2. Winking emoticons directed at the opposite gender are not allowed. L0L. b..b..but it's not a real eye winking at them! What if you do laakin? what are they going to do? dry hump their computer monitors..kkkkkkk! Geeljire: What's your point? Are you asking Admin to re-write the Golden Rules?

What about Sijui men? I heard they do spells that include bird feathers, donkey hair and nails. "My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to say My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to do I know that you'll be mine when I say this to you Oh, Baby .... Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang Walla walla, bing bang Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang Walla walla, bing bang..." Khalaf, I know of a couple in Nairobi where the wife did a little bit of witchcraft and had a spell cast on her husband - to ensure that he would love her forever and to also have her as his financial advisor. . Aabaahaa baa halkan ku sakaraad ah dollar keen, hadii la dhaho, sug uu leeyahay heblaan soo waydiin. LOL. They're not sijui laakin. Ninka way ka wayn tahay xitaa, 10 yrs meelahaas! kkkkkkkk. sixir.com.

When the going gets tough, guys should go to the doctor. By Scott McCredie for MSN Health & Fitness. You’re a guy’s guy, tough as nails and hard as rock, right? Able to soldier on despite hardships or injuries? Because everyone knows that hardship builds character, and pain is all in your mind. And, oh, don’t forget: no pain, no gain. Well, that’s the traditional view, anyway. Modern males are supposed to dance to a different tune. We’re advised that a healthier philosophy is to listen to our bodies and heed the language of pain, the body’s way of telling us that something is wrong and needs our attention. Men who fail to heed the message often meet disaster. “Men tend to ignore pain more than women, but they also tend to seek medical attention less than their women counterparts for any ailment or symptom,” says Dr. Camelia Davtyan, associate professor of general internal medicine and health services research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. My brother, Tim, is a good example. A 25-year-old law intern living in Portland, Ore., Tim woke up one morning with severe stomach pain. He thought the culprits were the guacamole, chips and beer he’d had the night before. “It was the stomachache from hell,” he remembers. “I thought I could endure the pain and hoped it would go away.” A few days went by and the pain continued. He went to a doctor who examined him but could find nothing amiss. A couple more days passed and he broke out into a feverish sweat that scared him into a hospital, where a doctor immediately sent him to the surgical ward. Tim’s appendix had burst, a life-threatening situation. Fortunately, he was young enough to withstand the bacterial onslaught this caused, and after the emergency appendectomy he recovered fully. Here’s a list of potent pains that you ignore at your peril: 1. Severe headache “If you were to say, ‘that’s the worst headache of my life,’ it could be related to a brain aneurysm rupture, which can be quickly fatal,” says Davtyan. A brain aneurysm is a swelling of an artery due to a weakness in its wall. Anyone, at any age, can have them, but they’re most common in adults between the ages of 30 and 60. If an aneurysm should burst and bleed into the brain, it can cause “hemorrhagic stroke, permanent nerve damage and death,” according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In the U.S., some 27,000 people a year report ruptured aneurysms. In addition to the headache, other symptoms may include nausea, vomiting, a drooping eyelid, light sensitivity, and a change in mental awareness. If you experience the “worst headache of your life,” especially combined with any of the other symptoms, you should go immediately to the ER. 2. Chest pain Davtyan explains that if you ever have the sense of “having an elephant on your chest"–intense chest pressure, pain or squeezing sensation–you could be having a heart attack, which can also be quickly fatal. The NIH describes the feeling as “uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness, or pain” in the center of the chest that lasts for more than few minutes, or goes away and comes back. Other parts of your body can be affected too, including pain in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw, or stomach. You may also feel short of breath, lightheaded, nauseous, or break out in a cold sweat. Don’t delay for an instant if you think you’re having a heart attack. The NIH reports that most victims wait two or more hours after their symptoms begin before they seek medical help, resulting in death or permanent damage to the heart. 3. Other chest pains “Sharp, stabbing chest pain of sudden onset, with or without shortness of breath, could be pneumothorax [a collection of air or gas in the space surrounding the lungs] or a blood clot in the lung,” Davtyan asserts. The latter condition is called a pulmonary embolism, a sudden blockage in a lung artery, usually from a blood clot that traveled to the lung from the leg. The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute says more than 600,000 Americans experience a pulmonary embolism each year, and about 10 percent of them die from it. Fatalities usually occur within an hour after the symptoms begin, so time is of the essence. Pulmonary embolism, according to the institute, is one of the leading causes of death among people who must remain in hospital beds for long periods of time—and it also can crop up in people who must sit (say in an airplane or office) for many hours without interruption. (Say, don’t you feel the sudden urge to get up now and walk around a bit?) CONTINUED: Severe back pain.

