tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post4478099135702937196..comments2014-08-13T13:14:14.054+01:00Jeremy[email protected]Blogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-66596234658465966912008-05-12T23:01:00.000+01:002008-05-12T23:01:00.000+01:00I'm glad you provided some background, Jeremy. I stumbled upon your blog and this particular post gave me some real insight into what you're about. I like the blog. Your opinions are your own. Sometimes I agree, sometimes, I don't quite agree. You are a storyteller and I love stories. Thanks for your blog.<BR/><BR/>PS - But, sha, let me touch the hem of your garment so I can get some of that thesis-writing power. I want to go for a PH.D in African History or African Literature and balk when I think about writing a thesis.Chanteuse[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-10430159911981541882008-03-22T12:52:00.000+01:002008-03-22T12:52:00.000+01:00Jeremy, I think its great. ONe day I hope to meet you but until then I'll a glimpse through your writing. Keep up the experimental writing and explorations of the world, in my own way I try and so the same thing. I sympathise re: comprehensive education in the UK. I too had brainless thugs next to me in class but it came in surprisingly usefuln in Barcelona when I was mugged and managed to punch the guys :) Kculturalmiscellanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051152488860486332[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-22730713741171420602008-03-10T16:24:00.000+01:002008-03-10T16:24:00.000+01:00You sure told 'em Anon 9.38!<BR/>But what about you? Do you have a life/existence of your own, or do you exist solely to criticize and put down anyone who dares voice their own opinions? <BR/>Get a clue, you're dissing Jeremy on his own blog! Don't you see how lame that is?<BR/><BR/>I'm still thoroughly amused by how irate some "commenters" have gotten over three simple words: Kimora Lee Simmons. Any suggestions for a better icon? :) The word "icon" was used lightly - with humour, dare I say. I do not dedicate my time to campaigning for KLS or anything like that (lol). Its kind of like how you would watch a funny movie and say "Oh so-and-so (actor/actress) is my idol (JOKING!)" because of something they did that was funny or something........ It doesn't mean that you will then begin to worship or emulate said actor or actress - it just means you appreciate some quality or talent they have.<BR/><BR/>And what's with the comparison? Mike Zuckerberg, Jeremy Weate? I don't get it.<BR/><BR/>Jeremy, I'm no psychologist (lol - PROLLY not smart ENUFF), but I suspect that some people have mistaken your blog as some sort of outlet where they can vent their frustrations (of whatever kind).........You might inadvertently be rendering them a service they can't get elsewhere - perhaps you should begin to charge a fee; I mean they keep coming back, so obviously the treatment (lol) is having some sort of beneficial effect on their lives! <BR/><BR/>Not bad for a KLS-lover huh?! :)Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-5278580909840937432008-03-10T04:46:00.000+01:002008-03-10T04:46:00.000+01:00@anonymous 9.38pm<BR/>You are entitled to your own opinion.But I hope you do realize that if you spoke to ANYONE like this in Nigeria you'd be asking for a beating?And you would deserve it.<BR/><BR/>Consider,how many people would you speak to like this in RL?And how many people would support you if you did?<BR/><BR/>You may not agree with the man.Fair enough.But personal attacks?Why?Is he a pedophile?Does he sell children into slavery?Did he drive your company into bankruptcy?If not,why the vitriol?Haba!<BR/><BR/>I've never met the guy,but at this point the tenor of the negative comments being posted here are actually sort of a back handed compliment.To get these many personal attacks to an otherwise innocuous post,he must be doing something right.I'll be sure to drop by more often.Ninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18232285421472332909[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-5917288763900040712008-03-09T21:38:00.000+01:002008-03-09T21:38:00.000+01:00Jeremy<BR/><BR/>You're at it again...I truly think you suffer from very low self esteem.<BR/><BR/>Why else do you need to tell people what job you abandoned in London to move to Nigeria or how intelligent you think you are? Who cares! Why do you crave attention so much? <BR/><BR/>BTW can't you see people like Mark Zuckerberg, founder of facebook becoming billionaires at the grand old age of 23, far younger than you. If you're so intelligent, why aren't you a self made billionaire?