the next day i beat the living crap out of him and it ended..
We used to call that "taking care of business, South Philly style."
Izzat you, Bobby Cannevale?
Posted on 06/05/2019 2:05:33 PM PDT by OddLane
Wendy’s has a commercial where a group of stereotypical Italian Americans crowd around an idealized white person and act crudely and threateningly towards him. They eat like slobs, eating spaghetti and meatballs, acting suspiciously of him, and generally make buffoons of themselves. They wear gold chains, have a darker complexion than the white man, and have very ethnic features such as black hair and big noses. Most obviously, the premise is that they are all mobsters and that the white man is there to defeat their evil. At the end of the commercial, two very non-Italian looking federal agents are shown.
This commercial was about a parmesan Caesar salad, by the way. The commercial took Italian food, culturally appropriated it, weaponized it, and attacked Italian Americans with it. The media is not covering this outrageous commercial. In fact, there is a civil rights group on Facebook that gets attacked, both by Italians and non-Italians, in very hateful language, just for pointing these kinds of issues out to the general public. Facebook, quick to ban right-wing haters, seems to be fine with the Italophobia...
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The following video was, for me, one of the most enjoyable 7 minutes on TV in the past few years. This guy may not represent the grand sweep of Roman or Italian history, but does very much represent the endearing southern Italian/American immigrant culture of East Coast cities:
Sal Valentinetti - Heidi Klum’s GOLDEN BUZZER - America's Got Talent 2016
Italian-American ping!
To be added or dropped from this ping list, freepmail to Albion Wilde.
Ping to post 201!
They had Geary’s nuts in their pocket.
His original assessment of the paisani wasn’t so...warm.
Your knowledge of movies leaves something to be desired; you poor thing. So right off the top of my head, I'll list some movies that you really SHOULD know of, since you claim to KNOW all about old movies, but don't!
Not so good examples of the Irish and Italian Americans...
DEAD END ( Italians & Irish kid gang )
KNOCK ON ANY DOOR ( Italian-American )
THE LORDS OF FLATBUSH (American Irish, Italians, and Jews )
COTTON CLUB ( Irish and Jewish mobs bosses )
ON THE WATERFRONT (Italian-Americans and others )
SINNERS HOLIDAY ( Irish-Americans )
PUBLIC ENEMY ( Irish-Americans )
WHITE HEAT (Irish-Americans )
STUDS LONIGAN ( Irish-Americans )
WINTERSET ( Italian immigrants )
LADY FOR A DAY ( crooks, thieves etc. all mostly Irish Americans! )
Jews in a "bad" light...
1.EIGHT MEN OUT
2.THE PAWN BROKER
3. THE GREAT GATSBY ( both movies )
And then, talking about THE MOB.. 4. Bugsy
5.LANSKY
6.ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
During the late '30s through the mid '50s, Hollywood did many film bios. Besides foreigners ( kings, queens, scientists, doctors, writers, artists ), they also did a series on American composers and that's where the movie "YANKEE DOODLE DANDY", NOT GEORGE M. COHAN, comes in. and the Judy garland "LITTLE NELLIE KELLY" is actually one of Cohan's musicals!
The following are a list of all of the song writers and lyrics writers that I have seen many times over and own the movies made of them:
1.Stephen Foster ( of Scot descent...3 movies )
2.Jerome Kern ( of German/Bohemian descent )
3.The Gershwin boys ( Russian Jews )
4. Sigmund Romberg ( Hungarian immigrant )
5. Irving Berlin ( Russian Jew )
6. George M. Cohan (Irish- American )
And on the foreign scene...many movies about Liszt, Chopin, and Mozart.
There are many other films I can list, without looking them up, to answer your question, because I do love a good movie and have seen a LOT of movies over time. :-)
You'll notice that I stayed away from listing SILENT films, that would find a place on these lists, because I doubt that you are all that familiar with them.
I also left out the "first talkie", THE JAZZ SINGER, and other Jolson movies, most of which DO denigrate Jews because he was a force unto himself and a different category entirely!
Oh and FYI...no, I wouldn't have posted about THE GODFATHER series at all, because that's a separate category too.
Yes, some nations/people really were and still ARE better than others! :-)
OK, I was as an adult letting go of this.
See if you can follow along.
Jewbaca in post 48 claimed that the Roman Empire was 1/4 Jewish. When I responded in the negative to that you jumped in and added about the HUGE numbers of Jews in the Roman Empire, which I, admittedly erroneously, posted back as if it had been his response. Then back and forth with you defending your true ‘historical’ bonafides.
As regards that: in relative terms to the total populations of Egypt, Syria, Asia, Macedonia, Achaia, Illyria, Noricum, Pannonia, Gaul, Britannia, Hispania and North Africa plus the Italian peninsula; your claim of HUGE is still totally stupid.
“YOU NOW OWE ME A REAL APOLOGY, FOR EVERY DUMB/STUPID/IRRELEVANT/UNEDUCATED THING YOU POSTED TO ME!
Well, I’m sorry you are so twit pinched but here it is:
Oh for God’s sake.
Again, *I* did not say that Rome was Italy. I’m refuting all those who claim Romans ARE “Italian” - only true in the sense of what the location is, not genetically.
Don’t tell me about history. I know plenty though it has NEVER been my profession in any manner. I am aware of Picts and Gauls and TEUTONS, etc. Stop trying to show off.
You know, again, as in just about every thread on FR, you are proving yourself a blathering insulting jackass, always trying to throw your weight around as to your superiority and getting angry at anyone who seems remotely at odds with you.
Get off it.
*sigh* AWARE of that. The point is people try to conflate Romans in with Italians, to prove how great the latter are. Not a good connection, made only because they’re in the same location.
You won’t get anything but more insulting blather, along with his chest-pounding.
as a kid in grammar school i was tormented for year because of my dark olive skin and big lips (i’m a proud American of italian heritage)...i was routinely called a n!gger and n!gger lips for years on end..
it finally ended when a kid who was the instigator cried to the nun at school after he was called names...he proceeded to call me one of the above names later that afternoon as i was walking off the bus...the next day i beat the living crap out of him and it ended..
true story...
Wow, they really did the Market no favor in that video; you couldn’t read a single proprietor’s store sign. Oh, well.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was Syria full of Jews back then?
Why yes, it was, as was Judea/Israel/Palestine ( whatever you want to call that area, which was much larger back then ), parts of Egypt,Anatolia, the rest of the Middle East, and places in Europe and England, all of which were under the aegis of the Roman Empire.
Whilst some Jewish communities in the above areas were larger than others, their numbers weren't tiny, when all are added together.
Re your reading comprehension, or rather, the lack there of, I said that the Jewish community in ROME ( specifically, though they were in many other parts of what is now Italy ) was "HUGE"; all things considered AND that is when you discount slaves, gladiators ( who were mostly sort of slaves ) and non-citizens living there.
It's a shame that your many disabilities preclude you coming to terms with your problems.
We used to call that "taking care of business, South Philly style."
Izzat you, Bobby Cannevale?
Mamma mia!
Niiice
Put me on your list.
LOL...your terminal projection complex appears to have reached
an even higher stage. Pity that.....
I was crushed when he didn't win! Hope he has a good long career, though, and doesn't get corrupted by booze, drugs and women.
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