Why we love The Italians

[adrian29uk]

Well we have covered France and Germany. Time to cover the little boot.

 

[pasty]

Love Italian food.

 

[Stoo82]

'Ciao' is the best word ever.

 

[Padders]

Pasta, Pizza, Chianti

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

-zola

-language

-romans

 

[Don Quixote]

Fascism

 

[Dave the OAP]

I like the Italian way of life.

The history, the architecture, the art and of course my favourite painters and composers ( verdi Puccini)

All in all I love the place and if I had the money I would certainly retire to Tuscany

 

[Foolg]

The food!

 

[Father Jack]

Coffee, Food, History, way of life, their love of cars, beautiful women, cities, football teams, the home of flair etc etc

 

[NF9]

Italians are good, I Can speak Italian and the people are nice.

 

[Uncle Buck]

The reverse feature.

 

[Market Porter]

My wife. She has her moments and don't cross her or criticise her cooking but does the trick for me. No, I don't have any pics of her doing the trick.

 

[NF9]

My wife. She has her moments and don't cross her or criticise her cooking but does the trick for me. No, I don't have any pics of her doing the trick.

Don't post things like this if you don't have any pics!

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Vespa

 

[Icy Gull]

I love their cars and style but are there a vainer bunch of up their own arse males on the planet??

Pistacchio ice cream mmmm

Pasta? rubbish food

You think the French are surrender monkeys?

Wine is well...ok

 

[Lord Bracknell]

What I like about the Italians is that none of them take the concept of "Italy" very seriously.

Quite right too. There really is no such place - just a loose assembly of places with their own history, culture, food, politics and language.

Granny Weatherwax fancies living in Tuscany. So do I (and have done so). In my bit of Tuscany, though, the first thing you learn is that the thieving, tyrannical Florentines can't be trusted.

“Gloria a te, Montalcino, onde un senese
superstite drappello, ancor quattr’anni,
oppose alla mitraglia dei tiranni
la Repubblica sua percossa a morte”

 

[blue and white army]

Acquiescing Hitler policies, they can f*** right off.

 

[Icy Gull]

Tuscany in July and August sucks unless you like crowds, way too many tourists

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

My Nan.

 

[Market Porter]

My wife and her family are from Liguria (The Cinque Terra) and they LOATH southern Italians. They also were ALL partisans during WWII and still LOATH the Germans.

So a loose affiliation of like minded lazy wops who'd prefer to sleep and party than do a decent 9-5 for a living, see a problem with that?