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[Nilgiri]

Good atmosphere in Australia a lot of our so called football matches are garbage in atmosphere.

Literally went to a few games I even want to Real Madrid in 2015 it was dead the atmosphere.

tbh its same thing here in Canada overall. Soccer (as we call it) just isn't that popular in the national consciousness.

No real enthusiasm. (Ice) Hockey rules the roost here and basketball + baseball are super popular in the States as well.

"Football" here to begin with refers to NFL/CFL, entirely different ball game. Its loosely like rugby but you can throw forward etc heh. I actually got into it for a while, till I lost interest in more recent years.

In Australia though, I remember my Aussie friend saying its really "footy" (Aussie rules), cricket and rugby that are most popular spectator sports overall with devoted fanbases.

We had a good Aussie teacher in our school in Singapore that made aussie rules popular when I was there (he ran and extra-curricular for it).

So no surprise that soccer is pretty boring atmosphere in comparison, probably something similar to the overall atmosphere here till Groundskeeper Willy spices things up finally lol:

In fact I often use that line whenever Soccer does manage to come up here this side of the pond lol.

Ack you call this a soccer riot? C'mon bois, lets take em to skooool. OI OI OI

 

[Ryder]

tbh its same thing here in Canada overall. Soccer (as we call it) just isn't that popular in the national consciousness.

No real enthusiasm. (Ice) Hockey rules the roost here and basketball + baseball are super popular in the States as well.

"Football" here to begin with refers to NFL/CFL, entirely different ball game. Its loosely like rugby but you can throw forward etc heh. I actually got into it for a while, till I lost interest in more recent years.

In Australia though, I remember my Aussie friend saying its really "footy" (Aussie rules), cricket and rugby that are most popular spectator sports overall with devoted fanbases.

We had a good Aussie teacher in our school in Singapore that made aussie rules popular when I was there (he ran and extra-curricular for it).

So no surprise that soccer is pretty boring atmosphere in comparison, probably something similar to the overall atmosphere here till Groundskeeper Willy spices things up finally lol:

In fact I often use that line whenever Soccer does manage to come up here this side of the pond lol.

Ack you call this a soccer riot? C'mon bois, lets take em to skooool. OI OI OI

You heard of AFL right.

Afl has been trying to promote itself as an Aussie game.

Whats the irony is Aussie footy is only popular in Victoria and Tasmania while the rest of Australian states its barely popular.

Afl was even called the Victorian Football league. In Queensland and Sydney, rugby is actually more popular and in immigrant communities in Sydney, Football/Soccer is more popular.

Afl expanded into Australia moved a lot of victorian teams out of state.

Fitzroy became Brisbane Lions while South Melbourne became Sydney Swans.

Even Cricket is more popular in Australia than AFL.

AFL has been trying decades to become popular in Australia and the world they are pretty much failing hard.

I use to watch it as a Kid overtime Football, Basketball and Motorsport just were more interesting.

As a kid I tried to watch F1 a lot especially to watch Michael Schumacher.

As a kid I always been a Ferrari fan I was a fan of the cars first then I became a fan of the F1 team and never looked back.

 

[Turan]

İnteresting research

 

[demir283]

İnteresting research

It's a Turkic Curse. History shows that Turkics fight each another in every corner. This what Turkics are. we like to fight bro, we even slap our children while we're loving or bite babies hands to make watches . Our brains work Turkic manner simplistic not sophisticated .

 

[Turan]

It's a Turkic Curse. History shows that Turkics fight each another in every corner. This what Turkics are. we like to fight bro, we even slap our children while we're loving or bite babies hands to make watches . Our brains work Turkic manner simplistic not sophisticated .

But the right-wing left-wing fight is not something unique to Turkey. I think this research is valid all over the world.

 

[TR_123456]

It's a Turkic Curse. History shows that Turkics fight each another in every corner. This what Turkics are. we like to fight bro, we even slap our children while we're loving or bite babies hands to make watches . Our brains work Turkic manner simplistic not sophisticated .

