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EntertainmentRe: Worlds Thinnest Man by remecy(op): 4:31pm On Apr 18, 2013
Justosaus: noticed d same thing too. Why not check d address properly? Am sure there shd be something before d .com (except its an NSCDC website)
Thanks, is .com/......... But is not showing on d complete post
EntertainmentRe: Worlds Thinnest Man by remecy(op): 3:11pm On Apr 18, 2013
Don't know why d full site link is not coming up,which makes the post baseless. Am sorry if you can't view it from my link. Hv a nice day
EntertainmentWorlds Thinnest Man by remecy(op): 3:02pm On Apr 18, 2013
I was just browsing the net with my phone and saw this photo so decided to share the link. Sorry folks can't upload his pics see for yourself. He is really thin. Happy viewing.
Source: http://.com/2013/04/photo-worlds-thinnest-man.html

RomanceRe: Nairalanders Help Mr Out Here by remecy(f): 9:53am On Apr 17, 2013
The guy shud not get himself involved in marriage,if he has no true love for her and besides the foundation of d relationship is already wrong i doubt if anything good can come out even after d birth of d baby.
Nairaland GeneralRe: Guy Who Made Front Page On His First Week On Nairaland! by remecy(f): 3:37pm On Apr 15, 2013
You forget to include how much you were payed in your biography abi na autograph, so that other NL can work harder.
Jokes EtcRe: Can You Answer This Question For Her? by remecy(op): 3:23pm On Apr 15, 2013
liloelawwal: we people
Obviously lol
Jokes EtcCan You Answer This Question For Her? by remecy(op): 2:51pm On Apr 15, 2013
A husband went shopping for his wife and bought her dozens of panties, same colour.
WIFE:Why did you buy the same colour of panties, people will think that i don't change my pants.
HUSBAND:Which people?
Can answer this question for the wife?
CelebritiesRe: Tonto Dike Set To Represent Nigeria In Big Brother Africa by remecy(f): 12:28pm On Apr 15, 2013
Since Big Brother started about 10yrs ago. They don't reveal their housemates until the D-day. Even the contestants don't get to meet till the last moment. So how did you get this info you are selling? Well our legs are crossed waiting!!
FamilyYour Spouse Or Siblings Who Comes First? by remecy(op): 12:16pm On Apr 15, 2013
True,i know in everything you should put God first. I really would love to hear your genuine opinion on this issue. When i say siblings,i means the grown and married do they come before your husband or wife. Your response can help save someone, well not me though. Thanks.
PoliticsRe: After Establishing Drone Base In Niger U.S. Now Says Boko Haram Insurgency Will by remecy(f): 9:55pm On Apr 11, 2013
patriot4: i just pray boko haram don't kill innocent people, mumu !!!
Please can you tell us who boko haram has been killing?if not the innocent citizens.
RomanceRe: What Do I Do About My Girl Friend Mother's Constantly Asking Me For Money? by remecy(f): 5:44pm On Apr 11, 2013
So sad some people don't have shame. When next she ask you for money simply tell her you just had some expenses yourself and short of cash that you actually wanted to ask her for assistance, that she should help you with a certain amount you will pay back soon. When this becomes your excuse she will stop bugging you.
NYSCRe: Corper Stabbed In His Eye By Girlfriend For Cheating by remecy(f): 7:36pm On Apr 09, 2013
190: This is why I advice Nigerian men never to marry Nigerian women

But they won't listen ever undecided
WHO IS THIS? WHICH PLANET ARE YOU FROMhuh
PoliticsRe: Bishop David Oyedepo Launches A New Airline by remecy(f): 10:22am On Mar 23, 2013
This is the NEXT LEVELS DIMENSION we are talking about. For all of you running your mouths in negative. This man started as a book seller who was been paid on commission base. He started a long way and his followers who believe are like him in terms of riches and fame depending on where you chose your money to work for you. Good day
BusinessRe: How Somebody Is Making Cool Cash From The 'my Oga @ The Top' Episode by remecy(f): 5:10pm On Mar 20, 2013
You have not seen anything yet, wait for NOLLYWOOD, they would soon produce a film titled MY OGA AT THE TOP. You know they don't come last.
Travel10 Most Hated Cities In The World by remecy(op): 3:52pm On Mar 18, 2013
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The worst thing that could ever be said about a city is not that it merits “top 10 most hated” status.

