the only courses you take in oder to acquire a degree in criminal justice. Those crap courses you just listed are CRJ 1001, and CRJ 2003. There are 40 other CRJ Courses you take before you earn your degree. You can only dream to attend the college I graduated from. If I haven't told you yet, I will be attending Brookings in the nearest future.

your useless college you graduated from. i would be ashamed to go
to the same college. a college that failed to train a brain-farting
arsehole like yourself should be black-listed. in a nutshell, you
are not a criminologist, admit it and let's move on instead of luring
me into a dickwaving contest.

fesse: For me i will say it is right as somebody mentioned above(sch,lectures, etc).I bought a phone for my nice, she is 9 yrs old. The level of insecurity and the nature of my work(time) made me to buy it.

Well, it all depend on you sha.

a child should own a fone by age 5/6!
when he/she is at school, church or away from home, the fone can
be reached to see how he's doing. the fone should have no internet
access or any techie gimmick. nokia 3310 is the best option.
call/receive and send/recieve text messages!

payless: I can confirm you are too dumb to know what criminologists do. Criminologists are not synonimous to law practictionals. We don't operate like lawyers. Lawyers actually depend on us to carry out investigation in order to prosecute or defend a case. There is no succesful lawyer without the background work of a criminologist. You can see how dumb and stupid you are to think one of our jobs is to apply laws.

you are a knucklehead with shyte for brains.
for you to have copped a degree in criminology, you would
have taken courses in criminal law, constitutional law, criminal
theory, etc. where did you bag your degree? abakaliki university?

what kind of an obdurate w@nker is this fella? whoever said criminologists
are synonymous to lawyers. i know the law like the back of my hand, does
that make me a lawyer or who is this ignoramus wearing a mask and a black
cloak on the internet lying to the general public? at best, you're a walter mitty!

payless: It is obvious you cannot differentiate between what is right and what is wrong. Show me anything misleading in my posts. You are retarded and it's in your family trait. Seek mental help before it is too late. I will ignore you from now on, but I reserve the right to swipe at you if the need arises. You are already in the gutter and I refuse to join you there.

you're a flaming troglodyte!
i would expect a "qualified criminologist" to analyse this story intelligently.
ask why this man did what he did or give us an insight on his motives....all you could
tell us was how you have been asked about the country of your birth 400 times and how it
embarrasses you to be a nigerian as you have to answer dumb questions from your idiotic
colleagues.

nothing in the heap of dross you have contributed to this thread makes sense.
you have no horse sense to engage me in an intellectual discourse and your eroded
mentality needs spiritual help. criminologists know the law like the back of their hand
but in your case, you don't even know you're being harassed at work - my £20 says you
work as a lowly paid officer(a tea boy, a cleaner or an office assistant).

shymmex: Like every sane guy, with a sense of humanity - I peep the romance section from time to time, to check if I can see to a pretty naija thing (chic) I'll probably be e-attracted to. To be honest, that only makes me human... But of late, I have been getting some creepy, and weird PMs from butt pirates and weirdos.

I received one of those funny messages this morning, and I decided to check the comments history on the SN.. Then, I came across this (SN hidden):

^^^O'boy, I fear fear for the bolded parts oooo. ... The internet is crazy, yo... Faggitz, are now messaging people - whilst acting like a girl on their online profile...

yahoo boys are not smiling!

As soon as I saw that tosh up there, I remembered the story a guy told me last weekend about a chic he linked off the internet.. He said, when he got the chic's yard - everything was on point.. They kissed, chatted, laughed, and were basically having a nice time - until it was time to get busy... He pulled down the chic's panties, and he saw a big mandingo looking straight into his eyes lol... My doozy had to run for life looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool....

The world is a crazy place, and the internet is crazier...

PS: I'm not dissing homos, neither do I have problems trannies - but please be real when you're on the internet.. And steer clear off my SN!!!

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payless: You need mental examination help. I think it is in your family trait.

very funny!
you have told us a blatant lie on a public forum and it is me
that needs mental help? do you even read what you write or your
testicles have travelled to take over from your brain cells?

payless: SOB.

stiffen your middle finger and sit on it!

payless: He is exactly what you just described. The guy is a thug. I have decided to ignore the idiot too. I am at my desk and I have so much work to do here.

of course, you have to punch in those data stuffs.
i have been told you are a criminologist!
criminologist my green arse! you are too mentally eroded to be one.

this is akin to a cleaner in hsbc claiming he's a banker.

