[dp0622]

Northern Italians always thought they were better than the rest of us southerners.

#### em.

[DesertRhino]

I worry about you. You keep holding things inside, you gonna get an ulcer or something. Tell people what you really think, it’s for you health.

[laplata]

Isn’t Sicily looked down on by most Italians?

[Williams]

Maybe that’s because of @@sholes like you.

Said with all respect as a fellow Southern Italian.

Thinking the virus won’t reach the South sounds like a bad Italian joke.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

My son has an Italian friend who’s made the statement before. What’s up with that?

[SaxxonWoods]

I could hide out in my father’s village in Abruzzo and be pretty safe. Nobody goes there except for two days in August (festa) and the citizens tend to stick near home too.

Picked up an older lady walking to the next village one day and she asked where were going. We told her the name of a village about 20km away and she said, “Oh yes, ______. (pause)

Never been there.”

[irishjuggler]

Reminds me of the time Sinatra encountered Mario Puzo in a restaurant and threatened to beat him up. As Puzo recalled:

"I do remember him saying that if it wasn’t that I was so much older than he, he would beat the hell out of me. What hurt was that here he was, a northern Italian, threatening me, a southern Italian, with physical violence. This was roughly equivalent to Einstein pulling a knife on Al Capone. It just wasn't done. Northern Italians never mess with Southern Italians except to get them put in jail or get them deported to some desert island."

[Aria]

Lake Como is one of the best places I’ve ever been to..my husband raced boats and they’d do the testing there. Maybe it’s snotty - I couldn’t tell - but it’s so beautiful.

[WKUHilltopper]

In 1944, Sicily petitioned the US to be the 49th state. We could have had another southern state!

[duckman]

“Northern Italians always thought they were better than the rest of us southerners.”
True. Especially those blond, blue eyed Italians, which mixed with the Swiss.