selfwife:
someone might still be alive.

If anyone is still alive from that time, they must be either a lich or undead. I wouldn't want to meet them!

Come to think of it, everyone in this video is dead.
Not one of them is alive now.

Explorers:


Don't know how they do that, but there are lots of airports, landing field/strips across the frozen continent.

Great thread, keep up the good work!
Check my travel threads too

jwillng:


I experienced minus 35 degrees temperature while working at the Minneapolis Airport in USA, air travel continues un hindered as everything is in place including de icing equipment. No special planes. Just special preparations and equipment.

Antarctic winter cold reaches -60 to -80 where engines will be inoperable. -35 is still within range for turbine engines, but -80 is beyond the operating range of most equipment not to mention fuel will turn into a jelly.

Not only that but Antarctica is also the windiest place on earth. 60 mph winds come out of nowhere and make landing impossible. Winter weather is too extreme and prevented medical evacuations before.

Here is a trip to the past -a trip through New York City in 1911. Video shows the daily life, commuters, horse carriages, trams and vintage cars on the streets of New York. The film has survived in remarkable condition:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ucu9al-yWU

FeelDeMusic:

I'm confused as to what you're saying.

He's being a silly conspiracy theorist

pansophist:


In what ways are girls discouraged from studying STEM? And how will you explain the gender choices in feminist countries such as the Scandinavia (notably Sweden(, where women when left to their own devices, refrain from engaging in professions dominated by men (such as engineering)?

It has also been documented that female babies are drawn to toys they nurture (e.g. dressing toys, plaiting hair) while men usually like toys such as cars, guns etc? How will you explain this? Or are children also programmed from the womb ? I'll like to know

It's not just about STEM. Female bus drivers are common in Europe and parts of the USA, women do jobs known as men's jobs like painting buildings, physical work at warehouses. Many are intimidated away from STEM. At least they have the freedom do to whatever jobs they want, don't get paid less than men, don't depend on men for money.

adewumiopeyemi:
Hummm thanks for your compliment.. I sent you a pm and a mail I gues you got it.. it wil be realy nice for to attend the pary. Because it is going. To be fun and intrested. So you don't need to scared or afraid.. everything is going to be fine..maximum security gurantee.

I'd love to go but I'm too broke to afford thr travel to Nigeria. I'm jealous of those happy party folks in the pics!

Look at this lady if you want to see interesting eye color. She has stunning eyes.
Here is her Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnucOd-HsvY/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1wuhamd597zbw

I'd really like to know what I'd look like if that makeup artist transformed me too.
So curious! Someone should transform me like that!

Also kudos to this girl for working hard and not being a lazy gold digger. Gods bless ber hustle!

Fukafuka:

Is this the work of the same makeup artist?
If I ever go to Nigeria I should get hold of her so she can transform me like that too!

High fertility rate and young population means poverty, no safety, low standard of living.
Low fertility rate means prosperity and good social services.

Show me one country with a high fertility rate that isn't a sh*thole.
Even in India, the cities where they have software industry are far more developed and have much lower fertility rate.

Too low fertility isn't good either, that means aging population and not enough working age people to sustain the social welfare and retirement benefits.
But that can be offset by importing foreign workforce.


Too much and too little of everything is bad, that includes fertility. If you have 2 kids you can give them good care and good education, if you have 5 you'll be always broke and the kids will not be happy cause you won't be able to give them a good life. Unless you are a rich millionaire.

pansophist:
Has nairaland being sold?

Because it calls for questioning the quality, relevance and agenda why the trashiest post makes front page.

If the reason is to generate engagement (which I doubt), it will inevitably leads to the evacuation of people who crave for post with essence, and resistance to the dumbing down of their basc sanity.

There are quality threads, you just have to find and follow the folks who make them. Too much trash and dumb celebrity gossip makes it to the front page, but there are some highly intellectual people here. Just gotta look away from the front page sha!

