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Look at them haggard old looking slumps coming to take the best of our flock, and we willingly giving ourselves to them.

Product of a failed country

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charlsecy:
How?

Sponsor a movie production after which you sell it to platforms like Africa magic, iroko, ibaka etc, depending on the quality of the movie they can buy as much 500k to 1.5m

Oreofepeters:
I have a spare cash at bank of 400k and I don't know what to do with it.

Anyone has an idea of what to do with it?

You can invest it in movie production, you can make as much as 1.5M in just 3 months,

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After cumming you start going

So what do you want to do now, report to your landlord?
After that then what next?

It's not voodoo for Christ's sake. Here in Nigeria we have tribes that give their children tribal marks either on the face, chest or back.

It's nothing to be scared about, all his trying to do is to give your son a cultural identity so he won't lose his heritage. Your husband is a real African

And for purpose of clearing of doubt, ask him

So what is the solution

Octopusssy:
Herein lies the tragedy of social media. People think they can just say all manner of terrible things to other people because it isn't face-to-face, forgetting that not everyone is emotionally equipped to handle abuse. Nairaland is a typical example of a place where you can just run your filthy mouth at anybody. To cope here (NL) you must have a thick skin otherwise you will just go and drink sniper (this, of course is based on the assumption you have no life offline like this poor girl.)

Trolls should understand that mean words can drive weak people to harm themselves, and then when karma comes knocking you will blame one innocent mama minding her business in the village. It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.

Don't get too addicted to social media. Log off once in a while and GET A LIFE. If you are introverted find other activities that can help you mentally and intellectually grow without negatively affecting your social skills, otherwise you will implode, much like Chloe Davison.

If you can't handle the trolling, you stay offline. Simple as that. What if she had been born in the 80s when there was no social media.

Youths in the 1940s were loading bombs on jets and sent in front of charging canons. Today youths are to be pampered and baby sitted before they commit suicide due to low self esteem or emotional trauma arising from break ups and internet validation.

We have truly lost it in this generation

Rip to the deceased.

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Op, if you have not yet returned from Xmas in the village please stay back

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omokoginimi:
” He will make his Super Eagles debut last year”

Wtf! He will last year? Na wa o

Mehn the thing off me

Ok

Please I want to know how long it takes to prepare grilled chicken, from the raw chicken to the final output

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When it comes to warding off the mystic malevolent forces of the world, there is perhaps no charm more recognised or renowned than the ‘evil eye’. Ubiquitous in its use, the striking image of the cobalt-blue eye has appeared not only in the bazaars of Istanbul, but everywhere from the sides of planes to the pages of comic books.
There’s a key distinction between the evil eye, which is a curse, and the eye amulet, which dispels the curse
In the last decade, evil eye imagery has most frequently appeared in the world of fashion. Kim Kardashian has been photographed on numerous occasions sporting bracelets and headpieces featuring the symbol, while fashion model Gigi Hadid jumped on the trend in late 2017, announcing that she would be launching the EyeLove shoe line.

