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FamilyRe: How Supportive Was Your Significant Other While You Were Pregnant? by Nickydrake(m): 4:32pm On Apr 27, 2012
I've always thought that when that time came, i'd go with her to the ward or wherever it is they harvest the babies, stand at her side, hold her hand. I'd close my eyes and feel every nerve tremble, every vein bulge. Experience every tide of pain that sweeps through her body in my mind's eye.... That way, I'd be sufficiently equipped to tease her about the whining and squirming all the days of our lives without fear of the usual ''you don't know what it's like'' rebuttal. cheesy

Now i know different. Or do i?
FamilyRe: How Supportive Was Your Significant Other While You Were Pregnant? by Nickydrake(m): 3:54pm On Apr 27, 2012
Analytical: You know what, I prefer the sideways because it makes so many things within easy reach and the hands can stray to some other places unplanned wink You haven't seen anything yet! Life is a choice. Choose to enjoy yours whatever comes. I chose to look at the bright side of things always. I tell you, life can be very interesting.
I totally understand your point. Now i can hardly wait! cheesy
FamilyRe: How Supportive Was Your Significant Other While You Were Pregnant? by Nickydrake(m): 3:29pm On Apr 27, 2012
Analytical: The first 3 months when there is no bump, she can lie face down. When the tummy protrudes, you do it either while she sits on a stool (heads on a table) or while she lies down slightly sideways, her back to you!
Hehehehe grin. Sounds interesting already. It ain't anytime soon for me, but it's never too early to start learning eh? Kudos to y'all who've told your tales, very interesting thread indeed.
FamilyRe: How Supportive Was Your Significant Other While You Were Pregnant? by Nickydrake(m): 3:01pm On Apr 27, 2012
I'm a rookie in the field so pardon me if this sounds a little incongruous...but how do you give a pregnant woman a back massage? Does she lie on the bump or sit on a bar stool? cheesy
PoliticsRe: CBN Response To Sanusi Plagiarism Allegation by Nickydrake(m): 1:59pm On Apr 26, 2012
yuzedo: This is why i want to do Corporate Communications! grin grin grin
Lesson One in Ambivalence: Did you or did you not sleep with that lady?
Bill Clinton: I did NOT have sexuaI relations with that woman! angry
CBN Corporate Communications Director: While we can categorically defer to the validity of emotions that will generate such a pertinent line of questioning as regards the portentous situation heralded by this landmark albeit unfortunate incident. However, might i remind my esteemed accusers that a sui generis personality as myself cannot be expected to toe the line of an eunuch even though the life of a randy playboy incapable of self-control vis-a-vis the situation at hand is going too far and thus i aver to my sanity and complete self-restraint at all times! Therefore, thank you and God bless America! grin grin grin
"Corporate" communicators and PR "specialists". . Smh! undecided huh
Hehehehe. I, too, just might have found my calling. grin grin grin grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Andre Marriner To Referee Manchester Derby by Nickydrake(m): 8:40pm On Apr 23, 2012
Bleep me sideways!! No Webb? Hell, now that's something to worry about.

Anyway, the situation could yet be salvaged if United would hurry and sign Marriner, even if only on loan. Hehehe. grin

Up United jorr! cheesy
LiteratureRe: Which Are The Books You Read When You Were Young by Nickydrake(m): 11:55am On Apr 23, 2012
Didn't read much of african literature then. The only remarkable ones i can remember are An African Night's Entertainment and The Passport of Mallam Ilia.
LiteratureRe: Which Are The Books You Read When You Were Young by Nickydrake(m): 11:46am On Apr 23, 2012
Interesting thread.

I too read quite a lot when i was much younger, it was about the only thing i enjoyed doing which my parents also approved of. There was this local library i got registered in back then, dusty and derelict, it had the feel of a mummy's tomb. But the books in it cheesy! Here's a few i enjoyed...

ALL of the Williard Price Adventure Series (Hal & Roger Hunt) - My all-time favourite.

The Lost Treasure of Casa Loma

Terror in Winnipeg

Murder on the Canadian

Vancouver Nightmare

The Island of the Blue Dolphins

The Boy Who Was Afraid

The Boy Who Knew Too Much

Coral Island

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea!

