I'm sooo jealous man, snow is the best thing ever! I don't celebrate it, but I do love it when it snows around the Christmas time, everybody is suddenly so happy, that's what snow is, it brings about this massive transformation in the otherwise miserable people of London.

Pucca, I think most women are talking about the right of divorce if he breaks a promise, considering how contracts are sacred.

I thought it was supposed to be a joke? :confused:

I always understood a marriage contract to be an agreement to which both parties subscribe to of their own free will. And again, as I understood it, a woman can ask in her contract that her husband cannot marry another woman wihout her permission and if he does so anyway, she is entitled to leave him. This way, you don't block the option of the second wife, only the manner in which this arrangement takes place. I think that's plenty reasonable, and if a man refuses to sign such a contract, I can only assume that he has other plans that he's not telling me about. Btw, my marriage contract will be the weight of several bricks.....I'll leave nothing to chance or more importantly, his will.

Ok we all know we can get a bit materialistic sometimes (including the purists here), so let's not kid ourselves and let's just give in to the great capitalist machine that is greed: 1. Post ONE picture (preferably small, think about those with slower connections) of the object that you most desire right now. 2. Explain what it is and why it's so great. 3. Give us any reason why you deserve to have it 4. Explain how you will use it to repay humanity if by some miracle you happened to get it the next day. Here's me. 1. 2. It's a Panasonic DVX100a. It has the super-magical 24p mode....that's shooting 24 FRAMES PER SECOND guys, it's great, it will make you DV footage look like more like film. I'm sure it's also capable of negotiating world peace, it's just that fantastic. 3. I deserve it because I have done all my course-work last week and I couldn't find a seat on the bus today. I deserve a break! 4. If I get the DVX100a, I'll stop pretending to be punk just to annoy our Somali neighbours for three whole months! Also, I'll smile at old people. More so if they have no teeth. Now you guys!

I've always been more worried about the tampon falling out rather than getting stuck. I have recurring nightmares where my tampon falls out on to the stage where I'm addressing the UN, and all the world leaders, Bush, Blair, Chirac, Castro...all of them get up and laugh at me and the media runs the story for years and years..... and my husband ends up divorcing me and the court gives him custody of our children, because he says 'if you can't even keep your cork in it, how can you take care of your children'. I'm completely serious, I hate those nightmares, that's why I never wear one.

mellow....like totally man

Gosh, funny how you all seem to have access to evidence that the police and the Jury in the trial didn't. For once I agree with Alle-Ubaahne, get your heads out of OK magazine and realise that there is a slight slight possibility that everything you read is......*gasp*....not true! So much for innocent until proven guilty, all hail The Sun!

In a way I can understand that the authorities are jittery when there are thousands of people gathered together, and not least of all, President Bush is attending. You have to think the way non-Muslims do. They usually pray say on Sundays and before BIG events. So to see four men praying, these people must have thought that the muslims were praying for strenght to perform some act or other. Religious commitment is usually not really part of their daily physical routines. Sure it's all ignorance, and you'd think that post-9/11, you'd want to read up on Islam just to see what all the fuss is about..... There are plenty of reasons to be scared of terrorists, but what I'd do is learn when I need to be scared, instead being scared needlessly. Also, about being scared of long beards, would a potential terrorist want the attention he'll attract by wearing a really long beard before blowing himself up?

Originally posted by liibaan: No,no,no,no,this won't do.I shall not tolerate any exercise related to making butts smaller.Keep'em big and bouncy,ladies,please!! Foxy, edab yeelo...don't bring such thoughts to our xalimos. We love them as they are, they're God's chosen women. They're flawless, perfect. The epitome of beauty. Besides we faraxs don't want them at the gym 60 hr a week. I love you guys!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . unlike Foxy who wants to lock me up in the gym :mad: :mad:

Eid Mubarak people! Remember, don't gorge yourselves on the xalwad. You wouldn't want to lose all your teeth before the three days are over. So what's everyone doing for Eid?

Maybe the flag should be whatever the colour the sky happens to be at any given time. So you'll have black shades, pink shades, gray shades etc. And everyone can choose to wave the flag that most accurately represents the sky at the time of waving. We'd have the most accurate flag in the world.

Insha'allah, if everything goes well, I hope to have started my own production company by next summer. The advantage I have over most non-creative enterprises, is that I don't need an enormous set-up capital. Since the client is paying for most of the equipment I need, I don't need to pay for a lot of assets initially. So hopefully insha'allah, I can avoid taking out a loan. I even have free office space in my parent's business, so I'm kind of sorted. I've always hated the idea of always being accountable to someone else. I like to be in charge and set my own targets. Hopefully being responsible for everything will prevent me from becoming complacent they way you are when there is always someone higher up to blame.

