Italy and Italians

Please, tell me about them.

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Country looks like a boot much like england.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JhuOicPFZY

They ride bikes. Some of them are very fast... Many have won the Tour de France

The country used to be many City states and became unified. Though couple of these states still exists like Vatican city

The Giro d'Italia bike race was created and symbolically celebrates the unification of Italy by going through all the old states

The TV is really really trashy

The TV is really really trashy

The Fininvest.. is the scum of earth. Yes.

Edited, cheers.

Mafia obviously.

Prostitutes everywhere, so domestic bliss rates low?

Dale Winton and Silvio Berlusconi share the same make-up artist.

Not bad for the first two hours.

Puffa jackets, shit jeans, naff trainers and horrible sunglasses. That is the average Italian on portobello road on a Saturday.

Which suggests that you are fishing for popcorn...
Ignored.

They didn't invent spaghetti.

Which reminds me, many of their names end in i

Like...
Saronni
Baldini
Coppi
Bartali
Cipollini
Pantani

.... Did I mention that they like cycling

They like the sound of their own bell tower.

The country used to be many City states and became unified. Though couple of these states still exists like Vatican city

and some of these states still hate each other's guts, like Siena and Firenze.

Names ending in I are northern and O are southern, traditionally. A useless fact I found.

And....

Based on what?

The women are beautiful and very mad

The ones in the south call the ones in the north Polentone and the ones in the north call the ones in the south Terrone which is all a bit wasis.

Sicile is very nice, as are the people there. The food isn't much like what you get in most Italian restaurants (fortunately).

Is it true that a large part of the population tend to get sort of sick if they don't cheat?

In here we are so correct and honest that for us that sounds a nightmare to deal with, if true.

Australians, instead, are good in both, maybe that's what makes them so gorgeously awesome.

Very true

I would also add that they're everywhere. It's a small country, about 60M ppl but you find them wherever you go!

(Disclaimer: I'm Italian too)