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tkb417:
@Hatch
i live in Nigeria and i dont have relatives who feel uneasy when relatives come visiting

i dont understand that part?

those in Nigeria dont give money to people? im sure i cater for my extended fam more than my cousins abroad

Y'all give money to people but you don't get constantly harassed like Nigerians living abroad.
The expectations are high for the ones abroad to constantly meet every demand - unlike you wey nor too send.
FFS, tkb. . . . .when was the last time you paid rent? . . . . . . .Abi Nor be your parents dey sort your bills?

eldee:
Ibime actually acknowledged the flaw . . . the guy dey protect him Mathematics degrees
Rapjunkie has nothing to lose . . . he's a high school drop-out

It can't be that bad. . . . . .
I was taught prime/even/odd numbers in primary school.
Unless you are suggesting Rapjunkie dropped out of school before that topic was taught in his class, he has no excuse!!!
Technically, it means Rapjunkie dropped outta school before the age of 10. . . . .Tsssk, tsssk.

Wahala90:
Even this GoatCrant knows that Jose is a genius in player motivation.
Sauron, learn from your senior GoatCrant.

More on Jose Mourinho's FLAWS. . . . .

OK, first, let's dispense with the records. He won two league titles and a domestic cup at Porto. Great.
Fact is, when you manage Porto, you have a pretty good chance of winning the title. Porto won 14 of the last 20 Portuguese championships.
Kerry Katona could manage Porto and she would probably win the title.

Jesualdo Ferreira, the most recent Porto boss to win the title and a man Mourinho once compared to a donkey, won three straight. So what?
By the way, Porto were found guilty of attempting to bribe match officials during the 2003-04 season - when Mourinho won his second Portuguese title - and later docked six points.

Admittedly, he did win the Uefa Cup and the Champions League while at Porto. But look closer.
He had a ridiculously easy run to the Uefa Cup, facing just two sides from Europe's top five leagues - Lens and Lazio - before cutting it very close against Martin O'Neill's Celtic in the final. He clearly got the rub of the green the following year in the Champions League too, especially against Manchester United (Tim Howard spilling the ball, Paul Scholes unfairly flagged offside). And he had the luxury of playing Monaco in the final.

You want to talk Chelsea? Well, no club in history spent as much money as they did between 2003, just before his arrival, and 2006.
And it's not as if he took over a team of numpties. Under Claudio Ranieri - the man he loves to mock - Chelsea had finished second the year before while reaching the semi-finals of the Champions' League (which, incidentally, is as far as Mourinho has ever taken the club).
Yes, he also won an FA Cup and a couple of League Cups.

That's what having one of the most expensive teams ever assembled will do. How about the fact that in three years at Stamford Bridge he never once managed to get them to the final of the Champions League? And if Mourinho tells you - as he did last weekend - that the Premier League competition was far tougher back then, don't be fooled.
Mikael Silvestre and Kieran Richardson were getting plenty of playing time for Manchester United in 2005-06. Liverpool finished level on points with Bolton in 2004-05. And Arsenal failed to make the quarter-finals of the Champions League in two of Mourinho's three full seasons at Chelsea.

What about Inter? Didn't he turn them into a dominant force, both in Italy and in Europe? Yeah, right. Inter had won three straight Serie A titles when he arrived, no change in serivce there. Except, perhaps, for the fact that in their final year BEFORE Mourinho they gained more points than they did in their first two seasons AFTER Mourinho. What's that you say? Mourinho was signed to bring European success?

Ok, let's look at his record in the Champions League with Inter. Played 20, won nine, drew five, lost six. Among those were some of the most turgid perfromances in recent memory including a 3-3 draw with something called Anorthosis and home defeats to Manchester United and Panathinaikos. The most frustrating thing is not so much that he has simply played dull, defensive football, it's that he passes it off for something brilliant. His game plan in his latter years at Chelsea consisted of hoofing it long to Didier Drogba and defending in numbers.

In his first season at Inter it was all about defending in numbers, giving the ball to Zlatan Ibrahimovic and waiting for him to do something.
Only this year are we starting to see something rational. But it took lots of trial and error to get there. Because, you see, tactically he's really only in his comfort zone when he employs the usual defend-and-counter attritition strategy. Deviate from that and he's lost.

