HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My Dear Friends,
I love Christmas. I love the smells, the songs, the tastes, the decorations, the snow, and best of all... I love the movies. Because I don't have a family, I often spend Christmas alone, but that doesn't bother me if I have a good stock of my favorite Christmas movies to snuggle up in front of with some of my favorite Christmas snacks. Well, Christmas was bound to be a little odd this year anyway, since I was heading to my new home in Turkey, so I prepared myself for it by conducting a thorough search on youtube for all the Christmas movies I could think of and adding them to my favorites. I also ran across quite a few movies and shorts that I had never heard of before, but that looked intriguing. All in all, I favorited over 100 "Part One"'s, and I was looking forward to a very nostalgic Christmas, even if I would be on the beach...lol.
Then, I got here, and my plans got changed a little. I started out on the Mediterranean coast as planned, but the situation got ugly pretty quick, (more about that later) , so I spent Christmas Eve day sitting in a bus station waiting for my night bus to Bartin, on the Black Sea Coast, 14 hours away. Arriving late on Christmas morning through the snowy, forested mountains, I got comfy in my friend's flat and spent the whole day catching up on my sleep while she was at work.
That night, I got set to share some of my fave movies with my friend, and finally get my little Christmas high, only to find out that YOUTUBE HAS BEEN BANNED IN TURKEY!
Oh noooooooooooooooo, Mr. Bill! Well, there's a way around it, and many Turks are watching YouTube by going through a proxy system like Vtunnel.com, and I can do that, too, but it's more complicated than it sounds. I can click on videos to watch them on YouTube, but I can't use the search function or sign in to get to my favorites or my subscriptions. I tried to get around that by doing a search on Google Videos, because I can paste the URL into the proxy search engine and watch the videos, but I have to have the URL. And I'm also having a problem with Google Video... when I click on anything on their page... nothing happens.
So, all my Christmas faves.... and all my subscriptions... gone. My prospects of a cozy Christmas in front of the tube? gone. :(
Here's where you come in. You can still help save Christmas for old kruu (even if it's over, I can kid myself into thinking it's still Christmas... I've got enough snow to convince me). If you would be so kind, please leave me a little Christmas present. I'm making a list (and checking it twice) of all the videos that I can remember. If you want to do a good deed, please, please, please, go to YouTube and find Part One of any of these movies or TV episodes, and paste the URL into a comment. You would make me sooooo happy.
And if you come across something cute that's not on the list, feel free to add that, too. Here's the list... I may not have the exact titles correct on a lot of these. A big THANK YOU to anyone who can help, and Happy New Year!
Miracle on 34th Street (the original black and white version)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the animated version)
A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Walton Christmas
Doris Day Christmas episode
I Love Lucy Christmas episode
Dick Van Dyke Christmas episode
Andy Griffith Christmas episode
Polar Express
The Ref
The Snow Queen (the Russian Animated version.. both in English and Russian)
Mr. Bean's Christmas
The Vicar of Derby? Christmas
Beverly Hillbillies episode
Will and Grace Christmas episode
Third Rock from the Sun Christmas episode
Bell Book and Candle (with Kim Novak and James Stewart)
Harvey (with James Stewart)
Witches in Hollywood
Various Old Christmas Cartoons... Merry Melodies, Disney, etc.
Meet Me in St. Louis
Christmas in Connecticut (the old black and white version)
White Christmas (Bing Crosby)
Holiday Inn (Bing Crosby)
The Bells of St. Mary's (Bing Crosby)
Going My Way (Bing Crosby)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (the 1960's claymation version)
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Frosty the Snowman
Ziggy's Christmas Special
Hazel Christmas episode (with Shirley Booth)
That Girl Christmas episode (with Marlo Thomas)
Petticoat Junction Christmas episode
The Real McCoys Christmas episode
The Nutcracker
and many more...
Here are some non-Christmas things I had favorited..
