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Voltage7:Nope. The snake in the picture OP shared is a puff adder. Both snakes are adders, and white gabon vipers produce more venom (quantity), puff adders' venom is far more deadly (potent). Even a black mamba's venom is more toxic than that of a gabon viper. What makes puff adders even more dangerous is that they live closer to human habitat unlike Gabon vipers. They have killed more humans in Africa than any other snake thus identified as Africa's most deadly snake by statistics. |
Conscience at work. |
etrange: |
Poor dudes. Why didn't they choose a Nigerian university? Anyway, the church gave them options. Let them go to Africa and continue thier studies. The helper explained the situation. Calling him out like this comes off as lack of appreciation. Meanwhile, when you're asking for help, don't use that expression "it's not that much" even if it's literally not that much. Statements like that undermines the sacrifice of the person trying to help you. Remember you're begging because you don't have it. |
nnamdi640:Oh... okay. It feels good to know that the shame you accused us of bringing to Nigeria is not part of the problem of the country. However, the topic here is that someone who goes around shutting down any good comment or feeling another person (foreigner or local) has about Nigeria does not have the best interest of the country at heart and cannot be referred to as a truth speaker even if they employ alternative truths to achieve thier goal. A truth speaker acknowledges the good and the bad regardless of how minute, negligible or inconsequential that might be. |
nnamdi640:Facts? So what the white man said wasn't also fact? See, I can discuss the problems of Nigeria, the causes and how investors could help. But as far this conversation is concerned, the point is not about stating facts, but about deliberately using your facts to overshadow other facts because you want only a certain category of facts to have the focus. Anyone really interested in facts will not do that. It's only someone who wants only the negative narratives to enjoy the light of the day that would do that. And yes, such a person is part of the problem. You can't possibly tell me the leaders embezzling money are the only problem when in your comment earlier, you called out abroad based Nigerians for bringing shame to the country. It's your words against you. |
Kingsnairaland:That's not what you said, but yeah, their subway isn't bad. |
Kingsnairaland:Lol... please, don't say this again. |
Lol... some people are abusing him cause hoe he chose to have fun with his own money? When y'all realize that happiness is all that matters provided no second party is getting hurt? |
nnamdi640:There's no hard rule for metaphors, dude. Figurative is whatever I say it is in the context of my write-up and/or my demography and it's valid provided the figurative word is comparable to what it represents. In mine, witchcraft figuratively means "intended to hurt or antagonize" and if you can't draw that obvious comparison, that's your problem. Like, I said, I'm not about to chase shadow with you. Now, back to the topic. You say "the country has failed" as if there's a separate entity called Nigeria other than the people, leaders and followers alike. Again, I did not say you should not express your feelings. You can express yourself, but let other people express themselves too without feeling the need to muddle it up. When you see something bad, express it. When you see something good, express it. That's how honesty works. Anything other than this is antagonistic. When you go around with the sole purpose of shutting down anyone that has something nice to say about Nigeria, then you are part of the problem. When you go around chasing away tourists and businessmen, then you're failing the country yourself. You can't keep complaining that the country isn't progressing when all you do is to make things worse with your little actions. |
nnamdi640:Are you gonna make the conversation about the meaning of witchcraft now? There's really no limit to your cherry-picking, sir. You can keep burying your head in the sand (and please, don't tell me there no sand where you are cause sand here, just like witchcraft in my last comment, is figurative). The guy was wrong, short and simple. That's literally all there is to be said. You can't bait me into creating a new goal post by accusing Nigerians in diaspora. You found out I'm outside the country and you've been working hard to put me in a position where I'd be defending Nigerians abroad instead of reiterating my point. Well, that's not going to work because I don't have a herd mentality. I might live abroad but that doesn't mean I'm obliged to defend Nigerians abroad. I might disagree with you on the subject of this thread, but that doesn't I'm going to stand on the other side of every subject you bring up. I don't have a herd. But most importantly, I don't have undirected or scopeless arguments. So if you want to talk about the actions of Nigerians in diaspora and how it might have brought shame to the country, we can have that as a different conversation. But I'm won't let you muddle up this one with it cause of the actions of Nigerians abroad doesn't justify a thing here. |
