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Career › Re: Does "Jack Of All Trades" Necessarily Mean Master Of None? by SmartyPants(m): 11:17am On Nov 19, 2016

MercyLady3:
How do we handle people who are quick to say "Jack of all trade..." ?

Ignore?

You can be jack of all and master of some.

Literature › Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by SmartyPants(m): 11:11am On Nov 19, 2016

Toofan007:
If the goose above is making noise trying to prevent the gander from doing what his grand parents did to him, you think it's alright for a cockerel to claim the goose is overdoing it because he, the cockerel is able to make friends with the gander?

On your third point above, neither do you.

guy you are becoming annoying. Are you a first year student??

WHERE HAVE I MADE ANY SUBJECTIVE DEFINITION WHATSOEVER?? WHERE HAVE I EVEN ATTEMPTED TO DEFINE ANYTHING??

smh. bye.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by SmartyPants(m): 11:09am On Nov 19, 2016

Toks2008:
Thanks brother.

The most pathetic twist is their visa application process...as I learnt the B2 visitor and tourist visa denial can not be appealed which is mot so in the case of U.K and Canada and worst of all is that the consular officers only rely on psychology to grant you the visa talking about how you are able to convince them without checking your supporting documents...

Is this not a scam? that is why terrorists gain entrance into the country as they are trained to be confident and smart..

This goes to show how dumb the American system is in general because despite the supposed smartness of the consular officers people still go and remain in the states and just 4 terrorists were able to travel to U.S to cripple America on September 11.

I am a politician and when i assume a position of Authority I will tell America to their face that they are the greatest scammer of all time taking over 50k in visa fee from each intending Nigerian traveller to the state on B2 category and at the end will just refuse them simply because they failed to "convince" them they have a strong ties to their country even when they have valid documents showing true intent.

Everything is wrong with that country except the attention we still give them cos of our crazy devalued naira...there are better European countries than the GOD forsaken America.

If there are better European countries, then it is as simple as take your 50 k and go apply for a visa somewhere else. Why you harassing people to enter their country?? They've told you visa is not guaranteed so how is it a scam?

And hope you know it is the high numbers of your countrymen spamming them with visa applications (much of which are fraudulent) that are the cause of the high fees?

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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by SmartyPants(m): 11:02am On Nov 19, 2016

ValerianSteel:
The electoral college was instituted under the cloaks of racism.It was never about giving voice to small states.

The electoral college was instituted by the founding fathers and has been in the US constitution from day one. That is way way way before racism became an issue.

But let's indulge you, how does the electoral college support racism?

Literature › Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by SmartyPants(m): 10:58am On Nov 19, 2016

Toofan007:
Wait, you don't see the relevance of racism in past to struggling against it now! Really? So in your opinion, when would be the right time to talk about it that would not be over playing it? Racism in any form is wrong, however, I think it's a little bit rich for you trying to belittle what others went through.

And yes, you don't begrudge the whites because you have no reason to! But, it seems disingenuous ,at least to me, to begrudge the victims or the offsprings of the victims for saying or doing something to prevent reoccurrence because you have overwhelming evidence that they would have done the same or because you friends who are white.

Belittle? Really?? Where and how have i done that?

The fact that racism occurred in the past does not lend any default credibility to the claims of racism today. Because your great grand mother was enslaved does it mean that every white person who looks at you for more than 2 seconds hates you? You must have solid, tangible reasons, today, to allege of racism today. The right time to talk about racism is when a genuine act of racism occurs, not conveniently twisting the words of a controversial figure knowing that people would buy your faulty logic, and then quickly proceeding to shut up an intellectual because you know they would expose the flaw in your logic. As simple as that. Stop meandering all over the place.

Secondly when it comes to preventing a recurrence of racism, how does walking around with an "everyone is being racist to me" attitude help to achieve that? If anything it only deepens the divide.

