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Paper Year.
6.5/10
genre: rom-com

Unblockable:
Truly, I didn't watch the match and you might be right with your write-up. What I'm trying to say is that France is not that strong as people have made us to believe. I only missed that match against Argentina because there was an occasion I shouldn't miss. I've watched most of their matches and I saw how they struggled to win some.

I don't actually hate France but I don't like the way most of those guys are writing off Belgium. This French team is not in any better than the Belgian team.

No need typing much though. They said more than this during their match against Brazil.

Wow, i like your honest reply.

You were berating the French but calling their win against Argentina struggle, that's when i knew you didn't watch the match or you were just making jest of France and i had to call you out.

I know what it feels when you know the team you know very well have what it takes to win their favorite opponent. But Belgium have to prove themselves too, they failed when many believed in them in 2014, and again at Euro 16, that's why everybody had to step back from them, and you can feel the joy in the air too as the players celebrated when they won Brazil, when they France and get to the final, everybody will start taking them seriously again.

Do you know how i feel when people lambastes the English team. Some of the English players didn't participate in the qualifying games for the world cup, they were selected because of their form in their respective clubs this season. And Southgate took some young England players to a Toulon tournament, right there he knew what it means to win a tournament. You don't have to play beautifully, you need to be smart. Henry was one of the best strikers in the world, go and check all his meagre world cup goals and his highlights and see if that's how he use to play for Arsenal. Most Miroslav Klose goals in the world cup were scraps.

World cup is about do all you can to win, it's a tournament and you don't get to redeem yourself in subsequent matches unlike league games.

England built their strength with 3 ball playing defenders, great at set pieces and fast attackers.

They deliberately became 2nd in the group, and who doesn't do that? Even Platini confessed recently they made! 1998 world cup draw in such a way that France won't meet Brazil until if both teams get to the Final.

People can say what they want about England playing boring and unattractive football but they are being smart. Heck their golden generation of Lampard, Gerrard, Rooney, Ferdinand, Joe Cole, John Terry and co couldn't get to this stage.

And people should leave their press alone, they know how to hype their players and league, why not hype your country men too?

Unblockable:
Thought you saw where I wrote "though it doesn't matter"? Even if you're talking about present form, Belgium is still better than France. It takes a strong team to win a match after being 2 - 0 down around 69mins. So what are you insinuating?

FYI, France won Australia with a scoreline of 2 - 1. Managed to secure a 1 - 0 win over Peru and drew Denmark. Even struggling to win Argentina. Lol

I wonder how you people make your analysis. You like a team doesn't mean you should diminish the opponent.

You call France's win against Argentina 'struggling to win'?
Well if you watch the match, you will know France won that game without breaking a sweat, they went 2-1 behind after scoring first, then 4-2 before Aguero scored what is called a Consolation goal to make it 4-3, maybe you saw the scores later and thought the game was tight France was lucky to win. Even when Aguero scored Dominique noted that 'that's why it's good to have a high margin when winning'.

I like both teams and any of them that qualified is okay.

Unblockable:
Thought you saw where I wrote "though it doesn't matter"? Even if you're talking about present form, Belgium is still better than France. It takes a strong team to win a match after being 2 - 0 down around 69mins. So what are you insinuating?

FYI, France won Australia with a scoreline of 2 - 1. Managed to secure a 1 - 0 win over Peru and drew Denmark. Even struggling to win Argentina. Lol

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Dear Hardlife, this thread have gotten to page 15 and i know you must have gotten a lot of advises, i just want to chip in because of my own life experience too.

I graduated from public Sec school in '09 with a very good Waec result, passed jamb the following year and gained admission into UI.
I think my problem started when i questioned many things wrong with Nigeria and being that i was a science student i thought studying abroad will improve me. So i was obsessed about going abroad after my sec school, but couldn't find a way. 1st year in school i had 2.2/7.0 gpa, despite being a brilliant student in sec school and i lost because i don't think i will ever make first class.

2nd year in school, my older cousins started talking about how easy it is going abroad, so luckily i found US thread on nairaland, where i got a list of things i needed. Despite my cousins warning me that even though i am processing traveling i shouldn't neglect my school here for now. They didn't know my gpa, they thought my cgpa is very good because i didn't tell them. In my mind i have zeroed UI, the US rejected me twice, and i had to remain in UI with a very low cgpa. I pushed it till 500L till i gave up. Mom taught i will be serving that year 2015. When i told her about extra year and so many carry overs i had, she burst into tears. My father had died earlier that year.