The Stalker (by Tarkovsky)... any other Tarkovsky films would be good, too
Muminki
And if anyone could add the home pages of some of my subscriptions that I can remember, here are some of the usernames
fulldizi (I need this one to practice listening to Turkish, so it's urgent)
Lisa Nova
ourchristmas (and a bunch of other users with christmas in their names... probably
from some of the films I mentioned above
Abraham Hicks
If I think of any more, I might add to the list, but that's all I can remember for now. I'm so bummed out, because I've read on the internet that some people who visited Turkey couldn't even access YouTube on their computers after they left Turkey! Talk about censorship!
Please help... Thank you, thank you, thank you! :)
kruuyai posted on Dec 27, 2008
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evil_twin said on Dec 27, 2008....
That is so wild you can't watch You Tube in Turkey! That's insane. You only want part one of stuff? The Ref is one of my fave movies to watch at Christmas, so here's part one of that for you. But they have the other parts too, if you want more...
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evil_twin said on Dec 27, 2008....
The Grinch part one
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kruuyai said on Dec 27, 2008....
Oh crap! I can't see the embedded videos here either. Ummm, could I bother you for the URLs? I know I can paste them in and get it, because I've done it. Thanks e_t. Happy New Year! -
gingersoul said on Dec 27, 2008....
Kruu......Secret wrote this post few days ago with all the Xmas video songs she likes.......i bet you will find some of your likes too..
XMas video here
And i will post some movie videos too....
And.......{{{hugs}}}
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kruuyai said on Dec 27, 2008....
Oh, by the way, the reason I'm only asking for Part One, is that I should be able to get the related videos to show up on the You Tube page through the proxy, so I can follow them around and get the whole movie on my own. It would be too much work for someone to paste all the parts in here. Thank you soooooo much! -
evil_twin said on Dec 27, 2008....
Okay, here is the URL for the Grinch part one:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S3KM92s-pg
And here is the Ref part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sPCJwluejU
Do you need the links to the other parts or are you cool with just the first ones?
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evil_twin said on Dec 27, 2008....
If those links work for you okay, I can find more on your list. I have nothing else to do right now :-P So let me know.... -
kruuyai said on Dec 27, 2008....
ginger: Thanks... I couldn't see hers either (I tried). I just realized this about the embedded videos when I was reading queenie's latest post. All the internet postings about the bans said that we could see embedded videos, but no such luck. Hope you and Grape had a Merry Christmas. Happy New Year! {{{hugs}}}}}}} (I just don't know how you get your hugs so even! :) -
kruuyai said on Dec 27, 2008....
e_t: Cool! It works! I just past the URL into the Vtunnel proxy, and I get the YouTube page with the film, and all the related videos, so I can get the rest of the parts. Thank you so much. You've made me very happy. :)
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evil_twin said on Dec 27, 2008....
Woo-hoo! It works! Okay, well I can find a few more for you :-) Merry belated Christmas, Kruu! Now I'll get to work finding more of your list.... -
evil_twin said on Dec 27, 2008....
Charlie Brown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icB7_Lh_M-w
Rudolph: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ygNXSI8NjQ
Mr. Bean (I'm not sure if this the right one though...) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWtbJ1Uf-90
I'm having trouble finding lots of these because they'd been removed :-( But those a few at least!
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kruuyai said on Dec 27, 2008....
That is one thing that sucks about YouTube, is that the videos get taken down so fast. If I could at least get google to work properly, I'm sure I could find these videos on other hosting sites besides YouTube, but I've been having a problem with google even since before I came to Turkey. Don't know what that's all about. Thanks for your valiant efforts. :) -
husbandhater said on Dec 27, 2008....
Kruu sadly I am too stupid and so noncomputer lit for this part. I will try but Happy Holidays to you sweety. -
Alyss said on Dec 27, 2008....
Polar Express part one and part two for you (I hope)!
And just in case the links don't work...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cMfvq8RbCds
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XlAr30I9yrM
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kruuyai said on Dec 27, 2008....
hh: Happy Holidays to you, too. :)
Alyss: Thank you! (The links won't work because they take me straight to the youtube site which is banned here, but the URL's you provided are just what I need. I'll just paste them into my proxy and go from there. Thanks, and have a Happy New Year with ET! :)
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Lucytorial said on Dec 27, 2008....
