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PoliticsRe: An Average Black Man Not All Black Men by Nihilist: 7:20pm On Jul 13, 2015
all4naija:
Black is primitiveness.Black is illiterate. Black is ignorance. Black is savagery. Black is hate. Black is sentiiment. Black is denial. Black is excuse. Black is f**ked. Black is a disease. Black is definition of lie. Black is dictatorship. Black is Buhari. Black is dullard. Black is filthy environment. The list go on and on. The most annoying thing is that nobody wants to make a change while Nigerians keep supporting backwardness. How can people move forward without embracing change for the better? Ptui! angry angry angry lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed cry cry cry cry
You are a waste of sperm.
You will do well not to procreate. The innate stupidity in your DNA must not be allowed to taint the human Gene Pool.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 5:58pm On Jul 13, 2015
coogar:
in 13/14, matic played less games than schneiderlin & he still got killed as far as defensive stats were concerned. what's your excuse now? cheesy
Excuse ke?
My main argument has always been that stats are deceptive, at least defensively.

Have a look at this link:
http://statsbomb.com/2013/10/defensive-metrics-an-introduction/
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 4:33pm On Jul 13, 2015
leggo:
are you typing this with a PokerFace? "lol.. Ivanovich as the best rb in the league last season, statement of
fact or opinion the only fullback linked to UTD this season I wanted
was Alves" - this was my response word for word and my very next post was that he was a free agent...small small o
Not sure how disproves anything I wrote
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 4:33pm On Jul 13, 2015
coogar:
what has fewer games gotta do with per 90 metrics? do you understand statistics at all or do we have to keep spoonfeeding you?
You are trying to judge who is better by stats(which is silly anyway)

You compare Rafael per 90( 5 games) to Valencia (20 games)

Can you not see the obvious flaw in that? Or do I have to spoon feed you?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 4:15pm On Jul 13, 2015
sinizia:
it's not my stat, Coog uploaded it. and i don't agree with you. with more game time, Matic had more opportunities have a better stat or make more contributions than Schinerdlin.
I don't think you understand how averages work.

The more appearances you make, the lower your averages get.

Hence 1/2 bigger than 1/5
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 4:10pm On Jul 13, 2015
leggo:
I said so? yet I wanted alves who who was statistically inferior to Valencia as his replacement? I didn't want clyne simple as ABC..
and what has that got to do with the Schneiderlin/matic convo? Was matic a world class player before joining Chelsea or did a single season at Chelsea automatically make him world class?
You didn't know that Alves was stastically inferior. When I compared Val to all the other FB's and showed that he bested them all by your standards, your response was 'That's why I wanted Alves'

It was when we applied the Valencia test to Alves, and saw that he too had failed it.

Anyway, World Class as an appellation is form related, and Yes Matic became world class at Chelsea.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 4:00pm On Jul 13, 2015
sinizia:
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and even with lesser number of games, Schneiderlin whoops Matic's azz. undecided grin grin grin
It's actually because of the fewer games that Schneirderlin's Stats look better.

And your stats don't actually take that into account.

1/2 is always going to be bigger than 1/5
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 3:56pm On Jul 13, 2015
leggo:
was he world class before joining Chelsea, or did playing for Chelsea automatically make him world class ??
I'm not sure where you're going with this.
Remember, you were the one who was arguing that any new signing had to be statistically better than what was on ground.

What are your views on Darmian v Valencia?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 3:14pm On Jul 13, 2015
leggo:
is matic a world class player?Simple question... I don't know what death feels like so I can't compare.
Of course Matic is a world class player.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 3:13pm On Jul 13, 2015
coogar:
why should we put bastian aside? the captain of the world champions is who you are asking us to put aside?



do not say nobody knows him. just say you dunno him. darmian was at the world cup last year and he started all the games italy played before they were dumped out in the group stage. if you dunno darmian, perhaps it's because you don't have a TV. grin

if schnerderlin isn't world class, then who is? he's better than matic in that holding role. if you are looking at the overall output of southampton then you must be mistaken. matic wouldn't have done close to what morgan achieved at the saints!



it doesn't matter who will chase - we have one the best state of the art facilities to turn any talent willing to learn into a world class talent. valdes was a second choice keeper at man utd last season, his CV is better than any player chelsea have signed in their history. grin



hahahaha! grin
It doesn't really matter if I knew Darmian or not(I didnt), the fact of the matter is that you were dismissive of Clyne because he wasn't 'High Profile' enough....Then LVG went and signed Darmian who was even less visible to fans of the English game.

