No worries, Hakan. It was pretty last minute notice and we were only there for like a day.






When we were there, they were having demonstrations in the square. It was during the time that the mine collapsed and trapped a bunch of people. In Ankara there was a huge parade of protesters. I think I posted the video way back when I was there.

 

Also, chai just means tea there. It's not what we call chai in the US that's derived from the Indian variety. I like the Turkish one much better.

 

It the tea usually served hot or cold?

 

Hot, very hot.

 

something cold in turkey? lol.

The Turks I knew in school always asked if I had warm water -- none of the refrigerated bullshit.

They also got out of a lot of traffic offenses because the local cops thought it was funny they would actually try to bribe them.

 

 

Call:





And raise:

 

 

 

 

^ Nice.




I will, at this point, admit that I have a serious, nearly Braineck-at-a-Furry-Fest level fetish for covers of of 80s pop songs in minor-key.

 

German Shepard's opinion of 4th of July: "well, I mean, there's more BBQ than usual..."

 

Serious sadnote:

On this day, I am reminded that the United States of America once did amazing things.

And then it stopped.

 

FAKE NEWS!

 

 

 

An ad I saw on FB

 

FB ads are getting weird, something in their algorithms is funky.