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How to refuse unwanted solicitations
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 02:55 am |
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THe first time I visited Sultamet, My wife and I were approached by guys wanted to be hired as personal guides
etc. Just saying "hayir hayir" I found to be ineffective.
Any suggestions about how to be say basically "leave us alone" without be crude or rude?
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:14 am |
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Quoting longinotti1: THe first time I visited Sultamet, My wife and I were approached by guys wanted to be hired as personal guides
etc. Just saying "hayir hayir" I found to be ineffective.
Any suggestions about how to be say basically "leave us alone" without be crude or rude? |
longinotti,
how can you miss this?
hayir means 'belki'(maybe) when a foreigner says it..
It happens to me as well. They think I am a foreigner sometimes. But as soon as I say 'tesekkurler sagol', they leave us alone..
I might be frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips while I am saying those words though..
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:21 am |
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Sagol, is correct with a hand stop gesture.
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 09:38 am |
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Quoting thehandsom: Quoting longinotti1: THe first time I visited Sultamet, My wife and I were approached by guys wanted to be hired as personal guides
etc. Just saying "hayir hayir" I found to be ineffective.
Any suggestions about how to be say basically "leave us alone" without be crude or rude? |
longinotti,
how can you miss this?
hayir means 'belki'(maybe) when a foreigner says it..
It happens to me as well. They think I am a foreigner sometimes. But as soon as I say 'tesekkurler sagol', they leave us alone..
I might be frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips while I am saying those words though.. |
Thanks everyone.
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 09:40 am |
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Click your tongue and toss your head up/ raise your eyebrows.
This means no.
Shaking your head means "I am not sure" and they will try to persuade you even harder!!!!
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 09:48 am |
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Quoting MarioninTurkey: Click your tongue and toss your head up/ raise your eyebrows.
This means no.
Shaking your head means "I am not sure" and they will try to persuade you even harder!!!!
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My daughter in law told me the same thing. I will have to practice before I come back. Thanks Marion.
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 12:17 pm |
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It is now second nature to me. So much so I have to be careful when back in Britain, as raising my eyebrows and tutting when someone kindly offers me something is rude there!!!!!
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 02:37 pm |
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Quoting thehandsom: Quoting longinotti1: THe first time I visited Sultamet, My wife and I were approached by guys wanted to be hired as personal guides
etc. Just saying 'hayir hayir' I found to be ineffective.
Any suggestions about how to be say basically 'leave us alone' without be crude or rude? |
longinotti,
how can you miss this?
hayir means 'belki'(maybe) when a foreigner says it..
It happens to me as well. They think I am a foreigner sometimes. But as soon as I say 'tesekkurler sagol', they leave us alone..
I might be frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips while I am saying those words though.. |
I am practising this expression. I am ok with the 'slight frown' but not quite mastering the 'threatening smile'
Please pm me a visual depiction!
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 02:45 pm |
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Quoting lady in red: Quoting thehandsom: Quoting longinotti1: THe first time I visited Sultamet, My wife and I were approached by guys wanted to be hired as personal guides
etc. Just saying 'hayir hayir' I found to be ineffective.
Any suggestions about how to be say basically 'leave us alone' without be crude or rude? |
longinotti,
how can you miss this?
hayir means 'belki'(maybe) when a foreigner says it..
It happens to me as well. They think I am a foreigner sometimes. But as soon as I say 'tesekkurler sagol', they leave us alone..
I might be frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips while I am saying those words though.. |
I am practising this expression. I am ok with the 'slight frown' but not quite mastering the 'threatening smile'
Please pm me a visual depiction!
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Does a threatening smile involve bearing ones teeth? 
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:01 pm |
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Quoting libralady: Quoting lady in red: Quoting thehandsom: Quoting longinotti1: THe first time I visited Sultamet, My wife and I were approached by guys wanted to be hired as personal guides
etc. Just saying 'hayir hayir' I found to be ineffective.
Any suggestions about how to be say basically 'leave us alone' without be crude or rude? |
longinotti,
how can you miss this?
hayir means 'belki'(maybe) when a foreigner says it..
It happens to me as well. They think I am a foreigner sometimes. But as soon as I say 'tesekkurler sagol', they leave us alone..
I might be frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips while I am saying those words though.. |
I am practising this expression. I am ok with the 'slight frown' but not quite mastering the 'threatening smile'
Please pm me a visual depiction!
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Does a threatening smile involve bearing ones teeth? |
Making one's teeth look like a BEAR??? :-S :-S
No wonder I'm having problems!! 
