NG, why you little..! No, mustn't waste the ajar coming to me by insulting you. I don't know why you always have to doubt me, but I followed every last instruction in the recipe book. Gram for gram, spoonful for spoonful. :mad:

^ It may not be someone they have just met. It may be someone they have known a while, someone who has gained their trust. That's what the grooming is about. But you are right, the girls are certainly to blame for their naivete.

It’s Ramadan and I am trying to build up as much ajar as I can. This is why you are all invited to my Kaalay Ila Afur evening. The evening is mainly for those of you who can’t manage, for whatever reason, to get to some delicious food quickly for Iftar. It’s also for those of you who don’t have a cook at home and yet who can’t boil an egg (shame on you!). Now on to the more exciting stuff… Today’s Iftar menu [EDIT]Just consider it yummy![/EDIT] Now, I know you bloody Somalis, so I don’t want to hear any mention of those outrageously fattening and oily ‘saanbuuse’ and ‘quraaq’ crap. Ditto to 'Bariis isku dhex karis'. Just because I'm trying to increase my ajar doesn't mean I'm going to be slaving over hot oil for eons. Certainly not for you lot. I hope you will be sufficiently grateful as I am doing this out of the goodness of my heart. Finally... A friendly warning: Malign my creative cooking and I will have you out the door faster than you can say ‘aaway bariiskii’. Please note: Your Du'as will be collected at the door. Thank you.

^ Hello there. I too wonder about what Eastern European governments are doing about the human trafficking problem. Clearly not enough, seeing as the problem is only increasing and not decreasing. In terms of how the women are lured, the same tactics are not always used. This particular victim was a 36 year-old mother of three, which I suppose explains the lure of a well-paying job (and her escape at the risk of causing serious injury to herself). These gangs have groomers who usually lure very young girls, between 12 and 19 mostly, with free holidays, festivals, modelling careers and such. These girls are befriended by young good-looking guys; they are groomed and then sold to gangs once they are brought into the country. Expecting a weekend away or a fun couple of days at a festival with their ‘boyfriend’, they find themselves raped and abused in a brothel, unable to speak the language, without their passports or any form of ID and with no one to help them. This is why I think it’s important for the Govt and Police to do more…once these girls are in the UK, their countries of origin cannot do much for them without the help of British authorities.

Does jailing the odd gang or gang member here and there actually make a difference? Especially when hundreds of similar gangs operate in London alone and tens of thousands of women are trafficked into sex slavery each year? Somehow, I don't think the government, or police for that matter, are doing enough about this issue. ------------- Sex trafficking gang members jailed Staff and agencies Friday September 29, 2006 Guardian Unlimited Members of a gang that lured a Lithuanian woman to Britain and then sold her into prostitution were today jailed for up to nine years. The woman, who risked her life when she jumped out of a 20 ft-high window to escape the gang, came to the UK from Lithuania after they promised her well-paid work. But what followed was sexual abuse as she was first raped and then forced into prostitution. Albanian Riza Hoxha, 45, of Ilford, Essex, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring between April 24 and May 24 last year to "traffic a person to the UK for sexual gain". Jailing Hoxha for eight years the judge, Duncan Matheson, said he had clearly been the "primary moving force in what went on". Hoxha's accomplice and countryman Ylber "Billy" Dauti, a 23-year-old illegal immigrant living in Golders Green, north-west London, was sentenced to nine years for trafficking and for plotting to cause prostitution for gain. Lithuanian Ruta Strazdaite, who tricked her friend into prostitution, and Monika "Lilly" Szabova, a Slovakian prostitute, were also convicted of trafficking and prostitution charges, and were sentenced to four years and two and a half years in prison. The judge told the gang that having lured their "psychologically vulnerable" victim to Britain with false promises of work, they subjected her to a "significant degree of compulsion to act as a prostitute, quite plainly contrary to her wishes". Read full article here.

I like belching You like belching but if a woman likes belching too it "would be just nasty"? How many women here would admit to it? Yeah, I can see you've set the scene for many confessions. Good luck with it. The belching that is.

The true candidates were then arrested by police as they arrived to take their practical tests and given cautions. Many confessed they had paid Mohammed between £300 to £500 to take the theory test for them . That's daylight robbery! Damn criminal.

Ramadan Kariim.

^^ Aww...too bad. Maybe you could repost them?

^^ Absent Without Leave? Good to be back. :cool:

^^ Are you able to read? She is married. See below. Originally posted by najma2000: layziegirl i don't know why u talking like that, the gay i am talking about is my husband if i am haveing probelem with him and i am over with him why would i bring my self another brobalem again can u tell me. poeple make mistake and they learn from it

Why do they all say agreeable things? Everyone can't be that nice, surely? There must be some purely evil trees out there somewhere. Hornbeam Tree (the Good Taste) — of cool beauty, cares for its looks and condition, good taste, is not egoistic, makes life as comfortable as possible, leads a reasonable and disciplined life, looks for kindness and acknowledgment in an emotional partner, dreams of unusual lovers, is seldom happy with its feelings, mistrusts most people, is never sure of its decisions, very conscientious. Uncannily accurate. Especially about the dreaming of unusual lovers bit. Why, only last night I was dreaming of an SAS Paratrooper doing naughty things with face paint. Ick.

Originally posted by sheherazade: Val, cheating? By asking a married man to marry me? How so? No, no, no! The process you went through to answer the question is not correct. It's cheating! You can't claim 'yes' without having taken the daunting risk of actually proposing to a man you WANT to marry - hat in hand, heart in throat. See now?

It's not always negative.

Originally posted by NGONGE: Very disruptive and distracting that. You've got me there. How now, wit! Whither wander you? William Shakespeare

Originally posted by sheherazade: ^what isn't? The cheating.

Talking of festivals, the Thames Festival (16-17 Sept) looks good.

^ That's not right.

^ Well, you need to leave the house first before you can find something to do. Why do you assume inflation is really high? Because the Pound is so strong?

LoL @ Fab, nothing is free dheh. Norf, yeah. What do you think happens to the millions from congestion charging? Surely, that money should be able to subsidise public transport? And now I hear Venezuela will be subsidising Oyster Card and fuel for London Buses? How bizarre. Hi Uchi. *Waves*

Self-employed? Self-Assessment? Sounds a bit confusing. Serenity, by contractual, do you mean you are being taken on a temporary contract? Example: A 6- month fixed contract @ ££k pro rata?

^^ Not quite. The mention of rat chi rati put me off. Norf, are you kidding me? I would love to get my hands on one of those properties and renovate, renovate, renovate! You can scoff all you want but Hackney is very up and coming you know, what with the Thames Gateway and 2012 Olympics funds seeping in. In fact, I would love to work on one of their regeneration projects. Plus, I like the colour and vibrancy of that area. There is a reason why even Nike are trying to get their piece of that borough!

^ Actually, I have changed my mind about the Condo. Thanks, but no thanks.

^ You could say it's because I get a kick out of cruelty. Serenity, Oct doesn't sound too bad. But monkey-work would be good for you to begin with.

^ Yeah, Mumsy is considering upping and moving to West London so I can be closer to work. It's very sweet of her but I would rather stick a fork through my hand than move to Harrow or Hillingdon. I would consider East London tho even if it's still a commute for me.