No, the worst thing that could ever be said about a city is that it’s not even worth discussing.

Say what you like about these 10 places. OK, plenty of critical conversation according to our findings, but we mean that in the most positive light.

So let’s re-name it“10 cities travelers most love to hate” -- and secretly hope that they remain, if not “awfully beautiful,” at least “beautifully awful” to some degree.

Because who really wants a world full of Vancouvers and Stockholms?

10. Belize City, Belize

Few tropical outposts less than a three-hour flight from Dallas have spawned as many alluring Sunday travel section taglines as Belize -- a diving and cruise ship magnet that has been dubbed “Central America Lite,” “the other Caribbean” and “the gateway to the world’s second largest barrier reef.”

With all that warm press and tourist traffic passing through, you’d expect Belize City to have kicked its nagging reputation as the sorriest port o’ call on either edge of the Caribbean.

Crime. Drugs. Dilapidation. Welcoming committees of bored, desperate touts. A vibe that screams avoid-being-out-after-dark-and-wait-for-your-real-itinerary-to-begin. Belize City has it all.

When your own Director of Tourism owns that Belize’s main transport hub is “consistently rated as the worst destination” among cruise passengers, something more than the city’s famous swing bridge may need adjusting.

Until then, it’s full speed to the puddle jumpers and water taxis.

9. Cairo, Egypt

There are other cities coping with even more crippling air pollution, maniacal driving, ridiculous traffic, overpopulation and post-revolution stress -- though not too many, and none we can think of that travelers would ever put very high on a sightseeing list.

Cairo, of course, impels us to come anyway -- which naturally breeds some resentment.

Home of the world’s last remaining ancient Wonder and an incomparable wealth of history and antiquities that rank high on any serious globetrotter’s bucket list, visitors these days are forced to turn more than just a blind lung to a recent World Health Organization report that equates breathing in this city with smoking a pack a day.

“Avoid the crowds and protests and it should be fine otherwise,” advises one recent visitor on Lonely Planet’s Thorn Tree.

“We can't predict what will happen, but keep your ear to the ground and you should be OK,” hedges another.

It needs to be asked: Was modern Cairo really what Pharaoh Khufu had in mind in his 5,000 Year Plan?

8. New Delhi, India

Travel scams happen everywhere. But few cities fuel as much lengthy discussion and strategizing about them as India’s sprawling capital -- arguably the world’s favorite place for travel forum junkies to dish on their favorite travel forum topic:

How to avoid getting fleeced outside the airport, at the train station, at your hotel and everywhere in between.

“There are plenty of cons to be aware of,” blogs TravBuddy in a post entitled "Scam City: Delhi’s Tourist Hustles and How To Avoid Them," which lists several popular ones by name: The "Government Tourist Office" scam; The "Hotel Commission" scam; The "Fake Train Station" scam; The "Airport Transfer" scam, etc.

Learn these. Commit them to memory. Then go out and freely soak in the opulence of New Delhi, the breathless chaos of Old Delhi -- the otherworldly extremeness of it all, knowing that your street savvy is really no match for a place that makes New York look prenatal.

“Avoiding scams and touts in Delhi,” posts travel community site, traveldudes.org, “the chances are really high that you will be scammed anyway.”

7. Jakarta, Indonesia

Jakarta isn’t nicknamed “The Big Durian” (thorny, odorous fruit you might actually enjoy if you give it a chance) for nothing.

“It is a very demanding city from a traveler’s perspective, full of surprises and awaiting difficulties,” notes one TripAdvisor expat who came to love Jakarta after six months. “Once you get to know it, you can’t have enough of it.”

The obvious snag. Indonesia’s 8 million annual tourists arriving at this springboard to Bali, Yogyakarta, Sumatra -- anywhere but here -- spend on average 7.84 days in Indonesia according to a 2011 study by the country’s Central Bureau for Statistics.

