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Gifts for my friends mothers
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 03:03 pm |
Hi,
I'm going to stay with a uni friend and her family in North Cyprus soon and need some ideas of a suitable gift to give her mother when I arrive. This family are not very religious at all (not sure if that makes any difference!)
Im then going to Istanbul to stay with a another girl I know and her family but I get the impression that they are a bit more strict so maybe a different kind of present would be better....I would ask the 2 girls but I kind of want it to be a surprise so don want to ask them
So, any ideas please?
thanks
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 04:06 pm |
My advice is always to take something not too extravagant, but something thoughtful. Something unique to your country perhaps.
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 04:34 pm |
hahaha unique to england though? we have no culture here, and any that one might find, is probably not worth being proud of
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 04:42 pm |
Quoting fenerkız: hahaha unique to england though? we have no culture here, and any that one might find, is probably not worth being proud of |
Just a few to start with:-
Shortbread
English Tea
Nottingham Lace
Poole Pottery
Royal Doulton China
English Marmalade
As to culture:- No culture? You silly girl England is rich in culture - music, arts, day to day life....
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 04:50 pm |
I appreciate those ideas thank you, but I do not appreciate being called a "silly girl".
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 04:51 pm |
Quoting fenerkız: I appreciate those ideas thank you, but I do not appreciate being called a "silly girl". |
Well you are, if you think we have no culture
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 04:56 pm |
I can have my opinion, and compared to other countries culture, I think mine is poor.
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 04:58 pm |
Quoting fenerkız: I can have my opinion, and compared to other countries culture, I think mine is poor. |
There are many many things that are wrong with our country, but our culture is rich and steeped in history.
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 05:03 pm |
Jesus, ok maybe I was a bit too harsh with what I said, yes a lot of history blah blah blah but I, personally, don't feel like england has much of a culture anymore. I dont know how old you are,maybe you are older than me and thus have a different opinion because of that.
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 05:09 pm |
The "in vogue" word this week is "jeeeez".
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 05:15 pm |
jejejeje exactly our countries problem
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 05:15 pm |
Quoting fenerkız: jejejeje exactly our countries problem |
I meant on this website
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 05:18 pm |
Quoting fenerkız: I can have my opinion, and compared to other countries culture, I think mine is poor. |
Have to agree with you there fener!
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 05:39 pm |
Quoting lady in red: Quoting fenerkız: I can have my opinion, and compared to other countries culture, I think mine is poor. |
Have to agree with you there fener! |
I suspect you only see "culture" when it is different to your own, and are blind to what is around you
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 05:53 pm |
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 05:59 pm |
Quoting lady in red: Quoting fenerkız: I can have my opinion, and compared to other countries culture, I think mine is poor. |
Have to agree with you there fener! |
Which bit? The having my own opinion bit or my actually opinion its self?
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 06:01 pm |
Quoting AEnigmamagnadea: Quoting lady in red: Quoting fenerkız: I can have my opinion, and compared to other countries culture, I think mine is poor. |
Have to agree with you there fener! |
I suspect you only see 'culture' when it is different to your own, and are blind to what is around you |
Possibly you are right - of course there is plenty of 'culture' in Britain in the form of literature, music and art - perhaps it is better to say that in general our country's appreciation of 'culture' is poor compared to that of some other countries? And maybe it's tradition we don't have much of rather than culture. OK you can go ahead and quote Morris Dancing, Dunmow Flitch, Druids, Maypole Dancing, etc. but they are not traditions followed by everyone are they . I've never seen a group of British lads in a bar just get up and start singing and dancing to The Floral Dance!!! (More likely to start kicking each others' heads in)
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 06:02 pm |
Quoting fenerkız: Quoting lady in red: Quoting fenerkız: I can have my opinion, and compared to other countries culture, I think mine is poor. |
Have to agree with you there fener! |
Which bit? The having my own opinion bit or my actually opinion its self? [/QUOTE
Your opinion but also your right to have one! |
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 06:16 pm |
Quoting lady in red: Quoting AEnigmamagnadea: Quoting lady in red: Quoting fenerkız: I can have my opinion, and compared to other countries culture, I think mine is poor. |
Have to agree with you there fener! |
I suspect you only see 'culture' when it is different to your own, and are blind to what is around you |
Possibly you are right - of course there is plenty of 'culture' in Britain in the form of literature, music and art - perhaps it is better to say that in general our country's appreciation of 'culture' is poor compared to that of some other countries? And maybe it's tradition we don't have much of rather than culture. OK you can go ahead and quote Morris Dancing, Dunmow Flitch, Druids, Maypole Dancing, etc. but they are not traditions followed by everyone are they . I've never seen a group of British lads in a bar just get up and start singing and dancing to The Floral Dance!!! (More likely to start kicking each others' heads in) |
You think culture is about morris dancing?