He played four different formations at Inter and, except for the most recent ones, all of them produced horrid football.
Sure, it was effective, but that was largely due to the appalling state of Italy's other so-called big clubs, above all Milan and Juventus.
The fact that Roma, a side whose best player missed a quarter of the season and which has been run on a shoestring for the past three years came within 45 minutes of becoming champions tells you all you need to know.

Put him up against a manager with some tactical nous and players who can execute (even bad players) and he struggles, as evidenced by Inter's performances against Catania away (a 1-3 defeat), Siena at home (two goals in the final two minutes to salvage a win) and Bari away (two late goals, including a dubious penalty).

Sure, he'll tell you that referees are out to get him, that nobody in Italy likes him.
His acolytes will point out that the owner of a rival club, Silvio Berlusconi, also happens to be prime minister and owns three TV networks.
The latter is true, but if Berlusconi were using his considerable powers to help his club, AC Milan, he's doing a rotten job, given that they have won one league title in the past decade.

What's more, there are about a dozen TV networks he does not own, nor does he own any of the three daily sports newspapers or the three biggest selling dailies in the land. And, in fact, despite his constant whingeing, Inter comfortably came out ahead this season in terms of refereeing mistakes.

He makes it seem as if he's some kind of transfer guru because Inter have six new signings in their starting XI. Fine. But Lucio was very much a club signing (Mourinho wanted Ricardo Carvalho, as it turns out, it's a good thing he did not get his way), Motta was an add-on in the Diego MIlito deal, Goran Pandev is a former Inter player whom the club had been trying to bring back for ages, Samuel Eto'o was a makeweight in the Ibrahimovic sale.

What he doesn't tell you is that he also spent big on Mancini and Ricardo Quaresma, both of whom were absolute duds at Inter.
Much like Mateja Kezman, Claudio Pizarro and Khalid Boulahrouz at Chelsea.
But, of course, Mourinho's acolytes don't like to talk about those guys. Instead, they'll tell you that his evil interfering chairman, Roman Abramovich, "forced" him to take Andriy Shevchenko. Poor Mourinho. Rather than trying to make it work, he turned Shevchenko into a scapegoat.

Bottom line? He's a good manager, not a great one.
He managed the biggest spending club in Portugal and won, the biggest spending club in England and won, the biggest spending club in Italy and won. But he has been to the Champions League semi-finals four times in his entire career. (And, when he left Chelsea, Avram Grant took them to within a penalty kick of winning it all).
Nothing special about that!!!!

eldee:
No personal insult intended but this is daft.

1. He said, 'me and you are prime number[b]s[/b]' (plural).

So he obviously didn't mean they added together. . . so that line is defeated.

2. Even if we tried to reason with that, 'we're not even' was meant to be for 'equal' and 'not odd'
If they are both 1, it means they are equal. Defeats the whole purpose of the line.

3. The sum of 1 + 1 is 2 . . . which is an even number, destroys the factual validity of the line.

Do you actually think you're smarter than anyone on this thread with these kind of arguments??

If Rapjunkie and his army of zombies still fail to understand this logic, then i am sorry. . . .they can't be helped.
It's either they are incredibly stupid or they are just winding us up.

Even an ewe knows Mode-9's liner there had no substance.
Ibime had to run away cos he knew he couldn't deny that daft statement about prime numbers and even numbers.

hatch#:
^^^ kobo feel free and be my guest
When can i pay you a visit in the states please. I also hope to be a bother to your household in the US just as your friend who had to endure such in UK
But to come to think of it, I mean it when i say i prefer to hustle the hustle over here in Nigeria,
Despite what the paranoid and pessimist like kobo think, Hoping Nigeria will end up in shreds    

I will not hold that against you. . . . .People like you are thick-skinned and will weather the storm no matter what.
Not all humans are built like that. . . . .I don't like the HEAT, i am easily prone to Malaria and i cop sleepless nights having to worry about murderous armed robbers on rampage - so i'd rather stay where those things won't bother me and as a result have a longer LIFESPAN.

hatch#:
Like kobojunkie had earlier said, Well put.
i agree with your points and accept that yes we may still lack in quality of life but you and i know that most of the "runway soldiers" who prefer to call Diaspora home usually the ones that are just not man enough to face the realities of life and take the bull by his horns.

