Two years now, since I have seen him or heard from him. And what terrible two years they were! His lasting piece of advice might have been when he interrupted me as I went too detail about my problems with my wife. I was describing how difficult it has become to understand each other on the most trifling issues such as how to dress up the wound when our young boy cut his finger. Axmed Bulxan lifted his hand slowly signaling a polite request for me to stop talking and listen to him. He said, “If you have a problem with your wife, and she hurls curses and insults at you, it is not manly to engage in tit-for-tat exchanges. Mount her. If that means you have to duck her angry fists in so doing, so be it. But make sure you act first and you talk later.” He didn’t have the intellectual capacity to liken his time-tested anti-dote for the heated moments in the life of couples to the carrot-and stick accepted wisdom of seasoned diplomats when dealing with fierce rebels in intricate political rivalry. But he learned his lessons by doing. True, the ‘first mount and talk later’ doctrine was not a 100% success. It worked for my first wife Mahado sometimes and it didn’t work at other times. Like when she was grilling me for not caring to call and console her grieving father who lost his young wife. Axmed Bulxan never told me that timing,circumstances and the issues at hand are crucial when implementing the advice, but I should have known. But it didn’t work for my younger wife, a graduate of nursing school, who seemed to get angrier with each try from my side. “What you are doing is despicable and utterly primitive. Talk with your mouth if you think you can reason. You cannot reason with your prick,” she would shout. Yes, kind of mix results there. But there was nothing ambiguous about the outcome of the other advice about what to do when my eight-year old daughter, the one I got from a whore who disguised herself as a pious woman, tries to take after her mother and puts on lipsticks. He said, “There may be strong atavistic disposition that will pull her towards her mother’s foibles. But that can be fought with brute force. Without hurting her, get a lighter and put the fire close to her lips until such time she stops wincing from pain with exhaustion.” I did so and Alxamdu lilaah since that day, she runs away from anything Gel-like, even Vaseline. I lost my guide and life-long advisor to Alshabab. He was a man of impeccable moral character and sharp mind. He had a solution for the seemly most difficult problems in life. He was not pushed into misogyny because Sucaad spread rumors about his impotency after their short unsuccessful marriage, as many gossipers were wont to say. He confided in me that the divorce came after Sucaad’s tongue slips got to a level he can no longer tolerate. He said that one day he and his wife were in a car driven by another friend when the issue of gays came up after they saw two men kissing each other, as if one of them just got a vital goal and Gary Neville was his team-mate. “Horta, I can not understand what a man will get from another man” the friend said. “Yes. It is something difficult to comprehend. Let us not go into it.” Axmed Said. Sucaad interjected. “ Axmed, I really get confused. I can't imagine how something like that can happen. The amount of pain I feel when your nails hit me there accidently as you are looking for…” She stopped. But it was too late. The other man heard it and Axmed too. Nor did he join Alshabab because he was upset with me for borrowing money from a gay man who happens to be my colleague at work. Yes, I told him about this when I returned the money and he said that it is Xaaraam (Haraam) to send unclean money to my family, but he didn’t swear at me or label me a non-believer. He joined the youth group mainly because he could not take the ignominy of doing nothing when his country is invaded by crusaders whose real intention is to ensure Somali women go in bikini’s and Madarasas turn into teenage debauchery centers. I miss Axmed Bulxan. Now, I hear they call him Abu-Cuteyba.

Oz, aad iyo aad ayaan kuu salaamayaa saxiib. And you can start celebrating because Wigan is not going to stop a focused Chelsea. Oday Bob sidii oo caqligiisu lugaha ku jiro sidii lug looga qalayba wuu qafiifay!

Bob, Waagii dhawyd aniga waxaa la ii sheegay in lug lagaa qabtaye, in madaxa lagaa qabtay la iima sheegin. Laakin sidii aad u soo laabatayba waxbadan ayaa si ah. How can Man U win it?

You are overly cautious Tuujiska. Wigan is a piece of cake for chelsea now. If Wigan can beat you, Liverpool could also have beaten you. But I like the professional rigging I saw. They faked a fight but offered none. Great Gerard is my man. One poster in Anfield read : Gary Neville or Chelsea? They chose Chelsea.

Muriidi goormuu ku dhuftay? ma dhowrkii cishe een maqnaa ayuu duqeeyey?

Ngonge got everything right except the 'inter played high-up field' part. Again, he mixes up tactics with personnel. When I said Ibrahimovic should have been removed, he said that I was contradicting myself for substituing Ibra is a matter of tactics. I would say it isn't, strictly speaking. What if you take out Ibra and bring in Owen? The thing is change of personnel is not necessarily tactics. Tactics is when you alter the formation of your team, the pace of the game, etc etc. And sometimes also changing players can be tactics, but NOT when it is a substitution of like for like. Suppose Mourinho is the coach of Burnley? What is his chance of winning the League cup? Tactics only work when the personnel is right. That is why you can be as sherwd as Bora Mulitinovic but you can not win the World Cup with North Korea. If teams do well nowadays, it is USUALLY becuase they have better players.

