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pweedyuz: were d hell are u
iv bin standing outsyd my gate for 1hr 30mins

abi u miss road

its the security men o, they insist I must call you to verify if I had an appointment and I was aloof, then I remembered u are on fb but when I searched for pweedyuz I got "not found" even on my whatsapp, but never mind all these obstacles I'll surely meet you at banana island where you reside in your dreams. Sleep tight.

pweedyuz: cum to banana island
road 5 house 3
u will c my leg.........*chuckles*

Expect me in an hour, coming from Ajah.

tr3y: its actually a parrot but it kinda looks like a lady with an angle 45 pose!!

thanks bro,that's my point.

pweedyuz: ehhh.....yeah!!a woman's leg can b dat long....*i know i have long leg*
nd d leg is really nt dat long......

Ah! I don't believe o check the length from the folded thigh, anyways lemme see your leg.

NaLaugh: What i find most interesting, and very "un-Nairaland-like" is the absence of unpardonable errors in the write-up. Good job!

English wannabe. *flips page*

anago9010: fvckhead you deserve a life ban for impersonating, may the gods wreck havoc in your lineage if you are not the owner of the moniker before the crash. can I hear a loud amen.

Where are the mods here? this kinda post is embarrassing, remember we have Nigerians in diaspora here.

datguru: Lies, I dont believe it until I watch you do it

did I credited the arts to my name? they are the works of Enam Bosokah,read and think before commenting.

Agent8706: Can't believe I did it in less than a minute, men this is a real brain challenge.

The tail of the bird is actually the whole of one of the lady's leg while the head of the bird is actually the lady's head and one of her hand over her head combined

You can lie o!this painting looks more like a parrot than a woman,check the length of her leg from the hip,can a woman's leg be that long?moreover the lady ain't got a face but the parrot has all d features complete, it is a parrot.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A decision by a Florida jury to impose punitive damages of $23.6 billion against RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company on Fridayis likely to be rejected on appeal or the award reduced substantially, lawyers with expertise in jury awardssaid on Sunday.The award, which the cigarette maker has said it will contest, likely falls outside the boundaries for punitive damages that the U.S. Supreme Court has laid down in a series of cases, the lawyers told Reuters.RJ Reynolds is a unit of Reynolds American (RAI.N), which last week announced it would acquire rival Lorillard Inc (LO.N) in a cash-and-stockdeal valued at $27.4 billion, including net debt.A Florida state court jury decided the award in a case brought by Cynthia Robinson of Pensacola. She is the widow of a chain smoker, Michael Johnson, who died of lung cancer in 1996 at 36.After a four-week trial and 11 hours ofdeliberations, the jury returned a verdict granting compensatory damages of $7.3 million to the widow and the couple's child, as well as $9.6 million to Johnson's son from a previous relationship.The same jury deliberated for another seven hours before awarding Robinson the additional sum of $23.6 billion in punitive damages, accordingto the verdict forms."Nobody thinks the $23 billion is goingto remain," said Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University and the chair of its TobaccoProducts Liability Project.Because of constitutional guarantees of due process, the Supreme Court has shown a reluctance to allow punitive damages that are far out of line with compensatory damages in the same case, he said. The court's general guideline is that the ratio of punitive to compensatory damages should be below 10:1.The court precedent, though, still leaves room for a punitive award of more than $150 million, Daynard said.Punitive damages are meant to discourage companies or people from bad conduct, while compensatory damages are intended to pay victims for their actual losses."There were all these concerns about runaway awards with regard to punitive damages," said Neil Vidmar, professor of law at Duke University."Some are saying that nine times (the compensatory damages) is the absolute limit, but actually many times, the courts have cut that down to one or two times."In 2008, the high court cut a $2.5 billion punitive damages award against Exxon Mobil Corp for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska to about $500 million, saying the ratio in that case should be 1:1 with compensatory damages.But there is "no mathematical bright line rule," said Professor Catherine Sharkey, a tort law expert at New York University School of Law.Robinson sued R.J. Reynolds in 2008 over the death of her husband, Michael, claiming the company conspired to conceal the health dangers and addictive nature of its products. Johnson, a hotel shuttle bus driver, smoked one to three packs a day for more 20 years, starting at age 13.Robinson's lawsuit originally was part of large class-action litigation known as the "Engle case," filed in 1994 against tobacco companies.A jury in that case issued a verdict in 2000 in favor of the plaintiffs, awarding $145 billion in punitive damages, which at the time was the largest such judgment in U.S. history.That award, however, was rejected in2006 by the Florida Supreme Court, which decertified the class. It agreed with a lower court that the group wastoo disparate and that each consumer had smoked for different reasons.But the court said the plaintiffs could file lawsuits individually. Robinson was one of them."I worked with juries for several decades, and I cannot put my mind on what they are doing, but the Florida jury (in awarding a huge sum)seems to be sending a message," said Duke's Vidmar. "This is a statement from the jury that this was an outrageous behavior by the tobacco companies."RJ Reynolds has paid about $114 million for 15 Engle-related cases that have been finalized, the company said in an April regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Another $180 million in damages are on appeal.Northeastern's Daynard noted that the $23 billion is close to the cost of theReynolds-Lorillard merger deal, adding that Wall Street should be aware of the potential for more huge damage awards."You're going to have a lot more caseswhere juries could find themselves similarly outraged," he said. "The reluctance of the tobacco companies to settle these cases, thinking they canhandle the cases as a matter of course,may be a mistake."The two cigarette makers face thousands of suits, but the impact has not been as dramatic as was expected a decade ago, and trials have given investors an idea of what the companies will pay.(Edited by Elebiju)

