Ruby-licious

Get on my level.🌈

[Ruby-licious @kwinmoda]

Dan Brown. John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon 😩

[Adéṣẹ̀tọ́ @Illusionist_126]

Most real readers had that Dan Brown Phase.

[‘LABISI loves Books 📚 @Rhosemary8]

Excuse me?! Don’t tell me some people choose PDFs over EPUBs😂😂😂

What’s a discovery

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

This is not a skit. This is a life lesson.

[Big Cuz @imohumoren]

Do it anyway

[Fit Fat Belly ‘Nenye @The_Nenye]

Both herbal and verbal.

[DaSuKi @chukaobi]

You clearly didn’t read the scripture you’re quoting.

Because if you did, you wouldn’t make it look like everything went honky dory for David afterward.

The baby died.
His own son raped his most beautiful daughter.
His favorite son then killed the son that raped that daughter.
Same favorite son led a rebellion against him and became king.
Same favorite son slept with his wives and concubines in public.
Same favorite son died a gruesome death despite David’s pleadings for his life to be spared.
David was publicly disgraced and made to flee his kingdom like a vagabond, pelted with stones on the way.
And that wasn’t all he suffered.
All these repercussions happened to him over a period of more than a decade.
Despite being forgiven.

So if you like settle for the David kind of forgiveness.

[Ruby-licious @kwinmoda]

I want!😔

[Cross˚ @Elkrosmediahub]

Take all my moneyyyyyy!! 💸

[Kábíyèsí Alatika @Chief_Babyboy]

If like me you're still struggling with distinguishing between Peter and Paul but know the real devil is Jude, the twin whose name is also a 4 letter word as Jude is the accomplice. The 2 4-letter wordnamed brothers stole from the one with a 5letter word name 💀

[goma @soigomaa]

I'm down for this becoming a worldwide tradition

[Mr Cheek @ElJefe__]

But you went.

Meaning the alternative was worse.

That’s her point. 😂😂😂😂😂

[Yehgha @yaygha]

Allow me give a not so brief history lesson so we can all understand what is going on here.

For much of European history, pale skin was a marker of status. An elite woman was supposed to have skin that had barely been under the sun because pale skin signalled she did not work outdoors.

In a world where most people spent their lives labouring under the sun to survive, avoiding the sun was evidence of wealth.

The rich could stay indoors and send the poor outside to work for them. This is why they wore gloves and wide hats when outside. It is also where the term blue blood comes from; rich families who never did physical labour and thus were rarely in the sun had skin so pale the veins underneath would show.

So to be tanned meant to do outdoor labour, and to do outdoor labout meant to be poor.

But as the industrial revolution came around and factories multiplied, the poor who had previously laboured outdoors were pulled indoors to work in factories, workshops and later offices rather than under the sun

And their skin became paler.

Now if the poor could become pale skinned simply by working indoors, then pale skin could no longer communicate wealth, so the elite abandoned the old signal and switched to a new one: tanned skin.

Because now it meant only they had the time and money to lie in the sun while everyone else worked indoors.

Pale meant rich, tanned meant poor. Then pale meant poor so the rich did a 180 and went back to tanned.

That is exactly the same thing that is happening here. Wiresless ear buds generally, and airpods specifically meant rich. Wired earphones meant poor.

Then when everyone could afford wiresless ear buds and their replica knock-offs, wireless meant poor and the 'rich' who differentiated themselves with wiresless in the past, switched back to wired.

It is not because they "got tired of charging their wireless earbuds"

Away from the history lesson, the broader explanation is that humans crave to be seen. We do not want to go through life unnoticed. This is why we do only spend money to enjoy ourselves, we spend money so that others can see us spending money.

And one of the most common, socially acceptable ways of doing so is through the things we wear. For example. We do not spend money on watches that could buy a car so we can check the time. We spend that money so others can see that we spent money.

The point of the spending is the spending witnessed.

And with that, we signal that we are high status and that signal brings us attention .

But this flex has a fundamental flaw in the sense that the moment the status signal works, those below begin to copy it until it loses its utility.

So what happens to a status marker when those below can afford it too?

Simple; those above abandon it.

In conclusion, The things we buy, wear, drive, or use are driven by 1) the desire to belong and 2) the desire to stand out.

