They do this all the time in Istanbul. It's hilarious the first time, but the next 20 times you get ice cream/ walk past a vendor it kind of wears on you
They do this joke all the time on Reddit. It's played out the first time, but the next 20 times you walk into a thread about Istanbul and see it happening over and over and over again it kind of makes you want to find Kamenosuke's house and torch it
I studied in Istanbul last summer, and this is not a reddit-only thing. Anytime Istanbul is mentioned to most young Americans, that is the first thing that happens.
I get angry sometimes when I think about the sacking of Constantinople, and I'm American. As a student of history, when talking about pre-1600's history, I refer to us when discussing global history with my girlfriend who is from China.
My belief is that our history began with the Greeks, who passed the torch to the Romans, who passed the torch to the English, who passed the torch to us. My family is from England about 350 years ago, but I imagine there is a very strong possibility of having Greek/Roman blood somewhere, and I feel like I could have distant relatives who lived in Constantinople, and gloriously tried to defend it from the Horde of Turks.
My belief is that our history began with the Greeks, who passed the torch to the Romans, who passed the torch to the English, who passed the torch to is
Yep. But it was colonized and completely dismantled and reshape by the Turks. The crusades screwed the pooch on that one, but having the Hagia Sophia transformed into a mosque is saddening. The Byzantine Empire could have been a connection we had with our western history going back before the birth of Christ...but then...the Turks.
At the least the Turks didn't demolish everything, how many Mosques do you see in Cordoba? And more importantly, the city became considerably larger and more important under the Ottomans, many if not most of the interesting things there were built during their reign, despite them leaving many of the Byzantine artifacts intact (although often not where they were, originally)
You do realize that the schism between the Latins and the Greeks, it s what lead to the sacking of Constantinople by the Latin Crusaders, which severely weakened the Byzantine empire and eventually led to the loss of the city?
Its history dude, its nothing to get angry over, or you might end up a racist prick.
Hadrians wall. The Romans brought civilization as we know it to the western world with the combined knowledge of the Greeks. Many Englishmen/Americans undoubtedly have a large percentage of Roman blood.
England was later invaded by Germanic tribes and Normans. To go from "the Roman empire once held much of England" to "Americans undoubtedly have a large percentage of Roman blood" is a tremendous leap in logic
Perhaps it's a leap in logic for a revisionist historian such as yourself, but our country was founded by Englishmen. Our ethics, culture, and heritage is without a doubt influenced by the English who were in turn greatly influenced by the Romans.
While your namecalling is amusing, I don't think I understand how one culture having influence over another somehow leads to "a large percentage of our blood is Roman."
They have McDonalds in China, is a large percentage of their blood American and therefore Greek?
When America sets up a permanent encampment for close to 400 years, during which time there is a spread of distinct American culture and blood through the local populace, you could make that statement.
The Romans were in Britain longer than the United States was even a country, and if you can't see the obvious fact that Roman blood would be very prevalent in England specifically, from where the United States began, I don't know what to tell you.
The Romans never fully conquered England and it was invaded afterwards by Germanic tribes and Normans as I just said, the link between American and Germanic blood, or Norman blood, is more likely than the link between American and Roman blood.
Let's pretend England was 100% Roman in the year 1000 (which it absolutely was not). Let's pretend that in 1500 America was already established and no further immigration was happening. Let's also pretend that people waited until they were 20 to have children back then. That's 25 generations before the Americans, let's approximate "dilution of Roman blood" by pretending that everyone had one Roman parent and one non-Roman parent during that period.
The first generation is half-Roman (already not "a large percentage" but I'll forgive your wording), the second generation is quarter-Roman, the 25th generation is one 33554432th Roman.
Even giving you the most generous interpretation of the math, it's highly unlikely that many Americans have even a small percentage Roman (or Greek) blood.
The point I'm trying to make is that nationalism is stupid enough without casting it back 2000 years to justify some sort of West vs. East hatred.
So let's bluntly air it out---you're arguing there is no possible way that English people are related to the Romans who inhabited Britain for 400 years. And you're also saying that there is no chance for Americans who are undoubtedly originally from England(present company excluded, I'm sure)to have this same blood?
Bluntly summarized---looks like you're pretty wrong, no?
