[Redway]

Flo. Chinyere constantly telling Nigerians not to move to the U.K., that Spain’s the best. If Spain worked out for you, that’s great, but as far as I can tell it’s definitely not the better of the two places to live if you’re someone who needs history, continuity, legacy and a broader all-round sense of community across generations. There’s none of that whatsoever in Spain.

Spain might sound like a more attractive location on paper to the U.K.; a more tropical destination, sure (that-it is); but rarely outside of the U.K. and maybe certain parts of America and Canada do you see such concentrated, long-standing enclaves of community, across many different tribes, including deep presence in Peckham (more Yoruba), Houston (more Igbo) and the official Igbo community in Liverpool, the oldest official Igbo community outside Igboland (possibly even in the whole world, because this was in 1935, when suggestions of a pan-Igbo identity were still in the early-ish stages, even in Nigeria itself. Ọ̀gbakọ́. Yam-festivals. International slavery-remembrance day (23 August), weekend-òwámbẹ́s, a strongly-established second-generation generation all being brought up in very similar but very different ways, and with its proximity to and even influence of more general established black-community culture, as well as American/British cultures in less racially-defined ways. The carnivals, the festivals, the networking-spots and platforms (e.g., Igbo Cultural-Support Network/ICSN). The restaurants and general easy availability of Nigerian-food access, even if you don’t live in a major city. The huge number of churches, from Pentecostal to Nigerian Anglican/Catholic ones to Assemblies of God. Spain ain’t got none of that. And quite-frankly, the U.K. is at-least on-par with the U.S. as having the best TV in the world (Nollywood and Nigerian movies in-general, at-least the actually-well-written ones, being another supplementary frontier). Spanish TV is dead. Nice beaches, warm weather, nice holiday-spot, a fraction of what the U.K. has in terms of overall Nigerian community (and it really is only a fraction), maybe a bit cheaper, and that’s it. I don’t think an enormous number of people from some of these more intertwined backgrounds would actually wanna live there. It could be quite isolating for many.

And I'm going to guess there isn’t the range of particular Nigerian ethnic groups (Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Edoid/Bini, Urhobo, Efik, Kalabari, Igala, you name it) in Spain. No mixed-race communities borne of the back of mixing, all with their own story to tell and part of the chapter to add. It seems sparse and not built on strong intergenerational foundations, no matter how nice an all-inclusive 2-week trip to Ibiza is or the culture of siestas (which the U.K. could do with a bit more of). It wouldn’t have taken Flo. a million years to have heard of Golden-Sella basmati rice if she was in the U.K., either.

[Crimson Dynamo]

The MSM/ITV/SLY NEWS/C4/BBC

[Zizu]

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[Ray.]

When you're shopping online and you see, just as an example, a very unique, stylish, attention grabbing shirt or something along those lines, and then you glance downward to click on the link and you see that what's actually being advertised are the beige quarter length cargo shorts the model is wearing below the shirt.

[Ray.]

I wake up and immediately I'm tired again. I think I was a sloth in a previous life.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Something very much irritated me today but I am now irritated that I don't remember what irritated me earlier. Irritating.

[Mystic Mock]

Two things that really grind my gears as Peter Griffin would say.

1. Reading a Manga series that you largely enjoy, just for one of the leading female characters to be there just purely for sex appeal, like there's no real discernible personality.

And what makes it more uncomfortable is the fact that most of the Gantz characters are between the ages of 14-16 years old.

And 2. Why are Sky Sports so obsessed with Dan Burn and Phil Foden?

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Two things that really grind my gears as Peter Griffin would say.

1. Reading a Manga series that you largely enjoy, just for one of the leading female characters to be there just purely for sex appeal, like there's no real discernible personality.

And what makes it more uncomfortable is the fact that most of the Gantz characters are between the ages of 14-16 years old.

And 2. Why are Sky Sports so obsessed with Dan Burn and Phil Foden?

That would probably do for Zizu.

[Redway]

Microsoft.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Redway

That would probably do for Zizu.

I honestly can't stand writing like that personally.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

Something very much irritated me today but I am now irritated that I don't remember what irritated me earlier. Irritating.

…yes…that’s an irritating thing…the thing more irritating than something so irritating that you have to express it’s irritation, is not being able to express because you can’t recall…

[Redway]

Having to walk on an abundance of leaves. I like nature but I don’t want it on my shoes. I don’t want anything on them.

[Livia]

People who take their basket containing two or three things through the busy trolley self service tills instead of using the usually empty basket tills. Idiots...

[Redway]

Ben Wadey and everything he’s doing to EastEnders. Clenshaw was far from perfect but all-in-all he was decent and a massive improvement on the abysmal 2011-13 and 2015-21. Wadey’s taking the show back to how it was in 2012, and that can never be a good thing. And everyone from the hardcore Digital Spy/Walford-Webbers to casual Facebook-fans seem to be in agreement with that. The Beeb must be aware of how bad the current perception of EE is right-now and how much standards have slipped since Clenshaw’s (the only consistently half-decent E.P. in 15 years) half of the year. Being the first person to lure Zoe/Michelle Ryan back after 20 years of her insisting she’d never return only for her to be chasing cats and … sending pictures to herself is just such a waste of what should’ve been taken as a golden opportunity.

The young boy doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing. Experience manning Hollyoaks in your 20s doesn’t count. At-all.

[Redway]

When coffee doesn’t kick in at the right time and has you awake when you’re trying to sleep instead.