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Re: Ugly Britain by A40(m): 11:02pm On Oct 25, 2008 |
redsun:You made loads of sense there bro.I feel ya Very very funny thread i have really really laughed my ass off at these pics and the comments but from humor we could learn a lesson that no amount of pics we post on here would reduce the number of people queuing for visas if we don't as a nation try to make life better for the common man |
Re: Ugly Britain by busygirl(f): 11:07pm On Oct 25, 2008 |
wow, this thread is really funny,it's obvious that no country is perfect. There's no big deal in england, but i love england for so many reasons particularly, because it is well organised. pretty much, every country has its own flaws but in naij, it's far too obvious starting from the greedy leaders to the helpless youths that engage in scams. I just pray things change |
Re: Ugly Britain by pafun(m): 11:07pm On Oct 25, 2008 |
femionasan:Yaaay !! Fame at last ! |
Re: Ugly Britain by femionasan(m): 11:29pm On Oct 25, 2008 |
@ Pafun I really hope it is not the fame u are after? |
Re: Ugly Britain by gamechange(m): 12:13am On Oct 26, 2008 |
@Pafun You are a true Nigerian, this is funny, witty and your style of delivery is on point. Keep it up. |
Re: Ugly Britain by JosBoy4Lif(m): 1:29am On Oct 26, 2008 |
A society is rated based on the size of its middle class. I believe Nigeria's middle class is pretty much non-existent. |
Re: Ugly Britain by Vieira(m): 2:14am On Oct 26, 2008 |
I would like to point out that I have spotted nothing less than 5 pixs that come from movies! Your point would be better made with true real life pictures and not film pixs or even model pixs.(one of them is a famous model pix). |
Re: Ugly Britain by kingbru(m): 3:37am On Oct 26, 2008 |
this all seems too bad to be true, but anything is possible |
Re: Ugly Britain by iceland(m): 5:49am On Oct 26, 2008 |
Vieira:Movies or no movies they are still coming from u.k |
Re: Ugly Britain by honeric01(m): 6:47am On Oct 26, 2008 |
maybe we think it's only perfect humans that live in the western world |
Re: Ugly Britain by reindeer: 6:57am On Oct 26, 2008 |
lovely thread. i Just wonder why some people get angry that such things are being posted, i guess its those who believe Oyinbos are next to the gods. Nigerians need to have a change of mentality especially concerning their own country, i have never seen a set of people who disrespect their own country like nigerians, on arrival from heathrow to lagos a few weeks ago, there were these 2 garrulous chaps who were wondering why they had to queue in nija as if they didnt queue in england and believe me those guys were uneducated(you could tell from the contents of their discussion) and were probably street sweeps in london.Making a few quids in london gives no one any right to disrespect nija. Fact is, theres no heaven on earth,nija is trying and i know someday we'll get there so lets hype nija and also show these guys are not gods! so poster great job! keep it coming, im sure next time ill go around with a good cam to take some of those pictures too. |
Re: Ugly Britain by bawomolo(m): 7:10am On Oct 26, 2008 |
why are nigerians in the UK catching feelings like this, are you being forced to defend the queen?? |
Re: Ugly Britain by salamander(m): 7:16am On Oct 26, 2008 |
I think the better option is how to sell a positive image of Nigeria to the outside world, rather than taking the reverse mode of 'Ugly Britain' As I mentioned in the other thread, the current Nigeria Ambassador to Ghana is going just that. He had device means by which Nigeria will have a positive image. He has been organising business fora, interacting with the Ghanaian media, and I believed his method is working. I wish Nigeria government policy should be centered on that. Doing a negative story on Britain is not the best in my opinion. |
Re: Ugly Britain by Thor(m): 7:22am On Oct 26, 2008 |
This whole thread can be summed up in one word: Jealousy Even 99% of the pictures that have been posted are from the USA All countries have their problems, some more than others. Britain is a stable, fair and just democracy with a wonderful colorful history. Britain and Nigeria have a past together, pity the Brits did not stay. Nigeria would be a far better place than it is today for sure |
Re: Ugly Britain by bawomolo(m): 7:27am On Oct 26, 2008 |
Thor: huh wtf |
Re: Ugly Britain by Jarus(m): 8:00am On Oct 26, 2008 |
To Joseph Adeyeye, the writer of that Punch article, if he's still here: Are you a nairalander or just a guest? Did you just bump into this thread while researching on your article, or you are a regular NL visitor/member? The first sentence in that article(that NL is Nigeria's busiest online website) suggests you are not new to NL, but I want to know whether you are a member or just regular visitor!!! I'm a regular punch reader/article writer, if I had not been a member of NL, that statement would have drawn my interest to NL, and I would have joined yesterday because I can't imagine myself not being part of Nigeria's busiest discussion forum |
Re: Ugly Britain by sexyLeamon(f): 8:11am On Oct 26, 2008 |
Thor:I don't think so I think the poster is just showing that white man home is not all that. poster well done am clapping for you. |
Re: Ugly Britain by Jarus(m): 8:57am On Oct 26, 2008 |
Thor:I also disagree. I think it's just an attempt to demystify the mentality by many Nigerians that life in UK and US is automatically rosy. Not a bad effort. |
Re: Ugly Britain by Pataki: 9:35am On Oct 26, 2008 |