It's not as easy as you think.
The so called "runaway soldiers" work TWICE as hard. They manage to maintain a comfortable life abroad while they still send money home to their parents and relatives. Who do you send money to from Nigeria?

You complain about the council taxes earlier,what you pay for in taxes i also pay in the form of money i spend to fuel my generators, service it, install my pumping machine and service my cars due to the bad roads.

Council tax is compulsory here. . . . .not negotiable.
The money you pay to fuel your generating plant, pumping machine and service your cars are optional.
U might decide not to do it - no bailiff will come and smash your door or take you to court for failing to pay.

So you see that what goes around comes around only that in this case it is in different forms. I love my freedom and i guess that is why i will rather call Nigeria home and try to be part of the success story once Nigeria is great again. Someday even if its going to take a while.  

Good for you but majority are here working their hands and knees to help their parents back home.
Living abroad is almost a double life cos you are spending TWICE as much.
Your friends pay bills here and i am sure many of them have huge projects they are committed to in Nigeria.

silentc:
Well said Sauron.

A lot (not all) of visitors in the UK from naija stay with friends or family. So they pay no hotel or accomodation costs.

They should try going on a 2 weeks holiday to the Seychelles where you pay for flights, hotel and meals etc. I dont think they would be travelling "twice" a year in that case.

The flights are even heavily subsidized because their relatives work for Virgin Nigeria.

aisha2:
Thank You, decided to do that.
Please you guys do ot fight, am just down mentally, am not about commiting suicide. Thank God we are not married yet just did some of the traditional stuff. That can be rectified, Point is I let others talk me into beig with someone who has always hurt me.
Thank you very much all, am sure will be much better soon

Keep your head up. . . .
The darkest hour is always before DAWN.

ibkaye:
Sauron is Mode9.

I have been his number one fan since sunday . . . . .

hatch#:
ROFLMOA ! Yep i agree on that, may be i need to roll more with people like ~Sauron~ who spend more on their council tax without blinking.

Kpele my bros ! Life ain't also easy in the UK but i admit that life could be by a far chance better over there.

Life ain't easy ANYWHERE. . . .
To live a life of luxury, you must pay for it. . . . .
There's nothing to even suggest you fare better than your friends over here. . . . .What they lack in their pockets, they have in the quality of life.
Whereas, men like you have traded the quality of life(no light, no water, pollution, mosquitoes and security) for cash in your pockets.

tosinaded@:
follow me blindly like stevie wonder's twitter page!

@rapjunkie
explain that to me!
is it stevie wonder that is blind or his twitter page?

arant nonsense

E don do naw. . . . .
Mode-9 communicates in a language beyond human understanding.
It's in codes and signs hence Da Vinci Code Mode.

Jesus Wept

aisha2:
Am not writing this for self pity, just need to say something to someone, people around me do not understand, they feel I should be greatful for Life, health ETC, but the truth is am at an all time low. I dont want anyone to tell me things will get better, I tell my self this all the time, I jsut want life to make sense, I do the right things, I deserve a happy life, but the more I try to do right, the nore things go wrong for me.
My Personal Life is in Shambles: Against my better judgement, I decided to settle with someone who shares ths same faith with me because it has been drumed down to my ears that The Bible says "Be not be unequally Yorked with Unbelievers" Hell is the only word that can describe what am going through now.
Work: I have nver been a complainer, when i graduated and could not get a job even when i interviewed and passd in one of the interviews i came tops but my nbame was substituted with someone else who hads links with thw Oga there, i didnt complain, I went and volunteered for an organization where i knew i wanted to learn and develop, I had a Boss from hell, but i took all her crap, learnt as much as I could, got one promotion but my Godizilla Boss will not let me be, point of contention, she liked to falsify figures, Embezzelle project funds and my conscince will not let me play along, she  somehow got the worst out of me as i finally left the organization and went on my own.
I have a passion for Orphaned children and people in need and I have worked hard, invested my time and resources to make things better  in my own little way for my society, despite all the discouragements and stupidity goping on around me, i kept on till recently, I was approached by an organization to run a project for them, it was Conterpart funding, meaning, I bring 15% to the table, they fund the rest, I did my part honestly and dilgently as usual only to be informed that I should have falsified data and submitted, the organization just collects donor money and shares with smaller orgainzations who are supposed to carry out the projects for them. Now, my money, a lot of it is hanging on this, I have tried to report this fraud but for where, the Organizations in charge are asking for ribe before they can investigate, someone i know there said they have already collected from the bigger organization and concluded the case in their favor.
What kind of jungle is this? I have really had it, I need to see my light, this tunnel is too deep for me. haba, I have more than done my part.

