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I confess that Rhodalyn was banned for just 1 hour for abbreviating common words instead of typing them in full. I confess that she has been warned several times. i confess that I don't see what's the big deal about being banned for an hour. Shouldn't she spend that time meditating on the rules?

I confess that I've been generous with 1 hour bans today. I confess that I'll keep it up until the anti-Nwoke attacks lose steam. I confess that if I'm the only person left on this forum I will simply start posting on all topics.

People are more tribalistic than you think. Now that I am 'Nwoke', new members that are Igbos are already posting more frequently. It's working like a charm!

For a listing of used cars in Nigeria, lagosautobay.com.

I'm going to be great. i don't see why my happiness should depend on whether or not the rest of Africa cares about becoming great. if each of us aims to be great in his own way, then Africa will be great. If not, I will still be great regardless and I'll enjoy every bit of it. Each man his own happiness.

It's a pity that the qualifications required for the available jobs are not listed on the website.

As a potential investor myself, I'm not put off by makeshift stalls.

Thanks for your concern about consumer culture, but what we need right now is better basic infrastructure like electricity. (Of course, you might not care about that because during your brief visits to Nigeria you won't have time to experience the difficulty of trying to work with electricity going on and off and on and off and on and off until you are ready to kill yourself.)

However, if you're an entrepreneur and you want to use your own private resources to create gigantic shopping malls, why not? If indeed there is a demand for this, the market will reward you for your insight. But please do not ask for government subsidies and grants under the guise of 'launching a consumer revolution'!

Nigerian Men get married because:
1) They want someone to carry their babies.
2) They want someone to cook and clean for them.
3) They want to show the world that they have 'arrived'.
4) They want easier sex (sadly, this is only a mirage).
5) They need someone to boss around ('head').

Recently, at Ali Baba's Comedy Village also known as 'Excusez Moi', he got married to his long time fiancee and mother of his child. Speaking to a reporter for the Bisi Olatilo show, he couldn't stop talking about all the wonderful qualities which led him to marry his new bride Mary.

Attached to this post are some pictures from the occasion. Any comments or additional gossip?

Not really, but I'll keep one eye open.

Interswitch webpay (using bank-issued cards) are you best option, but the penetration level is still quite low. If you combine that with letting people deposit money directly into your local bank account, that should be enough for your venture. You can manage your local bank account via internet banking.

You've hit the nail on the head, haven't you? You want to have pretty places to visit when you come back to Nigeria on holidays - aka "tourism" - without regard to whether your pretty landmarks actually improve the lives of those of us that live in Nigeria. Your desires for Nigeria are quite selfish!

My advice is that you should deal with reputable shops like gafunk, Genuss and maybe Chuks-pee. They have phone numbers and websites, so you can order in bulk and get one of employees to go to lagos to pick up the PCs.

Found this useful: http://invest-faq.com/articles/strat-survey.html

Brother-in-law investor
Your brother-in-law phones, or perhaps your stockbroker or the investment writer for the regional newspaper. He has the scoop on a great stock but you will have to act quickly.

Technical investor
Moving averages, candlestick patterns, Gann charts and resistance levels are the sort of things the technical investor deals with.

Economist investor
This type of investor bases his decisions on forecasts of economic parameters.

Scuttlebutt investor
Consists of piecing together information on companies obtained informally through wide-ranging conversations, interviews, press-reports and, simply, gossip.

Value investor
"attempts to value a stock independently of its current market price"

Consumer culture brings prosperity? That is unsubstantiated. Did you mean debt culture?

Besides, we have a very healthy and robust retailing sector in Nigeria. We have the Computer Village Ikeja, the electronics village at Alaba, tejouso and oshodi markets, and hundreds of thousands of shops spread all over the country. A lot of jobs have already been created in these places.

Our markets may not be as shiny [/b]as mega-malls or technologically impressive, but when you visit them you can [b]get what you want. And talking about employment, are you suggesting that the thousands of traders and salespeople in our major markets (listed above) are not employed? Please!

The common man is concerned about basic necessities like electric power. We don't need shiny malls yet.

Is there anything that stops you from linking to the Yahoo Answers page in question?

What is it that leads you to believe that they might be best friends? Tell us!

recently, a US intelligence unit wrote a report about him and uploaded it on Amazon.com

Bull. why don't you give us a link to the report on amazon.com?

Calm down. I made a simple mistake. I meant to write "Joey proposed to Rachel".

Here's the full script for that episode of friends:
www.wayabroad.com/english/tv/Friends/scripts/0817.html

Why don't you make yourself an ambassador of the Redeemer's University and tell us what we need to know? Tell us about their website, mode of teaching, tuition fee, behaviour of the lecturers, et cetera. Impress us!