Whining and complaining about racism will not stop racism because racism is an attitude first and a behavior and you don't change people with undesirable attitudes and behaviors by antagonizing them, which is exactly what educated black people in America tend to do.

You change their attitudes and behavior by improving your station in life. That is, if there is even a need for you to bother about someone else's attitude towards you.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by SmartyPants(m): 1:59am On Nov 19, 2016

ValerianSteel:
The argument for electoral college is ridiculous.A republican voter in Wyoming is for times more powerful than a California voter.

Wyoming is about 600k in population with 3 electoral votes.

California is 38million in population with 55 electoral votes.

There's 1 electoral vote for every 200k votes in Wyoming.

There's 55 electoral vote for every 700k votes in California.

The idea that liberal voters have more voice because they live in largely populated cities is ridiculous because their votes doesn't count as long as the 3 electoral votes in Wyoming is 4 times more powerful than the 55 from California.

Hello.

Given that each of these states is viewed as being culturally unique, if a larger populated state or region were to vote for a candidate simply because of some ethnocentricity, then the outcome would be unfair and undemocratic. Also, the smaller states would be permanently disenfranchised since their votes would not count, anytime the larger populated states had an interest to defend, or vote for.

In rudimentary terms a democratic election is described as the majority carrying the vote, but this can only work where you have a homogenous group of people. In the US you do not have that so you have to find a way to even the scales, and electoral college does that wonderfully.

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Crime › Re: Why The "7-Year-Old Boy" Was Killed In Lagos - Man by SmartyPants(m): 12:08am On Nov 18, 2016

People just don't get it. It is not about who he was or what he did since at this stage you can only allege but not prove. At this stage, all sorts of explanations are coming out but who are these explainers and why should we believe them? How do we know they were even on ground? How do we know they were right in their belief that the guy was guilty? Even if the guy was guilty of something, was he guilty of what he was accused of? Was the verdict fair?

And that is the reason why we say wait for a court of law to decide: So that we may be certain that justice has been served.

Romance › Re: How Man Took Aphrodisiacs And His Girlfriend Paid Dearly For It by SmartyPants(m): 4:17pm On Nov 17, 2016

if the young man has a good lawyer he'll be out on bail in no time. To me even a manslaughter charge is tenable since the act of coitus is participatory and the woman was having sex with the man as much as he was having it with her.

Regarding the enhancers he allegedly took, i fail to see the correlation. Enhancers work only in the system of the person who took them, and therefore could not have poisoned the lady. Perhaps they caused him to engage in unusually long sex but long consensual sex is not a crime any where in the world that i know of.

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Romance › Re: How Man Took Aphrodisiacs And His Girlfriend Paid Dearly For It by SmartyPants(m): 4:14pm On Nov 17, 2016

Justnice11:
Sincerely, it pays obeying God in everything.
It pays living a life of sexual purity.
This won't have happened if they chose to obey God in regards to how they approach sex.
God help them

I do agree about the purity but this could happen to a married couple as well.

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Literature › Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by SmartyPants(m): 2:44pm On Nov 15, 2016

Toofan007:
bro, I assume you a Nigerian. You could say people tend to overplay it, and you will be right, as what we don't experience it in Nigeria. But, if your Mom needed US marshals to escort her to school, or you knew someone that was lynched, or somebody whose father was sold at a cattle market.
I guess you'll be more reluctant in making such statement.

And I have the right to disagree with any definition either objective or not.

1. These things are way in the past. Way before you or i could have been born. i am struggling to see the relevance they have to modern day accusations of racism and racist attitudes. I hold no grudges against the white men over the things they have done to blacks, because the evidence is overwhelmingly abundant that if blacks had the opportunity, they would do, and have done, the same to both fellow blacks and to whites and other races.

2. Of course you have the right to your subjective definitions and opinion. So why did Chimamanda Adichie deprive or attempt to deprive the white man of a) the right to freedom of speech by and expression and b) the right to express a definition, which you have just asserted? On the sole basis of his skin color?

