₦airaland Forum

Vivly: One silly girl told me that she stopped having sex cuz she is trying to revirginize herself. What ever that means.

pazienza: What's up with the colonial dressing that doesn't even suit our hot environment, can't they be a little bit more innovative and get a better attire?

Perhaps, government thinks by acceding to ASUU’s demands, other labour unions might toe the same path at the slightest excuse.

The viewing centre was created by the governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan. He is an Arsenal
supporter. I met him once while playing tennis. For some reason he didn’t seem very impressed by my love of
Leicester City. I simply don’t understand why

The comedian who anchored the programme took quite a shine to me…..

“Ahhh give it up for the white man, where are you from”?

This was followed by ten minutes of him royally taking the **** out of me. I understood about one word in ten, but by the reaction of everyone else, it was obviously very amusing. So much for being inconspicuous.

Anxious to appear as inconspicuous as possible I tried to sneak past, not drawing too much attention to myself, convinced I was about to be arrested. However quite the opposite. We were greeted with cheers of “Good morning sir, well done, how far?”.

Ngokafor: it baffles me how some men can be so comfortable taking a piss at highways,street corners and all....is it that there are no conveniences wherever they are coming from or just a bad habit?......i always find myself turning away hurriedly as soon as i see such men unzipping,ironically seeming more embarrased than them!......some will even have a smug look on their face...so so wrong abeg!

2legit2qwt: I'm totally against cohabitation. It's the reason why we have so many children in single-parent families. Men don't wanna commit to their partners, women are also trying to keep their options open and all of these are leading to societal decay and degrading values. Broken families everywhere, children lacking in role models and big reason why our society is breaking down by the day

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has proposed to the National Assembly an amendment to the Ordinance Act in order to allow stiffer penalties, including jail terms for abusers of Nigeria's national symbols.

The Director General of NOA, Mr. Mike Omeri, made this known yesterday in Abuja, at the second National Symbols Day in Abuja.

He said the proposal was aimed at reducing the level of abuses on the Nigerian national symbols.

He said national symbols were unique features of different countries across the globe.

Omeri observed that abuses of national symbols by citizens was an act of irresponsibility and negligence on the national integrity.

He revealed that the bill for amendment of the Act had passed first reading, in the House of Representatives, adding that as soon as the National Assembly returns from recess, the bill would proceed to the second reading.

"NOA is seeking the amendment of the Ordinance Act to make wrong display of the national symbols, defacing of same and other treatments of our National Symbols attract greater sanctions," Omeri said.

Omeri also said that the agency had written to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) requesting that September 16 every year be declared 'National Symbols Day.'

He said many nations across the globe have dedicated one day every year for national symbols as a way of bringing attention to bear on the things that unite them.
"We believe that the positive values embodied by our national symbols can naturally evoke certain attitudes and emotions towards our nation."

"We believe our national core values as enumerated in Section 2, sub-section 23 of the 1999 Constitution are expressed in our national symbols and should further find practical expression in the manifestation of those values by Nigerians through the inspiration they draw from our national symbols," he added.

The Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Ambassador Sani Bala, said the two-day conference was geared towards reviewing the progress and building consensus on actions that will harness the nation’s contributions to human resources challenges in the country.

wesley80: If i walk in and see the toilet seat closed I usually turn around and consider my options cos that seems to be the coded sign that "something" has refused to go away! Who bothers to close a toilet seat? Didnt you just read that just the toilet seat weighs over a tonne how much more the whole cover!

Healthy Living with Dr Ketch

Did you know that the most 'dangerous' time you spend in the toilet could very well be the moment you flush the toilet. That's when germ filled droplets are propelled into the air. So just in case you were standing by, looking earnestly down to be sure you've done a good job of flushing, that's when you are more likely to 'catch' something.

So flush the toilet with the seat covered. Take a peek afterwards to be sure you've done a good job though

The small Canadian town of Churchill, Manitoba is known as the polar bear capital of the world, and for good reason. The area is home to both 900 or so year-round human residents and the western Hudson Bay polar bear population, and sometimes, inevitably, the twain shall meet.

Interactions between Churchillians and polar bears used to be quite frequent, and rarely ended well for the bears, which were all too often shot on sight. Over the last three decades or so, that has changed: the town dump, which used to attract bears into town, has been closed, and the guns that are fired in the direction of polar bears these days fire only firecracker shells — explosive ordinance which creates a loud ‘bang’ and ideally scares the bears away.

In 1982, the Manitoba Department of Conservation established the Polar Bear Alert Program, with a dedicated number for residents to report bear sightings. There is also a holding facility, more popularly known as the “Polar Bear Jail,” in which the more persistent intruders are held for 30 days before being flown out onto the sea ice far from town.
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Even so, inevitably, sometimes polar bears sneak into downtown Churchill without detection, which is why folks leave house and vehicle doors unlocked — just in case somebody needs to leap to safety. And even the most experienced and cautious Churchill veteran can find themselves surprised by a bear, which is just what happened to one man over the weekend.