Wow. . . . . .
I think you need to change your environment.

Ujujoan:
Tpia, are you high on something    

I was about to post just that.
The energy that drives Tpia is second to none. . . . .I mean, is Tpia human or a spambot?
Must she complain over everything?

Jeeez!!!!

hatch#:
This has been on my mind for quite some time but i personally thought that it was just me that noticed this trend anytime i am in the Uk for a visit,but recently some of my friends who also got first hand cold shoulder treatment from these so called "Permanent Resident" Nigerians in UK who often act in ways that suggest that they are envious of we Nigerians who can afford to just come over for visits in the Uk rather that come and join them in the hustle over there.

My second cousins who live in Liverpool always try as much as possible to avoid me visiting them anytime i am in town and sometimes i want to believe that probably it is their conservative nature at work but when the tables turned around and they were the ones visiting us at our family house in Nigeria, the youngest of my 3 cousins confessed that it seemed that the other 2 had issues or just outrightly jealous that i could afford to come over to UK  like 2wice a year .As funny as it may seem this has always been the case with some of my old school mates who decided to make UK was their final destination. They are always obtaining their visiting counterparts who come for holiday.

Even on Nairaland, there was the same attitude of outright cold shoulder on the thread about the Lagos Dump hustler (Vocal Slender) whom by fate and goodwill is currently in the UK for some shows. right on that thread it seems the permanent residency Nigerians in UK are getting so worked up that they couldn't hide their envy  about this guy's visit.     

U must keep hundreds of tramps as friends.
Watch who you roll with. . . . . .

What you spend coming TWICE to the UK every year is what MAJORITY spend on their council tax without blinking.

dayokanu:
Your prayer answered

FFS. . . . . . . .This is getting RIDICULOUS now.


NANI out too. . . . .WTF?
Who's going to sodomise Phillip Lahm now that NANI has been ruled out. . . .
This World Cup is getting tiring abeg. . . .

oyinda.:
thank you thank you

Let Mukina2 catch you. . . . . .
She will break that chicken legs of yours and detach your thoracic vertebrae.

Missy B. . . . .

Please do me. . . .
Coconut Rice/Assorted Beef/Banana Daiquiri and a long FRENCH-KISS.

rapjunkie:
I've already provided a credible explanation for this line slowpoke. . .    ooops sauron. . . .

U are the biggest sonofawhore this forum has ever produced.
Call that a credible explanation? Me and You are prime numbers, we are not even?
What does that mean to you? If you cannot decipher simple lines, we shouldn't even be on the same pedestal, you buttbreath.

i don't expect you to understand it cos u've got sh.it in the space in-between your ears.
[s]is this where is say 'even if u have testes i'm a prick?[/s]
asswipe

Some wrong pills were taken when you were in the womb cos that can be the ONLY explanation why you are this slow in reasoning.
Better quiz your parents and find out why. . . . . .U could sue em and become rich as a result.
What a lummox!!!!

eldee:
Don't even start drawing explanations here . . . if all the rappers are on level 2, then they are even(as opposed to odd) and even(as in equal).
Modenine was oblivious to the fat the 2 is an even number . . . that's what he was playing at.

I hate it when you guys start this B.S, it's irritating.

Let the cretinous vermin keep clutching at straws. . . .
Modenine forgot 2 is an even number and his punch went missing as a result.
Idiotic Mode9 fans bought it cos their IQ as usual is in negative integer.

eldee:
Two(2) is a prime number . . .

This is one of the reasons i think Modenine is an idiot. . . . .
Countless wordplays with multiple holes in em is senseless.
2 is an even number and that alone renders that line watery. . . . .

