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that killed me lmao

Which among these did you
practice when you were young?

1) Dip the bread inside the tea?

2) Mix the entire white rice and stew before eating.

3) Crack a bone and suck out the
marrow.

4) Can't eat the meat until you finish
the food.

5) showing everyone your new under wear.

6) Beg for a sweet which your friend
has licked.

7) Playing in the rain.

8. Licking the plate with your tongue.

9) Walking barefoot and hold your new shoes for everyone to see.

10) Wearing two shirts or shorts (packing) so you don't feel the pain much when caned in school.

11) Mix gari and sugar in your pocket and chew on your way to school.
Remember your pasts Please becoz they're very important! Never forget ur childhood

YORUBA NAMES & THEIR FUNNY DIRECT
TRANSLATIONS.!!
1. Anuoluwapo- Mercy of God plenty
2. Odeyemi- Hunter fit me
3. Pamilerin- make me laugh
4. Olamide- My wealth don come
5. Timileyin- push my back
6. Adeyemi- Crown fit me
7. Motunrayo- I see wealth again
8. Bamidele- Follow me reach house
9. Ayomikun- My wealth full
10. Oladejo- Wealth turn eight
11. Shile- Open house
12. Wale- Come house
13. Morenike- I see person take care
14. Funmilayo- Give me joy
15. Omoyemi- Pikin fit me
16. Tunbosun- Shift again
17. Feyintola- Rest back on wealth.
18. Motolani- Am big enuf to have wealth.
19. Ifabiyi- Oracle born this.
20. Olaide- Wealth roll come.
21. Ageshin- Horse rider.
22. Adeleke- Crown dey on top.
23.Babajide- father wake come.
24. Bankole- Help me build house.
25. Owolabi- Na money we born.
26. Kosoko- dia is no hoe
27. Shina- open way
28. Muyiwa- bring dis one
29. Oyinkan- honey drop
30. Omole- child is hard
31. Tale- reach night
KEEP IT ROLLING... Add Yours.

Merry Sunday y'all

Happy Sunday people, someone asked this question and I'm at loss of what to say, so I'd throw it to the house...you've been wanting to serve God in whatever capacity and finally God directs u to an Ebola stricken community to lay hands and sorts without any means of protection at all...What would you do in that case knowing how deadly that can become?

macsika: Spiders have been denied their home and are out of business due to many webs.

To be clear, this isn’t an exhaustive catalog: With more than 4 billion indexed Web pages, thousands imploding and starting up by the day, any thorough accounting of the Web’s impact would be impossible. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s John Timpane calls the Web a sort of secular, modern-day Shiva: “god of creation, god of destruction.”

What has the Web made in the past 25 years? What has it destroyed? That list could go on forever — but we thought we’d start with these 28 ways the Web has changed our lives … and the world in general.


1. We multitask more. multitasking existed long before the Internet, of course, but the ubiquity of smartphones — and tabs! infinite tabs! — has made multitasking both easier and more damaging. “The technology is rewiring our brains,” one brain scientist told The New York Times. Neurologists have found Internet-enabled multitasking often makes us less productive.

2. There’s no such thing as “dead time.” On the metro, in line at Starbucks, even in the shower — mobile Internet has crowded out the time we used to spend doing, well, nothing. Per a Google study in 2011, nearly 40 percent of smartphone owners use their phone in the bathroom. A similar percentage report using their cellphone when they are bored

3. We no longer send telegrams. (Don’t even mention cards and letters). Western Union shut down in 2006, blaming the Internet and cellphones for its rapid drop in popularity. But people could still send telegrams in India until last year, when the world’s last commercial operation also closed shop.

4. We are our own doctors. My mother, a nurse, used to crack a hefty tome from the Mayo Clinic whenever one of us had a rash or a cough. Now she, like 72 percent of Internet users, goes online for health information. Slightly scarier: 50 percent of doctors do the same.

5. Entirely average people are somehow celebrities.


6. No one needs phone books. Remember those clunky yellow things that used to come to your door for free? States have begun telling telecom companies they no longer have to print them. “Anybody who doesn’t have access to some kind of online way to look things up now is probably too old to be able to read the print in the white pages anyway,” one commentator said when the phase-out started.

