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Foreign Affairs › Re: Colonel Doumbouya Covers President Condé With Umbrella (Throwback Photo) by SmartyPants(m): 4:12pm On Sep 06, 2021
festacman:
A French legionaire who shares the same tribe with Alpha Conde recommended by France to head an new elite force trained by France can only mean one thing: Colonel Mamady Doumbouya was on a mission from the Francophone HEADMASTER.

That's it.
Where have you read that he was recommended by France?
Celebrities › Re: Mr Dowell's Hosts Friendship Day Winners At LA Manga Beach, Nairalander Present by SmartyPants(m): 6:35am On Sep 05, 2021
Ola17:
Mc Dowell’s or Mr Dowell’s?
Mr. Dowell's...commonly, wrongly thought to be McDowell's
Foreign Affairs › Re: Taliban Flies US Black Hawk Helicopter Over A Victory Parade by SmartyPants(m): 9:43am On Sep 02, 2021
daddytime:
Dickheaded slowpoke.

Who cares about your likes?

Only an attention-seeking dullard will call himself "smarty pants".

Arsewipe.
You're the one who made a silly comment without reading the content all because you wanted likes and shares.

Clearly, you're the dullard.

Be wise!
Foreign Affairs › Re: Taliban Flies US Black Hawk Helicopter Over A Victory Parade by SmartyPants(m): 9:33am On Sep 02, 2021
daddytime:
I thought they were disabled. grin
Can't you read?

Or you just prefer to debase yourself with silly comments for likes and shares?

The weapons on display are those seized from the Afghan army.

The disabled ones are those left behind at Hamid Karzai international airport.

Be wise!
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Military Disabled Scores Of Planes Before Leaving Kabul Airport (Video Photo) by SmartyPants(m): 1:34pm On Sep 01, 2021
FreeStuffsNG:
I agree in all modesty that I will never claim to be wiser than anyone regardless of the status.
It's called vain glory in my faith. Posterity judges by result.
If you lose a war, you are a loser. US lost this war just like Vietnam. They have fully attired Rambo like soldiers losing to tunic wearing Taliban fighters, and it doesn't strike you that it just doesn't add up sir huh
Wise ones indeed. The only wise One is God!
Well, not even the Bible says the only wise one is God. Perhaps you mean to say God is the wisest. Though to be fair, you have not stated what your religion is. I might point out to you that your argument leads to a conclusion that a wise God created unwise creatures. How do you reconcile that?

Anyway.

Now, whether the US lost or not is not an issue. At issue is the claim that they should have destroyed those weapons more completely. This, I have pointed out, betrays a lack of understanding of operational conditions.

That's all.
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Military Disabled Scores Of Planes Before Leaving Kabul Airport (Video Photo) by SmartyPants(m): 11:27am On Sep 01, 2021
FreeStuffsNG:
There's no such thing in science.Once you can build it, it can be replicated.
The US make these mistakes all the time by underestimating others. If anyone had told them 20 years ago that they will lose the war in Afghanistan, they will not believe it. As we type here, the Chinese now have the strongest navy in the world and they have built better versions of the US artillery
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/05/china/china-world-biggest-navy-intl-hnk-ml-dst/index.html

They should have just destroyed those things . Leaving it is irresponsible and a miscalculation. The Talibans are not stupid. Even if they can't independently rebuild it, they can partner their neighbours Iran, Russia and China to understand these advanced technology through reverse Engineering.
US should wake up, others are not sleeping o. Knowledge and terror business has been democratized .
Btw, if you want to use freebies to promote and sell your goods or services or you want free stuffs , check my signature of FreeStuffsNG
Lack of awareness of issues makes one feel wiser than generals whose presence you will not be admitted into.

Clearly, those weapons were being used roght up untill the last minute to ensure the safety of the troops conducting the evacuation.

Now that those troops are gone, who would destroy them?

To blow them up via airstrike or drone strike would mean risking the lives of civilians surrounding the airport. As well as the Taliban, thereby antagonizing an enemy you are trying to build diplomatic relations with.

