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Things you never say in Turkey
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calsimsek



Joined: 15 Jul 2004
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thrifty/31:
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Nobody with any kind of common decency eats bread with a Sunday roast unless they are Turks and they don't count because they don't know any better.


I'm sorry, I thought you were married to a Turk. If so do you like being offensive to your wife Question Confused

Perhapes I missed the joke, if so; sorry. If not and your aim was to be offensive, then perhapes you could do it some where different.
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tekirdag



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting how we can say annnnyyyything about Turks, schools, others on the board, but nothing about the Queen. ?
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Baba Alex



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tekirdag wrote:
Interesting how we can say annnnyyyything about Turks, schools, others on the board, but nothing about the Queen. ?


I eat peas with honey,
I've done it all my life,
They do taste rather funny,
But it keeps them on my knife.


I still say BREAD with ROAST.


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thrifty



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tekirdag wrote:
Interesting how we can say annnnyyyything about Turks, schools, others on the board, but nothing about the Queen. ?


Yeah, it is called patriotism.
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tekirdag



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes. I guess it is.
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Baba Alex



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tekirdag wrote:
Yes. I guess it is.

Is patriotism and synonym for hypocrisy?
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thrifty



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, a synonym of hypocrisy would be:

falsness or duplicity
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Baba Alex



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thrifty wrote:
No, a synonym of hypocrisy would be:

falsness or duplicity


Thanks.
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tvik



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

when i die i want to be remember by the phrase:

hipocracy is central to all politics.

thereafter we must also understand that, as one magazine put it: everything is political. Each of us has only a very small window from which to view our own behavior. our thoughts do not represent our actions or our speach, although we believe them to. it is the disconnect between belief and reality that causes all the grief in the world.
the only way to truley know ourselves is to have an invisable friend video tape us for a week and then put the tape in the VCR and then record us again while we watch in abject horror.
fortunately we are forgiving creatures and if not forgiving at least we are interested in the behavour of the human animal.
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tvik



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

when i told my 19 year old misbehaving students that they were a bunch of animals they said: YES teacher we are ANiMaLS!!!!!! they went on to make grunting and screeching noises.

this is the reason why i am a teacher
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Golightly



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hah hah! 100th post!
here's something I wouldn't say:
Turkish food? it's just Greek food, but warmer.

and the Royal family are living proof that horses can interbreed with people.
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ikky



Joined: 22 May 2006
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i thought thrifty reporting people for taking the p**** out of the queen was a joke, if it's not then u r a very sad, sad man.
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thrifty



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Of course it was a joke. Do you think I of all people would dare incur the wrath of the moderator? I have been on the net all day because I have got a hangover and can't do anything more constructive.
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ikky



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very Happy

very interested to know why you wouldn't dare incur the wrath of the moderator? u been a naughty boy?
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Baba Alex



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thrifty wrote:
Of course it was a joke. Do you think I of all people would dare incur the wrath of the moderator? I have been on the net all day because I have got a hangover and can't do anything more constructive.


Besides, you don't really like that old sla.g, do you?
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