SCENE: Boy and girl are having an incredible time together. Boy decides to give his lady a compliment. Which of the following alternatives is most applicable?
a) You are really a lot of fun
b) I enjoy spending time with you
c) You are sweeter than gbegiri!
All WOMEN love compliments. We love men to tell us how great we are, how special, the one and only. We love all that and there is nothing wrong in giving a woman a compliment.
However, if I have to listen to one more banal lyric in a song comparing a woman to a type of food, fruit or vegetable, I am going to explode.
Come on! Surely, there must be better ways to tell women how great they are without using "edibles". We know men love food, food is the way to a man's heart but can they really LOVE food this much?
To be reduced to "gbegiri"? Believe it or not, that is not the worst. Let us examine a couple of popular songs from some of our artists.
Name of song: Dangerous
Artist: Dipp
lyric: "You sweet pass rice and stew" (I would rather be compared to starch and banga soup
Name of song: Shake something
Artist: Jazzman Olofin
lyric: "Omo, o tasty, like fried chicken" (Fried chicken? How ordinary! Maybe he was thinking of KFC?)
Name of song: Pere
Artist: Mo Hits All Stars
lyric: "You are so nice, like Ofada rice" (You don't want to know the lyric after that, something about a restaurant and spice...)
Name of song: Fall in love
Artist: D'banj
lyric: "My sweet potato", "My sugar banana" (Why not just yam? Oh, I forgot, "sweet potato" shows how special the woman is. She is not yam or ordinary potato; she is the very exclusive "sweet potato")
Name of song: Shobedobedoo
Artist: Ikechukwu
lyric: "Let me be your semovita" (Does that mean the woman is the soup? He should have just said "be my egusi")
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I used to wonder how men could be so obsessive about their food habits. They have all sorts of rules and regulations when it comes to their feeding habits. "I get angry if I don't eat properly," "I have to eat eba, at least once a day," "I always need to have meat in my soup*....i cant eat a day old food it has to b fresh**," "My morning breakfast is very important," "I'll lose all memory if I don't eat by noon," - all sorts of exasperating reasons why their food needs to be this way or that way....(im definately not liein n yall knw..)
I used to wonder; but now, I wonder NO more. The answer is plain for all to see. This is what excites them in life; the highlight of their lives is FOOD FOOD FOOD. Thus, my dear women, the highest compliment you can get from a man is in comparison with his favourite food, be it soaked garri, kuli-kuli or kpekere....LOL.
That said, I advise any future dates of mine to stick with "You are beautiful" and try not to get too creative. I'd rather hear "You are beautiful" a million times in my life than hear "You are sweeter than GBEGIRI."
a) You are really a lot of fun
b) I enjoy spending time with you
c) You are sweeter than gbegiri!
All WOMEN love compliments. We love men to tell us how great we are, how special, the one and only. We love all that and there is nothing wrong in giving a woman a compliment.
However, if I have to listen to one more banal lyric in a song comparing a woman to a type of food, fruit or vegetable, I am going to explode.
Come on! Surely, there must be better ways to tell women how great they are without using "edibles". We know men love food, food is the way to a man's heart but can they really LOVE food this much?
To be reduced to "gbegiri"? Believe it or not, that is not the worst. Let us examine a couple of popular songs from some of our artists.
Name of song: Dangerous
Artist: Dipp
lyric: "You sweet pass rice and stew" (I would rather be compared to starch and banga soup
Name of song: Shake something
Artist: Jazzman Olofin
lyric: "Omo, o tasty, like fried chicken" (Fried chicken? How ordinary! Maybe he was thinking of KFC?)
Name of song: Pere
Artist: Mo Hits All Stars
lyric: "You are so nice, like Ofada rice" (You don't want to know the lyric after that, something about a restaurant and spice...)
Name of song: Fall in love
Artist: D'banj
lyric: "My sweet potato", "My sugar banana" (Why not just yam? Oh, I forgot, "sweet potato" shows how special the woman is. She is not yam or ordinary potato; she is the very exclusive "sweet potato")
Name of song: Shobedobedoo
Artist: Ikechukwu
lyric: "Let me be your semovita" (Does that mean the woman is the soup? He should have just said "be my egusi")
**********~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*********************
I used to wonder how men could be so obsessive about their food habits. They have all sorts of rules and regulations when it comes to their feeding habits. "I get angry if I don't eat properly," "I have to eat eba, at least once a day," "I always need to have meat in my soup*....i cant eat a day old food it has to b fresh**," "My morning breakfast is very important," "I'll lose all memory if I don't eat by noon," - all sorts of exasperating reasons why their food needs to be this way or that way....(im definately not liein n yall knw..)
I used to wonder; but now, I wonder NO more. The answer is plain for all to see. This is what excites them in life; the highlight of their lives is FOOD FOOD FOOD. Thus, my dear women, the highest compliment you can get from a man is in comparison with his favourite food, be it soaked garri, kuli-kuli or kpekere....LOL.
That said, I advise any future dates of mine to stick with "You are beautiful" and try not to get too creative. I'd rather hear "You are beautiful" a million times in my life than hear "You are sweeter than GBEGIRI."
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