pafun:I appreciate your sense of humor, but mixing graphic pictures that do not depict the full UK you are talking about only portrays that there is more to this issue raised by you other than the Ugly Side of Britain, which I can read to be lies or rather half-truth. No where in the UK would you see cars with some of the plate number designs as shown in the quote above emanating from you. Please get your facts-pictures right. And again prostitutes are everywhere all over the world. In the Netherlands, prostitutes pay tax to the government so no country is totally devoid of them, while some countries see them as business and trust Nigerians to be active participants in such business and that last picture kind of looks like the typical red-light district room in the Netherlands. While you are it, you may please view this link to read what a fellow Nigerian did in swiping off enormous amount of money from the UK and the supporting comments emanating from UK citizens. http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/10/a-case-study-in-how-the-illegal-immigration-swindle-works/#comments Cheers! |
Re: Ugly Britain by Bastage: 10:09am On Oct 26, 2008 |
I would take the link with a pinch of salt. It's BNP. A far right political party that most UK citizens find abhorrent. Agreed that most of the photos here do not show the UK. What is the point of posting photographs of other countries and saying this is UK? It is lies and deceit. I live in the UK. Of course it has it's downsides - every single country in the world does. But to say that it is decadent, violent or poverty stricken is utterly, utterly ridiculous. You only have to take a look at statistics when compared to other nations to see how advanced it is. That's not defending anyone, just a plain, cool, hard fact. And a few photos of other countries do not prove otherwise. Even if you could post a few photos that show the UK, it still does not prove a thing. |
Re: Ugly Britain by Nobody: 11:25am On Oct 26, 2008 |
Britain faces threat from radicalised Muslims for 30 years, says security minister http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3235448/Britain-faces-threat-from-radicalised-Muslims-for-30-years-says-security-minister.html http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/01/islamists-try-to-hijack-holocaust-memorial-day/ This is an undated Metropolitan Police handout photo made available on Thursday Oct. 2, 2008 Shahra Marsh. Marsh who admits using bad checks to buy art and jewels worth some 2 million pounds (US$3.6 million) faces sentencing in London after pleading guilty on Wednesday Oct. 1, 2008 . http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26988441/wid/21370087/displaymode/1168/rstry/26987021/rpage/1/ Being black in Britain is bad for your mental health. There is an epidemic of psychotic illness in those of African and Caribbean origin, so why are we doing nothing to stop it?http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/apr/02/comment.health OECD report attacks British failure to tackle corporate bribery and corruption http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/3215711/OECD-report-attacks-British-failure-to-tackle-corporate-bribery-and-corruption.html |
Re: Ugly Britain by Nobody: 11:50am On Oct 26, 2008 |
na wa o |
Re: Ugly Britain by willyspace(m): 11:54am On Oct 26, 2008 |
I bet you, those guys under the bridges of Lagos will gladly and hungrily trade places with those homeless blokes in ur pix. Did you see the homeless beggers with their kids in the pram? I bet North, South, East and West Nigeria, you can't find that. Better serve in Heaven, than reign in hell. |
Re: Ugly Britain by Vieira(m): 12:01pm On Oct 26, 2008 |
iceland: Huh? what kind of argument is that? So images from movies are now prove of how a place is? Ok, then I should just post pictures of Star Trek and tell you that is how my home town looks! |
Re: Ugly Britain by Vieira(m): 12:02pm On Oct 26, 2008 |
double post |
Re: Ugly Britain by pafun(m): 12:14pm On Oct 26, 2008 |
Sorry I am late, I just arrived from church (puff) @Vieira @Thor I would like to point out that I have spotted nothing less than 5 pixs that come from movies! Even 99% of the pictures that have been posted are from the USA Huh Which pictures; which movies ? what part of US ? Don't obfuscate the point sirs. @ Pataki No where in the UK would you see cars with some of the plate number designs as shown in the quote above emanating from youI am completely convinced that you live nowhere near the UK that last picture kind of looks like the typical red-light district room in the Netherlands. chei this bros go don catch someting o! @bawomolo why are nigerians in the UK catching feelings like this, are you being forced to defend the queen??Na fear say them go chase them (Oyinbo master I no dey among them o !). Na wa o ! Finally this thread is only meant to amuse . Make all these Abelejayan people go get a life. |
Re: Ugly Britain by RichyBlacK(m): 12:27pm On Oct 26, 2008 |
pafun: Amuse? @pafun, you're being dishonest! If it was just for amusement, then why try to make it sound/look like a serious photo-documentary? |
Re: Ugly Britain by pafun(m): 12:32pm On Oct 26, 2008 |
RichyBlacK:Point of correction sir ; you can't blame me if you chose to think like an illiterate. If you have read all the comments in this thread from the beginning you will not have arrived at such a misinformed conclusion. |
Re: Ugly Britain by Nobody: 12:39pm On Oct 26, 2008 |
GUY DID DEY DENY U IMMIGARNT VISA that U R HATING ON THEM WEL J.D IS FUN WITH LOADZZ OF STUFF WE WOULDNT SEE IN NIG TILL 2099.why dnt u show us the ugly side of nig too.[can u believe that more than 8 policemen were standin in dis pix just lukin
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Re: Ugly Britain by LadyT(f): 12:40pm On Oct 26, 2008 |
Daft topic remove the log from your own eyes first. |
Re: Ugly Britain by sexyLeamon(f): 12:41pm On Oct 26, 2008 |
babs2aroks:we see this every day in newspapers, on TV and even in school we are tried of it |
Re: Ugly Britain by pafun(m): 12:43pm On Oct 26, 2008 |
babs2aroks: Another illiterate . The title of this thread is "Ugly Britain " Read it well well. Go start your own "Ugly Nigeria" , and put your face as the first picture |
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