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I thought I read somewhere that NUC replaced BASIC, Fortran, and Pascal with some other programming languages?

Maybe old school, but I'm of the opinion that virtually any general purpose programming language can be used to introduce students to programming. In fact, a language as simple as BASIC helps them focus more on problem solving/algorithm development and worry less about syntaxes. But it would have been much better if the introductory languages were taught at the secondary school level. That way, the university would have enough time to teach languages frequently used in production.

Afromentalist:
It then seems you are yet to understand my stance on this matter.


Je ne suis pas votre élève - Sarkozy to Hollande

You don't answer my question but expect me to answer yours ?

At least you have learned that you do not own any country out there.

Like I said, I don't engage in petty talks. I couldn't care less about your stance and definitely wouldn't have known you had any if you hadn't quoted me. Calling a host who refused to pay after his guests are done eating "smart" is aggressive patriotism. If you're going to share an opinion based on assumption, at least, state the assumption.

The fact that Linda Ikeji who seems to be blog that originally shared the story stated that it happened in Ghana while the video shows a South African accent is an indication that nobody really knows what happened or where it happened. Some comments on that same blog event went ahead to 'debunk' the story saying the girls were make-up artists who came for a job but got disappointed by the person who had promised to pay for their stay. However, it's not uncommon for bloggers to pick up pictures or videos and make up stories around them. What I find funny is the audience adding a whole new paragraph to the story and arguing strictly based on this assumptions as if everyone else is supposed to assume along with them. That's a new height.

Afromentalist:
If anything you are the one making insinuations about others. Nobody doubted your Canadian claims, but you are the one to be quick to assume others are lying, so stop the victimization.

Furthermore, it is indeed shameful to run away from the bills if you have invited someone with the understanding that the Bills are on you. The story is different if people are trying to play you, which is the axiom here.


I mentioned in the western world, in response to a comment and not on my own, so your argument does not hold water. Since I was responding to a claim, it is enough for me to prove that in any part of the western world it is not as the initial post I was responding to, claimed. Hence your argument should be directed at him.


I will answer your question, when you will answer this: where in the links I provided was it indicated that these people were not invited ?

Guess what? it was never explicitely indicated but you made an assumption. That's how life is: you make rational assumption based on the elements you have.



Mr Mayor of Quebec, nobody needs your validation and I don't give a f*ck whether you believe me or not.

Lol... of course, I wasn't expecting a direct response. After all, there's a reason you avoided the question in the first place. A lengthy text running in circles while clearly avoiding the subject and then ending with the f word is not far from what I was expecting, to be honest. At least, you learned not to invite people to dinner and refuse to pay when they're done eating.

It is not stated in the story if the ladies were invited or not and that is why I started my statement with "if he invited them...". That is the ideal way to introduce an opinion based on assumptions except if you believe the reasons for your assumptions are so obvious you don't need state the assumption anymore (and it's not in this case). Even if you rightfully made those assumptions, the fact that I started my first post with the clause "if he invited them..." clearly indicates that what the guy did is only shameful in the absence of the assumption that he didn't invite them. So what exactly are you on about? I must operate with your own assumption and call him smart? Why should I do that?

Sir, I have not for once deviated from my stance and it would seem you've landed in the same positon after all. If the guy invited them to lunch/dinner only to disappear after paying, then that's not smart but shameful; no more, no less. Don't invite people when you aren't ready to be a host, Western world or Eastern world.

Afromentalist:
lol.

You are the one that first cast doubts on my person, and now you are the first to cry foul. You implied I have never been to Montréal (what's the big deal in visiting Quebec ?) and that I may not even speak French (lmaoo) and now you want to pretend I just mentioned this to show off? Lol. You are not the mayor of Montréal bro, we have been there and done that.

Nobody is teaching you any culture, and the western world is not limited to Quebec. I have given you links and facts about the very people in Québec, including a story of a lady that was invited to a restaurant only to find out at the end of the day that the bills must be split. Like I said, you do not own Québec, not are you a mayor there nor shi shi. In fact, I will even be in Toronto this August, and if you want I may come to Montreal just to see if and how you run the city in the palm of your hands.

We are dealing here with a street smart guy who outsmarted slay leeches that intended to f+ck him up. He taught them a very good lesson and they will not forget it. That's all there is to know about this story. If you are a simp that believes it is okay if those hoes deal with men, good for you. You may as well contact that hotel and pay the bill to free the hoes.

You mentioned in the western/civilized world, and I said I live in the so-called western world and it is not true. That was a sweeping statement and you should only talk about where you live. So if there's anyone here who should limit thier references to thier location, it is you cause you brought the western world into this discussion.

