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THERE IS THIS GUYS THAT I KNOW MY FRIEND LIKES HIM BUT HE DOESNT GET THE GIST WHEN SHE FLUNT HER STUFF AT HIM

maybe he is a sav? perhaps the reason he failed to go after her was because she "flaunted her stuff" at him. he might find her behavior to have been very crude, racy, and not to his liking.

A lot of people make the mistake of assuming they're in relationships, even though there's no mutual agreement between the two people. This mistake seems to occur mostly with some women, who feel they're owed a bond, most especially after a sexual encounter with a man/guy.

Men and women alike (even those currently in relationships), was there a verbal commitment between you and your current boyfriend/girlfriend?

And what do you feel about this rejoinder? Is it skewed reasoning to assume to be in a relationship with someone without their commitment?

I had a talk with a girlfriend today, and she made it a purpose to tell me that it is old-fashioned to expect a verbal or written finalization before you know you're in a relationship with your partner. She claims, and I quote, "as long as you feel a special bond between yourself and her, or if you have slept with her, shared some intimacy with her, either through kissing or etc, " then you owe her your loyalty.

Next, she says, if he cheats on her, she has the right to slap him.

yeah Set it off
Akeelah and the Bee
What women want

nuzo:
The fact remains that be it yoruba or nollywood movies, they are all the same story line and they all suck.
No be Nigeria? ooh please!

TOH doesn't hate igbo people, she's just brash. She might come across as being too hypercritical, but that's because you prefer her to address the topic in a subtle tone. She's just being original.

More Yoruba people prefer yoruba films, because their actors are able to act more naturally, since they're speaking their native language. It lessens their consciousness of the language they're speaking, since they know they're not likely to mess up a word. Whereas, with the English actors, very many of them force their acts, force themselves to speak the English language, which they're not very good at, and worst of all, force themselves to speak in foreign accents. It takes them out of their comfort zone and it kills the film.

We are our own worst enemy. Still somehow I believe progress lies ahead.

Mississipi Masala
Phone Booth
Wild Things (Series)
Six Days Seven Nights
The Italian Job
Sarafina
Love + Basketball
Man on Fire
Hotel Rwanda
Annapolis
Shooter
Ray
Tsotsi

Space Jam
Best Man
Crimson Tide
Dumb and Dumber
Lean on Me
A bug's life

correct!  a movie should be made in your mother language and it can be dumbed into other languages for others to view.

language is your culture; your everday life.

you can make a movie in a language, be it your mother language or not. But, speak clearly.

what matters more is a clear narrative, an understandable and easy to follow script, a beautiful cast, and solid production.

Greed is killing their diluted movie industry (in Nigeria)

https://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/WORLD/africa/01/03/kenya.violence/art.kenya.babies.ap.jpg

baby killing.

lol yeah i have a soft spot for titanic, i thought it was witty.

i liked this part very much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq_Tw_lspCw

i've expanded my above list. the movies just kept coming to my head.

will add more later.

Okay, after seeing 300 I want to compile a list of pure classic movies.   Collectors items, movies one should buy and keep at the house, to be watched whenever you crave to see a good movie.

I have come up with

Titanic
Forrest Gump
Passion of the Christ
Lion King
Big Fish
300
Savig Private Ryan
Gladiator
Troy
Commando
Dracula
The Great Debaters
Blood Diamond (stretch)
Problem Child(series)
Home Alone (series)
Chucky
The Green Mile
The Matrix
Pretty Woman
The Kingdom
Menace II Society
Shaun of the dead
Braveheart
Boyz in the hood
My cousin vinny
The Fifth Element
Minority Report
Cast Away
The Terminal
Coming to America
The Departed
Robocop
Sister Act (series)
American beauty
The Manchurian candidate
Jaws
Tarzan
The Perfect Stranger
101 Dalmatians
Fried Green Tomatoes
Grumpy Old Men
Friday
Mighty Joe Young
The Mask
Scarface
Remember the Titans
Rocky (series)
Die Hard (series) - "Yippee-ki-yay, motherf----r!"
Lethal Weapon (series)
gods must be crazy
godfather (I & II)
The Shawshank redemption
Igodo


I'm ready to empty my bank account any second now to own these on dvd.

let them have a talk about it. if he can't work it out with her (i.e. she's not willing to reconsider the cooking aspect of their relationship), and he can't deal with it, then he should move on. Let him find someone else that's more suited for him. Leave the girl to a man who can put up with her lack of cooking skills.

