Sayid, those are areas where you expect to see Somalis. But to see that many walking around Knightsbridge is strange ninyaho. They must be after me. Two of them even had scarvs on and were wearing hoodies.

^^ It can not get more affluent than SW1, silly.

It always feels like somebody is watching me! When I came to work this morning, they had a Somali girl working in my underground station. Outside the station, A Somali guy walked passed me and said hello then spoke to me about another famous Somali guy that is usually seen around the area (he wasn't being nice about him). Outside my building, stood a couple of Somali guys in very deep conversation! I'm starting to feel very paranoid.

Originally posted by Abtigiis & Tolka: quote:Originally posted by NGONGE: The best team lost. It's a real shame when you dominate in both games and still end up a loser. Oh never mind. There is still the African Nations Cup to win for the third time in a row. A&T, the team you support won but they're still not half the team that Egypt is. Egypt played Algeria three times this year, lost twice. What does that tell you? It is one thing stonning visitors and shouting at them and getting lucky goals, it is quite another to play football outside Cairo. Egypt is not as good as you think, and most of the players are in their twilight. That will become more obvious in the African Cup of Nations. Algeria controlled the match and was a better organised side on the night. Algeria spent 180 minutes defending for their lives, saaxib. They are going to the world cup but they controlled NOTHING. War xaasidnimada jooji.

What a photo!

France just squeezed through with a Henry hand ball. (Still feeling sore about Egypt).

The best team lost. It's a real shame when you dominate in both games and still end up a loser. Oh never mind. There is still the African Nations Cup to win for the third time in a row. A&T, the team you support won but they're still not half the team that Egypt is.

Got the two goals they needed. Now to finish them off in Sudan. In name, in recent history, in attitude, in ability and in skill this team MUST make it to the world cup finals. It will insha allah. Masr Masr taxya Masr.

Are Puntland really only after money? Dee marka Pirateland iyo malayacnigan aad ku caayaysan ka daaya. Call them POUNDLAND. (I don't believe a word of it and think Amin Amir is to blame for this sterotype of poor Faroole).

^^ Yes PLEASE.

^^ Nothing cute about it. I've heard of teenage mothers but never a six year old. :mad:

And I thought this was a Mijii thread. Damn you, Duke.

^^ But is he actually correct?

At breakfast, little GONGITA sat looking at her cereal bowl and deeply thinking about something. My job, by orders of the management, was to sit with the kids and ensure they finish their breakfast. NGONGE: Stop daydreaming and eat your food. GONGITA: Hmm? NGONGE: EAT YOUR FOOD! GONGITA: Dad..when I have a baby, I am going to call her Janna. Dad, of course, chokes on his tea...but quickly recovers.. NGONGE: You're too young to have a baby. GONGITA: How old should I be? NGONGE: At least thirty. GONGITA: Will you be dead when I have my baby? NGONGE: I feel like dying now. GONGITA: Why? Are you ill? GONGA: He means he feels like dying because you are thinking about babies. You are only a little girl. GONGITA: You are a little girl too. GONGA: No I'm not. I'm almost NINE. GONGITA: Can you have babies? NGONGE: Stop spreading your venom around. GONGITA: What is venom? GONGA: It's poison, isn't dad? NGONGE: Yeah. GONGITA: Huh? MATAGOONI: Snakes have poison. GONGA (laughing): Dad just called you a snake. GONGITA (looking at dad): Did you? NGONGE: It was a joke. GONGITA: You were not laughing when you said it. NGONGE: It was a silent joke. Like the G in ENOUGH. MATAGOONI: And the K in know. NGONGE: Yes. GONGITA: Is Janna a nice name? NGONGE: Forget all this nonsense. You can't have a baby unless you are married. GONGITA: I know that. NGONGE (getting sucked in once again): Who will you marry? GONGITA: I'll marry MATAGONI! NGONGE (choking on his tea once more): YOU CAN'T! (and like a badly made Indian movie he says..) He's your brother! GONGITA: Oh!...I know! I'll marry Mehdi. NGONGE: Who is Mehdi? GONGA: He's a Bengali boy in her class. NGONGE (starting to think about ancient Arabian tribes and how they used to burry their daughters alive): Does Mehdi even like you? GONGITA: I don't know! I am going to ask him when I get to school. NGONGE: You'll ask him to marry you? GONGITA: Yes. GONGA: You can't ask a boy to marry you. The boys are the ones that ask. They get down on one knee and..... NGONGE: Yes. Yes. Enough of that. This is a boring conversation. GONGITA: Why do they get down on their knees? GONGA: I don't know. Why do they do it, dad? NGONGE: I don't know. GONGITA: Did you get on your knee when you married mum? NGONGE (muttering to himself): I was brought to my knees.... GONGA: I don't think he did. We are Somali. Gaalo get on their knees. GONGITA: I'm going to ask Mehdi to ask me to marry him but not get on his knees. Mehdi is Muslim. GONGA: Mehdi is ugly. MATAGONI: Mehdi hit me. NGONGE (seeing a chance to change the conversation): Did he? MATAGONI: Yes. But I kicked him and kicked him and kicked him.. NGONGE: You should really stop kicking people. It's not nice. MATAGONI (with a twinkle in his eye): I kicked him. Kicked him. Kicked him... A sudden silence.... GONGITA (playing around with her spoon but picking no food up): Dad... NGONGE: Don't start again.. GONGITA: Start what? NGONGE: Talking about Mehdi. GONGITA: I was going to ask you about University. NGONGE: You want to go to University? GONGA: She'll have to finish school first. Then she'll have to go to college. Then she'll go to University. GONGA: Where will I leave my baby when I go to University? NGONGE: naaa ina hebelaay..hooy..gabardha caruurtan dhashay..ya naaas..ya muslimeen...come here and deal with these kids of yours..I'm off to work.

