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@pek\

even with money, for the short guys it can still be a bit hard

even with money it will be hard to find a girl that will claim to love him. Shell han around him, bang him, etc but behind his back she'll tell her friends shes just playing him for a mugu (to save face)

What a short guy needs is *charisma*, and charisma is something a nollywood star is NOT lacking in AT ALL.

Like i mentioned above, its the whole 'picture' thing. Once a short guy distinguishes himself as a leader and surrounds himself with taller subordinates, he is immediately more attractive to women.

Remember Napoleon? Ladies treated him like a rock star, fainting if he looked at them, etc. Its not *just* money.

Hmmm. Nigerian superhero?

because we are so supernatural-inclined, he shouldn't have any sci-fi or technological components

purely mystical or supernatural

so he would have to be either a conjurer or a summoner (or both)

He could be a man that calls on ancient spirits, or is posessed by them.

His powers could include teleportation, flight, invisibility, shapeshifting. These are all powers that we assume our witches and wizards posess.

Naruto is a good example of people superimposing their traditional beliefs on a contemporary setting to create unique superheroes appealing all over the world.

Matrix 1 was like going to heaven for 1.5 hours

Matrix 2 was nonstop action, excitement and intrigue with so much promise at the end,

Matrix 3 was confusing while you watched, then dissapointing when it ended,then interesting when you studied it, then revealing when you re-watched it, then dissapointing again when you finally solved all the riddles.

lol! instead of blowing grammar that has no meaning, PROVE that it is aromatic nonsense!

HAH! you can't! See? Accept thy fate, slave of the one-eyed trouser snake! It rules your being! Muwahahahahaaaaaaa!!

@joobreel

EEE is not for everyone.

And if he has a career in computing in mind, EEE, physEng etc are even more irrelevant to him.

EE is for people that have a career in Engineering in mind, and that is not everyone.

@seun

aromatic nonsense?! thats a new one!

I'm sorry, but your flesh IS more inclined to fornication than that of women.
A woman becomes more and more attached to you the more you sleep with her. You on the other hand become less and less attached, in most cases.
Similarly, A woman's sexual prime ends early, yours does not. You will still be aroused by attractive 20 year olds when you are sixty.

So yes, it is. Learning to accept that fact is an important step to accepting your responsibility as a man to curb your animal instincts.

I think many times, women base decisions on the 'picture of the couple'

There's this stereotypical image of a happy couple with the man being a bit taller than the woman. Look at any romance novel and you'll see the girl looking up, the man looking down. Pictures of kissing-same thing. Family pictures-same thing. These 'images' are very important to the ladies.

If she has to look down at you, she thinks of you as a baby. Also be aware that her baby brothers are probably already taller than her- if you appear shorter than someone who calls her 'aunty' every day, she will involuntarily lose respect for you day after day.

The simple solution for a vertically challenged guy is to identify and take advantage of 'pictures' that favour him on a daily basis. One very common 'picture' is the dominant leader flanked by taller subordinates. If a lady sees a 'short' guy surrounded by taller people bowing and giving respect, he will become larger and larger in her 'minds eye' until she doesnt see the height anymore. It will all be respect.

To be fair, I believe that respect and love are just as important in marriage. In fact, I think respect is more important, because love has a way of fading, which is a natural occurence, since the male flesh is naturally inclined to the sin of fornication.

So, next time you see a short guy trying to be the boss or act like the world revolves around him, be careful. He's more likely to succeed at it than you, the tall guy. A short man who can command charisma will have his pick of women.

Why not pick one up for him next time you go to Lagos?

Megaplaza is a good place to pick up a PS2 and one or two games- that will be enough for him because if he has friends in school, they will swap/exchange games a lot.

Perhaps you could try the silverbird galleria? If they have a numetro media store, there may be a price slash you can take advantage of.

Make sure you are sure what your kid brother wants, first. Many kids are actually asking for a psp , but they say ps2 or ps3 to their parents/older siblings and confuse matters.

NOTE: If your kid brother is asking for a[b] ps3[/b], then its time to sit him down and give a lecture about prudent spending! Seriously, a ps3 is the wrong thing to get for him. ps2 or psp is ok.

Actually u should talk to texazzpete. He's the resident xbox360 flashing guru

yes, you will be able to play pirated/copied games. You will not be able to use xbox live, though, which may cause problems down the line.

Also the flashing process is not 100% GUARANTEED to work without problems, so tread carefully. If you want to get in on the pira game you are better off buying pre-flashed from alaba.

As for the FPS issue, the way it works is this: It is difficult to play a game with accurate aiming if you have a behind-the-character(thirdperson) view. On many pc fps you can switch to thirdperson mode and see how they will kill you.

