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CelebritiesRe: I-Go-Dye Buys Escalade And Range-Rover-Evogue Worth N38M by ODB2: 1:35pm On Aug 28, 2012
pro01: Some of us are not as gullible as majority of you masses, who are mostly simpletons. We prefer to ask all the right/hard questions rather than sheepishly and unquestioningly accept everything we see/hear. If that's jealousy then I am guilty as charged.
as i said before, jealousy no go kill you
CelebritiesRe: I-Go-Dye Buys Escalade And Range-Rover-Evogue Worth N38M by ODB2: 12:57pm On Aug 28, 2012
pro01: Evogue and 2012 Escalade all the way? And anyone thinks this comes from his spasmodic comedy shows? Lol. I'm sure he has other Under-G militancy/oil bunkering/government patronage arrangements with his oil-mad brothers in the Niger Delta. All the same, that's very commendable. With money, the end always justifies the means.
jealousy no go kill you
PoliticsRe: El Rufai Is A Perfect Gentleman - Hon. Dino Melaye (pic) by ODB2: 12:52pm On Aug 28, 2012
1800bc: what do you expect from a fellow jobless person? they will think alike and advertise their ''mumulity'' everywhere without shame.
lol
PoliticsRe: SHOCKING REVELATIONS OF BUHARI!!! by ODB2: 12:51pm On Aug 28, 2012
Buhari is a crook. Remain Bakare and Tinibu turn.
CelebritiesRe: K-Solo & Wife: Our Fight Was A Publicity Stunt by ODB2: 12:31pm On Aug 28, 2012
You make fun of a lot of things but you don't go around telling people your husband beats and steals from you. I read a thread here about her complaints against her husband with pictures of her battered face.

How do you make a ruse over such serious issues like a marriage?

This lady is so desperate for this guy and the guy is so daft to admit he hit and stole from his wife. Rather looking for ways to settle their marriage within they come here and spew a lie that it was all a ruse. Goes to show you they are more concerned about their image than their union.
IslamRe: Honest Opinion Of A Sincere Muslim by ODB2: 9:04am On Aug 28, 2012
This thread is interesting...I think I will just stick around.

PoliticsRe: What Is The Meaning Of This...... by ODB2: 12:01am On Aug 26, 2012
Onlytruth: Aboki will never change. lol
It is not Aboki since most non-Muslim northerners do not share the same antecedents.
PoliticsRe: Give Boko Haram Contracts Like You Gave Delta Militants-arewa Chieftain, Suleima by ODB2: 12:00am On Aug 26, 2012
http://answering-islam.org/BehindVeil/btv2.html

Muhammad and his successors initiated offensive wars against peaceful countries in order to impose Islam by force as well [b]as to seize the abundance of these lands. Their objective was to capture women and children and to put an end to the poverty and hunger from which Arab Muslims suffere[/b]d. So, Islam was imposed upon Syria, Jordan, Palestine (Jerusalem), Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Iran, all of North Africa, some parts of India and China, and later Spain.
PoliticsRe: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ODB2: 11:25pm On Aug 25, 2012
tongue

PoliticsRe: I Was A Victim Of Cynthia Killers by ODB2: 5:48pm On Aug 24, 2012
WEAK TROLL!

But since you are here how bout some gore http://www.ajuaa.com/lookme/play.php?vid=1281

Nairaland GeneralRe: For Deleting And Closing My Thread On Islam Why Not Ban The Farking Quaran Since by ODB2(op): 5:43pm On Aug 24, 2012
PoliticsMods Why? by ODB2(op): 4:36pm On Aug 24, 2012

PoliticsRe: Can Tinubu And Muhammadu Buhari Save Nigeria? by ODB2: 3:59pm On Aug 24, 2012
[size=100pt]NO. [/size]
PoliticsRe: Why I Wish Nigerian Economy And Hardship Immediately Worsens Dramatically by ODB2: 3:41pm On Aug 24, 2012
He can't wait to start his jihad in the hope of pillage, looting and mass r@pe!

Your Jihad will not happen. You will die an unfulfilled muslim tongue

Get your a55 to somali or syria.
PoliticsRe: Why I Wish Nigerian Economy And Hardship Immediately Worsens Dramatically by ODB2: 3:07pm On Aug 24, 2012
GenBuhari: Who is Boko?