Kidnapped

The Iliad of Homer

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Of course)

Not to mention a host of fairy tale and short story anthologies.

Funny enough, i never read any
of Enid Blyton's. Hans Anderson and the Grimm brothers furnished me with all the fairy fantasies any child could wish for.

Man, just thinking of that library sends waves of nostalgia sweeping through me. Glad i renewed my membership during my last visit home even if i'll hardly use it.
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LiteratureRe: Time! by Nickydrake(m): 5:32pm On Apr 22, 2012
Witty. Me likey likey. grin
Music/RadioRe: For Lovers Of Rock Music Only! by Nickydrake(m): 9:42pm On Apr 20, 2012
Me loves rock too.
Current obsessions:

Keane >> Perfect Symmetry

My Chemical Romance >> I Don't Love You

My Chemical Romance >> Welcome to the Black Parade

The Killers >> A Dustland Fairytale

Whitely >> Head, First, Down.

Actually there's a lot more and i feel guilty that i have to stop at those, but if i don't stop now, i might never. grin
SportsRe: Nicknames You Call Footballers In Your Area? by Nickydrake(m): 4:54pm On Apr 17, 2012
Hilarious thread.

Here goes...

I coined the first one myself as a metaphor for his lethal and totally jaw-dropping acrobatic skills.

Berbatov ~ SCIMITAR Berbatov.

Ronaldo ~ CR7 or Ronnie

Messi ~ Ojuju grin

Vidic ~ Agent 47 ( my fabrication again here. Cold-blooded SOB)

Anelka ~ Madam Anelka grin

Obertan ~ Malaria grin

Scholes ~ Uncle Scholes

Balotelli ~ Why Always Me

Nistelrooy ~ Rude Boy

Schweinsteiger ~ With a badass name like that, who needs a moniker? grin
SportsRe: Victor Ikpeba And His Grammar Skills On TV by Nickydrake(m): 4:09pm On Apr 17, 2012
Richvkunt: Victor Ikpeba was a great footballer but he certainly is a below average football analyst.
Apart from his poor English and poor pronunciation of words,he fails to be professional in his analysis of football matches.
It is so easy to notice that he is completely biased towards anything concerning Manchester United and totally obsessed with them.
On the other hand his co analyst Segun Agbede is so pro united that the two of them succeed in turning the sports chat segment into a battle between two football fans just lucky to speak into a microphone.
Next season Supersports need to up their game and get professionals to run that segment of the programme,or better leave us to watch the original analysis from the EPL studios abroad.
Right now Victor and Segun are an insult to all premium subscription holders on DSTV.
Whenever they come on I just turn down the volume of my TV set.
I noticed this for the first time during the half-time analysis of United's game away to Blackburn. He kept hinting at an existing romance between Ferguson and the officials (albeit in less enlightened terms).

Perhaps in a bid to give his biased tirade the semblance of an objective analysis, he remarked concerning a particularly impressive save the United Goalie had made:

''That was a great SAVINGS from De Gea''. grin
Christianity EtcRe: Nothing Wrong With Alcohol, Cigarette – Pastor Chris Oyakhilome? <<Rumor?>> by Nickydrake(m): 1:39am On Apr 17, 2012
italo: Drinking alcohol is not as sin; getting drunk is.
As eating is not a sin but gluttony is.

Smoking is not necessarily a sin but its a bad habit.
As staying too close to the TV is not necessarily a sin but a bad habit.
When i got to the smoking part i half expected to see something like; Smoking is not a sin, but bursting into flames
is. grin

Well, you were smart enough to avoid writing something that silly, although the argument you opted for is about as ludicrous.
RomanceRe: What Nerds Don't Know About Women? by Nickydrake(m): 3:50pm On Apr 16, 2012
WillyWest: Chai Agnes, the grammatical prowess to which the above write up was penned borders on the Obahiagbonish.
grin grin grin
LiteratureRe: Inspirational Quote Of The Hour (2) by Nickydrake(m): 9:34pm On Apr 12, 2012
Under certain circumstances,
profanity provides a relief denied
even to prayer.