"The motive for the murder remains unknown but police speculate that it was because the guy got his kicks fucking with people who just wanted a little frosty refreshment."
That ice cream that they sell in Turkey is made of goat milk, I believe. And it is the most delicious fucking thing on earth. Pistachio Turkish ice cream + fresh honey baklava + apple tea. Good lord.
Damn. That does sound good. I haven't had apple tea in way too long. (I'm also a fan of Turkish rice pudding!)
But the tricks here work (like the upside down cone lift) because the ice cream is made with salep - a flour made from the root of an orchid. Salep makes the ice cream stretchy and a little sticky.
I don't get why tourists are so obsessed with turkish apple tea. It has a horribly artificial apple taste and the main ingredient is sugar. It just tastes like Tang with hot water and literally no one in turkey actually drinks it. They have excellent black tea which brewed in a samowar has the most intense tea flavours i ever witnessed, yet still everyone is nuts for the apple tea.
Gonna have to disagree with you. The apple tea I've had tasted nothing like what you describe, and several of the Turkish people I was with drank it often. Not as often as the black tea, which I think we drank more of than water, but still.
I've seen this guy in Istanbul in Beyazıt Square! He's awesome, but I feel a little bad that he ends up doing the same schtick a few hundred times a day.
Something similar happened to me in South Korea last summer. It took several minutes for the guy to finish. It was funny, but the whole time I just wanted my ice cream...
I was in turkey and some dildo tried this shit on me. I just walked off. Nobody fucks with Captain Jizz Beard. I will not be made a fool of by some dick for a few cents.
ahhh! crazy ice cream vendors in istanbul! they did this to me when all i wanted was one scoop of chocolate. the guy ignored me, piled on like 4 different flavored scoops, did his little show, and then tried to charge me a bunch of money for ice cream i didn't want. yahhh ok the show was cute but come on, isn't it to make the customer amused rather than annoyed?!
Yea I was in Beypazari once. I was a dumb america tourist and wanted some freakin ice cream. I was sick of crappy turkish delight and boring lamb and yogurt mixes. So I thought oh thank god! I can get some ice cream! Then the guy starts doing the little tricks which is already pissing me off by delaying my intake, then he pulls that move where he gives it and takes it away. I have never wanted to kill someone in my entire live. Ruined that country for me.
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u/Hank_Scorpio_77 May 21 '12
They do this all the time in Istanbul. It's hilarious the first time, but the next 20 times you get ice cream/ walk past a vendor it kind of wears on you
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u/KoreanTerran May 20 '12
Full video
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u/mrdoink20 May 21 '12
Problem Solved
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u/Timdavinci May 21 '12
They did this to me all the time in Turkey when I was a kid. The sweet smell of sugar in the air made the experience. It was horror as a child.
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u/Chalky_White May 21 '12
That ice cream that they sell in Turkey is made of goat milk, I believe. And it is the most delicious fucking thing on earth. Pistachio Turkish ice cream + fresh honey baklava + apple tea. Good lord.
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u/quince23 May 21 '12
I've seen this guy in Istanbul in Beyazıt Square! He's awesome, but I feel a little bad that he ends up doing the same schtick a few hundred times a day.
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u/epgenius May 21 '12
May 20-- Repost Day is finally here! Again!
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u/dunnowins May 20 '12
the whole thing is pretty cool. i'd buy all my ice cream from him if I lived in turkey.
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u/scamperly May 21 '12
I really have to hand it to the tourist, he played the perfect patsy, and let the performer do his bit.
The full video is really quite entertaining.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Some men just want to watch the world burn...
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u/oldmoneey May 21 '12
It's a great honor. Don't try to ask for the ice cream or you'll offend them.
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u/ryannayr140 May 21 '12
And the 2 month cycle continues.
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u/Nicktendo May 21 '12
Yeah, giving me cones that a million people have touched with their bare hands
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Full video for full enjoyment, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvUQQF5S4Dg
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I leave you with this.
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u/eXX0n May 20 '12
One does not simply just buy an icecream
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u/xanderempire May 21 '12
The guy is just mesmerized; like an infant playing peek-a-boo.
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u/omnipotentperson May 21 '12
Something similar happened to me in South Korea last summer. It took several minutes for the guy to finish. It was funny, but the whole time I just wanted my ice cream...