How long will it take most visitors to decide they haven’t enough time to gain an insider’s appreciation about this sprawling city choked with traffic, pollution, poverty and tourist “draws” largely revolving around random street adventures and an epidemic of malls?

6. Lima, Peru

f you’re prepared to delve into the nooks and crannies of this massive city, then you can find plenty to admire,” blogs one Lima supporter, after delivering the mortal blow that “most people that I’ve spoken to about Peru don’t really rate Lima. It’s ugly, it’s boring, it’s not traditional enough, are the main complaints I’ve heard.”

“Who knew we'd love Lima so much?” opines another blogger. “My Spanish teacher said it was boring. Lonely Planet didn't make it sound exciting. Others yawned through it -- but four times wasn't enough Lima for me!”

“For much of the year, a smog hangs over Lima. The city looks washed out and monochrome. When you combine this with years of news (and rumors) about Lima being unsafe, shabby or just plain boring,” opines Time Out in its defense of Lima, it’s no wonder people overlook “Latin America’s best-kept secret.”

Blame it on that herd mentality, but until Lima’s staunchest fanbase stops going on about how everyone else mistakenly finds the place insufferable, it’s a one-way ticket to Machu Picchu, please.

5. Los Angeles, United States

To clarify, we’re talking about the one in California. Not Los Angeles, Texas (pop. 20), a little spot near San Antonio that adopted the name in 1923 as an unsuccessful promotional stunt. Nobody you know has anything bad to say about that place.

Not so for this center-less megalopolis sloppily carved into about 90 sub-cities, over 20 ailing freeways, countless area codes and a half-million strip malls with mediocre Thai food.

How did a semi-arid desert without a decent water supply get so huge -- and so hugely disliked?

Stealing water didn’t help, but that was a long time ago.

“When you get there, there is no there, there,” says one of many underwhelmed L.A. bashers on quora.com, who adds that tourist traps like Hollywood are a total bummer.

So are earthquakes, race riots, traffic pileups, smog reports, constant sirens and the irksome sense that people who live here are okay with all of that because the weather’s nicer than wherever they moved from.

However it happened, “I hate L.A.” has evolved into a kneejerk not just for obvious rivals like San Francisco but virtually every other American city full of folks who may never have actually been to L.A. but can just imagine.

Not even Randy Newman can sing over a PR mudslide like that.

4. Timbuktu, Mali

A century ago, the world’s most tenacious travelers may have been awarded a brief thrill upon reaching this legendary trans-Saharan trading center hiding in the middle of nowhere.

But even then, Timbuktu was nearly half-a-millennium past its golden years and largely relying on the travel industry’s most dubious selling point: being so ridiculously remote and unspectacular that even the dictionary references you as “any extremely distant place.”

Today, according to a recent British survey, a third of the public doesn’t believe that Timbuktu actually exists.

Among the remaining two-thirds are those romantic, off-the-beaten-path travelers who’ve fought tooth and claw to get all the way out here only to find a stifling, sand-strewn cluster of shabby buildings staving off desertification.

3. Paris, France

Paris inspires a certain love-hate relationship.

Not just for fans of old Renoir or Chevy Chase movies, but for travelers too -- who inspired us to feature this singular place twice. Here and in last week’s column: “World's most loved cities.”

What do people love about Paris? If you don’t already know, click the link to find out.

In the meantime, what do people not love about Paris, aside from the usual rude waiter stereotypes, crazy lines at the Louvre and the city’s knack for rekindling long-kicked smoking habits about 10 minutes after landing?

“I was wondering what was so special about the 'French Breakfast' that I saw advertised everywhere we went,” comments a frequent Paris traveler on VirtualTourist, who sat down and ordered one during his first visit to the city. “For 20 euros you get a croissant, butter, three ounces of hot chocolate, three ounces of orange juice and a small baguette. Are you kidding??”

“Don’t be too easily flattered as you approach the Place du Tertre in Montmartre,” another visitor warns about platoons of starving artists bombarding first-timers to have their portrait done. “I've now lost count of the number of times we've been told that [my husband] has 'interesting hair.’”