Yeah I watched that movie Skipper, it's called "The Runaway Jury." I have never been selected for jury duty, hadana Allah iima kaso, there's a lot to consider, especially if you work with the public. Ya never know who's sitting in that court room in support of the accused. Iskaba deey seeing the prisoner himself oo indhaha kugu soo cadeenaayo, meeha leenbo ku suuxi lahaay.

^ ^ Ayoo ayooo, saliid badanaaa! Maxaas cunay? Istaaqfrullaaah .

Sheekadii oday Cabdulle inaa dhahdid ee eheed "KKeey aamus, soono miinaato"... Nudge nudge..wink wink

Not a Somali, nonetheless very tragic walaahi. Teen Dies After Being Choked In Her Own Home Tuesday December 11, 2007 CityNews.ca Staff She wanted to be more Western. He wanted her to be more traditional. And that clash of cultures may have been what led a father to allegedly choke and kill his daughter on Monday. Police are saying very little about what happened in a home on normally quiet Longhorn Trail in the Eglinton and Hurontario area of Mississauga. But the friends of 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez claim she was desperately trying to pull away from the strict traditions of her devout Muslim family. And they contend that led to the attack that eventually took her life. She passed away in hospital overnight. The sad story began just before 8am when a man called police to report he'd murdered his daughter. Authorities found the girl clinging to life. She'd reportedly been choked into unconsciousness. Her father, identified as 57-year-old cab driver Muhammad Parvez, was taken into custody at the scene. Students at Applewood Heights Secondary School, which the victim attended, tell of a troubled family life, with the teen refusing to wear the traditional head covering hijab, and preferring more Western-style clothing. They say she'd moved out and was staying with a friend, and may have gone back to get her things when the confrontation began. "She's kind of rebellious a bit," confirms classmate Heather Bottecher. "She's supposed to wear the hijab. But she doesn't usually wear it. And she usually wears short sleeves when you're supposed to wear long sleeves. And she wears, like, low cut shirts and stuff like that." "We noticed a drastic change in her appearance," another friend named Shianne Phillips recalls. "Like, she used to dress religiously. Now she's dressing in, like, more causal clothing, like other people." There are reports the teen would wear the special garb to school then change when she got there to fool her father. Parvez makes his first court appearance on the newly upgraded murder allegation on Tuesday. The girl's 26-year-old brother, Waqas, has also been charged with obstructing justice. Aabe dhaaxoo Soomali ah gabar wuu dili, hadii meeshan caruurta lagu sii hayo.

Originally posted by Daandaansi: halmar ah ayaan waxaan dareemay inuu jaceeylkii ihayay ee gbarta aan aduunka kadoortay iihayay aan iska waayay Vhy O vhy? See hal mar kaliya u nici kartaa? Hadda iyo dan, you just don't jump to her and expect all things to go smooth...won't happen my man. Gabar ku rabta adigaa ku cayaaray, you dropped the ball and hopefully you learn from the experience that being immaturity, daandaansi, xiiso or whatever has driven the love away. Sideey kuu ogolaataa kolee waa adag tahay! Honestly, I don't think you will find any answers on a forum. The only thing I can tell you is to find something constructive to do that will direct your thoughts in a different direction. Good luck.

KK: Alla maxaad faduul tahay adu! Isku dha-dhajis kulahaa. L0L. Maxaa i dhihi lahayd hadaan kuu sheego halaha gift aan sii kala wado eid kasto? Isn't it one of the best bits about being married, having in-laws to keep happy?

I'm in two minds at the moment as to whether I should go to my inlaws' house, or just have a whole load of friends round mine for some festive hilib cunoow and lots of gossip.

Ghanima, I sense your frustration and I am inclined to agree with you. You said: look and cling to the few who are trying to do good, focus you energy on making a difference with them. The problem with this is every person has different ideas of what "making a difference" in Somalia is. For example; My way is to Speak out. Speaking out on what I believe in, and feel are important ie; One Nation, One Somalia, One future! That's the essential first step. Each voice that adds itself to the choir increases it's volume. Silence means acceptance. Something as simple as a post here, or elsewhere on the internet or public act is a political statement. So, see ma dear gari laba nin kama wada qosliso, or something like that.