7. We’re more socially connected than we were pre-Internet. This isn’t true for everyone: A Pew study found that, between 1985 and 2009, there was actually a small drop in the percentage of people who say they have no confidants — a key indicator of social isolation. But in that same study, Internet and cellphone users reported having more confidants and larger social networks. Internet users are also more trusting in general. Thanks, Facebook!



8. Watches serve no functional purpose. People can easily check the time on a phone or computer, so today’s watches are often for fashion only. That’s prompted some shifts in the watch industry.

9. It’s really easy to cheat at bar trivia. Eighty-six percent of smartphone owners use their phones to get “just-in-time” information — stuff like directions or sports scores. Hence why some bars ask players to put their phones away during play.


10. Music discovery lost its magic. Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Slacker — who needs to dig through record bins anymore? A series of tech writers took the issue up in this month’s Wired: “In this era, the real rock star are the curators—the people, tools, and algorithms that bring you the music you’ll love.” Emphasis on “tools and algorithms.”

11. We sleep less.

12. We work less.

13. We socialize, party and relax less.

The impact of one minute of Internet leisure on other common activities. Leisure and work time, at left, are most impacted.

14. We don’t memorize phone numbers. That’s what contact lists and inbox searches are for! Per a 2010 study, seven in 10 people don’t know their best friend’s phone number, and more than five in 10 don’t know their parents’.

15. We watch TV shows and movies whenever we want. Gone are the days of VCRs and blank video cassettes! Given the primacy of online-streaming services — and the gradual ease and normalization of digital piracy — even DVRs are looking kind of obsolete.


16. No one “checks the paper” for sports’ scores or the weather. Well, maybe some people do. But the wide availability of this information, online and on smartphones, makes the paper redundant. That helps explain, in part, why sales of print newspapers have declined steadily since the mid-90s. Print ad sales, meanwhile, have cratered.

17. Many languages have died out — or are in the process of doing so. Only 5 percent of the world’s 7,700+ languages have migrated to the Internet, leading some scholars to believe they’ll fade out entirely within the next 100 years. Wikipedia has launched a language “incubator” to help battle that trend.

18. Meanwhile, nude photos (and other personal blunders) refuse to die. Nudes — and their terrible, inevitable follow-up, “revenge porn” — have become so widespread that there are calls for legislation to police them. (Per Pew, 15 percent of teens have received a nude sext.) Nudes posted online, like drunk tweets and Facebook rants about your employer, can live on into infamy — prompting the birth of companies that exist solely to clean up customers’ online reputations.

19. Information “wants to be free.”

20. We cook from computers. Sales of cookbooks still do well, but millions of people use sites like AllRecipes and Food.com to decide what to eat — a switch that’s gradually changing recipe preferences. Says culinary historian Jan Longone, “I personally wouldn’t go to the Internet for a recipe … [but] 20 years from now, I’m probably going to be obsolete.”

21. … or at stores, for that matter. Seventy-nine percent of teenage women, and 76 percent of teenage men, say they shop online. Here’s the intriguing catch, though: They all prefer to shop in stores, by a factor of almost 4:1.

22. High-school reunions ≠ entirely necessary. A third of the average Facebook user’s friends are classmates from high school and college. These are usually “dormant” relationships — the two people don’t actually speak or engage much. But they can creepily scope out each other’s jobs, relationship statuses and weight gain or loss since graduation, which is really what reunions are for.

23. We don’t use encyclopedias or other reference works. If you Google “Encyclopedia Brittanica,” the Wikipedia page for the feted, centuries-old series is one of the first results. That’s part of the reason it went out of print in 2011.

24. Serendipity is dead. So say critics of sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor, which have become popular ways to evaluate restaurants and travel destinations … without actually leaving your house.

25. Privacy might be dead, too. And don’t even try to stay anonymous online.

26. We’re closer to each other than we were before. Despite the backlash against social media’s purported superficiality, and the frequent insistence that “ambient ties” don’t tie us much at all, 67 percent of Internet users say they’re closer to friends and family because they talk online.