It's true cooking is important to most men, so it's highly encouraged that women should indeed learn to cook.

bloodshed to ring in the newyear. what a pity!

innocent civilians dying over rigged elections, as if the government was all "great and omnipotent".
A government that doesn't even take good care of its people, yet they're losing lives enmasse over rubbish.


"What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet.
"No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason."

Kennedy.

https://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/WORLD/africa/01/01/kenya.elections/t1home.2114.kenya.afp.gi.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/01/kenya.elections/index.html

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- Gangs of young men armed with machetes are roaming the streets in Kenya as post-election violence threatens to engulf the country. Horrific attacks are being reported, including the torching of a church where people who had sought refuge were burned alive.


Police officers detain an opposition supporter on Monday during riots at the Kibera slum in Nairobi.

1 of 4 more photos » At least 148 people have been killed and about 75,000 have fled their homes since President Mwai Kibaki won a narrow victory, according to Kenyan government officials. The Associated Press reported a higher number -- about 275 -- have died since Saturday.

Much of the violence is between supporters of Kibaki from the majority Kikuyu tribe and backers of opposition leader Raila Odinga, who is from the Luo tribe.

The ethnic violence, previously rare in Kenya, is reminiscent of the strife that led to the Rwanda genocide.

In a particularly disturbing incident, a mob appears to have burned a church filled with Kenyans seeking refuge from the violence.

The Red Cross told The Associated Press that at least 50 were burned to death at the church, some of them children.

As many as 200 people were at the church, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, KTN reporter Tony Biwott told CNN. Watch as machete-wielding looters haul away goods »

Biwott said he counted at least 15 charred bodies, including children, in the burned church and an adjacent field.

"I'm sure there were more than 15 but I couldn't count the ones who were ashes," he said in a phone interview.

The wounded sustained gunshot wounds, burns and cuts from a panga, a machete-like weapon, the Red Cross said. Watch smoke darken skies near a burned church

The national police commissioner has said in Kenyan society, churches are considered sacred and no one would expect such violence there.

He said an investigation into the incident is under way.

About 120 people are reported dead and over 1,000 injured countrywide, according to The Red Cross.

Police and political backers of opposition leader Raila Odinga began clashing about four days ago as Odinga, of the Luo tribe, narrowly lost Kenya's presidential election to Mwai Kibaki.

Kibaki is a member of Kikuyu, Kenya's largest tribe.

Violence broke out in several cities as frustration mounted during the slow hand-count of the ballots. Kibaki was re-elected with 51.3 percent of the vote, to 48.7 percent for Odinga.

"What we now witness is a cold and calculated plan to organize and engage in massacres," government spokesman Alfred Mutua said.

Bringing in the New Year, Kibaki -- who rarely speaks to the press -- urged calm to the nation.

"It now is a time for healing and reconciliation amongst all Kenyans," he said.

Foreign Minister Raphael Tuju said the government is committed to taking control.

"If the tear gas doesn't work then unfortunately they have to use live bullets," he told CNN. "The president has been sworn in, the elections are over, the Kenyans have to accept the results, the opposition has to accept the results."

Tuesday, international observers said the balloting fell short of international standards for democratic elections.

Alexander Lambsdorff, the head of the EU Election Observation Mission in Kenya, cited discrepancies in vote counts, election observers being turned away from polling places and observers being refused entrance to the electoral commission vote-counting room.

The violence also has displaced some 75,000 Kenyans inside the country, Mutua said.

The government said Tuesday it will not allow any political rallies in the aftermath of the controversial election outcome.

Odinga's opposition Orange Democratic Movement had scheduled rallies for Tuesday, raising fears of more violence.

Mutua said there was no intention to impose a state of emergency or curfew at this point, and said police are handling the violence well and with "extreme restraint."


However, he warned that police restraint would not last forever. The violence is rare for Kenya, which has enjoyed relative calm even as war and chronic political violence wracked neighboring countries, such as Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda.

