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Politics / Re: Some Goodluck Jonathan's Picture's That Define Nigerian Politicians by Surfboard(m): 7:49pm On Aug 28, 2016
*yawns* This is as boring as they come. Op, you need to upgrade your jokes.

And I'm not a politician.

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Romance / Re: Why Are Short Guys Always Angry by Surfboard(m): 3:50pm On Aug 28, 2016
Okay okay okay okay okay okay

Beggars can't be choosers, b***h this ain't chipotle

*raps out of thread*
Romance / Re: Things That Happen Whenever You Touch A Lady's Breast by Surfboard(m): 3:40pm On Aug 28, 2016
walcut:
chai...op I forgive u... today iz my birthday, nairalanders show some love to a brother

Happy birthday!
Romance / Re: When A Dude Get Raped He Aint Taken Seriously. Why? by Surfboard(m): 12:39am On Aug 28, 2016
I know a guy who was raped once, it wasn't a pleasant tale.
Romance / Re: Dont Know Why Most Ladies Find Fun Sending Their Semi Or Complete Nude by Surfboard(m): 12:24am On Aug 28, 2016
You're enjoying it? Then quit complaining.
Romance / Re: Husband Divorces Wife For Calling Artiste’s Name During Sex by Surfboard(m): 4:58am On Aug 27, 2016
Uganda beautiful grin grin
Romance / What Do You Think Of This? by Surfboard(m): 4:47am On Aug 27, 2016
Was going through my BBM contacts and saw this as someone's display picture so I decided to bring it here for debate.

So guys, over to you.

Romance / Re: Who's Your Most Loved Game Of Thrones Character by Surfboard(m): 4:44am On Aug 27, 2016
Fourwinds:
okay...thanks for the info

For nothing, Chief.
Romance / Re: THREAD For BAD Boys Only by Surfboard(m): 4:43am On Aug 27, 2016
For a thread that's supposed to be for guys and 'bad guys', there seems to be too many girls.

So una wan spoil? Oh! Una don already spoil.

Carry on.
Romance / Re: Is It Possible To Fall In Love At First Sight? Science Has The Answer! by Surfboard(m): 4:38am On Aug 27, 2016
mhisbliss:
oops I see what you driving at, buhahahaha you think it has happened to me like i got dumped by a guy and am bitter over it? Nah thats not it, I'm a grown up woman i know what i want and dont want and the love issue and commitment and all that aint my thing really, in school lots of girls fight and disgrace thierselves when i look at the price they're fighting for i end up shaking my head its not worth it, for one guy to start behaving like he owns you in the name of dating, nah i wont let you am single and proud and if I were to date i wont date a love at first sight victim

Okay. Wish you the very best ma'am
Romance / Re: Who's Your Most Loved Game Of Thrones Character by Surfboard(m): 4:33am On Aug 27, 2016
Fourwinds:
I thought it waa Roose Bolton dat died in dat Season killed by Ramsey Bolton...

Yes, but in episode 9, 'The Battle of the bastards', Jon Snow and Sansa Stark raised an army and took back Winterfell. They killed Ramsay in that episode.
Romance / Re: Is It Possible To Fall In Love At First Sight? Science Has The Answer! by Surfboard(m): 4:30am On Aug 27, 2016
mhisbliss:
whats your concern you want to go and kill the person?

Nope, just wanted to let you know that he/she/it is not worth being bitter about. I believe this phase will end for you though, many of us have been there.

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Romance / Re: What Will Be Ur Answer To This by Surfboard(m): 4:26am On Aug 27, 2016
Football Manager
Romance / Re: Is It Possible To Fall In Love At First Sight? Science Has The Answer! by Surfboard(m): 4:24am On Aug 27, 2016
mhisbliss:
lola lola leave oyinbo mattter for them o, nothing like love at first sight atleast i haven't seen it, I'd like to term it confusion and lust at first sight with Nigerian guys, if you doubt me just take a leap of faith or try sex on first date and see how badly you land, fuq love #teamsingles rock

Who did this to you

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Romance / Re: Who's Your Most Loved Game Of Thrones Character by Surfboard(m): 4:18am On Aug 27, 2016
Fourwinds:
which Season did Ramsay Bolton died

Season 6, episode 9.
Politics / Re: The Man Who Named His Dog Buhari By Reuben Abati by Surfboard(m): 11:52am On Aug 26, 2016
A Nigerian is sent death threats by a foreigner in Nigeria and the police arrest the Nigerian, detain him and charge him to court for an offence that isn't in our statute books, saying it is for the Nigerian's protection.

