₦airaland Forum

Suntemi: You will call it joblessness because you don't understand why they are queuing. Some people are sent to queue by corporate bodies so as to be one of the first to get their hands on the device. Folks from iFixit.com do that all the time to drive traffic to their website thereby increasing their sales. They are always the first to show everyone how to tear-down Apple's latest devices.

Some people queue to sell the device at higher cost to those that wants it badly at launch.

You dey mind Nairalanders? Too much mumu people full here. They know no difference between living and surviving...

Them think sey life na to work and work and die and resurrect to heaven.

Ignorant people calling smarter ones jobless.

DollyParton1: You need no opinion. You just wanna cause trouble.

And why do you think so? Why do you expect me to swallow such without it making sense?

I don't want to cause any trouble. I just need someone to clarify.

I failed to grab the reason why you will consider Jesus a God when the bible explicitly says he was sent by SOMEONE greater than him. He (Jesus) therefore should be considered a [lesser] god

Happinext: @ OP, The Scriptures only identified one name of the almighty creator. That name is Jehovah: Psalms 83; 18, Isaiah 42 v 8, Exodus 3 v 15, Exodus 6 v 3.
Depending on the bible translations you read, God's name Jehovah, in the ancient manuscript, appeared for some 7,000 times. But it has been replaced with the title LORD or God.
Visit jw.org for more information

what you have just succeeded in listing are the titles and not name. Some of what you listed even refered names given to places or a condition.

Are you a Jehovah's Witness?

So Jesus is now God? Or a [lesser] god?

I need your viewpoint. OP!

Christians confusing each other since 11 C.E

Matured people arguing over fairy tales.

Song reminds me of

Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke and She Came to Give it to You - Usher

Both produced by Pharell.

BadBoy25: there's nothing innovative about that ugly streetcar design. I prefer the modest design .
below are modest streetcars in Seattle

Ofcourse, you speak for a lot of Nigerians.

You prefer mediocrity.

Even a foreigner wouldn't say such horseshit. They don't celebrate mediocrity.

tempest01: This is why I say it was pertinent for the pdp to do away with past bad eggs if the country has to move forward. Apc should relegate such people to the background or they willbe a mock opposition party

You're a budding polithiefian

The sad truth is, if you decide to contest for the presidency, these dolts will still vote for you. Just proclaim you will add 1K to the NYSC allowance, share bags of rice [or add Beans for additional beauty and packaging] or come up with a #Vision2017Tempest.

Now isn't that just beautiful?

ofala: I don't pick people unnecessarily but I wonder why you want to commit suicide over some satirised comments. I would have directed you to read few publications written by






but its absolutely unnecessarily... Kindly tell me when you wanna commit suicide.
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I will there to cheer you...

See? I just said it. They know how to turn you people against each other. So that even when when points are being made [unavoidable harsh truths sometimes] both parties will look like enemies.

I'm smarter than you not smarter than you , I will not banter with you. Do yourself a favor, and read a bit. The world is bigger than your father's compound, NL or Nigeria herself.

I'm sure you'll still consider what I wrote earlier as insults. But trust me, I'm not insulting you. I'm insulting us -all of us- Nigerians. I have absolutely nothing to gain by insulting you alone.

Peace

ofala: Its only in our beloved Country that nobody will ever be questioned or relieved of his job or put to prison for job negligence....

Hopefully.....better days are ahead

Because they know all what you dolts can do is to siddon there and keep hoping [and praying].

They're aware you people don't love each other and you'd rather buy generators [instead of collectively uniting and protesting against your human rights] and they also know if they keep adding 1 naira to the price of cruel fuel per month, you people would shrug it off. They are well aware that you Nigerians have no idea the difference between surviving and living, and you people will buy generators and fume each other to death (carbon monoxide, anyone) while watching SuperSports or MTN Project Fame, programs that add no basic meaning to the lives of an average Nigerian, rather than devote a day or two of your lives to demand your basic rights of living.

You only need an introductory knowledge of psychology and sociology to understand the mentality of being a Nigerian with the 'NoManWanDie' attitude towards life.

I mean, it will take serious obsessive compassion and reason for an average Nigerian polithifian not to treat you people like slaves.

Siddon there. Hope.

A simple introduction to social science and psychology will help a lot of Nigerians.

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Noise making group

Email sent

Mumuwood!

Cut-throat thread.

Boring list.

Nice trailer.

I'm glad the actors stuck to the script's dialogue

The coustume thingy is good too.

I'm just uneasy about the overuse of crane-to-level-angle shots. I noticed almost 5 on the trailer alone, I wonder how many go dey d movie.

Just saying from the production's POV.

Overall. Beautiful Nollywood movie

jajad: Which ones?

Go f. Machel Montano and Diaspora Woman f. Fally Ipupa

Worst album ever!

Gynacologist: whch of em?

Go f. Machel Montano and Diaspora Woman f. Fally Ipupa

Worst album ever!

I streamed the album on Spotify. I liked only 2 songs.

But that's none of my business sha.

Sips kunu with palm kernel.

So what is going to happen now?

Must we be 2 million before anything kicks off? Thats my problem with Nairaland based half-baked groupie ideas.

I'm forced to believe the OP was just having a spur of the moment thingy.