<BR/><BR/>It's only in Africa that people like you would be tolerated. In London, you're just another ant doing the usual 9-5, nothing extraordinary. <BR/><BR/>Get a grip and grow up! You're almost middle aged.<BR/><BR/>And as for the person that has KLS as her idol,(shaking my head here..), words fail me..Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-43070697671892357562008-03-07T06:14:00.000+01:002008-03-07T06:14:00.000+01:00@ bisola, how are you better than Kemi now? You chastise her for calling Jer out of his name and you then proceed to call her out of her name. This is akin to beating your child for smacking a younger sibling.<BR/><BR/>Read my comment again, slowly, yes that is how you do it.And i'm out.Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-10779811373605803502008-03-06T23:00:00.000+01:002008-03-06T23:00:00.000+01:00"Rather, I take serendipity to be a dynamic of the cosmos, where energies go in search of each other, moving into aleatoric spaces of opportunity created by the unfolding of the world in time."<BR/><BR/>......this is meant to be funny right? Please, no one talks like this.Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-55112697074710120972008-03-06T19:25:00.000+01:002008-03-06T19:25:00.000+01:00What I find most intriguing about you is that you seem to care so much about Nigeria. I can't think of 100 Nigerians who share the same attitude. Now that I know more about you, you have earned a few more stripes on the sleeves in my books.Kiibaatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02368338488093037548[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-2401793890620587112008-03-06T12:14:00.000+01:002008-03-06T12:14:00.000+01:00Still rolling my eyes at 'Cosmos', 'Melange' and 'Energy. And the answer you gave Mr C above me.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Me.Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-79035567644392722542008-03-06T11:38:00.000+01:002008-03-06T11:38:00.000+01:00Jeremy,<BR/>My first encounter with Jeremy was on trip to Abuja at a friends. When I asked what he does, the response was -The ability to make sense of things in ways other than the conventional (not in those exact words, but that is how I interpreted it to mean).<BR/>Very lovely post. <BR/>Please keep the information coming and remain your hyper productive self. The knowledge and information I tapped from this site has, so far, been priceless.Mr Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13803221051713367036[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-22628136412933748332008-03-06T01:17:00.000+01:002008-03-06T01:17:00.000+01:00Kemi dont we just love pathetic bloggers ?<BR/>We check their blog updates to remind the likes of you(thru our carefully constructed comments) how uneventful our lives behind the computer screen is. I mean without them how would we display our air of arrogance and imaginery superiority in our utterly perfect lives outside cyberland.<BR/>You go on with your bad self mighty Kemi.Kemi's mirror[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-62288883025231340762008-03-05T17:56:00.000+01:002008-03-05T17:56:00.000+01:00This is too much. I have to speak.<BR/><BR/>PEOPLE!!! If you do not agree with Jeremy, or the KLS loving anon, that's not a problem, but goodness, let's stick with the ISSUES being discussed and not personalize them. Sometimes Jeremy's posts are on point, sometimes not, but i would think the whole point of blogging in the first place is to provoke discussion, stir up arguments that get us all 'juiced up' as we debate THE TOPIC. <BR/><BR/>I personally am often enriched more by the comments than the posts. It's always interesting to read about another person's point of view and if not agree with it, at least respect it.<BR/><BR/>To see some people stoop so low as to hurl insults at the blogger and at anyone who so much as dares to (gasp!)disagree with their point of view is to me the height of crassness. Ditto disagreeing with someone by trying to put that person down. That speaks volumes about your self esteem in my very 'umble opinion. <BR/><BR/>And then to actually refer to someone as PATHETIC??? Haba Kemi, did jeremy offend you in the past? That's a bit much and makes me think you're someone who in the line of evolution is somewhere between a cockroach and the mildew collected on the back of my grandma's old fridge.bisola[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-81264340528392164472008-03-05T10:32:00.000+01:002008-03-05T10:32:00.000+01:00Dear Oh Dear. I haven't posted in almost a year, but this merits at least a comment.