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[zan]

Small world. I know that my niece who has just given birth lives somewhere in Homerton ... although they are moving out to "the country" now that they've got a kid. It is not a part of the borough I ever ventured into when I was living there. I saw plenty of the 253 bus route, though, because I was a conductor on it.

The best thing they could do Tim. Why anyone would WANT to live in Hackney baffles me. THere are pockets of middle class white hippies everywhere though (Is that a contradiction in terms?) who enjoy the great variety of restaurants and posh cafes. Stoke Newington High Street being one of them. Old decrepit victorian houses that i watched deteriorate over four decades have been restored by their Jamaican owners, who use to make a living from renting. Its great to see them go from sitting outside their properties in amongst rubbish to having expensive cars parked outside because they bought at the right time. The Hackney Empire and Town Hall area looks like the middle of the west end now but still I would not want to live there. I suppose I am a country boy at heart. Sorry TIm, I am telling you all this and you might already know. Do you still live in or close?

I live in Limassol, mate.

Nice!

[Tim Drayton]

Small world. I know that my niece who has just given birth lives somewhere in Homerton ... although they are moving out to "the country" now that they've got a kid. It is not a part of the borough I ever ventured into when I was living there. I saw plenty of the 253 bus route, though, because I was a conductor on it.

The best thing they could do Tim. Why anyone would WANT to live in Hackney baffles me. THere are pockets of middle class white hippies everywhere though (Is that a contradiction in terms?) who enjoy the great variety of restaurants and posh cafes. Stoke Newington High Street being one of them. Old decrepit victorian houses that i watched deteriorate over four decades have been restored by their Jamaican owners, who use to make a living from renting. Its great to see them go from sitting outside their properties in amongst rubbish to having expensive cars parked outside because they bought at the right time. The Hackney Empire and Town Hall area looks like the middle of the west end now but still I would not want to live there. I suppose I am a country boy at heart. Sorry TIm, I am telling you all this and you might already know. Do you still live in or close?

I live in Limassol, mate.

Nice!

It has its ups and downs. I nearly trod on a gufi a few months ago and it reared up and started hissing. Not a danger you face in Hackney.

[zan]

Small world. I know that my niece who has just given birth lives somewhere in Homerton ... although they are moving out to "the country" now that they've got a kid. It is not a part of the borough I ever ventured into when I was living there. I saw plenty of the 253 bus route, though, because I was a conductor on it.

The best thing they could do Tim. Why anyone would WANT to live in Hackney baffles me. THere are pockets of middle class white hippies everywhere though (Is that a contradiction in terms?) who enjoy the great variety of restaurants and posh cafes. Stoke Newington High Street being one of them. Old decrepit victorian houses that i watched deteriorate over four decades have been restored by their Jamaican owners, who use to make a living from renting. Its great to see them go from sitting outside their properties in amongst rubbish to having expensive cars parked outside because they bought at the right time. The Hackney Empire and Town Hall area looks like the middle of the west end now but still I would not want to live there. I suppose I am a country boy at heart. Sorry TIm, I am telling you all this and you might already know. Do you still live in or close?

I live in Limassol, mate.

Nice!

It has its ups and downs. I nearly trod on a gufi a few months ago and it reared up and started hissing. Not a danger you face in Hackney.

Not familiar with that name….Is it poisonous ? I know that the only one that is dangerous to man is the viper??

[Tim Drayton]

Bl**dy h**ll, you must be the only Turkish Cypriot who doesn't know what a gufi is (from the Greek "κουφή")! It's the snub-nosed viper.

[zan]

Bl**dy h**ll, you must be the only Turkish Cypriot who doesn't know what a gufi is (from the Greek "κουφή")! It's the snub-nosed viper.

Mate.. There is a lot that I missed out on by being kicked off my island at such a young age. We could not afford to keep coming back and so I have became very British. I keep getting bouts of resentment against the Greeks and GCs but being level headed I keep them at bay. Makarios gets it all when I get the chance.

[miltiades]

Bl**dy h**ll, you must be the only Turkish Cypriot who doesn't know what a gufi is (from the Greek "κουφή")! It's the snub-nosed viper.