laprince: makes good sense

makes good sense right? but check out these pen arts too.

MrT2011: You lack common understanding.

Do u expect me to fall where your forefathers did? If you are so full of understanding you should have backed your comment with a bible quotation about Xmas. For the records,I always endeavour to be different cos I'm a free thinker unlike you brainwashed idiota.

victorazy: Yes! They have inner eyes and mindset

Ahan! guy wetin now? are you a DOGMIND READER or how can you explain the inner eyes and the mindset of a thing?ah!

AlfaSeltzer: But how did the church discover the film?

Ahan!Alfa I don't like it o,let's visualize it together now,tipster downloads the film and was like he tells father>>>>>>> father was like *brother tipster you need to come for confession,you have watched a mojo. Father downloads secretly and was like *holy mary salvum me fac, et a peccato* he tells congregation during mass>>>>>>>>> they download======more traffic to the site.The father has indeed led them astray,he should have ignored.

woomiewoomie: CCC.luli parish

which Luli parish precisely? We've got luli central parish at ikotun and there is one at Alapere,Ketu.

tosins: I rep CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST.

way to go pal We rep CCC.

MissMeiya: You're too right. Many things about Christianity were created to solve problems such as these.

The Christmas holiday, for example, comes from the pagan celebration of Saturnalia of the ancient Romans. It was imported in an attempt to attract converts.
That's why it occurs on December 25th. No one knows when Jesus was born.
The Christmas tree comes from the cult of Asheira, who worshiped trees. Again, included to attract converts.
Mistletoe, Druidic cults.
Christmas presents, Saturnalia, a holiday of debauchery and excess.
Santa Claus: "Saint" Nicholas was worshipped by cults. The Church made him a saint and added him to the religion.

Very little about Christianity is not invented or borrowed from someone's (European) culture. Which makes it even more ridiculous for Africans to follow it.

The Catholic church is the prime suspect If you discovered that Christmas had nothing to do with Jesus Christ's birth and actually predates that event by centuries, would you still celebrate the holiday? And if you realized that the Bible reveals Holy Days commanded by God, would you celebrate them instead?When I was a young boy, I looked forward to Christmas every Dec. 25. Shortly before one particular Christmas, while still in secondary school, one of my schoolmates laughed me to scorn for believing that Father Xmas (Santa Claus) existed. I was mortified.When I returned home that evening, I asked my mom whether Father Xmas was real.She said he wasn't. Privately I thought,"Well, if father xmas isn't real, what is?"Years later I learned that Christmas actually predated Christianity by about 2,000 years. Many ancient nations created their own midwinter festivals and celebrations—which later morphed into Christmas—to honor the sun and other gods around the time of the winter solstice. I also learned that the origins of Christmas contradict true Christianity. Christmas contradicts the biblical facts it's commonly assumed that Christmas is celebrated because it's the birthday of Jesus Christ. But biblical scholars overwhelmingly admit that Jesus was born nowhere near Dec. 25. There are sound reasons for this conclusion. Luke's Gospel tells us that Joseph and Mary were traveling to Bethlehem to register during a Roman census when Jesus was born, and also that shepherds still had their flocks out in the open fields at that time (Luke 2:1-. Even fulani herdsmen no fit endure harmattan but the Holy Land in December is cold, rainy and sometimes snowy. No sound-minded shepherd would have been so foolhardy as to leave his flock in the fields at night at that time of year. And no intelligent ruler would compel people to travel many miles to register for a census when the likelihood of bad weather would have made such an effort self-defeating. Why should we believe that Jesus was born on Dec. 25 when the Bible itself plainly contradicts this notion?The birth of Christmas so if Christmas didn't originate with Christ's birth being on Dec. 25, when and how did it originate?Christmas began long before the birth of Jesus Christ. Alexander Hislop's book the Two Babylonsexplores many historical sources showing that the holiday precedes Christ by at least 2,000 years, as earlier mentioned.A nativity celebration for pagan gods was observed near the winter solstice inboth Syria and Egypt. Later, some 400 years before Christ, the Mithraic religion, centering on the Persian sun god Mithras, provided the foundation for the Christmas celebration. Mithraism became very popular in the Roman Empire, and many elements of its worship survive today in Roman Catholicism. My stand;I dont celebrate Xmas but i eat the delicacies.

