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24 May 2020, 8:15 pm

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I have 2 nigerian friends from high school like that. I know them as Grace and Blessing but they wouldn't tell anyone their Nigerian names. First I thought they did it after converting like my dad's family

I guess it was what yiu said... Ease of pronunciation.


For what it's worth those sound typical of Nigerian names, at least as far as Christian Nigerians with English-derived names I've known. I know in a lot of communities Greek and Hebrew derived names are the most common Christian names, but it seems that English based names that aren't common among ethnic English are common there. Nigeria is part of the Anglosphere, for however much that means.

Did they mention having additional names at all and just say they'd rather use those ones?


Yea i am aware
They specifically said they have actual nigerian names that are different but they use the English ones. They said it because I had another friend (Paris) who had the same thing but she was from Thailand. She brought it up and they said oh same with us!
Their dad uses his actual Nigerian name only though as when they came to my home he was showing my parents how to pronounce it and since he is a diplomat his cards say it too. He even wore the traditional Nigerian clothes and hat wherever he went. He was an ambassador to Saudi Arabia.


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24 May 2020, 8:17 pm

Sorry that shd say 'since he was a diplomt/ambassador' and 'since he was an ambassador/dip'
as I dont know which for sure


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24 May 2020, 8:20 pm

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It’s interesting how many people will interpret things to be what they want to hear (or, if online, see), even when it’s blatantly obvious to everyone else that that is not what was intended to be said. And this includes people where a part of them secretly wants the things people say to be insults or something just so they have something to get upset about.


Yup v true

Erring on the side of caution is good.
For us the prophet said 'oh ppl do not be suspicious of each other as indeed some suspicion is a sin.'
However when ppl see that u are assuming good intent of everyone they take advantage of that

Social world is a balancing act and always with fluctuation.


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24 May 2020, 8:20 pm

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24 May 2020, 8:28 pm

Oh yeah my son's nurse listened to the pastor online today at our home.
She is extremely faithful. She says God is good anytime something good happens to one of us.

Thank goodness for technology as there are so many ways to maintain some contact

They did parking lot n drive-thru eid prayer today everywhere. I received the invites a few days ago and was unsure how it would happen so I didn't go.


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25 May 2020, 6:55 am

Maybe buying a new phone tomorrow. Just maybe. I had to make sure it's a phone that can last and endure my rough handling.
And then lunch time outside hopefully for the first time in months, with a very narrow time window to go around.


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25 May 2020, 7:00 am

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Maybe buying a new phone tomorrow. Just maybe. I had to make sure it's a phone that can last and endure my rough handling.
And then lunch time outside hopefully for the first time in months, with a very narrow time window to go around.


I need to buy myself my first phone soon. It's overwhelming. :oops:


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25 May 2020, 8:03 am

^ You've never owned a phone?!?!?!?!?!?!?! !


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25 May 2020, 8:22 am

i for one don't have a cell phone.



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25 May 2020, 8:49 am

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Maybe buying a new phone tomorrow. Just maybe. I had to make sure it's a phone that can last and endure my rough handling.
And then lunch time outside hopefully for the first time in months, with a very narrow time window to go around.

I need to buy myself my first phone soon. It's overwhelming. :oops:

I never owned a phone until college, with all the SIMs expired by negligence and practically ignored or thrown the whole thing back out of sight and mind.


I got my first tablet on my first job, and it was a hands me down.
I can still remember being numbingly overwhelmed to just hand the whole thing to me, even if it's old and not at it's best.

It was then having a job with any device on hand capable of sending messages is mandatory.
It's also then when I learned how to maintain accounts, contacts, which type of phone is 'just enough' for the job and which I'd pick with personal fancy -- so this made buying a phone for me a bit easy for me.


For now I'm borrowing my mom's extra tablet, which I've been using for 4+ years now. So the very first thing I'd do as soon as I get my own phone is to give the tablet back.


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25 May 2020, 9:12 am

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It was then having a job with any device on hand capable of sending messages is mandatory.
It's also then when I learned how to maintain accounts, contacts, which type of phone is 'just enough' for the job and which I'd pick with personal fancy -- so this made buying a phone for me a bit easy for me.


I feel like that would be really stressful. As much as I dislike my job I'm glad then when I'm not there they don't expect to bother me.

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^ You've never owned a phone?!?!?!?!?!?!?! !


Nope. Never had any need to. :mrgreen:


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25 May 2020, 3:54 pm

This place reminds me that sometimes some of y'all are just armchair sociologists, and I can't even.


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25 May 2020, 3:54 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
Edna3362 wrote:
Maybe buying a new phone tomorrow. Just maybe. I had to make sure it's a phone that can last and endure my rough handling.
And then lunch time outside hopefully for the first time in months, with a very narrow time window to go around.


I need to buy myself my first phone soon. It's overwhelming. :oops:


Do you really super duper need one though? They're expensive.


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25 May 2020, 4:52 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
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It was then having a job with any device on hand capable of sending messages is mandatory.
It's also then when I learned how to maintain accounts, contacts, which type of phone is 'just enough' for the job and which I'd pick with personal fancy -- so this made buying a phone for me a bit easy for me.


I feel like that would be really stressful. As much as I dislike my job I'm glad then when I'm not there they don't expect to bother me.

In my case, it doesn't have to be.
I had a lot of practice on maintaining communication lines open -- that includes preventing myself from overly anticipating the status of said communication line, and becoming less stressful towards it.

Which I found that there's a prerequisite on it, involving mental task shifting and levels of prioritizing.

The former lessens the impact mental inertia that disrupts 'order', the latter may require a bit of assertiveness and a bit of experience.

To prioritize means to control when or when not to bother and read/reply -- meaning you set certain parameters, like, at work you receive all messages for work only. Then at home, you'd only check your phone or media within a certain time of the day -- or program the whole thing without notifications and only notified on emergency.
But this also require levels of mental task shifting -- which involves controlling the compulsions to check every minute which just causes unnecessary levels of anxiety.

So then phone calls or anticipating messages don't bother me as much, let alone cause me anxiety.
Yet I still suck at speaking, knowing what to say and taking turns sometimes, my hearing and memory is still an issue.


That's how it works for me.

But if you want a phone without anyone bothering you, simple -- never tell them your number or contact -- or don't even have one at all. Connect the least notifiable social media and email possible -- or simply don't.
Block or divert any receivable calls to a trusted one who can speak for you if possible -- or simply never have to anticipate any call at all.


And, a phone doesn't even have to be a communication line.
The tools can be still there; clock, calendar, alarm, timer, calculator, music player, etc... Turn the whole message draft into a notebook. If specs allows it, apps that fit you, memory storage, 'portable' library...


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25 May 2020, 5:13 pm

Pretty sure my friend hasn't wished me a happy birthday cos her girlfriend is controlling and never liked me.


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25 May 2020, 8:51 pm

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