ElPunto;965509 wrote: Less white men = less oppression in the world. + 1

i'm sorry? is this an inside sort of joke? naga daa wax yaahas iyo waxyaabo kalo la mid ah siba the jokes which appear to be vague iyo obscure, ma garatay? :mad:

^ there aren't any job because people like me take their jobs!

Carafaat;965496 wrote: What the hell is the IGAD Sheick Technical Veterniry School. Couldnt they make up a better name for the school? I just received an email regarding their college program. perhaps IGAD is funding this mashruuc?

Carafaat;965548 wrote: Change topic to something more light. My Beesha Haradaan friends don't mind talking about any topic. Ask him questions on light business or political topic. For example, ask him what he thinks of the balance in the SL cabinet. http://qarannews.com/2013/06/saamiga-beelaha-somaliland-ku-kala-leeyihiin-kuraasta-golaha-wasiirada/ LOL@Inaadeero Arafat, the huuno guy left about an hour again. the guy just couldn't handle the intense discussion. he was so out of his depth, ma garatay? we're (Alz & Beesha haradaan SL 'saviour') now discussing ways forward for SL using various epic scenes from Hollywood blockbuster films to each illustrate our concluding remarks. he's gone for the Batman Begins & Trilogy and I've used yet another one of those international art house foreign films (the secret in their eyes) to illustrate my point. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL...

Carafaat;965523 wrote: Waa qoloma kan SL raba inu badbaadiyo? waa beesha haradaan and he's apparently very close to the top echelon of the Kulmiye regime. kan kale ee irbadu aay ku mudantahay was huunada.

Carafaat;965501 wrote: Waryahe, just engage with your guest, rather then quitly observing, listening and analysing them without any interaction. the power dynamics are skewed against me right now. i'm the host you see and cannot inject with my fiery 'isms'. observing and mentally dissecting the thoughts of my enemies gives me the edge over them. the SL 'saviours' is talking too much and alienating my other guest. i will have to intervene soon. please advise. Al.

chilling at yards with two of my qurbo-joog friends. one is a TOTAL bullshitter and one of those SL 'saviours' with all the answers, if you will. the other, i reckon, has been injected with all sorts for his schizophrenia. balse, the atmosphere is jolly good and we're having a discussion about how to improve the SL Republic. i'm listening intently right now. i will give my commentary very soon.

Tallaabo;965449 wrote: The people are not criminals but surely they have got more greedier. we (TELESOME and Alz) agreed that i'll send $26 to the criminal's number.....topping it up to $80............. then the TELESOM will transfer the $80 to my ZAAD account. in effect, i'll be using my money to get my money back. this is UNACCEPTABLE walahi.

Tallaabo;965446 wrote: ;) Just nod off whilst your guest is still talking and then they will be embarrassed enough to leave. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO@Tallaaboz inaar, don't you just hate it when things like this happen?

Alpha Blondy;965323 wrote: it's almost midnight and my guest isn't getting the hint to leave. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL i'm getting PISSED! :mad: :mad: :mad:

