EU General Italy Thread : Politics, Food, Tourism

[filipina84]

Who ever did, he deserves my thanks.

She must've pissed off someone in college.

 

[TheRejectionist]

Angel Studio' Sound of Freedom must have become really popular if this film trailer from 12 days ago is popping up in my recommended feed.



I will just say that this trailer has more "Catholic-ness" than the whole of Italy.

 

[filipina84]

I might watch it.

 

[TheRejectionist]

 

[TheRejectionist]

 

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[Buba]

My 2nd cousin once removed (my mother's sister's granddaughter) married into South Italy. Her mother in law's dialect is reputed to be understandable only to those raised in a 50km radius :L)

 

[TheRejectionist]

My 2nd cousin once removed (my mother's sister's granddaughter) married into South Italy. Her mother in law's dialect is reputed to be understandable only to those raised in a 50km radius :L)

@Buba you know what was my most asked question when I tutored to an Azerbaijani friendly acquaintance ? "How do you pronounce that?" and my response was always "Depends on the region" and that de facto there is not that much of a definitive pronunciation on many Italian words pronunciations even though there is one de jure which is based on Tuscany's regional variant.

 

[filipina84]

My sister spent lots of time there.

 

[Buba]

@Buba you know what was my most asked question when I tutored to an Azerbaijani friendly acquaintance ? "How do you pronounce that?" and my response was always "Depends on the region" and that de facto there is not that much of a definitive pronunciation on many Italian words pronunciations even though there is one de jure which is based on Tuscany's regional variant.

I often give a similar explanation about English words - "it is pronounced so and so, but there are dialects where it will be pronounced differently, so don't sweat over getting it perfect"

 

[TheRejectionist]

To celebrate the 10th page of the Italy Thread here's one of my favorite Italian songs :

Italian

Io non faccio spettacolo, io do spettacolo come
Mio nonno ubriaco nel giorno della mia comunione
Talmente fuori di melone
Che ho parenti per niente contenti di portare il mio stesso cognome
Lasciatemi la presunzione di sentirmi letame
A volte duro, a volte liquame
Macché voglia di fama: sono un morto di fame
Macché posto a tavola, ho la ciotola come un cane
Abbaio per un paio di piatti che mendico
Potrei fare il collerico però me lo dimentico
Mi sta accanto un autentico medico, mi dice:
«Non ti rendi conto che diventi schizofrenico?»
Zitto medico! Mi costi caro
Io valgo zero
E non chiamarmi artista, ma cazzaro
È chiaro? Io sono cazzaro alla radice
Sono felice nella fece, dovrei piangere ed invece…
Sono malato ma da un lato non do fiato a vittimismi
Un Mirko, con tutti i crismi: Licia, kiss me!
Ambisco all'Oscar, ma quello degli aforismi
Dovevo farmi la doccia ma mi hanno dato un freesbee
E puzzo da schifo, bevo a sbafo
Scampato al mio destino come clandestino in uno scafo
Occhi spalancati come un gufo
Costruisco tufo su tufo un futuro che mi vede ufo
Sicuro che mi stufo, lo giuro su ogni ciuffo
Dovrei suonare la tromba per quante volte sbuffo
Se mi tuffo in una mia idea
Mi ritrovo in apnea in una marea di diarrea
Lo trovo buffo
Io sono vivo ma non vivo perché respiro
Mi sento vivo solo se sfilo la stilo e scrivo
Quando sono nato non capivo
Ed ora che continuo a non capire non mi resta che…
Rido, ma piango di gusto
Se vedo il bellimbusto palestrato e lampadato al punto giusto
Io che tra le ciocche c'ho il fango di Woodstock, puzzo
Accumulo per ore sudore che spruzzo
Amo le donne che sanno di merluzzo
Più che soubrette da paillettes e piume di struzzo
Ruzzolo in un gruzzolo di gioia
Anche se l'estate non la passo nello spasso della playa
Sono la chiavica campione in carica
Ma ho la calotta cranica che scotta come roccia lavica
E nella gara di chi bara nella musica
Sono in gioco con un due di picche nella manica
L'unica certezza è che finisco male
Muore Caparezza, tutti al funerale
È paradossale ma io non vengo, non ci tengo
Mamma quanti dischi venderanno se mi spengo!

English translation :

I don't do show, I do show like
My grandfather drunk on the day of my communion
So out of melon
That I have relatives not at all happy to carry my own surname
Let me presume to feel like manure
Sometimes hard, sometimes slurry
But I want fame: I'm a starved
But I'm sitting at the table, I have the bowl like a dog
Bark for a couple of dishes that beg
I could be angry but I forget it
Next to me is a real doctor, he tells me:
"Do you not realize that you become schizophrenic?»
Shut up, doctor! You cost me dearly.
I'm worth zero
And don't call me an artist, but a slacker.
Is that clear? I'm a dick at the root
I'm happy in the made, I should cry and instead…
I'm sick but on the one hand I don't give a breath to victims
A Mirko, with all the crismi: Licia, kiss me!
I ambitiate the Oscar, but the aphorisms
I had to shower but they gave me a freesbee
And I smell like shit.
Escaped my fate as a stowaway in a hull
Eyes wide open like an owl
I build Tuff upon Tuff a future that sees me ufo
Sure I get tired, I swear on every tuft
Should I sound the trumpet how many times I puff
If I dive into an idea of mine
I find myself apnea in a tide of diarrhea
I find it funny
I'm alive but I'm not alive because I breathe
I only feel alive if I pull out the stylus and write
When I was born I didn't understand
And now that I still don't understand I just have to…
I laugh, but I cry with taste
If I see the dude bodied and lampedto the right place
I've got Woodstock mud in my locks, I stink.
Accumulation for hours sweat spraying
I love women who taste of cod
More than soubrettes from sequins and ostrich feathers
Twinkle in a twinkle of joy
Although I don't spend the summer in the fun of playa
I'm the reigning champion key
But I have a skull that burns like lava rock
And in the competition of those who cheat in music
I'm at stake with a two of Spades up my sleeve
The only certainty is that I end badly
Die stubbornly, everyone at the funeral
It's paradoxical but I don't come, I don't care
Mom, how many records will they sell if I turn off?

 

[Buba]

For me Italian songs have been ruined by the Girls und Panzer anime, now there is only one Italian song to rule them all and in darkness bind them:


I love the scene at 0:50 - Italian Japanese 40kg girl LARPing as Italian girl stronk! <3

 

[filipina84]

For me Italian songs have been ruined by the Girls und Panzer anime, now there is only one Italian song to rule them all and in darkness bind them:


I love the scene at 0:50 - Italian Japanese 40kg girl LARPing as Italian girl stronk! <3

That bad?

 

[TheRejectionist]

That bad?

I think he was sarcastic.

 

[Buba]

That bad?

It was in the meaning "the Anzio school girls + Funiculi, funicula combination is so GOOD that nothing else brings joy anymore"
I like the Girls und Panzer anime as I find it hilarious (and the tanks are correct to almost the last rivet). No romance with icky boys, pure moe! And TANKS!
Besides the two petite girls overturning a several ton tankette in the linked video, the anime has two girls of similar burliness e.g. being loaders on a 152mm gun - easily handling a 50kg shell ...
If you squint you may notice I am a bit of a military otaku

 

[TheRejectionist]

 

[filipina84]

Any favorite Italian movies to watch?

 

[TheRejectionist]

 

[filipina84]

Interested in the third Instagram post of Jessica Marchi.

 

[TheRejectionist]