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[LENA]

I don't know........If you were to ask me where the keys were on the board I could not tell you....I always leave those ones in the crossword section.....BUT!!!!!...Somehow my fingers know. If my fingers could talk I would be able to do the crosswords without looking at the keyboard

As for learning from others mistakes.......I am the others

So you and your keyboards have issues to sort it out huh? Or is it you and your fingers. Are your fingers always act on their own or is it just with keyboards?

So you have issues with your fingers and you say that you are others...do you have issues with who you are too?

Who are you talking to....Me or my fingers....


I am going o leave you two alone for a while because neither me nor my fingers know what is going on here with you too charlies and georges.

I will go to bed soon Zan my dear...I need to wake up in 2 hours. Good night. And try to improve your English ok?

[LENA]

Zan do you think that there will be away for the Turks to give our stuff back?

Run girl...bad Zany will come back for you with that comment!

[LENA]

Lena how old are you??

23 and with that I am going to bed Sophia mou. Hope you sort it out your problems with that girl.

[zan]

I don't know........If you were to ask me where the keys were on the board I could not tell you....I always leave those ones in the crossword section.....BUT!!!!!...Somehow my fingers know. If my fingers could talk I would be able to do the crosswords without looking at the keyboard

As for learning from others mistakes.......I am the others

So you and your keyboards have issues to sort it out huh? Or is it you and your fingers. Are your fingers always act on their own or is it just with keyboards?

So you have issues with your fingers and you say that you are others...do you have issues with who you are too?

Who are you talking to....Me or my fingers....


I am going o leave you two alone for a while because neither me nor my fingers know what is going on here with you too charlies and georges.

I will go to bed soon Zan my dear...I need to wake up in 2 hours. Good night. And try to improve your English ok?

Night Night Lena and Sophia.......I need to go to bed now also......I will need to get up early to practice my English..


Sophia


I will answer your question tomorrow if you can find a way to give my dad his life back??????He is not dead but lost his home when he was chased off his island by Greek aggression. He is a lost soul that has no affiliation with any real country that he can call his own. He only has his Turkishness left and people are asking him to give that up as well. If you can figure an answer to that then we can talk tomorrow


Good night!!

[Sophia1]

Good night hun xx PS you are so not old girly your still a spring chicken lol

Sweet dreams xx

[Sophia1]

So sorry to hear that Zan I am a bit thick when it comes to learning just one side of the story and it is confusing.. I didnt mean to offend you babes I fell like crap now..

Goodnight x

[Hazza]

Hi Sophia, I'm the George that Lena mentioned. In answer to a couple of questions.....

"Who is George and is he your boyfriend?"
I'm George, a British Born Greek Cypriot. Have been living in Cyprus for a 3 years and 4 months. Myself and Lena are good friends.

"Why are we called Charlies"
I've been called a Charlie alot, and to be honest, I don't only hate it, I find it very offensive. If its from somebody that I know, I can laugh about it and enjoy the banter, but if its a complete stranger, then it bugs the hell out of me. Anyhow, here is an explanation for you....

"A Cypriot male, born in the United Kingdom, Charloua if female.

This may also be applied to Cyprus-born Cypriots if their sojourn abroad has rendered them sufficiently anglicised.

This group, or their parents, compelled by the disasters of the 1974 Turkish invasion, or by post World War II* poverty moved to Britain to seek their fortunes or at least recoup their considerable losses.

By & large they worked hard & later returned to Cyprus with money & a desire to re establish their lives in their or their parents' homeland.

These individuals fall into two groups both of whom are equally despised.



1. Charlie/Charloua type 1.
This person combines the best of the English/Cypriot fusion they represent.
The politeness of the English with the hard working enthusiasm of the Cypriot.
The negative aspects of the two races are to some degree filtered out by their experiences, plus the fact that outside Cyprus most mangoscines are arrestable offences under law and that the classic British arrogance and coldness are totally alien to the friendly Cypriots.

2. Charlie/Charloua type 2.
This person combines the worst of the English/Cypriot fusion they represent.
The arrogance of the English with the intelligence of the Cypriot. The positive aspects of the two races are totally filtered out by their experiences, plus the fact that they are not outside Cyprus any more.



It is curious to note that whilst most expatriate parents are type one, many of their children are enthusiastically type two to the point of Yuppiedom**.

The Cypriot detestation of both of these divergent groups with equal enthusiasm is puzzling but is theorised to be based on the following points.

1. The Charlies actually possess the experience & sophistication the Cypriots like pretend to.
For example, relatively few own thiplowgambina or even feel any need to apologise for this deficiency.
Thus when a Cypriot drops a casual "Y'know" or "innit" into conversation to imply his easy, cosmopolitan familiarity with the English language, a Charlie may then address the speaker fluently in that language & so explore his actual state of linguistic proficiency.
Thus the Cypriot is embarrassed & made to feel a gouloufos (Pesant)

2. The Charlies often have money, but do not feel the need to tell everybody about it or at least to give it freely and without delay to the local population on demand.
This combination of riches & restraint is not readily forgivable in a land motivated by external validation to the degree of building shrines the concept.

3. Charlouas tend to be unmoved by mangoscines & have even been known to find such behaviour amusing.
This is offensive to the true Cypriot male whom even at the age of 45 years & an unladen weight of 120 Kg knows his sexual irresistibility to these females is & must remain beyond question. Bathing regularly, shaving occasionally & changing his underwear would be merely gilding the lily.

4. Type two Charlies are more Cypriot than the Cypriots are, which is enough to upset anybody forced to share a planet with them.

[Sophia1]

Hi George

Wow 3 years?? Well that explains allot, why the oldies were a bit bitter to me but its not fare its also spreading to the young people..

Thanks George

[pantheman]

Cyprus is a very small Island that has gone through hell and back, the Cypriot people have the right to feel proud and protective of there beautiful Island.. The Cypriot kids are seeing into the future and they do not like it one bit and neither do we, meaning us British cypriot kids, we worry just like them coz we see exactly what they see, another governmental F**k up.

This is a message for all you proud greek cypriots, you are not alone, as much as you never thought much of us British Cypriots, we are here too and we are sticking by you even if we are not living in Cyprus we still care.

There are more of us then you think we cypriots are every where and no one can get rid of us or over lap us...

Peace XX

Sofia,

I understand completly what you are saying and I agree.

I have never been referred to as a charlie yet, but it won't cut any ice with me. I am much older than you, maybe thicker skin, but you shouldn't let that bother you.

It can be hard in cyprus try to gel with the locals, but you have to try hard than them to get accepted. The more you let them see you are intimidated the worst it gets.

When i came to Cyprus, not that long ago, i found myself comparing the place to the UK and alot of things really sucked me off, but hey, we are in cyprus now, you just have to learn to accept things and try harder to intergrate. I find life much easier now and I am getting along just fine. Persiverence is what you need.

As for Hazza long winded reason why he thinks we are called charlies, well i don't agree to be honest, I think it may have just come from some prat trying to be clever came up with the word and now its stuck.

The is a certain amount of jealousy from the locals to the english cypriots, they think that when the come to cyprus they are all loaded and being a cultural thing, they can't bear to think someone is doing good for them selves.

Don't even try to answer Zan question, or this thread will turn into a cyprob thread, but what i would say to him, since sofia asked you first , you answer then we will give you your answer.

Have a good christmas girl.

[Sophia1]

Hey hun thanks for your reply.. Thats the thing though I never use to compare anything I just use to be my friendly self but I have to say one thing its not how it use to be, it frightened me lets put it that way I felt I was in Brixton most of the time.

I never use to speak either and I love to talk me.

xx