What is good for the goose is not good for the gander because the gander's grand parents oppressed the goose's?

3. While you do have your right to form subjective definitions and opinions, you have no right to assert these as being objective or absolute realities.

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Romance › Re: #WorldSexualPurityDay: Nigerian Couple Who Avoided Pre-Marital Sex by SmartyPants(m): 11:41am On Nov 15, 2016

rosalieene:
So many girls/ladies are willing to stay pure, but you will rarely see a guy that's not willing.
#veryfew guys are willing but where are they

Right here baby

Literature › Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by SmartyPants(m): 11:37am On Nov 15, 2016

Toofan007:
so because you haven't experienced it, it doesn't exit? I think you could accused of transcribing your subjective experience and interpretation to what racism should mean, based on the fact that you were able to make friends in North Carolina!

How could i be transcribing my subjective experience to lend a definition to the term when i am in fact claiming that i have never experienced racism, and thus have had no subjective experience by which to lend any subjective definition to the term? Nor did i ever ever say that it does not exist simply because i have not experienced it.

What i did say or imply were that:

1. There is an objective definition of racism

2. People tend to overplay this racism thing

Literature › Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by SmartyPants(m): 10:51am On Nov 15, 2016

LEAFLET:
I'm not here to trade words but guy I bet you haven't experienced racism.. That white man was trying to downplay how racist Trump is and he felt it's nothing serious. Are you kidding me?? I’m sure Chimmamanda meant that a white cannot define racism cos they’ve never experienced it. It is something that can be related to experientially. A white cannot tell me he understands racism because he's never experienced that.. You can only explain childbirth because of your perceived view of what it is or how you think it is. I've being in arguments a lot with with white youths trying to go through a J cole song, They relate to the vibes but can't really grasp the real meaning of his lyrics. There are also some aspects of society especially western societies that a black person cannot fully understand.. Things like "white privilege" and white guilt.. That's how it is so I think she was right and mind she smiled through it and tried to be as calm and composed as possible in explaining it to the man..

You are completely missing the point.

To define something has nothing to do with your experience of the thing. Racism is a term that does have it's own definition and you cannot ascribe your own definition to it irrespective of your experiences. It is as simple as that.

You do know that racism is a word in the dictionary right? So what right do you have to transcribe your subjective experience and interpretation (which varies from one person to another) into the universal meaning of the word??

What you could say subjectively, is that you feel discriminated against on the basis of race, and yes no one but you would be able to explain what that feels like, but the fact remains that racism has both a grammatical, objective meaning, and a legal meaning.

If only black people or other minority races could claim to know what racism is then how do you expect the outside world to deal with racism solely on the terms of that minority?

And yes i cannot say i have ever experienced racism even though i have traveled a bit, and spent some time in what is supposed to be the racist hotbed of North Carolina (home of the modern kkk), and i never once experienced racism. Instead i made a lot of great white friends, both old and young.

I believe people tend to arrive at the conclusions they set out to arrive at, which is why i do not buy into this racism, victim mentality.

Crime › Re: Phone Thief Burnt To Death In Lagos (Graphic Photos) by SmartyPants(m): 10:08am On Nov 15, 2016

ImperialYoruba:
In US u try to kill somebody make sure you dont miss because the law allows for self defense against threat.

This guy was a threat, he made attempt, with malicious intent and calculation, to take life. This was no jungle justice, this was self defense in action. The law allows for self defense anywhere in the world.

You have no idea what self-defense is.

1. Self defence must only come after you have taken other possible measures

2. Once your assailant has been reasonably subdued, self-defence has ended

What has actually occurred here is murder.

