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[Viewpoint]

Bit long in the tooth to be playing "girlfirend" thing, the image of you a 56yo with an 18yo on your arm yuk, always thought you were a pervert.

What makes you think a "girlfriend thing" ONLY means an 18 year old.

But you approve of this right, because you said you met him once or twice. Did you tell this old fart that he was a pervert.?

I doubt it. You once again chickened out.

They are married.

[Viewpoint]

Bit long in the tooth to be playing "girlfirend" thing, the image of you a 56yo with an 18yo on your arm yuk, always thought you were a pervert.

What makes you think a "girlfriend thing" ONLY means an 18 year old.

VP has some very strange ideas about relationships. It sounds like he leads a sheltered life. Just him and his goat.

So a 56yo fucking a 18yo is not disgusting? hes old enough to be her granddad and you think theres something wrong with me...stupid is stupid is stupid.

[Hermes]

Bit long in the tooth to be playing "girlfirend" thing, the image of you a 56yo with an 18yo on your arm yuk, always thought you were a pervert.

What makes you think a "girlfriend thing" ONLY means an 18 year old.

VP has some very strange ideas about relationships. It sounds like he leads a sheltered life. Just him and his goat.

So a 56yo fucking a 18yo is not disgusting? hes old enough to be her granddad and you think theres something wrong with me...stupid is stupid is stupid.

I think you are the one who has invented a fantasy about a 56-year old man and an 18-year old girl. You need to get a grip.

[loadsatime]

geography is not the worlds greatest sport some 80% of the world don't know where they live in relation to the globe itself, weather its the southern, northern hemisphere,Cancer,Capricorn or within the polar regions,so hows Americans gonna know any of this to them they own the lot


so now where is Tipperary? no maps,no computers' think +
a.it's not the local dump,
b.it's along way to go!

[supporttheunderdog]

Bit long in the tooth to be playing "girlfirend" thing, the image of you a 56yo with an 18yo on your arm yuk, always thought you were a pervert.

What makes you think a "girlfriend thing" ONLY means an 18 year old.

But you approve of this right, because you said you met him once or twice. Did you tell this old fart that he was a pervert.?

I doubt it. You once again chickened out.

They are married.

What an old fashioned view about relationships.
Does a marriage between a man of 56 and a girl of 18 make any difference as to whether or not a man may or may not be a perve?
In any event she had to be his girlfriend first!

[supporttheunderdog]

there s a Joke:

The President of China and the President of Cyprus met at the UN .
The President of China asked the President of China where he was from:
"Cyprus", was the reply.

"Where is that?" said the President of China.

The President of Cyprus replied: "It is small Island in the Mediterrean sea, with aboout 1 million people".

"Oh: do you live in the same appartment block?"

Ignorance about Cyprus is not restricted to the Americans: I suspect many younger Britons now have little clue about Cyprus or its historica British connections - so woeful is the general teaching about British History these days - and there are certainly many who think Cyprus is a part of Greece. Probably few know much about the events of the 1960's culminating in the 1974 invasion, unless they have come here and gone much further than the nearest beach.

[CBBB]

there s a Joke:

The President of China and the President of Cyprus met at the UN .
The President of China asked the President of China where he was from:
"Cyprus", was the reply.

"Where is that?" said the President of China.

The President of Cyprus replied: "It is small Island in the Mediterrean sea, with aboout 1 million people".

"Oh: do you live in the same appartment block?"

Ignorance about Cyprus is not restricted to the Americans: I suspect many younger Britons now have little clue about Cyprus or its historica British connections - so woeful is the general teaching about British History these days - and there are certainly many who think Cyprus is a part of Greece. Probably few know much about the events of the 1960's culminating in the 1974 invasion, unless they have come here and gone much further than the nearest beach.

Even some of the ones that come here don't know where it is!

[Viewpoint]

Bit long in the tooth to be playing "girlfirend" thing, the image of you a 56yo with an 18yo on your arm yuk, always thought you were a pervert.

What makes you think a "girlfriend thing" ONLY means an 18 year old.

But you approve of this right, because you said you met him once or twice. Did you tell this old fart that he was a pervert.?

I doubt it. You once again chickened out.

They are married.

What an old fashioned view about relationships.
Does a marriage between a man of 56 and a girl of 18 make any difference as to whether or not a man may or may not be a perve?
In any event she had to be his girlfriend first!

The age imbalance whether married or not does not make it any better when they are married.

[Filitsa]

Things must have changed a lot Filitsa. I 've been in the USA for about 7 months, and what Kikapu said was in fact true back then. The Americans used to say "we are the best nation" and when asked "really, have you seen other nations, have you ever traveled" the typical answer was "yes I went to New York 2 times!"
As for exchange students there was only one in my University out of 7000 who' s been an exchange sort of student, to an American University abroad.
As for speaking foreign languages just forget it, some girls were fascinated by French though, albeit their knowledge was almost zero.
Let aside the fact that they thought of English as the only real language in the world. And what kind of English... the American English LOL.
I really felt sorry for a poor British professor we had there how the undergraduates were constantly giggling when he was talking.

