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[hallelujah]

hey, guys, is the following true?

One thing which could catch the Westerner unaware is going onto the street with wet hair! Muslims are supposed to bathe after sex, so going out of the house with your hair still wet implies you've just had a quickie.

[Golightly]

possibly, but it's more likely to tap into Turkish people's deep fear of DYING from the pernicious combination of WET HAIR and anything remotely resembling a SLIGHT BREEZE.

I love Turkish health myths. Can't remember if I've posted this before and can't be ersed to look up my posts, but it bears retelling....
One of my colleagues was in the canteen, cigarette in one hand, chocolate bar in the other, happily taking a drag then a bite. A couple of his students approached him.
Students: Teacher, teacher, no!
Teacher: What?
Students: Chocolate and cigara - very bad together!
Teacher: Really? Why?
Students: If you smoke and eat chocolate at the same time, you get cancer!
Teacher: Well fook me!
Upon which he rendered his chocolate bar unto the floor and walked off, leaving a pair of students with increasingly confused looks on their faces.

[hallelujah]

how funny...
i've been told to dry my hair or i'll most definitely get stiff shoulders, although it's 30 degrees outside and i've always thought there must be something else behind these advices!!!

[justme]

Yeah, I've heard that too, about eating and smoking at the same time giving you cancer, and not just chocolate. This includes chewing gum. Apparenty the cancer agents gather in the food and settle in your stomach. Apparently, though, this doesn't apply to drinking and smoking at the same time.

And last Saturday, what was it, like 32? My mother-in-law came over to clean, and the first thing she did was close all the windows, saying the draft would cause all manner of illness and stiffness. I tried to tell her it doesn't make foreigners sick and I leave them open all the time, but she didn't believe me that foreigners have these special powers. So I allowed them to be closed for her health (it was a sweltering cleaning day, in which I was clucked at for sweating), but then I have to wonder-- in her mind, if I leave them open all the time, how come my husband and I aren't really really sick?

I've heard that about the wet hair. And I've gotten some odd looks for going out with wet hair, but I was never sure if it's because of the sex thing or if it because it's something so outlandishly NOT DONE.

[sandyhoney2]

I've gotten the wet hair eye roll before too. And eating ice-cream. It wasn't even in combination with anything else, I was just eating it when buyuk anne starting clicking her tongue in overdrive.

I thought she'd be happy to see me eat, since the skinny little broad is constantly trying to shove food down my mouth. I've had to resort to hiding my food and patting my stomach miming fullness. (At one point, I loaded my own food onto her plate while her back was turned, the other family members were on the floor laughing...)

[saloma]

Students drive me crazy when, in "winter", they come to class wearing 5 or 6 layers of clothing, (Taiwan has a sub-tropical climate by the way). They sit in their bundled-up layers and full-on parkas complaining, "It's too hot!"

So then they have to put the A/C on HIGH because the air is not "fresh" enough. The whole classroom is freezing, and poor teacher is the only one who is not dressed for sub-zero temperatures.....

[dmb]

Same in the Gulf. In thw winter when it is around 20-25 degrees students all turn up wearing ski jackets.
Thobes and ski jackets just don't go btw.