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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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hey man its better if you live in the UK and have sky, you can watch any one of the 8 games that you want to. even betetr a "goal alert" comes up whenever a goal is scored so you simply press the red button and it shows you the goal before taking you back to the match you were watching.
That is the bomb, Bozi.

Oh man, I want that red button.

I also want to kill Tommy Smyth. He's always after me lucky charms and my Bourboun.
Now what would seal the deal is if SKY offered a red button that would send electrical shocks to Tommy Smyth's eyelids and genitals on the air.

I never quite understood how America, which is a country of immigrants, has a past of blatant racism towards certain ethnicities. Sure, racism is a European "value", but nonetheless it's odd that it should be so prevalent in America. Perhaps it's a twisted form of selfdefinition, because every immigrant has to define himself one way or the other.
Your logic presupposes that immigrants don't have any competitive nature amongst themselves. It presumes that immigrants, as defined by their collective experience, are incapable of racial, ethnic, or religious intolerances -- whether from their native lands or in their adopted ones.

That, sir, is something I really don't understand. Just because you put some greasy farmer with a funny accent on a boat and send him to a foreign country doesn't prevent him or cure him from his racism.

I will say this much...the Irish vs. Italian animosity even transcends into my, and many other large police departments in New York state
Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, while there's a very large black population, you had a lot of the locals wearing red "South Side Italian" or green "South Side Irish" jackets like they were ready for a dancing rumble in West Side Story. Fact.

I find it surprising that despite all that you (not everyone) as Italian-Americans went through, you have animosity towards Arab-Americans or Muslims living in America in general. One would think that all that struggle would have made you more open-minded, yet a person like Incubodoodoo sits here and addresses his every post towards me by stating "should I call homeland security?"
There's examples of this kind of "friends through collective experience" behavior when it came to a lot of Jewish support for civil rights in this country in the 1960s. But today a lot of that seems long gone. That chumminess based on "collective oppression" is definitely a thing of the past.

The norm is more to what I stated above. People sharing a collective experience does not de facto remove their prejudices. At least that's what's been proven in practice as a general rule.

That said, I think the Muslims in this country are incredibly pivotal to what defines this country -- at least at this very moment. One of America's greatest strengths is that it's more about an idea than about what family you were born in. That's certainly a flawed argument, but it's about as true here as it is anywhere in the world. What makes American Muslims pivotal is that the fate of the country, as a free republic as I see it, rests on the notion of Muslims making their home here based on this "idea" and internal support for this idea. Or does the idea unravel and fall apart, because America and its relationships with more immigrants and minorities falls apart by instead defining itself on bloodlines, etc.

The best counter to radical Islam against the West is in proving that it isn't a question about Islam at all, really.
 

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Azzurri7

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Dec 16, 2003
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He eats peters.
I'm sure he never tasted a panucci in his life, yet he calls people homosexuals.

Though I have nothing against homosexuals, it's their choice their life. Each one to his own.

But one thing i'm sure of, is that Hector is still a virgin and will never loose his virginity. Because no girl enjoy having sex while the other person is holding a book and moaning about the WW2, and arguing her nationality.
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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So while I am in Torino a couple weeks ago, Cobolli Gigli and I are out for a caffè at the Neuv Caval d'Brôns on the Piazza San Carlo the other day. And so I tell Coby, "You know what? Roberto Mancini is like an anal cannon, and I am like a heat-seeking love missile."

I'm not sure it translated well from my broken Italian, but apparently he remembered.
 
Apr 12, 2004
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So while I am in Torino a couple weeks ago, Cobolli Gigli and I are out for a caffè at the Neuv Caval d'Brôns on the Piazza San Carlo the other day. And so I tell Coby, "You know what? Roberto Mancini is like an anal cannon, and I am like a heat-seeking love missile."

I'm not sure it translated well from my broken Italian, but apparently he remembered.
"Juventus President Giovanni Cobolli Gigli is confident that the Bianconeri can beat Inter in their monster-clash next weekend and has bizarrely compared the Scudetto-holders to an aircraft carrier."

:lol2:

Great Gregger!
 

The Pado

Filthy Gobbo
Jul 12, 2002
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Pado, most every culture that immigrated to the US has faced this sort of thing. With the exception of the WASPs. Even the Irish used to be below Italians, blacks and jews on the haterade food chain at one time. My mom and dad didn't almost weren't able to be married because my pops family is protestant and mom's is catholic.

If it makes you guys feel any better. I have never denied an Italian entry to my place of business. And I love your women.
Congratulations, you get an A+ in Missing the Point!

I'm not here bitching about discrimination. That is actually laughable.

Here it is, since this is about Andries' personal crusade to tell Vin that he's not Italian. Try telling a Black man, after all the shit he has gone through because of his race, that he's not Black. That is what this is all about. Don't tell me I'm not Italian because I walked that road for 40 years.
 

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Tickle Me
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Oct 11, 2005
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Congratulations, you get an A+ in Missing the Point!

I'm not here bitching about discrimination. That is actually laughable.

Here it is, since this is about Andries' personal crusade to tell Vin that he's not Italian. Try telling a Black man, after all the shit he has gone through because of his race, that he's not Black. That is what this is all about. Don't tell me I'm not Italian because I walked that road for 40 years.
I actually understood you're point. You live the culture then you are the culture. I am not stupid. I just didn't agree with the "suffering" argument.
 

The Pado

Filthy Gobbo
Jul 12, 2002
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I find it surprising that despite all that you (not everyone) as Italian-Americans went through, you have animosity towards Arab-Americans or Muslims living in America in general. One would think that all that struggle would have made you more open-minded, yet a person like Incubodoodoo sits here and addresses his every post towards me by stating "should I call homeland security?"
Toatally agree with you Tahir. That is one reason that I am amazed that Italians have such a bad relationship with the Black Community in the New York / New Jersey area. I always thought we were on the same side. Then you see how bad the blood is between Blacks and Koreans in California and it's the same shit - just need someone to feel superior to.
 

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Tickle Me
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Oct 11, 2005
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Toatally agree with you Tahir. That is one reason that I am amazed that Italians have such a bad relationship with the Black Community in the New York / New Jersey area. I always thought we were on the same side. Then you see how bad the blood is between Blacks and Koreans in California and it's the same shit - just need someone to feel superior to.
Definitely right. The want to be on top of the bottom has lead to culture wars all over the world. We should all just unite against the WASPs and be done with it.
 

The Pado

Filthy Gobbo
Jul 12, 2002
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Blah blah blah... go back to the dungeon.




Blah blah blah... go back to the Potato famine.



Blah blah blah... go ingest some greasy pizza.



Blah blah blah... go toss your head over a falafel stand.



Blah blah blah... you're an American.
Andrew - Seriously, some of your best work! I tried to +Rep you but need to spread love first. LOL, good work!
 

The Pado

Filthy Gobbo
Jul 12, 2002
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I actually understood you're point. You live the culture then you are the culture. I am not stupid. I just didn't agree with the "suffering" argument.
Not a suffering argument. I was personally detained in El Salvador for a week. I was beaten and tortured, either because I was a Communist or an American or both. That experience has not made me feel more American. In fact, I remained as indifferent to America as I was the day I was born.
 

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