“I just read of someone’s four-hour wait to ascend the Eiffel Tower and recalled the coldest I had ever been -- the day I waited atop the platform on the Eiffel Tower, waiting to go to the next level.”

“We made our way to the catacombs hoping to find an extraordinary sight,” says another. “Unfortunately, it was nothing but rooms and rooms and rooms full of bones.”

Every legendary city suffers some degree of overhype. About the food, the views, the charming street scene, the faint possibility of jumping into a car at the stroke of midnight and riding into a more exciting era with Ernest Hemingway & friends, etc.

But the dreamy expectations reserved for Paris -- propagated by generations of writers who haven’t been here in awhile -- are in their own league.

What first-timer here isn’t going to be a little disillusioned after wandering around for hours with checklists, arrondissement maps and dog-poop-soiled shoes without finding a decent place for a quick bite?

2. Sydney & Melbourne (or Melbourne & Sydney), Australia

Australia’s top two cities would be nowhere near this list if it weren’t for the 177 straight years of utter hatred they’ve reserved for each other.

Since the founding of Melbourne in 1835 (by exactly the kind of pennywise, do-gooder farmboys that Sydney’s felon founders had no patience for), Sydneysiders and Melburnians have been loathingly distinguishing themselves from each other in ways that would make Toronto and Montreal blush.

Still, they may have overlooked the greatest source of antipathy of all, notes Anthony Sharwood in The Punch.

“Sydney and Melbourne have much, much more in common than either of them ever care to admit.” In fact, “Melbourne is the city in the world most similar to Sydney.”

About 4 million multicultural residents spread across a trendy downtown area with sprawling suburbs, high home prices, a vibrant food and arts scene, Australian TV and radio stations, the occasional bushfire and an intense repugnance for a certain unspeakable place 720 kilometers away.

Which city are we talking about here? Either Melbourne or Sydney, perhaps?

But wait. There is a startling difference. Last year, The Economist ranked Melbourne the “World’s Most Livable City” with 97.5 points. Sydney came in sixth in this same survey with 96.1 points.

Do the math. These places are like fire and ice.

1. Tijuana, Mexico

Last year, says BajaInsider.com, Tijuana had a lower murder rate and fewer carjackings than Philadelphia in spite of having a police force a third the size -- so why is there a Department of State Travel Warning for TJ and not for Philly?

But never mind all those obvious, glossed-over comparisons between Tijuana and urban Pennsylvania.

The point is that while there are even dicier border towns, cheesier drinking holes, wearier haggling magnets and gloomier border crossings (sorry, folks, drug-screenings take time) than Tijuana, it’s hard to find an undiscriminating tourism hub that’s taken a bigger hit in the public eye lately.

According to a recent Worldfocus report, Tijuana’s annual tourism numbers have plummeted by as much as 90 percent in less than 10 years, and other research estimates that visitor-related revenue has declined by almost as much over a similar period.

Drug cartel violence. The recession. Recent swine flu outbreaks. If any place can rebound from all this, it’s TJ.


