Thanks a lot KK! *looks at sad sight of cup with a Lipton teabag with no dhir in sight.* Good luck with the car shopping. Don't get a Hyundai or a Ford... Ibti I'll have you know that I'm only 39.927 years old. Have been for the past 7 years. Malika on the other hand is on first name terms with the dinosaurs. I'm sure you're nice to them, you probably offer to get them in touch with local charities.

This seems to be a case of a crazy gun owner. If it wasn't the wife that day it would've been the annoying neighbor or the cashiers at the bank. He's been building an arsenal for a reason. JB isn't like that Malika. I'm pretty sure he would also support a woman who did the same thing.

KK, now I want real shaah Malika, yeah it was a real plum job being the chaperone. The outings, the small gifts to try to get us on their side, the feeling of self-importance. Now I'm missing the good old days... Ibti, I feel for any scrub who tries to git wit' you

Nowadays girls will even pick up the tab for dinner sometimes! If a girl did that back home waxaa ladhihilahaa wuu sixray, plain and simple. Then you would have to go find her comb and check to see if there were any hairs missing...

Ibti, you're right of course. I forgot that back in the good old days the women did all the work too, while nimanka is xariifinjireen :mad: Of course they didn't have to buy you a house when you were expected to build it yourself, sometime in between the 4 hours aad masago tumaysid and the 7 hours ari daba carareysid. KK, it's obvious you've been in the enemy camp too long, you have been irredeemably compromised Oh well. Koob shaaha noo soo qabo mar hadaad kacday. Geel_jire, I beg to differ. Shukaansi was really tough for guys back then. I should know, I had older sisters who used to make their suitors' lives hell while I played messenger and go-between. BOB is lost in some rosy-colored past that never happened. A man who didn't flash money didn't get far with the girl's family, even if he managed to impress her with his smooth ways. When next-door Faarax was sweet but Sulaymaan came around with a land cruiser full of gifts, Caasho had to be practical above all else. And here BOB is going on about lions when the most dangerous predators were the girl's grandma, her 7 aunts and 11 honorary aunts plotting behind poor Faarax's back. Madness.

Ibti, you must know that "good old days" is men's code for "Get back in the kitchen naayaa!"

Most people ignore the reasons of the dramatic surge of chronic diseases in "developing countries" (such as the diabete epidemy, with a 20 % rate in the UAE) as well as the insidious threats we face on a daily basis in "developed countries", to the point one may legitimately ask to what extent "progress" has really been made. You seem to lack perspective... Progress is to die of coronary heart disease at 60 vs dying of dysentery at 6. Of course there are trade-offs in that someone who dies of malaria or malnutrition has a very low risk of developing type 2 diabetes in their 50s. But lets not kid ourselves: if longevity is a measure of health people are far healthier now than ever before.

Which academic literature is that Baashi? I'm going to be an unusually realistic Xawaaley and predict that for you academic literature = common gender stereotypes

^And what if a surrogate mother only carries an embryo to term, with the egg and sperm coming from the married couple? KK, nope. Too wasteful and egotistical.

Stoit, canjeelo only needs flour, which can be fortified with vitamins and minerals, is a better value for money than cereal, and has an almost indefinite shelf-life. And as for the environment, a box of cornflakes probably requires more wood and energy to produce because of all the packaging, transportation etc.

Yeah, iron this shirt and make me a sandwich. *Ducks*

^Tsk tsk. I can't see the dolphins because I can't get over how the man has no fingers but they drew certain features on the woman meticulously.

I would say "Niice. Is it to scale?" I think frivolous gun possession is compensating for something

Welcome back Sir Marc. *Tries for casual nonchalance*

Kashafa and Toure, It depends what is important to you occupation and subjugation or having your sovereignty back? (Even if it leads to death). I think the difficulty I have here is a question of personal sacrifice versus sacrificing of others. The resistance, in so far as they are risking their own lives to end the occupation, have my respect. What I don't respect and cannot condone, however, is Toure's idea that "it's worth it" for innocent people to die in achieving a goal which has not been agreed to by said innocent people. Next time someone interviews dead people and get their enthusiastic endorsement of the resistance, I'll believe Toure's assumption that the dead feel it was totally worth it. But a telling clue to their opinion, I think, is the 1 million civilians who fled from Xamar to live on hand-outs and at the mercy of others. My guess is that they are not fleeing the occupation but the violence that followed, for who can claim to have sovereignty at a refugee camp? What I do know about civilian life in a war-zone is that those caught in the crossfire don't have anywhere near the kind of motivations assigned to them by those extolling for "resisting the enemy" from afar. They want to survive another day, to steer clear of both the occupation and the predictable response, to NOT die or see their loved ones dead. For some inexplicable reason, they don't care that the car bomb that ripped their child's limbs off is for the Greater Cause of Liberating the Homeland. I don't have any children, but if I did, I suspect ensuring their safety would take precedence over all other duties, including that of having political sovereignty. To deny otherwise is the real lie.

Toure, is there a limit to how many innocents whose deaths would be worth the end of occupation? A ball-park figure would do, like: "No more than 1 in 20 (5%) civilians killed or maimed in Xamar." Or "No family should lose more than 1 breadwinner in a calendar year." Or "There should be at least 4 Ethiopian soldiers or their collaborators dead for every 50 innocents killed."

"Who ever smelt it, dealt it!"

I will use hyperbolic and emotional rhetoric to damn those subhumanoid animals. LOL. Projecting much?

I guess you could say it's all relative

Hayam is the final cylon. I thought Juno was sweet but maybe a little too wee, much like the soundtrack.

That would explain everything!

I watched "Run, Fatboy, Run" yesterday. Does that count?

Good luck dear. You just be excited, I'll take care of the terrified, OK? I'm an expert. starts to hyperventilate with professional vigor

Hi Ibti. Congratulations on getting out into the real world. Good luck on Monday. Serenity, what has this job DONE to you!? You used to be more like Ngonge, strictly Mon-Fri, 9:05 AM-4:55 PM with 1 hour lunch and three 15 minute breaks to "gather your thoughts". The rest of the time trolling on SOL, of course. How can people like me slog away if we can't take comfort in knowing someone out there is enjoying their life outside of work?

LOL @ Blessed. That was fantastic. There's a whole bunch of them, who's this guy? is relevant too I think. "I withdraw my offer of sex and scuttle away in horror!"