Sounds like a great day oba, can you clean my apartment and do my laundry too?

lool if I remember correctly, Alpha is the only one here who actually named a mehr amount, not you 4:15am now, I should force myself to sleep otherwise I won't be up as early as I need to be to finish up this paper. Dehna hunu (goodnight) SP ena oba

lol oba it says "Ishi oba ena SP," meaning "okay oba and SP." SomaliPhilosopher;947618 wrote: I am afraid Safferz the little relationship of ours has lost its passion and flare. It is time we reenter the friends zone "sxb" !!!!!!!! What relationship? Don't make me dig up all my old posts telling you you're in the friend zone, because I was clear from the start.

lol okay I am calm now

ኢሺ ኦባ ኢና ስፕ :mad: SP iyo oba sidaan u nacay garan kari maysid :mad:

SomaliPhilosopher;947607 wrote: forgive me my people! This day still haunts me. Safferz, my guilt and shame is evident! Haha you went back to the post! But seriously, I don't consider it betrayal, and neither do I believe I'm a traitor for listening to Ethiopian music or studying their language for that matter. I don't think Somali identity is so weak that these things are threatening

That's a worse betrayal, who chooses Ethiopian food over Somali food except traitors and those lacking taste buds?

I can't stop watching this Ethiopian music video

Alfredo is the plan!

Morning oba! Although I haven't slept yet, it's 2am here SomaliPhilosopher;947590 wrote: fair enough. what have you cooked caawo. i make a mean tirmasu! though my relatives have been abusing me with that lately. i practically became a domestic tirmasu house slave at one point Oh I love tiramisu, but cheesecake is my favourite. I decided against cooking this late and had a bowl of cereal instead, but I'll make pasta and parmesan chicken tomorrow

I can eat as much as I want SP :mad: I'm not sure, I'm not tired at all but I do want to get an early start on my work since I've already reached the time when I check out mentally and call it a night.

lool I'm doing work too, and debating whether or not 1:30am is too late to start cooking.

What's up, SP? War soo daa

And now you must duel.

Look at the casting call for Somalis for the Hanks movie: Roles MUST BE GENUINE SOMALI AND BE ABLE TO SPEAK SOMALI FLUENTLY. MUSI (Male) – 25yrs. MUST BE GENUINE SOMALI AND BE ABLE TO SPEAK SOMALI FLUENTLY. NO EXCEPTIONS. ACTORS SHOULD IDEALLY ALSO HAVE A GOOD GRASP OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Unofficial leader of the Pirates; rail-thin; unimaginably poor; Wears “ratty sandals”. A tough and hardened “Somali Marine”, he initially refuses treatment for his badly cut hand, fearing that he would look weak in front of his men. Believes in treating his sailors tough, so they do not act ‘soft’. Speaks a little English. Height: Any Ethnicity: Black-African Agreements: tbc ELMI (Male) – 25yrs. MUST BE GENUINE SOMALI AND BE ABLE TO SPEAK SOMALI FLUENTLY. NO EXCEPTIONS. ACTORS SHOULD IDEALLY ALSO HAVE A GOOD GRASP OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Pirate; physically and mentally tough; a good soldier; always follows orders. Speaks a few words of English. Height: Any Ethnicity: Black-African Agreements: tbc NAJEE (Male) – 24yrs. MUST BE GENUINE SOMALI AND BE ABLE TO SPEAK SOMALI FLUENTLY. NO EXCEPTIONS. ACTORS SHOULD IDEALLY ALSO HAVE A GOOD GRASP OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Pirate; volatile; Not all there; Not as smart as he’d like to be and he knows it Height: Any Ethnicity: Black-African Agreements: tbc

Have you seen the trailer for the Danish film? At least this one looks more interesting to watch: I refuse to spend money on films like this on principle, so I'll pirate them as soon as they're out

Yes, apparently 30 billion is a conservative estimate lol. Some say it'll be closer to one trillion.

I hope this movie tanks.

oba hiloowlow;947513 wrote: See you there!!

This is an old hit, most people don't know the singer is Somali.

Ismalura;692934 wrote: My Favourite Also my favourite!! Bongo flava is an awesome genre.

^ lol oba Love this video! Hope to visit Mogadishu (for the first time) in 2014

underdog;947480 wrote: I saw that on Gawker this morning. It would be more interesting if it were Locusts or better yet.... KILLER BEES http://youtu.be/2QXb4Krkbkk " frameborder="0" allowfullscreen> Haha they're calling the invasion "BROOD II," it certainly makes you think it'll look something like this. Love that song.