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:07 pm |
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What do you say when Turks want your attention by saying WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Should one ignore them or not? Best way is to continue walking.
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:09 pm |
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Quoting lady in red: Quoting libralady: Quoting lady in red: Quoting thehandsom: Quoting longinotti1: THe first time I visited Sultamet, My wife and I were approached by guys wanted to be hired as personal guides
etc. Just saying 'hayir hayir' I found to be ineffective.
Any suggestions about how to be say basically 'leave us alone' without be crude or rude? |
longinotti,
how can you miss this?
hayir means 'belki'(maybe) when a foreigner says it..
It happens to me as well. They think I am a foreigner sometimes. But as soon as I say 'tesekkurler sagol', they leave us alone..
I might be frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips while I am saying those words though.. |
I am practising this expression. I am ok with the 'slight frown' but not quite mastering the 'threatening smile'
Please pm me a visual depiction!
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Does a threatening smile involve bearing ones teeth? |
Making one's teeth look like a BEAR??? :-S :-S
No wonder I'm having problems!! |
Ok, "baring" ones teeth! Slip of the long nails
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:17 pm |
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Quoting Roswitha: What do you say when Turks want your attention by saying WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Should one ignore them or not? Best way is to continue walking.
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Just tell them and walk on. They are so clever though! Once in Kusadasi a street seller started saying things to us in English. I said 'Ingiliz değilim - Isveçliyim, on the assumption that most of them speak English and maybe Dutch or German. He ran after us speaking in Swedish!! It was so funny that we stopped to talk to him (in English) but he still didn't manage to sell us anything!!
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:40 pm |
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Quoting thehandsom: I might be frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips while I am saying those words though.. |
I have been practising this in the mirror but I am just not getting it!
Perhaps you could be so kind as to post a photograph thehandsom
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:40 pm |
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And I shouted back: Alaska. Ha, ha.
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:44 pm |
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Quoting magnadea: Quoting thehandsom: I might be frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips while I am saying those words though.. |
I have been practising this in the mirror but I am just not getting it!
Perhaps you could be so kind as to post a photograph thehandsom |
Well I have asked him to pm me one - but nothing doing so far
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:46 pm |
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Quoting Roswitha: And I shouted back: Alaska. Ha, ha. |
Ros this looks like the punchline to a joke! Did you leave something out??
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 04:22 pm |
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Quoting Roswitha: What do you say when Turks want your attention by saying WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Should one ignore them or not? Best way is to continue walking.
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Once I though "Far away" was a pretty clever way to avoid those guys. But when I heard one of them saying "Norway?" I decided to change the strategy. The next time I got the WHERE ARE YOU FROM question, I said ANKARA and went on leaving the guy baffled
Ignoring them doesn't really work. I had one follow me almost all the length of Istiklal Caddesi although all I'd say was "No Turkish" - the guy didn't speak any English but was persistent in trying to get my telephone number. I don't remember how I lost him finally but it was so tedious that I'd rather go for sik*** git than go through something like that once more
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 05:15 pm |
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Quoting lady in red: Quoting magnadea: Quoting thehandsom: I might be frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips while I am saying those words though.. |
I have been practising this in the mirror but I am just not getting it!
Perhaps you could be so kind as to post a photograph thehandsom |
Well I have asked him to pm me one - but nothing doing so far |
I have taken a picture of myself "frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips"..
I am pming it to you guys..
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 05:25 pm |
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Quoting thehandsom: I have taken a picture of myself "frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips"..
I am pming it to you guys.. |
OMG did you have to be naked in the picture?  
You are certainly hairy!
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 05:29 pm |
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Quoting magnadea: Quoting thehandsom: I have taken a picture of myself "frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips"..
I am pming it to you guys.. |
OMG did you have to be naked in the picture?
You are certainly hairy! |
I actually thought he was a bit better looking than I had imagined - but then I find I have got less fussy as I get older
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 05:43 pm |
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I am soooo sorrryy..
A genuine mistake from my side..
I am sending the one I have taken for this purpose..
(how did that picture got there? It is a huge mystery to me.. phew!! )
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 05:52 pm |
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Quoting thehandsom: I am soooo sorrryy..
A genuine mistake from my side..
I am sending the one I have taken for this purpose..
(how did that picture got there? It is a huge mystery to me.. phew!! ) |
I have not gotten my PM yet, handsom! I feel so betrayed! After all we have been thru together! And now this! OFFFFF! 