But what happens to both sides when there is a war?

 

[Nilgiri]

You heard of AFL right.

Afl has been trying to promote itself as an Aussie game.

Whats the irony is Aussie footy is only popular in Victoria and Tasmania while the rest of Australian states its barely popular.

Afl was even called the Victorian Football league. In Queensland and Sydney, rugby is actually more popular and in immigrant communities in Sydney, Football/Soccer is more popular.

Afl expanded into Australia moved a lot of victorian teams out of state.

Fitzroy became Brisbane Lions while South Melbourne became Sydney Swans.

Even Cricket is more popular in Australia than AFL.

AFL has been trying decades to become popular in Australia and the world they are pretty much failing hard.

Yeah well both fellas (teacher and friend) were from/in Victoria so it makes sense they had footy right up with the rest.

From what I remember, it was a lot more playable rather than watchable....I've never tried watching it heh. Its too eclectic a game for that I feel....definitely for what rest of world is likely used to.

Aussie sports that I watched growing up in 90s was mostly Cricket (especially versus India, some great memorable series) and Rugby (vs all blacks and springboks especially)

I use to watch it as a Kid overtime Football, Basketball and Motorsport just were more interesting.

As a kid I tried to watch F1 a lot especially to watch Michael Schumacher.

As a kid I always been a Ferrari fan I was a fan of the cars first then I became a fan of the F1 team and never looked back.

I remember first watching Schumie when he was with Benneton. He had some legendary back and forth with Damon Hill back then that I remember quite well even now.

Later at school, buddy of mine was Finnish and he always would brag about Hakinnen lol. So I had to take Schumie + ferrari side to make it interesting between us heh.

I continued following for quite a while and supporting him, but slowly lost interest after Schumie left ferrari. That was the best era of F1 for me.....I still remember all the other guys too like Coulthard, Irvine, Barichello, Villeneuve, Salo, Fisichella, Trulli etc etc....i.e just before Massa, Montoya and Raikonnen et al really joined the fray.

 

[demir283]

But the right-wing left-wing fight is not something unique to Turkey. I think this research is valid all over the world.

Pease Read Kemalism and later stages it's not a left nor right wing Turks are very creative to create more wings ...

But what happens to both sides when there is a war?

Depend on what kind of war

 

[TR_123456]

Pease Read Kemalism and later stages it's not a left nor right wing Turks are very creative to create more wings ...

Depend on what kind of war

A war against any country('s) attacking us.

 

[demir283]

A war against any country('s) attacking us.

When country at stake, rest is history,

 

[Ryder]

This man will rule Turkiye one day!!

 

[Ripley]

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This man will rule Turkiye one day!!

This guy, whoever he is, my hero.

We all know that Turkish football is dominated by the “Three Bigs of Istanbul” but also oddly enough the entire population of all different geographic regions of the country despite their unique cultures are somehow devoted fans of one those “Three Bigs”
So much so that, they can support one of them against their hometown club, simply leaving their local attachments and identities behind!
This strange divorce, disconnection from your local community has always amazed me.
I’m a natural Galatasaray fan, that is, it’s coming from both sides of my parents and their families. And I’ve spent a good chunk of my youth in Tarabya district in Sarıyer County of Istanbul since my school for eleven years was there, thus always felt a huge sympathy toward Sarıyer Club.
Always imagined that they would be my club if there was no Galatasaray!

So, let’s just ignore the “Three Bigs of Istanbul“ for this once!

You guys have any ‘secret local loves’ that you even haven’t admitted to yourselves?

 

[Ryder]

This guy, whoever he is, my hero.

We all know that Turkish football is dominated by the “Three Bigs of Istanbul” but also oddly enough the entire population of all different geographic regions of the country despite their unique cultures are somehow devoted fans of one those “Three Bigs”
So much so that, they can support one of them against their hometown club, simply leaving their local attachments and identities behind!
This strange divorce, disconnection from your local community has always amazed me.
I’m a natural Galatasaray fan, that is, it’s coming from both sides of my parents and their families. And I’ve spent a good chunk of my youth in Tarabya district in Sarıyer County of Istanbul since my school for eleven years was there, thus always felt a huge sympathy toward Sarıyer Club.
Always imagined that they would be my club if there was no Galatasaray!

