He tried using the soda line on them and someone threw a shoe at him? Sorry IndigoBlue, my indho aren't what they used to be.

^It's actually unusual seeing you on SOL during work hours. Have you joined the ranks of the unproductive? Hello trollers, have a nice weekend Nuune.

LOL. Done @ Jafe.

Hi Haneefah, I was able to locate the Isoniazid paper, and should be able to get it through document delivery by tomorrow or Friday. I'll PM you when it arrives. No luck with the first paper.

You're lazy

Sue, is this that horrific incident with several Liberian boys? I remember a similar comment made by the little girl's family. Truly sickening.

Che, I didn't know you were so bloodthirsty. Zakinah, as I'm sure you are aware, Qalabley was almost magaala madaxda wadanka dhan, but people realized that one town with so many blessings and favours would breed jealousy in people from lesser towns. Or as the song from a poet of neighboring Micir Qiijo declares: Qablaleyeey quruxbadaneey Qandhaad igu qaadayee Ma qiirtaa inaad Qaabkaaga nala qaybsato Qumbe ka macaaneey Qabowbaa i'galaye I soo dhawee aan Qaxartaan ka imid Iska qubeeyee An so on and so forth

What's the sudden obsession with little villages in the middle of nowhere? Repping Qalabley here, the best and biggest town with the prettiest people. All the children are above average

^They filed permits with the Intergalactic Wildlife Agency. The paperwork has been available at the IWA regional office in Alpha Centauri for the past three centuries.

^Unfortunately, territorial integrity is one of those polite fictions only maintained with a big gun. How about giving these nomads simple video cameras and having them film these mysterious helicopters? I'm sure it would be a Youtube hit.

LOOL. Sorry Jafe, it's the answer to your xujo, but I see that Indhoos has already answered it. Basically, each column represents the volume of subag in each weel, with the weelal arranged left to right in descending size. Each line is a "round", in which the subag is transfered from one container to the other. Each row is the total amount of subag and should add up to 8 in each round. Whew! Here's my xujo contribution. It's a very ancient one passed down from my great great ayeeyo Todobo gabdood baa awr lagu raray. Gabar walba todobo haan ayeey sidataa. Haan kasta todobo mukulaal oo waaweyn ba ku jirta. Mukulaal weyn kastana todobo mukulaalood oo yar yar baa ku jira. Meeqa lugood baa awrkaa ka tirin kartaa?

I've heard of the phenomena in Afghanistan, but this is the first time I've heard of Somali women doing this. Truly heartbreaking. Afghan women who turn to immolation By Martin Patience BBC News, Kabul Sitting in her family's mud brick home, Shanas recalled the day she set herself on fire. The 16-year-old doused her legs in petrol and then with a match set the fuel alight. "The next thing I remember was waking up in the hospital surrounded by my family. That was three or four days later." From what Shanas says it is unclear what drove her five years ago to take such drastic action. She may have been unhappy about her engagement during that period. But what is clear is that her story is one that is repeated across Afghanistan. Lack of freedoms Self-immolation among women has the highest recorded levels in Herat province (although many other provinces provide no data on the subject). Most of the women are in their teens or early 20s and are recently or soon-to-be married. Experts suggest that a combination of poverty, illiteracy, domestic violence and lack of freedoms continue to drive this decades-old trend. While the Afghan constitution - written after the fall of the Taleban in 2001 - enshrines equal rights for men and women, much of the country remains conservatively entrenched. At the burns centre of the provincial hospital in Herat, Dr Mohammed Jalili knows more than most about this gruesome practice. He says he has seen more than 80 cases of women committing self-immolation in the past year. The majority of these women have died from their injuries. "Many of the women and their families say 'it was an accident'," he says. "It's their way of hiding their shame about the act." But Dr Jalili says the cases are often easy to detect. Apart from the extent of burns, one tell-tale sign of an act of self-immolation is that there are no burns on the arm used to pour the petrol. Shocking response At the hospital, Dr Jalili was treating two women. He had operated on 20-year-old Anargol three times, including a skin graft operation on her badly scarred neck. Anargol says she had committed self-immolation after arguing with her husband. When asked whether she had a message for other women, she had a shocking response. "Don't burn yourself," she said, lying on her hospital bed. "If you want a way out, use a gun: it's less painful." It was an absolute cry of despair, and something rarely heard from women in this deeply conservative society. But according to Soraya Balaigh, director of the provincial department for women's affairs, it is an emotion that many women relate to. "Pressure is often put on these women by their husbands or the mothers-in-law," she says. "Violence is common and many women are desperate. I had a woman in this office who begged me to kill her here rather than send her back." But there are some women who think that small steps are being made in the field of women's rights. To mark International Women's Day in March, an arts and crafts fair was held in the city, with all the items made and sold by women. Hundreds of people visited the fair selling an array of items, including jams, oil-paintings, religious sayings carved in wood and wedding cakes bedecked in decorations. "I wanted to show that women can do some things better than men," says the organiser, Kandigol. "We want to have the same rights as men." But Kandigol, like many women here, is realistic enough to know that this is wishful thinking at the moment. Some will continue to feel isolated and desperate. And a few will decide to make a terrible, painful escape - and set themselves ablaze. http://news.bbc.co.u k/2/hi/south_asia/79 42819.stm

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Talk of hot Koreans and no Pucca in sight :confused: Hello trollers.

Castro, what are you, CEO of Prenups 'R Us? Ngonge, that was... really sweet and funny. I've got something in my eye... Sweet Barwaaqo, we cajuusooyin of SOL always knew you would be the one to fold. Best wishes dear, and congrats to the undeserving bloke.

^They are knee-biters huh? Ibti, I want to change it too, but someone stole my nick! Doesn't seniority mean anything around here?? :mad:

C&H, we like to imagine that your work life is like that movie The Devil Wears Prada. Is that so wrong?

^LOL hello dear, great minds think alike eh?

Hello trollers. What did the cow do this time C&H?

^Yeah, like that photo a few months back showing Obama checking out a young woman's inner beauty. It's all in the reputation and the angle of the camera.

Norfsky, since we can't even seem to agree on the best way to partake in a discussion, let's agree to disagree and save ourselves the trouble. Nada Castro, and for the correct salutation, please consult Ngonge

Labadiina ceelka agtiisaa ku kulanteen sooma'aha. The exchange reads like that. Juxa, my throat is worryingly scratchy today, so wehel waad heshay.

^Actually more boys are born than girls, and the only age bracket in which there are more women than men is in the 60+ crowd. In all other age brackets there are nearly equal numbers of men and women, or slightly more men than women. Only among the elderly do you see more women than men. Yet you never seen men chasing after grandmas! At least I hope not

^Ibti is teasing Sayid over him jumping up every time someone mentions Qardho (don't know where that is so don't ask me). Aren't I pretty nice for a troll? Almost at 0.3 Malika levels of helpfulness.