I don't understand again.
Politics / The Man Who Named His Dog Buhari By Reuben Abati by Surfboard(m): 11:25am On Aug 26, 2016
The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog – George Graham Vest (1870)

Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, the man who named his dog after President Muhammadu Buhari is right now probably regretting his decision to honour his dog with the name of a man he considers his hero. He has been accused of trying to incite hate and breach the public peace. He has been arrested and re-arrested by the police and taken to a magistrate court, which promptly remanded him in prison until he is able to meet the conditions of his bail. He has spent days in prison custody unable to raise the N50, 000 that he has been asked to pay. His family members have only so far managed to raise N20, 000.  Even if he succeeds in putting that sum together, his life is still in danger because aggrieved persons in his neighbourhood, including a man who says he was trying to ridicule his father, have threatened to kill him, if he shows up. The police are not investigating this threat, but they seem so excited about dealing with the poor trader called Joe, for having the effrontery to name his dog, Buhari.

    To protect himself, Joseph has allegedly put the dog to sleep, or thrown it away or whatever, in the hope that once the evidence is destroyed there will be no case against him.  It is all so pitiable. Public opinion appears to be divided as to the nature and seriousness of Joseph Chinakwe’s alleged felony, with some people arguing that it is definitely an act of provocation and incitement for him to label his dog, Buhari so boldly and to parade the same dog in a neighbourhood where there are many residents of Northern extraction, whose feelings may be injured or who may perceive that he is trying to make a political statement.

     Those who want him punished have therefore dismissed Chinakwe’s protestation that he is an admirer of the President, or that he means well. His defenders insist that he is entitled to free speech and there is nowhere in the statutes where a man can be punished on the basis of the perception that some people’s feelings may be injured, and hence, be prompted to commit murder. The law is not structured that way.

    We are dealing, therefore with ethnic hate at the lunatic fringe. Nigerians have become so suspicious of one another, and inter-ethnic relationship is so poisonous that even the littlest innocent gesture could result in mayhem. This is why many have been killed for allegedly committing blasphemy or for insulting the religious sensibilities of some people. Remember the woman who was killed by her students for allegedly desecrating the Quoran. Remember Gideon Akaluka. Remember the woman who was recently beheaded in Abuja for daring to preach the Christian gospel. We are also dealing with disregard for human freedom, and Nigeria’s slip into a tragic season of intolerance. Why shouldn’t Chinakwe call his dog whatever name catches his fancy?  Well, may be he should have chosen an Igbo name? But if we want national unity, why shouldn’t he take a name he admires from another part of the country? 

      Ali Baba, the ace comedian, like many others, has come out strongly in defence of Chinakwe saying he actually has a dog in his house named OBJ, and that is quite direct because only one man bears that sobriquet in this country, and neither OBJ nor his kinsmen have asked Atuyota to leave Yorubaland. One of the most famous pictures online is that of a goat named Goodluck Jonathan, with the name written on both flanks of it.  President Jonathan’s wife was also once (July 2013) referred to as “shepopotamus” by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, and before our very eyes, President Olusegun Obasanjo, donated, to a conservation sanctuary, a chimpanzee, which he named Patience to make a point obviously.

      The parody at the time was unmistakable. We all drew humour from all of that. What we seem to be dealing with right now, however, is the absurd deification of a name on ethnic and partisan grounds. It is curious that the Nigeria Police is devoting to the trial of Chinakwe, a feverish amount of energy that we have not witnessed with regard to more statutorily relevant offences. This hullaballoo over the giving of a dog a name that has led to its hanging and the likely punishment of its owner is one distraction too many. We are above all else, dealing with a storm in a tea cup, occasioned by a culture shock, and our underdeveloped understanding of the relationship between man and animals.

