Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on Apr 5
th, 2014 at 12:34pm:
Some Italians are nice... we had an Italian neighbour when I was a kid - Joe Romano (believe it!) - and he was a really lovely guy - loved his family, worked hard, fed us neighbour's kids Italian food and all.
Italians are nice ~ like all the other ethnics ~ but don't ever, I mean
EVER bring your OWN country into the conversation. Big BIG no-no.
Just as long as you keep quiet, and smile, and nod, and listen pleasantly and agreeably to their chatter about their own country, and traditions, and food, and achievements, and glories, and .. and ... and ... it's all smiling faces, goodwill, and merry conviviality.
Start talking about England, or
Australia in the same vein as they're talking about Italy or Greece or Yugoslavia, and the atmosphere turns very chilly, very quickly.
All that wonderful, warm-and-friendly
bonhomie evaporates like spaghetti at a Big Fat Italian Wedding.
Am I right, John?

John? Hey?
*slap**slap*
You've gotten everything else wrong so far, why break a perfectly good record.