Most thirdperson shooters have auto-aiming. If the gameplay depends on shooting, and the game autoaims, then the game becomes boring and useless. Gears of war is unique because it is a pop-up shooter, like resident evil 4 it forces you to expose yourself and stand in one place while aiming, while it goes into a pseudo-FPS mode. It works well for that style of game but will never work for Halo, where you need to shoot and move.

Games like GTA can get away with thirdperson and autoaiming because the focus of that game is not the shooting, its the driving,bankrobbery and exploration. Also, tombraider is more of a princeofpersia style platformer with low emphasis on the shooting, so it can get away with autoaiming. Halo with auoaiming will just be boring.

Like I said, the world of FPS is a great one. Just pretend that its YOU in the game and you'll be fine! Afterall in real life you dont see more than just your hands waving around, shebi?

those are the libs, dude. Without those your os wont even work.

To really test, just start up a virgin ubuntu and type 'make' at a terminal prompt.

if u get an error message, u dont have gcc. Thats the case with the latest ubuntu.

I'm using the latest version available on the ubuntu site.

Maybe stripping the developer tools is a new 'feature' in this release.

And gcc isnt even available on the default add-remove programs

u have to apt-get developer-related or something like that to resolve the billions of dependencies that would result from a manual isntall

for those of us that dont have 24-7 internet access, apt-get is, sorry to say, useless. Ive always preferred make && make install which is the proper unix way of doing things.

Ah wait o!

Cute-ass, before you make someone curse u for giving her BAD GOOD ADVICE! 

you are telling her to do the RIGHT THING, which is to tell the truth!

'Honey, I really love you. I love you much more than the SIX OTHER GUYS that have previously plumbed the depths of my Congo!!!!!!'

Its easy to get all idealistic and say 'well, if he really loves you, he wont mind that youve been stepped on, crupmled up and trampled into thedirt before' but JUST GO AROUND ON NAIRALAND AND READ THE HYPOCRITICAL NONSENSE THAT GUYS POST ON A DAILY BASIS!

with one side of our mouths we advocate rampant fornication and with the other side praise virgins as if they are human angels!!!! THATS A DEVILISH DOUBLE STANDARD and I'm sorry to say, but being a nice girl and broadcasting your past escapades will FAIL IN THE REAL WORLD!

look, eh, any man that has sense will not ask his woman how many she's had before him. So if he goes ahead and asks, I dont see why any girl should wash her dirty linen in public.

And I wouldnt be the guy in question because guess what:

I DONT GIVE A SH*T !!!! (words of M Bison, Gawd rest his soul)

Virginity is worth nothing to me. Its just another variable. If you want  a virgin cos u are insecure that your schlong (kpack, privates, p&nis) may not be as sweet as that of one of her previous lovers, you should be aware that if yours is her first, imagine how her love for you will evaporate in future when she tastes BETTER!!!!! 

Whats good for the goose is also good for the gander! If you have ever had sex before as a man you have NO RIGHT to demand anything less from your woman! If you want a virgin then ZIP UP YOURSELF!

Oh, and cute-ass, apology not neccesary!  Its a privilege u get for having a cute nairaland alias and a pink 'f' beside ya name 

you knoooooow

Hm.

Memories, memories!

If not for the fact that I class love as one of the most neccesary stupidities of life I should be a HARD MAN today!

Ai mo iye Mugulations that this prize mugu has served up to the plate of femininity

However, I never felt stupid afterwards! Why? well, because I'm a natural believer in 'Hope for the best, expect the worst'. I have NEVER been a mugu without predicting EXACTLY what the girl was going to do beforehand! But still doing it anyway because how can a man survive without love, enh?

Once my sister tried to warn me about one gold-digging commando that was about to 'clean me out'. I took the words riiiiight out of her mouth! Told her exactly what the girl had in mind! Amazed, she asked me why I was still with her. I couldn't answer! And I still can't today! I just feel that real love is when you allow someone to take you for a FOOL and accept it with a BIG SMILE on your face!

lololol. Never got taken for what I couldn't give, though

Hmmm, except for one time in uni sha. This girl really dealt with me :O

So, @waxxy I say let your friend be! That sounds very much like me when I'm at my best (worst?) abi these days it is so rare for a girl to actually stir that love bug in our bosoms so when she does, if she turns out to be a money grubbing golddigger, so be it!

Biggest mistake is to talk about it.

Just pretend you're a virgin like all our NL babes in the v-club and *NO ONE* will know the difference!

Afterall if a guy gets to sleep with you and past experience enables you to BLOW HIS MIND, he will believe you if you tell him you 'dont know what got into you, you're just so in love with him!!!!!!!'