      Chinakwe says he chose the name Buhari out of admiration. And he may well be right, and he would have been right, and there would have been no problem if he was living in Europe or North America. But he lives in a country where animals have no rights and no recognition other than as victims of human predators, and a dog in our culture is to be treated as an instrument or as meat for the soup pot. Elsewhere, a dog has earned its reputation in mythology and actuality, as a man’s best friend. The root of this is that a dog is considered the most beloved, the most loyal and the most dependable of all animals. People use dogs to guard their homes, to keep away intruders, even to play with children and as companions in the home. There are many stories and legends about the loyalty of dogs. Hawkeye is the name of a famous dog who lay next to the casket of its owner who died in active service as a US Navy SEAL.

     There is a film, “Hachi, a dog’s tale,” starring Richard Gere, about Hachiko, a dog who greeted his owner at the train station everyday and after the owner died, the dog went to the same station for nine years. Recently, I posted on instagram the picture of a dog in Santa Catarina, Brazil, Negao the dog, whose owner died eight months earlier and the dog remained outside the hospital awaiting his owner’s return.  In the United States, a police dog has been given a state burial, draped with national colours in appreciation of its loyal and meritorious service to the nation. Many centuries ago, Homer wrote in Odyssey, about a loyal dog, Argos who waited for Odysseus until he returned. 

       The established normal is that a dog can be trusted more than a human being.  And this is why in other parts of the world, when people name their dogs after celebrities, they are actually paying compliments and showing respect.  World figures like Elvis Presley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Louis Vuitton, Mandela, Clinton, J. F. Kennedy and others have had their names given to either cats or dogs, and it is no big deal. Admirers transpose their feelings from man to animal. Joseph Chinakwe may actually be saying that President Buhari is a loyal, trustworthy, supportive, dependable and companionable Guardian of the Nigerian estate. It would have been a different thing perhaps if he had given that name to a tortoise, a rat, cat, a fox, or a chimpanzee. But in a country where every animal is considered a prey or a lower, spiteful creature, using the metaphor of a dog could be risky as the Chinakwe case has shown. In Nigeria, we treat animals badly, and we don’t consider anyone a friend, man or animal. We are vengeful, mean and suspicious. We are so scared we are even afraid of domestic and domesticated animals.  

      In other societies, animals are treated with greater respect and in the United States for example, the life of a dog is far superior to that of a human being in Nigeria.  I have written about this twice: In “A Dog’s Life” (1996), I reflected on the life of a dog owned by Stanley Meisler (God bless his soul) and his wife, Elizabeth Fox, my hosts during my journalism programme at the University of Maryland, College Park, United States (1996 -97). I was shocked that the dog had a room of its own, a proper room, not a kernel, and whenever that dog fell ill, we took him to a dog hospital and Stanley bought drugs.  I saw that dog living the life of a king, better catered for than many Africans.

      I wrote another piece titled “A Hotel for Dogs” (July 23, 2006) about a five-star hotel in Bethesda, Washington, which attends to dogs as customers, and where dogs enjoy a life of luxury. Established in 2003, by PetSmart Inc., by 2006, there were 32 hotels of its type in the United States and the then spokesman of the group, Bruce Richardson, had boasted that by 2010, the plan was to have 240 such hotels across the United States. We are talking luxury, 23 USD per night, 33USD for a dog suite, as at that time, all pre-tax, plus provisions for pooch ice cream.  In general, Americans spend about $40 billion dollars a year on household pets. I guess that is more than Nigeria’s annual budget even by today’s relative standards.

    And so, what are we talking about? An American dog is a big man in Nigeria by all standards. But because we eat dogs and treat all animals badly in this country, in fact we have no regard for human beings (consider the hundreds that get killed, raped, kidnapped daily and nobody cares), we are bound to be incensed that anyone would name a dog after a deified political figure.  Joe Chinakwe’s sins should be forgiven, albeit there is no morality in law, but the Nigerian judiciary should not expose itself to further ridicule by lending the weight of the law to such partisan trash that makes no sense. There are far more important issues requiring serious attention in this country today. 