What about the Beatles, Brit Pop, Shakespeare, The Mini Skirt, blah blah blah
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 06:34 pm |
Quoting AEnigmamagnadea: Quoting lady in red: Quoting AEnigmamagnadea: Quoting lady in red: Quoting fenerkız: I can have my opinion, and compared to other countries culture, I think mine is poor. |
Have to agree with you there fener! |
I suspect you only see 'culture' when it is different to your own, and are blind to what is around you |
Possibly you are right - of course there is plenty of 'culture' in Britain in the form of literature, music and art - perhaps it is better to say that in general our country's appreciation of 'culture' is poor compared to that of some other countries? And maybe it's tradition we don't have much of rather than culture. OK you can go ahead and quote Morris Dancing, Dunmow Flitch, Druids, Maypole Dancing, etc. but they are not traditions followed by everyone are they . I've never seen a group of British lads in a bar just get up and start singing and dancing to The Floral Dance!!! (More likely to start kicking each others' heads in) |
You think culture is about morris dancing?
What about the Beatles, Brit Pop, Shakespeare, The Mini Skirt, blah blah blah |
OK - 'I've yet to see a group of British ladsy in a bar just get up and start singing and dancing to The Beatles' - and 'pop' culture' and 'proper' culture are two different things (Shakespeare was included under 'literature')
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 08:11 pm |
You are absolutely right on spot LIR.
We all know what aenigma is referring to. dont we?
The way you brits eat like imitating your Queen.
Rules for everything.
You thank your host every time when you taste a new dish, sometimes you thank several times for each dish in order to show how polite and how upper middle class you are.
And you talk about the weather all the time.
Because it is the safest subject.
You all are too scared to open an important topic, in case they wont invite you again because you may have broken the rules.
What you eat is mainly something tasteless from non existing british cuisine. Bad copy of your across the sea neighbour-French. And, somehow you seem to be always envious of them.
In the end you finish your meal and go home with nothing in your head apart from a nice tasting wine in your mouth.
Yes, you thank zillion times and zillion times everybody knows that you would thank anyway..You make 'Thank you' lose its importance. In the end nobody is sure if you really mean it or not..
Birthdays are any other days in people's lives..You brits are just exaggerating.
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 10:36 pm |
"Thank you" handsom for that lovely disortation of British culture. I can probably skip a British vacation now that you have told me how intolerably polite everyone is.
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14 Jul 2008 Mon 11:03 pm |
Quoting thehandsom: Quoting Elisabeth: "Thank you" handsom for that lovely disortation of British culture. I can probably skip a British vacation now that you have told me how intolerably polite everyone is. |
You are very welcome Lisa!!
Actually I have to add something more..
You know what? they mix all the sequence of what they eat.
The great example is the salad. I have seen many brits eating their meal first and then they pass the salad bowl around.
Some of them eat the salad as desert!! can you believe that?
And depending on your host's mercy, you can be served either something called black pudding or cheese with crackers before the meal ends!!...
And guess what? having a huge chunk of cheese from the cheese plate is considered as rude.. You have to have a lil bit and ask for more (and you have to keep repeating 'how delicious it is' for each round )..
Although most of the cheese you very likely to get is rotten and smelly but it is much much better that black pudding, take my word for it..
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Oh, thank you, handsom. What a lovely post! Should I thank you between sentences???
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15 Dec 2008 Mon 02:47 pm |
Quoting fenerkýz: I can have my opinion, and compared to other countries culture, I think mine is poor. |
There are many many things that are wrong with our country, but our culture is rich and steeped in history.
But sometimes it is all too easy to simply not notice the beauty, history and culture that is on your own doorstep........you just don´t see it due to familiarity. Shame really
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