GidiWoodsMan:
Ududonka Since he is such an uncompromising traditionalist why can't he go back to his ancestral village and practice his tradition.

Føøl.

That's what I was thinking too, until I read further into the thread and saw the abuse hurled at him by the Christians. It seems he would know no peace at home with all those Christian screaming curses at him.

Ancestral land is where you practice traditional religions, spirits of the foreign land don't talk to you and your ancestors didn't live and die there.
No spiritual power whatsoever. Nothing familiar. If people treated him better he'd peobably prefer to live in his homeland where there is thousands of years of heritage of his religion and culture.


Cc; PAGAN9JA

jambei1986:
Gorgeous photos! I wish I could travel to rome https://rove.me/to/rome and be savvy enough to walk around the city without a guide there, haha.. They say there are a lot of tourists there but your photos show peaceful surroundings. How do you do that?

There were millions of tourists, I have some videos showing the horrible crowd. I'll put them on YouTube.
I was patient and waited for the groups to go away in some of the places. We let the big groups pass. I waited quite a bit for some of the shots. We went to San Pietro at 7 am, there was no one then. 3 hours later huge mile long queues all over the place.

Some were at the hottest part of afternoon, I suffered in that heat but it was worth it!


I'll go again and do the virtual reality tours where you look at the ruins, then don the vr glasses and see what they looked like in the days of glory.

Why do your men prefer bleached women?
Why don't men appreciate black beauty?

Albertone:
Revontuli Nice collection of pictures I must say!While in Rome,how many days/weeks/months did it take you to capture all these pictures??

...I replied your mail.

This was just 6 days, not enough! Not nearly enough. I walked 10-12 km every single day I was there. There are still loads of photos, more will be coming!

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pryme:


I believe in today's world women enjoy the same privileges like men.
The pay discrepancies is a myth (that's putting it politely because it's a lie), both state and federal government staffs are paid same amount of salary as long as your name is in the payment voucher. Even NYSC allowance.

Most men work for longer hours while most women would prefer to be home with their families. And you should also note the kind of jobs women prefer.
Even in our tertiary institutions you find a large number of women in a certain department. If you want to talk of pay you should also consider the line of work.

There is still a lot of inequality. Girls are discouraged from studying STEM and conditioned to follow a path that pigeonholes them into certain fields. Quite often it's other women who judge and discourage. Feminism is also about educating those women to leave the backward and progressive attitudes behind.
The pay gap is an issue in some countries. Good to hear Nigeria is far ahead of some others in that regard.

1st video: Too chaotic, almost gave me a seizure

2nd video: Excellent video. Makes me wake to go to to thr party! Looks classy and fun. (Which Nairalanders are those? Cool people!)

3rd video: Terrible sound quality, didn't understand much of the speech. Looks like a fun party though.

4th video: These guys scared the sh*t out of me OMG! They act so aggressive and scary.

adewumiopeyemi:
Good morning. Happy Sunday Stand up Nairaland!!!
It is here again.


The 5th edition of Nairaland get-together party is in motion.

I believe most of us are aware of the success from the previous editions.

(1st Beach party thread)

https://www.nairaland.com/3552892/pictures-nairaland-get-together-party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95oyqcJOw3k
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(Pool party awareness thread)
https://www.nairaland.com/3694082/nairaland-get-together-party-easter
(Video and pictures areexclusive)
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(2nd beach party thread)

https://www.nairaland.com/4277757/official-pictures-nairaland-get-together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SW4xCyoe6M

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House party awareness thread
https://www.nairaland.com/4483935/nairaland-get-together-party-4.0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlW-ixC-iA#
After party video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0H1X08sqTw


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This time around, we're organizing an ALL WHITE BOAT CRUISE scheduled on the 22nd of December 2018.

