Apr 16
Here is a series of pictures - all from Turkey - that a friend sent to me. The ones posted here are the ones that I could easily see happening in Turkey
Debatebly better than a whole in the floor, which is quite common in Turkey.
I haven’t seen something like this personally but it wouldn’t surprise me if I did.
Looks a little dangerous, doesn’t it?
Another one that I haven’t seen but wouldn’t be surprised if I saw it.
This is my favorite one. I actually have seen this at one of the monuments. On the right it says the entrance fee is two million Turkish Lyra. On the left it says “entrance one million.” Sneaky Turks!
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April 27th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Turkey? The first cars identification table looked like an European and that second … I feel little embarrassed, because the identification table looks like it is from my country - Slovakia and the BA there might mean Bratislava - our capitol city… - but the table is not sharp, so I’m not sure… And those guys look like gipsies… - most of them would steel and sell their own mother to get alcohol, cigarettes and other drugs…. They usually even do not finish the elementary school, they live out of what the state give them, and make many children, so they get more money… But this also makes of some of them creative people, who repair everything in their own way
April 27th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Umm you may be correct about the car beginning with license plate number ‘BA,’ but the license plates in Turkey look just like the EU license plates minus the circle of stars. They are blue on the left side with the two letter abbreviation of the country in white. They also always start with a two digit number that represents which major population center they came from (the cities are numbered in alphabetical order with Istanbul being 34 I believe).
But nice catch! Thanks! This was just something that a friend sent me that I liked, and I thought captured the essence of some of the stupid things that go on in this country.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:45 am
@ susan. You shouldn´t prdoduce that manya prejudices about gipsies. I was in Sulukule (the oldest gipsy-barrio in the world located in Istanbul) 2 weeks ago, nobody wanted to steel my stuff, most of the people there were friendly, but it seems that they have a hard life because the city government destroyed a lot of there houses to bring them out of the city…