27. We self-medicate … but not with drugs or alcohol! A 2009 survey found that, during the recession, three-quarters of Internet users who were worried about the economy went online to “relax” and take their minds off it.

28. Reality and fiction are no longer distinct things. Sites like ViralNova and Twitter accounts like @HistoryinPics have built their empires on publishing photos, videos and stories that may or may not be real — and then sitting back and watching people share them. (That practice, which has also bled into old-school media, was recently the subject of a lengthy story in the Columbia Journalism Review.) We see so many hoaxes each week we started a regular column on it.

Try to imagine life without antibiotics. We wouldn’t live nearly as long as we do without them. Here’s a look at some discoveries that have changed the world. It’s impossible to rank their importance, so they’re listed in the order they were discovered.

The Copernicum System

In 1543, while on his deathbed, Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus published his theory that the Sun is a motionless body at the center of the solar system, with the planets revolving around it. Before the Copernicum system was introduced, astronomers believed the Earth was at the center of the universe.

Gravity

Isaac Newton, an English mathematician and physicist, is considered the greatest scientist of all time. Among his many discoveries, the most important is probably his law of universal gravitation. In 1664, Newton figured out that gravity is the force that draws objects toward each other. It explained why things fall down and why the planets orbit around the Sun.

Electricity

If electricity makes life easier for us, you can thank Michael Faraday. He made two big discoveries that changed our lives. In 1821, he discovered that when a wire carrying an electric current is placed next to a single magnetic pole, the wire will rotate. This led to the development of the electric motor. Ten years later, he became the first person to produce an electric current by moving a wire through a magnetic field. Faraday's experiment created the first generator, the forerunner of the huge generators that produce our electricity.

Evolution

When Charles Darwin, the British naturalist, came up with the theory of evolution in 1859, he changed our idea of how life on earth developed. Darwin argued that all organisms evolve, or change, very slowly over time. These changes are adaptations that allow a species to survive in its environment. These adaptations happen by chance. If a species doesn't adapt, it may become extinct. He called this process natural selection, but it is often called the survival of the fittest.

Louis Pasteur

Before French chemist Louis Pasteur began experimenting with bacteria in the 1860s, people did not know what caused disease. He not only discovered that disease came from microorganisms, but he also realized that bacteria could be killed by heat and disinfectant. This idea caused doctors to wash their hands and sterilize their instruments, which has saved millions of lives.

Theory of Relativity

Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which he published in 1905, explains the relationships between speed, time and distance. The complicated theory states that the speed of light always remains the same—186,000 miles/second (300,000 km/second) regardless of how fast someone or something is moving toward or away from it. This theory became the foundation for much of modern science.

The Big Bang Theory

Nobody knows exactly how the universe came into existence, but many scientists believe that it happened about 13.7 billion years ago with a massive explosion, called the Big Bang. In 1927, Georges Lemaître proposed the Big Bang theory of the universe. The theory says that all the matter in the universe was originally compressed into a tiny dot. In a fraction of a second, the dot expanded, and all the matter instantly filled what is now our universe. The event marked the beginning of time. Scientific observations seem to confirm the theory.

Penicillin

Antibiotics are powerful drugs that kill dangerous bacteria in our bodies that make us sick. In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin, which he grew in his lab using mold and fungi. Without antibiotics, infections like strep throat could be deadly.

DNA

On February 28, 1953, James Watson of the United States and Francis Crick of England made one of the greatest scientific discoveries in history. The two scientists found the double-helix structure of DNA. It’s made up of two strands that twist around each other and have an almost endless variety of chemical patterns that create instructions for the human body to follow. Our genes are made of DNA and determine how things like what color hair and eyes we’ll have. In 1962, they were awarded the Nobel Prize for this work. The discovery has helped doctors understand diseases and may someday prevent some illnesses like heart disease and cancer.

Periodic Table

The Periodic Table is based on the 1869 Periodic Law proposed by Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleev. He had noticed that, when arranged by atomic weight, the chemical elements lined up to form groups with similar properties. He was able to use this to predict the existence of undiscovered elements and note errors in atomic weights. In 1913, Henry Moseley of England confirmed that the table could be made more accurate by arranging the elements by atomic number, which is the number of protons in an atom of the element.