Mark Twain.

I believe that's a rather concise version of the actual quote, but a great deal of inspiration can still be derived from it if you look with your heart set just right. grin
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FamilyRe: How & Why Do Siblings Fall Apart? by Nickydrake(m): 10:13am On Apr 11, 2012
GboyegaD: It did and it is still making. Do you have the full lyrics of the song?
Someone's posted it here already. ^^
PoliticsRe: Oppressed/Molested By Nigerian Police? Share Your Story Here by Nickydrake(m): 2:25pm On Apr 10, 2012
My ordeal wasn't just at the hands of the police; soldiers were involved too. Before the incident i'd always regarded the presence of JTF soldiers at checkpoints as a good development, you know, a sliver of rationality to balance the boundless insanity of the policemen. I took a different view of things after the incident.


It happened last year,
towards the end of the session,
which is about the time the annual law dinner is held. We were returning from the event, i and three other friends, in a car driven by one of the latter. All our woes that night could be deservedly blamed on that vehicle.

It was a shabby little contraption in the guise of a toyota corolla that couldn't have been manufactured later than 1985. Bald tires, non-existent shocks, faulty headlights and conked out wipers.

It was dark and raining hard.

Visibility was so poor that the car often drifted wide and rubbed against the sidewalk. We got to a checkpoint manned by members of the JTF and announced our arrival by crashing into that concrete median island that separates the lanes.

A soldier was standing a few yards away from the collision point. Another one stood a little farther, peering into passing vehicles and waving his flashlight.
The closer one walked up to us, opened the driver-side door and removed the key from the ignition, swearing in hausa all the while. We filed out of the car in a very sombre manner, wondering what would be the most intelligent thing to say, or if it would be clever to say anything at all.

A brief and decidedly incriminating interrogation followed. Where's your driving licence? E
no dey. Vehicle particulars na? Absent. Good.

Our predicament was quite clear to us. These supposedly law enforcement agents can be enough of a pain in the butt even when you're on the right side of the law, and look how easily we had worked to skewer ourselves firmly over their barbecue.

Somehow, probably as a result of both the cumulative prayers of my mum and those i uttered on the spot grin , we weren't roughed up. That means no slaps or olympic-standard laps of frog jumping. But we were made to stand in the rain
for over two hours. I'm talking about jos here, so yes, it was deathly cold. Even the soldiers had thick waterproof overcoats on.

They told us in a frighteningly straightforward manner that we were going to spend the night in the Angwan Rogo police station.
Angwan rogo and indeed all of bauchi road, where the incident occurred, is a notorious deathtrap for christians, as it is entirely populated by belligerent proponents of the other religion.

A night in a cell there would almost have meant certain death, and would have definitely led to the loss of our money and gadgets.

To cut a very long and harrowing story short, my friend who had driven the car managed to call his dad, an SS officer. The dad arrived after half an hour and still spent a seemingly interminable time 'talking' with the soldiers and their boss.

Anyway, we were allowed to go at about 11:30pm; the whole incident must've started at about 8pm.

The next law dinner is still a long way off, but i know already that i won't be going. grin
FamilyRe: How & Why Do Siblings Fall Apart? by Nickydrake(m): 6:03pm On Apr 09, 2012
GboyegaD: Yea, I was invited once in 1998 July or thereabout. They were welcoming new sets of students that just left high school then. I went and got there late and all I enjoyed was the anthem "Here and now in our time". The wordings made sense to me and each time I think about it I love the song.
1998! And you still remember those lyrics! Wow. Must've made quite an impression.
FamilyRe: How & Why Do Siblings Fall Apart? by Nickydrake(m): 4:06pm On Apr 09, 2012
GboyegaD: Like the FECA anthem, although I am not so sure how they sing it cos I only heard it once but one part I like is "We shall keep the feeble knees that stoops to fall". When we all live with the conciousness of "Life being Vanity", we would learn to show love even when we seem hurt.
Like, you know FECA?
FamilyRe: How & Why Do Siblings Fall Apart? by Nickydrake(m): 3:57pm On Apr 09, 2012
This thread and the responses reminds me of a Dean Koontz novel; The Husband.

