First I want to thank all of you lovely TWWers who have been sending your well-wishes my way due to the current turmoil in Egypt. My family there is doing just fine and up until yesterday have stayed out of the streets.

Getting in touch with them has been near impossible to due the government shutting down the internet and mobile towers, etc. Landline has also not been going through but today it was the way to go and we were finally able to make contact with them.

Protesters are still in the streets and people are actually out there in tents. From what I've seen on Al-Jazeera it looks like the NCSU-UNC bball ticket campout but with lots of yelling. Many, many people are taking advantage of the chaos and are robbing stores and residences armed with guns and knives. To deal with this, people on residential streets (including my tuff family) are taking shifts to protect their streets and buildings. My uncles and male cousins are on the streets with knives ready to attack anyone who threatens them. My aunts and female cousins are in the kitchen and watching over the men on their balconies, armed with boiling water and oil and glass bottles just in case anyone threatens their men! It's all very exciting but very scary. My friend's 78-year-old grandfather is even out on his street armed with his cane and a baseball bat.

I'm not sure if many of you are keeping up with this as closely as I am, but if you have, you are probably aware of the thievery that has occurred at the museum in Cairo. It is so sad that it had to come to that and I hope they find a way to recover all of the important artifacts. People were so crazy this weekend that they wanted to go start fires near the pyramids in Giza.

If I know Egyptians, I know they won't shut up until Mubarak steps down. Anyway, for now I'll leave you guys with this SNL skit.. enjoy!

Lol@ the Time Warner Cable joke

1/30/2011 10:15:15 PM

be well egy

be well

1/30/2011 10:16:59 PM

glad you and yours are okay

1/30/2011 10:18:09 PM

TWW Action gopher is world wide, bitches!

1/30/2011 10:19:07 PM

Oh man! I posted this for you in the other thread.

I just keep thinking about you and your family, girl! Keep us posted. This can be the OFFICIAL egyeyes update thread.

Also, I was sad to hear about the looting going on at the Cairo museums. Some of the mummies have been destroyed. So sad.

1/30/2011 10:20:24 PM

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"My aunts and female cousins are in the kitchen and watching over the men on their balconies, armed with boiling water and oil and glass bottles just in case anyone threatens their men!"

that's hardcore.

glad everyone is okay. best wishes to all.

1/30/2011 10:20:30 PM

TWW Action News reporting live

we've gone global

1/30/2011 10:22:06 PM

^^It is! It definitely a team effort and 24 hour community watch lol.

1/30/2011 10:22:47 PM

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"glad you and yours are okay"

1/30/2011 10:23:37 PM

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"Some of the mummies have been destroyed. So sad."

It is extremely sad. Those people obviously didn't realize that that's what brings tourists in! Shame on them for ruining something so irreplaceable.

1/30/2011 10:30:02 PM

this looks like a job for



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1/30/2011 10:33:38 PM

DURKA DURKA DURKA DURKA

1/30/2011 10:35:44 PM

I'll be thinking of your family, egyeyes

1/30/2011 10:37:31 PM

egyeyes

1/30/2011 10:50:13 PM

Thank you

qntmfred pls to change the title of this thread to "TWW Global Action News: Egypt Edition"

lol.

1/30/2011 10:50:42 PM

i was reading up on this over the past week or so and had been meaning to ask you about this. my questions that i was going to ask have been answered

im glad your family is ok and hope they continue to be

1/30/2011 11:16:36 PM

Thanks gunzzbaby Funny because i JUST sent you a pm!

1/30/2011 11:17:22 PM

i just replied
sorry, im slololow

1/30/2011 11:27:08 PM

So, wait, are you in Egypt?

1/30/2011 11:29:29 PM

No, but just about all of my mother's side of the family and a few of my father's side of the family live there.

1/30/2011 11:42:10 PM

1/31/2011 12:20:37 AM

egyeyes,

I've been watching with great interest and concern since all of this began. I'm glad your family are well and doing their part to maintain order. I can't swear that mine would be doing the same in a similar situation.

I wish your family there well. I wish Egyptians in general well. As much as this whole process has been academically interesting, far better that it be over with a good government in charge and no more violence, looting, or vandalism in the meantime.

