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Freddie Miles · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 91

I found some clips about Turkey that newbies coming here for the first time might find interesting.
These are mainly about Istanbul:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouesYAolaNY&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouesYAolaNY&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM5JEN6Ol6k&mode=related&search=
("if you walk around you are likely to see a local clown.." This guy loves the word "local")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffrMRNVmnJw&mode=related&search=
("we love you, man!")

Here is a clip with a feminist point of view, well sort of..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcwRX3uXtCU&mode=related&search=

Let me know what you think of these. I will try to find more.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

That last one is scary.

btw what is adventurous about going to the Bosphorous? I don't mean to be cynical.
And newbies don't imitate this guy's pronunciation of Topkapi

yaramaz · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:09 am Post subject:

His visit to Toe-co-pie palace was very insightful.

yaramaz · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:12 am Post subject:

I also want to know why that last chick was interpreting the restaurant tout�s gaze in Nevizade as admiring. I thought the old guy just wanted her to come in for meze. Did anyone bother to pay for the full length version? I want to learn how she actually did learn Turkish...

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

In the last one, she says something along the lines of 'In Turkey, I am an object, which is a very un-feminist thing to be.'

But I totally heard it wrong, thought someone had messed with her learning Turkish-- I thought she was saying, 'In Turkey, I am an amcık...'

Embarassed

yaramaz · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:45 am Post subject:

Hey, justme, doesnt that video make you just want to jump straight back into the dating pool again?

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

So many ogling slimeballs, so little time....

Actually, one thing I really like when I go to America is being invisible again. It's great. You can lift you eyes from navel-level, even (gasp!) make eye-contact with people, including men, and no one stares or leers or says something stupid in English or invokes God or follows you or slyly tries to touch you or any other damn thing to make you self-conscious... It's very liberating!

And then I came back here, already out of the habit of looking down only to find everyone staring at me again and I just wanted to crawl into a hole... I think it was Sheik awhile back who made some crack about an EFL teacher returning to her home country and someone asks 'How does it feel to be ugly again?' and all I could think was, 'It feels great!'

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

Well, yabancı belly button fluff really is so much more interesting than the Turkish variety...

yaramaz · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:54 am Post subject:

I am in switzerland right now and am slowly remembering that i can look men in the eyes without dire repurcussions. Hell, I wouldnt even get a neutral response. No chance of being propositioned or grabbed or leered at here. My friend who has lived here for about a decade (after a childhood in Italy) told me that years could pass by without finding a man who might indicate even a hint of overt interest. If you ever wanted to know what the opposite of Turkey was, come here. Its pretty cool, if only in moderation (and the cheese rocks!)

Freddie Miles · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 91

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1329Uy8OXR4
(It takes balls to eat this sort thing, I should think. By the way, isn't the background music in this from "The Godfather"? Fitting in a way, I guess.

Here is a provocative clip that really had my blood-boiling. In my humble opinion, it is definitely NOT what the title suggests. The discussion that follows in YouTube quickly devolves into insults of the maternal mating variety.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?search=&mode=related&v=ApkZJeJuIgM

I have seen events like this on the street as well. Usually it involves some clumsy purse-snatcher or lady-groper caught in the act. Crime-stoppers, Turkish style. In fact, the police come off looking quiet sympathetic in this clip.

One time I saw the same type of thing at the beach, when some old perv ( presumably desperate) was found to be feeling up young girls under the waves. About three strapping young men marched into the sea and gave him a fair amount of pummeling. He squealed in a manner I had not heard from a grown adult before. He never had a chance to say, as most of them do in the States, "But.. I am a victim too!!"

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

yaramaz · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:30 am Post subject:

The opposite of Turkez is pork?

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

Pork chops?

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

Jinx you owe me a Coke, yaramaz.