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[raven3d]

I've just found this place, but know a few names here..
Though i had best say hi..


I'm Rick, from lancashire, uk but live in limassol cyprus.
I have a model 2 and a model 4 charvel and about a dozen various other bits of guitars.

http://www.rkendall.com/music/gear-heads

It's nice to find a busy forum these days, facebook seems to have sucked the life out of lots of em!

[DonP]

The reason why this place still works is that we are too old and ugly for Facebook

[Twitch]

Sure was dead as fuck here last night, come on now, youve got all week to go out and party. Save the Friday nights for a busy forum.

[Trussrod]

Welcome, nice guitars! Looks like a banana HS on that Explorer?

Twitch, you need to get out more...

[Twitch]

Welcome, nice guitars! Looks like a banana HS on that Explorer?

Twitch, you need to get out more...

I get out plenty, I just start to get super bored around midnight, and its too early for bed.

[RacerX]

Wot da hell is a Brit doing in Cyprus?

[raven3d]

Wot da hell is a Brit doing in Cyprus?

well right at this very minute i'm getting ripped!!!!

[DalyTek]

Welcome to our twisted little world!

[Rsmacker]

Wot da hell is a Brit doing in Cyprus?

We fucking owned it for a while. (Then gave it back to the Greeks, but they were careless and lost half to the Turks. See what happens when we let the natives have control?)

[Devotee]

We fucking owned it for a while. (Then gave it back to the Greeks, but they were careless and lost half to the Turks. See what happens when we let the natives have control?)

Actually, we kicked your asses out in the 50's.

[Rsmacker]

I think not. We LET Stavros have it back because we got sick of the bellyaching.

[RacerX]

Actually, we kicked your asses out in the 50's.

Are you Brit, Turk, or Cypriot, Devotee? Because according to wikipedia there has been lots of ass-kickery on Cyprus through the ages, but I don't see anybody being "kicked out in the 50s". There was some scattered violence in the late 50s, with more from '63 on, then a Turkish invasion in 1974 (took over 38% of the island). Independence was granted in 1960, but the UK retains control of a few military bases in the south.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus

[raven3d]

Wow that got weird!

[Devotee]

Are you Brit, Turk, or Cypriot, Devotee? Because according to wikipedia there has been lots of ass-kickery on Cyprus through the ages, but I don't see anybody being "kicked out in the 50s". There was some scattered violence in the late 50s, with more from '63 on, then a Turkish invasion in 1974 (took over 38% of the island). Independence was granted in 1960, but the UK retains control of a few military bases in the south.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus

I'm Greek Cypriot born in England.
During the mid-late 50's, an organisation of terrorists/freedom-fighters (depends on who you are really) called EOKA fought a campaign against the English. Eventually they got tired of getting attacked and gave up and left. Then Cyprus was given independence, which apparently nobody really wanted in the first place since 90+% of the population wanted to be united with Greece - hence the EOKA campaign. Then the invasion happened 14 years later... I know plenty about the Turkish invasion; my grandparents and father lost their house and all their property because of it as well all the other Greeks living in the North. Yeah, the English have a few sovereign bases throughout the island - i even used to play rugby with some UN soldiers stationed at one of them. It's pretty ironic since the whole point of the EOKA campaign was to get rid of the English colonialists in the first place.

Anyhow, having lived there for half of my life i've come to the conclusion that the whole island has been fucked since independence was granted and we never had politicians with half a brain to solve the ongoing Cyprus problem or do anything to help this country move forward. :dunno:

Anyhow, there's a lot of books about the whole Cyprus problem but there's a really good (impartial) one called The Cyprus Conspiracy by Brendan O' Malley which explains the whole thing in great detail if anyone's curious.

[Soap]

Welcome Raven, glad to have you.

Yah, threads take strange weird turns around here.

Devotee is somewhat new around here and seems alot of the times engage his mouth before he engages his brain.
Just excuse him and move on.
Gotta roll with it at times around here.