PDPGuy:
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NONNYG:
pm me her digit

NONNYG:
pm me her digit

FrankNetter:
Hey guys, I'd like to address this issue of anonymity. While I'd honestly love to make new friends and post my pictures on here, we'd all agree that this thread is more enjoyable cos I never did that from the start.

Simply put, nairaland is a really laaaarge forum, and I do not know who would be reading

Plus, my decision to be anonymous gives my audience the power and option of painting a mental image of who franknetter is. Please don't ruin it for us

Abi you want me to dey censor some aspects of what I post here?

smithsydny:
nigga post things.. We need to see things

abduldope:
Seconded

smithsydny:
no news coman be going

FrankNetter:
I go knack una gist today. Stay tuned

alfonso36:
thirded

Darey00:


Fourthed

FrankNetter:
I go knack una gist today. Stay tuned

Everest1989:
please which vocational course pays well in the USA?

ToluexCA:



to tell you the truth.. you inspire me!!

FrankNetter:
Gist

So, at my Burger king work place, there's this really quiet black dude. Sticks to his business, does his job and leaves. Some days back, I had the opportunity to work with him, and he surprisingly struck up a conversation. Turns out the brother is/was quite read and does a lot of personal research. Word had filtered around that "oh-bi" wasn't from around here, that he's from Nigeria. So he did some digging up into "nigerian culture". While speaking with him, the first word that caught my attention was the number of times he used the word "corrupt"

lionlee216:


Lol why you run from uae to yankee. Dey enjoy your arab money

FrankNetter:
They got novels too men The shop is basically for second hand stuff.



while strolling through the ladies' section, I saw some trendy chiffon tops and stuff, I didn't want to take photos before the ladies there would start looking at me with one eye. The funny this be say all na small small money o! As a pure igbo man , Business ideas are just popping up in my head

FrankNetter:
I was wiping down the tops, counters and kitchen stuff, when the dude (who was sweeping) pulled up beside me, he was like "obi, you not from around here, are you?" I replied, "na bro, Im from Africa" (most people here think africa is a country, so its easier for me to say Im from africa to avoid too much talk). Suprisingly, he asked, "what country bro?" I replied "Nigeria".

"You miss home?"

I replied "Yeah man, its a great place with nice weather and lovely people"

He asked what I was doing there before i came over, I told him, next thing he asked was "if you got your life going over there, why come here?"


I replied "things are not so good over there bro". Next thing he said was "How bro, everybody corrupt?"
At that point, I didn't even know what to say, or how to start jumping into this conversation

______________

see eh, you do not know how much buhari's utterances have damaged our image internationally. How do you start defending your country when your president has gone on international television to shame all the citizens of the country. One thing we should all know is that the internet never forgets. Here's someone who has never been to the country before, judging every single person based on what he read on the internet. Over the course of our conversation, he brought up a lot of topics: jollof rice (I later told him about fried rice too), fufu and our food in general.

He said he read about the miracle river and asked me if I've been there before, (I was like: WHaT miracle river?!)
I later remembered the stuff I read over the news sometime about the water flowing from a statue that was healing people. He brought up the fact that we eat dogs, and asked if i eat that too. He said he read about our child soldiers (at this point, Im like WTF!?)

I had to ask him where he read all this stuff from, he said he googled up "Nigerian culture" and clicked on some random links and read through.

At this point, we delved into the culture discussion. We both brainstormed on the fact that the black americans have no culture whatsoever, they have no rules or guidelines. the mexicans, the italians, the indians, the caucasians and native americans have some sort of cultural backbone, some sort of values that govern their lives in a way. But the blacks in america have no culture. Its basically: born throway sort of mentality. A scenario where ratchetness, drugs, guns, gangs and violence are seen as a way of life. Later on, when I was all by myself, it dawned on me, maybe, just maybe, if we had fine-tuned our cultural values from the days of old and somehow blended it with the western education we got, nigeria would not be in the situation it is right now. Back then, baby-mamas and having kids out of wedlock were seen as a taboo, but look at us now. Are we slowly losing it? are we throwing our cultural values to the wind? will we end up like the akatas? (ask anybody for yankee the meaning)

I would be looking forward to the next time we work together, the conversation we had on that day was really refreshing.