Leggo went and brought some stats that made Valencia look better than most fullbacks, and I can bet that Darmian would pale into insignificance if he takes the 'Valencia Test'

So I'm not sure why Nihilist's name is being mentioned, especially when Nihilist's suggestion is actually being implemented as transfer policy.

I personally think Manyoo have overpaid for Schweinsteiger, but that remains to be seen.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 3:05pm On Jul 13, 2015
leggo:
if Schneiderlin isn't world class , is Matic? honest question
Mate are you trying to compare sleep to death?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 2:51pm On Jul 13, 2015
coogar:
LVG has shut nihilist up again.....

about 2 weeks ago, nucca was spewing baloney on how none of our targets would be poached and we should follow their lead by signing premier league runts like begovic & loic remy. cheesy grin

the nucca has suddenly gone quiet now. i am sure he is still pinching himself that a whole german captain would wear our shirt next season. on top of that, we have morgan schnerderlin as the icing on the cake.

when will these chelsea rats get it that we ain't in the same category - the only thing that bounds us together is the map of england that has forced us to play in the same football league.

una never hear weeeeeen!
Bastian aside, LVG has done exactly what I said...by focusing less on marquee signings and more on less famous talent.

As for comparisons, you were slagging Clyne off as a runt...then went and signed Darmian who nobody really knows.
Schneiderlin is a good player no doubt...but he's not World Class either
And if the rumours about Oblak are true, Manyoo are actually chasing Athletico's second choice keeper.

And the Bastian transfer, the less said about that, the better.
PoliticsRe: An Average Black Man Not All Black Men by Nihilist: 12:21pm On Jul 13, 2015
kechywillz:
Gee,u ned to be exposed,i dont buy into ur philosphy
I need to be exposed? grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Nihilist: 12:09pm On Jul 13, 2015
Begovic signs
PoliticsRe: An Average Black Man Not All Black Men by Nihilist:
I hate reading this kind of uninformed crap, so against my better judgement, I will try and educate the OP

1. Never try to fight or have the back of an average black man cause they will turn their back at you, have learnt a black mans mind can be easily be convinced so far you have material things

So non-black people are less likely to be swayed by material things? The FIFA scandal for example, is an incident on corruption on a global scale. The vast majority of the suspects are not black

2. An average black man won't talk to his fellow black cause he still practices his african religion reasons being he found a new foreign religion which is against it,how about preaching love?
Islam isn't the indigenous religion of the vast majority of it's practitioners around the world....Neither is Christianity. Or even Buddhism for that matter.
A sub-section of these religions all over the world, advocate and practice segregation from non-believers

3. An average Black will worship anything foreign, so far is not from their lands
Define worship.

4. An average black man hate his skins,they hate their lives,they hate the misery they found themselves. They result into bleaching,fixing wigs,accent just trying to be a white man(reminds me of malcolmX trying to be white at first by relaxing his hair till he was reorientated)
This is the effect of cultural dominance. Unfortunately, the western ideals of beauty have now become the global standard, and so most non-western cultures are adapting to fit into these ideals at varying rates.
Educate yourself on the concept of 'Westernisation'

5.An average black man will stay in history and never hold those who run the present(leaders) responsible for our backwardness but still keep blaming the whites for what happened in 18-19th century(the white as no justification for what they did to a black man) even when knowing they have much resources now than when we had white in our soils.
Most African countries recieved their independence between the 1960s and 1980s, and under dubious circumstances too. You think the effects of the preceding 500 years of slavery and exploitation can be undone in just 50 years?

6.An average black man wants to feel superior to his fellow black man, he hereby goes to the white to stab his brothers,e.g goto our factories most of the mal-treatment a black man receives is either done by a fellow black man going slashing salaries from what the white actually prepared, obasanjo et al, to buruji(his a sinner,who ought to have been convicted,why are they just seeking that) just to prove a point

This actually just simple economics and human behaviour. Survival of the fittest in an area of limited resources. Under-qualified people from any race would do exactly when competing for limited jobs.

