I've watched many hindi movies. Older sisters and cousins were demented about that crap. Of course more often than not I would ruin it for them by my constant whining about wanting to watch Star Trek instead, or pointing out all the ridiculous plot holes and laughing at the cheesy dialogue. I've had objects thrown at me, complaints to mom, I was accused of secretly watching the films beforehand (how else could I possibly know that the atoore will eventually triumph over the cartoony bad guys and get the girl :rolleyes: ).

Ibti, carabka ha ii taagin yarey saacadaan. See if I ever show up at this godforsaken hour again :mad: Anyway, it's not just guys, everyone has a least fave underpants they only wear if they run out of the good ones. You know the ones I mean, your habaryar bought you a darsin of itchy, lacey grandma panties that never seem to wear out so you can't throw them away without guilt...

^The_Siren was pretty thorough in her answers but you couldn't even muster up a polite "thank you". Typical Somali. You'll fit right in

LOL @ Sheh. It must get old real fast. Did you actually volunteer for this? My sleep cycles have been so messed up lately, I woke up at 4 AM and can't get back to sleep. Now I'm waiting for it to get light enough to do the laundry (to avoid having to wear the underwear of last resort ).

JB, I hear the wife locked you in

Funnily enough, the play just opened in town, and I was half-heartedly wondering whether to go. But I checked out the wiki entry and it doesn't sound like the kind of thing I would enjoy. Has anyone seen it? Based on the description, a "Somali twist" could be women in a polygamous marriage describing their married life. The minyaro raving about what a stud her new husband is, the minweyn bemoaning how she feels old and undesirable

LOOOL @ the first one. That one nearly killed me. As for shameful indulgences, none of you can top this: a teenaged Cara just learning English + too embarrassed to bring home those lurid Miles & Boon/Silhouettes titles = DAME BARBARA CARTLAND Beat that

LOL @ The_Siren. Maxaa ii kashiftay qumayayahaye? I thought we women had an unspoken rule to never give away another woman's game Ibti, I'll have you known I was thrown out of the Bad Girls Club for my wild and disruptive ways. Grrrr. Paragon, I got it dear. Make all kinds of unsubstantiated claims, and when told to back up these statements, fall back on the old "empirical fallacy" argument, coupled with mumbo-jumbo to give it some gravitas. Male logic again?

Tell me Che, which one of your male friends would you feel comfortable spooning with on a cold night? Would you rather be the spoonee or the spooner? And when you came back to civilization, would you still have a special bond? Paragon, I think I see where you are coming from now. What you are saying is that you would not presume to know how I feel, but at the same time you can easily pigeon-hole MY friends into simple "inclusive" vs "exclusive" categories, based on knowing nothing more than their gender. What an amazing talent I would love to see the empirical evidence that "has been widely recognized" to define 6 billion people into two non-overlapping mutually exclusive camps, regardless of their personalities, motives, or experiences. Obviously I'm at a glaring deficit in this discussion because I've never come across a scientific study that managed to be as unequivocal as you seem to be arguing (it's an oddly female logic I know). On top of that, my personal experiences have misled me on numerous occasions into seeing people acting at odds with their easily-definable but often illogical gender roles. So please, before I neglect the children at the daycare I work in, and you forget to practice your drills at the army base you live in, let's share these "widely recognized" studies that make you such an infallible judge on a person's motivations, based on knowing nothing more than their biological sex.

Wow, you're a touchy one Paragon. Before you make ever more childish insinuations, my point about praising my friends' looks and abilities was to highlight that we think well of our friends. We like to think they are good-looking, talented or possess at least some positive quality that makes them worthy of our friendship. It was meant as a gentle reminder that your perceptions of your fake female friends might have stemmed at least in part from real affection for them. But never mind, they were only useful acquaintances I do have genuine male friends. Yes, yes, you may make smug claims that you know beyond a shadow of a doubt they are not "TRUE" friends, but that's where you would be spectacularly wrong. You see, I'm neither pretty nor generous with my "services", so I know I have managed to avoid the leeches who think true friendship requires matching genitalia.