According to the Winnipeg Free Press, Garett Kolsun — a border agent hired by Canadian Customs to inspect grain ships that put in to Churchill’s port — was walking home in the early hours of Sunday morning when the bear appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

Kolsun himself picks up the story, in an interview with Canadian broadcaster CTV:
[b]
“I stopped and I turned around to face the bear,” he said. “It was already there, right on top of me. I started shouting, yelling, screaming, waving my arms, running backwards to keep my eye on the bear.”

Kolsun said he ended up trapped on the porch of a bakery … It pinned him against the door and swiped at him with his paw. The bruin, which stood about 1 1/2 meters tall, also sank his teeth into Kolsun’s hip, although Kolsun says that, at the time, he didn’t even realize the bear had punctured his skin.

“The bear’s nose was inches away from me. I didn’t know where else to go. I was just (thinking), ‘what can I do to get away from this bear?’ That’s all I kept thinking about. I didn’t want to be a stat.”

So Kolsun dug into his pocket, and pulled out … his cellphone.

“I was hoping anything I would do would give me an opportunity to get away from it, I was trying anything at that point,” he told CTV. ”I was trying anything at that point. I was screaming, yelling, waving my arms, trying everything and it just kept chasing me and chasing me. I was just hoping for the best and, luckily, it worked.”

The light from the cellphone startled the bear, which backed up a little and knocked over a flower pot. With the bear briefly distracted, Kolsun took off. He ran for several blocks, looking for a home with lights on; when he saw some people sitting on a deck, he ran toward them. By that time, the bear had stopped chasing him.

In shock, he initially had no idea he had been scratched and bitten, but once his injuries were apparent, friends took him to hospital. After a tetanus shot and some bandaging, he was discharged, and reported for work on schedule on Monday.[/b]

The bear was a young male, which is to be expected: older bears have learned to skirt the town on their way to the sea ice, whereas younger ones are more reckless and generally less adept hunters, so more likely to be attracted by the smells of, say, a restaurant. This one has likely learned the lesson that many bears before him have learned: after the attack, it was captured and is now doing 30 days in the Polar Bear Jail.

Asked about resident’s reaction to the weekend’s incident, Churchill mayor Mike Spence explained to the Winnipeg Free Press that, ”it’s something we live with. It’s part of what we do.”

http://news.discovery.com/animals/cellphone-saves-man-from-polar-bear-attack-13091.htm

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Do your friends take an abnormally long time to respond to your texts? Are the messages they send back shorter than usual? Do you catch them making edits for a long time? If so, you may have a problem. Everyone’s lying to you.

A Brigham Young University study pitted 100 students from two large universities against each other. Using a computer, they were each asked 30 questions and told to lie “in about half” of their responses. Researchers found that people who lie in texts, social networks, or over instant messaging take 10 percent longer to compose their message, make a lot more edits, and write shorter responses than usual.

Not that you’ll know if they’re lying: According to Tom Meservy, BYU professor of information systems, humans can only detect lies about 54 percent of the time. It’s even harder over the Internet.

“Digital conversations are a fertile ground for deception because people can easily conceal their identity and their messages often appear credible,” said Meservy. “Unfortunately, humans are terrible at detecting deception. We’re creating methods to correct that.”

Of course, it may take some people an extra long time to tell the truth. We’ve provided an example below.

To try and learn more truth about how people lie, BYU researchers may use the Xbox Kinect to track the movements of liars.

Of course, as Gizmodo suggested there could be another reason people are taking a long time to respond to your texts. They just may not like you.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/texting-social-media-lying/

You’re in the middle of a texting conversation when the other person suddenly stops for a long pause before responding.

What does it mean? Maybe they got a call, got distracted by something else, or their thumbs needed a break. But if your last missive was about something heady, it’s also possible they’re taking the time to cook up a lie.

Researchers from Brigham Young University (BYU) asked more than 100 college students to respond to 30 questions each that were generated by a computer and texted to the participants. In half of their responses, the students were asked to lie. They found that when the students were lying, it took them 10% longer to send the text message, and they made more edits than usual.


According to the researchers, people are only able to detect when someone is lying to them in person about 54% of the time — there are behaviors that some people swear are giveaways of mendacity, like not being able to look people in the eye, or fidgeting. So it’s incredibly difficult to identify when someone is doing so online or over the phone. During texting conversations, you can’t hear the other person’s voice or see their facial expressions — which makes it easier to get away with an untruthful response. (A 2011 study found that people are more likely to lie while texting than in face-to-face conversations or video conferences for just this reason, and Manti Te’o's catfish experience highlighted how easily it’s done on social media.)

But while digital conversations are easy to manipulate, the results suggest that some patterns, such as the delay in texting fibs, could become cues for reading into the hidden meanings of voice or text communications. Granted, it was a small study, and not a real-life setting, but the researchers say their findings raise interesting questions about how the validity of other online transactions, such as communications on social media feeds and chat rooms, might be interpreted when it comes to issues of security and personal safety. “We are starting to identify signs given off by individuals that aren’t easily tracked by humans. The potential is that chat-based systems could be created to track deception in real-time,” said study author Tom Meservy, a BYU professor of information systems in a statement about the study.


http://healthland.time.com/2013/09/05/how-to-catch-a-texting-liar/