it's almost midnight and my guest isn't getting the hint to leave. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Beware Africa's "Middle Class" If you have considered investing in Africa, you have no doubt been influenced by frequent recent reports on the continent's apparently large, burgeoning middle class. These rising Africans are said to be increasingly armed with the hard currency, and the taste, to pay for your goods and services. But if you have actually taken some steps toward attaching hard numbers to this supposedly massive middle-class consumer base, you probably have also found a fair amount of confusion. Part of that confusion stems from the tendency of commentators to postulate the existence of all-purpose middle-class African consumers (let's call them AMACs) who behave homogeneously regardless of where they are in Africa and what their backgrounds are. This approach can beef up the numbers, but it can also lead to some ridiculous arguments about what exactly is being talked about here. The most popular view, supported by the likes of The New York Times, the African Development Bank, and the World Bank — all powerful influencers of how the world thinks about Africa — puts the number of AMACs at more than 300 million. They arrive at this number by counting all types: cattle-ranchers, roadside food vendors, taxi drivers, etc. On the other end of the spectrum, Citigroup Africa economist David Cowan has actually said that there is no middle-class consumer segment in Africa. Instead, Africa has only two super-classes: the über-rich, and a large sprawl of poor people who nevertheless are inclined towards consumption. Between these extremes is a multitude of other estimates. Top global consultancies Deloitte and McKinsey estimate the size of the African middle class at between 200 million and 300 million. A widely quoted economics commentator for a global bank with a huge presence in Africa has said there are 120 million AMACs. A consultant with the management advisory group Global Pacific says that only 5% of Africans earn enough to qualify for the "global middle class," bringing the number down to 50 million. The OECD, the so-called Paris Club of rich nations, puts the number at 32 million. A nice spectrum we have here: from zero to 300 million with almost everything in between. It's a frustrating state of affairs if you are a busy investor hoping to play this 'expanding African consumer base' business. Unless there's a better way to approach the problem. Maybe it's a waste of time to quarrel over quantities when it is the AMAC idea itself that needs unpacking. For a start, Africa's middle class is exceptionally heterogeneous. It is that fact — rather than the sheer number of middle class consumers or even the pace of growth in these numbers — that can have the most effect on the economic role and business significance of Africa's middle class. Across Africa, incomes are rising fastest among those engaged in brokering trade in goods and services across fragmented markets. These are the people who shuffle goods from one trade-post to the other, braving tattered roads, noisome customs officers, leaking kiosks (serving as warehouses), clueless laborers, and even more clueless technicians. As economic conditions improve across Africa, these folks are the first to know and the first to scale up their operations. These are the importers who have never heard of a "letter of credit," much less opened one, the "suitcase merchants" who travel to Dubai and the Far East every month to haul in cheap consumer goods on baggage trolleys, as well as their collaborators who stay at home to push the stuff in the open-air markets. These are the second-hand goods dealers and distributors opening up small towns to commerce. They are the vanguard of the African middle-class. These people are rarely well-educated, though, and they share none of the cultural traits seen in the West and Asia as prerequisite to a middle-class life. Many young and educated Africans, on the other hand, share few of the economic traits associated with middle-class status elsewhere. Lacking a regular income and strong social networks, and bereft of the professional grooming and mentorship opportunities available to true middle-class types, they have become a monument to an educational system increasingly at odds with the social and economic realities of the new Africa. This amazing contradiction in most African societies — of an expanding educated underclass and an 'uneducated' rising economic class — sums up why the African economy is struggling to acquire the characteristics one would expect of an economy bursting with middle-class vibes. Simply put, even were the number of middle-class people expanding as dramatically as some observers claim, there is no guarantee that market and consumer behavior would look anything like what emerged in other societies when their middle-class population begun to approach critical mass. For the prospective investor in Africa, then, it is obvious that qualitative factors should matter more than quantitative factoids in shaping your strategy. Because even were you to find consumers interested in your products, you may struggle to serve them because your assumptions about customer-service skills in the local market may turn up to be completely flawed. Your assumptions regarding how quickly you may be able to 'educate' your consumers to embrace certain attitudes, expectations, or user skills (for example using your web-based tool rather than coming over to your brick and mortar joint) may be far off the mark. The qualitative character of the middle class in your targeted African country has implications for your human resource strategy, public relations, government relations, corporate responsibility and citizenship, reliance on local financial instruments, operational effectiveness, and the overall sustainability of your market position. It makes sense therefore to focus on your energies on understanding more about the unique contextual situation of the middle classes in your chosen country of engagement in Africa than to turn yourself into an amateur census-taker. ----- http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/06/beware_africas_middle_class.html ------ interesting read.

UBUNTU, anyone?

i blame the feminists.

^ oh yeah? post some more stuff, dee.

late night security patrols.

not good, ma istidhi?

Alpha Blondy;963465 wrote: PISSED OFF....:mad::mad::mad: i've mistakenly sent $80 to the wrong number via ZAAD (mobile money transfer). the prick is going to turn this into a mashruuc. he won't send maanto dhaan ee watch. :mad::mad::mad: 7 FULL days later.................... and i'm no closer to getting my $80 back. the saqaajaan decided to spend $26 of the dosh. telesom have cancelled his ZAAD pending the investigation and have ONLY offered me $54 :mad:. he had the audacity to call me and apologies. WTF? apparently, he spent the $26 because he wife was giving birth. WTF :mad::mad: SL is a nation of criminals ee sida uula soco. :mad:

PISSED OFF y'all. :mad::mad::mad::mad: i was involved in a minor car accident a while back. i barely scraped her and it wasn't even my fault balse i still i apologised to the woman. i gave her the option of whether she'd like to go for a hospital check-up but she said she was alright. NOW, some officer called my number to say that they are starting an investigation of the incident. its been almost 4 weeks walahi. i told him to f off....... and further added, if this matter persist, i will have her arrested for defamation or any charge i could find within the statute books. :mad: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

^ its the son of my skin bleached girlfriend.

Carafaat;965137 wrote: Alpha, just simple congratulations will do. ok..... Happy 36th Anniversary Day.

Tallaabo;965133 wrote: What is MOCAAT adigoo raali ah?:confused: Ministry of civil Aviation and Airport Transport. i didn't mean to confuse you, inaar. its just a habit that befalls those of us already working in the industry, ma garatay? in other words, keep your tabloid based silly opinions to yourself.

movies currently being downloaded: 1. babel 2. peppermint candy 3. a royal affair 4. crimson gold LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Tallaabo;965120 wrote: Somaliland has the most absurd citizenship criteria in the world. This girl can not get a SL passport or vote but her mother can. A man born and bread in Wales and whose father and grandfather were also born and brought up in Wales is considered a Somalilander but his Hargaisa born wife from the Gedo clan is considered an alien:D aar bal tan eega? what the hell are you talking about? have you read MOCAAT's new legislation on citizenship. i thought so. this will be implemented once its been ratified by parliament.