nnamdi640:And I have not stopped anyone from expressing themselves. You can hang on to that all you like, but anyone that has read our conversation up to thus point can tell that was never the bone of contention. When someone find something to appreciate about Nigeria despite all the issues we have, you don't have to go out of your way to rain on thier parade. When you do that, you aren't just expressing yourself but deliberately making sure nothing good is ever said about the country. That's witchcraft. Nobody who really cares about the country would do that. |
nnamdi640:That's why I didn't want to degenerate the conversation into the achievements of Nigeria cause I can tell you're eager to deviate into frivolous arguments about the achievements of the country. You clearly left the tech startups to focus on that one thing you think is arguable, the military. Doesn't that make it obvious you're not seeking the whole truth but only trying to highlight the negatives? I made it clear in my post that it does not even matter if you agree with those achievements or not, even if it's just the food the guy praised, what why not let him praise it? Nigeria has embassies all over the world. We've had people who complain that obtaining the Nigerian visa is a big issue. It's either there's no stamp or someone's wants to get bribed. And even when you pay, it takes months. So if this particular guy got his without issues, what's bad in acknowledging that one good thing out of the many bad things? If a genuine decent foreigner getting his Nigerian visa without hassles is a bad signal, does it mean those who got thiers after numerous hurdles had good signals? UAE visa is issued to any decent traveler in a matter of days and the application is online. Is this also a bad signal? I get my UK visa without issues all the time, perhaps that's a bad signal too? Oh.. so he did it out of love for the white man? Maybe he should go to heaven where there are no issues, right? So the commenter himself that thrived in Nigeria, got educated and found his footing despite the hellish nature of the country isn't evident that the place is survivable? So the Chinese and other foreign organizations in Nigeria that are thriving despite the hellish nature of the country are not evident enough? The foreigners that enter and leave the country everyday are nothing to judge by? You think anyone would take thier bad and travel to a place without researching the place? For all he knew, the man could be a tourist passing through the country. Just tell me, how does telling him the country is hell add value? How do you choose a moment when someone says something good about your country to detail the bad things and then turn around to say you care about the truth or that you're expressing concerns? How do you even begin to justify standing at the gate of your country telling potential investors and tourists that your country is hell? You think they didn't do thier research before coming? You think they've never been to worse places? You're so concerned about the poor state of the nation that you decided to chase away investors by concously demarketing the country? Which country has ever moved forward that way? Doesn't that make you a big part of the problem? Honestly, your thought process eludes me. |
nnamdi640:I did not say people are not facing hell in Nigeria. Listing all the issues in Nigeria has no bearing on the premise of this conversation. So stop gaslighting. Stop creating new argument lines just to have something to hang on to. This is not a conversation of whether Nigeria is hard or not but rather a conversation of how we react when someone says something good about the country. If someone says there's no constant power supply in Nigeria, you acknowledge it cause it's true. When they say the food is good or that they had a good experience at the embassy, why not also just acknowledge it cause it's true? Why do you feel the counter the good things with the bad ones if you're really just interested in truth and not just being malicious? Doesn't that make it obvious you just want the bad to take precedence? Why is this simple subject so difficult for you to understand? There's no place on earth that has absolutely nothing good going for it. Is your country really the worst that you can't stand someone liking one thing about it? Why go out of your way to recruit haters for the country? Nigeria is a major player in the international market thanks to oil. Nigeria is a major exporter of human capital comparable to India and China, thanks to population. The country has a lot of local talents and business minded people carving niches for both locally and globally. The financial sector is the most prominent in the region. Nigeria has the largest army in West Africa. In medicine, the country has almost completely won the war against polio and has made major strides in recent times as slow as it may be. Nigeria has the highest number of tech startups in Africa. In fact, the tech industry in Lagos has become a reoccurring subject here in the West. The entertainment industry is one to reckon with. But guess what, it doesn't even matter cause like I said, this is not about the good and bad of Nigeria but about letting people who have something good to say about the nation say it without raining on thier parade at if it only pleases you to hear the bad things. You are free to write about our issues, but if you bring it up as a way suppressing the one good thing someone said, then you're just being malicious. If someone says they like one thing or the other about the country, why would you cloud that statement by listing all the bad things in the country? Even if it's something as basic as the country's landscape, why not just let the person like it? I'm sorry, but only a witch would do that and try to justify it as expression of concern. |