Kru.. how about something homemade by a soulcaster??? its 10 minutes, you might find it funny, interesting and very different to where you are now? -
kruuyai said on Dec 27, 2008....
Lucy: I would love to see it, but I need the URL... I can't see the embedded videos after all. :( Thanks, hon! :) -
Lucytorial said on Dec 27, 2008....
uhuh! okay I will get the URL for you... one moment Kru. ((psst so nice to see you back again)) -
Lucytorial said on Dec 27, 2008....
okay URL right here for you Hi!
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Lucytorial said on Dec 27, 2008....
Kru why in the heck have they banned youtube? this is turkey is it not? 21 first century turkey? wow, thats so wrong.... -
pusscat said on Dec 27, 2008....
Hi there Kruu. Lovely to see you here again :)) hope the move all went well.
These all say 'Part 1 of ......' - i hope this means you get to see all of them Kruu. You know me and PCs - dinassaur!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QnkiP14Eh0U Miracle on 34th Street (B&W version) I watched this before I went to my sister's the other day :)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uY1oRj6opt8 Vicar of Dibley finale screened Christmas Day 2006
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pWtbJ1Uf-90 Merry Christmas Mr Bean
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q7CW_OZJ3TQ Dick Van Dyke Christmas Show
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kgQN6JpNFpY Charlie Brown Christmas
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iy5fym988Us The Snow Queen (English) Film version. Couldn't find an animated version that had part 1 listed that wasn't South Korean LOL! They had lots of different clips but I'm not au fait enough to know if those clips would be able to take you to the right clip that will enable you to watch it all?? They were all film, real life versions. The animated versions were all South Korean with English subtitles. The link for the animated SK one is http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ODUmKiEjmO0
Hope they are a bit of help. God - it takes me sooooo long to look for things and get the links ha ha! You sure ahve good taste in films!!
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kruuyai said on Dec 27, 2008....
Lucy: Thanks, I can't wait to watch it! The reason they banned YouTube in Turkey is that there was a video that was offensive to Turks, because it said something negative about their national hero, Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish nation. The video was posted by some kid in Greece. The Turkish government wanted YouTube to remove the video, and they didn't, so Turkey banned YouTube (I didn't even know they could do that, but.... they have the technology.. don't know why they didn't just ban the link to that specific video). Anyway, YouTube has since removed the video, but it is still banned here.
pusscat: Hi, and thanks for all the links. For a dinosaur, you do pretty well. ;-) I think I have good taste in films too... lol.
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Lucytorial said on Dec 27, 2008....
How very silly of them. Well where there is a will there is a way, enjoy your monster movie session Kruu -
pickersplock said on Dec 28, 2008....
Here's a new Christmas tradition!Mark Morris's version of the Nutcracker Suite, otherwise known as The Hard Nut.I couldn't find the whole thing, but I thought you'd enjoy this documentary on the show. -
MissMimi said on Dec 28, 2008....
It's so good to see you, kruuey! Merry Christmas! Here you go: -
MissMimi said on Dec 28, 2008....
Grrr. Can't edit. The links are for a few Disney Christmas cartoons. -
kruuyai said on Dec 28, 2008....
Lucy: Thanks, I will! (I guess I should consider myself lucky.. a journalist was put to death for "insulting Turkishness). :)
pickers: lol.. when I first read your comment, I thought it said Mark Mom's version of the Nutcracker Suite.... you remember mom, don't you? And I thought you were telling me to "mark" the video or something like that. Anyway, ole Mark is going to have a hard act to follow if he's going to outshine our dear ole mom! Thanks for the link!
Mimibaby!: Thanks so much! You know how much I love cartoons! :)
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queenparanoia said on Dec 28, 2008....
well i hope you enjoy your movies!!! too bad they dont have youtube there... but how come??? is turkey that strict?
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