I has the president not admitted that members of his government are sponsoring Boko Haram or did I imagine it?
This is what you and the rest of your boko kin want. Thank God for GEJ at least his govt has finally let us know who are behind Nigeria's problems.
PoliticsRe: Why I Wish Nigerian Economy And Hardship Immediately Worsens Dramatically by ODB2: 1:53pm On Aug 24, 2012
GenBuhari: I pray that oil prices would crash
that oil prices would crash and Nigeria's revenue from oil exports also crashes
I pray that cost of fuel is raised some more to its maximum.
I pray that electricity collapses completely.
I pray that the government would run out of money
I pray that the Nigerian masses would reach their lowest living standard.
I pray that all this happens immediately within a day or so.


Why? you may ask

Because I blieve it would take this type of condition to make Nigerians reach their lowest ebb and hopeful get them to get on to the streets and protest against corruption.
[size=30pt]BOKO! YOUR PRAYER NO GO WORK![/size]
Music/RadioBest JAM This Century! by ODB2(op): 1:42pm On Aug 24, 2012
PoliticsRe: Peanus Retraction Hysteria. by ODB2(op): 12:56pm On Aug 24, 2012
Vegetable soup: i telling you...took ur medicine since...now you embarrasing us in outside place by started to write a post with 4 commentation lines... useless.
[size=20pt]speak-e-dee-english?[/size]
PoliticsRe: Peanus Retraction Hysteria. by ODB2(op): 12:17pm On Aug 24, 2012
PoliticsRe: Peanus Retraction Hysteria. by ODB2(op): 12:14pm On Aug 24, 2012
While Asia has been koro-free for the past two decades (the last one occurred in Southern China in 1985 and involved a “castrating fox maiden”), in Africa joysticks are still disappearing left and right. And over there, they don’t just get scared about missing joysticks. They get even.

Most African outbreaks center around contact with strangers. In many cases, all it takes to melt away a penis is a handshake or accidental contact with his or her clothing. The horrific result of these encounters is what is referred to in Ghanian English as “instant justice”: The “victim” shouts for the help of bystanders who then beat the supposed culprit, often to death.

One of the worst examples of koro-based mob violence happened in the Nigerian city of Ilesa after a man began screaming that sorcerers had made his penis disappear. The “sorcerers” were Christian evangelists. A mob quickly assembled and burnt eight of the missionaries to death, forcing the police to put the city in lock–down for several days.

In 1997, Canadian anthropologist Charles Mather had a first-hand experience of instant justice resulting from presumed genital theft. At the time, he was doing research in Northern Ghana with his wife Rebecca. On February 17, a man named Azure complained that he had felt his penis shrink after giving water to a stranger named Atanga. Atanga was arrested and taken to the local chief’s compound. The Mathers, who were nearby when the commotion started, followed the crowd. At the compound, Atanga was forced to reveal the contents of his duffel bag. Inside was a bottle of dark, mysterious liquid which many saw as evidence of witchcraft.

“The atmosphere was frightening and yet comical,” Dr. Mather said, “People laughed at some of the testimony. When they heard Azure say, ‘before giving the water my penis was fine, but after giving the water my penis was gone,’ they cracked up. But when they saw the contents of Atanga’s bag they were incensed. If it wasn’t for the chief and his sons I think the mob would have killed Atanga—or at least beat him so severely that he would never have been the same. The number of people that mobs in West Africa have killed for stealing genitals is likely in the hundreds.”

Azure was also “surprisingly calm given that he was claiming to have just been robbed of his genitals.”

After the trial, the chief made a decision: Azure would spend the night with his wife to see if he could get his penis working, and Atanga would stay with his uncle. This didn’t seem to appease the mob, and it followed Atanga back to his uncle’s house—pelting him with stones and shouting threats. A short while later, Dr. Mather and his wife arrived at the uncle’s house to see if they could offer help. As time passed the mob grew, and Mather and his wife, who occasionally had to physically force intruders out of the house, started to get a little wary.

“It was frightening and bizarre,” he said. “We felt responsible for Atanga and we became afraid of these people who we had become comfortable with. Suddenly, this was a dangerous place, filled with irrational people capable of horrible acts. It was a total reversal. One of the most surprising things was Atanga’s indifference to the situation. When I asked him about what was going on he just kept talking about a factory near Accra where Nassara (white men) make trucks and cars. Azure was also surprisingly calm given that he was claiming to have just been robbed of his genitals. I don’t think we ever fully appreciated the real danger we were in. My wife is evidently a sort of mythical persona there now. People talk about her standing up to the young men.”

The mob eventually dissipated and the case was brought before the paramount chief of the area. Azure conceded that he had made a mistake. The chief ordered him to pay Atanga a sum of money, but Atanga was satisfied with the apology, and he refused the money.