^ First time I'm seeing you not LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL-ing! What did you have for breakfast this morning, lady? Ghanima, keep hope alive sis. Thumps up!

Eenyaarahee JB, ku mee inaar? Ma laptop-ki baa lagaa xaday? Hope you had a wonderful and safe trip back home. Can't wait to read your "WAY BILAABATAY" thread. Hurry. .

Gaalo people @ . So it's a Somali thing, yea? I thought it was only the kids in my family that say that! "kissing is haram, only gaalo people do it"

^ceeb ceeb gabdhaha lama caayo eedo.

People in this thread talking about doing 200km/h, what if someone you knew was killed by a speeder..? :rolleyes: I fail to understand what is so appealing about driving like an id!ot.

Originally posted by Gediid: quote:Originally posted by Nephthys: Gediid: Xiinfaniin "the animal", bini'aadamka qaarkiis inuu ka caqli badnaa ma ogtahay? Hadanaan xikmad Ilaahey ka hor imaneyn waa runta baan ku odhan lahaa laakinse mid baa hubaa it has a bigger schlong than any human one you might have ever seen.... Absolutely! A trully alpha, and that's enough to win the admiration of all capable of appreciating his brilliance. I think it is terribly sad you're incapable of even competing with this animal's schlong. Jealousy's a b!tch.

^ That's a true masterpiece, in its own way. She is definetly a sympol of our current struggle, and the vanished son "Suul-Cayn", the lost dignity and freedom we're fighting to regain. Awoowe, maskaxda iyo caqligaan kugu jeclahay. And I can't thank you enough..really, for taking the time.

^ a small introduction to the poem's overall literal meaning, would help. Gabayga waa culus yahay , ha nixin laakin I won't ask you help me decipher this poem line for line, but can't catch the exact meaning of the bold words in my quotation.... Iyadoo ha dagantii Digta qalabka reenka leh Kaga dannaninaysoo Demman guulaheedii U dabbaal degeysaa Suul-Cayn durduriyoo Dubur buu ka xulay Hawd PS: Is the lady some sort of metaphor?

Originally posted by Haneefah: Che, Xiin, Jamal and MMA: You all should form a group session to grieve; letting it all out and shedding few tears for awoowyaasha might help you guys reach some closure, you know. Sidaasi xal maaha! Waa in adiga lagu bixiyaa to compensate for their pain and suffering. Gediid: Xiinfaniin "the animal", bini'aadamka qaarkiis inuu ka caqli badnaa ma ogtahay?