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 06:08 pm |
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Quoting lady in red: Quoting magnadea: Quoting thehandsom: I have taken a picture of myself "frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips"..
I am pming it to you guys.. |
OMG did you have to be naked in the picture?
You are certainly hairy! |
I actually thought he was a bit better looking than I had imagined - but then I find I have got less fussy as I get older |
I just had a thought - maybe we could just carry this picture of handsom with us and scare them off with that?
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 01:44 am |
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Ok everybody, I didn't get a PM so I am feeling left out.
 But seriously this is fun but I'm starting a new thread. I want to understand the "sağol" thing and why that would work?
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 02:01 am |
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Quoting longinotti1: Ok everybody, I didn't get a PM so I am feeling left out.
But seriously this is fun but I'm starting a new thread. I want to understand the "sağol" thing and why that would work? |
Offffffff! How could you guys hijack a thread like this?
longinotti...on behalf of the "apology" committe, I wish to extend my sincere regrets that your thread was commandeered by this unruly group. 
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 04:28 am |
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Quoting girleegirl: Quoting longinotti1: Ok everybody, I didn't get a PM so I am feeling left out.
But seriously this is fun but I'm starting a new thread. I want to understand the "sağol" thing and why that would work? |
Offffffff! How could you guys hijack a thread like this?
longinotti...on behalf of the "apology" committe, I wish to extend my sincere regrets that your thread was commandeered by this unruly group. |
Well, if a picture of the "sneer" had been actually posted that would have still been on topic. I wanted to see the "look".
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 04:49 am |
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Quoting longinotti1: Ok everybody, I didn't get a PM so I am feeling left out.
But seriously this is fun but I'm starting a new thread. I want to understand the "sağol" thing and why that would work? |
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 05:05 am |
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Quoting Leelu: Quoting longinotti1: Ok everybody, I didn't get a PM so I am feeling left out.
But seriously this is fun but I'm starting a new thread. I want to understand the "sağol" thing and why that would work? |
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Hey...come to think of it...I didn't either!!!
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 09:35 pm |
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It's great to be 'new': no-one knows what to say to you so I don't get PM's at all. And no, this is not asking to get them! I like to keep my inbox and outbox like a virgin.
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 10:13 pm |
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Quoting Saskia1970: It's great to be 'new': no-one knows what to say to you so I don't get PM's at all. And no, this is not asking to get them! I like to keep my inbox and outbox like a virgin. |
Judging from my inbox yesterday, SPAM season is kicking into gear. New or not, your inbox will be filling up in no time!
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 10:15 pm |
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Quoting girleegirl: Quoting Saskia1970: It's great to be 'new': no-one knows what to say to you so I don't get PM's at all. And no, this is not asking to get them! I like to keep my inbox and outbox like a virgin. |
Judging from my inbox yesterday, SPAM season is kicking into gear. New or not, your inbox will be filling up in no time! |
Dudu season is in full swing!! 
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 10:19 pm |
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Quoting Elisabeth: Quoting girleegirl: Quoting Saskia1970: It's great to be 'new': no-one knows what to say to you so I don't get PM's at all. And no, this is not asking to get them! I like to keep my inbox and outbox like a virgin. |
Judging from my inbox yesterday, SPAM season is kicking into gear. New or not, your inbox will be filling up in no time! |
Dudu season is in full swing!! |
Woo hoo!! 
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 10:24 pm |
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Quoting girleegirl: Quoting Saskia1970: It's great to be 'new': no-one knows what to say to you so I don't get PM's at all. And no, this is not asking to get them! I like to keep my inbox and outbox like a virgin. |
Judging from my inbox yesterday, SPAM season is kicking into gear. New or not, your inbox will be filling up in no time! |
I agree..
I had 28 pm yesterday by myself..
How many did you get GG?
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 10:26 pm |
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Quoting thehandsom: Quoting girleegirl: Quoting Saskia1970: It's great to be 'new': no-one knows what to say to you so I don't get PM's at all. And no, this is not asking to get them! I like to keep my inbox and outbox like a virgin. |
Judging from my inbox yesterday, SPAM season is kicking into gear. New or not, your inbox will be filling up in no time! |
I agree..
I had 28 pm yesterday by myself..
How many did you get GG? |
You must be getting death treats again, handsom?
