Posted on 06/05/2019 2:05:33 PM PDT by OddLane
I watched the whole season because of him!
Wow, they look great! And maybe the cheese thing is old school. I got scolded by a waiter sometime in the 80s for asking for cheese for a pasta con frutti di mare ("Fe! Non si mangia formaggio con pesce!") —so I've never even tried it again! But it looks like these dishes are right on the menu.
And yet the south produces most of their food.
That's interesting that the South Philly Siciian terminology worked its way uptown. But there were Italian pizza shops all over the City.
Some northern Italians do speak Italian with a German accent and some German words (for example, "ja" for "yes").
Our neighborhood and school were 100% Italian (new immigrants and American-born). And we were the whole range of hair colors, eye colors, and skin tones, even within our own families. I had relatives with beautiful olive skin, and they never burned and never aged. I, however, always had the type of skin that sunburns. :-(
I remember some Italian immigrants using that slur 35-plus years ago. Without a doubt, it’s probably still in use today.
Of course, black people used slurs against Italians, too, the same slurs that other groups used.
Back then, every group had a slur for every other group. Italians even had slurs for each other.
Essentially, everyone hated everyone else. lol
Fast forward to today: Nothing has changed. People just talk behind each other’s backs now. Some young people today still pick on each other about this ethnic stuff. But not my kids - I didn’t raise them to talk that way about people.
I think your "LOL" indicates the thing that has changed—that the left has insisted that expressing exasperation or frustration with a member of another ethnicity by using the slur words among friends or in jokes is "hatred." In most of the old Dean Martin roasts (they were still up on YouTube as of a few months ago), all the various comedians slammed each other's ethnic characteristics and even their foibles and everyone laughed. It was a way of easing tension, showing you were all good sports, and celebrating, if you will, the melting pot.
Now, a comedian like Don Rickles, even if joking about other Jews, might get brought up on charges. Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld have both stopped doing college tours because the snowflakes simply can't handle any ribbing about anyone's ethnicity.
Today's generation have been trained to take high offense to absolutely everything, and they change what words are acceptable so frequently, few can keep up. I recall reading a couple of years ago of a defendant in a courtroom case—who was a gay man or whatever he called himself, and being gay had something to do with his case—having a hissy fit in court that made the news because opposing counsel had matter-of-factly used the word "homosexual" regarding him.
Granted, using slur words in anger against someone can be hurtful depending on the situation, and I'm not in favor of that. But it's only "hate" if the doer is harrassing, obsessed, or vengeful against an individual or group, or because of an incident with one person being used to judge all vaguely similar persons.
OK, thanks for that, though I think it is very suspect. I mean forty countries ahead of Israel, really?
Maybe Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen need to have their IQs rechecked.
Yes, at one level, everyone could tease each other, all in good fun. Sometimes we even laughed at our own group, playing up our own stereotypes.
I think we agree. There were different levels: On one level, we had fun with each other and got along well.
On another level, we defended ourselves and other members of whatever group we were in. If someone insulted you, you had an insult ready to throw back.
On the bottom level was pure harassment and/or the idea that any group was inferior. For example, if you were walking through a different neighborhood alone, another group might hurl slurs at you.
Today, that top level, the one where people had fun with each other, has been eliminated. Now, we're left with only the bottom two levels, but mostly that last level. That is, the jokes are gone, and now people are just mean to each other. Funny how that worked.
Totally agree.
“You’re a cantaloupe”
One of the best movie scenes of the last ~25 years. If you’re going to s**t in that punch bowl, go all the way. And they did.
I love it when the two Mafiosi are talking after Walken takes out Hopper and one of them shrugs when the other tells him why Walken killed Hopper.
Since we’re trading videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkccqolaVGg
Robert Duvall and Michael Caine in “Second Hand Lions”.
If you haven’t seen this great movie, you should. It is a truly priceless sleeper... and funny as hell.
That’s one of the very few Michael Caine (Korean War vet) that I haven’t seen.
It’s on my list now.
10-4!
Keep in mind the demographics if all of Israel is considered not just Jews.
I could see Italy leading Europe. It’s not my impression they are a continent of raving geniuses.
It’s a funny movie, for sure. You’ll enjoy it.
“thumbs up”
Hey, that’s Big Pussy! Never seen that ad.
I find it funny that Italians are slammed as having African blood. They’re (or we) are part African. Hmmm.
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