Juxa;684143 wrote: malika i will not be suprised ninka waalan haduu meeshan ka tirsanyahay this place is heaving with wax kaniini kuwada socda Eesh cala gardaro bila sabab!

^^ I agree. I think a year in jail is too much, they were only pilots. But what about the South African story? War xishoodka jooji oo ila hadal dee.

Never mind that, what's the news warya?

^^ Years ago. Many years ago. Now waxbaan fahma dee.

^^ Ok. But when the news refuses to go away and Imam Farole hastily comes up with some rubbish argument don't say I didn't tell you.

^^ I wouldn't know about such things. After all, the last time I had a dirac 'conversation' with a group of females, they were boasting about wearing a bac weyn and saying it was trendy. Only when they turned around to look at my preplexed face did they realise that I took the words literally.

General Duke;684115 wrote: NGOONGE, wallahi you are wasting your time. Let me tell you some info. Your uncle is isolated and alone in Hargaysa, his trip to the UK was a huge failure. The international community [uS]is looking to bring the Somali entities together to confront the Al Shabaab and Somaliland is dragging its feet, as it can not reconcile its secessionist position with the real politic on the ground. Puntland has endorsed the plan and is being rewarded big time. The training is continuing and the heavy armor has already arrived in Bossaso months ago. For Puntland this is a non issue, for you it’s all about 1988 and that says a great deal. If the shoe was on the other foot I would certainly share with you any tidbits I've heard from the SL side. Why are you being too defensive warya? This is news. Bad news for PL actually and it requires some spin. What do the spin doctors say? Ignoring it will not make it go away, you know. I mean even South Africa is getting on in the act. Wax fahan.

^^ You're just trying to take her mind off her car insurance with all that dirac talk, aren't you? It wont' work. She'll say BLACK BLACK BLACK!

The last time I replied to one of your threads, it got deleted. So, I will not say anything here, not even welcome.

^^ War waxaan iska daa, tell us what the PL grapevine says about this plane and the bad publicity that followed? A country we don't belong to? Make your mind up dee.

^^ We did later and he tried to waffle. But, luckily, our excuses worked during the meeting. Nin waalan bu ahaa. Actually, still is.

Not a word from PL on this story. Wonder what Imam Farole is up to!

^^ Usheeg ayeeyo. For a minute there I thought there was something wrong with my Somali (it's the English that she didn't get). The "wasaq" got the girl after we hastily changed the subject and mentioned that someone we knew lived in a similar house down the road. But there was a split second of uncomfortable silence before that.

^^ You'll be surprised, dear, you'll be surprised.

Juxa;684047 wrote: i did not get that! you mean he commented on the size of the bride? iyo waliba shafkeeda? wasaq dheh Wasaq he was. But it was not the bride he was commenting on. Bal let me tell you in English since you didn't understand my Somali. Someone said that the living room was nice and big and the groom replied (in full hearing of both sides of the marriage proposal) that the rooms upstairs were even bigger. Wax fahan.

Apropos of nothing, I once went (along with the customary old men) to ask for a girl's hand for a friend of ours. As we sat there having the usual chit chat, one of our group commented about the spacious size of the living room we were are in. The groom, in a classic A&T faux pas and in a very clear voice replied "Haa waa goodh saayis, waliba xaga sare ka weyn".

^^ If Rafa comes back we will finish in the top four. But he has to come back TODAY. Norf is complaining about Kuyt again.

^^ Norf would disagree. I would love it if Rafa comes home. He would get the best out of Torres again.

^^ Hodgson is a really bad bad manager. Bob, Arsenal played well but Chelsea were not at their best. I watched that game and I saw that they were carrying too many passangers. A Chelsea that was in form might have still lost to Arsenal (because of the way your front players played) but they would have at least given them a better game. This was not the real Chelsea (and I'm far from their biggest supporter).

^^ If it were done for that reason you've got to admit that it was a clever move (or bad one seeing that an entire site had to be redone).

^^ I wasn't. But I'm not too worried. What was lost can be 'retold'.

Dec 27th 2010, 14:22 by J.A. IN A few days' time—January 9th, if all goes to expectations—the people of the autonomous southern part of Sudan will vote for independence, so ending half-a-century of conflict and bitterness between the mostly Arab and Islamic north and the mostly non-Arab and often Christian south. Assuming the southern secession goes ahead (and many fingers still have to be crossed for a peaceful process), the world can look forward to a new country—and the United Nations to a new member state, its 193rd. But is the UN list the criterion for what constitutes a country? Pedants might add the tiny Vatican City (after all, the Pope pays “state” visits abroad). Political scientists might add, too, the Republic of Kosovo, which declared its independence from Serbia in 2008 and is recognised by some 72 countries, including the United States but not Russia (and certainly not Serbia). Realists would surely add Taiwan (or the Republic of China, as it calls itself, in contrast to the People’s Republic of China). The Montevideo Convention of 1933 declared that a state should possess a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and the ability to enter into relations with other states. That might seem conclusive enough at first glance, but at second glance it leaves plenty of scope for dispute. Taiwan would certainly qualify, despite its cold-shoulder from the UN. Arab idealists (or dreamers, given the frustrations of Middle East peacemaking) might add Palestine, which has observer status at the UN, a government of sorts, and relations with plenty of states. On the other hand, its territory is hostage to a peace settlement with Israel and remains stubbornly undefined. Moreover, the dreamers have to accept that the Palestine Authority has yet to declare statehood—and such a declaration is surely the first requirement of all. But a declaration goes only so far. Abkhazia, for instance, is recognised only by a handful of countries (admittedly including Russia). The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is recognised only by Turkey. Transnistria is recognised only by Abkhazia and South Ossetia (whose own independence again has only a handful of supporters). The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, in what used to be the Spanish-run Western Sahara, is accepted by 81 states—but not by Morocco, which claims all of its territory and which can point out that the SADR government has to meet in exile in Algeria. Cassandra reckons a good case could be made for Somaliland, which is not recognised by anyone but seems to run its own affairs well enough. By contrast, the Somali Republic, which is recognised by everyone, is the very definition of a “failed state”. Meanwhile, spare a thought for Scotland and Wales. They have their own flags, their own governments (well, an “Assembly” in the case of Wales), and their own independence movements. Yet virtually the only time they exist on the world stage as separate countries is when they play football… Source: The Economist.

^^ Maybe. I only found this one: http://www.somaliaonline.com/community/showthread.php/50118-Somaliland-president-appoints-a-committee-for-the-cargo-plane-carrying-weapons