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Çiğdem Kanburoğlu • upvoted 13 items 5 months ago

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So by all means, please do your research on the issue, read the Turkish argument about it and then and only then, if you still feel this was a genocide, go ahead and talk about it and down-vote me. If you do that please go ahead and ping me and convince me too. I promise, if you put a good argument with correct/true evidence with information from both sides, I'll be convinced and shout GENOCIDE as loud as anyone. But this needs to be based on facts and evidence and BOTH sides of the argument needs to be heard.

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And I invite everyone here that have downvoted me to do the same. It is easy to have an opinion on a subject just becuse it includes words like genocide, hate crime, rape, murder, abuse, racism, religious fanatic etc. It is indoctrinated in modern social life that whenever we hear any of these words we take the side of the so-called victim. However do we always check if the so called victim is actually a victim? For instance do you know how many fathers in USA commit suicide because they are accused of things like abuse or rape and they have no course of clearing their names because when a women accuses man in court, not having evidence does not stop court to seperate children from their father and ruin their life and reputation. With no course left to prove their innocense they commit suicide to prove that the only way they have left with. I've been in the same path. So excuse me if I take things like baseless accusations based on one side of the story a little more seriously.

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Making an opinion on only one side's information does not make you educated. I can honestly say that I've see Armanian side of the story with all available published material on the issue. Can you honestly say the same for the material that is available on Turkish side?

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HOWEVER, there was NEVER EVER 1.2 million Armanians masaccered. The numbers are way exploded out of proportions. Both sides killed each other en masse especially after the news of massacres by Armanien villages reached out to Turkish outlaws who escaped joining the army by moving to mountain camps, however, again this was NOT a genocide. Ottoman government never sanctioned this and Talat Pasa (please at least try to write the name correctly if you're claiming to know anything about the issue) was acting on his own vengence and hatret, using his position and the fact that during the war he was pretty much uncheched with being pretty much the top dog. Once again, this was not an organized government sanctioned genocide. It was hate on both sides. Even Talat pasa was acting on his own hatred and not on orders. I once again invite you to read the other side of the story and not decide on information that is based on only one side.

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The way it went was like this: Armanians, being angry at Ottomans attacked Turkish villages. Since Turkish villages had no men able to fight back, they have plundered, raped and killed whole villages. As a result, guess what has happened? Turks did the same in return. Then there was this whole mess of two peoples attacking at each other just like in any war. It was meaningless angry massacres on both sides. War does this to people. As a result, Armanian population was moved to other places where Turkish population and Armanian population would stop killing each other.

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B******t. Check the number of Armanian people that have been "killed". There have never been that amount of population that dense in these borders. You're just using one side's data. Turkey's all archives are open to researchers and you're free to discover real historical documents including consensus documents from even way before so called "genocide". Was there bad blood between populations? yes. Did Turks killed Armanians? Yes Did Armenians killed Turks? yes. It was a ffing civil war. Just read the history from both sides. I hate when western culture just believe anything if it comes from their close allies. According to you Russia had no role in defeating the germans, it was only and only USA. Yogurt is greek (even though even the name is Turkish), baklava is greek, Armenians did not fight against Turks and they did not kill Turks only Turks killed Armanians and civils at that too. Cyprus was never part of ottoman empire and brits did not just gave it away. etc. etc. Such ignorance

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Çiğdem Kanburoğlu • upvoted 5 items 10 months ago

35 Restaurant Workers Share Their Most Memorable And Weird Customer Requests

This sounds like it would be a great movie.

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I'll never forget the customer who sent back her beef ravioli after eating the entire dish... Because she was a vegetarian.

35 Restaurant Workers Share Their Most Memorable And Weird Customer Requests

This sounds like it would be a great movie.

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I'll never forget the customer who sent back her beef ravioli after eating the entire dish... Because she was a vegetarian.

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Cow: "I'll have the carbonara but can I change the tagliatelle for lasagna and can I have crab and lobster instead of the carbonara sauce? Oh, and can I have the lasagne sauce with that?' Me: "Oh, you want the lobster and crab lasagne?" Cow: "No, I want the carbonara but change some of the ingredients! Duh! And don't overcharge me either or I'll have you fired. I know the owner" Me: "Hey mum (the owner), do you know this person?" The rest is history.

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I had a regular at my bar who spoke with a thick Southern accent, always wore an Alabama Crimson Tide shirt or some variant, would only drink beers from the South (Naked Pig Pale being his go to) which I kept in stock just for him, and would sit at the bar, bet the horse races, regale us with tales from his youth, get a little too drunk and leave to take care of his mother. He was there every single day except Thursdays. He demanded we keep Alabama beer in stock and always wanted replays of old Crimson Tide games on TV. It got to the ppint i started downloading them into a drive and playing them for him, since espn U is only good for so much.We all thought he was crazy but he was nice enough. This went on for an entire year. Our entire staff knew him and he was pretty well liked. We had to ask him to leave once or twice because he decided to impress someone or would win a couple races and start drinking scotch and get a little out of hand, but he was generally really polite and respectful. One day he just stopped coming in. One of the older ladies who worked at the track had his phone number, since she had the habit of saving him race books for the tracks he liked, so she called him a few times. Nothing. About a month later the Police showed up to ask some people at the bar about him, if they might know where he is. We all told them what we knew but apparently not a word of it was true. His name wasn't Scott, he wasn't from the South and his mother had been dead for quite a while. Turns out he had seduced an older, southern lady with his charms and wiles, created an entire life with her for her money (supposedly), then disappeared with the money and the lady turned up dead. Police said it was from natural causes but the timing was so odd they still needed to find him to question him. He came back in for a single drink about 4 months later and he left an envelope for our 3 bartenders he liked and the lady who held racing books for him. $1500 in each. I served him and asked my manager at the time what she thought I should do. She asked if I felt uncomfortable; I said no and since cops aren't great for business at a horse track we just decided to leave it be. I walked back out and he had left, leaving a simply written "thanks for being a friend" on a napkin with $704.50 in cash under it. The $4.50 was for the beer; and my rent, as he had asked about many months before in a random conversation, was $700 at the time. Dunno if he remembered or if it was just a coincidence. He was gone and I never saw him again, and his phone number is now out of service. I think about him a couple times a week at least.

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Ive had an older gentleman ask me to smile so he could see my teeth. He told me I had really nice teeth and looked like I took care of them. He was with his adult son who then apologized and informed me that his dad was a dentist but has alzheimer's so he didn't mean to be weird.

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Çiğdem Kanburoğlu • upvoted 20 items 1 year ago