For real updates on the 5th edition of the get together party you can join the whatsapp group through this link

https://chat.whatsapp/6SXehXkVUleLarcRbOMzto

(add ". Com" after chat.whatsapp then copy it to your browser to join the group)

You can also follow us on Instagram via

https://www.instagram.com/nairaland_gidi_party/


Venue: Ikoyi Lagos specific place will be disclosed only to those who are willing to be around for the party (Due to security reasons)

Date: 22nd
Time: 11am promt
Gate fee: Guys: 10,000 naira
Ladies Ladies 5,000 naira

Your suggestions and critics will go along way in making it a huge success.

PS: All work and no play makes Nigerian youths dull.

Classic feminism is not about misandry and denhing the biological gender differences. That would be the postmodern 3rd world feminism which is an extremist ideology.

Women were not allowed tl vote until the early 20th century. They were not allowed to go to medicine school, engineering school etc. and paid far lower than men for the same jobs.

Equal rights and equal pay - that's what equality means. Women should have the same legal rights amd get the same pay for the same job and not fepend on father's or husband's permission to study and work.

erico2k2:

That is waht happens when people assume, ahah Even the UK have multiple languages, How Belgum has french.Dutch and whats the other one called? they one sedofff belong to

Even the whites in soith Africa are separated by language, English and Afrikaans. Afrikaans has diverged from Dutch and became a separate language.

Omololu001:
I've once lived in Germany, what he wrote is bullshit.

Is it France that is one language, or Belgium or is it Spain or Switzerland?
Well you can tell me sha,I will love to learn.

Switzerland has 3 languages even! I thought everyone would already know about those mainstream ones but maybe that guy doesn't even know about Belgium and Switzerland!

The other wonder built after the Dacia wars is Trajan's Column, which stands in the forum today. The column is about 35 meters (115 feet) tall including its pedestal. It is made of Luna marble, on which hundreds of scenes depicting the Dacia wars is carved. The reliefs are in amazing detail, showing everything from the preparations to the violent battle scenes, sacrifice rituals, enemy acts.

This was the first of its kind, copied by Marcus Aurelius and some others afterwards.
There's a spiral staircase inside the column, and a viewing terrace on top. There used to be a statue of Trajan on top of it, but the popes removed this statue and replaced it with a statue of St. Peter. They did the same to Marcus Aurelius Column and replaced the emperor's statue on top of it with that of St. Paul.

More info on Trajan's column: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Column
A specialized site with detailed study of the scenes, lots of photos of them and scholarly info: http://www.trajans-column.org/

Image #1: Trajan's column view with zoom lens. It was fenced off and not possible to get close.
Image #2: C closeup detail of the plaster cast of a scene from the column.
Image #3: Column with the viewing terrace and St. Peter statue from the ground.

This is one of my favorite photos from the entire trip.
We walked 10 km's, climbing the Palatine hill and after spending most of the day in blazing heat outside, my feet gave in with excruciating pain and I had to sit down in a ledge within the magnificent market. Then I noticed the window right across held the best composition: Trajan's Column and the imperial fora, framed by the window of Trajan's market.

Good chunk of history right there composed itself inside the frame.

Trajan's column is one hell of a wonder to behold.

Here is a short documentary video showing the history and the engineering wonders of the market.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKDArdktteY

The next architecture and engineering marvel is Trajan's market. This is where I took the bird's eye photos from.

That was an experimental novelty thing for that era. They ran into interesting challenges and solved them in ingenius ways.
They carved up a hill to build it, the whole thing leans on the hill so it stands completely intact today. It is built as a great hemicircle, looks quite impressive. My camera can't do the proper justice.

It is said to be the first shopping mall ever in human history. There are dozens of rooms connected to each other and the corridors. Marvelous arched gateways and windows overlooking the imperial fora.

Entrance floor has a great hall, where they hosted concerts and public celebrations, and merchants sold their wares in the upper rooms. It now serves as a museum and I was lucky enough to see the special 2018 exhibit. They made a whole Trajan exhibit for remembrance of the 1900th anniversary of his death, borrowed pieces from other museums in Italy and other European countries. There was also a cool multimedia exhibit.

