<story><title>Turkey has blocked Google DNS access to Twitter</title><url>http://www.todayszaman.com/news-342851-turkey-becomes-first-country-ever-to-ban-google-dns.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>srl</author><text>Completely off-topic, but my pet peeve:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; (by the way, i&amp;#x27;m sorry for my english skills)&lt;p&gt;If you feel the need to append this statement, that&amp;#x27;s a good sign that you don&amp;#x27;t need to. Your English is fine (should be &amp;quot;schools teach&amp;quot;, not &amp;quot;schools teaches&amp;quot;, and I wouldn&amp;#x27;t have used &amp;quot;sample for&amp;quot; there, but who cares -- it&amp;#x27;s clear and unambiguous). It&amp;#x27;s the morons who don&amp;#x27;t care that end up being painful to read.</text></item><item><author>ayi</author><text>As a Turk, i&amp;#x27;m just ashamed of our government.&lt;p&gt;Schools in Turkey teaches in geography classes that Turkey is a bridge between Asia and Europe. But this is also true for our social structure: We sometimes turn our face to europe, ass to asia and sometimes we turn our ass to europe and face to middle east. Our last 12 years was a sample for second statement.&lt;p&gt;(by the way, i&amp;#x27;m sorry for my english skills)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextstep</author><text>&amp;gt; Completely off-topic, but...&lt;p&gt;If you feel the need to append this statement, that&amp;#x27;s a good sign your comment will detract from the discussion.</text></comment>
<story><title>Turkey has blocked Google DNS access to Twitter</title><url>http://www.todayszaman.com/news-342851-turkey-becomes-first-country-ever-to-ban-google-dns.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>srl</author><text>Completely off-topic, but my pet peeve:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; (by the way, i&amp;#x27;m sorry for my english skills)&lt;p&gt;If you feel the need to append this statement, that&amp;#x27;s a good sign that you don&amp;#x27;t need to. Your English is fine (should be &amp;quot;schools teach&amp;quot;, not &amp;quot;schools teaches&amp;quot;, and I wouldn&amp;#x27;t have used &amp;quot;sample for&amp;quot; there, but who cares -- it&amp;#x27;s clear and unambiguous). It&amp;#x27;s the morons who don&amp;#x27;t care that end up being painful to read.</text></item><item><author>ayi</author><text>As a Turk, i&amp;#x27;m just ashamed of our government.&lt;p&gt;Schools in Turkey teaches in geography classes that Turkey is a bridge between Asia and Europe. But this is also true for our social structure: We sometimes turn our face to europe, ass to asia and sometimes we turn our ass to europe and face to middle east. Our last 12 years was a sample for second statement.&lt;p&gt;(by the way, i&amp;#x27;m sorry for my english skills)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nyrulez</author><text>You&amp;#x27;ve managed to take this thread exactly in the direction the author was hopefully planning to avoid :) disclaimer or no, there is always someone ready to comment on the english either way</text></comment>