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 10:28 pm |
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Quoting thehandsom: Quoting girleegirl: Quoting Saskia1970: It's great to be 'new': no-one knows what to say to you so I don't get PM's at all. And no, this is not asking to get them! I like to keep my inbox and outbox like a virgin. |
Judging from my inbox yesterday, SPAM season is kicking into gear. New or not, your inbox will be filling up in no time! |
I agree..
I had 28 pm yesterday by myself..
How many did you get GG? |
by yourself???????????????????
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29 Apr 2008 Tue 10:30 pm |
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Quoting thehandsom:
I had 28 pm yesterday by myself..
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Handsom, I don't think we all want to know what you are doing when you are by yourself!!
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30 Apr 2008 Wed 07:07 pm |
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Quoting girleegirl: Quoting thehandsom:
I had 28 pm yesterday by myself..
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Handsom, I don't think we all want to know what you are doing when you are by yourself!! |
hahahaha...when i just came out to this website i didnt got messages at all...now evertime i log in i have 3 or 4 waiting for me... i hope i don't get 28 as handsome, but yes gg, i dont want to know either what's handsome doing by himself....hahahahahhaha
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30 Apr 2008 Wed 10:51 pm |
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Quoting Avalon:
A boaster  All by yourself????  |
Stop it Avalon, otherwise I will be forced to tell the contents of your pm here..
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30 Apr 2008 Wed 11:36 pm |
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You ALL should stop! This is not a conversation about language! Get away from here, now! There is an off-topic forum for this kind of conversations! 
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01 May 2008 Thu 04:26 am |
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Quoting girleegirl: Quoting Elisabeth: Quoting girleegirl: Quoting Saskia1970: It's great to be 'new': no-one knows what to say to you so I don't get PM's at all. And no, this is not asking to get them! I like to keep my inbox and outbox like a virgin. |
Judging from my inbox yesterday, SPAM season is kicking into gear. New or not, your inbox will be filling up in no time! |
Dudu season is in full swing!! |
Woo hoo!! |
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01 May 2008 Thu 04:27 am |
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Quoting thehandsom: Quoting girleegirl: Quoting Saskia1970: It's great to be 'new': no-one knows what to say to you so I don't get PM's at all. And no, this is not asking to get them! I like to keep my inbox and outbox like a virgin. |
Judging from my inbox yesterday, SPAM season is kicking into gear. New or not, your inbox will be filling up in no time! |
I agree..
I had 28 pm yesterday by myself..
How many did you get GG? |
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02 May 2008 Fri 12:10 am |
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Quoting Leelu: Quoting thehandsom: Quoting girleegirl: Quoting Saskia1970: It's great to be 'new': no-one knows what to say to you so I don't get PM's at all. And no, this is not asking to get them! I like to keep my inbox and outbox like a virgin. |
Judging from my inbox yesterday, SPAM season is kicking into gear. New or not, your inbox will be filling up in no time! |
I agree..
I had 28 pm yesterday by myself..
How many did you get GG? |
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How do you send yourself PM's? I am interested
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02 May 2008 Fri 12:13 am |
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Quoting xxxxxx: You ALL should stop! This is not a conversation about language! Get away from here, now! There is an off-topic forum for this kind of conversations! |
I am just reminding!!
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02 May 2008 Fri 12:33 am |
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Quoting thehandsom: Quoting xxxxxx: You ALL should stop! This is not a conversation about language! Get away from here, now! There is an off-topic forum for this kind of conversations! |
I am just reminding!!
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+1000000000000
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02 May 2008 Fri 04:36 am |
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Quoting catwoman: Quoting thehandsom: Quoting xxxxxx: You ALL should stop! This is not a conversation about language! Get away from here, now! There is an off-topic forum for this kind of conversations! |
I am just reminding!!
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+1000000000000 |
See Cat? he is doing a good job.. but keep an eye on him or he will try to take over your admin's job!
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06 May 2008 Tue 12:26 am |
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Quoting thehandsom:
I had 28 pm yesterday by myself..
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Did you send them to your İnbox or to your Outbox Actually, now that I come to think of it, I dont wanna know whether yellow is your favourite color or not!
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06 May 2008 Tue 12:56 am |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: Quoting thehandsom:
I had 28 pm yesterday by myself..
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Did you send them to your İnbox or to your Outbox Actually, now that I come to think of it, I dont wanna know whether yellow is your favourite color or not! |
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06 May 2008 Tue 09:49 pm |
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Quoting thehandsom: Quoting Avalon:
A boaster All by yourself???? |
Stop it Avalon, otherwise I will be forced to tell the contents of your pm here.. |
DIA-BO-LYCLE SABO-TA-GEE!
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