In short, you are not wiser than the four star generals who made these decisions.
Travel › Re: "It Cost Me 2.5 Million To Live In Nigeria For Two Months" - Uk-based Woman by SmartyPants(m): 1:36pm On Aug 31, 2021
nosiebaba:
Bros it seems you are still a student. Average means half. Many Nigerians that are way below average actually think they are average. How many so called average Nigerians can afford to wear what they want, eat what they want school in private universities or rent average apartments or travel economy flights to long distances? How many average Nigerians can boast of average savings? Your yardstick of average is actually below average. The so called average Nigerian is actually living below average.
First off, I'm not a student and I see no relevance to the subject even if I were.

Secondly, average does not mean half. Averages are a measure of central tendency which means, in other words, the predominant incident.

I'm terms you might understand better, whatever the majority of Nigerians are, is the average condition of Nigerians.

Don't repeat that mistake again. Have a good day.
Travel › Re: "It Cost Me 2.5 Million To Live In Nigeria For Two Months" - Uk-based Woman by SmartyPants(m): 11:17am On Aug 31, 2021
nosiebaba:
Bros she is telling you what she spent in her 2 months visit to Nigeria. Many of us spend more than our PTA and BTA when we travel to other countries so she is right.
Please slow down and read with insight.

No one said she did not spend what she said she spent.

However, she said she feels sorry for the average Nigerian, whereas a s a traveler her experience is not typical of daily life in Nigeria.
Travel › Re: "It Cost Me 2.5 Million To Live In Nigeria For Two Months" - Uk-based Woman by SmartyPants(m): 9:48am On Aug 31, 2021
AlhajiBitcoin:
There is serious difference bro.

The person living on salad and vegetables will live longer and look younger.

It was yesterday they said christiano Ronaldo has the body of a 22 year old boy and his diet was listed for us.

I'm going back to that thread to copy it.
Is Egusi not composed of assorted vegetables?
Travel › Re: "It Cost Me 2.5 Million To Live In Nigeria For Two Months" - Uk-based Woman by SmartyPants(m): 9:47am On Aug 31, 2021
nosiebaba:
You people will see the truth and still be arguing. You can't teach a man his own experience.
Due to the security situation, imagine how much she must have been spending on
1) a secure hotel.
2) Taxi
3) the kind of food she eats
4) happy week end or police Roger everytime you go out. In fact almost everyone will say happy weekend grin
5) clothing, etc
Abeg it's true. Who no go, no know as a foreigner you spend more than even the indigenes of that place
This is why her comment, as a gauge of life in Nigeria cannot be accpeted. Don't you get it??
Foreign Affairs › Re: Chris Donahue: The Last US Soldier to Leave Afghanistan by SmartyPants(m): 7:15am On Aug 31, 2021
princemillla:
God bless you my brother. U understand the happening! I just can’t figure out why people kept on blaming Biden as if he was the initiator of the deal.
People like you should be banned from social media. You comment on things without basic understanding of the issues, thereby misleading more gullible ones.

The issue has never been a question of leaving Afghanistan. That was the correct decision. The issue is the manner in which the pullout was done.

Simple logic dictates that civilians and Afghan partners shoudl have been pulled out before the military, instead, the greatest chunk of the military was pulled out first. That led to the talban taking control of the country which Mr. Biden claims to have beens urprised about.

Yet, there was credible intelligence that this would be the exact outcome.

