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Guys the situation is worse than we imagined. The "Animal Planet" Channel showed this right now!!!!! etrified:etrified::disappointed::sad-2:
Relax
our Leaders know how to stop a Pandemic, that's how it’s done:
... (Plan B is to throw goats in the volcano)
... ‘cause:
Melius est abundare quam deficere! (Latin)
It’s better too much than too little!
Today we would celebrate Father's Day here.
Tuscans are quite salacious, they don't completely trust the loyalty of their wives and recommend - here in the Livorno dialect - to wish the plumber, who comes to fix sanitary fittings and pipes, but also to entertain the ladies when their husbands are not there.
Here is the true father of many children
You've got "that" right.
Americans may not be as jealous as Italians (more so southerners I thought, than Tuscans?), but there are still similar jokes in the U.S.
Here it might be "Wish the milkman happy birthday", not the plumber
The reality, of course, is that in most European countries and European descent countries the percentage of "non-paternal events" is about 1% per generation going by family trees.
Of course, I don't know how much that was impacted in countries like Italy by the fact you had the "passion" defense to homicide in those situations.
As far as Tuscans go, I was born, as you know, in the Lunigiana, which is indeed Toscana, at least for the last three or four hundred years for most of it, and I can say they swear and swear more fouly than any other people, Italian or not, that I've ever heard. It's really disgusting, nothing like the "Anglo" swearing where it's a few foul words constantly repeated.
I have no idea why that is, but it's true from my experience.
Frankly, the actual reasons for the profound and blatant jealousy of the Mediterranean peoples have never been very clear to me. I don't know if it's matured in contexts in which the availability of women was extremely reduced, (which would have led to greater competition and aggression among males) or the fear/shame of finding out that they raised and maintained a child generated by a rival...
The same etymology relating to the expression "making / putting horns" remains mysterious. Somewhere I read that perhaps it was due to the emperor Andronicus Comnenus in XII century. It is said that he used to make his love achievements known by hanging the heads of the deer killed by him in the most popular places in the capital.
For still others it could even be traced back to the myth of Pasifae, wife of Minos, who was punished by Poseidon for not sacrificing the most beautiful bull, and his wife was condemned to fall in love with the animal, generating the monstrous Minotaur...
However, it has produced comic matter for millennia. Since we are talking about Tuscans, I will be never tired of looking at this. Where the bartender Necchi, after the umpteenth prankster-expedition with his friends, finds out that he was truly betrayed by his wife, and they begin to cripple his surname (from Necchi to "Becchi", that is cuckolds) and in the end he is advised to be cunning like a deer.
"What fools are you talking about? The deer is not smart. If anything, as smart as a fox!"
"Yes, but fox hasn't horns!"
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