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dmb



Joined: 12 Feb 2003
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Haha, don't you just love Turkey. I just received a message from my student and she said the fire drill was cancelled because of the rain. Laughing
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Baba Alex



Joined: 17 Aug 2004
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
dmb wrote:
I'm supposed to be teaching from 4-6 today, but the class was cancelled a couple of days ago because at 5.00 there is going to be a fire drill. Isn't the point of a fire drill is that you dont know when it is?

Laughing
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justme



Joined: 18 May 2004
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Turkey never fails to amuse and bewilder....
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dmb



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Turkey never fails to amuse and bewilder....
Probably one of the reasons we continue to live here
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howmucharefags



Joined: 30 Nov 2004
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Location: Eskisehir
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Eh????? !9th century invention by the English my bahookie. Don't talk shite dmb.
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Baba Alex



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
howmucharefags wrote:
Eh????? !9th century invention by the English my bahookie. Don't talk *beep* dmb.

yeah. How come they had it Braveheart?
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sandyhoney2



Joined: 01 Jun 2005
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
justme wrote:

My husband frustrates me to no end when he starts on about how the Kurds should be slaughtered, the Armenian thing never happened, the whole world hates and envies Turkey, and the religious should be smashed, because I know he's smarter than that, and he should give himself more credit. He's not an idiot. If he really talks about it, he certainly has subtlties of opinion, valid criticisms, and questions about whether all of it is really right, but he's very hesitant to admit it. Maybe that's what's so hard to understand-- why people are so afraid to say, even in private, that they might think differently from everyone else?


Justme - I know exactly what you mean. Our husbands' attitudes are practically identical. And mine is about to become legally armed in Canada... Ever try watching Ararat with your hubby? Or My Big Fat Greek Wedding? (An old Greek woman calls someone an 'ugly Turk').

He can be rational and sane one minute, delusional and frothing the next.

BTW - haven't posted or really checked here in awhile - what happened to 31? Or *whisper* are we not allowed to talk about it? And as for eslteacher1973 - not surprised in the slightest.
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molly farquharson



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Do you guys have kilts? I do Very Happy I heard that kilts were a 17th century invention and they were originally madras patterns that came from India. Doesn't matter much, I think.
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dmb



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 4:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Do you guys have kilts? I do Very Happy I heard that kilts were a 17th century invention
I do. Maybe it was 17th century. I'm getting my centuries mixed up
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justme



Joined: 18 May 2004
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
dmb wrote:
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Turkey never fails to amuse and bewilder....
Probably one of the reasons we continue to live here


Yeah, if I suddenly understood all that goes on here, I'd probably have to leave. No one likes a good de-mystification.

I don't think I could get my husband to rent anything with 'Greek' in the title, though that would be purely on a matter of principle-- after the obligatory rant he really has nothing against Greeks. How's Ararat? I've never seen it. I've also never seen Midnight Express, which apparently is the true cause of all of Turkey's woes in the world...

sandyhoney, does your husband believe Turks are direct descendants of American Indians, with cultural and liguistic ties? And that Turks deep down are just misplaced shamans? Somehow our trips to Indian museums in America only served to reinforce this view...
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