When it was time to go for extra year, i told her i couldn't do it.
But she was adamant that i get a degree, so i took jamb last year after wasting 8 YEARS. Now i am in another federal university in southwest, and i am trying my best to do well this time around. A female classmate of mine in sec school saw me in school the other day and ask what i am doing in her school, that am i here for my Masters or Ph.D? When i got home i couldn't cry, see the level this girl rated me not knowing i just started 100 level.


Sometimes i feel depressed and have suicide thoughts but the pains i will cause my mom after loosing a first son and husband keeps me in check, and also hope that i would one day have children that i will train and achieve what i couldn't (because i know i can't really make a difference in life again).

Also my dad founded a church before he died, and along the line i started teaching these kids in children class, and they love my teachings and look up to me. I love these kids and they are also part of what keeps me going in this life.

Growing up i never thought i could find myself in this mess, seems like a dream but it's real and torturing.


I sometimes do the betting too, because i was a football addict. But i didn't get addicted.

Why i wrote this summary about my life is that hardlife, you can still start your life again, yours is 5, me i am starting again after 8 years.

Peace

Cloneberg:
Most Of Them Don't Know They Told Me That Is What I Need If I Want To Be Successful As A Farmer Anyway I Will Update U With Pic Of My Garden, Right Now I Just Prepare The Beds And Planting My Nursery God Bless U Thanks For The Good Works

Of course you will need fertilizer if you want to become a successful farmer, the whites that invented it are not inconsiderate people, with all there money why didn't they go for organic?? Infact fertilizer can be said to be organic, because it's gotten from hydrocarbons.

Viking007:
Marriage is for better for worse. It's nobody's fault, they would have simply moved on, get jobs etc. But the lady chose to jump ship & Ishilove is trying to blame my guy.

There was pressure on her from her sisters, they think the guy has defrauded her, and because they were ladies, insecurities followed.

The lady's narrative seems over the top.

But the guy is to be blamed too for not trying to get a good job.

I keep saying it, if Tyler Perry didn't give the movie a happy ending for the guy, the divorce would have paid off for the lady.

And if not that there were because of family interference, she would have stick with the guy.

Viking007:
They got married remember? It's not like she was forced into it. Apparently he knew what he was doing, he also sacrificed his own life too. And he did got a job, he was working before the life changing call came in, not forgetting all the insults from the girl's sisters...all these he endured.

To me, the lesson learnt should be - total support, loyalty & commitment to your spouse regardless of what outsiders say, the moment she started listening to what people say, she lost it. By the way, the so called "toy" later became a goldmine.

Imagine if the toy didn't become a goldmine? Who will be at fault, cos the lady spent her fortune on it.

Explorers:
Producers need to meet them and get their stories, how it happened and what the passed through in the darkness for 9days.

It's the journalists/wrier on ground that will do that, pile it up in a book and producers pays for rights to the book.

Just the movies, Everest, The 33 e.t.c

KoiceReloaded:
At least, Annihilation attempted intelligence, thoughtfulness and speculation. The Titan, meanwhile has nothing going for it. Bland lead, cheesy premise, nondescript plot, zero twist, no story. Didn't stimulate me intellectually, at all, which begs the question: what's the point?? It's the worst sci-fi I've seen so far this year, and I have seen a lot already.

I haven't finished watching, but the training aspects got me intrigued and i think Annihilation should have inculcated that in training the ladies. All 5 ladies going into that shimmer was ludicrous, i don't think a big big country like the US would have allowed that. Women who don't know how to shoot a gun, were given a gun, laughable.

A Hollywood movie is loading, be aware that this story and rescue operation will grace the theater one day.

A writer is already documenting.

iLegendd:
He's HNG. HGBG don't attempt suicide.

Suicide is the way of a weak man. If a HGBG is cheating, his girlfriend or wife will still stick around.

She will be praying everyday for him to change. When 2Face was banging all the girls, Anie kept praying for him to change. If there must be a breakup or dumping, a HGBG or CBG does it.

Maybe, he was trying to act like a bad guy after reading one or two articles online, but doesn't understand the underlining factor of a HGBG.