^^ You kept that a secret. Mabrook (even if it's not. We start rumours at the merest hint).

A&T, we don't need to bet. My support for Egypt is enough of a bet (a sure bet at that). I just hope none of you will go awol on Saturday evening when I come here and flood this thread with my bragging words. P.S. I said Man for man Egypt is the best team in Africa and I stick by that.

How did you reach that conclusion, Norf? Did something out of the ordinary (for Somalia) take place recently? The only new (ish) thing in Somalia has been the Islamic appearance some of the players in the conflict have decided to affect. This started with the Islamic Courts and has been spreading ever since. But the TFG remains the same old TFG (though the leaders have changed). The sporadic shootings in the Somali capital are continuing like clock work. The arguments and disputes the same. In Puntland, there is really no big (or new) difference (save the election of Faroole). Yes, there is the piracy problem but, strictly speaking, one cannot refer to that as a political problem (though it has its political consequences of course). A handful of random people getting killed in Puntland or the handing over of ONLF operatives/sympathisers is, in all honesty, not even newsworthy (in the greater context of this being the end of the road for Somalia etc). Yes, the new president is still trying to settle in. Yes, he may not recieve the same respect as Abdullahi Yusuf. But, no, these minor problems cannot be used as signs of the imminent collapse of the state of Puntland. Likewise with SL. Nothing out of the ordinary happened there either (well, other than last year's bombings). We all knew and expected the political parties there to squabble, argue and fall out, exactly like they squabbled, argued and fell out in 2003. This time however, they had the added ingredient of voter registration and the leeway to use that to prolong their arguments. But no civil war suddenly erupted in SL. The leaders of the opposition parties have not been imprisoned or the president's villa surrounded by rebel fighters. It was and still remains, though very heated, the usual ebb and flow of SL politics. As for the occasional person or military officer being killed, it is not much different to what is happening in PL. Such things always took place in SL and PL, yet both states continue functioning and no sane person would dare suggest such meagre examples are indications of any future collapse of either entity. The ONLF are the ONLF and if A&T is to be believed the boys are actually doing well there. This is the short and long of it, saaxib. So, why in the world are you as excited as to suggest that it is the point of no return for Somalia?

^^ Same difference. It is a one-off game against an African team. I trust that Ahmed Hassan will lead his team to victory.

Originally posted by Norfsky: Ngonge Egypt are out saxib. Support another Arab team . Sherban, I'm with Algeria to qualify. They will be my No. 2 team at the WC. Ghana and Ivory Coast will get to quarters before they lose to a European team. That's what you said in 2006. It is what you said in 2008. It is what you ALWAYS say. Man for man, Egypt is a better team than Algeria. This is a one-off game where the winner takes all. Egypt are playing at home and are really worked up for this one. They have pidgree and history behind them. This team (in the last four years) always did it when it matterd. Neither Ghana with Essian, Ivory Coast with Drogba or Cameron with Et'o managed to get anything out of a really worked up Egyptain team. Egypt are the Brazil of Africa, people. As Shacbola says: Bas. Khalas.

^^ Not idiocy, theory, theory. Wax fahan.

Dabshid, we shall see on Saturday. Yan lago waayin warya.

Tolaaaaay! Tolaaaaay! MF, you really shuld stop trying to get under the skin of the Puntlanders, saaxib. Nin kufay waaba xaraan en lago joogsado. (your theory is as far fetched as the resurection of the ld Somali republic warya). However, and having said that, you did claim it was only a theory. So I have no idea why Che, Castro and Xiin keep loading their guns and shouting "we've got live bullets, we are warning you..live bullets yaa..la soco" In short, stuff and nonsense all round.

Originally posted by Car-Garo: The Egyptian team is weak compared to the Algerians, Algeria can beat them any day. If I were a betting man I would dare you to a wager, saaxib. The Egyptian team is the best in Africa, adeer. They won the last two African cups and, I believe, they will trounce Algeria on Saturday (remember, they are playing at home). As for being weak! A team that has Al Hadari in goal? Wael Gomca in defence? Sheikh Abu Trika in midfield? Zidan and Camr Zaki in attack? A team that has captain fantastic himself (Ahmed Hassan)? p.s. They got a visit from the laughing cow today. He told them to do their best (which means those boys will be playing out of their skins). I predict that Egypt will qualify and not just qualify but be the best african team in the world cup. As El Comda says: gatkom neela, maleeto el balad.

Johnny speaks Chinese? War no matter in what tone of voice you shout the word IKEA, it still is not Chinese.

^^ In your tahreeb business, can't you finder her a girl that speaks Arabic? ما تفرحشي اوي كده..مش يمكن صاحبتنا تكون راجل!