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Italy or France?

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    #32
    dd972
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    The Italians have given us Chippers and Dubliners with names like Antonio Mazzerini, so they edge it for me.


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    #33
    the groutch
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    whichever one makes the best hammocks would be spared.


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    #34
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 19,115 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    wendell borton wrote: »
    If you were propositioned by a deranged criminal mastermind, who is about to launch a weapon of mass destruction, what your least favoured country is what would your answer be?

    Bugger.....I didn't read the question before voting!!!!!!


    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :eek:


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    #35
    Gorilla Rising
    Closed Accounts Posts: 381 ✭✭Gorilla Rising


    Au revoir, surrender monkeys.

    Serie A > Ligue 1.


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    #36
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Kichote wrote: »
    It sounds like an opinion generated solely from watching jersey shore pseudo-Italians. Real life ones I've worked with et were salt of the earth

    I've been to,in no particular order: Rome,florence,Venice,Verona,Pisa,milan,turin, torino and the small seaside town of Alassio.ive worked with many Italians some salt of the earth some not.obviously mine is a sweeping generalization but I have found it true of those italians living in italy. The italians themselves I've worked with told me this prior to me going the cities I listed above on visits with them. I had a completley different view of them befire hand but I had only met international jet setter types up until then. The average Italian is very insular.

    The french on the other hand blew my mind.I had only been to Paris previously and came across the usual snooty,not wanting to speak English french. Then when I actually went around France with some French folk I worked with I ran into lots of people who wouln't speak French with me because they wanted to practice their English!


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    #37
    BOHtox
    Registered Users Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭BOHtox


    cheese eating surrender monkeys!


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    #38
    Faith+1
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    My bike frame broke in half a few years back and when I seen where it was made it said France. Not surprising really, it wasn't going to put up any f*cking resistance!


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    #39
    Hoop66
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    Lucena wrote: »
    Sure you didn't mean to say "Romanes eunt domus"?

    People called Romanes, they go, the house?


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    #40
    cd07
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    smurgen wrote: »
    having been all over both countries countless times i'd choose Italy without a doubt. The French people are great once you get to know them . They play up to being assholes because they know they have an international reputation for it and they are very funny people. Character wise they're surprising similar to the Irish. I'd go so far as to say their sense of humour is more closer to the irish that the English to the irish. The Italians on the other hand are annoying and vain and as thick as bricks. They are useless at picking up foreign languages and are culturally ignorant and Italian food within Italy is brutal. Also French women are classy while Italian women are trashy. Annecy my favourite place in the world is also in France to and I couldn't cope with that place being reduced to ash!

    True Annecy is a stunning spot no doubt


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    #41
    ScumLord
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    The Italians make Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Zondas and Pizzas. Plus I've been to France but have yet to go to Italy, so you can't go blowing it up just yet.


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    #42
    bb1234567
    Registered Users Posts: 5,501 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Italy is just like the perfect country though.


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    #43
    WoollyRedHat
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    That would be a really bastard criminal mastermind, I'd be two worlds about it.
    Would pasta still be possible if Italy went?


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    #44
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 19,115 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    Italy is just like the perfect country though.

    You haven't been to Napoli then.

    :cool:


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    #45
    Jijsaw
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    Hoop66 wrote: »
    People called Romanes, they go, the house?



    ^^^^ Member of the People's Front of Judea


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    #46
    crockholm
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    Maybe just settle on nuking Naples,it's so bad it's actually fun. Still worthy of utter annihalation though.Vesuvius...do your thannng.


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    #47
    iDave
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    Thierry Henry

    /Thread


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    #48
    H3llR4iser
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    Tony EH wrote: »
    You haven't been to Napoli then.

    :cool:

    Uhu? What's particularly bad down there?


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    #49
    JD DABA
    Registered Users Posts: 294 ✭✭JD DABA


    Kichote wrote: »
    Only property tax is bad. Pay the govt to let you live in your house, next you'll have to pay them each time you pull your own knob. If you're going to a tax haven you might as well go for a nice one. Cayman islands or some place, hang out with the boys who run Apple and Google

    If you pull it for charity its tax free.


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    #50
    Lawrence1895
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    Munich

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    #51
    frank reynolds
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    can't it be BOTH? the Italians are nearly as bad as the french. gross


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    #52
    crockholm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    Munich

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    still sore huh?:D:D:D





    :pac:


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    #53
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 19,115 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    H3llR4iser wrote: »
    Uhu? What's particularly bad down there?

    It's an absolute kip. Google "Naples is a ****hole", or any derivative thereof.

    We basically only used it as a base for traveling around the Amalfi coast, but it was a real eye opener.


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    #54
    Lucena
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    Hoop66 wrote: »
    People called Romanes, they go, the house?

    In response to post n°19, always funny people telling you where to go and making a balls of it.


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    #55
    losthorizon
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    Yakult wrote: »
    France of course. Terrible accents and terrible food.

    Terrible Food?


    Fantastic country. Friendly people, loads to do there, different from region to region, great weather and great wine and food.

    Never mind the relaxed pace of life. Probably my favourite country in the world. Pity about their foreign policy though - its worse than Americas and thats saying something.


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    #56
    Birroc
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    Italy is class!!!

    Food, wine, weather, food, lakes, ice cream, sun, mountains, food.


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    #57
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Tony EH wrote: »
    It's an absolute kip. Google "Naples is a ****hole", or any derivative thereof.

    We basically only used it as a base for traveling around the Amalfi coast, but it was a real eye opener.

    The rubbish problem there is like something you'd see in the slums of new Delhi


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    #58
    grenache
    Registered Users Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    wendell borton wrote: »
    If you were propositioned by a deranged criminal mastermind, who is about to launch a weapon of mass destruction, what your least favoured country is what would your answer be?

    OP you've got problems if you dislike both France & Italy! The two most fascinating, stunningly beautiful nations in Europe, home to the Renaissance, etc.

    With some of the warmest friendliest people one could hope to meet.

    Shame on you OP!


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    #59
    grenache
    Registered Users Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    Tony EH wrote: »
    You haven't been to Napoli then.

    :cool:

    A kip? are you blind or just ignorant?! Napoli is stunning. None of your tourist bull$hit that you get in Rome. There are plenty decent parts of Naples, you're judging the whole city on a few bad parts that you've seen. If you took the Camorra out of the place, it would undoubtedly be Europe's most beautiful city.


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    #60
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Kichote wrote: »
    Italy
    -Nice byors
    -Nice pressure washer pumps (Annovi reverberi)
    -Unga bunga
    -Property tax recently abolished in parts
    -Cars are less boring than those made by PSA/Renault

    If i had the chance I'd move to Italy in de morning
    Have you ever had to deal with city hall in Italy ?

    Plan on spending a full day filling in forms and looking for offices on the third floor of random buildings on the other side of town. Bonus marks because you have to buy stamps to put on many of the forms and that's another trip back to the post office queue.


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    #61
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Italy, payback for WWII
    From September 1943 the Italians fought on the allied side.

    But you knew that.



    Split the difference and nuke Switzerland. It's got Italian and French speakers. (and while we are dragging up WWII it's got Germans too)

    In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock


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