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weird but true
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24 Jan 2007 Wed 10:25 pm |
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Quoting Aslan:  ...hmmmm...you are absolutely right about him being a zillionaire...and he is old enough to make me a beautiful widow...yeah, why not? 
...though I wonder what his wife would say?
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He has enough money to cover up any tracks about an affair 
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24 Jan 2007 Wed 10:38 pm |
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Carrying on with the weird but true facts - how about this one!!
"Flora, a Komodo dragon who has never mated or even mixed with a male, is the proud mother and father of five baby dragons"
Now that is magic!!
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25 Jan 2007 Thu 12:43 am |
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Quoting libralady: Carrying on with the weird but true facts - how about this one!!
"Flora, a Komodo dragon who has never mated or even mixed with a male, is the proud mother and father of five baby dragons"
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yup, female komodos can do that...it's called parthenogenesis (reproducing without the aid of males)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon
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25 Jan 2007 Thu 01:52 am |
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Quoting kai:
No offence Catwoman but not everything on here is always to do with Turkey/Turkish....for e.g. "what is bugging you today" or "what made you smile today".
Qdemir was only posting some news from a different part of the world, thats why it was in the off topic forum.
Also if I remember correctly Bod even posted a link about the storms in the UK....what has that got to do with Turkey exactly?
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I agree with Catwoman that it becomes annoying when you see the type of news in the Turkish mainstream newspapers they present as 'news'. It looks like they have a team of people tracking world media for any news they can take and stick the picture of a naked woman next to it. Popular newspapers do this, leaving aside any ethical or moral responsibilities they hold towards people and fill the minds of people with images of objectified women. These are mainstream newspapers, the type of thing you let your kids take and read at home, they are even encouraged to read because 'it is good to read newspapers'. This type of attitude in mainstream newspapers causes a great amount of damage in the attitudes of people towards women and encourages objectifying women. Mainstream newspapers in the US don't use such offensive images (there are even porn style videos on some Turkish 'newspaper' websites like Hurriyet). This is a problem we need to be aware of and take serious steps to fix. Although this was just reporting an event, I feel disturbed when I read such things as news.
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25 Jan 2007 Thu 01:55 am |
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Well to be fair it's not something I would read but it is a hell of a lot better than reading more about the terrorism and war etc etc
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25 Jan 2007 Thu 02:02 am |
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i didn't even think this kind of news would make it into the turkish newspapers. of all the things to pick about what's going on in australia, they pick this news topic.
i would like to think that there are more news worthy items that occur in australia to report on.
  :-S
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27 Jan 2007 Sat 12:55 pm |
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Are you from Australia?
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27 Jan 2007 Sat 12:56 pm |
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she lives there yes 
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28 Jan 2007 Sun 04:56 am |
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Quoting qdemir: Are you from Australia? |
yes, i am from australia.
why do you ask?
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