Guykhena: This woman is straight confused,
What's she trying to sound like? A black messiah?
She's a fvcking racist,cus everyone didn't go into a racist thinking when watching these films,but this confused white woman is trying to start a race war in the movie industry!
What this tells us is that she see blacks as a lower race and that blacks should be treated differently,specially(Tho such situations have already been passed and resolved,decades ago ).
She's a coward joor,

Omo. see mentality.

I'm tired of seeing white people on the silver screen.

First, let me note that I am white. I am a white woman who goes to the theater to see probably a dozen films (if not more) in a given year, a white woman who readily consumes TV shows and series and often blogs/tweets about them. I love film. I love what Hollywood could be, but I must say that I don't love what it is, and that is a machine generating story after story in which the audience is asked to root for a white (usually male) hero over and over and over (and over) again. I'm tired. I'm tired of directors pretending that white actors are the default and that people of color are a distraction when it comes to filmmaking. I'm tired of black women in Hollywood being relegated to roles of slaves and "the help" over and over again. I'm tired of films convincing themselves that they are taking on something fresh and new, the likes of which the world has never seen, but in actuality adhering to tired tropes and stereotypes.

One example that comes to mind is Avatar, a "groundbreaking" film about aliens and humanity, which, underneath it all, is the same old White Savior story. But more recently is Lucy, the film starring Scarlett Johansson in which a woman named Lucy evolves and is able to use 100 percent of her brain's capacity after she unwittingly ingests a massive amount of drugs.

Lucy is about what humankind could be -- it's about possibilities. As Lucy's brainpower grows stronger and the volume of knowledge she is able to access increases, she delivers monologues about how little humans understand about death, existence, and the universe, mediating on time and history. The film likes to think of itself as reimagining everything that we think we know about humanity, and presents to us their vision of what the most evolved woman on earth looks like:

A blonde white woman.

See, I just can't get right with that.

You see, I was an anthropology major in high school and by the time I was 16 I'd learned all about Lucy (Australopithecus), the collection of bones found in Hadar and thought to have lived 3.2 million years ago, one of the oldest hominids we know of. Lucy the film doesn't try to hide how cute they thought they were being by naming the supreme evolved being in their film "Lucy" -- they show an ape-like creature crouched by a stream to illustrate just how far human beings have come, and say as much in the opening lines, depicting vast cities built up to show our progress. The original Lucy was not really an ape, though. She had small skull capacity like apes, but her skeleton shows she was bipedal and walked upright like humans. Hadar, by the way, is in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia.

So I guess what's sticking in my craw is the assertion that while human life originated in Africa -- a detail the film neatly skims over, placing the ape-like Lucy that Johansson sees in North America -- somehow the way we imagine the most evolved human being is blonde and white. Even more, when Lucy gets surges of knowledge in the film, her eyes flash brightly blue. Because blue eyes, we all know, are the universal symbol of superiority, right?

How is it that in a film whose premise rests on the idea of reimagining the past, present and future, we still end up with a blonde white woman with flashing blue eyes as the stand-in for what personifies evolution and supremely fulfilled human potential? At one point the Ape-like Lucy and Evolved Lucy meet face-to-face as Evolved Lucy does a bit of time-traveling. Their fingers touch, and we see them deliberately posed to mimic the famous Creation of Adam painting, and in that moment I saw what I suppose we were supposed to see: humanity at its beginning, and then humanity at its end, at its most perfect. Blonde, white and blue-eyed.

I can't accept that. I can't accept that there was only one black woman in the entire film, who delivered one line and who we never saw again. I can't accept that the bad guys were Asian and that although in China, Lucy's roommate says, "I mean, who speaks Chinese? I don't speak Chinese!" I can't accept that in Hercules, which I also saw this weekend, there were no people of color except for Dwayne Johnson himself and his mixed-race wife, whose skin was almost alabaster. I can't accept that she got maybe two lines and was then murdered. I can't accept that the "primitive tribe" in Hercules consisted of dark-haired men painted heavily, blackish green, to give their skin (head-to-toe) a darker appearance, so the audience could easily differentiate between good and bad guys by the white vs. dark skin. I can't accept that during the previews, Exodus: Gods and Kings, a story about Moses leading the Israelite slaves out of Egypt, where not a single person of color is represented, casts Sigourney Weaver and Joel Edgerton to play Egyptians. I can't accept that in the preview for Kingsman: The Secret Service, which takes place in London, features a cast of white boys and not a single person of Indian descent, which make up the largest non-white ethnic group in London. I can't accept that in stories about the end of the world and the apocalypse, that somehow only white people survive. I can't accept that while my daily life is filled with black and brown women, they are completely absent, erased, when I look at a TV or movie screen.

I can't accept that. And I can't accept that when we think about the potential of humankind and what our brains are capable of doing and thinking and feeling, that people of color would be absent from that imagining. I can't accept that. And I won't. I'm tired of seeing people that look like me crowding screens both big and small: I am not what the world looks like. Hollywood, stop whitewashing characters. Give us more films like this year's Annie. I'm no Lucy -- like everyone else I'm only using a tiny amount of my brain's capacity. But you don't need to be a superhuman logic-machine to see that Hollywood has a major problem with depicting people of color, and it's time to actually reimagine what the world can and should be.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5627318

django1: You cannot come out with a pass in FUTA. Trust me, I've seen some of your posts here and you're a little above an imbecil.e.

Damn!! This is epic!

Nice one

Pornn &/or eroticals

Yea. I'm torn between an Agnostic Theist and Agnostic Athiest.