Alpha's Troll and Cantarbaqash Corner LOL

[SomaliPhilosopher]

Alpha Blondy;980431 wrote:

it's these sort of statements..............why i don't host you, ma garatay? :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

 

sanbac fooqal sanbac.

:mad::mad:

Ma saas baa?

[Alpha Blondy]

i should have gone to perform the Haji this year. that was my intention. my mother left London earlier this afternoon. she's British, you see. i planned to go from here on the Abdulahi Yusuf passport, and as part of the Somali Haji encourage posse. i had to cancel last month because i realised we would have been in different camps. mine very basic, austere and third world. her's compliant with health and safety standards, EUROSOM travel Agency's Haji guides and air conditioning. my qurbo friend, who because of performing the Haji, now exudes the peculiarities of a reformed ex-bad boy akhi, explained the procedure to me and it seemed fairly simple, at the time. he went last year, you see and to be honest he's still as bad as before, albeit still trying to perfect his iman and stuff. really, i would have loved to have gone but for not being able to company my mum due to the segregation between poor nations Hajis and those developed nation Hajis. the Haji is very important and you'll get your chance, she reminded me when we spoke earlier. this was, perhaps, my greatest chance to company my mum and aunt but it seems i'll have to perform it some other time.

 

good luck to the Haji pilgrims wherever they're from and may Allah accept your prayers and pilgrimage.

[Alpha Blondy]

[SomaliPhilosopher]

Alpha Blondy;980452 wrote:

i should have gone to perform the Haji this year. that was my intention. my mother left London earlier this afternoon. she's British, you see. i planned to go from here on the Abdulahi Yusuf passport, and as part of the Somali Haji encourage posse. i had to cancel last month because i realised we would have been in different camps. mine very basic, austere and third world. her's compliant with health and safety standards, EUROSOM travel Agency's Haji guides and air conditioning. my qurbo friend, who because of performing the Haji, now exudes the peculiarities of a reformed ex-bad boy akhi, explained the procedure to me and it seemed fairly simple, at the time. he went last year, you see and to be honest he's still as bad as before, albeit still trying to perfect his iman and stuff. really, i would have loved to have gone but for not being able to company my mum due to the segregation between poor nations Hajis and those developed nation Hajis. the Haji is very important and you'll get your chance, she reminded me when we spoke earlier. this was, perhaps, my greatest chance to company my mum and aunt but it seems i'll have to perform it some other time.

 

good luck to the Haji pilgrims wherever they're from and may Allah accept your prayers and pilgrimage.

This tale has really humanized you huh. The enigma is human, who would have thought.

[Alpha Blondy]

SomaliPhilosopher;980524 wrote:

This tale has really humanized you huh. The enigma is human, who would have thought.

i'm really embarrassed right now. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[Alpha Blondy]

interesting discussion on Universal TV. the programme is called ''maxaa cusub''. it's a new show, apparently.

 

21: 26 Cowke and Harari are discussing the benefits and pitfalls of the internet. they're joined in the studio by two young professionals.

 

21:30 Cowke is discussing the story of Glen James, a 54 year old homeless man from Boston, who found $40,000 in a bag but reported the money to the police. now, he's been paid in kind by Ethan Whittington, who's set up a website on behalf of Glen. the website has raised $170,000 in just a week. now, they're asking people on the streets of Hargeisa.....what they'll do with the money. every person is saying they'll buy a passport, land and invest in business opportunities.

 

21:35 Harari is discussing world population figures. why are people living so long?......

 

the dynamics between Cowke and Harari is good. Cowke's name is Ahmed, apparently. GOOD TV. educational.

[Alpha Blondy]

Why Gorillas Aren't Sexist And Orangutans Don't Rape

 

by BARBARA J. KING

 

 

Last week the Dallas Zoo announced that it was shipping one of its largest, most popular residents to the Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens in Columbia, South Carolina.

 

Patrick, a 430-pound silverback male gorilla who has lived in Dallas for 18 of his 23 years, just doesn't like the company of other gorillas. He's underscored his preference for solitude by nipping or biting the females. The Riverbanks Zoo has a reputation for helping in cases like this and Patrick will move there soon.

 

The media always likes a good ape story, and Patrick's is no exception. "'Sexist' gorilla being kicked out of Dallas Zoo," wrote the New York Daily News; "Male Dallas Zoo gorilla to get therapy for sexist attitude," claimed Reuters.

 

Can a gorilla be sexist?

 

Male gorillas, it's true, are twice as big and heavy as females and, as I've seen in my own studies of these apes in captivity, they boss around the females. Labeling them as "sexist" reminds me of claims, sometimes even in the academic literature, that orangutan males "rape" orangutan females. Just as with gorillas, orangutan males are much bigger than the females; unlike gorillas, they sometimes physically restrain a female and mate with her even as she cries out and struggles.

 

But I'm uneasy with using words like "sexist" and "rape" to describe situations like these. Why is that? If I'm ready to say that other animals express "grief," even "love," why balk now at using human terms?