Mate.. There is a lot that I missed out on by being kicked off my island at such a young age. We could not afford to keep coming back and so I have became very British. I keep getting bouts of resentment against the Greeks and GCs but being level headed I keep them at bay. Makarios gets it all when I get the chance.

You think therefore that the 80% of the Cypriots were wrong in demanding the right to chart their own destiny. How do you feel about the 20% Kurdish minority in Turkey ?

As much as I would have opposed ENOSIS, I maintain that the vast majority had the right to decide their own future just as majorities in most nations.

As a true Cypriot, I believe that both T/Cs and G/Cs are part of the majority if only they ditched their connection to their erroneously perceived motherlands and embrace their own nation as their only motherland.

[kurupetos]

Bl**dy h**ll, you must be the only Turkish Cypriot who doesn't know what a gufi is (from the Greek "κουφή")! It's the snub-nosed viper.

Mate.. There is a lot that I missed out on by being kicked off my island at such a young age. We could not afford to keep coming back and so I have became very British. I keep getting bouts of resentment against the Greeks and GCs but being level headed I keep them at bay. Makarios gets it all when I get the chance.

You think therefore that the 80% of the Cypriots were wrong in demanding the right to chart their own destiny. How do you feel about the 20% Kurdish minority in Turkey ?

As much as I would have opposed ENOSIS, I maintain that the vast majority had the right to decide their own future just as majorities in most nations.

As a true Cypriot, I believe that both T/Cs and G/Cs are part of the majority if only they ditched their connection to their erroneously perceived motherlands and embrace their own nation as their only motherland.

It's not motherland for us GCs... it's fatherland!

BTW, why do you never travel with Cyprus Airways, if you are a true Cypriot?

[zan]

Bl**dy h**ll, you must be the only Turkish Cypriot who doesn't know what a gufi is (from the Greek "κουφή")! It's the snub-nosed viper.

Mate.. There is a lot that I missed out on by being kicked off my island at such a young age. We could not afford to keep coming back and so I have became very British. I keep getting bouts of resentment against the Greeks and GCs but being level headed I keep them at bay. Makarios gets it all when I get the chance.

You think therefore that the 80% of the Cypriots were wrong in demanding the right to chart their own destiny. How do you feel about the 20% Kurdish minority in Turkey ?

As much as I would have opposed ENOSIS, I maintain that the vast majority had the right to decide their own future just as majorities in most nations.

As a true Cypriot, I believe that both T/Cs and G/Cs are part of the majority if only they ditched their connection to their erroneously perceived motherlands and embrace their own nation as their only motherland.

1/ By putting the vote for independence and ENOSIS together and by making it a petition style rather than a secret vote (as should have been) and the church threatening excommunication if you didn't vote in favour, you cannot claim any numbers whatsoever.

2/ Given the history of Cyprus, with the Turkish people, the warnings you got AND the results of which you can see today how dare you still claim the right. It was wrong on all accounts and you should have the courage to admit it. You cannot blindly keep makeing the same claim over and over again without sounding stupid. But then.........

3/ Turkey and the Kurds have nothing to do with your question and Turkey was formed in quite a different way. If you want to be silly then Turkey can claim it has shrunk since the Ottoman Empire and claim more. Different shit altogether. Stop hiding behind Turkey.

[miltiades]

So you want me to ...admit that the majority, the vast majority of Cypriots were utterly wrong !! No democratic rights for them then since they did not have the right to determine their won destiny.

Perhaps Turkey ought to apply some of your logic to its own 20 million minority, of course not after all one Turk equals a 1000 non Turks !!

[zan]

So you want me to ...admit that the majority, the vast majority of Cypriots were utterly wrong !! No democratic rights for them then since they did not have the right to determine their won destiny.

Perhaps Turkey ought to apply some of your logic to its own 20 million minority, of course not after all one Turk equals a 1000 non Turks !!

I gave you an answer because you asked politely. I am not going have you repeat the same crap over and over again. You have been given your answer and you still claim the vast majority proving you are stupid and cannot take what is in front of you. You talk like some of the young idiots on here that have been indoctrinated into terrorist like words. You are full of contradictions and a jingoistic prick. End of story. Same throughout this whole thread. No shame, no understanding, no remorse.