^^ ... I don't need to relate to any of these subjects to know that Somali women are mad. Wax fahan. Malika, You know and I know how a Somali woman's brain works. Most of the time, they don't go to these protests/parties/gatherings for the actual cause but for company/xan/ha la i arko or just pure camal la'aan. Somali women are mad. You know it, I know it.

^^ Naga daa, Malika. Camal la'aan ba wada haysa.

^^ I heard from a Chinese guy in one of those travel shows. He claimed it was a Chinese saying.

^^ It's the wretched Somali women again. Wherever there is a protest or a "banaan bax", it is always a group of loud women. Grrrr.

^^ What's your point, caller?

^^ Kadaafi above ayaa ka sii daray and peppered his post with lots of buzz words such as ijmaac, ijtihaad and that phrase most beloved of ignorant westerners; WHAABI! Yet, he still ignored the fact that three of the main sunni madhabs consider the eating of the waraabe meat xalaal. It's real sad when one confuses the faith as some sort of pillar of nationhood rather than something that transcends all. Waxaan o maleenaya kitaabko hadoo af somali ku dagi laha, qaar ayaa hada Kismaayo "mayonnaise-kooda" la ordi laha.

^^ Not much of a putdown really. Have you not heard the famous Chinese saying? “The Cantons eat everything that has two legs, except humans; everything that has four legs, except tables and everything that has two wings, except airplanes”.

^^ If we do well after the first five games, we will do well for the rest of the season. Wax fahan.

^^ I do hope that we do well and win the league (never mind fourth) but I can't help feeling uneasy about this whole project this year. The Liverpool owners are trying to save money and they started that by hiring this manager. I really really don't expect him to last beyond October (not with the kind of fixtures we start our season with: United, City & Arsenal in our first five games).

^^ Borini has no previous record that recommends him as some sort of top class marksman, saaxib. Rodgers wants his teams to press opponents and keep the ball. The problem here is in the keeping the ball part. It won't happen dee. He doesn't have the players for it.

^^ Go with what you have, saaxib. Sahin and Tello are mere rumours at the moment. The team is almost the same as the one we had last season (less Maxi, Kuyt & Bellamy, etc) but this Rodgers guy wants them to play in the Barca style! Won't happen. Can't happen.

^^ You're having a laugh, ninyaho. What, with THAT manager? With THAT team?

:D

^^ Why is everyone focusing on her and not the guy?

Carafaat's article was strongly worded and aimed to make people stop and take note.

Stuff and nonesense.

Showqi;857249 wrote: It's insane how Maaddeey and NGONGE are telling us to eat Waraabe (Dhurwaa) when we can eat hillib adhi, lo, geel, digaag, ugaadh nooc walba leh iyo Kaluun. Bal iminka yaa waalan ma Al-Shabaab mise inteena kale. Markaasay waliba waxay ku leehiyihiin Waraabuhu waa hilibka ugu qaalisan Kismaayo (ogoow Kismaayo waxaa ka talisa Al-Shabaab, oo waxay doonaan ayey ku khasbaan dadka masaakiinta ah ee ku nool Kismaayo). Aniga oo helaya ama iibsan karaya Hillib adhi, geel, lo digaag iyo ugaadha kale, ama Kaluun bal maxaa igu khasbaya Waraabe, Akhas. Waraabe waa hillib qudhun ee wax kale ii sheeg sheekh Maaddeey. Hadoo qof kale intaa iga sheegi laha si fiican baan o hurgufi laha, Showqi. Lakin adigo, inta badan, nin caqli leh baad tahay oo ciyaalkan meelaha ka orda kuma jirtid ee maanta maxa kugo dhacay? Ma aniga kugo idhi Waraabe cun? Ma Maaddeey ba yedhi waad ku khasbantahay? War sheekado waxay aheed: miya la cuni kara mise maya? Dee culamada (ila kan somaliga halkan lago qoray) waxay yidhaahdeen 'haa wa xalaal wana la cuni kara'. Aniga waxaanan sheegin afka ha ii galin saaxib. Khaaf allah dee. As for disgusting food, ii ma ogid ninyaho. Ma ninkaygii Jb & Norf ka wiswisay markay bareeskooda 'moos' raaciyeen ayaa Waraabe cuni kara? Malak anta!! Apophis, Are you one of those that use the word 'eebe' when referring to ALLAH and don't do it from habit but as a matter of principle, saaxib? I can appreciate your aversion to modern Arab culture and understand your insistance on perserving Somali culture (what little of it there is to begin with) but it's totally misplaced on this thread, saaxib. Think it through and don't limit yourself, saaxib.

Apophis;857199 wrote: Let's use our brains and reason it out as a people, is that too much?? That's of course an option but it sounds like an atheist option to me and I'm not atheist, saaxib. I only choose to reason within the parameters of my faith. Last I knew, you were doing the same too. What changed? Jacpher, Some of the accusations you throw Al Shababs way are true but many are simple and very weak propaganda. Like I said above, I do not agree with most of what they do but I do believe (for the most part) in their intentions when they do what they do. I only hope that they will see the light and stop (or failing that, be utterly and totally defeated). p.s. The new phenomenon is ISLAM, saaxib. Since most Somalis adhere to the Shaafici madhab (or at least are supposed to), all this stuff has already been there. It's only the Shabab's insistance on applying every last trivial point that makes it look like new "customs" are being introduced. Was applying the xuduud a new phenomenon? We all knew about it but it was not applied widely until the Courts and Al Shabab came.

Get a cow (a real one) to lick your head. I'm told it works. Edit: Just saw that somenone else mentioned cows. Still say it's not the dung but the lick that will do the job.

^^ It's the only time of day (or night) when I am awake and have time for myself away from work or kids, saaxib (summer holidays nooh). Ducada adaa iga badiyaa, marka taydii waan kugo dari ee taada ha iga ilaawin. p.s. istidraajka iska daa waad ku daali. Albaabada ka wada xidh ليموتوا بغيضهم

^^ It wouldn't matter to you anyway. You don't want to hear it from an "Arab" and all the sources happen to be Arabic. Marka maxaano sameena?

^^ Haa. lakin waraabahaad ka warwareegtay. Taa bay aheed in aad marka hore toos ka jawaabtid oo qoladan kula murmaysa wajiga ku tuurtid ninyaho. Wax fahan.

^^ That's a side argument. Can't really see much of a difference between putting henna on the hands and feet to putting it on the beard (something many Somalis do). Every group have their own customs and habits and Somalis have their fair share of strange ones. I think we need the redoubtable Xaaji Xunjuf to come here and tell us about the strange habits of Somalis (or clans) from different parts of the horn of africa and compare them to henna dude above (I trust the faithful Xaaji owns a wall chart with all such info).

Why does Abwaan believe none of these guys will come back? Does he know of someone who is going to pay a bigger bribe? If it were about the choice of the international community, I think we can safely assume that Sharif will come back. The precedent was set with Afghanistan's Karazi and Iraq's Maliki. Both were accused of major corruption (that was even proven in some cases) and yet both came back with the full blessing of the international community. Sharif is the king of stitch ups and there is a strong whiff of a stitch up about this whole process to be honest.