what a cynical title.

AYOUB;741350 wrote: Look the person who used to post YouTube videos, don't know what she calls herself these days. *runs for cover* lol@ayoub, i do have that Brian McKnight look about me don't I?

i've seen all those you posted with the exception of AT&T, you're spot on, including yourself lol.

no difference here in hargeisa. unemployed refugees from the uk live in $2m houses.

lol@ng, who is justin bieber?

I have seen several SOLers from a distance and spent time with a few more. Of all the people I've seen NGONGE has to be the most distinct looking. he has this creepy caricature to his person, you know, like the type you'd avoid at any social events. In fact, I've avoid him several times, unbeknownst to him. Norf is a super-cool friendly guy. Looks like stan Collymore but with a slight larger head shape. But, I have to admit, he's nothing like the image he portrays on here, the man is a genius, he usually comes across as the pragmatic sort but he has some very controversial firm held conviction. i, on the other hand, have an almost imperious look about me.

Turkey is a great nation. Mashallah.

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^ nunne, you must think that i'm some sadistic jabba the hutt type, gratifying from ordering people around and making them perform chores for me to inspect looool. I'm actually very compassionate and kind, contrary to popular perception. I make my own suxuur but i go to my family for iftah, of course, they are diaspora, locals will salivating at the thought that Alpha is coming over.

^the DSK type would you believe!

lol@nuune, I'm certaintly not going anywhere near Puntland. I have to seek security clearance. I was recently told, the later you pray isha, the more good deeds you recieve, ma ruunba? As for the maid, all communication has been ceased, at least from my side. She made a grave allegation against me just last week. I'm still dumbfounded as to how I'm allowing her to continue her services. I guess its all part of a greater initiative called 'creating jobs for local people''. I was recently honoured by Dowlada Hoose Hargeisa. The ceremony was held at Freedom Park and pictures of me appeared on TV and newspapers planting trees.

It is essential for those in power in Britain that the riots now sweeping the country can have no cause beyond feral wickedness. This is nothing but "criminality, pure and simple", David Cameron declared after cutting short his holiday in Tuscany. The London mayor and fellow former Bullingdon Club member Boris Johnson, heckled by hostile Londoners in Clapham Junction, warned that rioters must stop hearing "economic and sociological justifications" (though who was offering them he never explained) for what they were doing. When his predecessor Ken Livingstone linked the riots to the impact of public spending cuts, it was almost as if he'd torched a building himself. The Daily Mail thundered that blaming cuts was "immoral and cynical", echoed by a string of armchair riot control enthusiasts. There was nothing to explain, they've insisted, and the only response should be plastic bullets, water cannon and troops on the streets. We'll hear a lot more of that when parliament meets – and it's not hard to see why. If these riots have no social or political causes, then clearly no one in authority can be held responsible. What's more, with many people terrified by the mayhem and angry at the failure of the police to halt its spread, it offers the government a chance to get back on the front foot and regain its seriously damaged credibility as a force for social order. But it's also a nonsensical position. If this week's eruption is an expression of pure criminality and has nothing to do with police harassment or youth unemployment or rampant inequality or deepening economic crisis, why is it happening now and not a decade ago? The criminal classes, as the Victorians branded those at the margins of society, are always with us, after all. And if it has no connection with Britain's savage social divide and ghettoes of deprivation, why did it kick off in Haringey and not Henley? To accuse those who make those obvious links of being apologists or "making excuses" for attacks on firefighters or robbing small shopkeepers is equally fatuous. To refuse to recognise the causes of the unrest is to make it more likely to recur – and ministers themselves certainly won't be making that mistake behind closed doors if they care about their own political futures. It was the same when riots erupted in London and Liverpool 30 years ago, also triggered by confrontation between the police and black community, when another Conservative government was driving through cuts during a recession. The people of Brixton and Toxteth were denounced as criminals and thugs, but within weeks Michael Heseltine was writing a private memo to the cabinet, beginning with "it took a riot", and setting out the urgent necessity to take action over urban deprivation. This time, the multi-ethnic unrest has spread far further and faster. It's been less politicised and there's been far more looting, to the point where in many areas grabbing "free stuff" has been the main action. But there's no mystery as to where the upheaval came from. It was triggered by the police killing a young black man in a country where black people are 26 times more likely to be stopped and searched by police than their white counterparts. The riot that exploded in Tottenham in response at the weekend took place in an area with the highest unemployment in London, whose youth clubs have been closed to meet a 75% cut in its youth services budget. It then erupted across what is now by some measures the most unequal city in the developed world, where the wealth of the richest 10% has risen to 273 times that of the poorest, drawing in young people who have had their educational maintenance allowance axed just as official youth unemployment has reached a record high and university places are being cut back under the weight of a tripling of tuition fees. Now the unrest has gone nationwide. But it's not as if rioting was unexpected when the government embarked on its reckless programme to shrink the state. Last autumn the Police Superintendents' Association warned of the dangers of slashing police numbers at a time when they were likely to be needed to deal with "social tensions" or "widespread disorder". Less than a fortnight ago, Tottenham youths told the Guardian they expected a riot. Politicians and media talking heads counter that none of that has anything to do with sociopathic teenagers smashing shop windows to walk off with plasma TVs and trainers. But where exactly did the rioters get the idea that there is no higher value than acquiring individual wealth, or that branded goods are the route to identity and self-respect? While bankers have publicly looted the country's wealth and got away with it, it's not hard to see why those who are locked out of the gravy train might think they were entitled to help themselves to a mobile phone. Some of the rioters make the connection explicitly. "The politicians say that we loot and rob, they are the original gangsters," one told a reporter. Another explained to the BBC: "We're showing the rich people we can do what we want." Most have no stake in a society which has shut them out or an economic model which has now run into the sand. It's already become clear that divided Britain is in no state to absorb the austerity now being administered because three decades of neoliberal capitalism have already shattered so many social bonds of work and community. What we're now seeing across the cities of England is the reflection of a society run on greed – and a poisonous failure of politics and social solidarity. There is now a danger that rioting might feed into ethnic conflict. Meanwhile, the latest phase of the economic crisis lurching back and forth between the United States and Europe risks tipping austerity Britain into slump or prolonged stagnation. We're starting to see the devastating costs of refusing to change course. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/10/riots-reflect-society-run-greed-looting see the comment is free below article. interesting.