Romance › Re: Photos Of Bridal Train In Swimsuits That Got People Talking by SmartyPants(m): 9:31am On Nov 15, 2016

Nothing so amazing to see here. Nigerians and the things you people like

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Literature › Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by SmartyPants(m): 9:15am On Nov 15, 2016

LEAFLET:
I'm very saddened by people's misconception about the interview Chiamanda granted bbc. She was just being objective and straight to the point. How can a white man define racism when he's never felt it before? Can a man describe childbirth or relate to women periods?? People just open their mouth and say anything. If you watch the interview, She tried to subtly point to the man the character of Trump and the white man tried to downplay all the things that Trump did or said before he won as mere fallacy which is hard for Amanda to Understand. That's natural. Let's use common sense here.

He was not trying to describe how racism feels, rather he was giving a socio-academic definition of the term. Applying your own reasoning, must you be a woman to be able to define menstruation? Or simply because you don't know how child birth feels, you can't explain what it is to a child?

What she said was wrong. Period.

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Romance › Re: Help!!!!! My Fiances Posted Her Nude Pix On Facebook. by SmartyPants(m): 1:42am On Nov 15, 2016

Raine80:
See all your women's business is all over the Internet for other men to see...all over Nairaland as well. So now everyone knows what she looks like half dressed. Good luck to you , you are going to need loads of it.

seems like everyone here believes this wonderful tale.

na wa for some of you

Romance › Re: Help!!!!! My Fiances Posted Her Nude Pix On Facebook. by SmartyPants(m): 1:38am On Nov 15, 2016

NwamaziNwaAro:
But wait first... she posted it on Facebook and you feel so terrible.

To help you get good advices, you posted the same picture on Nairaland??

You are such a genius I'm certain you were dropped on the head as a baby :-)

Before now only your wife's friends on Facebook could see this picture

But NOW

1.6million members on Nairaland and 5million guests can.

Clap for yourself, you are really ready for marriage!!!!

So you believe that that picture right there is that of his fiance (if he has one)?

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Business › Re: Lagos Shop Allows Oyinbo Man Walk Away With N200k Worth Of Goods Without Payment by SmartyPants(m): 2:37pm On Nov 14, 2016

thesicilian:
I understand sha, he took a great and silly risk. But the fact that he chose to trust a foreigner in a situation where he wouldn't have dared to do same for a Nigerian is what I am concerned about.

Nothing silly about the risk he took. business is all about making educated guesses and in his case he probably guessed that he might win himself a repeat customer for life by a little show of good faith. Do you know the value of repeat business from a customer who buys 200k in one go, compared to a potential one-time loss of 200K?

We all make instantaneous judgments about people so no need to focus on the racial element.

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Family › Re: My Friend Is Cheating On His Wife, Putting Me In A Tight Situation by SmartyPants(m): 1:52pm On Nov 14, 2016

tintingz:
How do you know he's not cheating before the wife traveled? Because the OP didn't mention that doesn't mean he has not been cheating before she traveled. The difference is it was not obvious until she traveled.

Again you can't change a man's sexual life.

If he lacks self control, monitoring or being present will not even change anything especially in Africa where men get away with anything.

What is the point of the speculation? He may or may not have. That takes us neither here nor there.

What we can deal with are the facts presented by the OP, based on which i arrived at my conclusion. To manufacture other facts to defend a particular position means you are already prejudiced.

Family › Re: My Friend Is Cheating On His Wife, Putting Me In A Tight Situation by SmartyPants(m): 1:25pm On Nov 14, 2016

ephi123:
That particular comment was not referring to this case but to your statement of a man who lacks self-control and integrity. And I maintain such a person will cheat regardless.

Why should a woman be the one responsible for her husband's decision to cheat or not cheat. It is very unfair that a man who should be leader and head of the house will need his wife to exercise control over him not to cheat! Is he a puppet? Is she a super power? In any case we can see that does not even work, cos if it did, we would have many more faithful married men in Nigeria. Ultimately, it is the man's decision.

Lol alright we can agree to disagree then. But let me restate that i do not endorse cheating.

