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2024-02-09 Africa Subsaharan

Katsina State: Nigerian Army Says Troops Rescued 18 From Terrorists, Handed Them Over To State Gov’t; turbans threaten to marry kidnapped bride, sell 62 wedding guests.

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#1 "My Big Fat ~~Greek~~ Nigerian Wedding"

Posted by Frank G 2024-02-09 08:57|| 2024-02-09 08:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Nothing much good has happened there in several thousand years. Stay away.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-09 09:43|| 2024-02-09 09:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Such a modern, pleasant, civilization.

What was wrong with colonialism again?

Posted by AlanC 2024-02-09 10:49|| 2024-02-09 10:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Cool little flick: Red Africa. Imagine Jacques Tati, Besoeker, and a random second Burger (to keep things balanced ;-)) assembling a documentary from bits of Soviet documentary footage without adding commentary. No mondo, just cultural exchange, trade stuff, recruitment for prestigious PLU, Moscow experience of students and bigshots, etc. Boring as hell. Loved it.

Posted by Slusogum Lumplump3246 2024-02-09 14:01|| 2024-02-09 14:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Happened to watch, immediately afterward, by purest coincidence, the opening scenes of Executive Suite. Mind irreparably blown. Poor bastards... they never, any of 'em, allies or enemies, ever had a chance, did they? And we (X-ers forward) blew the lead. Sooooorry.

Posted by Slusogum Lumplump3246 2024-02-09 14:15|| 2024-02-09 14:15|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Life's a streaming (steaming) TeeVee show.

What a sad life you have.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-09 14:18|| 2024-02-09 14:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Dunno. Didn't even own a TV for most of me life. Mostly ran a news channel muted in the corner once I did. Figured, seeing the whole culture losing its mind over media, that it was time to catch up. Granted, it's turned into a tarbaby.

Sad life? Sure. But today's not so bad...

Woke up to half blue and half gloom,
As if Ra had spelled Nut at her loom,
And a rainbow or two,
And a cutter -- that's new --
And a crow going cuckoo... at whom?

A literal crow. No offense meant. Enjoy your day, eh?

Posted by Slusogum Lumplump3246 2024-02-09 14:42|| 2024-02-09 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 We used to paint on the walls of our caves. Today we have streaming media. We like stories, us humans. Always have.

Posted by SteveS 2024-02-09 14:55|| 2024-02-09 14:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't look stories. Live them.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-09 15:19|| 2024-02-09 15:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Don't look for stories. Live them.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-09 15:20|| 2024-02-09 15:20|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't pay for any streaming crap. All those companies want me disenfranchised or executed.

Fuck them all.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-09 15:22|| 2024-02-09 15:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Didn't even own a TV for most of me life.

It’s interesting being only connected with the popular culture when one leaves the house. Our family television broke when I was seven; my baby brother bought a 13” B&W jobby when I was seventeen, so I went straight from Flipper, Lassie, and Gentle Ben to Soap and Saturday Night Live. I’m still puzzled by much I encounter, not having the referents.

Mr, Wife made a point of watching popular shows with the trailing daughters so that, despite spending their early years abroad, they’d be connected to contemporaneous American culture instead of turning out like President Obama.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-09 16:47|| 2024-02-09 16:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Started watching Melrose Place as a way to spend time with my wife. I wound up hooked.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-09 16:54|| 2024-02-09 16:54|| Front Page Top

#14 "My Big Fat Nigerian Wedding"
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan

"Its Tears of the Sun, with a romantic twist!"
-LA Times

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-09 17:03|| 2024-02-09 17:03|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ Nicely played

Posted by Frank G 2024-02-09 18:53|| 2024-02-09 18:53|| Front Page Top

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