You didn't bring any fact, sir. The links you shared are mostly about gender dichotomy and who pays between male and female. Splitting the bills is the norm when people hang out or eat out regardless of gender. However, "let's go and eat at... " is very different from "I'd like to invite you to dinner at ....". Be you a man or a woman, when you invite someone over for/to lunch/dinner, you either cook or pay. This has always been the norm. It is not even worth writing about. This argument is funny cause even if you check the meaning of the expression "invite someone to dinner", you'd see you're making a mess of the expression with your argument.

I'm ignoring all your insinuations cause that's an effort to deviate from the subject and I'm not the type to chase shadows or engage in petty talks. I said that if the guy invited them, then running away after they're done eating is not being smart but shameful. If you do this here, nobody will call you smart. Even in your Germany, I'm sure that would be seen as shameful as well. If you do not intend to pay, say it ahead of time. That's the ideal thing to do.

In case you missed my question, I'm still waiting for you to show me the part that states he only invited one person and she came with her friends. This is a detail that changes everything. Point me to it, please. If you cooked up that part just to support your argument, then there's no telling how much more you've cooked up in this entire conversation, and I'm probably wasting my time.

Petyr1:
I thought Ottawa is the capital of Canada

It is. That was why I found the conversation funny.

Afromentalist:
You are missing the point dude.

First off (with respect to your disguised ad hominems) I have never claimed to be a Québécois or a Canadian for that matter. I am German (citizenship) and I speak French, German English and Spanish either as a native speaker or fluently (thanks to travelling parents). If you want to verify that it is very easy to do, a simple call, and we will have that confirmed. What is it about Montréal for you to think you are the only one in this forum that has ever been there?

Second, you are talking about etiquette, while we are discussing street smartness.

Yes, if you invite someone the bills may be on you, and that was never the bone of contention. The issue here is, the guy may have invited ONE girl , and the other girls ganged to rip him off in their usual Nigerian way. At this point there is no etiquette any longer, the ladies tried to exploit him, and he had to outsmart them thereby teaching them a lesson.

Since you read French, would you mind reading this piece from a Montreal based coach that clearly suggest that each party may have to pay its own bill, or is she not Québécoise enough for you?

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2017/03/10/qui-doit-payer-la-facture-au-restaurant

You create your own bone of contention when you feel like. I really don't care about the languages you speak but don't just say "in the western world... " or anything like that. I have not just been to Montréal, I was born in Montréal and you're not in any position to teach me the culture here. I wouldn't argue with you about Germany but no, I need no opinion survey to tell me about the culture I live.

Like I said, you don't change the goalpost half-way when you feel overwhelmed. I said it from the very first post you quoted that "if the guy invited them...", then he's not smart but wicked for refusing to pay. This has always been my point. That was the very first statement in my first post and you can't now pretend as if you didn't see it, neither can you accuse me of missing the point because in each of my responses to you, I always ensure I buttress that. Meanwhile, which part of the OP indicated the guy invited one lady and she came with her friends? Where did you get this detail from? Please, point me to that. That will help.

This is not a discussion of who pays the restaurant bills between the man and the woman (I can see that's what the links you shared are discussing). We split bills when people eat out. This is a question who pays the bill between the inviter and the invitee when you invite someone for/to dinner. It has nothing to do with gender and it's different from going to a pub with friends. As for the links you sent sharing opinions, opinions have never reflected reality. People have thier opinions on how things should be (in Nigeria, some people think women should inherit thier father's properties just as men do), but you have to live here to know what the culture is. Sir, when you invite someone for dinner, you are the host. Even the link you shared stated this as the prevalent mindset. And that's exactly what the English expression means. If for any reason you can't pay, you MUST mention it ahead of time. It's even embarrassing having this discussion with you cause even a kid here knows this.

Davido is hardworking and he makes his own money. It's not a crime he's also from a rich family.

Onlinefarmstore:
Bros abeg no start..............

Do I know you?

germaphobe:
I hate how i tend to enjoy comments and look forward to them. lol, cant you just go out of your ways and insult someone or be rude while replying without making much sense so that i can actually laugh out loud. good morning from here

Lol... Germaphobe, I feel stalked.

Just kidding! I'm always very concerned about clearly getting my message across to the second party (i.e. communicating), and I fear that being rude to the person might make them focus on the personal attack and not the message, and thereby making my message to get lost in transit. Besides, disagreeing with someone on certain topics doesn't make them a bad person or an enemy. We could agree on other subjects and I'd like to still be able to "shake hands" with them when we do.

Good morning sir!

Afromentalist:
Leave that talk baba.

I have been to Montréal many times and I know the place quite well. (I do speak french too by the way, along with german and spanish).

