^ Mayee waa coon dhaghar qabe ah. “Qofka marka uu wasiir yahay waxaa la arki jiray in uu tixgelin ku helo xilkiisa, oo la siiyo guri, baabuur & xafiis, intaasna ma hayso, wasiirnimadu waxba ilama maqna, ma waxey iga qaadanayaan gurigeyga & baabuurteyda†Axmaq fowqal axmaq. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Brown: I am not about to divuldge my personal & royal bio in the same thread among communists & zionist..nope! i am too noble for your kind. No worries awoowe. We already know your lame story. Born in (insert ruined Somali city's name) then did some shit in some Arab or African country. Then taken by mommy (coz daddy stayed behind ) to some European or North American country where a long application (full of "authentic" my-uncle-was-tortured stories) for asylum. Now a proud citizen of western country X and life couldn't be better. Holla. Bishy, 48 states? A truck driver?

^ So how many Iraqis did you kill? Come on. It's ok. Stoic, that was powerful atheer. You've basically summed up my life too, except I was born in a first class hospital in large metropolitan city (Muqdisho). I also have some roots to what is now Somaliland but for the most part, I'm not attached to any one city, region or state. I've moved around so much and more than anyone I know that no where is home. Northerner, I'd bet all that I own that you were not, I repeat, not, born in the 1980's.

^ Though it may not be a Somali thing across the board, I concede, there's a certain (not so small) group to which it is indigenous. And thank God for them. The only objection really to niiko is the possibility of fitnah, and I've no problem with that. Just about anything can become fitnah.

^ That whole exchange was bizarre, to be honest. Xiinow, I still don't know what you say may be I'll try a PM. Edit: I think atheer Xiinow waxba kuu shanqadhaya caawa.

Originally posted by xiinfaniin: Waa adigii fiicnaaye, what’s up with this feminine offence, saaxiib? Seriously! Which offence saaxib? I can't possibly be sleepwalking that much. Of what you speak, I've no idea.

^ It's all good. Originally posted by xiinfaniin: ^^Addeer ayyaamahan meesha waa ka maqnaa (almost), sow aniga yaaban maaha? And Bishy was one of few nomads here whom I thought had it all. Bal ka tali, saaxiib. That will teach not to leave for more than an hour. LOL. Now everybody: put your hands where I can see them. Slowly step away from the keyboards.

^ Yac, endeavor. Is tonight a full moon? The Moon's gravity getting to everyone? What's going on?

^ Oo kaalay, kolba luuq baad dagaal u taagantahay? Bishy, what's going on? This is entirely unlike you.

^ Inshallah we will all get over this life and it's booms, cold turkey, one day.

^ Stoic, yac! Good Xiin: truly a man of peace. Get with the program what are we 11 years old? Sister I happend to be a science student unless what you utter is based on a scientific findings I will not buy your crap likely I am not so gullible as yourself. Endeavor, you know Bishitta was joking, right? I mean seriously, you didn't have to tell us you're a subject-matter expert.

^ So you like niiko or no? Xiinow, or should I say Mr. Killjoy ( ), what gives awoowe? Give your 2 piasters on niiko and let the "wicked-suspect-could-almost-confess", boom-boom lovers do their thing, atheer.

^ "Maskiin". No better topic to dedicate my 3000th post. LOL.

What happened here? A tornado? Originally posted by Bishitta: I heard that women who niiki often have less problems when giving birth to a child. That you'll be freed from the labor pain. Pretty darn good reason to niiki, I say. L0L. Amen. Originally posted by Endeavour: As my mother would say walee waa akharu zanaab .(excuse the broken somali or arabic whatever it is). Akharu zanaab indeed.

^ LOL. Originally posted by Endeavour: Niiko to me is a barbaric dance it should be performed in the jungle somewhere not at weddings or at somali gatherings. You hit the nail on the head. Niiko reminds me of the jungle where I came from and belong. SINCE you have a fetish for niiko I suggest you kindly mention it to your wife if you have not done so If my wife could niiko, I'd be the happiest man in the world. Death to niiko. Niiko today. Niiko tomorrow. Niiko forever.

^ No I don't quite know what you mean. And though I hardly attend weddings, I make sure to be right near the dance floor if I attend one and there's niiko. Something about it reminds me of home. What is your objection atheer? Is it a stylistic one? Religious? You just can't stand women with big butts? Talk to me.

Originally posted by Endeavour: No walaahi I cant understand whats so good about niiko. Just thinking abiut it sends shivers down my back. The idea is for the shiver to go all the way down the back to the tailfeather, as good naden reminds us. It's such a waste of a shiver if it falls short.

^ I'm the same prick online that I am offline. Welcome to this wretched forum.

I'm surprised how good this guy is. But it's still not on iTunes and I'm not forking up $15 for no body. No matter how good.

While messing around with this search trends, I typed in Somaliland and found the top ten places from which a search is made with that keyword as follows: 1. Muqdisho Somalia 2. Djibouti Djibouti 3. Cardiff United Kingdom 4. Bristol United Kingdom 5. Basildon United Kingdom 6. Bletchley United Kingdom 7. Ottawa Canada 8. Brentford United Kingdom 9. Sheffield United Kingdom 10.Oslo Norway It seems like the number one fans of Somaliland live in Muqdisho. Who would have thunk it?

^ No worries, babe, senior baad sheegtee waxaad doonto iigu yeedh. You know I loof you and for that, I don't need to be young.

