I have just about had it with this election. I find politics mind-numbingly boring as it is, and it’s not like I even have the right to vote here anyway. Yet about a hundred times a day we’re all subjected to the blaring music and propaganda of political vans driving by and advertising their respective parties over loudspeakers. From about 8:00 in the morning until sundown it hardly ceases. These vans are everywhere and there are seemingly endless amounts of political parties. Given the manic way they present themselves, they all seem somewhat nutso to me.
I wonder if they realise there is such a thing as bad advertising, as in, if I had the right to vote I’d be out there making note of which vans had the most obnoxious loudspeakers and I’d make a specific point not to vote for those parties. Seriously, I’m fed up. I wish they’d just hurry up and vote already so we can be done with the political message vans. I’m pretty sure by now everyone has heard whatever message they were going to hear (how could they not?) and can make their decisions in private without propaganda being blasted in through their windows during all the daylight hours.
If they start doing it at night I’m going to go postal.
I’m there with ya… and not only with political advertising. I get probably 3-4 flyers on my doorstep every day, and I fantasize about collecting flyers from all over town and then dumping them at the front door of the offending business.
Funny how everyone has their “hot button.”
I’m there with ya… and not only with political advertising. I get probably 3-4 flyers on my doorstep every day, and I fantasize about collecting flyers from all over town and then dumping them at the front door of the offending business.
Funny how everyone has their “hot button.”
I am with you Melissa. Sometimes I feel like politicians behave this way to drive away the average voter. Get rid of the unpredictable center and have the extreme ideologues they know will show up. Then all they have to do is fight for the better turn out.
Wow, did I just use the work ideologues? Not sure where I pulled that from. 😀
I am with you Melissa. Sometimes I feel like politicians behave this way to drive away the average voter. Get rid of the unpredictable center and have the extreme ideologues they know will show up. Then all they have to do is fight for the better turn out.
Wow, did I just use the work ideologues? Not sure where I pulled that from. 😀
Ha ha ha. The last Turkish election I saw was 1994, which was the year Tansu Ciller’s party won. It was such a cheesy campaign. I think I eagerly sought to kill myself off before the campaign ads reached their fever pitch. It hit the absolute rock bottom when Anavatan Partisi adapted a then-popular song by Sertab Erener and played it relentlessly in every single ad. It went something like….
Had bakalim, yarinlara,
ikibinli yillara
Yirmi Ekim Pazar gunu
butun oylar Anapa
I cannot BELIEVE that I can still remember those lyrics. Ugh. *facepalm*
Ha ha ha. The last Turkish election I saw was 1994, which was the year Tansu Ciller’s party won. It was such a cheesy campaign. I think I eagerly sought to kill myself off before the campaign ads reached their fever pitch. It hit the absolute rock bottom when Anavatan Partisi adapted a then-popular song by Sertab Erener and played it relentlessly in every single ad. It went something like….
Had bakalim, yarinlara,
ikibinli yillara
Yirmi Ekim Pazar gunu
butun oylar Anapa
I cannot BELIEVE that I can still remember those lyrics. Ugh. *facepalm*
Do the candidates have platforms to bellow from to the public in Turkey? You would have thought the S.Korean political candidates last summer were having their own stand-up…that is, before they give an exhaustive speech.
Do the candidates have platforms to bellow from to the public in Turkey? You would have thought the S.Korean political candidates last summer were having their own stand-up…that is, before they give an exhaustive speech.
@Leanne: I’m a musician, so noise pollution is a particular sticking point with me. There’s nothing more frustrating than trying to do some home recording and a van drives by and starts blaring their political BS. Arg!
@Leanne: I’m a musician, so noise pollution is a particular sticking point with me. There’s nothing more frustrating than trying to do some home recording and a van drives by and starts blaring their political BS. Arg!
@ChiliMac: wow, that was impressive. Maybe you should sit down and have a drink now. 😀
@ChiliMac: wow, that was impressive. Maybe you should sit down and have a drink now. 😀
@Volkan oh dear god, I hope I don’t have any of the campaign songs stuck in my head years afterward… I feel for you.
@Volkan oh dear god, I hope I don’t have any of the campaign songs stuck in my head years afterward… I feel for you.
@Vivian: yeah, but at least if they have a podium they’re staying put and you can just avoid the area where the podium is. Here it’s a moving target, they just drive around all day and so it fades in and out and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. I’m sure there are podiums, too, but I steer well clear of anything that remotely resembles a political gathering.
@Vivian: yeah, but at least if they have a podium they’re staying put and you can just avoid the area where the podium is. Here it’s a moving target, they just drive around all day and so it fades in and out and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. I’m sure there are podiums, too, but I steer well clear of anything that remotely resembles a political gathering.
There is NOOOOOOO Escape…
You can’t even go to the beach to hide now as there is an armada of Gullets cruising the coast with flags. However it must be a nice change for the boat captains not to have to deal with pissed up tourists for a while.
The frenzy is building!!
Kaçmak Yok! Sese devam!
There is NOOOOOOO Escape…
You can’t even go to the beach to hide now as there is an armada of Gullets cruising the coast with flags. However it must be a nice change for the boat captains not to have to deal with pissed up tourists for a while.
The frenzy is building!!
Kaçmak Yok! Sese devam!
@David: Emirhan was telling me that they’re actually breaking the law now, that legally they’re supposed to stop with the vans and the boats within a week of the election… but do they? No, of course not.
@David: Emirhan was telling me that they’re actually breaking the law now, that legally they’re supposed to stop with the vans and the boats within a week of the election… but do they? No, of course not.