If liverpool doesn't field their reserve team against Chelsea on Sunday, I will never support them again. After all they have done to exasperate my ulcers, they cannot let MANCHESTER UNITED win the title, especially when MAN U is not the best team. The best have to win and the best has been CHELSEA and CARLO.

Paulo Henrique is talented but he is a bit slow and also keeps the ball too much. I watched him during the FIFA U-20 competition and they expected much from him, but he didn't play well. He can sure improve and I think it depends on what kind of coach he gets. Neymar looks more robust, but let us wait and see.

Whether Kashafa will be happy or not, I want to confirm that there are no such talks. AigaForum is owned by Meles's closest associates and they are talking about what they would have loved to see. This should confirm to all that the regime in Ethiopia is dying to get into settlement with ONLF. They have sent their emisseries through Embassies, notably through some African countries, but were rebuffed for it is clear that this is an opportunistic election-time gimmick. The ONLF is fighting for the self-determination of the people of Somaligalbeed. But it has no fear of sitting and negotiating with Ethiopia and entering into an agreement as long as it is going to benefit the oppressed people of Somaligalbeed. It can agree to partake in Ethiopian national politics if it sees is as beneficial to the Somali people in the long run. It can agree to a painful cohabitation if key decisions on utilisation of the resources of the region are left to the people of the region and if Somali's are allowed to live without fear. Because current Addis Ababa regime can never gurantee these basic requirements, it is not possible to reach any agreement with it. A crucial test of the change of poicy by Addis is to stop meddling in the affiars of Somalia and leaving those people to reconstruct their country. As we speak, Meles is the ruler of Ethiopia and Somalia. His ego is inflated and he sees no reason why few camel-boys from one clan should challenge his regional hegemony. This needs to be stopped and credit goes to the ONLF for not capitulating at a time any other Somali in the face of earth is in the pocket of Meles. The ONLF stuggle is much more than a struggle for political gains and self-determination. It is avbout Somali pride as well. Rest assured, the ONLF will not take part in any agreement in which it is not going to get what it fought for!

I am probably among the few who watch these games with HD 50 inch plasma screen and record it as well, thanks to my PVR. But Tuujiye oo kolba muqaaxi ka daawada oo shaah haddaad cabi waysid naga bax la odhanayo ayaa la iga kari la'yahay!! When you said you watch games in Cafeteria's, waxaad i soo xasuusisay oday Ethiopian ah oo aan waa Bar kubad ku wada daawanay. I think it was 1996, Olympics. The girls who were serving in the Bar were told to go to every person who enters and ask what he is taking. That was not the problem. The problem was for those people who were taking soft drinks, they were removing the bottles as soon as you finish drinking and were asking 'what more?' Ujeedadu waxay ahayd if you are not drinking (making business for us) ha sii fadhiyin ee iska kac. Me and some of my friends, bladder'ka ayaa na qarxi gaadhay as we were ordering fanta and sprite every now and then. There were something like two games and also some Ethiopian Marathon runners were expected to run that day. Markaa lama baxayn. This old man oo inyar oo lacag ah watay laba jeer ayuu xishooday oo Coca dalbaday! Finally, tu yar ayaa u timid oo ku tidhi "father, what more will you drink?" Intii kor u booday isagoo xanaaqsan ayuu ku yidhi " I am not drinking anything!" "indhee, ya shint mirmaraa alabign indhe!???" ( Ma urine examination ayaa la iga qaadayaa!!!). He was saying that because some Ethiopian clinics used to say 'take some fanta' markaad tidhaa kaadi waan iska waayey! The bottom line is adigoo bladder'ku ku qarxayo sidaad shaah qasab ugu cabbaysay ayaad ka sheekeenaysaa black and white TV

looooooooool@sitting on us! Yaa heli karaba wax kugu sit gareeya!!

Originally posted by Norfsky: ^The goal was on side saxib. Muntari played him on. It wasn't. Check again. The linesman was not on the right position to see it. It was displayed many times by experts. The best the Spanish commentator on the DSTV (superSport) could say when confronted with the evidence in slow motion was to say it was less off-side than the one Inter Scored in Milan! The sending off was soft but it helped Inter more than it hindred them. The decisions in the first game got them through. I can't see how, but at best this is a conjecture! Barca had chances but didn't take them. If they did they would be through. 2 chances in a game you had the ball 80% of the time? Barca didn't creat chances, except the header of Bojan! And the save in the first-half by Cesare! Finally, has anything changed in your rating of Ceseare last night?

