^^ You walk past lots of people in the street everyday but you neither aknowledge most of them or recognise their faces. However, if someone you know (or even like) is amongst those faces, you (probably) would stop and give them some of your time. If you treat everything in the world along those principles you'll never get an ulcer, you know.

Sayid*Somal;843107 wrote: Ngonge - what are you laughing at? Saabun IN, Wasakh OUT! Went on a little thought journey there, saaxib. Don't mind me.

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^^ As a winner or a "dark horse"? I hope it's for the win now becuase when it comes to dark horses, you seem to have a whole stable of them.

Bah! I had to come to this wretched thread to understand what rudy was about all day. Rudy, have another look at the person having these "heated" exchanges with Alpha! p.s. As for the story, the "girl" deserves all she got. For most world hardened girls already know that a look into the distance, a flick of the finger and a "shooing" gesture is the only acceptable reaction in such situations. But, anyway, why am I worrying myself with all of this nonsense instead of directing my full attention to the headache I presently have and my suspected wobbly tooth. It's not confirmed that the tooth is wobbly by the way, I think it's the room that is spinning. Ma caleena....

Dagaal faraha looga gubtay What a beautiful turn of phrase! :D :D

^^ My attitude it's the normal (philosophical) attitude of viewing life. Yours and Abu Salman's is the "remote control" one. One can't fix every problem in the world and worry himself sick about them. Fix what you can and leave the rest to fix themselves. Therein lies peace of mind. Now open that rock above your neck and let some of this wisdom in. Heh@Norf..my eldest has gone on a school trip for a week. It's her second day away from hom (EVER) and I keep wandring how she's coping. I expect her to cling to me like a chewing gum to a shoe, on her return on Friday.

^^ Why does it make you glad? What difference does it make, as long as it's not your family our neighbours? Have you seen the ones they have in the UAE?

^^ What part of the world are you in now? Going to the steal city any time soon? Abu Salman, you'll worry yourself into an early grave saaxib. Fix what you can and hope the rest fixes itself.

Juxa;843033 wrote: Sharing is for the whimps I support sayid! Qardho isagaa leh Don't support Sayid! Sayid is the fool that opened this door and sullied my beautiful avatar!

Like a drunk man, you keep stumbling from one pothole to the next.

^^^ Oh look. An online pirate!

Sayid*Somal;842792 wrote: The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bas/tard die for his. The objective of war is to win but the carrot you dangle in front of your soldiers is all that emotional mumbo jumbo about nationhood and defending the motherland. When I was a kid, I watched an Egyptian movie (yeah, Egypt has quite an influence on me) about a rural Egyptian guy who was enlisted in the army (national service). The guy was a simple man and didn't understand the difference between an askri (policeman) and an askri (soldier). A university student from his village that acted as his mentor explained to him that the second kind of askri (soldier) has the job of defending the country from its enemies. However as Egyptian use the word 'balad' to describe a village and also a country, the simple man assumed that it was his village that had enemies. He wandered why anyone would want to harm his village, his little plot of land and his one cow! Later when the man joined the army, he was taught to obey all orders (as a soldier must). He was stationed in a political prisoner's camp and on his first day he saw the prisoners being forced to eat their food from the floor with their hands tied behind their backs. So he asked his sergeant, "Why are those poor guys being tortured in such a way?". The sergeant replied "because these are the enemies of our land". The simple man was shocked at the magnanimity of his national army and said that such men should be killed instead of being fed! Later, one of the prisoners attempts to escape and the simple man chases him and manages to kill him (in the struggle to arrest him). Later still, the university friend that used to be his mentor is brought to the prison because of whatever contrary political views he had. The simple man sees the other soldiers beating the man up and runs in to protect him whilst shouting "I know this man! This man is a good man; he is the son of so and so! He is not an enemy of our land". But the Major in charge of the prison ignores him and orders the soldiers to beat both of them. The university student eventually dies from a snake bite that the soldiers have used as part of their torture methods and the simple man (with the ugliness of the world now revealed to him) loses it and shoots all the soldiers in sight (including the evil major). As the Egyptians are fond of saying (now more than ever) it’s all about suppressing freedom through the ignorance of the innocent. Marka, how many of the Somali/Somaliland (or any other country's) youth will jump to the cry "wadankaaga difaac", saaxib?

