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Suldaanka;978875 wrote: If this was happening in Russia, they would have pumped gas into the mall to make everyone sleep for a while. despite it's attempts to appear like a modern military, Kenya has shown itself to be incompetent. it's punching above its weight ee ya u sheega.

the KDF needs help by the looks of it, maha? ;)

the KDF might need help, you know.

Hobbesian_Brute;978865 wrote: ^^ LOL you have to agree certain messages can only be conveyed well enough through ebonics;) it conveys child like perceptiveness in simple words. a bit wordy, maha?

LIVE: Arsenal vs Stock City

this stuff is funny.

Alpha Blondy;978758 wrote: can we have a Xigasho for this please. RE: Xigasho To: Nuune Cc: NORF; Wiil Cusuub; Ibtisam; Tallabo Dear Nuune, can we have a Xigasho for the Ethiopia Airlines scheduled flight into Hargeisa on 21st of September 2013. Regards, Al

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.....;)

nuune;978697 wrote: Just in: - De Havilland (Bombardier) DHC-8 Dash 8 has landed at Hargeisa Egal International Airport at 3:32 PM - Sat Sep-21-2013, much earlier than the scheduled arrival time which was 4:20PM. - We have no Boeing 737-800 Jet, but a Dash plane, about 50 Pax onboard. - Well done to the Somaliland officials in Addis for getting this service back, at this time, it doesn't matter what type of plane is used as this route is much needed between the two brotherly nations. can we have a Xigasho for this please.

^ my last thread was awful, i'd admit. i was guilty of wordiness. but the rest of my musings are alright, you know. check this.... Aabahay Wa Inankayga Aabihii.....Sheeko Dhab Ah Xamar's moral backwardness is evidenced in daily acts of baseness, vileness and depravity in both it's private and social sphere. nothing evidences this statement more than the following true story.......... it's the early 1990s and what remains of the capital city of the Former Somali Republic is divided into clan fiefdoms; demarcated and manned by clan militias. Xamaris fear to go beyond what their clan DNA permits. all over the city, terrifying picket-stops are firmly entrenched, fiercely avoided and fermenting fear. beyond this fear lies a deeper moral degeneracy, this story is re-countered below....... a clan militia general wreaks havoc in the city of his birth and ancestry. his own family, including children, are displaced due to the civil war. years later, he savagely rapes his own daughter in a vicious attack, a daughter he has not seen in years and has since come of age. she gives birth to his son, oddly enough becoming the mother and sister of her boy. years later, the clan militia general becomes a businessman...... before eventually being appointed rather than elected as an MP in 2012, among Xamar's first legislators in 21 years, a government handpicked by a few oligarchs, who are themselves formerly corrupt war-lords with blood on their hands. this moral depravity is widely accepted in Xamar Caddey. Xamar Caddey is now known for its depravity, its moral perversion, its impairment of virtue and moral principles. the decadent luxury and corruption among its decadent upper classes is testament to it's moral and intellectual degeneration. Xamar Caddey was once a great, great city it has now fallen into utter, utter moral putrefaction . sida wa la ficaanyahay. this extraordinary tale will be published in a feature length book very soon. LOOOOOOOOOOL@decadent luxury

Che -Guevara;978741 wrote: Every Somali is racist but me, every Somali is ignorant but me.... i see. interesting. you might want to add.....''i'm the smartest Somali, i'm the smartest of all the Somalis''. check any editorials, opinions, articles or commentary on sites like wardheer, hiiraan or even SOL's politics section, and you quickly see the over usage of long and strange words. sometimes, it doesn't even make sense. how are people suppose to understand these articles? isn't the whole point of writing to communicate your message effectively, not to confuse your readers? check this.... By Faisal A. Roble - http://www.wardheernews.com/book-review-clan-cleansing-somalia-ruinous-legacy-1991/ If the epic poems of Guba, “instigator” in Somali, documented the internecine small scale clan wars in the Hawd and Reserved Area in the 1890s-1920s........ WTF does that mean? why has Faisal Rooble used this unnecessary word? Clan Cleansing in Somalia undoubtedly serves as a repository for the historical origins and the memory reconstruction of mass violence in post-colonial Somalia . anyone? i'm confused. Che, abti, i've seen you do this many a time......specially when you're losing the argument. BANG! the long and strange words come at you. they're almost like bullets. BANG BANG BANG.