FrankNetter:
They got novels too men The shop is basically for second hand stuff. Boxes, shoes, blankets, etc etc etc



while strolling through the ladies' section, I saw some trendy chiffon tops and stuff, I didn't want to take photos before the ladies there would start looking at me with one eye. The funny thing be say they all cost small small money o! As a pure igbo man, Business ideas are just popping up in my head

FrankNetter:
What if breeze mistakenly blows this dude into nairaland's politics section? and he sees the hateful comments we throw at each other? How we tribally stereotype each other and look for every opportunity to spew hatred? Do you guys realize nairaland is the biggest? nigerian forum? Are we representing ourselves well? What would the world think when they come across the comments on this forum? Shaming ourselves all because of "likes"?

This situation is a perfect example of "you think you are doing me? You are doing yourself" Left for me, I think seun should copy reddit and quora on the upvote thingy, that way, stupid and tribalistic comments would get so many downvotes, it would deter tribalists from even commenting.

One thing we should all bear in mind is that the internet never forgets.

FrankNetter:
Sometime ago, while driving around Chicago Heights, I came across this "okirika shop". It reminded me of the days I used to go to Oil Mill and Mile 1 park (Port Harcourt people go understand) to shop for clothes. This shop is just the yankee version of benddown select.
While coming over to the USA, I dashed my cousins most of my stuff (including my brogues shoe). I was so happy to see some brogues shoes and vintage shirts in this shop though. This one na first grade Okirika, new bale!

FrankNetter:
I was wiping down the tops, counters and kitchen stuff, when the dude (who was sweeping) pulled up beside me, he was like "obi, you not from around here, are you?" I replied, "na bro, Im from Africa" (most people here think africa is a country, so its easier for me to say Im from africa to avoid too much talk). Suprisingly, he asked, "what country bro?" I replied "Nigeria".

"You miss home?"

I replied "Yeah man, its a great place with nice weather and lovely people"

He asked what I was doing there before i came over, I told him, next thing he asked was "if you got your life going over there, why come here?"


I replied "things are not so good over there bro". Next thing he said was "How bro, everybody corrupt?"
At that point, I didn't even know what to say, or how to start jumping into this conversation

______________

see eh, you do not know how much buhari's utterances have damaged our image internationally. How do you start defending your country when your president has gone on international television to shame all the citizens of the country. One thing we should all know is that the internet never forgets. Here's someone who has never been to the country before, judging every single person based on what he read on the internet. Over the course of our conversation, he brought up a lot of topics: jollof rice (I later told him about fried rice too), fufu and our food in general.

He said he read about the miracle river and asked me if I've been there before, (I was like: WHaT miracle river?!)
I later remembered the stuff I read over the news sometime about the water flowing from a statue that was healing people. He brought up the fact that we eat dogs, and asked if i eat that too. He said he read about our child soldiers (at this point, Im like WTF!?)

I had to ask him where he read all this stuff from, he said he googled up "Nigerian culture" and clicked on some random links and read through.

At this point, we delved into the culture discussion. We both brainstormed on the fact that the black americans have no culture whatsoever, they have no rules or guidelines. the mexicans, the italians, the indians, the caucasians and native americans have some sort of cultural backbone, some sort of values that govern their lives in a way. But the blacks in america have no culture. Its basically: born throway sort of mentality. A scenario where ratchetness, drugs, guns, gangs and violence are seen as a way of life. Later on, when I was all by myself, it dawned on me, maybe, just maybe, if we had fine-tuned our cultural values from the days of old and somehow blended it with the western education we got, nigeria would not be in the situation it is right now. Back then, baby-mamas and having kids out of wedlock were seen as a taboo, but look at us now. Are we slowly losing it? are we throwing our cultural values to the wind? will we end up like the akatas? (ask anybody for yankee the meaning)

I would be looking forward to the next time we work together, the conversation we had on that day was really refreshing.

FrankNetter:


Definitely interested. PM?