You know you're Turkish Cypriot when

ukturk



Joined: 01/09/2007
Posts: 1974

Message Posted:
08/09/2008 12:02

*Your mother has a minor disagreement with her sister and doesnt talk to her for 10 years.



*You call an older person you've never met before "uncle", aunty" or abi.



*You hide everything from your parents.



*Your mother does everything for you if you are male.



*You do all the housework and cooking if you are female.



*Your relatives alone could populate a small city.



*Everyone is a family friend, or somehow related to you.



*You always try moving out of home but always end up returning.



*You love kebabs, iskender and eating!!!



*Instead of cooking a meal for 4 you cook for 10



*When you have a dinner party there is enough food to last for

the next 2 months.



*You fight over who pays the dinner bill.



*You avoid public places when with a member of the opposite

sex, expecially if there is an acquantance within 250 miles radius.



*You always say "open the light" insted of "turn the light on"



*You get very upset when airlines refuses to accept your luggage which is just 80lbs. overweight.



*Your walking out of customs with your trolley at the airport and you see all 25 members of your family who have come to pick you up.



*You ask your dad a simple question and he tells you story of how he had to walk miles to get to school.



*You are always taking off and putting on your shoes wherever you go.



*Your mum seems to think her future lies at the bottom of a little coffee cup



*Your parents compare you to all of there friends kids.



*No one ever seems to call ahead of time to say they are coming for a visit.

Chick-A-Dee


Joined: 16/06/2008
Posts: 342

Message Posted:
08/09/2008 12:17

Sounds like my family here in the Uk ...

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
08/09/2008 12:17

Put a smile on my face .lol !!!!!

Lambousa Gordon


Joined: 03/11/2007
Posts: 1992

Message Posted:
08/09/2008 12:40

* You swear blind that hellim is the finest cheese in the world when we all know that really it has the flavour and consistency of a bridgestone tyre and is only slightly edible in the few seconds between when it comes off the grill and before it cools down to its original state.



* You eat van-loads of kleftiko every week, all the time pontificating about how " fresh food never did anyone any harm" and then have to check in for multiple by-pass sugery.



* You put lemon on everything.



* Your natural driving position is with one arm outside the window with cigarette dangling, neck crooked to cradle you telephone leaving the other arm free to dump the water-bottle littering your car.

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
08/09/2008 12:50

You know there's a desperate water shortage, but you can't not water your patio and the road in front of your house.



You are too mean to buy a dustbin and instead pile bags of rubbish on top of your neighbours bins, then complain and/or poison the dogs who rip the bags up and make a mess (which you don't pick up).



You drive for miles to find a really nice picnic site and then leave all you trash behind when you go home.

SYLVIE


Joined: 12/03/2008
Posts: 1081

Message Posted:
08/09/2008 18:48

trnc vaughan,



you are most probably british, you decide to come to cyprus because of weather and you put all you money in the bank and live with interest ,

you wake up in the morning - nice sun shine - good drinking - nice swim when you are bored - taxes less than uk - so cope with what you see everywhere in the world, people careless - and pick up the dusbins left in front of your house and as a good british put it in yours !!!! what a nice sense of humour isn't it !!! it is so nice to be cypriot -

MUSIN M


Joined: 26/06/2008
Posts: 1352

Message Posted:
08/09/2008 21:01

ertan



you forgot the chop ,us boys can never forget that





musin

ukturk



Joined: 01/09/2007
Posts: 1974

Message Posted:
08/09/2008 21:22

musin

how can i ever forget that nightmare!!!! the best thing was after when you get the money and presi's lol

ukturk

rasalih


Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 25

Message Posted:
08/09/2008 21:35

hi. and its also not what you know but who you know when something needs doing in any government office.

MUSIN M


Joined: 26/06/2008
Posts: 1352

Message Posted:
08/09/2008 21:53

rasalih

do you mean nepotism

if you do thats not exclusive to cypriots ,thats universal



musin

rasalih


Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 25

Message Posted:
08/09/2008 22:00

hi. i know it goes on everywhere. but it still bugs me.

ukturk



Joined: 01/09/2007
Posts: 1974

Message Posted:
08/09/2008 22:06

guys this wos supposed to be a light hearted subject!!!

airy____fairy


Joined: 14/06/2008
Posts: 813

Message Posted:
08/09/2008 22:13

i know i should have been a cypriout because......

i live on my own but make enough dolma to feed the turkish army!!!!!!

ukturk



Joined: 01/09/2007
Posts: 1974

Message Posted:
08/09/2008 22:18

well ray

you can always make me some of that extra dolma if you want!!!!

ukturk

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
09/09/2008 08:21

Hi Sylvie,



You are right, I am British.

I wouldn't hose the road down even if we had lots of water. It's a complete waste of time as well as water.

I do pick up other peoples rubbish and put it in my bin because I am proud of the village I live in.

I do adopt other peoples dogs because I don't like to see cruelty and neglect.

If people were less careless and looked after their own rubbish and dogs, I wouldn't have to.



Of course there is a light hearted side to this thread but there is also a sad side too.

Harold2555



Joined: 19/04/2008
Posts: 1139

Message Posted:
09/09/2008 08:31

Back to the lighthearted side



You always put a wet tissue in the bottom of an ashtray even indoors!



Paul

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
09/09/2008 09:12

you do everything whilst talking on the mobile phone.

PtePike



Joined: 20/05/2008
Posts: 2334

Message Posted:
09/09/2008 10:33

Msg 20: And watching TV in the "salon" with the front door open so the whole street hears the programme too and passersby can be looked at.

PtePike



Joined: 20/05/2008
Posts: 2334

Message Posted:
09/09/2008 10:35

I'll contradict myself. Actually I think that's more an Anatolian thing. The TCs are tucked away inside with a massive plasma.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
09/09/2008 10:44

stopping in the middle of the road, holding up the flow of the traffic to chat with a friend who you saw walking past.

allowing your children to drive cars, under the legal age, but only in the village!

thinking a moped is built for 3 passengers.

JamesB


Joined: 07/02/2007
Posts: 450

Message Posted:
09/09/2008 12:10

Nice one Erkan, I enjoyed your post, not heard from you for a while, not since that incident with the bad taste jokes where Paul,you and I nearly got strung up!



Hey Ho



Have a good day mate.

PtePike



Joined: 20/05/2008
Posts: 2334

Message Posted:
09/09/2008 12:12

Bad taste is good!