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    Official - You are over the hill at 25 LOL

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    Post  ruby Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:32 pm

    According to a member on TC you are over the hill at 25, just take a look at this howler

    'Liza, haven't most people grown out of "going to concerts, nightclubs, wine bars, pubs, parties" and whatever by the time they are 25?'

    Think I'd better book a one way trip to Zurich and book in at Dignitas Clinic Laughing Anyway else want to join me, maybe we could get a discount lol!

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    Post  Richard Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:36 am

    Hey Ruby, I'm 49 years old and I do all those things, and more haha! I love going to see live bands in concert and I have a great local where the youngest there is probably about 30!

    Whoever made this comment must be feeling old, it's the kind of thing an 'old thinking' person would say. Some people get old long before their time, but to think you're too old for pubs, clubs and concerts at 25 is really very weird. It sounds like they could be stuffy types who have always been old in the head.

    Ignore them, it seems like they have an age issue and could be a little envious of fun loving youthful people! How old was this guy who said this?

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    Post  ruby Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:53 am

    Hi Richard

    Absolutely agree with you. Allegedly the person who made the comment is a woman but uses a blokes name, as for her age who knows. Anyway, here is the link to the thread. At least is good for a Laughing http://www.turkeycentral.com/topic/13474-pls-read-and-commentfirst-time-dating-a-turkish-man/page__fromsearch__1

    Surprisingly though, this site 'prides' itself on being 'Turkey's friendliest forum community' lol!

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    Post  Guveclover Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:29 am

    I just had a look at that thread Ruby - what an odd bunch of people. Since when has referring to someone as living "out in the sticks" been an offensive term? It simply means out in the countryside where it might be quite remote.

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    Post  ruby Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:32 am

    Guveclover wrote:I just had a look at that thread Ruby - what an odd bunch of people. Since when has referring to someone as living "out in the sticks" been an offensive term? It simply means out in the countryside where it might be quite remote.


    Hi Judith

    They are a bunch of screwed up old foggies constantly online day and night, and these bitchy comments coming from 'the friendliest Turkish site' lol! I live in the sticks by the way rendeer

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    Post  Admin Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:12 am

    My God! What a boring bunch of miserable turnips they are over there!

    They're the type of people that suck all the joy out of a room as soon as they step inside! It's laughable the way a few of them try to give the impression that they're bulging with brains, are higly knowlegeable, and possibly excelled at quantum physics - and yet all they can do is copy and paste articles from newspapers! They've about as much personality and interest as a slug! Sleep

    They seem as though they've been lobotomised and have just come round from a medical research aneasthetic. They're sooo DULL - which probably accounts for why they all post to each other non-stop on TC every day. I wonder what they actually DO with their lives? They don't seem to do very much do they?! Shocked They come across SO boring, which probably explains why they're left alone all day and night by themselves!

    To be honest, I wouldn't expect much more from a group of people who have chosen to live in Turkey. Parts of it are lovely - for holidays. But very few people would want to live somewhere with so little to keep them occupied! After all, there's only so many RUINS you can stare at all day! Rolling Eyes

    I bet they were BORN old, and I agree with Richard - they're probably jealous of youth. And I also bet they were fished off the Internet by a Turk!

    In the two years I lived out there, all the expats I met had only gone to Turkey because it was cheap - or they had a toyboy! And Turkey's no longer cheap! silent Stinky Tinky is full to the brim with expats who couldn't afford Spain (their first choice) so opted for Tinky instead! tongue Maybe this little sad crew can no longer afford to go out on little excursions to the Tuesday Market, and so sit at home staring at their computer screens instead (if there's no blackouts!)

    I don't know ONE well-to-do educated person who would choose to live in Turkey. Not one! You may get the odd, eccentic fruitcake relocating - but they're usually quite entertaining - and this bunch are better than Mogadon! Sleep

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    Post  ruby Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:15 am

    What a bunch of backstabing women they are on TC. The foggie has tripped herself up quoting:-

    (By the way, I agree with Sunny abouts the "in the sticks" term as having negative connotations. Usually used by snooty townies who look down on country-folk. I don't think Google is the Bible and prefer using a dictionnary or thesauraus. Alternatives: "out in the middle of nowhere", "rural, area, boring place", "a long distance away from anywhere of importance" etc. etc.)


    Then the silly moo goes onto quote:-

    'This is rather hijacking Southern Gal's thread.
    Maybe the debate on how to use a thesaurus could be taken outside.'