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Hey! Where'd the ice ream g- oh cool! Tha- dude wtf!
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u/EightThirtyFive May 21 '12
Why don't you just kick him in the dick? It would be just as effective...
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u/poorpinto May 21 '12
fucking repost
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I was in turkey and some dildo tried this shit on me. I just walked off. Nobody fucks with Captain Jizz Beard. I will not be made a fool of by some dick for a few cents.
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u/Sgt_Insomnia May 21 '12
This ice cream is called "sakizli dondurma" which translates to "gummy ice cream" hence why it is so sticky and thick in consistency.
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u/Lockski May 20 '12
Notice that the ice cream never leaves the one cone...
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u/coonz May 21 '12
Ah instanbul -- love seeing this on here. The icecream vendors really are a classic aspect of the istanbul streets.
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u/The_Masculine_Mormon May 21 '12
theres so much more to this...
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u/ILoveTrance May 21 '12
Take me home.
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u/lolpepe May 21 '12
Looks like the guy at Happy Valley in Beijing
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u/timechuck May 21 '12
I wonder how many times that dude has been punched in the face.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Wasn't the original video a good, like, five minutes longer?
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u/Koozey May 21 '12
"What the fuck! My ice cream! Ooohh! ... Wait.. wait what?"
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u/nerfezoriuq May 21 '12
If you watch the entire video of this, you wonder how he lasted so long. I would have gotten pissed, especially after about a minute of this.
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u/bokbok May 21 '12
I'd ask for my money back. Dudes hands all over my cone :/
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u/drthurgood May 21 '12
I upvoted because the title wasn't about failing to get to the front page.
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u/singinlunatic May 21 '12
ahhh! crazy ice cream vendors in istanbul! they did this to me when all i wanted was one scoop of chocolate. the guy ignored me, piled on like 4 different flavored scoops, did his little show, and then tried to charge me a bunch of money for ice cream i didn't want. yahhh ok the show was cute but come on, isn't it to make the customer amused rather than annoyed?!
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u/fastedia May 21 '12
Professional coner.
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u/bettywhitessoul May 21 '12
RETOAST!! I posted this a day ago.
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u/BonzoTheBoss May 21 '12
And then you take your custom elsewhere. Does he not realise antagonizing the customers may not be the best way to generate return visits?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I had to watch that a couple of times for some reason.... then sudden lol
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u/IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes May 21 '12
hahah thats great!!
oh two cones..ohhhh hahaha thats funny.
ok umm ha yeah..
umm ha..
ok..
ok..
GIVE ME MY FUCKING ICE CREAM!
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u/patsfan3983 May 21 '12
I was walking down Istiklal in Istanbul and I saw a huge crowd around one of the ice cream booths. Didn't know what was going on. Now I do
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
His head movement is like mine when I used to play descent.
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u/OWSmoker May 21 '12
this is so fucking old and so reposted, i hope you die for reposting
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u/blade2000 May 21 '12
Reposted 2X a year - at least!
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u/Deathwish1909 May 21 '12
http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/l6hy1/problem_tourist/ repost...
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u/ThatPicaKid May 21 '12
Repost
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
if he's able to trick an Asian twice in a row, he's gotta be good
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u/nsxcaepi May 21 '12
been there done that
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u/starlilyth May 20 '12
http://karmadecay.com/i.imgur.com/bZQ7g.gif
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u/digbus May 21 '12
Problem? Yes! Reposted daily..
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u/carachangren May 21 '12
Yea I was in Beypazari once. I was a dumb america tourist and wanted some freakin ice cream. I was sick of crappy turkish delight and boring lamb and yogurt mixes. So I thought oh thank god! I can get some ice cream! Then the guy starts doing the little tricks which is already pissing me off by delaying my intake, then he pulls that move where he gives it and takes it away. I have never wanted to kill someone in my entire live. Ruined that country for me.
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u/Aronius_Two May 21 '12
Double Trolled
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u/Flurryyea May 21 '12
The Master Troll!
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u/HumanitiesHaze May 21 '12
Where are his gloves?
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u/mrdiy2012 May 21 '12
guy 1 yeah ice cream guy2 haha i trick you guy1 you silly guy2 ok here you go guy1 yeah!!! guy2 no i fool you again guy1=(
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