Apophis;978611 wrote: Escorts are used by drunk G men types and fat white NGO types; there are better options. looool Put it on a truck heading to Mombasa then onto a ship heading to *whatever your port is*, unload onto a Hargeisa bound truck stopping near your mashruuc library. But I doubt they're worth their transport fees so just dump em onto Nairobi street sellers and get some money for a few days stay in the capital. looooooooooooooooooooooooooool. Ps: I'm not involved in logistics but arrangements can be made loool is this looooooooooooooooooooooooooool common among those in Africa, horta? abti, glad to see you're content at long last. i'm sort of happy for you, you know. baal make some arrangements happen, if you can.

this 'sexual jihad' story is madness, yo. i couldn't think of such a thing in a million years. caajiib. whoever conjured this up is seriously perverted. their mind is seriously in need of counselling.

Safferz;978614 wrote: Nah Alpha, I've never had problems with Somalis, I'm just thinking about the access and attention I've seen white folks get back home (Hargeisa Book Fair comes to mind as a recent example). And af Somaali will always be a work in progress, someone born and raised outside of the country won't be as fluent as a native speaker without working at it. As far as English dialects go, I have a pretty neutral North American accent, but I usually expose my origins to Americans with certain words (ie. washroom, they say restroom in these parts) and how I pronounce words like "about" and "out" (I actually grew up not too far from Letterkenny lol) LOOOOL@washroom i say suuli, y'all say musqul, others say baytalmay. posh English folks say lavatory, Chavs say loo. chicks say little girls rooms. you say restroom. RESTROOM? are you serious? :cool:

this is madness.

^ Nuune you can post your questions in a million different ways. you can even make slanderous little remarks about Alpha, ma garatay? balse, what is your obession with these flights into and out of the SL Republic? really, i want to know. i deserve to know.

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Safferz;978594 wrote: When have I ever claimed to be an Amharic speaker? I've only said that I'm learning the language... I still have A LOT of work to do before I can even consider myself conversational, and I started my second year of Amharic class this month But yes, I'm with you and Haatu... I'm hostile towards cadaan who study us, and the ones I've met have all been uncomfortable with my presence because they're conscious of the fact that they do not and likely never will have the same language skills and knowledge base as an ethnic Somali in the same field. You can read as many books as you want, but your understanding of Somali culture and society will never be equal to that of someone who grew up in Somalia, or at the very least, in a Somali household and community. Not that it matters though, unfortunately Somalis embrace cadaan researchers with open arms and help them with their work :mad: just don't be pseudo-academic, please. wa iga talo. i'm sorry to hear you're having problems recruiting research participants. at this stage, perhaps, even your Somali should be scrutinised for compliance, ma isitidhi?...... i mean ya oog in af-somaaligagu is able to pass the standards expected off the diaspora folks, maha? inabti, even your Canadian accent leaves much to the imagination, these days........... particularly, insofar as being a native Canadian English speaker is concerned. years spent in America, has peppered your lingo, with foreign americanism maahmaahs like....''a day late and a dollar short'' or the like. :D

Apophis;978600 wrote: Making bare money, not that I believe your story about knowing me or my siblings let alone meeting one. Farming, property, wholesaling, trucking but the jewel in the crown shall remain secret i see. let it remain a secret, dee. i'm looking to get a container of books/learning resources shipped from Nairobi via Mombasa to Hargeisa, ma garatay? can you advise on the logistics?

Apophis;978601 wrote: Boy are these fckers wrong about Africa. I have seen people with all their needs and wants utterly fulfilled and who's only concern is with leisure. The white man with all his digital wealth wishes he had it this good. Thank goodness I was spared the drudgery of a 9-5 in London and the horror of the underground *shudders*. leisures fulfilled, i see? i take it, it's not difficult to have insights into the Nairobi night, maha? they say Crown Hotel has an excellent escort service baal iga huubi.:cool:

Haatu;978581 wrote: With that broken Somali even STOIC can whip you. waat walaanthahay, abti.