By Mohsin Mahad Wednesday, December 05, 2007 In his seven-pages article in Awdalnews, entitled: “Who does the ONLF Represent?,” Ismail Ahmed considers the best way to approach the question he raised in the title of his article is to take his readers on an awareness creating virtual “sightseeing” trip around the ****** territory. His intention is that at the end of trip, his readers would know the answer as to who the ONLF represent. Thus, he takes his readers on a train journey from Djibouti, stopping at various places on its way to Dire Dawa, its final destination. This is reminiscent of the fabled Orient Express that used to ply between London and Istanbul during the Ottoman Empire, when well-off adventure-loving European travellers would set off for exotic distant places. As the train arrives at Aware Afdam, halfway between Djibouti and Dire Dawa, Ismail draws the attention of his readers to sights and sounds that he assumes are of interest to his presumably Somali readers. Thus, he points to the sights of “charming young Somali girls selling fresh camel milk in leather containers” or the “Somali nomads men displaying traditional handicrafts” or “men with white togas and young men in their traditional dresses”; and last but not least the “traditional Somali dagger mounted on the hip known as Golxob”, not forgetting to warn his readers “never to try to tamper with Somali daggers” as if his Somalis readers were unfamiliar with these sights. At this early stage in his article, one wonders who is Ismail talking to on this “sightseeing trip” when he makes such bizarre observations? Surely not Somalis but perhaps uninformed “Musungis” (whites) tourists as they are known in Swahili in East Africa coming to the territory as first time. After taking his readers to Dire dawa, Alamayo, Harar, Babile, and Jigjiga, Ismail proposes to “wrap up” the “sightseeing tour” in what he calls “this vast territory inhabited by majority of non-******” and selects the village of Gaashaamo as a fitting finale to the guided tour. This small village is located in a camel territory typical of the rest of the ****** lowlands. And unless there is something especial about the camels in Gaashaamo, which is not the case, this dusty and desolate place has no tourist attractions for Somalis or for “Musungis”. Perhaps there is more to Gaashaamo than meets the eye and that surprise is what Ismail had in mind in choosing Gaashaamo. The choice of Gaashaamo as part of his “sightseeing trip” provides a revelation that unmasks Ismail’s true colours and puts his wild diatribe against the ONLF in a different light than he intended. Gaashaamo, it seems, is Ismail’s home/clan area. But more importantly, Ismail wants to present it as a show case that vindicates, in his view, the 100 years of Ethiopian colonisation in the ****** . He does this by trumpeting the “benefits” Ethiopia’s rule has brought to this Gaashaamo district- an achievement which he considers merits publicity and perhaps gratitude. So it comes as an anti-climax when this whole publicity is about Gaashaamo’s boarding school. Far from being something to show off as a success story, a derisory token aid amounting to one solitary school after all these 100 years, and which is typical of the rest of the territory, is on the contrary a damning indictment of Ethiopia’s colonisation of the ******. And it is also tantamount to betrayal for any Somali to whitewash Ethiopia’s crimes against the Ogadeens or Somalis any where in their God-given territories. It is clear from Ismail selection of places in his “sightseeing tour” that his main purpose is to contrast the progress and prosperity that he claims prevail in Gaashaamo and other non-******* areas and the poverty that he alleges is pervasive in the exclusively ******* inhabited areas. To do this, and following his visit to Gaashaamo, he takes his readers to a village called Fiiq. What strikes the reader immediately on “arrival” at Fiiq is how Ismail’s earlier bubbling and buoyant mood on the trip up to Gaashaamo has suddenly fizzled out as he gets worked up into venomous tirades against the Ogadeens. Fiiq is portrayed, perhaps with his Gaashaamo in mind, as a “dilapidating poor town that rightly belongs to the ****** clan” and as an “inhospitable hostile place for other Somalis … in contrast with other non-****** cities where everybody feels at home”. In contrast to the eye-catching, “adorable” sights elsewhere in the “sightseeing tour”, here in Fiiq, Ismail is eager to look for manifestations of poverty for which the Ogadeens and their support for the ONLF are to be blamed and not Ethiopia. Thus, he points to “begging … half-naked children” or mothers carrying their “emancipated babies” as if these sights were unseen or unheard of in other parts in the ****** region, or the rest of Ethiopia or Somalia itself (including Somaliland, his beloved renegade region). Once his fleeting visit to Fiiq ends, Ismail continues to lashes out his hate-ridden diatribe against the Ogadeens and the ONLF. What Fiiq has done to Ismail, quite clearly, was to stir and bring to the surface his already festering anti-******* xenophobia. As such, his remarks and assertions in his article are simply reflecting this strident antipathy. He is therefore disqualified as someone who can objectively and dispassionately assess matters pertaining to the ******* people, their territory and the ONLF. The whole purpose why Ismail concocted this fantasy trip and his desire to contrast the “prosperous” non-Ogadeens and the “poverty-stricken” Ogadeens is to blame them for their plight and to suggest that they could also enjoy similar bounties from the Ethiopians, like Gaashaamo’s boarding school, if only they would give up the armed struggle and submit to what he sees as Ethiopia’s benevolent colonisation. This reasoning recalls the old clarion call by European colonisers, or the racist rulers of South Africa and Rhodesia, that their loyal and peaceful Africans were better fed and better off than their compatriots who chose the armed struggle against oppressive, de-humanising white rule. In other words, the quest for freedom, even if painful, should be sacrificed