It is vile and a sin before God and man.

Health › Re: I Lost My Friend To Chronic Kidney Disease, His Last Whatsapp Chat With Me by SmartyPants(m): 12:49pm On Nov 14, 2016

This is why i get so angry when i'm trying to watch a game at a bar or something and some people start smoking anyhow!!

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Crime › Re: Police Sergeant Killed In Abuja During Shootout With Armed Robbers by SmartyPants(m): 12:46pm On Nov 14, 2016

nature2abdul:
Honestly I don't wish any human being suffering unnecessary. The lives of these perssonel matters too.

Most certainly! May God bless our officers.

But we cannot give officers license to kill even confirmed armed robbers. If you do, what stops an officer from arresting you because he does not like your face, shooting you to death, and then claiming you were caught in the act of armed robbery?

The law is very capable of giving the apprehended robbers the justice they deserve, so lets allow it to serve its purpose.

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Family › Re: My Friend Is Cheating On His Wife, Putting Me In A Tight Situation by SmartyPants(m): 12:39pm On Nov 14, 2016

ephi123:
There is no contradiction there. I was following on from your comment of a man who has no self-control and integrity, if those two things are missing in a man's character, then he will cheat whether his wife is present or not.

yes, and thus it should follow that such a man would not need a convenient excuse to cheat, since according to you he is an inherent cheat and will cheat regardless? but the man in question has not been cheating on his wife all along which indicates that he is reacting to circumstance, as opposed to taking advantage of it. So he is an incidental cheat, not an inherent one, and his wife could manage his incidental weakness by eradicating any possibility of such incidence, simply by making herself available.

but if you still argue that an inherent cheat does need an opportunity to cheat, then a lady married to an inherent cheat should take steps to deprive him of the convenience to cheat. Thus he may remain a cheat at heart, but he would not be able to exercise his nature.

Either way, the woman has the power to control her husband, if a "convenient excuse" is the trigger for cheating.

Family › Re: My Friend Is Cheating On His Wife, Putting Me In A Tight Situation by SmartyPants(m): 12:28pm On Nov 14, 2016

MarieSucre:
Men are not any special snowflake that eat sex for food. After all there are reverend fathers. pls stop making excuses for infidelity.

Why are you putting words in my mouth?

Family › Re: My Friend Is Cheating On His Wife, Putting Me In A Tight Situation by SmartyPants(m): 12:23pm On Nov 14, 2016

ephi123:
If he lacks self control and integrity, he will still cheat even right under her nose. Her travelling is simply a convenient excuse.

You are somehow contradicting yourself. If you say a man who would cheat, will always cheat, then he would surely cheat with or without "a convenient excuse".

Since according to the OP, this behavior started only when the "convenient excuse" presented itself, it still boils down to exactly what i said before:

If you know your man has such a weakness, then do not give him the "convenient excuse" that he needs to indulge himself.

cc tintingz

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Family › Re: My Friend Is Cheating On His Wife, Putting Me In A Tight Situation by SmartyPants(m): 12:05pm On Nov 14, 2016

Amelian:
It's a pity, some married women are like that... They will leave their husband, travel abroad for further studies and I usually ask, this PHD or masters u are going for? Please enlighten me, what do u intend to do with it? They will say they just want to have higher degrees.
I shake head for those wives.. Later they will start crying wolf, saying can u imagine her husband has married another woman.. May the almighty God give them sense to see the havoc they are creating in their homes.

Op, your friend is lonely. And even if the wife travels with the next flight back home to fight her husband. Cos He is the only person she can fight for now.. After telling her sorry dear, with sweet words and she travels back.. He will still go back to his girlfriend.. And the girlfriend is determined to be his wife.. So my dear, the situation is messy already.

I have to agree with you.