ramadan in Somaliland is very peculiar. Its seems like the whole country comes to life after 6pm. contrary to what i was told previously, the city doesn't stay up all night nor is it like the exoticised middle east souk alleyways you see on tourist sites and brochures. the only thing that practically stands out in Somaliland is the over-consumption of somasos, ripe watermelons and khat. it was only a last minute decision to fast. I planned to spend this holiest of months travelling east Africa. but, if truth be hold, i couldn't stomach the thought of having a nice cocktail on a beach in Mombasa. looking back over the last 10 days, it was definitely the right decision to stay in somaliland.

Hello. Bal Warama dee

''Their behaviour on the streets resembled that of the polar bear which attacked a Norwegian tourist camp last week''. - Max Hastings looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

i'm not surprised. for many years, my warnings were not heeded and now the simmering tensions that were all too obvious have come to the fore. Tottenham is hell-hole. its full of ethnic minorities who haven't made the slightest attempt to integrate. these riots are not just a reaction to mr.Mark Duggan brutal murder but represent the frustration and lack of willingness from both parties (local govt and local people) to accept certain truths. as a native tottenhamite, i've seen the area go from a prosperous part of london to the hell-hole it now represents. the education system is failing, hospitals are sub-standard and there is a very high level of unemployment. for many years, new labour hyperbole sighted Tottenham has an area which benefited from new labour. in fact, these policies had a disastrous impact on the local people. now, with no end in sight to these violent riot, tottehahm has literally go to the dogs, as it were.

this reminds of that M&S advert.

that was my alter-ego, i've just managed to grap control of it lol. ramadan has been wonderful and i'm having a good time, in fact - i've been invited to spend time with different houses for iftah. they all make the same old pathetic food but its been good fun and it seems to be going quite well.

i had weetabix for suxur. it wasnt impressive. i fast alone, in the darkness of my huge mansion. this isnt ramadan, this is hell on earth. ramadan use to be a time for families, happy faces and spending quality time together, now its just miserable.

its a proven fact that Somalis are tribal segregated in the uk and hence this is why depressions are high. if there was more integration then i think settlement patterns will not only be more like Canada but also somaliness levels will deplete. god bless tribal enclaves. it works.

NGONGE;738527 wrote: ^^ I know but that's too hard to prove. I was thinking about something along the lines of printing t shirts with the words "I was praying cisha when the Earthquake hit" or "Siilaanyo had beans for Suxur last night", etc, etc.. lol@NGO it was a psychedelic experience of biblical proportion for me though. That time of night, you think you can do anything.

i invented a term for such activities - ''mashruuc-raadis''

^ that recognition is around the corner.

it sickens me that people think this immoral practice is fine.

I was praying isha at 2:30am when the earthquake struck . it was scary. i thought i was going to die, you should've seen the look on my face.