There was this guy who appeared to be the ideal big brother; rich, supportive, and willing to make outrageous sacrifices for the benefit of his three siblings.

Benevolent though he appeared, it turned out he was seething inside with rage and resentment towards both parents and all the other children, and for no
logical reason.

It wasn't envy, since he was their parents favourite and they openly declared him to be their pride, often goading the other children with his success.
It couldn't have been the result of any sort of competition either, as he was by far the wealthiest of the children, with a seven-figure net worth.

The guy was just plain mad, clinically speaking.
FamilyRe: He Said He 'touched' Her..&for Me That Has Changed A Lot Of Things! by Nickydrake(m): 7:04pm On Apr 06, 2012
tiptap: Hmmm,
Anger, pride, lack of communication can make even the sweetest couple drift apart.
It's so sad seeing couples who used to head over heel with each other succumb to pressure and begin to find find solace in other people/things.

Let me start by saying that, your wife really cares about you , that was why she insisted you take care of yourself before paying the rent,she din't think about the embarrassment it might cause u..all she wanted was my hubby should get well. You paid the rent which I feel caused her to boil. "why are you not listening to me?" I can imagine her think. She had to make you mad by fixing the kitchen cabinet and all that...to hurt u in return.

Since you were not taking time to express your hurts and feelings, every thing both of you do will be irritating .In her right senses, the woman you married and took to the altar will not leave ur house for ur friend's house...only anger and pride will cloud anyone's reasoning.

Please be careful of what decision you'll make. Talking to your wife will do more than a great deal. Sometimes spouses need time off to spend with each other...away from the kids,away from work,away from noises and believe me I think you need that retreat with ur wife for both of you to fall in love with each other again.

Every marriage has its turbulent time, this is yours,don't drown in it, sail over it

The choice is yours
I hate to introduce yet another cynical perspective here, but what if the wife had been all for the knee operation so she could get the husband out of the way for the sake of a singularly wild spell with her amorous acquaintance? The school-fee/kitchen-cabinet fiasco could simply be a petulant reaction stemming from the frustration his decision to pay the rent caused.


Now i've not presented this argument to further smear guilt on the woman, i'm only saying his decision to pay the rent rather than go
for surgery could easily have been regarded as a the manly sacrifice of a capable lifemate rather than the stubbornness of an insensitive husband. Had she considered the situation in that way the quarrel that drove her to the den of sin would hardly have arisen.

The deed is done (which is just too bad), and i think by initiating a talk with his wife on the subject as he has proposed to do, the OP is heading in the right direction.

I hope it ends well for the married couple...providing the whole thing ain't fiction in the first place.
EducationRe: Why Is Critical Thinking And Common Sense Elusive To Most 'Educated' Nigerians? by Nickydrake(m): 1:16pm On Apr 06, 2012
harakiri: @Brixtonyute



Err. . .Common sense and "critical thinking abilities" in what sense specifically?




There are pseudo-intellectuals and morons in EVERY FORUM not just here so what's new? Everybody learns from one source or the other be it classrooms,news media, newspapers,journals or animal planet. Doesn't matter so long as information is transferred.



Errr. . .How do YOU analyse "everything" other than what you've read, been taught or experienced? Hmmm? What's this "western controlled news media" thing you're bringing up? You're typing in ENGLISH aren't you? Isn't that derived from the western world?




Actually, you barking up the wrong tree. It's NOT a Nigerian thing rather it's A BLACK THING! As much as i hate to say this, the black man has a lot of evolving to do. World wide, we are a global embarrassment (the few black folks that make history are nothing compared to the billions remaining). For instance. . .black folks still remain minorities in the US but check out their prisons. . .who has the largest population? BLACKS! ! ! And it's usually for bottom ladder crimes such as armed robbery,drug trafficking,rape,murder and other violent crimes. Go to Asian jails and check out the population of blacks there. It's appalling. How about down here in Africa? Can you name ONE country blessed in mineral resources that isn't either going through serious civil strife or riddled with corruption? Is it Sudan,Nigeria or Liberia? Which?