You want to look like the people above you to feel among, but you also want to look different from the people below you to stand out.

So the rich adopt a signal
The wannabe middle class copies it
And the majority poor copy the wannabes

And once the signal becomes widespread enough, it stops doing the job it was intended to do. Then the elite abandon it and look for a new one.

Sometimes they move to something more expensive or difficult to acquire. Sometimes they move to something obscure enough that the wannabes and the poor can't even grasp it. And sometimes, as with tanning and wired earphones, they do a 180 and move in the opposite direction.

It happens with clothes, bags, earphones, restaurants, language and so on.

The rich keep moving. The middle class keeps chasing, and the poor keep copying. And the markers of status keep changing. And on and on and on it goes.

[Naija @Naija_PR]

they should've also jailed you😭😭

[𝑴𝒂𝐳𝐢.𝐍𝐧𝐚𝑬𝒎𝒆𝒌𝒂🇳🇬 @EmmyPromise71]

Fourteen Nigerians were kidnapped along the Lagos-Benin Expressway, but what happened afterwards is the part I think deserves serious attention.

At about 9:30pm on July 30, troops of 4 Brigade Nigerian Army were on routine patrol when intelligence reached them about the kidnapping in Ovia North East LGA of Edo State. They didn't wait until morning. They immediately moved after the kidnappers and followed their withdrawal route.

The pressure became too much for the criminals. They abandoned 11 of their victims and escaped into the surrounding forest.

But three people were still missing.

And this is the part I love so much. Our soldiers didn't say, "Well, we have rescued 11 out of 14." They didn't close the operation and celebrate what they had already achieved. The following day, July 31, they went back into that forest and continued searching for the remaining victims.

They combed the area until those remaining three people were found and rescued.

Just imagine what those families must have been going through throughout that night. Eleven families had received the news they desperately wanted, while three others were probably still waiting, praying and wondering where their loved ones were. Then came the news that the remaining three had also been found.

After medical assessment and preliminary debriefing, the Army confirmed that all 14 victims were in stable condition. They were reunited with their families or allowed to continue their respective journeys.

This is why timely intelligence from ordinary Nigerians matters so much. Somebody provided information, troops acted on it immediately, kidnappers were forced to run, and 14 Nigerians who could have remained in captivity are free today.

The criminals themselves are still being hunted, and I hope that part of the operation continues until they are apprehended.

Sometimes we read "14 kidnapped victims rescued" and scroll past it like it's just another headline. But those are 14 human beings. Fourteen families spared days, weeks or possibly months of uncertainty and fear.

Kudos to the troops of 4 Brigade Nigerian Army and Brigadier General Ahmed Balogun. Keep the pressure on these criminals. Every Nigerian rescued from captivity is a victory worth celebrating, and every forest denied to kidnappers makes our roads and communities a little safer. 🇳🇬

[Rita Sunshine @1RitaSunshine]

You will be saving my mom just by reposting 🤲🏻

[Funmi Ojo, Cosmetic Scientist. @YourCosmetist]

You just need a very good coste bra to rock iro and buba if you’re not busty.

Omo, we’re losing recipes and it’s so sad.😭

Coste bra that even if they shoot you, the bullet will not penetrate.

[🎀𝐻𝒪𝒩𝐸𝒴𝒴 @honeyurfavv]

Sooo.. I married my best friend 💙🌈

#wlw

[Abu bakar @abbkar_ai]

Wallahi Nigeria is a funny country ngl 😂

4 police officers in Abuja last night, allegedly extorted N53,000 from the ICPC Chairman, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu (SAN), at an illegal checkpoint around the Banex area of Abuja without recognizing him… 😂💔

[Yemsss🌞🧡🌞 @Yeahmicee]

You think she wouldn’t like to wear a bone straight wig too? It’s what she has and she doesn’t deserve to be bullied for it, let’s learn to always extend some grace to each other fr 🫶🏽

[Mr Cheek @ElJefe__]

It’s simple.

Get a concrete or tiled floor outside.

Pour Fanta in two places.

Wipe one place with tissue.

Wash the other place water then wipe with tissue.

Now wait and see which place will still attract flies and ants.

It’s very, very simple.

[Mr Cheek @ElJefe__]

Realest tweet ever twote.