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[paliometoxo]

lol its ok, sorry

i guess when your not used to the ways of cyprus its funny how things work here, i found some things weird in england also when i went for holiday.

what is it like in england? the more people you know it does not help?

Hi Palio,

No, mate. Largely speaking the average Brit pays his parking tickets, wears a seat belt and gets in the queue, just like everybody else.
Try telling an English copper that your aunties, sisters, cousins......and he will either laugh in your face or bang you up for trying to pervert the course of justice.
For English people, most of whom don't even know their aunties cousins father in law, the concept is, well, lets call it quaint. For a policeman to let you drink and drive, thinking he is doing you a favour, is completely ridiculous, to our way of thinking.
But don't get me wrong, they are just the same up here in TRNC - every bugger is related and they all expect and get special treatment.

really you dont know your family? Well we live opposite eachother so that and its a very small village everyone knows eachother and gosspis and knoows eachothers business

its very different in england like my teacher at uni told me in england you make your children pahy rent to live witth them ;s ia that ltrue?

And couople meet family when they are close to marrage like a big step. Its very different to how we live but it must feel weird when your yused to one way and then come here.

[vaughanwilliams]

lol its ok, sorry

i guess when your not used to the ways of cyprus its funny how things work here, i found some things weird in england also when i went for holiday.

what is it like in england? the more people you know it does not help?

Hi Palio,

No, mate. Largely speaking the average Brit pays his parking tickets, wears a seat belt and gets in the queue, just like everybody else.
Try telling an English copper that your aunties, sisters, cousins......and he will either laugh in your face or bang you up for trying to pervert the course of justice.
For English people, most of whom don't even know their aunties cousins father in law, the concept is, well, lets call it quaint. For a policeman to let you drink and drive, thinking he is doing you a favour, is completely ridiculous, to our way of thinking.
But don't get me wrong, they are just the same up here in TRNC - every bugger is related and they all expect and get special treatment.

really you dont know your family? Well we live opposite eachother so that and its a very small village everyone knows eachother and gosspis and knoows eachothers business

its very different in england like my teacher at uni told me in england you make your children pahy rent to live witth them ;s ia that ltrue?

And couople meet family when they are close to marrage like a big step. Its very different to how we live but it must feel weird when your yused to one way and then come here.

We do know our immediate family, parents, brothers, sisters and in-laws, of course. But once you start getting to cousins and second cousins and in-laws of cousins, you're talking about too many people who you rarely, if ever, meet or speak to, perhaps only at big weddings/funerals, etc.
UK is a big country compared to Cy and people live hundreds of miles apart and have very little in common, other than the relationship itself.
The cost of living in the UK is high and children with income who live at home are expected to carry some of the cost to ease the burden on their parents. It encourages grown-up kids to move out and get their own places, something that wouldn't hurt Cypriot families, from what I hear.

[paliometoxo]

thats what i like about the uk i could know the president and it would not help me out of a speeding ticket. where as in cyprus jobs are given to known friends and you have to know people.

yes london alone has more then double the population of cyprus, i always thought uk families where not many. my fathers side of the family is very big and i used to meet them and my cousin would say.. this is your cousin lol i say really? in such a small village this would happen, but we always keep in touch and see eachother.

its always good to keep in touch.

[vaughanwilliams]

thats what i like about the uk i could know the president and it would not help me out of a speeding ticket. where as in cyprus jobs are given to known friends and you have to know people.

yes london alone has more then double the population of cyprus, i always thought uk families where not many. my fathers side of the family is very big and i used to meet them and my cousin would say.. this is your cousin lol i say really? in such a small village this would happen, but we always keep in touch and see eachother.

its always good to keep in touch.

London has a population of about 8 million, actually.
I have 5 brothers and sisters in the UK and none of them live anywhere near each other.
In TRNC when two TCs talk together they nearly always find a common relation. (Or they are both from Paphos!)

[paliometoxo]

lol exactly same thing here, they say oh you know his or her she is my so and so ;p

8 million yes thats 8 times the size well more then 8 times more like 10 lol just london alone but we have half a million cypriots in london and manchester some more, if they all came back which they wont ..

oh so i can see why you dont see eachother much, such distance between you all. thats a shame.

[sweetie pie]

You are not saying the Gc's are inbred are you Vaughn?

I'm not counting any Cypriots toes, mate. Marrying cousins has been banned in the UK for a long time...

Actually sorry to disappoint you but it is perfectly legal to marry your cousin in the UK.

[CBBB]

You are not saying the Gc's are inbred are you Vaughn?

I'm not counting any Cypriots toes, mate. Marrying cousins has been banned in the UK for a long time...

Actually sorry to disappoint you but it is perfectly legal to marry your cousin in the UK.

Which it isn't here!

[vaughanwilliams]

You are not saying the Gc's are inbred are you Vaughn?

I'm not counting any Cypriots toes, mate. Marrying cousins has been banned in the UK for a long time...

Actually sorry to disappoint you but it is perfectly legal to marry your cousin in the UK.

Which it isn't here!

I stand corrected. I wondered where my extra thumb came from!

[Svetlana]

In the Mid-West of the good ole US of A, it is compulsory to marry your cousin!

[vaughanwilliams]

In the Mid-West of the good ole US of A, it is compulsory to marry your cousin!

They do say there are parts of Norfolk where you can marry three different girls and still have the same mother-in-law.