    Make your mind up, after all YOU were the one to bring the subject up on the use of a thesauraus in the first place Evil or Very Mad Or had you already forgotten Shocked . Maybe you should spend a bit more time away from the computer screen, its muddling your brain up, then again, with the stupid statements you are making, its only you and the others who appear ridiculous on Turkey's friendliest site by making such childish and totally inappropriate comments. To your members you appear like a bunch of school bullies, time for you all to go and get a life.

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    Post  Admin Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:23 am

    Hi Ruby,

    Well her dictionary and thesaurus aren't doing her much good - she can't spell them properly! : Razz

    I suppose she's VERY clever! SO clever in fact, that she couldn't be fooled by a conman!

    Oh, the irony.......................

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    Post  ruby Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:35 am

    And some of those moderators think they are protecting the MI5 website as once they have taken the piss out of people and stabbed them in the back (remember these type of folk can give but cannot receive) they then stick up this stupid fookin sign Official - You are over the hill at 25 LOL 1704110

    Double Standards and cok ayip to all these power mad women. Wonder where their men are whilst they waste their day stuck infront of the computer?

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    Post  Admin Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:49 am

    Haha! That's hilarious!

    So THEY go off-topic, spout a load of CRAP - and then stick that sign up?! OFF TOPIC!!

    We have a new condition here - similar to Tourette's! cyclops

    Fffffcuk! Ffffffcuk!

    Oops! Be nice, people! Get back on topic! Mad

    Ffffffcuk it!

    Let's get back to topic and talk about FUNNY AND QUAINT TURKISH THINGS. We never tire of talking about Turkey on the web's friendliest site! Very Happy There's SO much to talk about that's funny! We could write a best selling blockbuster!

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    Post  Turkishheartdrop Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:02 pm

    They do the lollipop off topic when they loose the arguement.....LOL...........
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    Post  hyatum Wed Feb 15, 2012 6:13 am

    Ahhhhhhh I laughed at that one 'in the sticks'.......if they are using a Thesaurus as reference or measuring stick .....I live in the fookin backwoods (some of the time) and it is THE most important place around (a World Heritage Site) and far from fookin boring! elephant elephant elephant So let the sages go get a cleft stick and find a high-rise!

    AHEM (Strawbs you have taught me a whole new vocab) study to screech back to the topic.....if your over the hill at 25...that's a pathetically sad mind-set! I only plan to summit when I'm at least 120 (20 more years for you Rubes) affraid and none of us have even made it to the foot-hills yet. EEdjit...think shes heading for a Burqa soon.

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    Post  ruby Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:45 pm

    hyatum wrote:Ahhhhhhh I laughed at that one 'in the sticks'.......if they are using a Thesaurus as reference or measuring stick .....I live in the fookin backwoods (some of the time) and it is THE most important place around (a World Heritage Site) and far from fookin boring! elephant elephant elephant So let the sages go get a cleft stick and find a high-rise!

    AHEM (Strawbs you have taught me a whole new vocab) study to screech back to the topic.....if your over the hill at 25...that's a pathetically sad mind-set! I only plan to summit when I'm at least 120 (20 more years for you Rubes) affraid and none of us have even made it to the foot-hills yet. EEdjit...think shes heading for a Burqa soon.

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    lol! Nicks

    Both you are Strawbs keep getting my age wrong, I am actually 98 now, not 99 or 100. If I was a 100 last birthday, then where is my fookin queen telegram lol! lol!

    You can bet I wont be spending my day like the hunchback of Notre-Dame slumped over my computer, I'VE GOT A LIFE, FRIENDS, A LARGE CLOSE LOVING FAMILY, GRANDCHILDREN AND A LOVER Laughing . I have a very normal and fulfilling life Shocked

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    Post  Admin Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:59 pm

    They really are a bunch of miserable twats aren't they! They ought to skip down to the pharmacy in their Size 8 Footgloves (that they have to have specially shipped over from England!) and try and bribe the pharmacist to give them some happy pills! They seem to be in a constant state of irritation and annoyance (check the Thesaurus, Book WORMS, and see how they mean the same tongue ) and to add to their annoyance, they're now worried about the soaring cost of electricity! I suppose this will put them in an even darker place!