^^ It's your fault and Juxa for choosing so generic an avatar. All the kids will copy and steal them. Mine is unique and needs no copyright.

^^ The revolution in Egypt has unearthed lots of amazing talents in almost all areas of society. But, mostly, the art seems to have had the lion share of these discoveries. One of the funniest I've seen is Mr Mahamed Fowzi Bakoos (from an area called Bakoos). He, was watching an interview with a candidate for the Egyptian presidancy in which this candidate claimed he was only running for president to spite someone else. This annoyed Mr Bakoos and made him release his own youtube videos putting himself up for the presidancy too. Here is a still image of the video:

Wilfred Owen Dulce Et Decorum Est Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of disappointed shells that dropped behind. GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And floundering like a man in fire or lime.-- Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. p.s. Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori = It is sweet and proper to die for one's country.

^^ Head up, hijaab tight on, shoulders straight and teeth charmingly flashing, dear. It's only early teething problems and he's probably trying to suss you out. He'll soon know what you're made off.

^^ It's the system, ya Abu Salman. The bigger the organisation the more difficult to pinpoint mistakes. (I seriously don't think they're making these denials for the fun of it. But, on the other hand, you can't expect them to say "We don't know what happened" either). Morning all.

Saw the video last night. Don't understand what the fuss is all about. Quite a demagogic speech there, never thought she had it in her.

How about life stock? Imagine this: You buy lots of goats and camels. You look after them and try to fatten them up and then you sell them to Saudi Arabia!!!!!!!!!! (lots of money to be made there. Go for it).

Siilaanyo has made mistakes (loads of them too) but this is not one of his mistakes. In fact, it's possible that there will still be young, hopeful people from SL that may fit the bill here (I say 'might' because it's a tall ask).

Morning all. Last night, after leaving work, I had to visit the local church where my daughter’s school were taking part in an event the school organised to raise money for some local youth causes. (My daughter sings in the school choir). She was standing right in the middle of the group and singing with very good voice. But, I noticed that she looked scared and tried to keep her head down through the entire performance. When they finished, she came running to me to ask if I watched the whole performance and what I thought of it. Me: You did really well but why did you look scared? Was it from all the people looking at you? Her (looking offended): NO! I sing in front of people all the time. I sang in front of even more people when the new buildings for the local hospital were opened. Me: Err..then why did you look scared? Her (starting to look nervous and looking down at her feet): Because of JESUS! You can imagine the thoughts that instantly crossed my mind as I heard that sentence. Me: JESUS? Her: Yes. He’s scary. Me: Err..een..err..WHAT DO YOU MEAN? Her (bravely looking up and staring behind me): He scares me. Me (turning round to look behind me too but seeing nothing): Erm..err..can you see Jesus now? Her: Yes. He’s over there, behind you. Me: WHERE? Her: THAT picture! Me (starting to laugh): THAT’s only a painting, it’s not really silly. Her: I know. But it scares me. :D

Carafaat;841403 wrote: Till recently large parts of somalia were governed by Al shabaab, a terrorist organisation. Bashir was in support of SL long before Al Shabab was created, saaxib. He's just (wisely) hedging his bets (though he's doing a bad job of it).

-Serenity-;841402 wrote: Dont worry Chimera - I intend to do something about it! Our beatiful hablos faces are lost in all that baby powder! Caking your face with makeup is a Somali tradition and has nothing to do with lack of good makeup, Serenity. It's the done thing!

^^ It'll work for Taxis since most of their business is going to be pick ups from maqaaxis and hotels. As for houses, that database can be built up with time (like pizza places save your number after you call them once).