Pi: Son of Lucifer? Heh...yeah, why don't you? What was so cool about Peggy, anyway? I'm quite insulted as you can tell. Plus, I have a phobia about anything that sounds remotely devilish, i.e. Satan/Lucifer/El Diablo... Watched too many horror movies, you see. Waan jidhidhicoonayaa as it is. I will change my handle when I please. Not a minute sooner. Topics derail faster than anything maalmahan. Sayyid, Whether you emphasize the O or the A, you've nicked the handle from another member and are in danger of copyright infringement. Ama qeyli ama oy... Anyway, magac kale miyaad weydey markaad dadka kale kuwooda isku jufeysid?

LMAO! And they accuse women of being bad drivers? Laba-dhagoodle, Why were you driving without insurance? Isn't it an arrestable offence? Could you have been lucky to get off with just a fine and points-off?

Ahura: Ummm, just in case people have doubts about your Zorastarian tendencies, change your name to Peggy Nadramia, the Priestess of the Church of Satan. That should clear things up. *In shock* Pi, you didn't just suggest that to me! Acuudu bilaah. Hana soo marin waxyahow waalani. Waxaaba ihaysa inaan kuu saadiyo inkaartii dhuuso weyne!!! :mad: Ahura, stop being cynical. No one said anyone is going to hell. All we are saying is some actions will lead some to hell. I'm glad you see a clear distinction between the two. It's far too blurry for a lot of ppl.

Haye, dad kale maryahoodii ayaad isku khasbaysaa miyaa? Waa laguu baqaa. Ducoqabe ku ye. :rolleyes: Khayr, Never you mind my name. Continue with the sanctimonious blah, won't you? :rolleyes: [EDIT] Ahura Mazda or Ormazd is the abstract and transcendant god of Zoroastrianism, the official religion of ancient Persia until the 7th century. The word "Ahura" approximately equates to "divinity" and "Mazda" to "wisdom". Is that right? How fascinating. And to think I mistakenly thought Ahura Mazda was a cat's name.

So, let me get this straight: We are absolutely sure SB will burn in hell, while the rest of us are destined to drink milk in heaven? Okky. Since we seem to have a few soothsayers in here, could someone please tell me when I will get married? Is my shining knight on dameer any closer to finding me? I'm getting a little antsy, see. Animal Farm: Right on. Wlc back.

That's heart-breaking. How many Somalis has that bit of water taken? The purpose of life? I don't have the foggiest.

^ that's pathetic. The only line I hear these days is: "Cheer up luv, it might not happen" It already did. :rolleyes:

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^ Apparently it's all down to bad advice given to girls at high school. I must admit that the Career's Advisor at my old school was horrible. The woman always discouraged any ideas pupils had of what they wanted to do career-wise, especially the black girls. She only encouraged them to do Health & Social Care. It was the same for all my sisters as well. At one point, I was tempted to go into my youngest sister's school and punch her idiotic Advisor in the face, because the woman told my super-smart sister that she shouldn't aim for university because she was probably going to fail her GCSEs. I can't believe they let ppl like that work with impressionable young kids. :mad: ------------- Young women told to raise their sights on pay · British wage gap among worst in Europe · Anger as commission fails to back new legal rights Polly Curtis and Tania Branigan Tuesday February 28, 2006 The Guardian Britain must re-educate schoolgirls to chose higher earning careers or condemn another generation of women to the pay and opportunities gap, a government-backed commission warned yesterday. Female workers suffer one of the biggest pay gaps in Europe - 17% for full time staff and 38% for part time - because they are more likely to be in low paid jobs and then slip further down the career ladder after having children, the Women and Work Commission found. Schools should challenge gender stereotypes by teaching all-girl computer classes, for example, while employers should improve the options for women who want to work part-time after having children, it concluded. But the commission was last night accused of "short-changing" women by failing to recommend new legally binding ways to force companies to tackle discriminatory pay. The commission, made up of 15 members from equality groups, industry and education and backed by Tony Blair, recommended better careers guidance to prevent girls falling into low-paid "women's jobs" such as catering and cleaning, a £20m package to improve women's skills, and a £5m initiative to promote quality part-time work. More parents should have the right to request flexible working without penalising their careers and the chancellor should consider incentives to make it possible for smaller employers to meet such requests, it said. The commission was split on the issue of compulsory equal pay audits, which some unions argue are crucial to exposing discrimination in pay and making employers accountable for making it fairer. Katherine Rake, director of the Fawcett Society, said by not introducing mandatory pay checks the commission had pandered to employers. "This report has short-changed a generation of women. If this government wants to go down in history as having closed the pay gap it's going to have to try a lot harder. The time is long overdue for rigorous measures." John Cridland, deputy director general of the CBI, told a press conference: "I was staggered at how poor careers advice and education has become; we are failing a whole generation of young people - essentially young girls." He described the report as a "win-win" for businesses which did not include any additional burdens. The report argues that there is a £23bn advantage for businesses in narrowing the pay gap because of the improvements in retention of staff. "Many women are working, day in, day out, far below their abilities," said the commission chairwoman, Lady Prosser. "This waste of talent is an outrage." The commissioners also encouraged the ongoing discrimination law review to look sympathetically at allowing women workers to take class action suits rather than having to take individual pay claims to a tribunal and to use hypothetical comparison points in complex cases, where women were unable to compare themselves to male workers. "The NHS and local government have thousands of little actions; class action would make life much easier," said Lady Prosser. "They have been seen to be successful in other countries." Jenny Watson, chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission, welcomed the report. She said: "Thirty years after the Sex Discrimination Act we need to think about the law too, where modernisation is needed. The WWC proposal for the government's discrimination law review to consider the adoption of class actions and hypothetical comparators is a good place to start." Mr Blair described the report as a "superb, ground-breaking piece of work", as he appointed Tessa Jowell to produce an action plan to take forward its findings. The Tories said unequal pay based on sex discrimination was "completely and totally unacceptable". The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, announced a review of the party's childcare policies. He said: "In the past the Conservatives have given the impression that young mothers should stay at home. Today, the Labour party gives the impression that all young mothers should work. Both are wrong ... we should support the choice that mothers make for themselves." The party's social justice policy group would examine ways of offering wider childcare provision. Recommendations · Government action to tackle gender stereotypes at school · Encourage skilled part-time jobs · Support women returning to work · Extend flexible working rights to parents of older children · £5m to train union equality representatives to monitor pay iss Source

