RE: Ask an Italian
May 16, 2015 at 8:45 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2015 at 8:49 pm by Lucanus.)
(May 16, 2015 at 8:42 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: How'd your exams go? (Or how are they going?)
Hard, but oddly pleasing to study. Also, great marks. Biology is awesome.
(May 16, 2015 at 8:43 pm)Saxmoof Wrote: Is Berlusconi as baffling to you guys as he is the rest of the world?
In retrospective, he isn't. He's the man we deserved (not exactly the man we needed though). We are a country where corruption has reigned for ~2000 years, B was just an incarnation of the national spirit, if you will. Women, money, notoriety, and a football team. All the things every man in Italy would want to be were a part of B's personality.
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