So, let’s just ignore the “Three Bigs of Istanbul“ for this once!

You guys have any ‘secret local loves’ that you even haven’t admitted to yourselves?

My parents are from Eskisehir. So its natural to support Eskisehirspor.

Eskisehirspor actually came close to winning the league in the 1970s.until the bullshit thing was rigged which allowed Galatsarary to win.

Turkish league has always been talior made for the Big 3 of Istanbul to win.

Lets not forget how Basaksehir won in 2020. That shit was rigged.

 

[Fuzuli NL]

As an Istanbul romantic, one thing I love is reclaiming old ferries and putting them back into service instead buying soulless new ones. Much much lower cost as experienced workers that know everything about these boats are still working for Şehir Hatları and the nostalgia. I see they also added some new electronic systems to modernize it and engineer talks about renewing much of the electrical works in the engine room. It looks like renovation took about some 8 months.

Great news. It's the second reclaimed ferry now after Paşabahçe. can't wait to ride her.

"We saved one of the symbols of the Bosporus from being scrap. We bought the Kızıltoprak Ferry for scrap, we renovated it completely, now it is at the service of Istanbulites."

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1652606278764576768

Same way I felt when they introduced the new dolmus vans instead of these legendary "Cuban style" vintage cars

 

[Ripley]

My parents are from Eskisehir. So its natural to support Eskisehirspor.

Eskisehirspor actually came close to winning the league in the 1970s.until the bullshit thing was rigged which allowed Galatsarary to win.

Turkish league has always been talior made for the Big 3 of Istanbul to win.

Lets not forget how Basaksehir won in 2020. That shit was rigged.

Es Es and Fethi Heper! They completed each other so well. 1/2 century later whenever someone says EsEs I remember Fethi Heper.
Beautiful city, good local culture and huge football town.
Respect 🫡

 

[Ripley]

Same way I felt when they introduced the new dolmus vans instead of these legendary "Cuban style" vintage cars

With all due respect sir, the vintage Cuban cars actually happen to be “Turkish style”

Seriously though, when I was a kid, my favorite among those vintage “dolmuş” cars was the De Soto

For the simple reason of this most beautiful hood ornament

That figure head mesmerized me for some reason.
I used to be very happy if we could get a ride in one of those De Sotos.
Good ole days

 

[Nilgiri]

With all due respect sir, the vintage Cuban cars actually happen to be “Turkish style”

Seriously though, when I was a kid, my favorite among those vintage “dolmuş” cars was the De Soto

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For the simple reason of this most beautiful hood ornament

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That figure head mesmerized me for some reason.
I used to be very happy if we could get a ride in one of those De Sotos.
Good ole days

That era was special, lot of nice cars in this arrival scene (the movie itself was one of my first intros to Turkiye as a kid lol) :

 

[Ripley]

That era was special, lot of nice cars in this arrival scene (the movie itself was one of my first intros to Turkiye as a kid lol) :

Citroen! A real automobile icon!

I still remember what 007 ordered for breakfast:
Toast, fresh figs (when in Turkey do as Turks do! Duh!) and Turkish coffee!
Oh Mr. Bond, how more can you get Turkish

 

[Ryder]

I went to motorclassica the classic cars were just so beautiful and mint.

Honestly even if modern cars are more safe and high tech.

The old ones have soul. Classic Ferraris were just gorgeous. Same with the old Porsches, Lamborghinis and Mercs.

 

[Ripley]

I went to motorclassica the classic cars were just so beautiful and mint.

Honestly even if modern cars are more safe and high tech.

The old ones have soul. Classic Ferraris were just gorgeous. Same with the old Porsches, Lamborghinis and Mercs.

There you said it yourself. They have soul! They are pieces of craftsmanship whereas modern ones are mass manufactured utilitarian machines.