^^^ :eek: :eek: :eek: ADIDAS for those of you who understand Dutch, always reminds me of= Alle Domme Idioten Doen Aan Sport

Ilaahi aa uu naxriisto abaaha. I'm really sorry to hear this Zu, I pray you and your family have the strenght to get through this, and remember Allah always in your thoughts, and may He grant your father jannah and forgive his sins and that of your kin. My sincerest condolences to you and your family.

Thanks for that PM, that was more a concise and effective reply to these myths than I could ever have formulated. I get asked these questions sometimes, and it's great that I have one URL in which to point them to. However, it seems that the sort of people who keep asking these questions, are also the ones who don't want to hear the answers.

It's a hoax.

For a second I thought I was reading my diary.

I've always wondered if the thought of a woman enjoying sex was just as horrifying as the act of her bringing dishonour upon the family when they instated this practice. I always thought (though of course, this is MY assumption which are not based on anything), that once some men realised that women were not that different from men in bed when it comes to pleasure, they started to fear that women might be similar to them in other respects as well. And started to think that women had the exact same uncontrollable urges men had. They knew their own weaknesses and decided to transfer them unto women. They assumed that women -who were thought to be morally and physically weaker - would succumb to the temptation just like they had. But in such a society, a woman's moral weakness would cost the men their reputations, whereas their own wouldn't as much. I see this might come off as another men vs. women reply, but I don't think it's wrong to persume that if men were in any way against this practice, it wouldn't have found the following it has, even if their women insisted on it. No matter what, they would have found a way to stop it. Also another point, this one about the psychology of the husband. I wonder what kind of man would insist that his wife be all sown up. I mean, how does such a relationship work, where the man's greatest joy means the woman's greatest pain. In this case, I'm talking about a love marriage here, where the man professes to love the woman (because if the man didn't care about the woman to begin with, I don't suppose her pain would bother him all that much). How would such a man cope with the fact that the one uniting act of marriage is entirely one-sided? I suppose women tend to keep their pain and ills to themselves, but some men must have known how they were hurting their women. I mean, were they thinking about sex they think about childbirth, a necessary that will always involve pain for the woman? FGM reminds me of the chinese footbinding practice, though in that case it was usually done for aesthetic reasons. But it makes me wonder, what kind of man would admire something so agonising for the woman. Maybe it's the woman's fault, for keeping quiet and pretending all is well and that FGM is what she truly wants?

Originally posted by Northerner: There i was thinking it was a topic on the vitues of Tarawix prayers, i should have know that it would not have generated 4 pages of pure 'calaacal' These threads are usually funnier than any joke in the joke section. The whole thread and finally seeing Ngonge's post caused the library staff to tell me off for laughing hysterically.

Originally posted by Modesty: Furthermore, somalis(by saying "somalis" I mean hard core ones straight off the bannana boat) don't say "thanks", if you do them a favor(especially the women)...they assume you are ****** , and they fooled you because they are more "clever" than you. To be honest, that's what I don't like about the British culture. They are always touted as the most polite people. But to me it seems as if everyone's obsessed with counting their thanks. Even when people do say thanks, I've heard others grumbling about it not sounding heartfelt enough. People even remind others to thank them for everything they've done.... I'm sorry, but am I the only who sees something wrong with this??? Everybody is expecting their kindness and efforts to be recognised. What's wrong with doing favours for Allah's sake. I've noticed I started to get caught up in it too, where I get angry when someone doesn't thank me, and I had to rethink my feelings afterwards. I personally take care to thank people for their efforts, and it is good practice to do so. But I don't actually expect thanks in return. It just reeks of vanity and all it does is draw attention to one's kindness, which to me seems very immodest. Maybe people should rethink who they're are really performing the act of kindness for, and whose appreciation is worth more, the person or Allah? So yeah, some Somalis have bad manners, but I hope it doesn't deter anyone from continuing to be kind and doing Allah's work.

I demand a recount!

Splash out on the honeymoon instead Why would I spend thousands of pounds on people who only come to my wedding to hook up with boys and girls, and show off their extensions to each others. Puleease, I'd rather save thousands and spend it on me and my hubby. Hell, we worked for it. Besides, nothing says 'I love you' like a first class ticket and a 5-star honeymoon suite overlooking Dubai.

^^ I'm not saying that fame is bound to anything. All I'm saying is that one shouldn't persume that all famous Somali people will end up like Ayaan Hirsi. If you don't want to support K'naan because you don't like him or you don't approve of what he does.... well that's just fine. It only seems silly to not support someone just in case he might end up like someone else. Ramadan Kariim to you too

Read this and this.