There are two types of people here: those who keep changing their nicks and those who are suspicious of them (as expected). I am glad, many people have time for these kinds of games but I still don´t know what the motive is.

There are couple of guys who take your time for granted when it comes to complaints and the like. Interestingly, despite having all this time at their disposals, they hardly ever volunteer sharing some of the responsibility by becoming mods. Did they do that, they would realize how difficult it can be to keep everyone pleased.

Quoting Arafta

I did edit the post

In the past, I used to flame people a bit. I would get flamed by them in return. I observed that it was a wrong way to communicate with people and decided to take steps to correct that. I have been more careful with my posts for a good while. There is no benefit in calling people names. Don´t go back in time to dig for my past mistakes. I am ashamed of them already.

Arafta, stop posting these provocative messages and try to be respectful to other members. Please edit objectionable parts like "redneck"

Other members, please don´t answer provocative posts. This is not a fight between civilizations. This is a fight between persons. Turkishclass is our common platform. We are here to share and learn from one another. Don´t fall into the traps of fire starters.

We say the Balkans but there are indeed subgroups within the region. Those in the South are warm blooded people, we could group these people together as Bosnians, Croatians, Serbs, Turks, Bulgarians, Albanians Greeks and Macedonians. These people are quite different from those in the North. They are open to foreign influence and are affected by all positive and negative trends evolving around them but they have a strong nationalist outlook and a deep hatred of anyone or anything that may jeopardize their unity.

This is the reason why all these countries held on to their national identities despite being a part of a Muslim nation for 500-600 years. When you read the individual histories of those nations, you will often find a hero whose biggest achievement was beating the Turks at an epic war. Therefore there is also an East-West polarization in the Balkans. Being muslims, Bosnians are still considered East and their very existence in Yugoslavia was a reason for grunt and grudge.

We could consider Romania as a cross-culture. Being related to Italians they are essentially South but since they are outside the major conflicts of the Balkans they are a bit North as well.

Congratulating Turkish people for their courage? 91% of the Turkish people voted in favour of the 82 constitution with a record high turnout. They deliberately supported the regime then. Our people are quite opportunistic, they support the one who has the biggest power.

What do you mean Galatasaray, Fenerbahce´ye boyun eğdi? A better example would be: "Fenerbahce, Galatasaray´a boyun eğdi."

Well, the link is there. I might have said, "where did they get these figures..." Nobody ever measured me or anyone in my family. I just had to bow down my head and passed under it.

I don´t know where you got this from but I have my doubts about these figures. When I applied for voluntary/compulsory military service, I went through a health check up which included weight and height measurements. The soldier in charge of the measurements had fixed the meter at 173cms. Being too lazy to adjust for every single person he would write a few centimeters up or down. That being the standard, I wouldn´t be surprized if the entire Turkish army measured at a standard 173cms.

If you check out the results tomorrow, you will find it was Turkey that beat Serbia and not Turkia.

Anyways, these basketball matches are not for the faint hearted. From the very beginning, it looked like a doomed match and I was pretty sure it was a no go. Something happened through the end and we won it somehow.

I remember hearing something like our team currently being trained by coaches from the NBA. This may explain why we get better through the ends of games.

It was an interesting match. Throughout the game we were unlucky with the ball. We lost possession whenever the odds were fifty-fifty; we were terrible at free throws, we could not outrun the opponent. We lost many rebounds and we were quickly penalized conceding three points after each mistake by the unbelievably accurate Serbians. Still we never gave up on the game and got the reward of staying in the game no matter what happened.

I don´t know what will happen tomorrow. The US is closer to the title being the more experienced side but we are full of surprizes too.

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