DarkRebel101 and the others:

As a man i cannot cheat on my wife (when i will have one) but to pretend that men are not the way men generally are will not help matters.

i remember one day my christian boss who goes to church twice a week, and dotes on his family, called me into his office and asked me "SmartyPants, is it wrong if i keep a girlfriend because my wife is not around" i was literally dumbfounded...i had no clue how to answer because on the one hand he and i both knew the answer but on the other, i knew exactly what sort of pressure he must have been facing.

The average man easily falls emotionally and sexually when lonely, and considers it a right to have sexual intercourse. Can you change that?? Unless you want to say you have found some brilliant technique for making people do the right thing against their wishes, then if the misbehavior of another person will affect you, then you yourself must do what you gotta do to survive. To reason otherwise could be compared to saying, people should not commit armed robbery, therefore i will not secure mysefl and my property. When you get robbed are you not secondarily to blame?

I'm not directly blaming the lady here as clearly her husband lacks self control and integrity, but what i am saying is that if you know that your husband lacks self control and integrity and you also care about your marriage, then you should do your best to not allow him the exposure that may bring out the worst in him.

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Crime › Re: Police Sergeant Killed In Abuja During Shootout With Armed Robbers by SmartyPants(m): 10:26am On Nov 14, 2016

nature2abdul:
I don't understand this nonsense I swear. Armed rubbers killed one of your colleagues in an operation , you are now arresting them! Did you run out of bullet? Even if you want to get information from them, why not minus 7 and leave only one? Tomorrow now, their Oga will go and bail them after seeing your Oga at the top. Last time it was a brave soldier, today a brave police, I hope all these nonsense is not happening from within?
REST IN PEACE SIR.

Be careful what you wish for!

Family › Re: Wife Of LASU Lecturer Pregnant For Her Bricklayer Lover (pics) by SmartyPants(m): 12:16am On Nov 14, 2016

WalkerMichael:
That awkward moment when after rushing to book space, you
suddenly realize you don't have any meaningful thing to say.
Anyway let me use this opportunity to beg you guys for likes. I
know this is childish and that I have grown past this. I won't lie
that today is my birthday- just like others do. It's just that i have
this irresistible urge and would like to know that people still care
about other peoples feelings. May whatever you worship bless
and protect you and your family as you like this post. Thanks and
God bless you and your family.
Once more, don't say im distubing you. Please click like. Thanks
once again. Please I'm on my knees begging, it won't cost you
anything just to click on that like. Pulease.

I just want you to know that i took the time to read every single word of your post, and i still didn't give you a like.

wink

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Video Of Frightened Black Man Forced Into A Coffin By White Man Sparks Outrage by SmartyPants(m): 3:06pm On Nov 13, 2016

shobroy10:
It's not their fault we are the one that make dem feel important, we make them look superior to us and at every instance we make them believe they are unique which makes them feel like a super breed. Finally I blame ourself for not liking each other to the extent of we getting rich at the expense of another's welfare. Am very sad right now God punish anyone that makes this continent what it is

So when Nigerians catch a person that stole plantain and place a tire around their neck, douse them in kerosene or petrol (which is a valuable resource in Nigeria these days), and proceed to set them on fire, is it because the Nigerians committing the act feel superior to the one they caught? Or that logic only applies to white people?

Not everything is about racism!!

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Romance › Re: Must Women Think All Men Want Sex From Them After Helping Them? by SmartyPants(m): 4:58pm On Nov 12, 2016

Estharfabian:
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Holly cow! You've murdered Me! I'm dead...!
I'm a lost cause. now, I'd Go commit suicide. RIP Esthar!

PS--is your flagella - ish still Up for grabs? I think I might need it now. Holly Molly, I'm Dead! Those words really Hit deep, I think I'm beyond saving.

mtcheeeeeew! Wake up SmartyPants! You could do much better!

Romance › Re: Few Seconds Sex On First Meeting With A Cute Lady Note: Shes Not An Olosho by SmartyPants(m): 2:54pm On Nov 01, 2016

lol... this place somtimes

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