Alexander77

To be honest, by now there have been books upon books written about the flaws of the average Italian man that Berlusconi embodies; take the latest one by Severgnini... discovering hot water would seem more sensational to me...

Hearing about Marxian naivety in 2011 twists my guts almost as much as talking about Silvio's rise as if he were Forrest Gump! Ulysses was Greek, the ontology of our people is a bunch of bullshit, and there are plenty of more fitting examples much closer to home. Tell me, do they actually pay you to churn out comments/"essays" of such pathetic rhetoric in its attempt to be over the top, or are you really from the PD and just taking us all for a ride?!

I listened to Swollen Guttural Exlax and C21 H39 N7 O12, No Wood, Ecleptoze Chemiz-Tri, Time Traveling Lives... now I understand the damn question! Honestly, I don't know what to say... I'm confused...

Just the instrumental part of the title track is worth the purchase!

Very good... when you write, especially about Jazz, you manage to be more professional than a lot of jokers who are paid a fortune to write 4 nonsense! I don't know the album, but if I find it around I'll buy it (and I'll leave it there without unwrapping it, I wouldn't want to ruin it... excuse me but I'm arguing with panic! :D ).

Ok ok...got it AJM, that sounds much clearer...sorry if I misunderstood...the whole average man thing always bothers me a bit, it feels very much like intellectual smugness and a lack of respect for those who really didn’t have the means we have (mine, your grandparents, anyone's?).

Gino, in fact, I made it clear right away that I care less than zero about football. It was just a metaphor... You're right, AJM shouldn't use equal treatment to express a concept, but it’s funny how (like everyone else...) they look in others’ houses before looking in their own. It's not a criticism; it's a typical bad habit of our country, with an absolute lack of critical sense, that thing that makes you see others as the average person and yourself as the voice outside the herd. I repeat, this thing (truly ridiculous and pathetic) is the mistake that the left continues to repeat for I don't know how many years now... getting kicked in the ass by a short, freemason, tax-evading pimp (who boasts about it) is really the height of absurdity: they literally harassed Bill Clinton over a blowjob...

Second youth, intelligence, charm... What the hell are you? Berlusconi?

Let it be clear, I have no intention of turning the discussion into a football-related topic (I couldn't care less about football)...

Great review, pleasant to read and smooth! The poster makes me unsure whether to laugh or cry. One comment, though. AJM, you talk about the average Italian man with barely concealed contempt (whether justified or not is not for me to say), and I find myself wondering if you consider yourself better than the average man, or if everyone in your family is enlightened. What makes me smile a bit bitterly is that you bring your examples (appropriate, it must be said) and, coincidentally, you mention Luciano Moggi (rightly so) when you could have easily cited that pig Moratti or his loyal colleague Facchetti (may his soul rest... but if he were alive, he'd win a hypocritical tribute hands down), or the Rossoneri Uncle Fester. The football metaphor is always the best litmus test of the inability to be critical of oneself as much as one is of others, and that's why those clowns of the Italian left can't get that Silvio out of our hair, and frankly, that’s more pathetic than the story of the average man...