You are not going to get any special blessings, healing etc from Jesus, Buddha, Allah or whoever else you try and pin your stupidity on because you forwarded some random message to 10 people in 10 minutes.

You will not save any poor little girl in Somalia by forwarding any messages…

Microsoft, Google, “a telephone company” etc is not going to do didly squat because you forwarded a message. More likely you are simply costing them money by wasting bandwidth and processing power. In the case of the telcos and SMS however, you are simply donating money to THEM.

Nobody is tracking how many times you passed a message on in order to donate money to some random cause. If you really want to donate money or whatever just give the damn red cross, charity etc whatever you can afford.

You will not find salvation, your true love or whatever it is that you are looking for by forwarding messages to people. All you do is broadcast your extreme desperation to the world and piss of your friends who do have brains and who will probably be automatically sending messages from you to the trash bin. Ever sent mail to someone who claimed they never got it? Probably went straight to trash because that’s what they’re used to getting from you.

When you forward all these mails, blackberry messages, SMS’s etc what you are really doing is:

• Clogging up networks
• Telling everyone what you are secretly praying for
• Spamming people and sending junk mail
• Achieving a false and hollow sense of achievement
• Telling your friends that you do care about helping people but are to damn lazy or ignorant to do the right things
• Attempting to blackmail people into joining your stupidity by telling them God will punish them if they don’t further your stupid cause
• being so completely ridiculous you make Homer Simpson look like Stephen Hawking in comparison.
• participating in mass hysteria, perpetuating urban legends and acting like a retard

So the next time you get one of those forward this to x number of people, help raise money etc chain messages, be brave, do the right thing, HIT DELETE! OR if you absolutely must forward it because you really and truly believe and have actually THOUGHT about the contents of the message the for God’s sake remove all the email addresses, USE BCC. I don’t need to know that you sent it to 500 other random people who I definitely don’t want having MY email address.

peash!

ps: I dont hate you, I’m not pissed at you, I hate that you allow yourself to fall into these traps…

ps: I could also say something like this (but I’m not going to): If you don’t forward a link to this page to as many people as you know,  you will rain down damnation on yourself and unleash all the forces of hell into your life. You will suffer all the problems Yar’adua has and more. You will die broke, lonely, blind and a paraplegic in the gutters of Ajegunle. Test your fate if you dare…

Funny one:

My Hero: Its more about Youtube but number 8 is right on target…

I must confess that when I first heard about this song I thought it would be my first official joke for 2010 but being pleasantly surprised is always a good thing… The song is corny but in a good way? lol Everyone, except the guy in the glasses who was slapping the poor yahoo boy delivered IMHO.

Enough yarns, check it out yourself.

What was perhaps the weirdest thing about the video and song came right at the end for me… Microsoft? efcc? lol they should have dropped that.

Well what can one say about animation in Nigeria…? Not a lot as it happens. The animation sector in this country is virtually non-existent, however that doesn’t mean some people aren’t giving it their best shot.  If only this country’s so-called creative visionaries had any real vision at all. Sigh, ah well…it’s a little sad when you consider that many of the animators in this country often fall short of their aims to provide us with some decent (homemade) animated entertainment simply because most (if not all) are doing the said animation with meager resources and very little manpower. Money simply seems to be the measure of one’s creativity most times, though I guess this isn’t only peculiar to the Naija creative scene. However, breaking ground in this area is made even more difficult by the lack of an actual animation industry. Where do these poor animators go and even more to the point, would anyone be willing to listen to them? I have nothing but praise for those who try though and urge them to keep moving forward in their attempts to bring these types of creative media to the forefront. There was a time in Nigeria where the Music industry was also virtually non-existence. With most music artists-even the more prominent one’s- of those times, struggling and grossly unappreciated. Perhaps that’s what this country needs, someone or some big corporation (like MTV base did with the music industry) to swoop in and give the weak and ailing  body of this particular sector of creative media, a much needed  shot in the arm. Perhaps, if someone could just make the break, then these money grubbing entrepreneurs would see that there was a vast wealth of untapped talent sitting under their noses all along. I believe the market is out there….waiting. All someone has to do is come and pluck the apple from the proverbial tree.

Meanwhile…here’s a little peek at the kind of apples some of these apple trees have been able to produce with so very little nourishment.

COCONUT ISLAND!

click here for more info

THE ADVENTURES OF ALAYO!

click here for more info

Update: 2nd of October/2009

It’s been recently brought to my attention that I may not have been exactly clear as to my beef with the problems facing animators in Nigeria. The crux of my argument was not to suggest that their weren’t enough animators or people doing animation in the country. Quite the contrary, Nigeria has an ample (if sometimes under-used) amount of talented people in several areas involving creative media. However, while the country boasts the largest t.v network in Africa- and some say the world- and the presence of a number of satellite cable companies, it has yet to provide home based animators with the platform from which to launch themselves. It’s more than a little sad (and there’s a slight, but hardly notable chance that I may be wrong) to accept that none of these networks carry any Nigerian made animations on their broadcast schedule. Having said that, a recent visitor to the site alerted me to this trailer of another Naija based animated feature in the works, which is set to be released in 2010 and I was more than reasonably impressed with the prospects of what I saw to be compelled to post it here. (I hope the animators don’t mind?)

So a big thanks for this:

THE O TWINS!

To visit the online site click here

Yemi sax, as he is called, is a Nigerian saxophonist. He is, without doubt, really good and arguably, one of Nigeria’s best.

I however can’t understand why he would do an album in such a silly way. So much skill, no creativity.

This is not so much a review. I am just expressing my curiosity. Why? Someone said he did it because he lacked musical education. I think it could have been a function of lack of respect for the art form. I mean, why take pains to be creative? Its not worth it. I’m assuming he must have thought along such lines. My skill can take me through.

Maybe I should do a review of some sort, its definitely not worth taking the pains to do a real review of the nineteen or so tracks.

If you are wondering which album, he’s got just one.

I mean, he couldn’t just take the pains! Ah! Why?!!! I really can’t believe it. I wish I could hear from the horse’s mouth. Can someone please ask Yemi for me; why?

If you are looking for a demonstration of plenty skill, no creativity; plenty saxophone pains, no production pains, then, the album is a must buy. Or at least, a must listen.

Hello world! I’m Average Joe and I’ll be joining the Grumpy Old Geezer on Get Divided in the hopes that I can bring a much lighter and bias free view on issues and topics being addressed and discussed on the site…Yeah right! We Average Joe’s have been kept under the oppressive heel of the world’s not-so-average Joe’s for far too long… It’s time to GET DIVIDED!!!