Originally posted by Norfsky: Inter got all the decisions in both games. last night????????? :confused: :confused: :confused: soft sending off and off-side goal against them is getting all the decisions????? War anagaa wax aragnay. Again, you watched the highlights? At least I hope this game showed you that Brazil defence is not like Arsenal's for Messi to roam around. When you add Juan and Alves to the three at the back of Inter (Lucio, Maicon,and Julio Ceseare), you can imagine what it will look like? I am happy Wigad and some neophytes could see that all the hype about Messi 'the destroyer' and Barca the unbeatable needs to be contextualised.

If a man tells me he forgot his wallet and expects me to pay for meals. If a man tells me pay for my bills I am running low this month. If a man tells you he has no job but has not made any effort to get one...... Your thread should read "would you consider marrying a lumpen, a vagrant and a silly man?" Waxaasi rag ma aha waa ciyaal xashiish. Not that I am against those who use women to survive. But the way you describe these guys, they are morons. Why would he have to tell you "he is running low"? Why can't he just pretend to be avoiding you (if he is sure you love him) and then occassionally get unattentive and after he lets you ask him what is bothering him for a long time, why can't he simply say "I love you, but I don't think I will be able to care for you and hence I think we should leave it at this!" Then, you would have said," what a thoughtful man he is! His heart matters!". Not that he is telling the truth, though. He is as lumpen as the one who asks for his lunch to be paid, he is only a bit subtle!

Nuune, Lambarkaagu ma baxo, waa runtii JB. 00333 wax ka bilowda majiraba aduunka. Boqol jeer baan isku dayey and I think I told you inaad gidaar ii dhiibtay.

Johnny B 0.5 ayaanu isugu nimaadnaa. Aniga iyo isaguba waxaan nahay qabaa'iladda la haybsooco.

B is simply arguing for the sake of it. He has all the hallmark of Marx the great! He is an iconoclast, hell bent on oppossing whatever the mainstream SOLers agree on. But he sure knows it is disgusting to do a boy whether it is a rite for passage towards manhood, or whatever. I, however, like his other general remarks about the differences of cultures and the need to look at issues from wider perspective. Unfortunately for him, as far as the topic at hand is concerned, there is no need for looking at the larger picture. It is downright criminal and demeaning to molest young boys. And girls too, for that matter.

Waryaa Ferguson, scriptiga ha inaga xumeyn, Waxaad gashato unbaa ka soo baxee! Maaddey, kuwa lacagta uruuriya mooye kuway u diraan way dagaalamaan. Labadaba waa loo baahan yahay.

Taliban fought it selectively. They turned a blind eye if their memebers are caught doing it. Remember Talib's are part of the society and may see no problem with the practice. Karl, it is like our Al-Shabab. Clan is everything in Somalia and it is not very odd if a member of my clan in Alshabab or even Ahmed-Madoobe catches me letting my loins at the limps of women and turns a blind eye. Remember all the ones stoned to death so far by Alshabab belong to 'untouchable' clans!

My afghani collegue who said he knew this is practised in Afghanistan could barely hold back his tears after watching the video. It seems seeing the faces of the victim boy immensely pained him. Here is what he wrote to me once again: I watched the video, damn, damn, damn, I have no words to express my frustration, sorrow, and embarrassment.

My afghani collegue read this thread and below is his message: "some (in SOL) say, Taliban has banned this practice when they were in power. Afghanistan laws have never permitted this practice, but people have been doing it even during the Taliban era. post this on the site. " I also confirm that he told me about the existence of this practice when I asked him some time ago after reading the kite runner. Like any educated Afghani, he opposes it and thinks it is one of the many social evils of his society.

Originally posted by Norfsky: Bayern 0 - 1 Lyon This is what you said. So, you mean you expected Bayern to lose at home and win in France? Just confirm this. Because if you are saying Bayern will be in the finals, I will pick Lyon instead. It is a good news. Lyon to win at home and go to the finals then.

Cabdi Haybe Lambad aabihi miyaa? Ilaahay naxariistii jano haka waraabiyo.

Originally posted by Gheelle.T: AT&T mid familkaga ah oo aad guriga ka cayrisay hadduu yiraa gaal baad ahayd, sheekhu muu dhagaysan? By the way Raamsade dead body will be cremated and will need no janaazah, he has it in his will Why did you choose him over JB though? Just curious! Because if Johnny B dies, I will be among the family members who will bring his body to the mosque si loogu tukado. I will definitely not be one of those who will write to the admin about his posts here. Fiqi tolkii.... Raamsade haduu bilaa Tol yahay, who is to blame?

Originally posted by Abtigiis & Tusbax: If Norf thinks Lyon will beat Bayern, it means the opposite is going to happen. I change my initial position. Bayern to win. reason: Norf is saying Lyon will win. Haye! Oz, Rosetti was excellent last night. Toulalan's second yellow was right, but you could say it was harsh. If Rosseeti was not under pressure from the crowd, he could have let it go without a card. The first one was right as well. Toulalan should have known Rosetti was not going to be kind to Lyon after the sending off of Ribery.