    I suppose they'll do things like the example Ruby posted up: Start a post unrelating to the thread - just so they can post three posts on, to tell everybody it's OFF TOPIC! It will put a little bit of activity into their gloomdom - albeit of an irritating kind - and they won't get secretly irate about posters who misplace an apostrophe, or bore them into a black depression trying to get a heavy religious thread going. You see, the mods feel compelled to read each and every post - however irritating or boring it is! And they don't even get paid for it! In fact, I'm surpised Ken doesn't charge them to have the heady total of Super Mod! I bet they'd pay for it, too! They seem to be totally in awe of the retired security guard, who bums around Turkey living in hovels! HE doesn't even contribute that much to the site - but that's probably because he finds it as boring as most other people do!

    I think Sunny and Abi are in urgent need of some good old-fashioned SEX. A real good seeing to! That should lull them into a good mood for a while and bring some gaiety and light into their doom. It may well come across in their posts, then! At the moment they come over like very frustrated, cross, train platform announcers, miles from anywhere - in the sticks - where it doesn't even rain properly - it just drizzles, and everyone shuffles around hunched up with scrunched up faces and and a blank gaze.

    The jolliest comment I saw Sunny post was when she put : "Brilliant Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy " in reply to an unfunny, sarcastic comment one of the bores made. It could have been the elephant member - not sure? Oooh, Sunny is so quick and sharp at reposte! All she can come back with is "Brilliant!" I wonder how long HER Turd sleeps for? Given that the average Turd needs double the amount of sleep that an English person needs, I'd say Sunny and Abi's Turds sleep for 16 hours - plus an extra four on top for being married to such scintillating, riveting company as the Size 8 Footglove Sisters!

    I bet they wear very neat 'just below the knee' A-line tweed skirts, too - just to complete the school ma'am look! Isn't it amusing how they all do these TEFL exams, and then become all affected and overcome with self-importance?! And it's always the nonentities and nobodies who becomne affected like that! Like Sirin does. Another nobody. They all seem to suffer from delusions of grandeur - which is part of their escapism, really!

    I bet they HATE having to eat Turkish food day in day out - that's why Abi got all frustrated and ordered that Tiramisu could not be mentioned on that thread again! It TEMPTED HER - and made her feel all DEPRIVED! She needs a nice little amuse-bouche to refresh and tantalise her tongue. All those boring beans and doners must send you round the twist after a time! Maybe she's so depressed, she doesn't wash that often? Hence all the filth they scrub out of her in the hamam! According to her, one doesn't need to sunbathe to get a suntan; all you need do is stop washing for a few weeks' - and you'll look like you've just come back from a fortnight in the Bahamas! tongue

    If they weren't so boring and sanctimonious - they'd be hilarious!

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    Post  Maria Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:40 pm

    What the f*&6 are footgloves Strawbs? Suspect they sound horrible! Neutral sort of thing they would wear then? Laughing I had a nosey over there and saw that member Liza ask boring Abi how she was able to go to mixed hamams and she put OFF TOPIC! silent Exclamation Exclamation Exclamation she made a good point also, not many Turks would let the wifey go to a mixed hamam Wink My guess is he dont give a flying *****! Wink

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    Post  SozzledSally Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:19 pm

    Maria wrote:What the f*&6 are footgloves Strawbs? Suspect they sound horrible! Neutral sort of thing they would wear then? Laughing I had a nosey over there and saw that member Liza ask boring Abi how she was able to go to mixed hamams and she put OFF TOPIC! silent Exclamation Exclamation Exclamation she made a good point also, not many Turks would let the wifey go to a mixed hamam Wink My guess is he dont give a flying *****! Wink

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    Post  ruby Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:24 am

    SozzledSally wrote:
    Maria wrote:What the f*&6 are footgloves Strawbs? Suspect they sound horrible! Neutral sort of thing they would wear then? Laughing I had a nosey over there and saw that member Liza ask boring Abi how she was able to go to mixed hamams and she put OFF TOPIC! silent Exclamation Exclamation Exclamation she made a good point also, not many Turks would let the wifey go to a mixed hamam Wink My guess is he dont give a flying *****! Wink

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    You mean this sign Sal Official - You are over the hill at 25 LOL 1704111

    Talking of footgloves, bet they all have those awful purple mothballs in their sinks, and a mothball or two in their hand knitted footgloves just to make them feel even more Turkish lol! lol!

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    Post  Admin Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:08 pm

    Hi Ruby,

    Yes, what is it with those mothballs, some Turks put into their wash-hand basins? Suspect Besides ponging (eeeeeew) I don't see how they can be effective at keeping moths away, if they're constantly getting soaked in water!

