The last phone I registered was when I was in Sultanahmet, in a Turkcell outlet.  I have a new phone and I´ve read that phones can be registered at the airport, on arrival.  I think I would prefer this option, but the question is:  Whereabouts in the airport (Ataturk) do I go to do this?

Thanks in advance

Saturday . . . the one day I feel I don´t have to do any "work" work.

Work days? My favourite is Thursday because after school I run a "Nimble Fingers" club for some of the older children (age 10/11) in school. I teach them to knit, crochet and sew and we do other things like make our own felt from sheep´s wool.  It´s nice to see how their personalities have developed since they were young and we have a great laugh together.  Good therapy after a hard day with a class of "butterflies"

I mentioned the other day that I saw a post without a name but with the ´modify´ option showing.  I saw another today and I think, on both occasions, they were Vineyards´ posts.

I don´t like green tea, but I´ll persevere with it .

I rest my case . . . predictable and a perfect example of a walking, living, breathing oxymoron. For something not worth a reply, you certainly gave it your time.

When I said "is there anything to stop you?" I meant is there anything stopping you from taking your place in the world of politics in Turkey?  Seriously, what is there to stop you from doing so?

So . . . I never mentioned anything about stopping you from speaking, quite the contrary.

btw If you could just refrain from uttering "racist" , "racism"  etc.  there may be hope for a cure for your Tourette´s. I mentioned your tactics earlier, but sometimes you only have the tic .

That´s me done here. I have to go . . . places to go, people to see, children to gag .. .

I just thought of another idiom:

 a cuckoo in the nest

H,

Do you really believe you are making some kind of personal sacrifice for the good of your homeland?  Your sentiment may be admirable, but I´m seriously worried that some will see you as a budding megalomaniac.

Vineyards muses that people come here to discuss and hopefully find some convergence of opinions . . . well maybe they do, but every so often the "calm" is shattered by the storm that is YOU!  I´m not talking about your political bent or ideals, I´m talking about your tactics.  Your tactics are counterproductive, if you did but know it.  That´s a shame too because non Turks like me could learn a great deal from you and your political counterparts.  YES, they must shoulder some of the responsibility for the way the threads descend into mayhem, but, more often than not YOU start these fights. You whip yourself and others into a frenzy. Result? Divergence

You claimed recently that people should respect the opinions of others.  It seems to me you want people to respect your opinions but where is the respect when you accuse people of ignorance, of not reading?  I think you enjoy the debates and that´s why you always come back for more.  It is precisely because your "adversaries" here are not ignorant and do read, that you enjoy the meaty debates.  If they were not interested in Turkish politics, if they did not read, if they were ignorant, you would not keep coming back for more.  You relish those debates . . . and that´s fine, so long as you don´t flame. They may not agree with your "proofs" and they may put forward "proofs" of their own and vice versa . . . that doesn´t give you the right to insult their intelligence the way you do.  Of course you are insulted too . . . WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? (actually I think you DO expect it . . . you WANT it).

I know exactly what your response will be too, because your activity cycle here is very predictable.

I´ve tried to think of an oxymoron to describe you . . . in the end I´ve decided that you are a living, breathing oxymoron in your own right.

You say you have done all you can. Are you sure about that?  If you are so passionate/anguished/desperate/worried/angry/fired up about Turkey´s future, why not take steps to fulfill your destiny (now you´ve got me doing it ) ?  Take up the cudgel. Perhaps your place is in Turkey, on the political stage.  Perhaps you are a big fish in this relatively small cyber pool that is TLC. Perhaps your talents are wasted here. Perhaps you are Turkey´s missing link. I´m serious, is there really anything to stop you? 

Sacrifice H, sacrifice . . .

There is an advert stalking me around cyberspace . . .

How does it know that I need to "cut belly fat" and that I need "tips for a flat belly" ? 

btw - I hate the word "belly"

A poem by Sylvia Plath. I was spoiled for choice with regard to where I should post it.

Admonition

If you dissect a bird

To diagram the tongue

You´ll cut the chord

Articulating song.

If you flay a beast

To marvel at the mane

You´ll wreck the rest

From which the fur began.

If you pluck out the heart

To find what makes it move,

You´ll halt the clock

That syncopates our love.

I think there have been some funny happenings here too.  This morning I wasn´t logged in, but it had the ´modify´ option displayed under another user´s name (can´t remember which one now), at the top of their post.  Of course I clicked on it to see what would happen but it denied me because I wasn´t logged in.  I wonder what would have happened if I had been logged in?