I think a single earring is pretty masculine. Certainly you don't see women wearing only one earring (unless they lost the other one and haven't noticed yet!) It's like how guys used to put cilaan on just their pinky fingernail, as a preteen it somehow accentuated their manliness to me

*Removes glasses* Whew, seems a bit steamy in here. Welcome Siren, you certainly kicked things off with a BANG

^Maybe you should befriend a female friend who is good at logic because I couldn't follow yours Interestingly, all the female friends I have are either very pretty or good at essays or both. I wonder what it means?

^So what does she tell you about me? Or is Malika a far more interesting topic of conversation

LOL @ Puppy pic t-shirt. That's fine but for best results the shirt should say on the back "I love Britain/America so much it's embarrassing me". Stoic, I looked up Rick Ross, not what I would've pictured for a dentist-wanna-be

^Can't recall seeing one, so why don't you do the honors and kick-start such a thread? Speaking of children, yesterday I was walking past this prof's office and his door was open. I glanced in and saw him sitting in front of his computer making faces and waving his hands in front of the screen, saying "tickle, tickle! I got you!". He looked up as I passed and looked embarrassed. I chalked it up to incipient dementia and forgot about it. Later, I was sitting by the stairs and he saw me. He came over and sheepishly explained that his daughter had his grandchild on Skype talking to him. From Germany. All day today I keep remembering the sight of a 60 year-old man making tickling motions at a computer screen. Technology is strange.

^LOL. CG, that's what you get for keeping such a low profile and keeping all your personal info secret. Stop annoying the CIA/MI5 and get a Facebook or MySpace account already. Store your credit card info on websites. Buy more stuff online and for heavens sake get Windows and make sure to download the key loggers that were supposed to be keeping tabs on you. It's hard work keeping the powers that be informed but you can do it with a little effort and planning. Right now I'm about to log on to Amazon.com to buy "I Love Kittens So I Can't Be a Terrorist!" Later today I'm going to throw my trash away at a time convenient for the spooks so they can go through it at their leisure.

^Exactly. I'm a gold-digging playgirl, and really insulted by the generalizations here :mad:

Aaliyah, he didn't ask because it's irrelevant. Old or young, academic or athlete, a date with Haneefah is the holy grail of white dudes

^But it's all about context don't you think? A $5 Starbucks card is fine to give to someone for finding your cellphone. But imagine if this man was given that card by his older brother, who's the CEO of a fortune 500 company, and it was a birthday or wedding gift. Or at the other end of the scale, imagine if the brother got him a Lexus sedan, but when asked why says "oh I had my personal assistant pick it out and order it for you. I'll ask her why she chose it." Like you said, if it's a sincere gift, it should always be welcomed with gratitude, but there are clearly situations in which the social rules dictate what is or is not a sincere gift. My 6 year old niece once gave me a drawing of me. I'm not sure how much a single piece of printer paper and some crayons cost. But she spent a lot of time drawing in the crazy hair, the lopsided smile and the giant glasses and I treasure it to this day. On the other I'm a lousy gift-giver so none of this applies to me P.S. I wanted to watch the video but that's way too much Tom Cruise so soon after lunch.

^Thanks Che. But this is the troll corner, if we impose a 'no complaining on Friday' rule, then some uber-troller will do exactly that It is a lawless no man's land, and that's how we like it. Thanks Eedo @ Farancab. Hope there's a nice naacoow going geedka aad hoos fadhidid.

Ibti, I'm sorry to hear about your uncle. My condolences dear.

Achoo! Hello everyone. I have a nasty cold, my voice is completely gone. I'm not much of a talker but now that I can't, I want to call people! *Sniffs piteously*

So exactly why is a population that is not growing a bad thing? Originally posted by Blessed*: You guys are 10 years off mark, women start having age related troubles at 40+, not thirty. Mise, we're just playing silly numbers. I don't know how you can joke about such matters. Not to mention a woman with 10 kids has probably had 3 or 4 miscarriages and stillbirths. It really is a numbers game.

I don't buy this. Everyone knows that if it's good for you, it ain't good.