What does detoothing mean?
Sep 29, 2006
WHAT is Uganda getting to? Just this week alone, many are complaining of receiving less than they bargained for. In relationship lingua, we call it detoothing.
DR LOVE - Hilary Bainemigisha
WHAT is Uganda getting to? Just this week alone, many are complaining of receiving less than they bargained for. In relationship lingua, we call it detoothing.
The Muslims say Mubajje has detoothed them of UMSC properties, President Yoweri Museveni says ministers are detoothing him by being sleepy, people are shouting that MPs are detoothing them of sh60m for vehicles, LRA and the Government are exchanging detoothing allegations and so are the never ending lovers who no longer know the boundaries of the term.
You cannot find detoothing in the English dictionary, it is there on the street. Of those who have met it in person, many did not like the rendezvous. Just yesterday, I had a spirited argument with a guy who insisted that when a person of the opposite sex accepts your financial gifts, car loans, entertainment and other favours, you have been detoothed. (“Why should she eat my money and expect to walk away? Is she my mother?†he raged) This is serious lack of vision.
Detoothing is where people promise to allocate their Mabira forests to your SCOUL, prompting you to extend your password to them to access your money, entertainment, jobs, promotions, gifts and other favours, but when the time to deliver comes, they become sleepy like our ministers and permanent secretaries.
But when they deliver, it is not detoothing even if you find that the Shimoni you were given is cheaper than the investment you have made. When you are looking for a title, and you make wrong calculations, it is not the fault of the land.
It is also not detoothing when you show up, mouth open, dish out favours and brag about your barns, literally handing out pliers to people to detooth you. If you had no prior discussion about land allocation in Namanve with people helping you spend your money, they have not detoothed you; you have detoothed yourself. Many men, sadly, have no self-esteem. They imagine that without the spending power, you cannot be man enough in front of females. They struggle to spend and brag about their spending propensity.
For some reason, they expect any woman who pecks at their wallet to have consented to what our president calls ‘land allocation in a traditional way’. When the women later demand for a clearly written project proposal, they cry foul and say they have been detoothed.
No, sirs! That is not detoothing because no quid-pro-quo contract was breached. In fact, it is good for all of us that such men get ‘detoothed’ so that posterity learns the difference between being good and paying for prospective investment.
As for ‘detoothers’, ask yourself questions when your date is so willing to degazette property in order to give it to you. If you have no prior bilateral understanding, resign before the report is compiled. But if the temptation to hang on overwhelms you, stay on at your own peril.
Have plan B ready if you do not want your whole purpose in life to be like Kony — to serve as a warning to others. You should have alternative transport back home, backup in case of violent uprising and payback in case you are cornered. That guy overspending on you may be asking himself questions like my friend asked me yesterday. Soon, he will demand that you assemble at designated places like Owiny Ki-Bul or face arrest and handing over to ICC – forceful surrender of property rights in full.
Don’t say I did not warn you.
WHAT is Uganda getting to? Just this week alone, many are complaining of receiving less than they bargained for. In relationship lingua, we call it detoothing.
The Muslims say Mubajje has detoothed them of UMSC properties, President Yoweri Museveni says ministers are detoothing him by being sleepy, people are shouting that MPs are detoothing them of sh60m for vehicles, LRA and the Government are exchanging detoothing allegations and so are the never ending lovers who no longer know the boundaries of the term.
You cannot find detoothing in the English dictionary, it is there on the street. Of those who have met it in person, many did not like the rendezvous. Just yesterday, I had a spirited argument with a guy who insisted that when a person of the opposite sex accepts your financial gifts, car loans, entertainment and other favours, you have been detoothed. (“Why should she eat my money and expect to walk away? Is she my mother?†he raged) This is serious lack of vision.
Detoothing is where people promise to allocate their Mabira forests to your SCOUL, prompting you to extend your password to them to access your money, entertainment, jobs, promotions, gifts and other favours, but when the time to deliver comes, they become sleepy like our ministers and permanent secretaries.
But when they deliver, it is not detoothing even if you find that the Shimoni you were given is cheaper than the investment you have made. When you are looking for a title, and you make wrong calculations, it is not the fault of the land.
It is also not detoothing when you show up, mouth open, dish out favours and brag about your barns, literally handing out pliers to people to detooth you. If you had no prior discussion about land allocation in Namanve with people helping you spend your money, they have not detoothed you; you have detoothed yourself. Many men, sadly, have no self-esteem. They imagine that without the spending power, you cannot be man enough in front of females. They struggle to spend and brag about their spending propensity.
For some reason, they expect any woman who pecks at their wallet to have consented to what our president calls ‘land allocation in a traditional way’. When the women later demand for a clearly written project proposal, they cry foul and say they have been detoothed.
No, sirs! That is not detoothing because no quid-pro-quo contract was breached. In fact, it is good for all of us that such men get ‘detoothed’ so that posterity learns the difference between being good and paying for prospective investment.
As for ‘detoothers’, ask yourself questions when your date is so willing to degazette property in order to give it to you. If you have no prior bilateral understanding, resign before the report is compiled. But if the temptation to hang on overwhelms you, stay on at your own peril.
Have plan B ready if you do not want your whole purpose in life to be like Kony — to serve as a warning to others. You should have alternative transport back home, backup in case of violent uprising and payback in case you are cornered. That guy overspending on you may be asking himself questions like my friend asked me yesterday. Soon, he will demand that you assemble at designated places like Owiny Ki-Bul or face arrest and handing over to ICC – forceful surrender of property rights in full.
Don’t say I did not warn you.