Hello fellow expatters,

Some facts about me:

10 year veteran of Turkey
a writer
fluent in Turkish
flit between Istanbul and the US
British

Likes:

politics, football, table-tennis, George Bernard Shaw, the Internet, math, Tom Wolfe, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, technology, the LAs, mercimek kofte, democracy, free speech, natural light, cufflinks, Richard Dawkins, Elif Safak, Tony Benn, Radiohead, coffee, dark chocolate, Noam Chomsky, Drudge Report, Toshiba laptops, Bodrum, Kapadokya, Stan Smith Adidas trainers, Yasar Kemal, fish and raki,

Dislikes:

people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, pessimism, the idea that the whole world is engaged in a massive conspiracy to split up / destroy / undermine Turkey, bamya, Margaret Thatcher (milk snatcher), Fox News, CNN, Jay Leno, organized religion, Ankara, digital watches, Peter Drucker, The Secret,

and more.............

Welcome, we must have a chat about cufflinks and your fear of aquatic mammals sometime.

disliking ankara I can live with, but liking kissenger?

welcome.

But he likes Kissinger AND Chomsky. You don't see that everyday...

Of course Elif Safak had to be in there as well. I always welcome an engaging debate on how the rest of the world is after us . As long as the content of your posts does not solely consist of the words ad hominem I am sure we will have a productive exchange.

[quote user="Yromem" post="113168"]Likes: politics, football, table-tennis, George Bernard Shaw, the Internet, math, Tom Wolfe, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, technology, the LAs, mercimek kofte, democracy, free speech, natural light, cufflinks, Richard Dawkins, Elif Safak, Tony Benn, Radiohead, coffee, dark chocolate, Noam Chomsky, Drudge Report, Toshiba laptops, Bodrum, Kapadokya, Stan Smith Adidas trainers, Yasar Kemal, fish and raki,[/quote]

You sound like an intellectual version of IanRice. This is a great compliement. Welcome.



[quote user="Yromem" post="113168"]Dislikes: the idea that the whole world is engaged in a massive conspiracy to split up / destroy / undermine Turkey, [/quote]

Meet DAI. I am sure you two will quickly become friends.

I am also going to have to pick you up on digital watches but this is negated by dark chocolate (and to a lesser extent democracy, free speech and natural light).

welcome, I've got to admit that I had to look up hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and would agree with you on that one. I'm sure you'll have fun here and watch out for deceivinganillusion cos he believes that we are all commonwealther, oriental romanticists (don't blame me that's his words) who don't see (or are a part of) the conspiracy you allude to in your introduction.....

Vromen,
Welcome. You'll find a number of writers here -- what's your gig? In years gone by, I ran full-tilt into Henry K in Harvard Square (we were both rounding a corner) and he apologized profusely, so I forgave him many things. Dark chocolate is one of the finer gifts to humanity.

Welcome to forum Yromem

Hey Memory,

Welcome to the forum

I'm a writer too.

BTW there's a discussion/talk by journalist/writer Andrew Finkel (Turkey correspondent for TIME) this week if u'd like to attend.
It's at the Hilton on Friday 21 March at 11am.
He will be discussing the changing face of Istanbul for better or worse.

Such kind words, although it appears the kind words quickly fade away in the 'real' forum as the verbal jousting begins.

Yromem, we dont allow folks on here who use anonymising software (like Torpark) we like to know who folks *really* are...

So its good bye Yromem, or should that be Seggiest?

That's a touch on the embarrassing side isn't it?

I think it's Monkban, the way he goes staight at the ladies ....

yromem = memory

don't know what that means. just thought I'd point it out.