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Cake day: January 28th, 2025

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  • Ok, so I have finally watched it, found by sailing the high seas.

    So, I never watched family guy before and I am not so sure I like or appreciate the style.

    Of course it depicts an italy that’s pretty stereotypical, but I think it fits well in the show “style”.

    I know a few Americans (mostly woman) who moved to Italy and stayed, and they currently enjoy living here much more than in the US, but not for the glamour or the supposedly romanticism, which is absolutely a stereotypical build up. Just for the actual quality of life.

    The only part I found offensive was the scene in school, with the big tits teacher. We actually have good schools and good teachers, and that was gratuitous and didn’t fit any stereotypes I could think of about Italy from an American point of view, so that felt a bit too much.

    The rest, it’s ok, even the mafia part and the run down shaggy southern lifestyle, it’s fitting stereotypes, so o think it’s also funny given the type of show family guy is.

    Overall didn’t enjoy much, but I guess I don’t lime the show much anyway, not because of italy.






  • I live in the countryside nearby metorpolitan area. Transport as in mass transit could be definitely better. It’s barely acceptable for students, and that’s still not good neough. We would need better and more capillar public transport. Still mostly car-only outside the city.

    Roads are not that bad, and traffic is survivable compared to other places like Milan, Rome, Naple and such.


  • I had no idea, to be honest, that this was the case.

    I think there is no discussion on the topic at the moment, i can tell you what i do think about it. Well, since if you are a citizen you have the right to vote on our political elections, if you dont actually live in italy and are not affected (properties in Italy, relatives still living here and so on), you should not be allowed to vote. So, while i don’t care if you get citizenship by ancestry, i do mind if you influence italian political elections without any stake in them.

    It’s a general point of view, i have no specific case, just an opinion.


  • Ciao Choss! sei il benvenuto a scrivermi in italiano, non temere di sbagliare, solo così si impara. Cercherò di correggerti, ma senza troppa ansia.

    Ho fatto arrampicata sportiva in passato, ma sempre in palestra (tipo bouldering), la montagna mi piace viverla con il trekking e la corsa (trail running). Conosco bene Finale Ligure, specialmente per il mare. Ci vado spesso… ho fatto giri con la bici e nuotate in mare, ma non ho mai arrampicato li. So però che ci sono tra le falesie più belle della zona, è molto famoso come posto per arrampicare.

    Quanto agli americani, ho vissuto per parecchio tempo negli USA, tra Seattle, Greenville TX e Atlanta, GA (specialmente qui). ho diversi amici americani e credo che gli americani siano un grande popolo, molto amichevole e fondamentalmente bravo. Però anche molto ignorante, nel senso che non sanno, non conoscono. E questa è colpa della scuola, dlel’istruzione, che negli USA è piuttosto scarsa proprio a livello di cultura generale. Così molti dei “problemi” con gli americani nascono dal fatto che credono di essere i migliori al mondo e che tutto il mondo dovrebbe assomigliare agli USA, per buona fede, non perché sono presuntuosi o cattivi.

    Io credo che se vuoi vivere in italia e contribuire alla società qui, allora è giusto che tu possa avere la cittadinanza. L’italia permette la doppia cittadinanza, quindi se puoi per qualche motivo (es. jure sanguinis) averla, perché no. Però non sono un avvocato e non so nulla dell’argomento, quindi ti auguro buona fortuna al riguardo! Tutti e due i miei genitori sono italiani, per cui posso solo considerarmi fortunato, in fondo dove nasciamo va a culo… (it’s pure luck = andare a culo, literally going with the ass)

    Alcune piccole correzioni, non dimenticare gli articoli (“sto provando ad imparare l’italiano”) e poi credo tu abbia dimenticato qualcosa qui “ma so che ci sono molte cose che non so” (there any many things i don’t know, literally).

    Quanto a libri, sto leggendo dei libri di Nicola Pesce https://www.mondadori.it/autori/nicola-pesce/ e scrive molto bene e in modo anche facile da leggere, senza parole troppo difficili. In particolare i suoi libri con animali come protagonisti.

    a presto!




  • Yeah, true. In my mind, both cross-country and randoné have a feeling of leisure skying on a nice easy landscape but “scialpinismo” has the “alpinismo” word in it which means to actually climb a mountain, and in fact scialpinismo has a strong technical skill requirement as you will be skinning up steep slopes with very high risk of avalanches and skying down techincal, steep and or narrow ledges and edges… i don’t think they really translare correctly.

    In scialpinismo you might very well have your crampons and iceaxe, put skying on the back and climb up ice or rocks as well on the route.




  • In the big city nearby, not that bad. There is a very efficient subway, but too small for the city, and an extensive network of busses.

    Tickets are 2€ for 1 hour, with some 40-60€ euro monthly cards, depending if you have discounts.

    Outside the city less good, there are suburban busses and train lines, but efficiency is not great. And are much more expensive.

    If you need to travel across cities there are busses and trains, often running late but overall quite cheap.

    My daughter take the train to go a few towns away for school every day, like 20min each way, the annual students card cost 600€ but covers a pretty wide area outside the big city.



  • It’s a bit more complex than that.

    We celebrate the 25th of April as Freedom Day, we don’t celebrate killing people even if they where dictators. Its bad taste.

    Also, it seems that more then half of italy still like Mussolini and his legacy so.

    Also, north Italy was also the place where the Repubblica di Saló, or the last fascist strongold, was located. So I guess it’s not a matter of north and south, rather of fascists and non fascists, which where both equally shared among the country.

    So no commemoration, and a bit of second thoughts also on freedom day given how many new fascists ww have. Mind me, they are also pretty ignorant of their own history, so… Go figure.