With all the billions of dollars (probably trillions due to poor accountability) Nigeria makes yearly, we still can't afford good roads, decent infrastructure,24/7 electricity,security of human lives and property,affordable housing,social security,health insurance and so on. In this day and age, we are still talking about manual bore-holes. Some stupid governor will put 5 manual bore holes in a rural community,claim to have spent N700million on the project and there'll be a media frenzy over his "achievements". It's simply ridiculous and pathetic.

I can go on and on but. . .

Abeg, leave mata. Black man mata no get part 2.
Very well said.
NYSCRe: Not All Nigerians Are Bad: My NYSC Experience by Nickydrake(m): 7:44pm On Apr 04, 2012
kwaghe: @Tosin - an average Hausa man has no integrity issues, his main weakness is his religious bigotry.
absolutely correct.
BusinessRe: If You Had 30 Million Naira: What Would You Do? by Nickydrake(m): 3:00pm On Apr 04, 2012
10% - God
50% - me
40% - charity.


Be warned, however, that i'd certainly reorganise the allocation for the last two listings if this discussion were anything other than wishful thinking. grin
Nairaland GeneralRe: What Does Your Nairaland User-Name Mean? by Nickydrake(m): 10:38pm On Apr 03, 2012
dabrake: roman numerals! IV = 4. I = 1. IX = 9. Therefore iv_i_ix = 419. grin grin grin
On point!
grin
CultureRe: Funny But True To Life Superstitions by Nickydrake(m): 2:40pm On Apr 03, 2012
dagboss: @fnk

If you go to a market and take a mirror and bend down and look at the lets of the people walking around in the market, you will notice that some of them are ghost, their legs doesn't touch the ground. But if they discover you, they will try to hit the mirror off your hand and if they do and the mirror touch ground, you will die. I thought of trying it out at Oshodi market, but fear no allow me.
Held a similar superstition then. Maybe i still do, because i've never quite tried it, and for the same reason as you. grin
CrimeRe: Robbers Attack Luxury Bus Along Ore-Shagamu Expressway, Ogun & Violate Students by Nickydrake(m): 1:25pm On Apr 03, 2012
Logic Mind: becos it aint illegal man. chill for bus company.
the real question is where was the police?
where is the state?

imagine if this country was divided and you hear news like "biafran school girls travelling to lagos ra.ped in odua". Some presidents will have a lot to answer for.
we must strive towards self determination.
Not illegal my a§§!!!! I have a mind to pelt your insensitive and completely contemptible mind with a barrage of invective!!!!

You read about the gang-violation of teenage schoolgirls and all you can think of is twisting their misfortune to favour some senseless crackpot seditious political idea? Jeez! Despicable!!!

You have no idea how much self-restraint i've employed to keep from using really unpleasant language to qualify you.
I sincerely hope you read your post again and weep in shame and self-loathe.


And oh, the transport company CAN be sued in tort. All it would take for a deservedly huge settlement is a good lawyer and a sympathetic judge. And given the heinous result of the company's negligence neither should be too hard to find.
Nairaland GeneralRe: What Was Your Childhood Fantasy? by Nickydrake(m): 5:51pm On Apr 01, 2012
I wonder how i got the idea, or why for that matter, but i'd hoped my dad would become pope and then afterwards ascension to the position would be hereditary.
Nairaland GeneralRe: What Was The Worst April Fool Played On/by You? by Nickydrake(m): 5:18pm On Apr 01, 2012
Has to be the new nairaland theme. I woulda given Seun a lethal spanking if he was a midget and within striking distance. Luckily for him, he is neither.
PhonesRe: Yet Another 'new' Nairaland? by Nickydrake(op): 12:30pm On Apr 01, 2012
I'm now convinced this is some sort of april fool trick.

Thank you gentlemen for your numerous comments, my eyes watered just from going through all of them. Show's over, you may now close this window.
grin grin grin grin
PhonesRe: Yet Another 'new' Nairaland? by Nickydrake(op): 12:27pm On Apr 01, 2012
sylve11: i think! cool

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