oyebanji44:That's the world's biggest forest, and it's has more species of animals than any other place on earth. Those kids are survivors! |
1nice:Lol... of course, I wasn't expecting any justification cause there's none. Ciao ! |
nnamdi640:Again, this is not an argument of whether the country has issues or not. It's argument of how we react when someone has something good to say about the country. Calling me out based on my personal decisions instead of focusing solely on my point is an argument fallacy we call Ad Hominem. I've been on Nairaland long before I left Nigeria and I've always maintained the same stance even while I was in Nigeria. However, I'll indulge you. I left the country not because I couldn't find anything good about Nigeria. I like the weather, I like the food and I like the people. However, I left because despite all these, I prefer the security, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. here. Now, if a foreigner tells me that healthcare is better in Nigeria than where I stay, I'll call him an ignorant lier because that's not true. But when he says he likes the Nigerian weather, I wouldn't go out of my way to remind him how the country is hell. If I do that, that's no longer expressing concerns but a deliberate attempt to undermine the one tiny almost negligible good thing he has to say about the country. In one of your comments, you mentioned that's it's okay to speak the truth about what is happening in Nigeria. What you fail to understand is that the white man was also speaking the truth about his good experiences at the embassy. So when the dude rushed to cover up that positive truth with his own negative truth, it becomes evident he just didn't want that positive truth to have its moment. So while he might be right about the issues in the country, the white man was also right about his experience, and anyone that cares about the truth would feel the need to suppress that. Dude was just chasing clout. Point is, Nigeria has a lot of issues and it'd be foolish to pretend that's not true. However, if someone finds one good thing to admire about the country despite these issues, you don't have to rain on thier parade. |
Gadafii:How it was meant to be? Lol... no, that's not the case at all. I'm procreated because everyone isn't meant to be gay. Letting gay people be themselves doesn't imply everyone was meant to be gay. It simply means that some people are that way, and it's never a threat to procreation. The world population is growing rapidly anyway. We have priests who don't procreate. Do we question thier choice on the bases of procreation? No, because we know they pose no threats. Likewise, a gay person doesn't stop you from being straight and procreating. Nature is extremely diverse and full of exceptions. Tell me one thing you consider natural that has no exception or divergents at the macro or behavioral level. The concept of day and night has exceptions in the Northern pole. Skin colors are diverse. Gravity is different in different planet. Nature provides exceptions for everything, and that's the beauty of it. So if you're saying that the 7 billion plus people on earth should all be straight, then I'd say that's unnatural cause that's not how nature works. Some humans are gay and it's part of nature. |
1nice:A long one, and yet you couldn't answer the question: what's the justification for homophobia? I know it's the law. And I'm challenging the law cause laws should be based on logic, not sentiments or religion. Laws shouldn't be made to antagonize the people we don't like or agree with. Tell me, are Christianity and Islam not against fornication and adultery? Why aren't people throwing into the prison for those actions? Those spades are better called by other names? I just want to see it from your perspective. I want to understand why you think it is your duty to beat up two grown men for what they decide to do with each other. Dishing out insults doesn't cut it. Saying it is the law also doesn't cause, like I said, even the law is subject to logic. Remember Jim Crow laws were created to oppress black people in the US back then. There was no justification for them other than sentiments and they were eventually gotten rid of. Make some points, bro. Even bad points are better than long empty texts. |
tunjiajayi:Lol... come to my country and beat me because I do not share your opinion. That sounds logical right? Let's kill off people who do not share our beliefs. Soft brains. |
