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Look on the bright side, at least she understands how the economy works. :P
 
Forostar said:
Huh, how did she get that idea? :)
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She has been saving up coins for a new bike ever since her dad sold his old one last year. I guess she just figured out that won't be enough. Obviously I have to contribute too.

To make things worse, she insists that the new one also has a sidecar.
 
Even this one will do.

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So they're opening a new Turkish internet café down the road. Because four others on the same street crossing just aren't enough.
 
Christmas jumpers seem to have become a night out fashion statement thing here, possibly an ironic one, but still. There were loads of people out in them in Manchester last weekend.
 
You know what seems to be in vogue here right now? Panda-shaped winter hats.
 
Weird.

Friday! I hafta put in a solid 8 hours, then a 3 day weekend. Then work half a day, then xmas eve and xmas! woot!
 
I'm incredibly offended by people assuming all Turks admire the Ottoman Empire. Granted many do, but I definitely don't. There are so many fucked up stuff the Empire has done in order to get stronger and later, to survive. This includes the killings of 40k alevis perpetrated by Selim I (who has done so many horrible things that I'm ashamed of being associated with), what happened with Greeks, Serbians, Bulgarians, infamous Tehcir Law or Armenian Genocide as many would like to call it. While I don't call it a genocide because I don't think it was systematic, it was a crime against humanity to forcibly relocate the Armenians in terrible conditions and not being able to (or not caring enough) protect them from the danger of the local gangs. Many Armenians died and it's foolish to deny that. It all comes down to semantics which is next to nothing in terms of value in this case. The perpetrators of the genocides or killings or relocations or whatever you want to call it, Enver Pasha, Talat Pasha and Cemal Pasha are three of the worst political people I've ever read about.

Turkish educational system constantly teaches how the Ottoman Empire was so resplendent, luxurious, powerful but yet very tolerant, caring and it was a place where anything bad that happened were caused by the enemies of the state. This is utter, unadultareted bullshit. Sure, there's a heritage that can be embraced (all in all this is a huge part of Turkish history) but that doesn't mean we have worship the past and be blind to everything that happened. I don't see anybody acting the same way to Göktürks or Seljuqs.

And it's a real shame that the majority of the people in Turkey these days are okay with this. They don't want to discuss it. They don't want to discuss the wrong-doings of the Empire, they get offended like it's their religion. The value of Islam and Ottoman Empire is composite. Republic of Turkey was a new state, founded on different standards. It took the cultural heritage of the Empire (not all of it, though) and had a fresh start. There are people in the country acting like Republic of Turkey was founded by dissolving the Empire and it was a wrong-doing. The Empire was dissolved in the first place! The Empire was okay with being a mandate to the big boys.

Sorry for the rant.
 
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