The United States has withheld congratulations for Kibaki, citing concerns of voting problems, even though Kibaki has claimed victory. E-mail to a friend

one love.

repping.

It's Official, HAPPY NEW YEAR ladies and gentleemn!

I will agree it is hypocritical on the condition that they boast to be better than you. If not, fear of hypercriticism should not be a delimiter that prevents people from criticizing others.

If we were to attempt to be virtuous and begin refraining from being hypercritical, pastors would refrain from preaching on a certain topic, because they haven't yet attended to that aspect of their lives yet.

No matter how harsh it may seem, or how unethical, or how uncharacteristic, it is good to correct others, or to point out their mischiefs if you see any (criticism or not, as long as it's not violent). If you (the critiqued) paint it colorful, it makes you a stronger, better person. Just don't let it drag you down.

I always bypass transformers @ blockbuster, I guess I better check it out. Same with Ratatouille.

It doesn't have to be hypocritical.

You don’t have to practice what you preach, if you know that someone is doing something wrong. The fact that you can’t do it yourself, doesn’t mean he/she should suffer. Your advice, how ever little, is enough to urge the other person to change.

It would be more ideal if people in general removed the chaff from their eyes, before attempting to remove the splint in the eyes of others. But, as I mentioned earlier it's life. Don't let it bother you to a point where it becomes discouraging or depressing.

@ Kobe it's just stark hypocrisy not to practcie what you preach. Have you ever heard the saying action speaks louder than words, what's the use of going around telling someone how to live their life when your's is in the same mess.

Tell that to those who report celebs in tabloids. Ask many of them if they live their lives any differently.

Besides, just the other day I overheard a co-worker telling her daughter not to smoke, even though she (the mom) is a heavy smoker. Are you insinuating she shouldn't, because she doesn't practice what she's preaching?

Excuse me for deviating off topic. I agree with you, that it would be best for those who preach it to practice it, but life often doesn't work ideally.

I know it is very irritating when people tell others not to be bothered my criticism when only very few of us can actually practice such preachings

Oh please, you don't always have to practice what you preach, if you know what you're preaching is the truth. It could be hard on you to practice it, but at least you know it's the right thing to be doing.

Truth is Seun, like it or not, Criticism is a part of human nature. You just need to take it like a man, and shake it off.

You wanted to go into the movie business right? Imagine all the criticism you are likely to encounter in that avenue. Use it as fuel to better your best.

oooooh shit! still 7:45 hours to go here.

for those of you who are already in the New Year, Happy New Year.
What's it like so far?

Goodluck to the lots of you in 2008, you'll all need it, and so will I.

God Bless!!!!

get a grip mr.  maybe you do need a shrink.  don't expect people to feel sorry for you, or hold your hand.  you're living in the real world, you can't expect things to be handed to you, you have got to earn your keep.  people will always feel they're better than you, and it's up to you to prove them wrong.

It takes time.

he was an assassin, a heinous criminal, a sick and wicked murderer, a racist gay.

yes, he was a great killer.

you have yourself to blame for that. it is perhaps why your forum will fail to see any decent form of progression beyond its current capacity.

you're too hot-tempered to let people express themselves freely, especially when you're criticized.

just being blunt.

chineke, thiefofhearts! when will your resentment towards the male populace ever cease?

I'll have to go with

The Departed
The Kingdom


I don't remember the best Naija movie I saw, sorry.

on a second note, maybe this shouldn't stop.

please continue by all means!  this is what makes nairaland what it is.
thanks for making nairaland a haven where the mentally inept, and the uber1337 can gather.

wow, nairaland never seems to change.

what is this? some type of battle between the crazy and deranged?

brothers and sisters y'all need to grow up.

the cyberlife does not exist beyond its cyber-reality.  once you "x" this window out, it disappears.
get a grip people.  there's no reason to pop a vein in your necks over disputes so meaningless.

cheers!

the film's aight. it ain't a classic, but it's a little better than average.

on a scale of 1-10 i'll give it a 6.9 bordering on 7

keep looking. you'll find your answers when you reach the very bottom of a bottomless pit.

Denigrate what? An already denigrated Nigeria?

It's like sinking a sunken ship