This recent endorsement from A-list celebrities has resulted in the surfacing of countless online tutorials for making your own evil eye bracelets, necklaces and keychains. Though all this attention would suggest the evil eye is seeing a sudden surge in popularity, the truth is that for thousands of years the symbol has maintained its steady hold on the human imagination.
To understand the origins of the evil eye, one must first understand the distinction between the amulet and the evil eye itself. Though often dubbed as ‘the evil eye’, the ocular amulet is actually the charm meant to ward off the true evil eye: a curse transmitted through a malicious glare, usually one inspired by envy. Though the amulet – often referred to as a nazar – has existed in various permutations for thousands of years, the curse which it repels is far older and more difficult to trace.
In essence, the curse of the evil eye is not a complicated concept; it stems from the belief that someone who achieves great success or recognition also attracts the envy of those around them. That envy in turn manifests itself as a curse that will undo their good fortune. The concept is well captured by Heliodorus of Emesa in the ancient Greek romance Aethiopica, in which he writes, “When any one looks at what is excellent with an envious eye he fills the surrounding atmosphere with a pernicious quality, and transmits his own envenomed exhalations into whatever is nearest to him.”
The belief in this curse spans cultures as well as generations; to date one of the most exhaustive compilations of legends regarding the evil eye is Frederick Thomas Elworthy’s The Evil Eye: The Classic Account of an Ancient Superstition. Elworthy explores instances of the symbol in a number of cultures; from the petrifying gaze of Greek gorgons to Irish folktales of men able to bewitch horses with a single stare, virtually every culture has a legend related to the evil eye. The eye symbol is so deeply embedded in culture that, in spite of its potentially pagan connotations, it even finds a place within religious texts, including the Bible and the Quran.
Plutarch said those best at delivering the curse were blue-eyed
An eye for an eye
Belief in the evil eye has transcended mere superstition, with a number of celebrated thinkers attesting to its veracity. One of the most notable examples was the Greek philosopher Plutarch, who in his Symposiacs suggested a scientific explanation: that the human eye had the power of releasing invisible rays of energy that were in some cases potent enough to kill children or small animals. What’s more, Plutarch claims that certain people possessed an even stronger ability to fascinate, citing groups of people to the south of the Black Sea as being uncannily proficient at bestowing the curse. More often than not, those said to be most adept at delivering the curse are blue-eyed, likely due to the fact that this is a genetic rarity in the Mediterranean area.
Though the theory that some possess a more potent glare capable of inflicting harm is quite common in the lore of the evil eye, not all correlate the power with an inherent ill will. Some cultures view the ability to bestow the curse as an unfortunate burden, a curse in itself. For instance, Elworthy makes reference to an archaic Polish folk tale that tells of a man whose gaze was such a potent carrier of the curse that he resorted to cutting out his own eyes rather than continuing to spread misfortune to his loved ones.
With such an ardent and widespread belief that a stare held the power to inflict catastrophic misfortune, it’s no surprise that the people of these ancient civilizations sought out a means to repel it, which led to the earliest iterations of the nazar amulet that we know today. Just how far back do these go? “The earliest version of eye amulets goes back to 3,300 BC,” Dr Nese Yildiran, an art history professor at Istanbul’s Bahçeşehir University, tells BBC Culture. “The amulets had been excavated in Tell Brak, one of the oldest cities of Mesopotamia – modern day Syria. They were in the form of some abstract alabaster idols made with incised eyes.”
While the alabaster idols of Tell Brak seem to be one of the oldest eye amulets discovered, they are a far cry from the typical blue glass we know today, the earliest iterations of which didn’t begin appearing in the Mediterranean until around 1500 BCE. How were these early prototypes of Tell Brak distilled into the more modern versions?
“The glass beads of the Aegean islands and Asia Minor were directly dependent upon improvements in glass production,” Yildiran explains. “As for the colour blue, it definitely first comes from Egyptian glazed mud, which contains a high percentage of oxides; the copper and cobalt give the blue colour when baked.”
Yildiran makes reference to several blue Eye of Horus pendants excavated in Egypt, asserting that these could in a way be seen as the most influential predecessor to the modern nazar. According to Yildiran, early Turkic tribes held a strong fascination with this shade of blue because of its connections with their sky deity, Tengri, and likely co-opted the use of cobalt and copper as a result.
It’s still a tradition in Turkey to bring an evil eye token to newborn children
The blue evil eye beads underwent a widespread circulation in the region, being used by the Phoenicians, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans and, perhaps most famously, the Ottomans. Though their usage was most concentrated in the Mediterranean and the Levant, through means of trade and the expansion of empires the blue eye beads began to find their way to all different corners of the globe.
Blind to its meaning?
What’s most fascinating about the evil eye isn’t its mere longevity, but the fact that its usage has deviated little over the course of millennia. We’re still affixing the evil eye to the sides of our planes in the same way that the Egyptians and Etruscans painted the eye on the prows of their ships to ensure safe passage. It’s still a tradition in Turkey to bring an evil eye token to newborn babies, echoing the belief that young children are often the most susceptible to the curse.
But one can’t help but wonder if as the eye morphs along with the mediums of the modern world, its meaning and history will eventually fall by the wayside. Some current interpretations have already incited fears of cultural appropriation, especially regarding fashion’s use of the evil eye in the Hamsa, which holds a sacred place in both Judaism and Islam.
The eye’s history is far-reaching and intertwines with many peoples, so many of the modern users do in fact hold a connection to it in terms of heritage; the aforementioned Kim Kardashian and Gigi Hadid, for instance, both hail from cultures in which the evil eye is a staple.
Yildiran doesn’t believe it is an issue.“The evil eye transcends this concern because it has been a part of a rather big geography, and open to all sorts of practices. It’s not difficult to imagine we will keep seeing motifs derived from the evil eye.”
Although the symbol may have the ability to transcend boundaries – be they cultural, geographical or religious – it may be worth considering its meaning beyond a mere trinket or fashion statement. The evil eye is a remnant from the very dawn of civilisation, harking back to some of humanity’s most enduring and profound beliefs. To wear an amulet flippantly without such knowledge might not only render its protective abilities useless, but incur an even more potent curse – if that’s something you believe in, of course.

Source : BBC.Com

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ubunja:
yes sir Simps will never change.

Anyways, there's one more writeup to upload as soon as the system permits.

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reidkrugger:
On this one, build up a rate and charge the guy. Rates will generally depend on your skillset and the difficulties in and around the job on an average. So cook up something u r comfortable with and charge. Not something that u think will make him do d job. A lot of dis clients r looking for a 40k video. 50k tops. And dats a 3minute video. Even if na 30secs nko?
Charging is generally, something dats way ur while. There's is no basic universal rule to charging. But I know dat if u r gud at wat u do, dat won't be an issue.

Thank you man, I appreciate

So someone asked me to do an animated music video for his song, just like that Olamide love no go die.

Like how much can I charge him