At the end, he is just an NG (Nice Guy) without humble.

Tiwa was the one feeding Tbliz but 2Face was the one feeding Annie, it's the other way round.

Rich girls can throw you out any time, if she didn't her family will do it for her.

Still watching The Titan.

And it's far far better than Annihilation, it is everything Annihilation wanted to be.
Annihilated tried to be seem intelligent but threw out logic and basics.

Will rate it when i finish.

KoiceReloaded:
Sorry dude, fear of Aunty Spambot is the beginning of wisdom.

I thought you know your way around it.

The way you use to drop series links.

Viking007:
The last time I tried replying this type of comment on this thread, a certain spambot threw me inside the nairaland dungeon for 48hrs.

lol

KoiceReloaded:
Apparently. You're missing out on a very humorous genre, sadly: Inglourious Basterds, The Hateful Eight, Reservoir Dogs, in fact, pretty much all Quentin Tarantino movies are satires.

I still haven't seen Inglorious Basterds, got any link??

iLegendd, i thought Tbliz is a bad guy, f**king different kinds of women despite being married to Tiwa. And that's why Tiwa dumped him because not only was he f**king around, she was the one feeding him.

tiredoflife:
Yes it happens in the east but at a low rate
But yorubas do it as a culture
Their mothers are willing to carry grand kids
I know what I am saying
After these kids are born
Most end up in mechanic shops with little or no education
And when they are of age
They too starts breeding like rats
Ask iya basiratu who is ur neighbour if I am lying

Maybe if you move to your village you will see more of it, leave south west and go to your village.

tiredoflife:
Yes correct she has a boyfriend
Its something with the yorubas
Their daughters start fucking on time and their sons
Before u know it she is pregnant and marriage has started
I ve lived with this people all my life
Its normal especially with the ones whose parents are petty traders
Its had to see a Yoruba boy of around 20-25 who doesn't have a child of at least 5yrs old
They breed on time like rats

You people are stupid with statistics and stereotyping.

This kind of scenario also happen in the ibo villages, in fact all over the world. Go figure.

Global influence is often measured by military, political or
economic might, but for some countries, it’s the strength of
the culture – its food, fashion or entertainment – that most
strongly impacts the wider world.

ITALY
Famous for designer brands like Valentino, Armani, Versace
and Gucci, Italy scored a perfect 10 in being both ‘fashionable’
and ‘trendy’, which hardly surprises residents like Lucio
Buffalmano, founder of the ThePowerMoves blog, who
comes from Abruzzo, east of Rome. “It's a cliché, but Italians
do care about what looks nice, and Italians do take more care
than most in looking fashionable,” he said.


FRANCE
‘Modern’, ‘prestigious’ and ‘fashionable’ were all areas where
France scored high, and the French ‘ je ne sais quoi’ is
something that people across the world try to imitate. Lifelong
Paris resident Roobens Fils didn’t even realise how influential
his culture was until he travelled throughout the Middle East
and Asia.

The United States

Scoring highly for being ‘modern’ and ‘influential in entertainment’, the US’ films, music and TV programmes are enjoyed globally. Even when another country does something first, like the reality TV genre that started in the UK, the US is known for making it bigger and more popular worldwide. The country’s tech industry, home to Facebook, Twitter, Google and Amazon, has also left its mark, with billions of people interacting daily with these popular services and social networks.

SPAIN
Once one of the world’s largest conquerors and empires, Spain
has left a lasting mark across geographies from South
America to the East Indies. After Chinese, Spanish is the
second most spoken language in the world when measured by
native speakers, and the strength of its Spanish-speaking
movies, TV and music helped push the country to the top.


The United Kingdom

Ranking high for the ‘prestigious’ label, UK residents take pride
in their ability to combine a strong work ethic, creativity and
an openness to change to produce new innovation. “We have
some of the finest universities in the world, and an
entrepreneurial flair,” said London resident and author Ian
Hawkins. “Don’t forget, machine code, the computer and www
were all invented by Brits.”


www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180701-the-five-countries-that-set-world-culture

Amy Schumer is a f**king clown, lol. What a talkative.
I think she totally killed this com-rom.
The title is I Feel Pretty.
7/10.

thegentleman:
People can make one miss road on this thread, I'll rate it 3/10. it has a nice storyline but very boring.