But when Southern California marketing firms start shying away from that age-old pitch -- “Come to San Diego and be in a foreign country in 20 minutes” -- that’s when you have to wonder if all those never again regulars kind of mean it this time.
FamilyCan You Disclose Your Exact Monthly Income To Your Partner by remecy(op): 10:58pm On Mar 16, 2013
Just wondering if you can tell your wife/husband, the exact figure you earn monthly. Does it strengthen the marriage or give room to more financial demands?
FamilyBoys Or Girls, Who Is More Intelligent? by remecy(op): 4:32pm On Mar 14, 2013
Study shows that girls are more intelligent than boys, because girls take their studies more serious while boys spend their time thinking of girls.
And girls are more in long courses like engineering, law, medicine etc.
What's your opinion........share
RomanceCheating Excuses by remecy(op): 11:23am On Mar 14, 2013
When it comes to infidelity relationships, lots of people come with funny and ridiculous excuses. Such as
1) I didn't know what i was doing, she means nothing to me.
2. It was my friend sending those x rates messages from my phone not me!
3. I was drunk and didn't now what i was doing.
4. I didn't do it baby, why don't you believe me rather than the rumors you hear.
5. My phone was dead and couldn't find my charger.
6. I swear, i wasn't ignoring your call, i did not hear it ringing.
7. She kissed me, i didn't kiss her
8. I was drunk and i thought it was you.
9. It was my friend who sent those messages not me.
10. This isn't what it looks like...
I can go on and on. Lets hear yours
FashionWigs, Weavons & Attachments: Where Do They Really Come From? by remecy(op): 10:52am On Mar 14, 2013
These days everyone is talking, wearing and trading human hair. Majority of our women and even men put on wigs, weavons and attachments. Have you ever paused for a while to think of where all these hairs come from? When i was much younger i use to think that weavons are gotten from the dead.
CelebritiesRe: Where Is Actress Stephnora Okere by remecy(f): 8:15am On Mar 14, 2013
Well i don't know. She still goes about with her marital name.
CelebritiesRe: Where Is Actress Stephnora Okere by remecy(f): 8:58pm On Mar 13, 2013
She is married now and features in a soap called family ties.
TV/MoviesWhat Tv Program Or Movie Ever Moved You To Tears? by remecy(op): 7:30pm On Mar 13, 2013
Even though we all know that movies are fictions, we will not fail to recognize the fact that some of these entertainment trillers are emotional and move one to tears.
Has it ever happened to you and which movie or program was it? Lets share......
Mine is movie:TITANIC
TV program: BOLD FACES when she aired the funeral ceremony of Stella Damasus late husband years ago.
FamilyRe: Birth Order Of Children. Does It Apply To You? by remecy(f): 11:50am On Mar 11, 2013
Very funny and quite true. At the 1st birth you are careful about very little something and nothing. By the second,u seem alittle relaxed about the baby.........true. 3rd no experience yet
FamilyRe: Birth Order Of Children. Does It Apply To You? by remecy(f): 11:49am On Mar 11, 2013
Very funny and quite true. At the 1st birth you are careful about very little something and nothing. By the second,u seem alittle relaxed about the baby.........true
FamilyRe: SMS Wrongly Sent By Daughter To Father! by remecy(f): 8:34pm On Mar 10, 2013
Seems to me like a joke. Nice try.
CelebritiesRe: Wizkid Girlfriends (past And Present) by remecy(f): 8:30pm On Mar 10, 2013
He seems to be into fair ladies.
Business To BusinessRe: Pls Which Business Can I Do With #50,000 by remecy(f): 7:45pm On Mar 10, 2013
Business is all about your passion for a thing. What's your passion is it in entertainment, fashion,education,agriculture etc. Start from there.
There are amazing businesses/jobs you start at d back of your house with less than your cash @ hand. If you re interested be my guest.......08185797522 or drop a mail remecy@gmail.com
information is key.
Nairaland GeneralRe: 19-year Old Mother Delivered A Three-headed Baby Girl by remecy(f): 8:18pm On Mar 09, 2013
I have seen this baby on a similar thread both difference in parents name and from same state. Is there a mistake some where or what?
By the way,how come teenage mothers in the northern part almost times give birth to strange babies? Just an observation. May God help us.
CelebritiesRe: Tiwa Savage Is Pregnant? by remecy(f): 4:31pm On Mar 09, 2013
ZUBY77: Who is Tiwa Savage?
........Network service
FamilyRe: Pregnant Mom Has Baby's Face On Her Stomach by remecy(f): 8:08pm On Mar 08, 2013
So how is the baby positioned? The legs should be coming out of her body with that pic? And that face looks 7yrs old.
CelebritiesRe: Kate 'accidentally Reveals Sex Of Child' by remecy(f): 9:32pm On Mar 06, 2013
Of course she would either give birth to a SON or DAUGHTER. So what is d big deal?
BusinessRe: Business U Can Do In-front Of Ur House With A LAPTOP+INTERNET CONNECTION. by remecy(f): 9:32pm On Mar 05, 2013
People and free things. How many of you went to free schools? This manual in question, i bought and very beneficial. If d owner chose to give it out at 2k,good and fine. If you can't afford it ask him to subside if possible rather than saying wrong things. I GOT MINE AND IS WORTH IT. Nothing is free again,even d news u hear u pay for it.

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