East coast of the United States, the Atlantic seaboard.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more. Scientists even have a horror-movie name for the infestation: Brood II. But as ominous as that sounds, the insects are harmless. They won't hurt you or other animals. At worst, they might damage a few saplings or young shrubs. Mostly they will blanket certain pockets of the region, though lots of people won't ever see them. "It's not like these hordes of cicadas suck blood or zombify people," says May Berenbaum, a University of Illinois entomologist. They're looking for just one thing: sex. And they've been waiting quite a long time. Since 1996, this group of 1-inch bugs, in wingless nymph form, has been a few feet underground, sucking on tree roots and biding their time. They will emerge only when the ground temperature reaches precisely 64 degrees. After a few weeks up in the trees, they will die and their offspring will go underground, not to return until 2030. "It's just an amazing accomplishment," Berenbaum says. "How can anyone not be impressed?" And they will make a big racket, too. The noise all the male cicadas make when they sing for sex can drown out your own thoughts, and maybe even rival a rock concert. In 2004, Gene Kritsky, an entomologist at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, measured cicadas at 94 decibels, saying it was so loud "you don't hear planes flying overhead." There are ordinary cicadas that come out every year around the world, but these are different. They're called magicicadas — as in magic — and are red-eyed. And these magicicadas are seen only in the eastern half of the United States, nowhere else in the world. There are 15 U.S. broods that emerge every 13 or 17 years, so that nearly every year, some place is overrun. Last year it was a small area, mostly around the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee. Next year, two places get hit: Iowa into Illinois and Missouri; and Louisiana and Mississippi. And it's possible to live in these locations and actually never see them. This year's invasion, Brood II, is one of the bigger ones. Several experts say that they really don't have a handle on how many cicadas are lurking underground but that 30 billion seems like a good estimate. At the Smithsonian Institution, researcher Gary Hevel thinks it may be more like 1 trillion. Even if it's merely 30 billion, if they were lined up head to tail, they'd reach the moon and back. "There will be some places where it's wall-to-wall cicadas," says University of Maryland entomologist Mike Raupp. Strength in numbers is the key to cicada survival: There are so many of them that the birds can't possibly eat them all, and those that are left over are free to multiply, Raupp says. But why only every 13 or 17 years? Some scientists think they come out in these odd cycles so that predators can't match the timing and be waiting for them in huge numbers. Another theory is that the unusual cycles ensure that different broods don't compete with each other much. And there's the mystery of just how these bugs know it's been 17 years and time to come out, not 15 or 16 years. "These guys have evolved several mathematically clever tricks," Raupp says. "These guys are geniuses with little tiny brains." Past cicada invasions have seen as many as 1.5 million bugs per acre. Of course, most places along the East Coast won't be so swamped, and some places, especially in cities, may see zero, says Chris Simon of the University of Connecticut. For example, Staten Island gets this brood of cicadas, but the rest of New York City and Long Island don't, she says. The cicadas also live beneath the metro areas of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. Scientists and ordinary people with a bug fetish travel to see them. Thomas Jefferson once wrote about an invasion of this very brood at Monticello, his home in Virginia. While they stay underground, the bugs aren't asleep. As some of the world's longest-lived insects, they go through different growth stages and molt four times before ever getting to the surface. They feed on a tree fluid called xylem. Then they go aboveground, where they molt, leaving behind a crusty brown shell, and grow a half-inch bigger. The timing of when they first come out depends purely on ground temperature. That means early May for southern areas and late May or even June for northern areas. The males come out first — think of it as getting to the singles bar early, Raupp says. They come out first as nymphs, which are essentially wingless and silent juveniles, climb on to tree branches and molt one last time, becoming adult winged cicadas. They perch on tree branches and sing, individually or in a chorus. Then when a female comes close, the males change their song, they do a dance and mate, he explained. The males keep mating ("That's what puts the 'cad' in 'cicada,'" Raupp jokes) and eventually the female lays 600 or so eggs on the tip of a branch. The offspring then dive-bomb out of the trees, bounce off the ground and eventually burrow into the earth, he says. "It's a treacherous, precarious life," Raupp says. "But somehow they make it work." WALL TO WALL CICADAS!