^ Are you now or have you ever been Morgan's nephew? LOL. Lander, associating war criminals with regular folk (yes, even HornAfrik) simply because of clan affiliation is plain wrong.

Originally posted by Bishitta: Save your money, get a decent job that can afford you the purchase of your own house (which is what I plan to do in the next couple years I'A), and get on with it. You live in Buulo Xuubay, OH, atheer Bishaaro (God I hate your new nick). What job can afford anyone to purchase any home in London? Valenteenah needs to move out of that affordability-forsaken city and head west. Way, way, west.

Even though homosexuality is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom ranks No. 2 for searches for "gay sex," behind the Philippines. Shocking. :rolleyes: Other findings suggest the stirrings of a trend. Searchers for "Allah" come overwhelmingly from the Islamic world. But, in a sign of shifting social realities, the word is searched from the Dutch-language version of Google more avidly than from the Arabic-language one. Norwegian, French, Danish, Swedish and German sites also featured in the top 10 for "Allah" inquiries. Can anyone guess why that is? And the search I did for Somalia yielded this: Top cities (normalized) 1. Nairobi Kenya 2. Oslo Norway 3. Minneapolis United States 4. Columbus United States 5. Stockholm Sweden 6. Ottawa Canada 7. Washington United States 8. Helsinki Finland 9. Seattle United States 10. Toronto Canada

A nation's interests? Google tells all By Anand Giridharadas International Herald Tribune SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2006 MUMBAI, India Google lifted the veil this week on one of its best-kept secrets: which nations search for what. Who looks up democracy most avidly? Who seeks out Allah or Christ most faithfully? Who types in "drugs" or "sex" most frequently? No country's secrets are spared. Pakistanis look up "Danish cartoons" more avidly than anyone, according to Google. They also lead the rankings for "sex" - with their neighbor and nuclear rival India seldom far behind. "In Pakistani society, sex is a taboo," said Fatima Idrees, a project manager at the Pakistani affiliate of the Gallup International polling agency, adding that "curiosity and availability of the Internet may cause such behavior." The site introduced Thursday, Google Trends, measures how often particular phrases are searched for from computers in individual countries and cities. It short-lists the places with the highest absolute number of searches for, say, "cat food." Then it picks the top 10 or so based on which places look up "cat food" much more than they do other things - for instance, "dog food." The Google Trends site is likely to generate a mix of consternation, embarrassment and laughter around the world. While Google emphasizes that its efforts to protect individuals' privacy, the new site does nothing to protect the collective privacy of nations, if such a thing exists - the right of the British to conceal that they look up "handcuffs" most often, or the right of China's leaders to hide that Mandarin ranks second only to English as the language used to look up "democracy," or the right of other officials to hide that Arabic-speaking users rarely look up "democracy." "This is a fascinating project, effortlessly offering a glimpse into regional and cultural habits and differences that is otherwise nearly impossible to reproduce," said Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet governance and regulation at Oxford University. "This sort of feature reminds us that the Internet is global, yet not one undifferentiated mass," he added. "Such measurement may help us understand the origin and movement of ideas as they sweep regions and the world." The Google rankings also generate a new kind of interest-level rating for politicians - as for countries, brands or anything else people look up. Now, the most vain (and most regularly searched) among us can check how many people are looking us up, where they are from - and, most important, whether they search more for us or for our rivals. In India, suspicions that Sonia Gandhi is the power behind the throne of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appear to be buttressed by search results. As the leader of India's governing Congress Party, Gandhi gets about 50 percent more searches from Indian users than Singh does. French users, meanwhile, shed light on France's power struggles. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy draws as many searches on his own as his rivals, President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, combined. For politicians with sagging poll numbers, Google's index might be some consolation: it records how often people look you up, not whether they love you. To bring Machiavelli's famous formulation into the age of Web surfing, it may be better for a prince - or president or prime minister - to be searched than loved, if he cannot be both. President George W. Bush commands at least seven times as many searches in Russia as its own leader, Vladimir Putin. Among the French, Bush generates about 50 percent more look-ups than Chirac; among Iranians, Bush is searched twice as often as the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Not everything on the site is a surprise. People in Boston and Minneapolis and in Halifax, Nova Scotia, lead the search for "mittens." Dubliners top the list in "Guinness" searches. When it comes to looking up "dowry," surfers in Pakistan and India are clear leaders. Other findings are quirkier, and at times to difficult to explain. Even though homosexuality is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom ranks No. 2 for searches for "gay sex," behind the Philippines. And consider the list of cities that most frequently look up "amour," the French word for love. Paris, allegedly a romantic haven, is absent from the top 10. The top three berths went to Rabat, Morocco; Algiers and Tunis. Other findings suggest the stirrings of a trend. Searchers for "Allah" come overwhelmingly from the Islamic world. But, in a sign of shifting social realities, the word is searched from the Dutch-language version of Google more avidly than from the Arabic-language one. Norwegian, French, Danish, Swedish and German sites also featured in the top 10 for "Allah" inquiries. "Guns" is a word easy to associate with the United States. But the rising incidence of violent kidnappings and murders in Latin America has perhaps driven searchers to the Web for answers. Buenos Aires leads the cities index for "guns" searches, and Argentina as a whole outranks the United States, with Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru also in the top 10. The Google system can also be queried one country at a time, to determine, for example, how frequently people in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia are looking up "democracy." The Bush administration is unlikely to be pleased by Google's reply for each of those countries: "Your terms - democracy - do not have enough search volume to show graphs. Google Trends Article Source