Could you please clarify how the American students today spend one semester abroad? Do they do it as exchange students, or what? We haven't seen any in Cyprus btw, where do they go?

NB. I didn't like the US btw. Too dull of a place, too empty people, too much ignorance and arrogance, and a hidden racism everywhere

For sure, P., if I were studying in the cornfields of Illinois, I'd find it dull too, and I'm sure there I'd encounter people who I found less tolerant of cultural diversity than me. It's all relative, P. Where in the U.S. did/are you attend/ing universtiy? And is it, in fact, a university? I ask because I've observed that Europeans and Asians seem to refer to post secondary education with the "umbrella" term "university" as opposed to "college." Whereas, a college is a tertiary learning institution that awards only associates/bachelors degrees, a university also awards degrees of even higher learning, i.e. master and doctorate degrees. Do you know that there are upwards of 5000 tertiary learning institutions throughout the U.S.? Have you entertained the notion that there's more to the U.S. than the area to which you were relegated ... by choice, I assume?

Most colleges and universities offer opportunities for their students to study abroad typically in the third year. And no, it is not an exchange program. Students live on campus or are provided some kind of university housing. For example, my son spent his junior year studying at a university in England where his suitemates where Afghan, Kazak, and English. They got along famously and still keep in touch. He traveled to Spain to visit a friend from home, a Spanish major, who was studying there. He travelled to Rome to visit another friend, a classics major, proficient in Latin, classical Greek, and demotic Greek (and, no, he is not of Italian or Greek extraction). He traveled to France with an acquaintence from Belgium. He also traveled to Ireland, Scotland, and Hungary, visiting friends studying in each of those countries. And he did this at his own expense, funded by his earnings from a part time job there.

Regarding the giggling co-eds, P., perhaps they had a crush on the British professor? I'm incredulous too. How could they possibly find a Brit more attractive than a Cyp?!

[Filitsa]

True story.

Couple of years ago, my girlfriend and I flew to Seattle from San Francisco, rented a car and drove to Vancouver B.C., Canada. On our return back to the US few days later, we were met at the border by a young female border agent. Upon showing my US passport and my girlfriend's Swiss passport, the agent asked the usual boring question as to where and when we met. I told her.

Then she asked me, "where is Cyprus", since my birth place is written as Nicosia in the passport. I said "It's an Island".

She then said, "I didn't ask you what it was. I asked you where it was".

I said, "It's South of Turkey and off the coast of Israel in the Eastern corner of the Mediterranean" hoping that she would have at least heard of those two countries as an young American, and without a pause, I then said to her, "and it has been there for a while".

My girlfriend was discreetly nudging me gently as we sat in the car for me to stop making the border agent look foolish.

After few more questions as to where we had been and why and where we were going and why, we were allowed to cross into the US. I don't know whether she was testing me if i knew where Cyprus was, or whether she had never heard of the place. That's the reason why I said Israel and not Lebanon or Syria as the other countries closer to Cyprus than Israel. Most Americans have never left the state they were born in, let alone travel abroad or learn a second language.

My girlfriend was just happy we were not detained for few hours as a pun]ishment for my "smart aleck" comments to the border agent.

>>Most Americans have never left the state they were born in, let alone travel abroad or learn a second language.<<

Kikapu, it surprises me that you subscribe to this. I am representative of "most" Americans, y yo hablo Espanol kai Ellinika (3 generations removed from the "old country"). My family has collectively covered global territory inclusive of Europe, Asia, South America, and most of North America. Fifty percent of traditional American college students travel abroad during their studies. The typical high school curriculum requires a minimum of 2 years of a foreign language. Most 4-year colleges like to see 3 years on the applicants' transcripts. Are the only Americans you've associated with from rural Appalachia? I could, in return - but I know better - remark that most Cypriots, if they ever left the island, did so - as I'm guessing you did - because it has little to offer by way of preparing its people to compete in a Twenty-First Century global economy and that, should they know a second language, it was a consequence of it being forced upon them by occupiers or imperialists.

Well Filitsa, seems you have been living in the states too long and have become yankified.

http://www.theexpeditioner.com/2010/02/ ... assport-2/

Most Americans don't have a passport.

There are other li nks I could give, but you suffer the typical American dream BS, that no other country exists outside the US.

I watched a documentary not that long ago, a tv crew on the streets of the US asking every day people to point to various countires on a globe. The never had a clue, most didn't even realise the planet was spherical.

Kiks, you are right man, most yanks are full of shit, arrogant and stupid.

Thanks

Ummm, B., I was born here, and so were my parents. Three of my four grandparents immigrated here. I know, I know ... according to many Cyps and Greeks, I'm from the cut-off generation - the generation that so many of you guys have arbitrarily written-off as being disinterested in its ethnic heritage, but here I am and there I've been in spite of all of you, and so have my kids, the next generation of "Yanks." But alas, I've lived too long to be discouraged from celebrating who I am and from where I came by small minded folk with the incessant need to label, stereotype, and judge others in order to feel better about themselves,

I'm sure you have grossly misunderstood Kikapu.