Do you get it now? It is not pulling out but the disorganized lack of planning in the pull out that has landed Biden in shame.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Taliban Steal £62BILLION Worth Of Helicopters, Armoured Vehicles & Weapons(Pix) by SmartyPants(m): 5:57pm On Aug 30, 2021
saaron:
No Taliban didn't steal the weapons. It was left for them by Joe Biden and his partners in crime. No sane president on earth will evacuate the way Biden did and leave behind high tech weapons for the enemy. They'll either evacuate all the weapons or destroy them as the need may be.
No one leave behind weapons for the enemy. The entire world will reap the consequences of Biden's disastrous Afghanistan evacuation plan.
The seized weaponry are not those the westerners brought.for their own use. It's largely those that were given to the Afghan army.
Health › Re: I May Have Caught Something (graphic) by SmartyPants(m): 11:44am On Aug 30, 2021
dynamic010:
Sounds like herpes, visit the doctor for a test . Herpes can be transmitted even when you use condom, the person might have a sore in the mouth And u kissed. If it's herpes it pays to treat it.
Rubbish talk. Herpes is a localized infection. Yes you can catch it from kissing but it will only appear at the site of infection. I.e, the mouth in this case.
Politics › Re: Sanusi: Why Abacha Locked Me Up In Sokoto Prison by SmartyPants(m): 10:11pm On Aug 29, 2021
Blue3k:
He was on stake instead of beheaded? Weird how the story keeps changing.
How does a head get on a stake if not after being beheaded?

Have you been inside a classroom before?
Sports › Re: Cristiano Ronaldo Empties Locker At Juventus by SmartyPants(m): 4:22pm On Aug 27, 2021
superior494:
Can't wait to see this deal completed.
How market? wink
Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Finally, I Left My Job For Freelancing! by SmartyPants(m): 5:24pm On Aug 26, 2021
ZiiVentures:
Writing.

I'm also learning character design and animation.
Are you good at what you do? Freelancing is open to all but only true professionals can make a decent living here.

Let the buyer be warned.
Business › Re: My Ordeal With My Worker Today. by SmartyPants(m): 10:58am On Aug 26, 2021
SeaTrade:
Lol you are still very naive.
I run my business like a cartel,I am very careful of any of my rent-a-nigga-a-day employees knowing the Ins and outs of my business.
I scatter it so much so that even a supercomputer will be confused.
The one thing I don't do is trust,and I was built with this inborn paranoia that makes me to think people are always after me,or in this case my business, So I am always running and is always ahead of any possible threat's thought even though no one is chasing.
Rule number one;
have no steady team,everyone is replaceable and subject to movement.Even If you can afford to,but just don't do so to keep trade secrets a secret.
And avoid working with people who think they are smart and ambitious.If you are so smart,create your own business,no come dey form Einstein on a person's trade that took sweat and blood to build so you can become his/her competition .Bleep that!
Pay people well,'not so smart' people will always get comfortable with what they presume is huge as what you give them,they get comfortable ,relent and literally turn off their brains and become something worse than a slave,this is good grin grin
Better to have a controllable dummy working for you than a genius,geniuses are very smart and they pick things fast and sooner than later,they start seeing reasons why they can be the next you.
Discuss and interact very well with your people,when you smell so much knowledge from a person,let him/her go ASAP.That is a very huge threat you are harbouring in the name of employee,run very fast.
2)Nobody that works with you should meet your customer's directly from the source,
There should be one guy that delivers to another guy that is also very lost who in turn delivers to the client,and different people keep meeting the guys that deliver to clients daily,so there is no one to tell you where the product is coming from,because yes,you are all confused.If you don't confuse them and use same people always,it is very easy for them to connive and steal or maybe redirect your client(s) to other sources,so yes,leave them confused.That's one thing you should be very good at,confusing people and leaving them lost!! grin gringrin
3) Don't relax!!All big clients(fear people with money,they have a lot of options.All they need is to know what you know and then Bleep you over) should be served by you and you only,small clients can be served by others because they wouldn't fight through all that confusion just to win those small people whose survival is at your mercy because they don't have money,
So if at all they succeed to bypass your firewall,where them want see money to use run deal with your conniving ass employee huh? undecided grin grin grin
When you are chasing them like a hawk to make sure they pay old debt very fast and collect more credit so as to remove purchasing power they will use to patronise your competition from their hands. grin grin grin