<BR/><BR/>What can I say, the funniest thing I've read so far is this person defending their adulation of icon/idol, Kimora Lee Simmons, without even the SLIGHTEST hint of irony. Good God!<BR/><BR/>Ekaete and the anon (you really need to pick a name!) who posted at 6:02am, who I think also was questioning the KLS girl... what can I say? :-) You are not alone and some will never get it. Remember the response "How dare you criticize, where is your own?" is that of the simpleton.<BR/><BR/>Jeremy is a good guy sometimes even great, don't get me wrong,but as someone who knows him off-blog, I have to say he never fails to shock and sadden me with how unbelievably pathetic he can be sometimes.kemi (the one and only)[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-27756104371231787692008-03-05T06:02:00.000+01:002008-03-05T06:02:00.000+01:00Ekaette, go on, express yourself. A lot of what you said resonated.<BR/>But watch yourself, if you do not have a syrupy sweet comment or a pat on the back of the blog author ,you should not leave a comment. <BR/><BR/>E.g.<BR/><BR/>Wow, Jeremy, you do not owe any faceless spineless anon hater an explanation of how you live your life! Your blog rocks and is the center of my world!Your life is so fab! You go Boy!!!! Kisses!<BR/><BR/>Ekaette, I hope you were taking notes.You have not arrived in the Naija blog world until you have haters.Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-78096837905481314312008-03-05T00:15:00.000+01:002008-03-05T00:15:00.000+01:00@ Ekaette ...please could you post a link to your blog...Im anxious to read all the self enriching info you have there ...thanks,<BR/>Respectfully,<BR/>-One of those wannabe's you talked about !!Idongesit[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-78607165668810513572008-03-04T21:46:00.000+01:002008-03-04T21:46:00.000+01:00@Ekaete<BR/><BR/>As we say in Naija......eyaaaa!<BR/>Did you not notice that you are reading this blog and also posting a comment?<BR/>I'm no psychologist(lol),but you are sad about something friend.Dr Chic[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-80284886303227281642008-03-04T19:17:00.000+01:002008-03-04T19:17:00.000+01:00Ekaette, it is interesting that you find so called naija bloggers unfulfilled attention seekers. You note that we spend a lot of time trying to fill some kind of void by creating cyber-personalities. Good observations I say. You found the specks in our eyes but your plank, you missed. <BR/><BR/>Bellanaija and Bimbylads are some of the most popular naija blogs and you read them hence your observations. Does that say something about you? Perhaps that you are in greater denial than the ones you write about with such derision?<BR/><BR/>Anyway, what market researcher relies on Nigerian blogs to conduct their 'research'? If that ain't stupidity, I ain't never seen none. My dear, go find a life... and a hobby. What next? You'll soon be saying scrabble players are in denial. Nonsense.Effiong![email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-41758006159212958602008-03-04T08:35:00.000+01:002008-03-04T08:35:00.000+01:00LMAO @ 'Madam Ekaette'!!! You REALLY need to get over yourself girl, you gat issues!'derinsola[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-20317943078446873652008-03-04T01:49:00.000+01:002008-03-04T01:49:00.000+01:00I enjoy your blog.And the shitstorm on this thread is entertaining.Kinda like watching a train wreck in real time:).<BR/><BR/>Seriously,you don't have anything to explain.You live in the country,you're entitled to express your opinion.And you do so civilly,and with insight.I'll be back.Ninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18232285421472332909[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-53379708334053552082008-03-03T22:57:00.000+01:002008-03-03T22:57:00.000+01:00Lol @ Ekaete!<BR/>What an essay! Jeremy, are you not entertained?Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-50227018627002567492008-03-03T20:30:00.000+01:002008-03-03T20:30:00.000+01:00I don't know why yo uha dto explain yourself...It's my first time reading you rblog and I have to tell you you are doing a good job. Keep u the good work!