In a 2005 article on West African genital-shrinking epidemics, Glenn Adams and Vivian Afi Dzokoto point out that many African victims of koro think that their genitals haven’t just burrowed away, but have in fact been stolen. A 1997 Ghanaian editorial claimed that sorcerers or jujumen can infect others with a specially concocted disease that removes the penis upon touch. Once the joysticks are taken, they are held for ransom. Another Ghanaian weekly wrote that the stolen joysticks are used for black magic ceremonies in which they “vomit” money.

Victims of dick-napping will occasionally strip naked in the middle of the street to convince others of the theft. Some see that their genitals are still there and claim that their junk only returned when the mob assembled. Other times they will say that their penis is a phantom penis, the wrong one, or a “shrunken” version of the original.
PoliticsRe: Peanus Retraction Hysteria. by ODB2(op): 12:13pm On Aug 24, 2012
In 2003, the Middle Eastern Research Institute reported on a new craze sweeping the Sudan. People believed that foreigners were roaming the streets of Khartoum and causing the joysticks of locals to melt in via handshakes and “electric combs.” According to Ja’far Abbas, a Sudanese writer, “No doubt, this comb was a laser-controlled surgical robot that penetrates the skull [and moves] to the lower body and emasculates a man!!” Abbas also claimed that the supposed comb-wielding thief was “an imperialist Zionist agent that was sent to prevent our people from procreating and multiplying.”

The penis-melting Zionist cyborg comb is just one case of koro, or, as it is better/more funnily known, “penis panic”—an outbreak of mass hysteria that every so often causes hundreds of people in parts of Africa and Southeast Asia to run around clutching their genitals and those of their loved ones. There are three principal symptoms of koro: sweating, dizziness, and/or spasms; a consuming fear that the penis will retract into the abdomen and cause instant death; and the use of bizarre methods to keep the penis from retracting into the body, including strings attached to the shaft of the penis, steel clamps, safety pins, chopsticks, and family members taking turns at holding the penis. I guess that last one is both a symptom and a makeshift solution.


The word “koro” comes from the Malay-Indonesian word for “tortoise,” in reference to the similarity between the motion of a tortoise retracting its head and long, wrinkly neck and the dreaded movement of the penis into the body. Although it’s far rarer, there’s a female version of the condition, in which ladies worry that their breasts will retreat into their chests like the magical islands of Brigadoon.

For as long as men have had joysticks, they have been scared about losing them. One of the earliest descriptions of koro comes from an ancient Chinese medical text dating to approximately 400 B.C. In traditional Chinese medicine, the condition was known as “suo-yang,” which translates roughly to “Bye for now, penis. Hope to see you again soon,” and taken very seriously. In his 1834 compendium of remedies, Pao Sian-Ow recommends several methods of treatment for suo-yang, including taking warm alcoholic drinks and rubbing the affected crotch with the ashes of burnt female undergarments.

Today medical science is pretty sure that joysticks can’t really suck back into the body and kill you, so why do the panics persist? Dr. Robert Bartholomew is an expert in mass hysteria whose book Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns, and Head-Hunting Panics devotes an entire chapter to koro. According to him, it’s a simple matter of creating new avenues of credibility.

Take, for example, the Great Singapore Penis Panic of 1967. It all began with rumors that were given attention in the national media. According to the press, a large supply of pork had been contaminated with hog cholera vaccination. One newspaper reported that a recently vaccinated pig died after its penis vanished into its own body. People who had recently eaten pork began looking at their own joysticks in an entirely new light, and the panic set in.

It’s important that these events occurred during a very stressful time in Singapore’s history. The British were just moving out of the area, and tensions between Muslim Malays and the Chinese were at a breaking point. In fact, many Chinese believed that the Malays (non-pork eaters), were poisoning the meat to wipe them out. This psychologically strained atmosphere, along with the pork’s imagined but believable threat to the reproductive abilities of the Chinese (who place a relatively high value on this ability) created, as Bartholomew implies, an ideal environment for a koro frenzy. Nearly 500 cases were reported in
PoliticsPeanus Retraction Hysteria. by ODB2(op): 12:12pm On Aug 24, 2012
How dumb can peeps be?
PoliticsRe: 5000 Naira Notes: The Solution To Our Problems? by ODB2: 12:03pm On Aug 24, 2012
SANUSI is confused. After deciding the path of cashless economy why waste more money printing more paper cash?

I thought the reason for going cashless was to reduce expenditure on printing worthless paper money?
PoliticsRe: Oritsejafor Blasts Boko-Haram, & Minister-of-Foreign Affairs by ODB2: 2:23pm On Aug 23, 2012
Pislam.

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