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Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Strictly For Otukpo Hookups by StPete:
Technology Market › Re: New Follow Come Beats By Dre Auxiliary Capable With Voice Control. 3k by StPete: 8:10pm On Feb 13, 2017
Are you on WhatsApp?
Politics › Re: Paris Loan Refund: Nigeria’s 36 Governors Threaten War With EFCC Chair, Magu by StPete: 6:30pm On Feb 13, 2017
kai Nigeria is finished!! How did things get this bad that everybody wants to bleed the country, even serving State Governors?
Christianity Etc › Re: My Nairaland Xmas Gift by StPete:
Romance › Re: Did You Know? by StPete(op): 1:58pm On Feb 09, 2017
Jezuspoa:
Oucch ok, what we wanted 2 chat about can we chat it here? Maybe on my thread.

# delete my bbm contact from your quote.
send me a text
Romance › Re: Did You Know? by StPete(op):
Jezuspoa:
On 2nd thought reach here via bbm. Just remembered my whatsapp has stopped functioning on bbm
I don't use bbm
Romance › Re: Did You Know? by StPete(op): 1:15pm On Feb 09, 2017
Jezuspoa:
Hy you tried mailing me through PM on jan 22. I could access the mail cos I couldn't access the e-mail address I used for this monicker. Can we chat via whatsapp.
ok send me your WhatsApp number
Celebrities › Re: Dammy Krane To Host Mega Concert, Proves All Is Well Between Him & Wizkid by StPete: 11:11am On Feb 09, 2017
Whoever knows (likes) 2baba should kindly tell him to be ABSENT on that day o.
Politics › Re: Police Block Aso Rock As Protesters Reach In Front Of The Presdential Villa.PICS by StPete: 2:40pm On Feb 06, 2017
0b10010011:
It's about to happen..... cool cool cool

Any breach of orderliness will be severely dealt with.
stop wasting your mb, Buhari is gone. You have lost out
Career › Re: Crippled Man Sells Air Freshener & Polish In Abuja (Pics) by StPete: 1:41pm On Feb 05, 2017
I think this kind of trade amongst beggars is now fast gaining grounds cos just 2days ago, I also saw a crippled northerner selling tooth brushes and all sorts of electrical torches. Didn't know such pictures could grace the front page otherwise I'd have taken pictures
Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Edo's Forum; A Whatsapp Group For Edolites & Edo Residents by StPete:
Foreign Affairs › Re: Protest Across US Airports As Trump Bans 7 Muslim Majority Nations (photos) by StPete: 5:52pm On Jan 29, 2017
Mrbigman1:
This actually why people voted him.

Man of his word.
I swear, unlike the beast of a president we have here, Donald Trump is keeping to his words.
Celebrities › Re: Kanu Nwankwo Poses With Laura Ikeji & Ogbonna Kanu At Their Traditional Marriage by StPete: 7:28am On Jan 29, 2017
two of them appear to be opportunists. angry

If the guy was not related to Kanu, she would never have given in. And if she wasn't related to Linda, the guy would never have considered her. Both of them are riding on the successes of their siblings to be termed famous.
Technology Market › Re: RAM Vs Processor by StPete: 7:07am On Jan 23, 2017
Go with the 2GHz processor, you can always upgrade that 2GB RAM to even as much as 8GB
Romance › Did You Know? by StPete(op): 9:10am On Jan 22, 2017
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & Sold to the tannery.......if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor"

But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot......they "didn't have a pot to piss in" & were the lowest of the low

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June.. However, since they were starting to smell . ...... . Brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting Married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof... Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old. Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would Sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive... So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.

Now you know!

Lalasticlala pls move this to the right section, thank you
Christianity Etc › Re: I.O Ajilore's Prophecies: "I Saw Saraki Overcoming, Pray Against Plane Crash by StPete: 8:54pm On Jan 15, 2017
As much as most of the prophecies sound like guess work, one thing stands out! All the prophecies combined emphasized on the fact that 2017 will be a year of surprises. I really hope it would be positive surprises as we have encountered too much negativity for a long time.
Celebrities › Re: Wizkid's Son, King Ayo Celebrates His 1st Birthday Today by StPete: 8:45pm On Jan 15, 2017
I even thought the boy should be older
Foreign Affairs › Re: Senegal To Host Gambia’s President-elect Until Swearing-in by StPete: 4:22pm On Jan 15, 2017
Seriously, I hope Buhari and other leaders learn from this. 2019 is not far and Buhari may not wanna concede defeat when the results are finally declared
Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Updated-New Job Vacancies by StPete: 5:56am On Jan 12, 2017
Lorddominic:
Please friends, I need an urgent description on how to locate this address before 8am from Mile 2.... "12B Metal Box Rd, Off Acme Rd, Ogba-Ikeja"
From Mile 2, take a bus to Oshodi. From Oshodi, get another going to Ikeja. From Ikeja inside, take a keke or bike to Ogba and locate the address.

Good luck!

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