Thanks for this — I'm always looking out for interesting stuff in Russian on YouTube (for practice)

Lucky you, no snark intended!

This puts me in mind of Aleksandr Pistoletov aka "Dongcopter" only not as much fun.

It looks like that battery-operated "weasel-ball" thing come to life.

Actually, you get a nationalistic Turk talking about the Kurdish question, and let's just say you'll probably be really sorry you opened that particular can of ugly, racist worms.

But the coarseness of sea salt is a good thing

Aha! this site is still operating!

The American brothas are flying down to Brazil, from what I hear.

The cheesy Russian love songs are a nice touch in the video.

I know, when I've been out to salsa clubs, for a woman it's an honor to dance with the inevitable little old guy who's got all the moves. It should work both ways~!

Fatih Sultan Mehmet?

There are a LOT of places in the world where you are not even supposed to flush regular toilet paper because their sewer systems can't handle it. Just saying, if you think this is unpleasant.

I'm not a regular viewer of the yerli dizi but I am positive there are at least a couple every season that fit that description. They're all in Turkish, with no subtitling, so that kind of limits the audience. Dubbed into Arabic, however, they were a huge success elsewhere in the Middle East and contributed to a boom…

This isn't the first time an American TV show has been ripped off — er, served as the inspiration for a Turkish show. I can vaguely recall remakes of Gossip Girl and even The Golden Girls. Also, there was a US reality show that lifted a Turkish concept, where the bachelor's candidates are all vetted by his mother, or…

Not sure about the ankle-strap shoes, but the others look like the Capezios everybody had to have when I was in high school — whether they actually danced or not. I think they might still make them in that style.

No booze at their parties, I would imagine, and probably Arabic/Persian/Turkish/etc. dance music? Perhaps some guys of the sort who get deported for being "too sexy"? Where were they when I was an undergrad?

Mick had a certain je ne sais quoi that still comes through in old photos.

He reminds me of a young Mick Jagger.

Somebody just recently told me that's actually the slang term in Turkish for what is known in the US as his "six-pack."

She's kind of a throwback — which is IMO why she and Prince belong together. She is so fierce she cannot be denied, but at the same time she is so much against the grain of what's being pushed on us as popular music right now.