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[Get Real!]

Why is it every time I fly over Beirut and see the gorgeous mountain range caressing the city from behind while the blue Mediterranean drops like a pretty apron from its front… I get a warm fuzzy homely feeling!

[alexISS]

Why is it every time I fly over Beirut and see the gorgeous mountain range caressing the city from behind while the blue Mediterranean drops like a pretty apron from its front… I get a warm fuzzy homely feeling!

It's the feta cheese smell that filled the cabin after you burped

[Omer Seyhan]

Oracle, a Turkish person may find that Mop comparison offensive.

[Oracle]

Oracle, a Turkish person may find that Mop comparison offensive.

OK.

You can be the "brush" and we'll be the "mop".

Happy?

It was your analogy ....

Touchy Turks!

[YFred]

Oracle, a Turkish person may find that Mop comparison offensive.

OK.

You can be the "brush" and we'll be the "mop".

Happy?

It was your analogy ....

Touchy Turks!

That’s better. I can now imagine you. Mop in one hand fag in the other and curlers covered with head scarf.

[Paphitis]

Perhaps you could do one better and stop pestering Hellene Cypriots (Cypriots who believe they are Greek). It's the least you could do.

Pestering them? This is a forum. We're testing theories; exchanging views; discussing ideas. Identity is an aspect of the Cyprus problem, some might argue an important aspect. What are we to do? Brush it under the carpet in case we might upset people's sensibilities? It's akin to not being able to discuss the life of the historical Jesus in case we might offend Christians.

Of course identity is an important aspect and Turkey would love this identity challenged because it will enable her to lay claim over the whole island.

That is why Turkey has altered the occupied area. It would suit her purposes to remove all signs of Hellenism and Cypriot heritage.

You are free to discuss your ideas, but you are not free to challenge our Hellenic heritage unless you merely are expressing your own personal ideas or beliefs, which I don't have a problem with. You are free to believe anything you like.

[Paphitis]

Let me ask a general question: A road sweeper claims with prideness that he has had the same broom throughout his 30 year job. But in this time, he has fitted a new brush 47 times and replaced the stick no less than 49 times. He is adamant that he is using the same brush because it shares certain characteristics with the original, but is it the same brush?

Following the same logic, every single cell of your body has been replaced the last twenty years. Are you not you anymore?

Yes but the biological source is the same. it's different to a broom whose first three sticks could have been made of juniper wood, the next four of pine and so on and so forth.... How many Lebanese and Egyptians did our people make babies with?

We are talking about brooms now?

You people have lost the plot...

[Paphitis]

Yes but your culture isn't Greek. it is actually closer to the Lebanese.

I didn't realize the Lebanese speak Greek....

Learn something new every day.

[Get Real!]

You are free to discuss your ideas, but you are not free to challenge our Hellenic heritage unless you merely are expressing your own personal ideas or beliefs, which I don't have a problem with. You are free to believe anything you like.

Everyone, please don’t respond to anything by Paphitis, until we get this checked by a lawyer!

[Paphitis]

You are free to discuss your ideas, but you are not free to challenge our Hellenic heritage unless you merely are expressing your own personal ideas or beliefs, which I don't have a problem with. You are free to believe anything you like.

Everyone, please don’t respond to anything by Paphitis, until we get this checked by a lawyer!

It's already been signed off by Dimitriades...