The War Has Started!

Not even separated rubbish 🤣

Time to move and find your tropical paradise my friend.

Time to move and find your tropical paradise my friend. - @Zooldrool

Been there, done that....and you need a time machine to get to Paradise nowadays! 😁

@JimJ

Just raid that sofa, find 60 leva and get a ticket on a land machine to Istanbul Airport.

Then choose any air machine you want to take you directly to the tropics.

....and you need a time machine to get to Paradise nowadays! 😁
- @JimJ

Paradise? I heard they paved it and put up a parking lot.

....and you need a time machine to get to Paradise nowadays! 😁
- @JimJ
Paradise? I heard they paved it and put up a parking lot. - @Aidan in HCMC

So I hear - but I was too busy chasing the big yellow taxi that took away my old man...😎

@JimJ
Just raid that sofa, find 60 leva and get a ticket on a land machine to Istanbul Airport.
Then choose any air machine you want to take you directly to the tropics. - @Zooldrool

Is that anywhere near Constantinople? 😎

@JimJ

Istanbul!

(but that's nobody's business but the Turks) 😉

@JimJ
Istanbul!

(but that's nobody's business but the Turks) 😉 - @Aidan in HCMC

That's one point of view - but when "Türkiye" tries to pretend that it's actually in Europe 😂 and Brussels pretends to believe it, while not noticing that it's illegally occupying an EU state, and when an avowedly Islamist country is in NATO...then it becomes everybody's business. 😎

@JimJ

It does have a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

@JimJIt does have a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. - @SimCityAT

"relatively small"? I'm not sure that statisticians would describe 3% in that way.🤣

And they haven't paid the rent in nearly 600 years....😎

@JimJ
Istanbul!
(but that's nobody's business but the Turks) 😉 - @Aidan in HCMC

That's one point of view - but when "Türkiye" tries to pretend that it's actually in Europe 😂 and Brussels pretends to believe it, while not noticing that it's illegally occupying an EU state, and when an avowedly Islamist country is in NATO...then it becomes everybody's business. 😎
- @JimJ

The Four Lads 😁

@Aidan in HCMC

I totally missed the original reference - it's been a LONG time since I've heard that song! 😁

@Aidan in HCMC

But don't speak too soon....😎

https://tinyurl.com/bdd3htt9

@JimJ

Sweet!

Do you mean Byzantium founded by the Greeks, then occupied by Romans, then conquered by Ottomans?

I'm still wondering how the Ottoman Empire ruled for ~6 centuries, selling only that single furniture item.

I'm still wondering how the Ottoman Empire ruled for ~6 centuries, selling only that single furniture item. - @Aidan in HCMC

And nowadays they have the cheek to lay claim to the Döner kebab, which everyone knows is the national dish of Germany... 🍴

Do you mean Byzantium founded by the Greeks, then occupied by Romans, then conquered by Ottomans? - @Boris-Gleb

Nobody knows who founded Byzantium - there are various theories/legends about it, but they're all post hoc...😎

Same about Varna or Odessa?  Withregarda Byzantium legend involves Byzas leader, but building vestiges in old town are real.