Marksman;978497 wrote: Really Haatu? How many women work at Dahabshiil for instance? How many women are district officers in Mogadishu? How come the quota of women in the government wasn't reached? How come women are more illiterate than men in Somalia? Etc. etc. There are more women in Somalia than men. Women are held back there. The poorest and most backward of nations are always those that keep their women from reaching their potential. With this said, Somalia is making great strides in giving women a fair chance. Much more is to be done and this will make the recovery of Somalia even faster. i've always been pro-women. that's not to say i believe in adopting human rights concepts, but for women, to re-evaluate their position in society. a woman must define her position....too often women are reliant on the 'man'. they seek validation from men - often changing their physical appearances to meet that standard. women must have their own sense of selves. their own benchmark with which to measure against their successes and failures. Somali women are and have always been the backbone of 'our' society. this new phenomena of emancipation masks a deliberate attempt to change the discourse. too often many of our women buy into these false ideas. what we ought to do....... instead, is to offer our women folk more opportunities to participate in society, to allow them the freedom to voice their concerns, to express themselves, to be more proactive in achieving social change for their betterment. World Bank feminists who consistently complain about the lack of female representation in the workplace and who peddle this sort of nonsense........... by and large represent an engendered and bias viewpoint. why should Somali women be forced to see things through different lens, a lens so removed from her own experiences. unfortunately, there is a perception that all women are the same and suffer from the same injustices be it discrimination, sexual violence, etc. white women in their position of power have done more damage collectively to the women of the world.....and their opinion is no longer valid, i reckon. people of the Global South, join me in condemning the West of its abuses and violation of their women's 'human rights'. they have commodified their women as objects of desire that perverted middle-aged men gratify from. they have destroyed the women's sense of self by making her compete with the a cocaine addled 'man', they have convinced their women to freeze their eggs. the West is experiencing a demographic decline. this is unnatural and indeed dangerous to their very survival. they just don't know it, yet. they have created wicked ideologies like feminism and political correctness to spread their subversive messages. we can see the decadence of the west, the contradictions and the double standards. its rotting from within and very soon, a new world order will emerge, that will right the wrongs of the West. already, we can already see manifestation of this because their women are allowed to work.

keeping up appearance with diaspora folks i'm not as sociable as before. i've come to learn through experience, that trying to impress others, is futile and a zero-sum mashruuc. irrespective of whether they're impressed or not, they're bound to say something. it's necessary, maha? earlier this african evening............... i visited my friend Mo and his wife at their house. i didn't want to go but it's important to keep promises, dee. we made the arrangement earlier in the week. this is the good thing about qurbo folks. their reliability, unlike local folks, is good because they appear out of the blue. my friend Mo is a regular at Al's. we usually chill 3 to 4 times a month. i spend Eids at their house. this is someone, who through time, i've come to appreciate and count as a ''friend''. being solely focused on your own affairs and being preoccupied with your own business is good thing, you know. it seems, the outside world doesn't concern Al, these days. i vaguely remember a maahmaah i heard once.....''if you have only one shirt, wash it the afternoons, dry it the evening and iron it in the mornings....''. the nuxuur of this maahmaah means...take care of your sh!t, ma garatay....and i've been taking care of sh!t, y'all. unbeknownst to Al, Mo had been feeding his wife little hints about my affairs. i was a little surprised to hear a lot, you know. what could i say? how does one response to these little digs of conferments? i kept silent. anyway, in the nation's capital, these folks play all sorts of little games with each other. an extension cord - quickly noted and price and features speculated on. a new curtain - noted and commented on for its cut, colours and design. a new haircut - noted and commented upon for its for its compatible with your facial profile. no stone is unturned and every word you utter is analysed, deciphered and reinterpreted almost all the time. it's funny walahi. it's also dangerous.

Safferz;978530 wrote: Busted a white dude claiming to speak Somali today (he's a visiting student here, and said he speaks it during one of our grad workshops)... introduced myself and asked him how he's doing, and he didn't understand a word. I'll have to mess with him another time to figure out where he's at with the language, but the only thing he seemed to know in Somali was "iska warran" lol. Damn. He said he wants to study Somaliland :mad: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL@Saffz, a bit rich coming from you, ma istidhi? how's your jacbur-like and grammatically weak amharic, these days? it boggle the mind how voyeuristic some folks can be, maha? sort of how you feel about this white dude claiming to speak Somali.........., maha? it shouldn't come as a surprise to you that he's already established a niche of sorts. it won't be long before he declares himself an expert in Somali affairs and on AJE's Inside Story, ma garatay? westerners of all colours seek to have insights into other cultures through the arts generally........within academic circles, its usually languages.......... for instance by learning to speak Somali remotely, afar from it's place of origin, under a structurally rigid form............ doesn't make you more familiar with the said culture, it just means.......you've wasted 3 to 5 years learning something USELESS ee tana ku xisabtan.......:cool::p;)