One4me: He is no comedian but a "Pathetic case of acute mental illness"!

Or how else can one describe anyone that writes such incoherent stewpidity?
School cert = 'Qualified" Criminologist! (Shakes head in disbelief)

you're a douche-bag.....converting your stupidity to megawatts would solve
all the electricity problems in all the 3rd world nations. you don't have
to hold a degree in criminology to do what payless does for a living.

criminologists study the behaviour of criminals, analyses them and develops
the profiling of criminals. payless is a data entry officer, your intelligence
quotient is so minute i would need an electron microscope to see it.

Assuming any "Manager' makes 4-6Grand a month, so this imposter-slowpoke is claiming to make 120Grand a month?
Abi you be Prime Minister Cameron?
Silly, faceless "Toilet-Cleaner" mouthing-off on the internet like he is someone important!
Abeg, l have to just ignore this "buffoon" and l will suggest that you (Payless) do so.

the manager of a security firm who specialises in data cannot make $6k a month.
what do you think this is? nigerian senators? this is my problem with the army of half-baked
graduates nigeria keeps producing. i am now very sure you are a semi-illiterate and i don't blame
you. how the wardens of your psychiatric hospital left you to use the internet without monitoring
you should get all the blame. bloody asshat!

elampiro: Your first paragraph sum it up that he wasnt playing well. I am an ardent Man United fan, and I watch all our matches. The Derby and Wigan matches you quoted above are still vivid in my memory. I say categorically that he didnt live up to the top striker Ferguson expected. Just like Berbatov, Tev may have shone in some matches, but in general he was not up to expectation. The City Derby that he scored two goals was problably one of his best matches. Again, Berbatov provided a most intelligent tele-pass that resulted in the second goal. The match against Wigan, he scored a goal when it looked like Wigan was going to create an upset, but so what? Even Federico Macheida has done more things from the bench for Man United.

If it is possible to watch all the matches, mostly the big ones, you will see that he struggled to fit in.

you're very correct. tevez was utter w@nk in his final season at united.
he threw massive strops cos fergie signed berbatov and he was being marginalised.
his return of 5 goals in 29 league appearances was the reason his contract was delayed.
then he felt unloved and moved to the other side of the city.

debosky: How is he right? Let’s examine the evidence.



How is he right? Let’s examine the evidence.



There are players in EVERY SQUAD ‘picking free cash weekly’ - Owen, Kuszack at United. Hargreaves, Kolo Toure collecting free money at Citeh. Chelski - Hilario, Lukaku amongst others collecting free money.

The fact is that we have a large squad numerically but we are low on quality - bringing on Dzeko and Balotelli to win a title isn’t the same as bringing on Park and Chamakh - just compare their prices.

This is the classic case of Class A eggs from Waitrose versus Class C eggs from Asda.

The only ‘bitter’ truth here is that our squad costs much less than Citeh’s.

iceland or lidl.

nah, i would have taken oxdale...he's a rookie but
a very useful tool to have when the chips are down.

the players that made me sick are downing, caroll and
gareth barry. those players should not be in the squad.

payless: Are you a comedian? You actually sounds like one.

coming from a simpleton who refuses to defend himself for
being harassed by his manager sounds a bit rich. i have exposed
the fact that you dunno your rights. grab a book and read instead
of telling us porkies. if you feel offended in your working environment,
you can always resign, pack your bags and head to nigeria. the country
needs "criminologists" like yourself to curb the menace of boko haram.

Lekky 2: Dear All, Thanx very much for your advice, effort and concern. As i am writng this mail, the car is about to be towed to ibadan town at a cost of 25k after i had spent over 100k to get it fixed.
I have strongly been adviced to buy another engine and install it, if i want the vehicle back on the road.
Can anyone in the house give me an idea of how much the engine will cost?
Ur advices and inputs are welcome please.

but damola has vowed to refund your money and other expenses made by you or
your driver. if i were you, i would take the refund and do a personal inspection
plus a test drive in the future. there's no need to install another engine if you
are not satisfied with the purchase. if you fix the engine, what if something else
goes wrong apart from the engine? you would come back again and complain?