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"pastry shops in italy are selling bagels."
"I can't imagine teaching English in Italy but also fuck it, maybe I'll just be a tour guide or a janitor or anything so I can be with Sylvia again."
"I'm buying my first house and planning my next trip to Italy and she's missing her car payments and doesn't have health insurance. I feel constantly guilty around her and can't relate to being broke anymore because I haven't been broke for years."
"Have you been to Italy? Yeeees! I loooove it! The food is amazing. I love the pasta. I liked Spain too but the food is better in Italy."
"Bigger than Italy and almost as big as Canada's and South Korea defense budget"
"I live in the communist region of italy, i can predict who's going to win every election and on a local level our democratic party leaders have been great. The region is one of the best in quality of life / economics shit and there's very little chicanery going around."
"This is fucking insane. Like this shit is going on in brazil, spain, italy, turkey, etc All this fucking jaw surgery and face lifts."
"I think outside of North America it is actually a straight coded job anyways, like if you go to France or Italy, I feel like there's maybe a better chance of seeing an old guy making your latte than a gay blue haired individual."
"This applied to everything from the evolving car industry (the recent German BS) to ChatGPT (Italy banning its commercial use, other countries discussing same)."
"Indonesia offered 20k troops for Palestine during the recent UN meeting and Italy is sending out a naval ship to the humanitarian flotilla ships heading to Gaza for their protection. Seems like some countries are gearing up to get involved militarily now."
"I will simply go to Italy every year and Japan maybe every 3 years to go shopping"
"Just as much as Italy, France, Brazil or any other country. We have distinctive food, holidays, clothing and values."
"I was passing by a harbor in Italy and heard a sailor shout that the great God Pan is dead, cancel culture has finally gone too far."
"The coffee there blows America out of the water. I had maybe one bad cappuccino and it was because I asked for it to go and they obviously didn't want to do that lol. The coffee back home now tastes like dirty water."
"I've been living in Italy for some years now and they are incredibly lazy, yet they are very thin. I always thought about myself as 'normal' or 'average' at a 20.5 BMI but I feel fat as fuck here comparing myself to these svelte, tan, wiry motherfuckers."
"My country's subreddit (Italy) is a cesspool of neoliberal centrist STEMcels that keep posting the same three reddit jokes and opinions over and over. It is also invaded by men who cry because they are short and unfuckable, blaming women for it."
"My dad gave me an old sony digicam, took some pics of cats and stuff"
"I went to traveling and every single spot in any area in a country has people everywhere. There's no place that is lightly populated. Anything in Italy, France, Switzerland, Thailand, Mexico, hell even Seljalandsfoss in Iceland had like a thousand people there."
"When I'm in America, I appreciate the locals and they're very friendly; meanwhile, the ones who go to other countries e.g. Italy (where I am rn) seem hellbent on announcing their prescence loudly at all times."
"my wife and i (both americans, early 30s) moved to europe about a year ago. we've traveled a lot since then to the city in italy where she spent a semester in college, which was the first time she ever left the US, so obviously a formative time for her."
"Before anyone says I'm just being spoiled by my stay in Japan, Germany's trains are actually ranking as ones of the least reliable, and are behind countries such as Czechia or Italy."
"I was at JFK it was total dystopia and they were making everyone boarding flights to Italy get their picture taken by these evil machines."
"I met a girl in a bar in Italy who was probably the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. We talked for about 15 mins and then parted ways saying we would speak later as we were both hanging out with our own friends."
"But italy's cookness doesn't come from the left-right division, but from the demographics: italy's average age is 50 years old. The birth rate is low because of low pay (no minimum wage whatsoever) and other economic strains."
"I know there's a term for older retirement-age men in Italy who spend their free time observing construction, often with hands clasped behind their back and offering unwanted advice (the term is 'umarell')."
"The poor girl got killed with a rock by her boyfriend. She was 14 and he was 19, it's grimey all over the place since she clearly grew up in a trashy environment. This video got recorded about a week after they found the body. It shouldn't be funny, but the absurdism of "my daughter got murdered, bt"
"Went on a week long hiking trip through Austria, Slovenia and Italy. Sadly, it rained a lot but the sights were still mesmerizing."
