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thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

No thanks - I want to die in my own country. Of course the UK has completely been taken over by big business and we are no longer wanted.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

btw, what does maf mean?

Golightly · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:10 am Post subject:

maf - it means something very,very bad. Probably. I only hear it when my wife is shouting at me about something bad that's happened to her.
And yes, I do get into arguments with her about the bokkafa aspects of life in Turkiye. I really got in the pokey once when I called it Sakatistan, after a long and futile day of waiting for a stupid bit of bureaucracy.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

What was your meaning of sakat. 'tis fairly wide.

Golightly · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:31 am Post subject:

a person of mentally alternative disposition.
A spazzer, like.

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

Hee hee. My parents have taken to calling America Dumbf*ckistan...

It's really hard not to start digging at Turkey or blaming Turkey when you're angry and fed up and your spouse suddenly becomes nationalistically defensive even though he knows damn well whatever's going on is extremely annoying and uniquely Turkish and if you were a Turk and not foreign, he'd be saying the same things. And when we're in America being annoyed by beaurocrats or the dumb-a*s things people do while driving, I'm perfectly happy to jump on the Blame America train, but I forget that it doesn't work both ways and then I'm in trouble. Even when I'm right.

It's also hard not to blame Turkey when your spouse starts doing that bullheaded macho/child thing. I don't know what the wife-equivalent of that is, but when the husband starts with the Turkish man thing and I get mad, it's a choice of blaming his mother or blaming Turkey and I find it's safer to go after the latter.

And the whole thing about their mothers is just a bit weird anyway.

Golightly · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:13 pm Post subject:

It's the pomposity that gets me: The idea that the hijacker was trying to get the Pope to apologise seems so typical in a way. Or issuing scary warnings because someone's 'dignity' has been offended. The mental image I have is of a middle-aged man in a faded tweed jacket, shaking his fist and going red in the face at the elephant in his living room that won't budge.
Basil Fawlty, in other words.