1/31/2011 12:22:16 AM

I hate the museum crap, that's horrible!

Love this though;





Glad your loved ones are bad ass and okay!! Keep us posted!

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1/31/2011 12:27:11 AM

Have you tried sending a telegram?

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

1/31/2011 12:28:38 AM

thoughts are with your family!

1/31/2011 2:22:32 AM

egyeyes i did not know you were from Egypt. my boyfriend (Golovko's) family is also from Egypt and like you, he hasn't been able to speak with his extended family out in Cairo and Alex.

i'm thinking of you and your family. hopefully things start to look better soon.

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1/31/2011 7:32:27 AM

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"egyeyes i did not know you were from Egypt. "

i bet you are thinking ... now your screen name totally makes sense

1/31/2011 10:27:37 AM

hope your family is well eggy.

1/31/2011 10:35:14 AM

holy massive photo Kiwi

but yea, it's awesome, i saw one of those types of photos before

1/31/2011 10:39:08 AM

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"Have you tried sending a telegram?"

I actually did try to send a telegram but it had so much anti-government language in it that it was stopped before it could even get to my family!

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"egyeyes i did not know you were from Egypt. my boyfriend (Golovko's) family is also from Egypt"

I knew this already! I was finally able to contact my family yesterday, though. I hope his family is doing well and that he gets in touch with them soon.

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"i bet you are thinking ... now your screen name totally makes sense"

Haha I bet it's finally coming together for more people now.

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"hope your family is well eggy."

Thanks! They're doing well, thank God.

1/31/2011 10:58:39 AM

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"egyeyes i did not know you were from Egypt. my boyfriend (Golovko's) family is also from Egypt and like you, he hasn't been able to speak with his extended family out in Cairo and Alex. "

He and Shrike should start a Rescue Team.

1/31/2011 10:59:57 AM

good morning dearest egyeyes

1/31/2011 11:02:45 AM

the name makes so much more sense now.

1/31/2011 11:03:43 AM

^^good morning, gunzz dearest!

^

No new news as far as I'm aware.

1/31/2011 11:28:55 AM

lol whoops If someone of a higher power wants to fix it they're more than welcome to.


I thought you liked eggs or wedgies cause i've come close to calling you wedgie a couples of times lol

wegy like that, see it now?

anyyyyyyyyyyyyways...

1/31/2011 11:42:00 AM

Hahaha I do see it now

And yes, it'd be great if that picture could be resized haha

1/31/2011 11:54:05 AM

or pad it to page 2

1/31/2011 12:00:02 PM

re-sized

1/31/2011 12:00:45 PM

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"More than 400 people have been wounded and one person died in clashes between pro- and anti-government demonstrators in Cairo"

-cnn

2/2/2011 2:45:56 PM

Lol can u imagine being that 1 person who died.


Never be remembered.

2/2/2011 2:58:52 PM

Tell your friends and family to be safe, egyeyes. That place is either going to have violent crackdowns or the government will fall and a power vacuum will ensue.

2/2/2011 6:33:51 PM

i'm glad to hear everyone is ok!

been thinking about you a lot around here

2/2/2011 6:47:52 PM

Saw the dudes on horses get the shit beat out of them. cool, but CNN cut early and just looped it. fucking pussies.

2/2/2011 6:48:30 PM

I saw a bunch of protesters head south down Baka Laka Daka street!

2/2/2011 7:07:00 PM

I am pretty sure people are not going to stop destroying things until they cut the internet back on.

2/2/2011 9:07:50 PM

Why did I think you were Indian?

Anyway, hopefully your family stays safe. Crappy situation over there right now...

2/2/2011 9:09:53 PM

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"I am pretty sure people are not going to stop destroying things until they cut the internet back on"

internet was turned on early this morning

2/2/2011 9:10:48 PM

i wonder if anyone in egypt is TWWing

2/2/2011 9:11:21 PM

It was not really civil unrest but one time Time Warner an outage that effected the whole area around Kaplan for pretty much a whole day, there was a lot of people outside looking frustrated, dissatisfied, and restless.


When it came back on everyone disappeared indoors and all was well.

2/2/2011 9:15:47 PM

shit is real

2/3/2011 10:02:35 PM