"Seeing some of those pics of her shooting in Italy for Succession S3 and the success of Scary have really encouraged me to keep writing and keep trying."
"In the usa this stuff is normal, but in italy at least the usual pro-israel reasoning is more subtle, akin to 'it's a disgrace and israel needs to calm down, but they reserve the right as they are the victim and they're the only democracy'. There's hardly any jews in italy, so antisemitism is someth"
"The book is consistent with his larger body of work and was written to educate the Medici ruler of Florence on the proper conduct of a successful 'Prince', and to convince him to unify Italy against foreign powers."
"Was r aped when she was 17 on holiday in Izreal but on the show, they changed it to Italy. I wonder why they made that error?"
"Can you even imagine what it means for a country of 59 million people to have 334 murders in a year? There are cities in the first world that see more murders than that."
"boiler summer cup: males challenge one another to hookup with fat girls, the fatter the girl, the more points they earn. it exploded in Italy and everyone is talking about it and it has already been exploited by the media, which defined it as outrageous and yet another reason why social media melt t"
"Whenever I hear people discuss european food, they always have spain up on the france/Italy tier when it really belongs with Germany and Poland or something."
"I was in one of their weekly "I've got tea" threads and commented about Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister of Italy, and her difficult upbringing."
"Sardinia is an island south of corsica and west of mainland italy that has historically not been host to many invasions compared to Spain, France or Italy."
"I lived across Italy and Ireland since moving abroad from my hometown of Chicago."
"Got banned in both for slightly criticizing Israelis under the pretense of 'racial discrimination' (the same rule they'll use if you talk a little too much in detail about crime in local train stations). There was a thread about some Israeli tourists (it turned out they were french with a double nat"
"Another example, I once managed an expensive ice cream shop where everyone was late teens/early 20s except this one middle aged Italian woman. I thought she was just quirky and Italian but it turns out she was regarded."
"Sat there in Kensington sipping rationed tea debating with your friends about the efficacy of the invasion of Italy and whether Stalin would surrender."
"Italy is such a culturally rich and classy country but also Italians brought so much crime and corruption and third world behaviour to America It's crazy. 'American girl in Italy' photo. Mafia isn't an English word. Or just watch Godfather/My cousin Tanino (I just watched that movie lmaoo) They mock"
"I know this sub loves Mediterranean countries (so do I, especially Italy) but the aging population problem is so much worse there than the anglosphere. If you've ever been to the non touristy/studenty parts of Italy, it's really apparent that there's very few young people."
"Closest thing is a guy who refused to touch the EU ballot by saying 'if i can't vote THE comrades, what's the point?' but he was friendly and funny, plus by living in the communist region of italy i've always loved my local communist geezers."
"I went to Italy in 2011 with my family. It was an incredible trip. We visited my grandfather's little postcard village in Abruzzo, Florence, & Rome. We were stunned at how well everyone dressed, even in the rural areas... Just remember: Italian bums dress better than American Billionaires."
"Pan-Asianists in Japan were known to heavily advocate for increasing the already good relations they had with Ethiopia up until Italy subjugated them."
"Same with Turkey bordering Bulgaria, Iran with Armenia, Russia with North Korea, Italy with Slovenia"
"German food Is absolutely fucking dreadful. Visiting Netherlands and Germany really makes me appreciate the food at home. People love to say British food is bad but my god it's like Italy compared to this place."
"I'm moving to Italy in a few weeks, and I've discovered over the past couple years that I can't really enjoy a city without some grime, some litter and graffiti. Honestly, I've never been but I really want to go to Russia and China (I can speak Chinese a bit, ask for directions, etc.) and I just fee"
"He was traveling from Switzerland to Italy to visit my grandma. When he vanished all of a sudden,his mom went crazy,she lives alone in Italy,she's extremely emotional human being and I can't bring myself to tell her the truth"
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