 

Here's my answer: for the most part we're dealing with actions taken by men against women and these actions occur within, and are enabled by, uniquely human cultural systems of power and oppression. Patrick and his orangutan male counterparts may indeed act badly toward females, yet they aren't willfully choosing to inflict harm or violence as an expression of institutionalized male dominance.

 

Earlier this week, I asked two feminist scholars for their views on this matter (without expressing my own thoughts to them).

 

Erin Tarver, a professor of philosophy at Oxford College of Emory University, sent me this response via email on Tuesday:

 

First of all, when we look at the non-human world through gender-colored-glasses, which is what we do when we describe it using gendered language, it's hardly a shock that we "see" our own gender patterns everywhere. Second, these kinds of perceptions can end up justifying bad social practices. Once we believe that male domination is just natural, it's a very small step to believing that it's inevitable—and, for some people, that it's divinely ordained or otherwise meant to be.

 

In other words, talking about Patrick the sexist gorilla or rape-prone orangutans isn't doing our species any favors, because it may imply that sexism and rape are hard-wired into our behavior and hard or impossible to change. Nancy Gray, a colleague and a professor of English and women's studies at the College of William and Mary, underscored this point in an email also sent on Tuesday:

 

What it comes down to for me is a deep wariness of and attention to the human factor in defining animal behavior. Yes, we can observe. Yes, we can correct for possible bias in what we observe and what we conclude about it. But if Marx was right that we think only those thoughts that are thinkable in our time, then we might do well to consider how the discourses of our time shape what counts as real or meaningful, and what truths are delivered to us as a result.

 

That's beautifully put. What truths are delivered to us as a result of the language we use in talking about our closest evolutionary cousins? The truth I would like to convey is that male-to-female aggression and sexual violence is neither natural nor inevitable, as the more peaceable and egalitarian bonobos tell us.

 

As for Patrick? Kudos to the Dallas Zoo for wanting the best for him. Hand-reared as an infant, he is having a harder time than most in mastering the basics of gorilla etiquette. He's no sexist, though. I wish him luck in South Carolina.

 

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/10/03/228809153/why-gorillas-arent-sexist-and-orangutans-dont-rape?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook

 

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any feminist scholars in the house? perhaps y'all can shed more light on why all Somali women dig monkey men.

[Reeyo]

Alpha Blondy;980452 wrote:

i should have gone to perform the Haji this year. that was my intention. my mother left London earlier this afternoon. she's British, you see. i planned to go from here on the Abdulahi Yusuf passport, and as part of the Somali Haji encourage posse. i had to cancel last month because i realised we would have been in different camps. mine very basic, austere and third world. her's compliant with health and safety standards, EUROSOM travel Agency's Haji guides and air conditioning. my qurbo friend, who because of performing the Haji, now exudes the peculiarities of a reformed ex-bad boy akhi, explained the procedure to me and it seemed fairly simple, at the time. he went last year, you see and to be honest he's still as bad as before, albeit still trying to perfect his iman and stuff. really, i would have loved to have gone but for not being able to company my mum due to the segregation between poor nations Hajis and those developed nation Hajis. the Haji is very important and you'll get your chance, she reminded me when we spoke earlier. this was, perhaps, my greatest chance to company my mum and aunt but it seems i'll have to perform it some other time.

 

good luck to the Haji pilgrims wherever they're from and may Allah accept your prayers and pilgrimage.

Would you have been their Muhrrahm?- InshAllah it wasn't your time.

 

You also sound a little shallow however, you wouldn't really take notice of the dunnya around you. I'd hope you'd be too busy cleansing your soul.

[Alpha Blondy]

Reeyo;980537 wrote:

 

You also sound a little shallow however, you wouldn't really take notice of the dunnya around you. I'd hope you'd be too busy cleansing your soul.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL@Reeyo

 

what's up with the insults, inabti?

 

shallow? Al? caajiib!

 

Hajj is just another trip, another stamp on the passports, another country visited...., maha? let's not delude ourselves in thinking it changes people. let's avoid the hollywood sentimentality, inabti. i would've still been shallow, maha? oh i'm so shallow. poor Al, he's shallow. let's all give him soME pity, maha? :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

[Alpha Blondy]

i'm contemplating whether i should take a 'sickie' from work tomorrow.

 

maxa tala ah, y'all?

 

p.s - the bloody internet connection doesn't work there.

 

[Safferz]

Alpha Blondy;980550 wrote:

i'm contemplating whether i should take a 'sickie' from work tomorrow.

 

maxa tala ah, y'all?

 

p.s - the bloody internet connection doesn't work there.

 

I'm all for skipping work, but I've also never held a job longer than three months so I'm probably not the best person to listen to.

[nuune]

So Alpha has a 9-5 job in there, hmm

[Tallaabo]

Alpha Blondy;980523 wrote:

This is incredible!! Kenyan politicians earn nearly as much as those in Britain:eek: I guess they have to be rewarded for creating Africa's largest slum in their capital.

[N.O.R.F]

nuune;980562 wrote:

So Alpha has a 9-5 job in there, hmm

Not exactly 9-5. More like 8-10 then 12-2pm. He has a 2 hour lunch break.

[Tallaabo]

Saffy, babies can twerk;)