I would rather live my life believing that their IS A GOD and die and find out that there isn't one, than to live my life believing that their IS NO GOD and die and find out that THERE IS A GOD. Smiley Smiley

What if the God you choose is not the correct one? if you choose jesus and you meet Allah you will burn in hell. If you choose Allah and you meet jehovah the same thing. And what if God turns out to be someone who loves evildoers and atheists but hates religious people and sends them to hell? What if he's a tyrant?

You should watch the show. it's from Friends.

Fiction. the date is 2016. (Cactus beat me to it)

Rachel and Joey, Monica and Chandler are friends. Joey loves Chandler Rachel, but when he proposed to her she said she didn't feel the same way about him. So, she solicits advise:

Rachel: So I thought Joey and I would be okay once we hung out, but it’s not even like we know how to be with each other anymore.

Chandler: I know it’s tough now, but things will get better.

Rachel: How do you know that? What if it just gets worse and worse and worse, to the point where we can’t even be in the same room with each other?!

Chandler: I’m not great at the advice, can I interest you in a sarcastic comment? Some cheese?

Monica: Okay, I-I’m sorry. You and Joey, your both focusing on this uncomfortable thing, what you need to do is to change the subject. Next time you see him try to get him talking about something else.

In the next scene, she follows the advice:
Joey: (entering) Hey!

Rachel: Hi.

Monica: Uh I really don’t know what to tell you Rach, I really don’t. I mean, maybe Joey can help you out with your, with your big work problem.

Rachel: What?

Monica: Yeah Joey she’s…Rachel’s got this really big work problem, and it is a head scratcher. Wow! (To Chandler) Y’know what, if we’re going to make dinner we’re going to have to leave. Yeah. (She and Chandler exit.)

Joey: So you uh, have a…big work problem?

Rachel: Yeah it’s umm… Yeah it’s uh… It-it’s y’know—It’s nothing.

Joey: Huh. Okay. (Awkward silence.) So uh, I think I’m going to take off.

Rachel: Yeah—No wait! Joey no wait it is. It’s something. It’s-it’s umm…it’s my boss.

Joey: Yeah?

Rachel: Yeah, and umm my baby.

Joey: Yeah?

Rachel: My boss wants to buy my baby!

Joey: What?! Oh my-oh my God!

Rachel: I know I told you, it’s a really big problem.

Joey: What he wants to buy your baby?!

Rachel: Can you believe that?!

Joey: That’s crazy!

Rachel: That’s what I told him!

Joey: Okay, how did this even happen?

Rachel: Well I’ll tell ya! (Pause) See uh my-my boss and his wife—They-they can’t have children. So umm, and that—we were at the Christmas party, and he got drunk, and he said to me, "Rachel, I want to buy your baby."

Joey: Man! When you said it was a problem about your boss and the baby I figured it was something about maternity leave.

Rachel: Ohh! Yeah! (Pause) Yeah that-that would’ve been a much simpler problem.

Unfortunately for her, Joey takes her fabricated story too seriously:

[Scene: Office of Rachel's Boss. he’s in a meeting as Joey bursts in.]

Rachel's Boss: May I help you?

Joey: Do you think you can just buy my friend's baby?!

This leads the boss to arrange a meeting with Rachel. She's afraid she'll be fired:

[Scene: Office of Rachel's boss, Rachel is knocking on the door.]

Rachel: Morning. You wanted to see me?

Boss: Please, come in. Have a seat. (She does so.)

Rachel: Okay look Mr. Zelner…

Boss: Oh I think it’s best that I speak first.

Rachel: Yeah. (Motions for him to continue.)

Boss: I’ve asked Lee from human resources to be here as a witness to our conversation.

Rachel: Oh God.

Boss: If I in any way implied that I wanted to buy your baby…I am sorry. Okay?
Last week when I asked you when your due date was, uh, I certainly did not mean that I felt that I was due your baby. Yeah, I want to be very clear that I understand that it is your baby, and it is not mine to, er, purchase.

Rachel: Well, as long as we are clear about that. (Exits smugly.)

Later:

Joey: So? What-what-what happened?

Rachel: It’s all going to be okay. They’re just so happy that I’m not suing them that they gave me one extra month paid maternity leave. "So long as I understand that the money should not construed as a down payment on this or any other child that I should bear."

Funniest thing in the world!

[font=courier]Rachel: Joey, I’m really sorry that I lied to you. I was just trying to make things…

Joey: I know. I know.

Rachel: It kind of worked. I mean y’know, I don’t know about you buy I haven’t thought about our thing since all this.

Joey: Hey you’re right. Yeah, it’s kind of been like us again a little bit.

Rachel: Yeah I know! I miss that.

Joey: Me too. I mean I…haven’t thought at all about how I put myself out there and said all that stuff and how you didn’t feel the same way about me and-and how it was really awkward.

(Awkward silence.)

Rachel: My gynecologist tried to kill me![quote][/quote]

I agree. There's this girl I left for this reason. I consider myself a more straightforward person than she is but she thinks I'm going to hell or something. bye to her! ;d