^ Try to do both. You don't want to spend the next 9 months frustrated out of your mind as the rejections mount up. Read the article below... Stuck in neutral at career crossroads

LoL...is this a guide for the passive xaliimo? Maybe the blessed soul can just ban her Husband from leaving the country while still married to her (divorce on travel so to speak)? *Looks at the topic again* Ahem...wrong thread, wrong agenda. Excuse me... *Legs it*

LoL...there's no shame in wanting to be a boy, Wildy. Welcome back.

Hi Lily, The graduate job market is frustrating, full stop. It took me seven months to find a decent job after I graduated, despite months of voluntary work with Charity and Community organisations. I worked as an interpreter, undertook two 3-month-long, expenses only internships (one in Policy Research and another in Database and Fundraising) in that time, all the while volunteering for two other Somali organisations (Capacity Building/community Development). I swear I have no idea where I got the energy, but I was just focused on getting as much wide-ranging experience as possible. Funny thing is, although I had completed a degree in Economics and Third World Development, I had no interest in utilising the Economics part of my degree. I was solely focused on breaking into the charity/NGO sector. But after a while, it became apparent that sector wasn't ready to be broken, so I settled for a general Finance & Admin role. I wasn't in the job for three months when my role was modified, my pay increased and I received Project Management training. Almost a year down the line and am working in Economic Regeneration and have moved up 3 grades. So, in a roundabout way, I'm working in a field that I didn't even know existed while using the part of my degree that I always felt was useless to me. The irony, eh? To wrap up, its been a hard long slog, but I feel I'm finally at the right stage of my career, Alhamdulilaah. Research shows that graduates hardly ever get the types of jobs they want straight away, but a high percentage find themselves in graduate-level jobs within 3 years of graduating. From my experience, a graduate needs to be: 1) Continuously proactive (the job you want is not going to knock on your front door while you sit at home and watch daytime TV) 2) Patient (it doesn't matter how long it takes, you will find a good job if you keep at it) 3) Persistent (the worst thing you could do is give up hope and slip into a deep depression) 4) Open to opportunities (not only do you need to grab every opportunity that presents itself, but you need to seek out those that don't as well) Finally, keep in mind that wixii Ilaahay kuu qoray waad heli doontaa. :cool: Good news for accounting graduates

I'm not as forgiving. An absentee father (you know the ones; they can impregnate but they don't want anything to do with the result until the result can bank-roll them) deserves an absentee child in return. I would watch him and his other kids die of hunger. Haduu dhalay, he should look after them himself. Arg...its only a hypothetical scenario but it truly makes my blood boil.

STOIC, men grope women out of uncontrollable lust? Don't make me laugh. The eejits do it to harrass. Groping, wolf-whistles, suggestive and sexist comments at women are all forms of Street Harassment. Why should women accept it? A woman has every right to walk down the street without fear of being groped or sexually assaulted. Street harassment of women need to stop and the law needs to be brought up to date to protect them. Although most of the comments on here are light humoured (inc mine), this is a serious issue that requires men to consciously think about what they do to women when they are out and about in public.

^^ There is one word for what you just wrote: Malaayacni. I feel like smacking you. I really do. :mad: **Oh God..where's a a can of PEPSI, when you need it?**

^ Would you say they are from venus...while you're from Somalia? *Mutters "Stop posting for God's sake!" to herself*

Damned sentiment. It won't get off my back. *Shoo, get away!* :rolleyes:

Women groping men is not a crime. By that I mean no man would object to being groped by a woman. Is that suppose to justify it?

Mac Sonkor.

Originally posted by Mr. Jibis: PS Zephyrine, nice sarcastic remark. Thank you. I try.

Therefore, you see that society accepts being a man as something good, and being a girl something soft and weak. That's the answer to your question. Bal figure it out.

That's great news. Never thought the Kool one would mess up her pretty waist and hips with a baby! Massive congrats to KK. Layzie, report back the baby's name and weight at birth, Insha'Allah.

Lee: Naa heedhe, maxaad ka hadleysaa? 6 hours of what? You are thinking too Somali. £50k would cover the transport and hospitality costs of both his and her family to a beautiful Caribbean Island, a small, family-orientated, elegant ceremony and a week or two of blissfull leisure. Waa ku sidee? Think outside the hired hall in Southall (or downtown Seattle in your case). Money well-spent, I would think. Castro/Layzie: Ahura is NOT for sale. Yet.

No, I think that's it.