Here are photos of various views of the market building from the outside.

pansophist:


That's dignifying.

Seven years ago when I was still living in Helsinki, I went out for a date with an 18 years old girl and as young as she is, she declined me paying for her drink. I pestered but she refused. That's when I respect a woman.

Again, Nigerian men are also to be blamed. They are an accomplice to this dating scam. She can demand heaven, but it's left for you to give it to her. The worse she will do is leave, and that proves that she is not attracted in the first place. From my experience, a woman that wants you will not embezzle you, instead, she will be in her best behaviour and seek for qualitative, substantial, and organic experience of essence.

It is kind of insulting to me when men to offer to pay. Like I'm not capable of earning my own money and paying for my own stuff, like I'm a child or invalid. Once in Germany I went to dinner with a friend, he insisted on paying, then I was forced to order the cheapest thing. It creates unnecessary pressure, it would be rude and uncivilized to order something more pricey and I couldn't order what I really wanted to avoid looking like a leech or barbarian. It takes away my freedom and reduces me to an invalid or child status, therefore I cannot accept such things.

uuzba:


Try to always realise that each time you see Oyibo people, you are usually looking at only one tribe. Their whole country is one tribe. One language. They have passed through wars and battles in the past before resulting in only one tribe, one language, NO traditional rulers.
They can easily cooperate and work together

Nigeria alone has more than 300ethnic groups, more than 300 traditional rulers. Different languages, beliefs customs. If not for English, none of us will be even talking to each other talkless of forming one country. We are in a transitional stage.

I had a good laugh at the no traditional rulers thing, Europe has monarchies if you haven't noticed. Quite a few still have kings and queens. Remember the UK? Irish separatists hate the English. They had terrorism and daily bombings in the 80's. Terrorism has finished now but separatists went nowhere.

One language is not very true for some of the countries. Former Soviet occupied Baltic states have two languages (Russian and their native language) cause they have Russian settler population there. Finland has 2 official languages (Finnish and Swedish) those 2 ethnicities don't speak each other's language for the most part (outside of the capital metropolitan area.)

One tribe thing is not exactly true, either. Even the small nation of Finland with its 5.5 million population has regional tribalism where people look down on each other's dialect and culture. Germans have north-south tribalism and Prussians looking down on the Bavarians as dumb peasants. LMAO. There is city folk-rural rednecks divides, rich-poor classes, maybe there is one language in most places but still coldness between different groups.

immhotep:

hmm.
Ok fair enough.
But I still have my doubts about them.
I read about how they looted the pyramids in Sudan and Egypt . . . .

Pyramid looting took place in ancient times, when the pharaohs lost their god status.

pansophist:
You guys that bought expensive phones for women de try sha. I've only done that once, and it was for a girl I dated for four years, that even to a blind man, it was clear her love for me is real. It was iPhone 5 when it just came out, and she still uses the phone till now.

There will always be leaches out there. Materialism is women calling, that's the one non negotiable thing they need from men. Just as men want women for sex, women want men for the resources they can provide. That's their own way of objectifying men, but it's left for you to be that guy she will take for a ride.

And for a girl to display an unmitigated entitled level of materialism is something no man should tolerate.

Nobody ever bought me a phone. I bought every single phone and other electronic gadgets I ever owned myself.

Slurity:
you have wound me with laugh

That was my purpose but it triggered one Buhari voter

erico2k2:

Those guys mehn, I duff my heart when ever I see them,they came to us during the crossrail Dig in London.These guys get time, brushing one bone for like 4 hours.I dont think I can ever have such endurance an composure.never

I have a colleague who earns a ton of money as software engineer and spends half of his vacation volunteering at such digs and cleaning shards of ancient pottery for hours. It's a matter of passion and dedication.