It is stressful,but it was worth it.
You are lazy,and not very smart.You are part of the people dependent on an imaginary figure to succeed.Wake up,it is not real.
Taking your girl that you must have foolishly let her know everything about your business to meet your client was a very daft move.Why was she tgere ffs? undecided
Next time,you go see the client ALONE,make the deal ALONE,bring the workload and share with your girl in a place far from your marketshare,then take the product to the client alone,get paid alone and move!!That way even if you are expensive,there is no hungrier person to cut a lesser deal with the client on your fee.
What we're you thinking?gosh!!
The only time you can relax in business and rely on employees is when you own /control supply or have solid trade pacts with supply,no be any small thing employee this,employee that,unto big madam weh you be na,now them don dey show big madam shege banza mana ,madam is pained.
You dey open market dey form boss,hahahaahahahahahahahajajajaahahahaha grin cheesy
Novice angry
Terrible.

What you don't get is that you can never gate keep knowledge forever. What you are hiding can be learned elsewhere.

When I hire people I make I teach the smart ones as much as I can so that they can also grow and we can have a more prosperous society. Guess what? It has never removed a dime from my income. Instead, I'm growing.
Politics › Re: Are There No Nigerians In Afghanistan? by SmartyPants(m): 9:58am On Aug 24, 2021
Conrod:
And what's the diference between the two ?
Will you spend hundreds of thousands to leave the frying pan for the fire?
Career › Re: 5 Nigerian Female Doctors Talk About What They Hate About Being On Call by SmartyPants(m): 6:09pm On Aug 23, 2021
I surmise that Dr. Chichi chose the wrong profession for her disposition.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Tony Blair Describes The US Withdrawal From Afghanistan As "Imbecilic" by SmartyPants(m): 12:05pm On Aug 22, 2021
mayormick:
Well it might not be determined if they lost any lives within the period you mentioned but it doesn't mean they didn't lose soldiers one way or the other.
Since the war against the Taliban began in 2001, there have been more than 3,500 coalition deaths, of which more than 2,300 have been US soldiers.
More than 450 UK troops have died.
A further 20,660 US soldiers have been injured in action
. The above is an excerpt from BBC six days ago
No allied troops have been lost in the past 18 months. That is not undetermined, it is a fact cited by Tony Blair in the very write up that is the subject of this thread.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Tony Blair Describes The US Withdrawal From Afghanistan As "Imbecilic" by SmartyPants(m): 11:11am On Aug 22, 2021
mayormick:
Hmm.....seriously, do we all really expect the Americans to stay forever at Afghanistan? What of the American soldiers losing their lives daily, are they also not entitle to their lives. Honestly, Afghanistan is a sovereign state and if after twenty solid years of america presense Talibans still have these much say and activenesss, then something is definitely wrong somewhere. What I know is one way or the other, the american soldiers will definitely leave one day except maybe we are thinking Afghanistan should be rule by American indefinitely.
Allied troops have lost no lives in 18 months
Politics › Re: Femi Fani-Kayode On Afghanistan: Rambo Warned Us In 90's But We Wouldn't Listen by SmartyPants(m): 12:54pm On Aug 20, 2021
Coronabirus:
You people can't use ur brain to think but instead allow some bigots to reason for you. The way IPOB is forced to take arm and later termed terrorists is the same way world powers kept colonising, oppressing and enslaving Afghanistan. They call them terrorists because they refused to succumb to their lifestyle and modern crusade, Afghanistan people are the most oppressed people on earth. Osama and Taliban were the creation of US just like how Nigeria created Kanu, Igboho and Shekau. All Western Nations and US are plainly practicing a system of govt that was born out of Christianity and they clearly told Turkey in her effort to join EU despite being in the territory that EU is a Christian union as such I see no reason why West should prevent other Nations from having Islamic states or system of govt of their choice, why the imposition? US and her ally are more terrorists than any other group of people; who were crusaders, who fought WW1, who fought the 2nd WW, who lied to the world that there is Nuclear weapon in Iraq and murdered more than 1m civilians, who terrorised Vietnam, who killed civilians in Nagasaki and shirishoma? Please stop deceiving yourself with what others say, use your brain and ponder well about fact using ur conscience.
Nobody will choose to be slave. Go and read history!
lol. Apart from the US and UK which western nation practices a system of government with its grounding in Christianity?