    Any ideas? tongue

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    Post  Maria Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:25 am

    Ive never seen mothballs out there in sinks or anywhere else come to think about it Suspect You sure they was mothballs and not something else???

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    Post  ruby Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:15 am

    Admin wrote:Hi Ruby,

    Yes, what is it with those mothballs, some Turks put into their wash-hand basins? Suspect Besides ponging (eeeeeew) I don't see how they can be effective at keeping moths away, if they're constantly getting soaked in water!

    Any ideas? tongue

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    Strawbs, the mothballs not only keep the moths away, they also keep homosapiens at barge pole length as they stink to high heaven, so maybe they dont get soaked!. Evil or Very Mad

    Maria, how have you managed not to see these horrible little purple balls (and not the ones belonging to the guy pestering you to have a meal in his restaurant lol! ) they are prevalent all over the resort areas and at petrol station toilets where usually a woman is standing with a small wicker tray in order for you to drop a few lira into it. The smell makes me feel sick pale

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    Post  Admin Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:21 pm

    ruby wrote:According to a member on TC you are over the hill at 25, just take a look at this howler

    'Liza, haven't most people grown out of "going to concerts, nightclubs, wine bars, pubs, parties" and whatever by the time they are 25?'

    Think I'd better book a one way trip to Zurich and book in at Dignitas Clinic Laughing Anyway else want to join me, maybe we could get a discount lol!

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    Ooooh, I can just imagine musty Sunny in her neat A-line tweed skirt and loafers pursing her lips and tutting when a very handsome Italian Gondolier calls out to her : "Signora! You like me take you gondolia, hmmm? Over 25? No problem! You bella! Wink It's the grande fatty ones over 25 stonee I cannotta take - but you, bella, I taka you any any time!" Wink Wink

    You can just see it can't you - her looking all flushed and bothered and whispering to her travelling companion that 'gondalas are for young silly people with no sense!" "Let's get the Vaporetti instead - much better value and we can sit on proper seats like mature adults!" silent

    "Oh, and don't try and slip any Marsala in my Tiramisu! One spoonful and I start giggling - two spoonfuls and I start doing the can-can!!"

    Those very handsome sexy gondoliers would soon get Sunny and Abi all frisky - with or without Tiramisu! haha

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    Post  hyatum Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:28 pm

    Ahhh you all make me laugh so much! I have missed your cheeky chirps and clever witty comments....Strawbs I loved Venice, I was there a few years ago after skiing (badly) in Livigno and Madonna di Campiglio. I just so enjoyed watching all the glass-blowers, such beautiful pieces. On the grand canal is a collection of the famous Peggy Guggenheim Art Collection, really inspirational... and I loved the Doges as well. I was like a pig in shite there with the art-works. Actually I left the ski place and bravely caught a bus to Venice then a train all across Italy and France to England. Actually I never knew where the train was going half the time, I just went west!!! but honestly I expected to end up in Moscow with a Molotov up my butt. My return flight left from Paris....so imagine my horror when I returned there from London and was told that I did not have a 'visa' for longer than 1 day!!!! Yikes I had to kiss arse with that one....anyway the very dark immigration officer once convinced that you do get pale blonde Africans, let me shuffle off to catch my flight.

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    Post  Admin Sun Mar 04, 2012 7:18 pm

    hyatum wrote:Ahhh you all make me laugh so much! I have missed your cheeky chirps and clever witty comments....Strawbs I loved Venice, I was there a few years ago after skiing (badly) in Livigno and Madonna di Campiglio. I just so enjoyed watching all the glass-blowers, such beautiful pieces. On the grand canal is a collection of the famous Peggy Guggenheim Art Collection, really inspirational... and I loved the Doges as well. I was like a pig in shite there with the art-works. Actually I left the ski place and bravely caught a bus to Venice then a train all across Italy and France to England. Actually I never knew where the train was going half the time, I just went west!!! but honestly I expected to end up in Moscow with a Molotov up my butt. My return flight left from Paris....so imagine my horror when I returned there from London and was told that I did not have a 'visa' for longer than 1 day!!!! Yikes I had to kiss arse with that one....anyway the very dark immigration officer once convinced that you do get pale blonde Africans, let me shuffle off to catch my flight.