7.An average black man will never come together to revolt against injustice,they rather talk and talk(just look at a situation normal bus charge is 40# and the drivers take advantage of poor situation to collect 100#,and you agreed to pay 40# when you reach destination,you will see a black man that will go back to pay 100# his excuses his is religion,faith,tradition)
This is just nonsense. There are too many examples of black freedom fighters in history to count. It was ordinary black people like you and I who turned out en masse to protest Fuel Subsidy Removal...and March for Bring Back our Girls...or Marched for Buhari...or even rioted at June 12.

8. An average black man will sell their brother out just to please a foreigner,
An average person from any race will sell out anybody if the price is right. Go and read through Europen history and see how many kings killed their siblings to get the crown. Unless you're trying to claim that Greed is a trait exclusive to black people.

9. An average blackman is filled with bile,hatred in their gut,their minds are shackled,
What does this even mean?

10[b]Is evident in malcolmX death, that a fellow black killed him even when he was trying to fight for their freedom[/b]
The people who killed him actually felt he was selling out by preaching reconciliation with the Whitemen.

11.You can see skales tweet,an average black man sold skales out too on behalf an half blackkkkkk! (Even feeling inferior to a biracial black man)
So far you from the white land you will be worshiped,an average black man so much hate their skin.
An average black man may dream about a bad omen to someone, tells the person about the dream,the person doesn't believe in dream, the black man will go as far as secretly wishing the bad omen comes to pass to prove a point to a fellow,

None of that makes any sense.

12.Is it the average black man fault?yes it is the average black man fault, the day we revolt against the evils we call leaders the day we rise, no one will help the black race until the black race learn to unite to forge forward.you ever wonder why the whole of africa is that backward? Don't talk about South Africa you can see how downward its going when the leadership becomes black? The question is are we cursed with bad leaders?or we just know how to select the bad leaders? Or we love the bad leaders as some ladies prefer bad boys and later found out his spurious?if you think the youth are the future?you need to visit our schools.

Do you honestly think that Africa is backward because we choose to be? Do you know what kind of financial chains we are under? Look at what's happening to Greece...They are white. Look at Argentina...They're not black. You really have no clue what you're talking about. No clue at all.

13. I pray the average black man wake up and know the blackskin is just as great as the white skin.
You are what you belief you are,an average blackman need education and not gold chains that will remind them of slavery. May God help the black race.

Your ideas are regurgitated without understanding. Even your use of English betrays your lack of education per se.

You need to study mate,your eyes will be opened when you do.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Nihilist: 6:57am On Jul 13, 2015
Emaprince:
Man city will pay 49mil pounds to sign sterling. That's too much money.
Way too much money.
Sterling can't even be worth more than 25 million. The rest is just the Tax on English talent.

Alexis Sanchez went for 35 million, and had league, European, and World titles.

Sterling has had only good season.

Firminho that has very similar output to Sterling over the last couple of years went for around 26 million sef.

If I hear say my Pikin no play ball...
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Nihilist: 5:24am On Jul 13, 2015
UniqueGem:
King Ed just landed Schneiderlin.. Peeing in your pants yet? Don't be in a hurry to, we've gat Otamendi, Ramos and co lined up for the next 24hrs. Review Hazards contract tonight, King Ed might just activate stealth mode and swoop.
I'm not exactly sure what the hype about this schneirderlin dude is to be honest.

Only last summer, the height of that boy's ambition was Spurs and Pochettino. And he was a benchwarmer at the Worldcup too.

Sorry to piss on your chips, but I'm not quaking in my boots at all. It's not like the boy is better than Blind.
LiteratureRe: What Book Impacted You The Most? by Nihilist: 9:31am On Jul 12, 2015
tpiander:
Have you tried Angela's Ashes by Frankie McCourt.
No I haven't
Is it any good?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 9:23am On Jul 12, 2015
MrLouisVanGaal:
After 25 years of wonderful service and trophies too numerous to Count.. he'll be living like a reject and why?? mourinho... the destroyer of careers. Dropped him to the bench cause the dude never liked his stupid park the bus tactic, set teammates against each other and Casillas was beginning to receive hate from teammates who were like brothers because of that big mouthed egocentric mistake of a coach.... Why do i even feel Casillas' leaving was the trigger for Ramos causing all the transfer brouhaha of the past days. His partner in crime who stood up to perez to get that lousy looser out is leaving, he's gonna be alone and his wages doesn't even place him as the next big guy after Casillas.