Thats the secret of success, virginity is a circular truth: You can't verify it without taking it, so you can't verify it period!!!!!!

@Horus

The death threat was not serious. Please stop mentioning it.

@TellyB

1) So Paul was a Jew. Thanks for the Clarification.

2) As for the issue of warfare.

a) You misread my question. I asked, has any non-european army gone to war under the banner of Christianity. Non-european excludes armies that are under the thrall of a conquering European Army.

b) For simplicity's sake, let's assume that any army that claims allegiance to a certain religious cause in a martial fashion, is going to war under that banner. This would include armies that claim 'Jihad' and ignore the principles of Islam, and armies that claim the christian cross, yet have ulterior motives.

This will not include armies that place a cross ***intended to be something other than the christian cross*** upon their banners.

First of all, please don't attribute anything I say to the Da Vinci code or any other such mainstream nonsense. I know the assertion was with tongue in cheek, but in my opinion the DVC has done more to stifle objective views of religion than anything else it may have achieved, and mentioning muddies the waters of understanding.

The origins of Christianity are middle eastern most definitely, with the Messiah and his disciples all being of middle eastern persuasion.

However, Paul was Roman (European)- and arguably, christianity came from him.

Can modern Christianity trace its roots to the Roman Catholic church? That was European.

In history, has a non-european army (or one that was not previously conquered by europeans) gone to war under the banner of Christianity?

PS: All my points are open to constructive criticism and intelligent argument. Please let's keep the personal attacks and insults to a minimum.

dont bother with the Xbox

Microsoft has totally killed it

Get a 360 instead, or if you are short on cash, get a used Ps2

exceptions to the rule.

We are talking about the widespread rampant practices, not traditional stuff that can't be helped.

We are discussing why everyday people go ahead to marry multiple wives, not why the obantalatapipipi of omorogunland has to take 200 ceremonial wives.

The second wife can always say no. Why doesn't she?

dude

sudo has been in unix/linux from the dawn of time

We've always had the option of sudo-ing in distros that respect our intelligence

I dont need some idiot distro *forcing* me to sudo when i want to su

root is disabled by default in ubuntu. You have to re-enable it before you can function like a sensible person

Just to get vmware tools working, I had to battle with kernel recompilation and the inexplicable lack of gcc/devtools/kernelsource headers. What the Hell?!??!?!?! those are the LIFEBLOOD of unix!!!!!! How dare they remove them.

Tellyb

Please explain what you mean by 'simply, no' in respect to Modern christianity's descent from Rome under constantine. References will be nice.

hmmm, interesting.

You do realise that Christianity is, indeed, an european religion- even though its traditions are middle eastern.

Christianity in its present day form is the direct descendant of the religion of Constantine, ne?

What are your views on this?

Well, Now that the whole racist/non-racist issue is cleared up, what do you feel about the idea of Christianity and Islam as imported religions?

Horus.

That post was just doing what I told u people are doing to you, winding u up.

It isnt serious in any way.

Whites are not more advanced than us. Chill out, my guy. People with your kind of zeal just provide entertainment for those that are not serious. THEY will just teasu you and enjoy your frustration.

Horus, I hope you know that many of the more extreme posts here are just winding you up, and are not serious at all.

These people dont seriously believe that they would grow up eating dog faeces if not for whites.

They just enjoy seeing you get worked up. Stop feeding the flames.

But tellyb, do u really hate your own people so much?

That youtube video was totally uncalled for. The violence and atrocities have nothing to do with race and everything to do with the individuals.

And I do not agree that christianity saved blacks from hopelessness. Far from it.

I also do not agree that whites are responsible for our problems.

You know, Horus, Evolutionarily speaking, the fact that whites can come from blacks but not the other way round proves that whites are more advanced than us!

Horus, you are racist.

TellyB, I didnt know you hated your own race so much.

Just installed Ubuntu.

No source headers for the Kernel?!

No built in compiler?!!

INIT doesn't work right off the bat?!

Ubuntu seems to be aimed at marginalising the power user! Its either a GUI-less server or totally bloody useless!!!!! Naija internet connections suck, so sitting around doing apt-get from morning till night after a full install is not my idea of a great OS.

Then there's the whole root disabled on desktop version thing, what?!?!?!?!

I think all this hype is more damaging than helpful to Ubuntu.

babyosisi

I said women agree to become second wives

I didnt say women agree to become first wives.

The second wife always has a choice.

The problem is that that question is too easy to answer.

Simple questions dont give birth to long arguments filled with the throngs of masses flaunting their ignorance, which is why we visit NL.com