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    Hi Nicks,

    Oh yes, I can just imagine how you must love Venice - what with being an artist and painting......I bet you felt like you'd landed in paradise! I can see how it's an artist's dream with not just all the beautiful architecture, but the changing light from dawn to dusk and how the water amplifies the light.....it is just like fairyland isn't it?

    We were going to catch the vaporetto over to Murano, but even though we had three days and nights there, we never got round to it (another excuse to go back!) Monsieur Strawberry did buy me some Murano jewellery, though, from a shop that had all the Murano certification - and you could just see it was unique and handmade. I've got a beautiful blue Murano necklace and bracelet - which I will put up on the site - it is just SOlovely, and is handsigned by the glassmaker. I bought my daughter two Murano drinking glasses - and I'm going to warn her not to drink out of them! haha We also bought a few other gifts (a Murano gondolier - quite plain, actually, all black glass) and a few other pieces. I fell in love with a pink and clear glass chandelier, but the man wanted 2,000 Euros for it, so I'm still deciding....he does ship (and he showed me his list of customers (Michael Winner has bought from him it seems) and his pieces are just wonderful. I also fell in love with a turtle.....but that was far too heavy to carry, and I couldn't bear to have dropped it (cost an arm and leg) so may have that shipped over too. All shipping is insured, so no worries of it getting broken en route....be a terrible diappoinntment though!

    Before we went over there I did some research and discovered there are fake Chinese glass that some stalls sell out there (some small shops too) but even with my inexperienced eye I could see STRAIGHT AWAY the Murano from the fake. They're like chalk and cheese! I definitely want to go to the glass factory in Murano, though; those glassblowers are incredibly talented! As you know yourself some of those works of art are INCREDIBLY detailed! They're just amazing. And Murano glass itself is in a class all of its own.....

    We also wanted to go to Burano where all the pretty painted houses are, but on the morning when we tried to go there they had a strike on or something - so that's another to-do for next time! To be honest, we had so much to see and do in Venice itself, and what with getting lost at night (which was a wonderfully exciting feeling with the quiet streets and atmosphere there) we just took a lot of it in our stride, and went with the flow.... We were lucky to stay in San Marco, because late at night it seemed as though, except for a few people dotted about - we had it all to ourselves! Those soft pink lanterns in the square are just sooooo romantic - and to think Casanova and Napolean feasted their eyes on that very same square is somehow really incredible.

    We passed the Peggy Guggenheim art centre, and everyone we spoke to told us it was a must-do, but again, we never got round to it. Next time though, for sure! We only touched the surface really - San Marco, the Rialto, Bridge of Sighs, Grand Canal tour, the Lido - plus the gondolier ride of course, and lots and lots of walking through backstreet canals and alleyways.....

    Your adventure across Italy, France and England sounds like it was huge fun! I love things like that - impulsive trips! I've done a few of them in the past....moons ago.........great fun! You not really knowing where you were going reminds me of something I read years ago - which I found hilarious! A Chinese tourist in London went into one of the big stations (Waterloo or somewhere) and asked for a ticket to 'Torquay' - which she promptly bought and sat herself on the train she was told to get on. About 50 miles before reaching Torquay she asked a fellow passenger how it was so quick to 'Torquay' and it transpired she wanted to go to Turkey! haha And that is a true story that I read in the Daily Mail!

    Anyway, hope you're having a brilliant weekend...and look forward to hearing from you soon!

    By the way, are you still doing Florence this year?

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    Post  Pollypecker Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:44 pm

    ruby wrote:According to a member on TC you are over the hill at 25, just take a look at this howler

    'Liza, haven't most people grown out of "going to concerts, nightclubs, wine bars, pubs, parties" and whatever by the time they are 25?'

    Think I'd better book a one way trip to Zurich and book in at Dignitas Clinic Laughing Anyway else want to join me, maybe we could get a discount lol!

    Ruby


    So what do these folk do at nite or weekends? Shocked

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    Post  ruby Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:28 am

    Pollypecker wrote:
    ruby wrote:According to a member on TC you are over the hill at 25, just take a look at this howler

    'Liza, haven't most people grown out of "going to concerts, nightclubs, wine bars, pubs, parties" and whatever by the time they are 25?'

    Think I'd better book a one way trip to Zurich and book in at Dignitas Clinic Laughing Anyway else want to join me, maybe we could get a discount lol!

    Ruby


    So what do these folk do at nite or weekends? Shocked

    Pol x

    Sit in front of their computer screens swooning over an Avatar or putting links up to boring shit.

    Ruby

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