manuell1021: no contradiction, if u dont hv d spirit of truth use ur BRAIN(NO INSULT)

all this for me alone? oh my God!you flatter me but did u use your initiative when u started practising Christianity at all? Christianity as a religion is an institution and yes a way of life,have you ever care to know more about the institution like you did when you got admission in the university? well maybe you were born a Christian too,We have the bible thanks to the initiative of a pagan king Constantine in a bid to settle the rancour among early Christian denominations. The bible is a compilation of manuscripts *note* not handed directly by God or dictated to stenographers, have you ever use your initiative and think about the existence of different versions of the bible? the Protestant, Catholic and your dear king James version. Do you know there are unpublished books of the Bible in the library at the Vatican city? My preachy friend GOD IS NOT A CONFUSIONIST what matters is the Word in you not your gold cover bible that serves as your head rest every night. If you wanna quote me pls start from your Italian suit wearing pastor with iPads who brainwashes his ragged congregation. Remember,the word in you is the key.

Dragonking: 7. Popcorn Shrimp:

"But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales—whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water—you are to regard as unclean. And since you are to regard them as unclean, you must not eat their meat; you must regard their carcasses as unclean." - Leviticus 11:10-11

Red Lobster and Joe's Crab Shack would never exist if we followed the rules of the bible. All shellfish are regarded as unclean animals, so that means no crab legs, lobster tails, or popcorn shrimp. It's pretty obvious why this rule has gone ignored.

**we shouldnt be eating crabs and lobsters then**

a contradiction of Christ's teachings in Mark 7:19

tonyx4x44: mobogenie is one horrible piece of spamware

Spamware is a software utility designed specifically by spammers for spamming. Spamware enables a user to search, sort and compile a list of email addresses and provides an automated email broadcasting solution. This can be used to send spam or unsolicited emails to unsuspecting recipients.

lifehacker: what! Bruv! you telling a blood to put his hand in fire RKO!
that Poo keeps popping up begging me to download it when I try getting apps via browser. we both know it's devilware! c'mon man!

because it pops up in your browser doesn't make it a spamware, have you make use of it?try it and testify.

Gayigaskia: Boko haram are not just Hausa, they igbo yoruba hausa kanuri Fulani all Nigerians .

we don't expect better comments from a Hausa man.

lanrefront1: it is certainly no true that most women will go on their knees and do that. Using Nairaland as a microcosm, by just observing the comments by ladies on Nairaland, one can see this is not true.

And seriously, though weren't there, Lola truly does not look like the type that goes for that kind of thing.... I mean not into all that kneeling down business as if the husband na one Lord & Master like that....

No!No!!No!!! I disagree with that generalisation about our ladies here,you can't judge them by their comments on this thread,if you pose the question about who can wash his lady's panties here you won't be surprised by the kinda comments our guys will post here, but the surprise is, in reality they do wash 'em in secret (I do wash 'em when she is not strong) so tell me if you will generalise all men as uncaring cos of these comments?

sensaraj: The wedding was strictly on invitation, Lola was not invited only peter was
source insider

ALL LIARS SHALL PERISH! so u mean Jude should have sent 2 invitations to Peter Okoye's family?you too dey lie abeg commot Jo.

fijiano202: u wrote brazil i write brasil whats the diff

hey! hey! oya make una two kneel down here*gives hard knock on their heads* back to the matter,sebi na z and s dey cause trouble okay the correct spelling is BRAZSIL.

4llerbuntu: ok.

please how do i google it?

Very simple, just immerse your phone in water and you will definitely see d result.

EMMASON125: Not all kidnapper are from Ebonyi state just like this 7 Nigerians that was arrested in Mexico
https://www.nairaland.com/1808162/sophiscated-nigerians-take-kidnapping-abroad
We Yoruba are always quick in condemning others forgetting that we also have bad elements on our midst

Don't generalise cos u ain't a Yoruba.