X-Rays

Wilhelm Roentgen, a German physicist, discovered X-rays in 1895. X-rays go right through some substances, like flesh and wood, but are stopped by others, such as bones and lead. This allows them to be used to see broken bones or explosives inside suitcases, which makes them useful for doctors and security officers. For this discovery, Roentgen was awarded the first-ever Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

Quantum Theory

Danish physicist Niels Bohr is considered one of the most important figures in modern physics. He won a 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on the structure of an atom and for his work in the development of the quantum theory. Although he help develop the atomic bomb, he frequently promoted the use of atomic power for peaceful purposes.

Atomic Bomb

The legacy of the atomic bomb is mixed: it successfully put an end to World War II, but ushered in the nuclear arms race. Some of the greatest scientists of the time gathered in the early 1940s to figure out how to refine uranium and build an atomic bomb. Their work was called the Manhattan Project. In 1945, the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tens of thousands of civilians were instantly killed, and Japan surrendered. These remain the only two nuclear bombs ever used in battle. Several of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project later urged the government to use nuclear power for peaceful purposes only. Nevertheless, many countries continue to stockpile nuclear weapons. Some people say the massive devastation that could result from nuclear weapons actually prevents countries from using them.

HIV/AIDS

In 1983 and 1984, Luc Montagnier of France and Robert Gallo of the United States discovered the HIV virus and determined that it was the cause of AIDS. Scientists have since developed tests to determine if a person has HIV. People who test positive are urged to take precautions to prevent the spread of the disease. Drugs are available to keep HIV and AIDS under control. The hope is that further research will lead to the development of a cure.
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Ladies if you are taller than your bf, he's not ur bf, he's your minion!

Mosandie: Nope, he doesn't

pishur or....

Mynd44:

arrest this man!

Goodluck EbolaEbele Jonathan, the all time king of the Naijarian soap opera! Long live the king!

Word!

Frankly not only among ladies, it include guys too, almost fell down from bike one day like that, I was chatting n shining all 32 tooth in ecstasy, the bike man hit a pothole, I literally had to throw my phone away n grab d bike man in exchange for my poor soul. God help us

Been a while I've been brooding over this...as a ardent nairalander, I derive much pleasure from reading posts, commenting, laughing hysterically at some comments, and really nairaland is a great forum ( I call it my online catalogue of knowledge) and definitely it portrays a forum that is intricately run and well organized, surely a forum this large needs a handful of moderators. But as someone who loves to have clear understanding of things I don't understand, I have some few innocent questions as to how nairaland is run which I'll list briefly:


1. Who really are the mods?
2. Do the mods have some kinda special account that enables them regulate this forum and send worthy topics to FP?
3. Are mods recommended by fellow n'anders to the admin, or its on a "I sabi u" level?
4. Yes of course it's not uncommon to see some n'anders banned unjustly..are there any sanctions at all against "mods" or they are gods in their own billing as far as nairaland is concerned?

Those my fellow n'anders are my few questions, I'd really appreciate meaningful replies.

Mosandie: lol.... seriously? That's ridiculous.

u think? Oya lie say ur current bf no get massive head

Aitee1: so the FP can't be rid of bad news for a day?

I wonder o

Aitee1: so the FP can't be rid of bad news for a day?

I wonder o

DEGREE2466: *catches him*

oya kneel down and raise your two hands up till Nigeria wins the world cup

this brother wicked sha, na a lifetime of kneeling down b dat, person go die enter graveyard still on the kneels...dat world cup dream na only inside pes2013 e dey happen

DEGREE2466: KA NWETA KWA GI

IF I CATCH YOU

catch me if u can *continues munching my big round kolanut*

Fake story...for the ever conscious gods

thewarrior72: The list is incomplete without Ortoman danfodio dynasty that stretches from north to Ilorin southwaste west Nigeria......

BoiledCorn: Yabalefttech

lol

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u no lie

Spactacle: Guy u bad gam.....

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izz nothing