haha, oh man, stoopeed americaaans... lol
haha, oh man, stoopeed americaaans... lolThey also didn't like the un-authentic Italian food either.
I certainly have no 'prudish' problem with nudity. But I do have a major problem with the American need to sensationalize it and call it ipso facto 'art'.
Like the Europeans, I see nudity as 'no big deal'. I do NOT, however, see it as something beautiful in and of itself like a lot of Americans do who want to indulge their obsession with being able to 'express' themselves. Yes, indeed, the Puritan ethic is pervasive here in the USA, even amongst people who think themselves liberated from it!
Nudity should be an afterthought, not a necessity in order to make a point. Like left-handedness, it should be not 'thought' about. The Europeans have that 'over us' for sure with their far more mature outlook on the human condition.
But what I want more than anything else at this point is to question SuzanneR, and force her to reveal to me, "just how did you get that proper accent on the 'a' of Pieta"? - David Lyga
it really is stricking to witness how many Italian-Americans (I am half Sardinian) are so (willfully) ignorant of anything authentically Italian. But, maybe with those words I have overstepped my boundary. One is sometimes not supposed to tell the truth if that truth becomes so personally revealing. Yes, indeed, Brian, it truly is appalling.
But, folks, to those possibly offended: Americanism is not a religion. - David Lyga
á = Alt+ 0225 on Windows keyboards
Only minds are dirty.
Yes, Stone, there is a DECIDED difference between the mindsets of Sicilians and Sardinians. A truly decided difference!!!
The Sardinian language is VERY different from Italian, so different that Sardinians are taught the Tuscany (purest) dialect of Italian in school and, thus, speak perfect Italian, without regional accent. My grandmother who came through Ellis Island at age nine, in 1919, spoke English without any accent, spoke (Tuscany) Italian perfectly, and, of course, spoke Sardinian (to my grandfather, born 1894!, who did not bother to learn English very well).
I saw all this go into motion perfectly, and in sync, when she took me (and my grandfather) to Italy for my high school graduation in 1968 in order to visit relatives in both Sardinia and Rome. Getting through Rome's Fiumicino Airport customs with about SIX CARTONS of Marlboros was achieved through vociferous arguing with the customs guard and ending up with him getting a few quick pack of cigarettes and letting us though, unimpeded, and without due remorse. - David Lyga
haha great story, those Airport agents are a funny bunch, post 9-11, I was allowed to bring my swiss army knife on board, but was forced to dump my newly bought starbucks coffee... go figure... glad to be kept safe from burnt coffee spilling on my lap...
stone
you obviously don't remember the mcd's law suit ?
maybe your hot coffee was hot, and they were saving you from yourself
I remember the McDonalds law suit, it wasn't that, they said I might have some kind of bomb liquid in my mug, the funny part is, it was a metal thermous style mug, so, after emptying it, they let me on... yet... I could have hid liquid inside the layers of the thermos part ... idiots... AND you missed the point... which is they let me take a swiss army knife onto the plane... AFTER the 9-11 disaster... and they only had plastic knives... kind of dumb ...
Grazie, Diapositivo, per zero, due, due, quattro. Solo quando si comprende tuttle le lingue si può fare questo accento correttamente. Ma, ho provato questo e non succede nulla diversa da quella pagina si sposta! - Davide Lyga
Thank you, Diapositivo, for the zero, two, two, four. Only when one understands all the languages can one make this accent correctly. But, I have tried this and nothing happens other than the page shifts! - David Lyga
I know that I am not 'semi-ambivalent' about that response, semi-ambivalent. You have just achieved that which the high-tech crowd was never able to achieve: common sense!
This is the kind of response that I truly cherish: elegant, eloquent, enduring, endearing! How I love the nascent, low tech, uncomplicated daring on your part. And if it happens to be the wrong size or font, simply change it. Even I know how to do that! Again, thank you.
And, by the way, STONE: if you could have heard the arguing at Fiumicino Airport you would have thought that she was HIS boss! - David Lyga
If you are expecting arbitrary government regulation to make some kind of sense, you haven't really been around the block.
I know that I am not 'semi-ambivalent' about that response, semi-ambivalent. You have just achieved that which the high-tech crowd was never able to achieve: common sense!
This is the kind of response that I truly cherish: elegant, eloquent, enduring, endearing! How I love the nascent, low tech, uncomplicated daring on your part. And if it happens to be the wrong size or font, simply change it. Even I know how to do that! Again, thank you.
And, by the way, STONE: if you could have heard the arguing at Fiumicino Airport you would have thought that she was HIS boss! - David Lyga
Thank you, Diapositivo, for the zero, two, two, four. Only when one understands all the languages can one make this accent correctly. But, I have tried this and nothing happens other than the page shifts! - David Lyga
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