So painful how his career dropped since those incidents. Never really became the Casillas we Knew. If mourinho destroys you, you are truly finished. Shevchenko, Torres?? No coach has mourinho's track of destroying careers across Europe. I feel so much for Falcao. By the time mourinho is through with him, his Manchester United days would be his best days remembered in colour, the rest wud be remembered in black and white.
Go and watch the 2014 Champion's league final again.
There's a clue in there as to why 2 successive managers dropped Casillas...and why Madrid are desperate to sign De Gea.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Nihilist: 11:48pm On Jul 11, 2015
On Oscar

What with his involvement in the 2011 U20 World Cup, 2012 London Olympics, 2013 Confederations Cup and 2014 World Cup, Oscar hasn’t been afforded a prolonged summer break for over four years.

That’s set to change this year, though, by virtue of the fact he sustained a knock at the tail-end of the Premier League season and has subsequently been ruled out of Brazil’s Copa America squad. Blues boss Jose Mourinho is confident that a lengthy rejuvenation period will do wonders for Oscar’s progression as a player, setting him up to emulate the heroics of Eden Hazard during Chelsea’s triumphant title-winning campaign. Although rumours have surfaced suggesting that Oscar could be deemed surplus to requirements this transfer window – a theory strengthened by his bit-part role in the second half of the season – Mourinho’s quotes regarding the player dispel that notion:

Someone like Oscar, for example, is a fabulous player but he’s never had a pre-season in his life. He’s always been playing in tournaments everywhere, he’s never had a rest. Now, because he’s injured he’s not going to the Copa America and I have a feeling that next year Oscar can have the same kind of evolution as Hazard had this season. I’m happy with my squad and I have to respect the people that gave us the title

Burrowing deeper into the underlying statistics, Oscar registered more assists (eight) than his previous two campaigns at the London club, despite clocking the fewest number of minutes (2021) since his switch to the Premier League.

In terms of his goal threat, the Brazilian schemer fashioned shooting attempts at the sixth-fastest rate (28.8 minutes per chance) among those players that tallied at least 1500 minutes of pitch time. This figure compares very favourably to the likes of Hazard (45.2 minutes) and Fabregas (70.3 minutes), with Diego Costa (28.1 minutes) and Loic Remy (24.6 minutes) the only individuals in Chelsea’s camp boasting superior numbers.

To further illustrate Oscar’s proclivity for carving out shooting opportunities, he ranked joint-eight among all midfielders with regards to shots inside the box (38), in spite of his above-mentioned poverty of minutes
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 9:29pm On Jul 11, 2015
chic2pimp:
grin grin grin You don turn britico finish

My G add Afrobeats to that list and that's me done.

Also I see say you dey go park watch wildlife. grin grin cheesygrin grin grin grin.
Burna dey dia na?

Britico faya...Na when in rome things.

But you sef know how the park dey go on a hot summer afternoon. Put my dark shades on like I cant see them...but oboy me fancy them!!!
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Nairaland Fantasy Premier League 2015/2016 by Nihilist: 9:06pm On Jul 11, 2015
Wahala dey this year o.

No single budget forward?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 9:03pm On Jul 11, 2015
chic2pimp:
Really liked your summerplaylist ya know. Mad tunes still.
Yes my don! Don noe. lol

Summer time = Reggae\Bashment\Dancehall time. grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Nihilist: 8:26pm On Jul 11, 2015
folba:
United showing intent and direction in this market
Really? grin
LiteratureRe: What Book Impacted You The Most? by Nihilist: 7:24pm On Jul 11, 2015
OMA4U:
who has read Dubliner by James Joyce?
Interesting...I once tried to read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' but just couldn't get into it, due to the Author's insistence on writing in what looked like Irish-English.

Same thing happened when I tried to read Irvine Welsh's 'Trainspotting' which is written entirely in Scottish-English...then again, I found it difficult watching the film as well cheesy
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Nihilist: 6:44pm On Jul 11, 2015
A40:
Deep runs in major tournaments over that timeframe were also a factor. He even went to the last WC injured. Provided he is well managed Fussballgott can still give Man U 3 solid seasons. He relies less on athleticism and more on intelligence now plus Ana's puna is another potential factor
Yeah obviously, Bastian's main asset is his brain, and with all the CMs they have, they should be able to manage his fitness properly.
LiteratureRe: What Book Impacted You The Most? by Nihilist: 12:42pm On Jul 11, 2015
herald9:
The first book that really impacted me was Purple Hibiscus by Chimanda Adichie. I admired the character of Amaka. She was culturally-bound, she knew the importance and appreciated her inherited cultures and traditions to a point of refusing to take on a Christian name in order to get baptized, therefore, she ended up not being baptized along with others. She questions everything western much to the detriment of her mum. That was a character!

