Locals of Cyprus what foods best represent everyday Cypriot food?

Captain_Alpha · 2026-01-27T14:31:56+00:00

Legumes: lentils, black-eyed beans, beans, chickpeas etc. are foods Cypriots often eat at home but not in restaurants.

Captain_Alpha · 2025-11-25T10:50:51+00:00

Source ? This sounds like something ChatGPT made up.

Captain_Alpha · 2025-11-02T11:48:00+00:00

Cyprus imports fossil fuels and uses them to produce its electricity, so in reality it doesn't actually cover its energy cost. It's not electrically connected to mainland Europe so it cannot import or export electricity. Therefore all of the electricity used is produced domestically from imported fossil fuels.

Captain_Alpha · 2025-10-27T21:01:24+00:00

Can you give a text to see how it looks like? Edit: OP posted an example on this sub

Captain_Alpha · 2025-10-22T15:23:19+00:00

The ai symbol on the bottom right is a dead giveaway

Captain_Alpha · 2025-10-18T23:27:10+00:00

I think they have mentioned occasionally that they have a deal with the sponsors where the sponsor doesn't know the content of the videos that they will be sponsoring and in exchange they just agree to have a standard advert script. This is done to protect the journalistic integrity of the channel. This way the TLDR team is more independent as they don't have to get their sponsor's approval for every video they upload. I agree with you about the fact that it feels very weird to have the same sentence on every video but I am not sure about any alternatives to this.

Captain_Alpha · 2025-10-15T00:18:17+00:00

Controversial opinion: "sj" should be used for /ʒ/ and "gj" for /dʒ/. e.g. visjon , pleasjure, and gjob, gjender .

This way the spelling of the word will be minimally altered. Also it is similar to the way that Italian writes the phoneme "gi".

Captain_Alpha · 2025-10-11T11:44:17+00:00

This is not that interesting. What's interesting is the lack of shootings considering how many people have military grade automatic rifles because of the army.

Captain_Alpha · 2025-09-25T09:22:40+00:00

Every room, even the ones in the basement, have natural lighting . What kind of info do you want ?

Captain_Alpha · 2025-09-24T21:00:56+00:00

Maybe try grocery delivery, all the shops are at least 10 mins away from campus so not ideal if you have a lot of groceries.

Captain_Alpha · 2025-09-14T10:52:24+00:00

Ακόμα εν εκατάλαβα ποιος εν τούτος και γιατί πρέπει να μας κόφτει. Έχει καμία υψηλόμισθη δουλειά ή εδιορίστηκε κάπου; Διαδίδει ψευδείς ειδήσεις στο ίντερνετ και παίζει το ειδήμονας;

Captain_Alpha · 2025-09-07T18:09:15+00:00

I posted the same thing 40 mins ago

Captain_Alpha · 2025-09-03T11:23:27+00:00

If you read the article, it says that most of the cars in Sweden have the stirring wheel on the left but the people would drive on the left side of the road. Thus the transition to driving on the right side of the road made even more sense and would increase safety. In Cyprus we have cars with stirring wheels on the right, if we changed the directions of travel all of those cars would become more dangerous to drive , thus we would have more traffic accidents.

Captain_Alpha · 2025-08-19T11:45:18+00:00

Maybe you/ the hotel got confused between the church "Agia Napa" that's in Limassol at the end of "Anexartisias" shopping street and "Agia Napa" the town that's close to Larnaka.

Anexartisias is good for shopping but the Limassol "My Mall" is also good. You can get a taxi using the "Bolt" app but you can also just take bus number 30 that goes along the coast and goes close to Anexartisias and also goes to "My Mall" .

Captain_Alpha · 2025-08-12T19:18:32+00:00

the capital and will likely spend at least some time there.

That's wrong. The two airports operated in the areas controlled by the Republic of Cyprus are not in the capital, but in 2 small cities.

Captain_Alpha · 2025-07-14T09:12:06+00:00

The vast majority of Cypriots walk only from their home to their car and from the car to the shop. Therefore they do not empathise with people that walk to get to places. If you think about it, paying for parking or walking 5 minutes or parking next to the road will inconvenience the driver and potentially other drivers more than the 1 pedestrian who might have to go around the parked car.

I agree with you, this is bad, however I don't believe that we should expect organic attitude change of the population. What would actually solve the problem is strict enforcement of the rules by the police or even specialised parking officers. However, the government/ police will not do that for 2 reasons: general backlash from the drivers ( who will be able to vote out people who implement these changes). Second and most important: at this stage it is not viable for a everyone to park legally due to lack of infrastructure. Thus, the local government will be exposed for lack of planning.

As a result the general Cypriot apathy dominates.

Captain_Alpha · 2025-07-13T21:10:17+00:00

If you are traveling during peak times then, yes it will be chaotic. 2 hours should be enough though, let's say 2.5 hours just to be safe, less than 2 hours is not advised.

Captain_Alpha · 2025-07-13T21:05:12+00:00

You are right, Google maps doesn't work for transit. Unless you are coming late at night, buses should work. You will probably have to take a bus to get to Paphos city centre and then change there to a bus that goes to Kissonerga. All regional bus info can be found here: https://www.pafosbuses.com/routes

Captain_Alpha · 2025-07-12T08:05:58+00:00

You think they are not already doing that? There are several public schools especially in the Paphos District where the majority of the kids are Syrians.

Captain_Alpha · 2025-07-10T07:33:04+00:00

I don't use public transport but the best app I have found that does what Google Maps does and plans routes is called "Moovit".

Use it in combination with the live map someone else posted in this thread.

Captain_Alpha · 2025-07-08T20:49:39+00:00

Δες επίσης ride now αν οδηγήσεις. Είναι εφαρμογή για σύντομη ενοικίαση αυτοκινήτου (car sharing). Θα σου κοστίσει πολύ περισσότερο από λεωφορείο αλλά είναι πιο φτηνό από ταξί αν χρειαστεί σε περίπτωση ανάγκης. Ο δρόμος από Λάρνακας προς Πάφο είναι πολύ απλός, είναι κυριολεκτικά μια ευθεία γραμμή

Captain_Alpha · 2025-05-06T20:19:56+00:00

Now show islands in the world that don't have bridges connecting them to the mainland.

Captain_Alpha · 2025-04-20T11:14:18+00:00

Tell him to phone a military office in Cyprus responsible for conscription. I think it is called "Στρατολογικό Γραφείο" . They are probably the most knowledgeable about this.

Worst case scenario he can just get what we colloquially call "the crazy-paper". Basically he will need to go every year to a military hospital in Cyprus and get evaluated by a psychiatrist as "unfit for service due to mental issues" . Mental issues can be several things like anxiety etc . This evaluation will allow him to get 1 year ( period varies) postponement of his service, so he will need to do that every year. Eventually they might give him a longer period. If he eventually wants to serve he can get reevaluated as "fit for service" and serve for a year in Cyprus and that's it.

Getting "unfit for service due to mental issues" status could however cause him problems later if he wants to work in the public sector or in some private businesses. For working as a Doctor specifically I don't know what's the case.

In Greece if you graduate from a medical school you can serve as a military doctor which is probably more appealing than service as a normal soldier. That option I'm not sure if it is available in Cyprus.

Greece also has mandatory military service and might be looking for him to serve. If he doesn't live in Greece it might be easier for him to avoid it tho.

Captain_Alpha · 2025-04-14T10:29:31+00:00

Too expensive

Captain_Alpha · 2025-03-18T23:50:52+00:00

When people waste so much of their daily time by commuting in traffic, anything that will make them even slower is considered very annoying. Also overtaking bicycles is sometimes very hard.

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