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[Bananiot]

Viewpoint, try not to be cynical, it might be bad for your health. Last week in Korea I met a young Korean girl who spoke perfect Greek. That surprised me, pleasantly too. Korea was the last place on earth one would expect to find a native speak Greek. If you went to the north pole and came across an Eskimo that greeted you in Turkish, wouldn't you be pleasantly surprised?

[paliometoxo]

Reading VP's reply reminds me that I forgot to mention that this forum is also used to convey official propaganda too, depending on what political side or aspirations each one has:
If you are pro partition then you will not miss a chance to "prove" that GCs and TCS hate each other and cannot possibly live together in peace.
If you are pro unification then you will not miss a chance to "prove" that GCs and TCS love each ther and can certainly live together in peace.

Of course the truth is somewhere in the middle, and can be altered in any direction.

36 years of divorce you grow apart and start a new life.

yes but you dont put a line in the house and live in the same house, one of them moves out .. but i know there is no "divorce" and that gcs and tcs can live together, your wrong and i cant wait to tell you i told you so

Hello we have seperate homes me upstairs (north) you downstairs (south) you need to grasp reality.

no, you need to let go of the past and realise this is not 40 years ago. .. but upstairs and downstairs is still the same house to me

your wrong and you will see also. you and other tcs and the gcs who share the same horrible hatred

[Viewpoint]

Viewpoint, try not to be cynical, it might be bad for your health. Last week in Korea I met a young Korean girl who spoke perfect Greek. That surprised me, pleasantly too. Korea was the last place on earth one would expect to find a native speak Greek. If you went to the north pole and came across an Eskimo that greeted you in Turkish, wouldn't you be pleasantly surprised?

I agree I was just trying to understand was it the language or the fact that they were going to Ayia Napa.

[Bananiot]

Okay, sorry.

[Viewpoint]

Reading VP's reply reminds me that I forgot to mention that this forum is also used to convey official propaganda too, depending on what political side or aspirations each one has:
If you are pro partition then you will not miss a chance to "prove" that GCs and TCS hate each other and cannot possibly live together in peace.
If you are pro unification then you will not miss a chance to "prove" that GCs and TCS love each ther and can certainly live together in peace.

Of course the truth is somewhere in the middle, and can be altered in any direction.

36 years of divorce you grow apart and start a new life.

yes but you dont put a line in the house and live in the same house, one of them moves out .. but i know there is no "divorce" and that gcs and tcs can live together, your wrong and i cant wait to tell you i told you so

Hello we have seperate homes me upstairs (north) you downstairs (south) you need to grasp reality.

no, you need to let go of the past and realise this is not 40 years ago. .. but upstairs and downstairs is still the same house to me

your wrong and you will see also. you and other tcs and the gcs who share the same horrible hatred

do you know the difference between hate and trust?

[Get Real!]

I had a pleasant experience today I would like to share with you. Me and my wife were in the sea at Klepsides, Famagusta. Near us a bunch of young people were having fun, two boys and three girls. They were talking in Turkish and mostly English. They heard us talking in Greek and one of them greeted us with a heavy Greek Cypriot accent. Eventually, we got talking and we found out that they were students from Essex who came over for a few weeks. One of them, spoke fairly good Greek and I asked him that it was strange for a TC youngster (he was no more than 18 ) to speak Greek. He told me that his parents came from Galinoporni, in Karpasi, and mostly spoke Greek to him! He gloated when he told me that tonight he will make his way to Ayia Napa.

Tell us what pleased you the most?

When he got his whip out and they were all for it…

[Get Real!]

If you went to the north pole and came across an Eskimo that greeted you in Turkish, wouldn't you be pleasantly surprised?

Yes, I would want to throw a feast to celebrate the event so I’d have to cut him up to make Adana kebab…

[thegame24]

I think the Tcs on this site hate us, if they didnt they would accept living with us under a fairly voted Government

The ones on this site anyway dont like being a minority.

[zan]

I am working on an estate in Hackney that I worked in over thirty years ago. I very rarely tell "Cypriots" where I am from because it seems to allow these people the reason to have me do all the jobs they do not want to pay for and they don't feel they can ask the English. The problem is that at first site we both know where we come from so it's only a matter of time before I am hanging curtains. One such GC couple, recently, who are into their seventies and Dino is quite mad, (once a wrestler) now gives me kisses every time he sees me. He speaks a bit of Turkish and when I asked him where he learned it he said his father lived in Turkey. At that moment his wife piped up and said "but he was kicked out by the Turks". She also added they were forced from their homes in 74. I politely said that I know how they feel, my family where kicked off Cyprus in 64 after which the conversation stopped abruptly with Dino saying " that's enough Maria". She won't even look at me know whilst Dino still showers me with kisses. I like Dino. He reminds me of my dad but with a few more loose screws. Not sure about Maria. Not sure if it's hate from my side but I see a gloom fall over me each time I see her and a certain threat...............from a seventy plus woman.

[miltiades]

I am working on an estate in Hackney that I worked in over thirty years ago. I very rarely tell "Cypriots" where I am from because it seems to allow these people the reason to have me do all the jobs they do not want to pay for and they don't feel they can ask the English. The problem is that at first site we both know where we come from so it's only a matter of time before I am hanging curtains. One such GC couple, recently, who are into their seventies and Dino is quite mad, (once a wrestler) now gives me kisses every time he sees me. He speaks a bit of Turkish and when I asked him where he learned it he said his father lived in Turkey. At that moment his wife piped up and said "but he was kicked out by the Turks". She also added they were forced from their homes in 74. I politely said that I know how they feel, my family where kicked off Cyprus in 64 after which the conversation stopped abruptly with Dino saying " that's enough Maria". She won't even look at me know whilst Dino still showers me with kisses. I like Dino. He reminds me of my dad but with a few more loose screws. Not sure about Maria. Not sure if it's hate from my side but I see a gloom fall over me each time I see her and a certain threat...............from a seventy plus woman.

Zan your equation of your parents being "kicked" out of Cyprus in 1964 which of course NEVER happened since there are no records that any Cypriots were deported from Cyprus , is bizarre to say the least. The G/C lady correctly informed you that they, along with more than 160,000, were forced from their homes . Your parents were NOT DEPORTED from Cyprus , they perhaps felt that leaving Cyprus would be a solution to their concerns regarding security on an island were conflict was taking place. Nobody forced them at gun point to leave Cyprus , circumstances dictated that it would be safer to depart.Massive difference, so stop going on about it its becoming boring.