The next novel was Half of the Yellow Sun by the same author. That book left me moody for days.

Then A man from Mars. Uhm, I'm that bad at cramming author's names, I just go straight to the business.

The Mine boy by Abraham Peters or Peter Abrahams.

The other is Harry Potter, Animal farm, etc.
Purple Hibiscus was a really good book. Mine Boy as well.

Animal Farm is a really interesting one...I initially read the book as child, and with a child's understanding. I even watched the cartoon back in the day on Channel's TV. It was only when I got to SS2 and re-read the book, that I began to understand the allegory for the origins of communism...with Napoleon and Snowball representing the Lenin-Trotsky relationship.

It was like my eyes just opened for the first time, and I read and re-read the book over and over...Farmer Jones represented Tsarist Russia. The constantly changing rules represented Lenin's sociopathic approach to leadership, and the scene at the end where you couldn't tell the pigs from the humans, in my opinion might represent Khrushev's attempt to steer the USSR away from Lenin's legacy.

Boxer the horse in particular, to me represents the stupidity of the utterly indoctrinated, unquestioning pleb...and can be seen to iconize the congregation at some churches,some boko haram members, and some of the Tanoids we see in the politics section of this forum today.
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Jobs/VacanciesRe: What's The Best Approach To This Question "How Do You Handle Pressure"? by Nihilist: 12:06pm On Jul 11, 2015
oluamid:
It's easy to sound very knowledgeable. But making actual sense? Not so.
Pardon?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Nairaland Fantasy Premier League 2015/2016 by Nihilist: 11:35am On Jul 11, 2015
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LiteratureRe: What Book Impacted You The Most? by Nihilist: 11:34am On Jul 11, 2015
letsbet:
Honestly, those volumous novels are very interesting to read. you just get lost in them & dont want dem to end e.g LONDON the novel. its biger than ur bigest Oxford dictionary but very interesting. u seem like a vast reader to me?
I've read a few books,yes.
These days not so much, as I'm often very busy.
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Jobs/VacanciesRe: What's The Best Approach To This Question "How Do You Handle Pressure"? by Nihilist: 11:17am On Jul 11, 2015
I assume that this a question you've been asked by an interviewer so I'll answer it like that:

1. Assessment:

You need to do something called an RCA(Root Cause Analysis)
a:Where is the pressure coming from?
b:What is the cause of the pressure?
c:Can this pressure be mitigated?
d:What steps can be taken to mitigate this pressure?

2. Requirement Gathering:

a:What materials,tools,expertise are required to mitigate this pressure?
b:Where can they be found?
c: What are the cost implications in terms of finances, time, or man hours?

3: Planning

a: Based on the steps taken above, implement a plan to mitigate pressure
b: Test/Model intended solution iteratively where possible.
c: Create use case model/UML diagrams to document plans
b: Create an RFC(Request for Change document)

3: Communication:

a:Communicate with all stakeholders to assess their grieviances,aims/objectives, etc.
b:Present documentation on how you intend to mitigate the pressure
c: Manage stakeholder expectations -Under-Promise and Over-Deliver

4: Implementation.

a: Implement your plan.
b: Ensure stakeholder satisfaction to the best of your ability.
LiteratureRe: What Book Impacted You The Most? by Nihilist: 11:15am On Jul 11, 2015
letsbet:
According to wikipedia Tolstoy's peace and war is epic and regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. I also heard its one of the longest written novels.
How long did it take you to read it??
I read it as a youth.
It's honestly not even that long sef.
My Dad's copy comprised of 3 volumes, each roughly around the same size as a bible.
The Harry Potter Volumes for instance, are much larger in scope and size, especially the arc from the Goblet of Fire to Deathly Hallows.
Another lengthy contemporary Novel/Saga I can think of is Stephen King's 'the Stand'.
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