Originally posted by cynical lady: Democracy, what democracy, it's a western concept, rooted in western experience rolled out to the rest of the world as liberal democracy due to its supposedly triumphalism, focused on transforming political systems in such a way that legitimises intervention/protection of the western interest instead of rightful constituencies.... lol democracy lord help me people are overfeed with its illusion that they start subscribing to its existence. Do me a favour if you know anything about democracy you will know there is no such thing as democracy there is only interest/power accumulation.... ps highly recommended book for you Democracy for the few...go and read it Utter. Pure. Total. Full-blown. Complete. NONESENSE! You could apply the same weak argument to faith, principles, ideals and anything else you wish to disparage. It still remains nothing but simple drivel (with all due respect of course).

Only a cynical woman would fall in love with a corpse. As the old advert used to say: It does exactly what it says on the tin.

Looks like cynical is hallucinating the plot of another Mills & Boon story, again. Malika, though I am not of the 'girls' you're asking for advice here, I could not help noticing that you only realised that he was rude to you AFTER you hung up! To miss a rude tone once is ok to miss it twice is unacceptable. Confront nothing, woman. He'll probably insult you as he apologises and you still wont realise it.

^^ Hicks open to Gillett sale Takeover saga at Liverpool takes another twist By Chris Burton Last updated: 6th March 2008 Sky Sports News Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks will not stand in the way of George Gillett selling his 50 per cent stake in the club. Gillett is understood to be in negotiations with Dubai International Capital (DIC) concerning the potential sale of his shares, but required the backing of Hicks in order to complete any deal. The two Americans entered into an agreement at the time of their purchase of the club that stipulated that if either of them should decide to walk away from Anfield then the other would have first refusal on buying their partner out. Hicks was initially interested in obtaining complete control of the Reds and was strongly opposed to any external investors becoming involved in the running of the club. However, he has now relented and is believed to be seeking discussions of his own with DIC representatives. He insists that he has no intention to part with his stake in the club and any meeting with the interested consortium would be to establish a working relationship between the two parties. With Gillett now free to push on with the proposed sale of his shares it is possible that the situation could be resolved by the weekend. Source

^^ They're not in it because most of them are not required to legally declare their earnings like their Western counterparts. But I bet the top Sheiks earn three or four times what the top person in that list has. The price of crude oil has rocketed recently. It's 100 American dollars per barrel. Now, when you consider that countries such as the UAE produce (or plan to produce) 250,000 barrels per day, it means they earn 25 million PER DAY! They've been doing it for over 40 years. Those countries are practically dictatorships! Now, armed with such information, would you say it's a huge leap to assume that some of those Sheikhs amassed fortunes that surpass the 62 Billion of the top man in that list?

^^ Go have a word with yourself, woman. You're becoming very slow and dull-witted of late.

^^ You should be happy with your baruur, m'dear. You don't want to end up like these women:

Or it could simply be the 'standby' feature on your TV of course!

^^ But of course. I think I should bring back Xu's shrine.

He's going through them like qof with hargab goes through tissue.

Was this wife number one or number two, rudy?

^^^ Now tell her what a pair of THESE are called in Somali :

Russian football fight. Must watch! (This has nothing to do with the CL).

Originally posted by rudy: yo! wazzup... been gone for while... guess wat, i got divorced again!! lol. guess me just unlucky in dat deal? i think i amna take a break 4 couple yrs at least. damn.

^^ Heh. I was talking in general, you paranoid oaf.

^^ Doubt it or else he would have been all over Ibtisam by now.

Originally posted by me: This is funny in a surreal way. When I first came to SOL, everybody took everything seriously. Now Is see the opposite. Nobody is serious. Serious talk would be wasted on here. Not to mention the type of (silly)things people consider serious!

^^ Arsenal are a great team to watch. I would not mind them winning the cup. In fact, I'd prefer them to the scum that is United and Chelsea. But I still think they will not make it. Last night was a one off, no more and no less.

Heh. Looks like Marcus hijacked his own thread there. Anyway, much obliged, boss.

^^ You should have waved at Marc on PM. Now Lazy is going to see this and start planning sending you hate letters. (If she doesn't get you, Serenity will).

^^ Liverpool are going to win it this year (again). For Arsenal, this win is like United's 7-1 win against Roma last season. Everyone thought they would go on and win it but it was nothing but a flash in the pan.

Milan had no choice. Arsenal tired them out and marked out their best players. That's what United failed to do last season.

^^ I love you too, darling.

^^ The pundits keep going on about Fabregas and Adebayor but the real players for Arsenal are Flemani and Heleb! The latter is playing the football of his life this season. Of course, the cup is Liverpool's.

Ibti, You've been a member for three years now. How come nobody ever did a birthday message for you, dear? Were you born in instalments? Oh well, since I'm here I may as well echo your sentiments.