And when and where did the EU tell Turkey they can't join the Eu because the Eu is for Christian countries?

You people make me laugh endlessly on this site.
Sports › Re: Rohr: Egypt, Others Must Be Wary Of My "Young Team" by SmartyPants(m): 1:28pm On Aug 19, 2021
mmsen:
How has this man not been fired yet?

Who is he paying kick backs too?
I'm what way has he failed?
Jobs/Vacancies › Re: My Interview Experience by SmartyPants(m): 4:56pm On Aug 16, 2021
Childofaking:
I think it was disrespectful to come in to where you have your superiors and say 'you guys'.
1. Workplace superiority does not make human beings into deities. It.might have been slightly inappropriate but that's not cause for anyone to be outraged.

2. The reaction, almost slapping a subordinate is extreme unprofessional.
Jobs/Vacancies › Re: My Interview Experience by SmartyPants(m): 2:09pm On Aug 16, 2021
Childofaking:
It does not sound like a serious job interview to me.

''well done sir" is not a formal way of greeting and definitely not for an interview.

Stuff like that is so informal.

''You guys" nearly earned me a slap from a senior management person in my place of work.
That says a lot more about the place.
Romance › Re: Why Don't Men Wear Engagement Rings? by SmartyPants(m): 2:02pm On Aug 16, 2021
debbydams:
So that they can cheat..men cheat all of them, All of them are cheaters embarassed
If that be true, then it must be a law of nature. And if it be a law of nature then why are you pained by it instead of accepting it?

cheesy
Foreign Affairs › Re: Afghanistan: Trump Calls For Biden To Resign by SmartyPants(m): 12:14pm On Aug 16, 2021
BruncleZuma:
This clown that legitimised the Taliban by meeting with them and having a peace deal last year. And was going to pull out in a week like a Yaba Left tenant.
What do you mean legitimised? In the eyes of who and to what effect? So now that Biden has illegitimized or delegitimized them for you, has there been progress?

The taliban has always remained poised to reclaim power. A peace deal as the precursor to an organized exit was a sensible move.
Romance › Re: Can A Prostitute Be A Good Wife by SmartyPants(m): 12:04pm On Aug 16, 2021
CheerfulGiver:
Prophet Hosea in the Bible married a prostitute. Make of that what you will.
That's not a make-of-that-what-you-will situation. There was a clear principle underlying that, which was that God specifically commanded him to do that, and it was for the sake of illustrating Israel's infidelity. Of course, the woman still cheated on him.
Sports › Re: Goodbye Arsenal: The End Of An Era( Arsenal Fan Farewell Letter) by SmartyPants(m): 2:33pm On Aug 15, 2021
Look at that..unfaithful Faithfulness cheesy
Family › Re: Most Touching Experience I've Had In A While. by SmartyPants(m): 11:11pm On Aug 13, 2021
Adaanna:
Chai!! God bless you abundantly Amen.

The way some people are treating their maids it's so bad. If you can't treat them like your own why bring them to suffer/punish them?

I always tell people around me to treat people well [s]because you don't know the head that will wear the crown tomorrow[/s].
Health › Re: Marburg Virus Disease Confirmed In Guinea, First In West Africa by SmartyPants(m): 11:50am On Aug 10, 2021
Romanoff:
Look at ways it can be transmitted on the article.
"Marburg is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads among humans through direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected people, surfaces and materials"

Fruit bats are a type of animal. It doesn't mean it's transmitted by fruits
Health › Re: Marburg Virus Disease Confirmed In Guinea, First In West Africa by SmartyPants(m): 10:49am On Aug 10, 2021
Romanoff:
God abeg.

So person no go fit dey eat fruits again?
Why wouldn't you eat fruits again?

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