nnamdi640:Pray tell, why aren't you using this guy's conversation with the white man as an example to make your point? Why did you have to create a hypothetical scenario where someone on social media lies that there's 24hr electricity in the country? I'll tell you why. It's because you can't defend his own so you had to create a new instance just to boost your argument even though the instance you created is not within the scope of this argument based on the exception mentioned in my first comment. In law, we call it the straw man's argument fallacy. I knew someone would apply that tactics and that is why cause I made it very clear in the very first post you quoted that speaking the truth about the situation in the country has its benefits. So don't make it seem as if anyone is asking you to lie. Speaking the truth and trashing your country at every opportunity are two very different things. The white man did not lie when he said he had a good experience with the Nigerian embassy in his country. How does going to tell him it's because it leads to hell mean you're speaking the truth? Isn't it obvious he just wanted to downplay the credit? You may hate Nigeria cause of the things happening in Nigeria. Some other person may love Nigeria despite the things happening in Nigeria. When you feel it's your duty to convince the second party Nigeria isn't likable, then you aren't being truthful but antagonistic. When someone lies about the country, feel free to correct them. But jumping in anytime the country is mentioned to tell people bad things about the country is not being truthful, it's being hateful. Nigeria has many issues as well as many achievements. Let's criticize her when we should and giver her credits when due. |
nnamdi640:If you think I made that comment cause of this one individual, then you might want to take a look at my comment history and see where I've made similar comments in the past. Unless you're new to the internet or you just want to wallow in illusions, it is a known fact that many Nigerians trash-talk the country all over the internet. It's the norm here on Nairaland. They do it on Twitter. Even worse, they do this offline. I know because I see them doing it in the country where I live. And it's mostly because they they like to be at the center of every conversation. They make everything about them and cherish the momentary attention. You've jumped from he's not Nigerian to Nigerians hardly do that and then to he's just expressing his feelings. You obviously just want to argue. Otherwise, you would've seen where I mentioned the benefits of being vocal with the issues in the country. How does telling a foreigner who's excited to get the Nigerian visa your country is hell a way of expressing your concerns about your country? What is the goal? He shouldn't visit the country because Nigeria has challenges? So where are there no issues? There are shootings in the US, kidnappings in Russia, drug dealings in Mexico, etc. How many of these people do you see online trash-talking thier countries? Or you're so sure the traveler hasn't been to places worse than Nigeria? Dude, please. That specific individual is a clout chaser. He would type anything just to sound funny or get attention even at the detriment of the country he claimed to love. And no, I didn't type that just because of him. He was just a case in point. |
nnamdi640:Dude, anyone following his account back then knew he was Nigerian. His Twitter was super active. Nobody could've missed that. All these things you're saying don't really add any value or remove anything from my initial comment. Nigerians are very notorious for trash-talking the country. This is very glaring on Twitter and here on Nairaland. Whether this particular individual is from China or Trinidad and Tobago does not in any way undermine what I said up there. So I don't what you're on about. |
nnamdi640:He is Nigerian. He was the dude that created a Twitter poll in 2018 asking Nigerians to chose between president Buhari and a chicken. He was a well known Twitter user back then. Here is the NL thread: https://www.nairaland.com/4474473/chicken-still-winning-buhari-twitter#67061893 So maybe you're the one that needs to calm down. |
1nice:But who talked about force? You create an argument out of nowhere and then you start arguing with yourself. I mentioned homophobia and you're talking about ra.pe. The title says he was having sex with a church member, but your comment above has the word "force" all over it. Isn't it obvious you're looking for something to hang on to? And why is it so difficult for you guys to present your points without being loutish? Today, you like Nigerian constitution, tomorrow you complain your people are marginalized or that the justice system is a mess. It's only discrimination when it affects you. What you fail to understand is that nobody is safe in a country where the minority has no voice. Regardless of the herd you belong to, there'll be instances where you'd be in the minority, and when that happens, you'll be on your own. If your response to the question I asked is just insults and unrelated citing of ra.pe cases, then the answer is obvious. Homophobia is product ignorance and shallow mindedness. |
I'll never understand the logic behind assaulting gay people. Is it because your religion says it's a sin or what? What's the justification for homophobia? |
Lol... she doesn't know that most crypto traders don't have any idea how blockchain technology works. |
Just see the people leading us.... |
Jecci:I saw the comment. If you check well, you might realize that individual has never crossed the borders of Nigeria to see what's obtainable out there. But he's somehow convinced his country is the worst place on earth. |
I don't know what you expect to get from Nairalanders. One would think that seeing a doctor is the first that'd come to your mind when you notice such a thing. Get tested and get treated. Meanwhile, see how Nairalanders are advising him and recommending solutions as it should be. If this was a lady, y'all would have called her all sorts of names and even drag the entire gender into it. |
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