<BR/><BR/>eVaDiVa<BR/>www.evasitoe.wordpress.comeVaDiVawww.evasitoe.wordpress.com[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-5781084266340570212008-03-03T20:26:00.000+01:002008-03-03T20:26:00.000+01:00Hyper-productive? More like unfulfilled! I'm no psychologist, but it seems pretty apparrent that your over-active arm-chair philosophizing is born more out of a willfull attempt to fill a void, perhaps convince yourself that you're worth anyone's attention, than something naturally emergent from your personality. <BR/>For one, the superfluity of your English, i find laughable. I for one, read so called "Naija Blogs" in an attempt to gather some sense of the home-grown Nigerian mentality/sensibilty. The only thing i've gathered so far is that either people living in Nigeria are really bored with their lives or so enamored with other people's(real or on TV) lives that they wish them to be their own. For besides, the prolific habit of posting, that defies (at least my sense) of normalcy for someone who indeed has some kind of life, friends(actual not cyber), family etc, there exists a constant and dare I say, remarkable amount of either one of two things: a wannabe academic, over-intellectualization of insignificant aspects of their lives OR these exaggeratedly ludicruous, wanna-be "Sex in the City"/ Next Top Nigerian Socialite type of expressions. (Of course i refer to none other than the BelleNaijas,Bibylads and wannabe Bellenaijas of the naija blogger world). <BR/>Blogger in essence seems to be place, especially for Nigerians, to create the person they wish to be as opposed to being a place where they can reflect on the person that they actually are. That is why some of these bloggers are so prolific- because they would rather devote time to <BR/>adding to the unreal 'life' of this cyber-person that they have created (by literally inputing textual pontifications of this or that subject or incessant exclammations of "That is soo Fab!") than devoting time to enriching the life of the real person that they are. <BR/>For my part, as a budding entrepreneur, it is an interesting (and entertaining even if sometimes annoying) exercise in market research. Now i know that if you want to sell a Nigerian (fresh of the boat) or born/raised/living in Nigeria something, then it either has to be some haute couture knock-off or some volume of Tennyson poetry- or perhaps any existentialist will do. <BR/><BR/>That 'little' blurb of yours jeremy was my belly-laugh of the day. so thanks for that and keep up the good work!<BR/><BR/>Gotta love Londoners & Nigerians - branches of the same tree...haha<BR/><BR/><BR/>-Ekaete<BR/>Crooklyn, USA<BR/>([email protected])Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-19243969805728341532008-03-03T18:42:00.000+01:002008-03-03T18:42:00.000+01:00Hi Jeremy,<BR/>I wanted to say that I found your blog by accident/luck/fate a while back when looking for information on Lagos.I loved it because your tastes are very eclectic and I like the way you write.I don't know why you worry about people who criticize you.To me it's OK to not agree on everything all the time because it makes the discussion more interesting, but if one is always in disagreement with one person's thoughts,why not move on instead of being mean about it.It's like going to someone' house everyday and complain about the food!<BR/>Take care<BR/>Sandrine<BR/><BR/>PS:I love Ikea and I wish we would have one in Miami ; -)Sandrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01142232421649134500[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-77226253986193991632008-03-03T16:10:00.000+01:002008-03-03T16:10:00.000+01:00wrote your Phd in three months. that is genius. I as still writing a journal paper since December. I and I can only play 3 chords i guitar which i have been learning since September. you are tall man<BR/><BR/>i dont think you should have replied your critics, when its not that you need their vote or something. if you are testing your popularity, you are more loved than you realised i must say.<BR/><BR/>hey...what about the documentary thingy i told you some times agoDotunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04212810551747940066[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-24741825074628833722008-03-03T11:17:00.000+01:002008-03-03T11:17:00.000+01:00You're good peoples, Jeremy Weate. <BR/><BR/>Reading that list (esp the thesis in 3 months bit) makes me feel like crap about how I've been carrying on. But like you said, it's all work, and what I need to do is really just get. to. work. <BR/><BR/>Make no mistake -- this world is not a meritocracy. But I do believe that it's everyone's responsibility to make the most of his/her own abilities, resources and opportunities. Most people, regardless of their social or economic circumstances, don't do that. But that's where it has to start first.Anonymous[email protected]