in favour of basic survival. At least, one could expect such condescending sentiments from die-hard European colonialists and their settlers in Africa but it is another thing when it comes from a Somali, albeit a secessionist (or Somalidiid), who has no qualms to act as devil’s advocate for Ethiopia. His mind-set reflects not so much his pro-Ethiopian stance, but rather his xenophobia towards the Ogadeens, the wider ****** clan and to a lesser degree all other Somali clans- his own ***** clan of course exempted. Ethiopia is held in good favour not for what it does directly for his Somalilnad but in its capacity as the arch enemy of Somali unity, and as the only country doing everything possible to thwart the revival of a strong Somali government- a prospect which he believes can only benefit Somaliland and its recognition whether intended or not. Following the old adage that the enemy of ones enemy is ones friend may sound appealing on the face of it, but it is short-sighted and self-defeating. In following Ismail’s fantasy trip, the reader would be forgiven in believing that this organised trip had little to do with the subject matter of his article but was perhaps a tourist promotion publicity aimed at luring Western tourists to the territory for whom the breath-taking panorama of the country side, and the sights of charming natives in their traditional setting would have a special appeal. Ismail is consciously aware that his readers are mainly Somalis and yet assumes unbelievably that they are ignorant of the territory and by implication the ONLF and its support base. He therefore believes that the best way to inform them is to take them on a virtual “sightseeing trip” to places he thinks they don’t know but of course they do know as much as he does. A man who perceives his readers in this strange way, as if they are not Somalis, when indeed they are Somalis from the same country and speaking the same language, can hardly be taken seriously If Ismail’s intention was to familiarise his readers with the salient tourist spots in the territory, his trip was pointless since they already know about these places. And if his objective was to inform them on the ONLF and its support base, the subject matter of his article, he has once again dismally failed for he hardly touched on this subject. The question Ismail raises as to who the ONLF represents remains unanswered. Instead, what we get instead is a change of subject in which Ismail trots out simplistic bland observations highlighting the apparent differences in development and prosperity that exist between what he calls peaceful areas and those where the ONLF holds sway. In his view, the lesson for the lagging ******* clan is that they should jettison the ONLF if they value economic betterment. In other words, the ONLF is to be judged not so much on the strength or otherwise of its support base but on hard economic considerations and how far the Ogadeens could be better off without the ONLF. This is clearly a different subject than the one Ismail raised in the title of his article. And if economic considerations are Ismail’s undeclared preference, as it seems, he should have been clear from outset in which case he should have spared us his silly shallow “sightseeing” story. What in this case was required of him was to come up with a serious presentation of the territory’s overall human development situation and show convincingly to what extent the ONLF liberation activities had adversely impacted on the development of their clan areas. Even if in this regard Ismail was to succeed to make a good case against the ONLF on the economic front, that by itself does not mean that the Organisation would have lost its raison d’etre for it will ultimately be judged on its achievement on the political front and whether it freed its people from Ethiopia’s colonial shackles. The indisputable suffering of the ******* in the meantime will be seen as the necessary sacrifice for that higher priceless goal: freedom and independence from one of the worst types of colonisation – a primitive, merciless African one. The fact that the ********s are alone in this struggle, with other Somali clans in the territory either hostile to the liberation struggle as Ismail clan is, or simply sitting on the fence, or else watching passively from the sidelines, in no way detracts anything from the justice of their cause nor the legitimacy of the ONLF as a liberation organisation fighting on behalf of ALL the people in the ******. It has been the same in all other countries where liberation movements had to contend not only with the forces of the colonisers but also their indigenous collaborators and large sections of the populations not committed to the struggle. So is the case in the ******. When freedom is won in the ******, other Somali clans in the territory will not hesitate to make their claim for their share of the newly won freedom. Needless to say, there are free riders in the political struggle when those who paid the price for independence and those who chose otherwise will come to share that freedom equally when it is attained. Isamil is currently betting on the Ethiopians defeating the ONLF. But I can see him tomorrow in a liberated independent ****** claiming to have been a Mujaahid all along no less so than ONLF. Mohsin Mahad Email: mohsinmahad@yahoo.co.uk

Mogadishu clean up enters second phase , hunt for elders of looters begins Typical qabiilist ignorance! You haven't the slightest idea of what you're shooting your mouth off about. Acuudubilaah. Muqdishu waxay noqotay the hunters paradise. Allah Ma3aakum reer Muqdishu.

Mogadishu clean up enters second phase , hunt for elders of looters begins Typical qabiilist ignorance! You haven't the slightest idea of what you're shooting your mouth off about. Acuudubilaah. Muqdishu waxay noqotay the hunters paradise. Allah Ma3aakum reer Muqdishu.

Mogadishu clean up enters second phase , hunt for elders of looters begins Typical qabiilist ignorance! You haven't the slightest idea of what you're shooting your mouth off about. Acuudubilaah. Muqdishu waxay noqotay the hunters paradise. Allah Ma3aakum reer Muqdishu.