When 2 people go for a date, should there be a default, each person is held liable for his own bill (from the restaurant's perspective). Of course if one person wants to pay the bills, he is free to do so. But should that arrangement not be effective, each person is liable for his own consumption. Make person no dey deceive you

Dude, you do not invite someone for a dinner and refuse to pay. It is not normal. It is shameful. If you do that in Montréal, nobody will call you smart guy. You might have been to Montréal but obviously, you are definitely not a Québécois. If a Québécois invites you for lunch, he or she will cook for you. If he invites you to lunch, he or she will pay the bills. Whoever issues an invitation functions in the role of a host, and generally whoever does the hosting does the paying. It has nothing to do with gender. This is different from hanging out. It's a treat. That's why you hear statements like "if you do this for me, I'll invite you to lunch". This means, "I'll take you out to lunch", and if you take someone out on a date, you pay. That's not the same as suggesting a restaurant to friend or a colleague where you both could hang out.

In my first post, I made it clear it's always a good idea to go with one's debit or credit card cause of uncertainties. But that does not normalize the host refusing to pay after lunch. Contrary to what y'all are saying, the guy was not "smart". He did something shameful. And that has always been the grand point. This your argument would have made sense if you had not mentioned Montréal (or even France) because the French word "inviter" in Montréal is an automatic acceptance of paying. Seeing how you're likely to say anything just to win an argument, I doubt you've ever been to Montréal. But I'm not the one to call anyone a lier.

Officialhorlah:
App

Yes, app.

You guys have literally gone crazy on this app.

Given the population of Nigeria, it shouldn't come as a surprise that there are Nigerians everywhere doing doing both good and bad (just like other developing countries with high population as well).

MALIGNANTGuest:
So you mean kicking out of SCHOOL is the only punishment that befits her?
IF the man assaulted were to be a LADY & she's being assaulted by male student, you would recommend 10 years jail term or castration.

That's a clear case of ASSAULT & Attempted Rape too & should be overseen by a competent court.
She displayed MADNESS.

I don't know you. But since you're fan, could you point me to anywhere I've recommended any jail term for any crime whatsoever on NL? Dude, I'm not a lawyer and I don't go around saying what I don't know for the fun of it like most of y'all do on here. As an individual, I can only share my opinion and I acknowledged the lady is crazy and should be kicked out. That is exactly what I would have said if it were a guy. The only difference is that if it were guy, you would have quoted me to defend him and not to ask for more punishment. Whether the man wants to sue her to court or not is his decision to make. I've already made it clear who I think is wrong. If you think you have the befitting punishment for her or you know the number of years she deserves in jail for her crimes, go ahead and share. Don't just drag me into it.

Wow! She is violent and deserves to be kicked out of that school.

Is that a classroom?

OP, every country has thier own share of such people. America is a big country in every sense of it, so they've got the good, the bad and the ugly just like Nigeria. Picking some stupid comments from some Americans online in order to ridicule the country is low cause one wouldn't even need to go that far to do that to Nigeria.

Someone on this NL said New York and Toronto are the only states in the US he'd love to live in. Another person laughed at him and said, "dude, Toronto is the capital of Canada. Stop embarrassing yourself". Someone was arguing the other day that Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq are all parts of the UAE. So you see, no country has the monopoly of such people.

It's beautiful.

CNN never reported him dead.

OP, you sound as if you speak with all the muscles in your body. Do you sweat when you talk? Apparently, speaking is a workout session for you.

By the way, stop making useless videos. Such contents have never made anyone rich.

SIRTee15:
I'm not in any mood to argue with u.
Except someone who invited booked in advance- in which case he will drop his details or credit card info, the invitee is responsible what she eats in case the guy defaults.
Don't come here to form I too know.

In any case, this is naija. Who's going to incur the expense of their dinner..the owner? U must be joking.

In case the guy defaults. Lol. Pleae, stop normalizing nonsense. You don't have the slightest idea how funny and narrow minded that sounds. First, it mustn't be a guy playing the host. Second, how the host decides to pay (in advance or not) is not something the guest should be worried about. Honoring an invite with the fear the host might embarras you is not normal even if that is how you guys live in Nigeria. Like I said in my first post you guys quoted, it's great for the guest to have some cash seeing how these things happen often over there but even at that, inviting someone to dinner only to run away when they're done eating is not being "smart". It's simply shameful. That's the grand point here.

Your last statement is you trying to cook up an argument that doesn't exist just to score points. Where did I say the management should shoulder the expenses? Thiers is to get thier money. I only said that it's ridiculous to call such lack of civility from the guy being smart cause there's nothing smart about the shameful act. You jumped from "in civilized countries" to "this is Naija". You're neither here nor there. You'd just say anything to support your argument.