     But in case nobody understands that and Mr Chinakwe and his counsel find themselves in a tight corner, they should put out a disclaimer and say their dog, living or dead, is filing for a change of name. That is perfectly within their rights to do. And should they find themselves in any other difficult situation, they have my full permission to rename the dog, Reuben Abati. But should you, dear reader consider this a bad name you wish to hang, you also have my full support, partnership and friendship to offer your own name.

       If that will put an end to this circus over the name of a dog, and set Joseph Chinakwe free, and also remind us that we are in a democracy, please, help and so be it. By the way, I hear Chinakwe and his sympathisers finally managed, after a fund-raising appeal, to raise a sum of N90, 000 to perfect his bail bond and that he is now out of detention. Would somebody in a responsible position just put an end to this joke and let us focus on serious issues?


Source: http://www.reubenabati.com.ng/2016-08-26-The-man-who-named-his-dog-Buhari-By-Reuben-Abati.html
Romance / Re: Pregnant Lady And Her Friends Posed Unclad. Is This Sexy? by Surfboard(m): 11:00am On Aug 26, 2016
This is as sexy as they come.

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Romance / Re: My Room-mate Is A Gay??am I A Victim by Surfboard(m): 9:42am On Aug 26, 2016
Have a chat with him and let him know you're not comfortable. Let him know you're straight, and confident in your sexuality. However, let him also know that you both can still be good friends/room mates regardless.
Romance / Re: Why You Should Be Careful When Dating Babes From Broken Homes by Surfboard(m): 9:31am On Aug 26, 2016
I don't want to name fingers and point names of some people I've come across who are just like the op described.

There's some truth to it.

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Romance / Re: Which Pill Will Do The Work by Surfboard(m): 2:16am On Aug 26, 2016
smithsydny:
Postinor 2.. I no send u work ooo

shocked shocked

You wan kill person pikin? Postinor 2 after discovery of pregnancy? Op, abeg don't take this suggestion.
Romance / Re: How Common Is Masturbation, Really? (adults Photos) by Surfboard(m): 12:53am On Aug 26, 2016
Fabulocity:
I don't care why you did it. You stated you'd rather fuçk a prostitute than masturbaté, which implies you think engaging the services of a sex seller is better than jerking off.
You know what... never mind.


What is your consign? Auntie, live and let live. You hear?
Romance / Re: How Common Is Masturbation, Really? (adults Photos) by Surfboard(m): 12:50am On Aug 26, 2016
mizzbouqui:
It is not common among ladies


Yimu!
Romance / Re: What A Romantic Way To End A Quarrel. by Surfboard(m): 12:43am On Aug 26, 2016
Cool story bruh!

Romance / Re: SEE BOOTY! Amber Rose’s Friend, Blac Chyna Goes Unclad For Richardson Magazine by Surfboard(m): 12:35am On Aug 26, 2016
Blac Chyna f***ing Rob helped him with the weight grin grin

Truer words haven't been spoken.
Romance / Re: Lady Compares Her 2010 And 2016 Photos On Facebook And People Are Talking by Surfboard(m): 12:32am On Aug 26, 2016
shocked shocked
Romance / Re: Can't A Guy And A Lady Be Just Friends? by Surfboard(m): 12:27am On Aug 26, 2016
Ere wo ni aja n b'ekun se?
Romance / Re: My New Nairaland Account by Surfboard(m): 12:23am On Aug 26, 2016
Welcome

You've missed nothing.

You're now up to speed. angry
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Champions League Draw On 25th August 2016 by Surfboard(m): 12:53pm On Aug 25, 2016
COYG

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Jobs/Vacancies / Re: God Still Answers Prayers by Surfboard(m): 12:41pm On Aug 25, 2016
Thank you very much.
Romance / Re: Do You Walk Through A Door And Suddenly Forget What You Want? Science Can Tell Y by Surfboard(m): 10:51pm On Aug 24, 2016
Really interesting and educative

This is in the wrong section though.

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