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[bill cobbett]

Bill,

I was with you all the way to the last sentence.!!

You agree????

Another thing to bear in mind is that most of the CY Diaspora members and others, despite their poor good parents spending fortunes on their educations still have a lot of baggage from the old mountain villages where "debate" would be pretty much like on here sometimes. Those with roots in the villages of Paphos District are doubly encumbered.

Members from Oz or who have spent time in Oz may also be susceptible to frank speaking whereas a sort of Englishman like me will disguise the vocabulary, will use less emotive language, with less accusatory words and will meander to make the same point.

[CBBB]

Bill,

I was with you all the way to the last sentence.!!

You agree????

Another thing to bear in mind is that most of the CY Diaspora members and others, despite their poor good parents spending fortunes on their educations still have a lot of baggage from the old mountain villages where "debate" would be pretty much like on here sometimes. Those with roots in the villages of Paphos District are doubly encumbered.

Members from Oz or who have spent time in Oz may also be susceptible to frank speaking whereas a sort of Englishman like me will disguise the vocabulary, will use less emotive language, with less accusatory words and will meander to make the same point.

Meander? That was more of a ramble!

[vaughanwilliams]

Bill,

I was with you all the way to the last sentence.!!

You agree????

Another thing to bear in mind is that most of the CY Diaspora members and others, despite their poor good parents spending fortunes on their educations still have a lot of baggage from the old mountain villages where "debate" would be pretty much like on here sometimes. Those with roots in the villages of Paphos District are doubly encumbered.

Members from Oz or who have spent time in Oz may also be susceptible to frank speaking whereas a sort of Englishman like me will disguise the vocabulary, will use less emotive language, with less accusatory words and will meander to make the same point.

Bill,

My business partner and some of my best friends are TCs and when it comes to debating/arguing you guys share a lot in common with them, as I'm sure you know.
As an Englishman, I take the (percieved) underdogs side, as do many ex-pats in TRNC, and we take the agression which manifests itself on this forum and elsewhere as being typical of GCs pre and post 1974. This in turn confirms our determination to back the TC "horse". I'm sure if you were to go back a few threads you would detect that it is very often a "GC" (or supporter) who starts the usual offensive, insulting remarks which start the slide downhill from there. Brits don't take easily to name calling, etc., and tend to react in a similar vein. Neither do they give up when they feel they are in the right, nor do you, and quite rightly so.
Let's try to keep it civil and leave the threats and insults out of it.

[bill cobbett]

Bill,

I was with you all the way to the last sentence.!!

You agree????

Another thing to bear in mind is that most of the CY Diaspora members and others, despite their poor good parents spending fortunes on their educations still have a lot of baggage from the old mountain villages where "debate" would be pretty much like on here sometimes. Those with roots in the villages of Paphos District are doubly encumbered.

Members from Oz or who have spent time in Oz may also be susceptible to frank speaking whereas a sort of Englishman like me will disguise the vocabulary, will use less emotive language, with less accusatory words and will meander to make the same point.

Bill,

My business partner and some of my best friends are TCs and when it comes to debating/arguing you guys share a lot in common with them, as I'm sure you know.
As an Englishman, I take the (percieved) underdogs side, as do many ex-pats in TRNC, and we take the agression which manifests itself on this forum and elsewhere as being typical of GCs pre and post 1974. This in turn confirms our determination to back the TC "horse". I'm sure if you were to go back a few threads you would detect that it is very often a "GC" (or supporter) who starts the usual offensive, insulting remarks which start the slide downhill from there. Brits don't take easily to name calling, etc., and tend to react in a similar vein. Neither do they give up when they feel they are in the right, nor do you, and quite rightly so.
Let's try to keep it civil and leave the threats and insults out of it.

Yes, comments above apply to all CYs. May also be a matter of some kind of Mediterranean temperament??? Don't agree that there is any consistency with which group starts off with the profanities, both can be as guilty as the other.

As to matters of "underdogs", as you might imagine can't agree with this, other than what you say about the GB trait of support for the smaller fellow cos your underdog is backed by a huge army of occupation with one of NATO's largest armed services a few minutes away (and am leaving out any unhelpful refs to the past here).

If we want to look at it in this "underdog" way, think we should get away from this silly tribalism, think it would be far more constructive to look on all CYs as being the underdogs, all CYs being the whipping-boys, under the overwhelming power of the Motherlands and also of the AngloAmericans when, as they have and still do, pursue their own interests.