SIRTee15:
U are responsible for what u eat in a restaurant.
That's the standard practice anywhere in the world.
In developed countries, u split bills.
Enough of all this unnecessary wokeism. Being a female doesn't make u handicapp or vulnerable. Everyone should learn to live within their means...otherwise, they should endure the humiliation.

Lol... you guys and this expression "in developed countries". Dude, I'm Canadian. Not just a Canadian but a Québécois and we francophones take social etiquette very seriously. I can tell you authoritatively that the person who's not living within their means is the one who decides to host people at a place he can't afford, and not the invitees.

Hanging out is different from inviting someone to dinner. When you hang out, you both decide the place and each person is responsible for whatever they eat. When you say "invite someone for dinner", it means you are inviting them to your house and you'll cook for them. And when you say "invite someone to dinner", it means you're taking them to a restaurant and you'll pay the bill. In both cases, they keyword is "invite" and that makes you the host.

You don't just invite people to a place they wouldn't normally go to eat and then ask them to pay. Did they tell you they planned to incur such an expense? While some people could decide to assist with the payment out of courtesy, it doesn't make it their responsibility. Inviting someone to dinner and insisting they must pay is like inviting someone for dinner at your place and asking them to do the cooking. It's simply ridiculous. It's not done anywhere.

@Dottore

Dottore:
Oga/madam, eat what you can afford when you hangout whether on invitation or not.

I wrote this in my first quote. But it doesn't I Amy way make the guy a "smart guy". There's nothing smart about behaving foolishly.

[quote author=femi4 post=101905901][/quote]Spontaneous:
NaCl(s) + H20(aq) ==> NaCl(aq) (Na+ + Cl−)

Then electrolysis:
NaCl(aq) ==> NaOH + H + Cl.

Oduok:
I love your analysis. The ions can be forcefully dissociated and recombined during electrolysis - not in ordinary dissolution. That is why a mixture of the salt and water can easily be separation by evaporation showing that the process was just a physical change rather than chemical. What's your discipline?

Yes, not spontaneously (I should probably add that in my first post). I also believe the the forceful separation results NaOH + H + Cl (gaseous). I wonder why this is not violent seeing how violently Hydrogen reacts with Chlorine. Again, I wonder if Hydrogen and Chlorine can be photolyzed...

Lol... don't mind me, I've got this soft spot for Chemistry and I always try to figure out the reactions that could be taking place around me. You can't even begin to imagine the amount of mess I created in my mum's kitchen when I was in high school. Everyone thought I'd end up studying something related to the subject. But nope, I'm a software engineer today. And the only time my knowledge of Chemistry ever came handy at work was when we got a contract from a pharmatical company to implement a machine learning solution to facilitate clinical trials, and also when we built a production control system for a cosmetic manufacturer.

femi4:
Olodo

It's not a reversible reaction. A mixture of salt n water cannot give you acid and base

The equation is correct, sir. Just not spontaneously but via electrolysis.

Updated: there's a plus sign between the Hydrogen and Chlorine which was omitted in error (I believe this is the reason I'm called an olodo for making attempts). They are distinct gases not Hydrogen Chloride, the acid. And like I said, that's a correct equation when electrolysis is involved.

And learn to disagree without insulting people.

Afromentalist:
You assume he invited them, which is likely not the case.
He may have invited one girl, and she brought along her friends to milk the mugu off, or so they thought.

My man decided he will rather teach them a lesson they may will not easily forget.

Read the first clause of my first comment. I started with "if the man invited....". So no, I'm not assuming anything. We don't know what happened but people are naturally to call the guy "smart guy". That's just ridiculous.

Dottore:
[s][/s]
Since they were stupid enough to desire what they can't afford while targeting another man's pocket all in the name of slaying. Then they deserve all the treatment they got and even more. Nonsense

Everyone desires what they can't afford. It's human nature. If you're invited out to drink by a friend in an expensive club you wouldn't ordinarily go to, you wouldn't hesitate one bit before grabbing the opportunity. There's simply no point in inviting someone to a dinner or lunch and then refusing to pay. Why invite them in the first place?

One4me:
He invited One Person, she carry two friends along, to come and eat Awoof in a type of setting they cant naturally afford!
Who is wicked between them and the man?

BTW, who "wound" you sef?

Where did you get the full story from? Was that said in the video? Cause OP didn't write that.

When someone shares such a story, you'd see others sharing a few of thier own embarrassing moments too just to make the shame a bit more bearable. But in Nigeria, when you talk about such things, people will start looking at you as if you're disgusting. Some will even abuse you and abuse your race and gender like the ones above. Sometimes, I wonder what life is like down there. Lol.