Dozens held in Turkish 'coup plot'

[garbon]

To get back to the original derail, my people "discovered" half the world. so what. Who you are now is way more important then what you were.

Is that a great achievement? I think the "discovered" people were probably happier as they were.

[jimmy olsen]

To get back to the original derail, my people "discovered" half the world. so what. Who you are now is way more important then what you were.

Is that a great achievement? I think the "discovered" people were probably happier as they were.

If they hadn't been discovered their descendants would be living in the Brass age (IIRC they'd have alot more access to zinc then tin).

[Razgovory]

To get back to the original derail, my people "discovered" half the world. so what. Who you are now is way more important then what you were.

Is that a great achievement? I think the "discovered" people were probably happier as they were.

If they hadn't been discovered their descendants would be living in the Brass age (IIRC they'd have alot more access to zinc then tin).

Also more would be alive.

[Jaron]

And Tim, you aren't white. By "their descendants" you really should be saying "We'd still be living in the brass age"

Savage.

[citizen k]

And Tim, you aren't white. By "their descendants" you really should be saying "We'd still be living in the brass age"

Savage.

Jaron, defender of Aragon and Castille. 

[Neil]

And Tim, you aren't white. By "their descendants" you really should be saying "We'd still be living in the brass age"

Savage.

Neither are you.  The both of you are Mexicans.

[Neil]

The only good thing Turks ever did was killing off Armenians. However they did not do a sufficiently good work of it, because they did not slaughter Queequeg's ancestors.

I didn't think he was actually Armenian, just has a hard on for them.

It's all just a symptom of the root problem:  His disdain for Western culture and civilization.  Familiarity breeds contempt, and so Spellus flits from culture to culture, whatever he feels is exotic.  One week, he's learning Russian, the next Persian, and now he's in love with Turkey.  Next month, I'll be hearing a lecture about the glories of Tadjiki culture.

[Duque de Bragança]

Heh............I'm really looking forward to the Istanbul visit now; Tamas and Spellus are off to a great start 

@Queequeg.  One thing to watch out for is that Istanbul is not Turkey. I apologise for being so tautological; however......for decades now I have been assured by tourists and travellers that the divide lies somewhere in the middle of Anatolia. Istanbul and other western Turkish cities are little different to places like Athens, less alien perhaps than a place like Sofia or Bucharest. But, I am assured, rural places in Eastern Turkey can be some of the most unpleasant places on the planet 

Istanbul less allien than the Paris of the Balkans? 
Typical pro-Turkish PC nonsense. Bucharest is the capital of a romance-speaking nation and that's a huge difference. I know about the record number of gypsies but guess what, there are gypsies in France and Paris as well (less though).

I know that you are British so bad at languages but you should know better.

[garbon]

Typical French.

[Duque de Bragança]

Typical French.

Typical garbon 

[citizen k]

... the Paris of the Balkans? 

What does it take to become the "Paris of the Balkans" ?   

[garbon]

Typical garbon 

Nah. Also is it a favorable thing to be compared to Paris?

[Jaron]

And Tim, you aren't white. By "their descendants" you really should be saying "We'd still be living in the brass age"

Savage.

Neither are you.  The both of you are Mexicans.

I didnt claim to be.

[Tamas]

  Errr. Bucharest is a shithole.

[garbon]

Errr. Bucharest is a shithole.

And what is Paris?