Ibime:
It dont matter, the chances of picking 2 by random distribution is infinitescimal. . . .

You are a disgrace if you think you can defend that Modo line.
Wackness is wackness. . . . .2 is an EVEN number.

funkybaby:
BTW: is your partner a yoruba man? [size=5pt]cos i know its yoruba men that are experts in such games [/size]

Nwaka77:
@Poster

Do I look like I want AIDS and other STDS? Why do you think Africa is the AIDS basket of the world? Because African men are walking disease bags! Date and marry them at your own risk. They will cut your life short in no amount of time and yes, if I was married to a cheating chuvinist scumbag, I will divorce him asap. Thankfully, I don't live in Naija where women are properties and have no intentions to do so anytime soon. My husband won't even want us to live there anyway!

This is beyond ridiculous!!!!

iice:
[color=#9900ff]Yes He's awesome and principled
Tufiakwa. . .they aren't weak-willed people, else they would have asked me to shoot them since [/color]

I see. . . .

metalgear:

to cut long tori short, the babe has been calling me regularly these days. although i've seen her only about twice afterwards, she don dey act like say she be my babe. she don dey ask when i go invite am come my house make she come spend the weekend with me(she stays in ikeja, i live in gbagada). Severally, she always asks me whether any of the other girls have called, and if i ask her why she dey ask, she go dey vex, dey tell me say i dey hide things from her. Even some of the other ones dey call me, dey yarn me say the girl don dey tell them say we dey date. i dey feel say this girl wan dey see me as mugu.

This is your opportunity to get EVEN with this babe. . . . .Don't you dare waste it.
Maul her half-a-dozen times and kick her out of your life like POLIO.
Women like her deserves no sympathy. Act fast!!!!

iice:
[color=#9900ff]Yeah like Chigurrh got his but i adore him anyway.
Haha. . .my brothers are doing well enough to make me still believe in men [/color]

U adore Chigurgh? He's sick sick sick.
Hmmmm. . . . . . . . .You dunno what your brothers are doing behind you o. . . . .

iice:
[color=#9900ff]In the land of moldor. . .Sauron is the one to fear, but since you have turned to the light. . .i shall take my place in moldor   No mind me jare
[/color]

Don't be surprised even Sauron has got principles.

iice:
[color=#9900ff]
So you're basically saying most guys are weak willed and ruled by their willies. . . [/color]

Iice, if you walk in a man's shoes and see what we see everyday, you will have a dozen baby-mommas.
It's not EASY packing tonnes of testosterone in a man. Please give us our credits.

iice:
[color=#9900ff] You don turn pastor?
Sauron has turned to the light Moldor has crumbled to it's doom

Yup, season 3 starts next week. Thank goodness![/color]

I can condone any EVIL but homosexuality. . . . .
Make una fear God now.

Infidelity is NOT enough reason for a woman to end a relationship.
The tide has changed. . . . . .There's no guarantee her next boyfriend will not do the same so what's the point in hopping from one bed to another?

iice:
[color=#9900ff]Jason, you still dey fear lafayette? Sunday can't come soon enough for me jare
So you won't be happy when i bring Atia and Marianne eh? It's not infidelity naw [/color]

I won't be happy, abeg!!!
The Bible says Thou Shall Not Watch 2 Women In Bed(having homosexual crink).


Season 3 starts next week?
I hope Jason brings his swagger again.

jalether:
Mikel obi is still very young unlike Rio "Methuselah" Ferdinand

Mikel Obi is older than Rio Ferdinand.

iice:
[color=#9900ff]So we are to gratefully accept cheating men because obviously we can't do without men
Thank goodness for the age of cloning and free sexual preferences [/color]

Free sexual gini?
Iice, i don warn u. . . . .i don't like such talks.
All fagz will go to hell.

jalether:
Martins goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EXQUISITE!!!!!

toytola:
In an attack,  

Yes. . . . . . .
They didn't score 2 goals by playing backwards throughout or did they?
Whats the point of giving the ball away needlessly when you can retain it and deny your opponents the chance of scoring against you?

9ja4eva:
I don't see us going past the group stage.

Your pessimism is peerless!!!!
I have not seen the Eagles put 5 passes together since 2004.
They have broken that jinx today and you are still not convinced, na wa o.