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Old 11-16-2011, 08:57 PM   #1
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The Coast of Turkey is Astounding

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Old 11-17-2011, 12:25 AM   #2
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Old 11-17-2011, 05:24 AM   #3
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Old 11-17-2011, 06:22 AM   #4
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Oh!

I thought you said the roast of turkey is...

delicious!
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Old 11-17-2011, 07:31 AM   #5
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How hard would it be for them to plant some trees?
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Old 11-17-2011, 10:44 AM   #6
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looks like a very old tombolo, and very pretty.
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Old 11-17-2011, 10:45 AM   #7
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How hard would it be for them to plant some trees?
I know. Reminds me of the old Sam Kinnison bit about the famine in Africa.

See this? It's sand. You know what it's gonna be in 50 years? SAND!
Nothing grows here. IT's a desert.
MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD GROWS!
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Old 11-17-2011, 01:40 PM   #8
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Pretty, but with a blood soaked history.
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Old 11-17-2011, 02:28 PM   #9
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You'd think that might fertilise the ground, even.
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Old 11-17-2011, 05:00 PM   #10
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Pretty, but with a blood soaked history.
As opposed to, I don't know, North Western Europe?
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Old 11-17-2011, 05:06 PM   #11
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It is beautiful, but every time I think of Turkey (the country) I remember how Australia lost a generation of men there. I don't think of it with bitterness, but I do remember.
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Old 11-17-2011, 05:32 PM   #12
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Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
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Old 11-17-2011, 06:16 PM   #13
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It is beautiful, but every time I think of Turkey (the country) I remember how Australia lost a generation of men there. I don't think of it with bitterness, but I do remember.
Gallipoli was indeed a clusterfuck.
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Old 11-17-2011, 07:33 PM   #14
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And it wasn't only Australians - and I understand why it means so much to them and the Kiwis - as many or more Frenchmen lost their lives at Gallipoli and twice as many British and please never forget the Turkish boys either, maybe ten times as many of them died. Think what the loss of a hundred thousand young men would do to a country.
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Old 11-17-2011, 08:56 PM   #15
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Here's an interesting fact.

During WW1, just over 38% of the male population of Australia aged between 18-44 enlisted in the army.

I knew it was a huge number, but I didn't realize it was that high.

Just wow. That would never happen these days. At least, I don't think it would.
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