When you see people rating a movie highly on the thread, and you decided to go watch it. You won't watch it with a clear mind, but you will be viewing with an extra critical mind to fish out mistakes from the movie, though there are exceptional movies that everybody unanimously agrees that they are great.

The beauty of The Death of Stalin lies in the conversions of the casts but viking007 says the talk were boring, so how do you want to understand what is going on in the movie

Well, as for Stalin and the little i have read about him and how he was portrayed in this movie, he is a tyrant, ruthless and killer. But hey enemy of my enemy is my friend. The British and Americans united with him to defeat Hitler, which makes Stalin a Hero. tueh.

Viking007:
Rampage: 4/10.

I agree with this

Beorn:
Yes I would, same way Koice who's not a Glaswegian can detect a Glaswegian accent simply because he studied Linguistics for some time while in school. Knowing an accent is different from understanding an accent. When a Russian speaks his native Russian language, I won't be able to understand a thing he's saying, but when he speaks English, the funny intonation he speaks with will give him away as a Russian. There are some Igbo people that have this "L" and "R" mix up way of speaking, so once they speak English, you'll be able to spot they're Igbos by their accent or the way they pronounced certain words.

What brought up this discussion was red sparrow.

An American girl portraying a Russian girl, by speaking Russian language and you are telling me you will know if she's speaking it right?

No matter how a linguist learn an accent say, Scouse. You can never speak the English like a scouse never.

Beorn:
Are you sure amnesia due to old age hasn't been dealing with you? Have you forgotten your initial stance of non-natives or non-Russians not being able to spot a typical Russian accent which formed the premise of our debate?

That I don't know the various name of the accents doesn't mean I wouldn't be able to tell that it's an England accent. Not understanding what a Scouser (Liverpudian and Evertonian indigene)is saying due to their tongue doesn't mean I don't know it's an English/Scouse accent. I'm a Nigerian who has never left the shores of this country, but when an Indian speaks English, I can detect it even in an inebriated state. I don't understand a single Yoruba or Hausa language, so it automatically means if someone speaks it I wouldn't be able to know the languages?

Nobody is saying you won't know the language but i am talking about specific accents and dialect. Like Koice said If one doesn't know Rooney or Gerrard, you will know they are speaking English, but would you know the accent is scouse?

Swagahyk:
Ntel is the best, with 1k am enjoying 22Gig data on my 'Infinix hot4pro'

How much is the mifi

TechCapon:
LOL. VAR has also saved a lot of lives o. Messi would have been weeping by now considering that this is his last world cup ever

Imagine your own comment self.

Goal line technology is accurate, VAR is not good.

H2Ossss:
Like I said... this nigga makes sense.(Sometimes. lol) nice thread... speaks truth... ladies see me at times as heartless and blunt... but still keep coming for some vitamin D ... thats the bad guy... but to my main chick shaa... I'm just a humble bad guy... and lest I forget... Still change that nammmmeee...... Ya know what I'm talking about ilegend... lol

This is what i am trying to pinpoint.

Why are you humble and nice towards your main chick??

This is what nice guys try to do, to love only a lady wholeheartedly, but these girls aren't loyal.

Though it also depends on kind of ladies nice guys throw their love to, so nice guys should be watchful and not be mumu like paying school fees of their lady e.t.c.

Ishilove:
Go ahead and 'fish out' what you want to fish out. The fact is you are obsessed with lesbians and vaginas, as evidenced by some of the more disturbing comments you have made here.

So talking about lesbians and vagina means i am obsessed with it? You don't know me and you are already stereotyping me through my comments which were written in the ruckus of discussion.

i smh 4 u.

joshmee4real:
See this people o, I even thought this VAR is a computerised stuff, so its same humans that re inside there making decisions and you expect them not to take wrong decisions altogether?
Meanwhile is there any African among those VAR people? Arent they all whites?

Thank you jare, actually it's even the referee that will decide if it's a penalty or not, not even the VAR referee.

Though we like excuses, the Rojo handball was a penalty but was not given, but that is not why we lost.

Ishilove:
No I'm not, quite unlike you apparently

You can deny it all of like, but i see you other threads.

And recently i saw your comment about a fake picture of Falcao and the Guy's bulge.

Should i fish it out for you??