So now Jersey Shore's coming to Florence

Dead Winter

Dead Winter

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What the motherfucking fuck? WHY? Why Florence? The epicenter of fine art and culture is going to be subjected to fucking Jersey Shore. Send these greasy-ass wannabe Italian douchebags to Naples and pile them up with the rest of the trash on the streets. Maybe the Camorra there would do something nice for a change and kill them instead.

America's really helping their image abroad with this one. I hope they get deported.
 
:D when I was is euroville last summer I was asked about obamas wifes fat ass, george bush, jersey shore, miami and budweiser more than I care to remember. They eat that shit up over there. lol
 
Yeah they do. For them it's like watching a car accident happening; they almost can't believe it's real, that all the stupid/crazy/ridiculous stuff that happens in the states really happens. I get asked about the same shit all the time, but mainly politics.

Europeans are a bunch of conspiracy theorist nuts, though, who even when faced with facts still think there's something underneath. Not very trusting souls. There are two camps: the ones who have been to the states and the ones who theorize about the states.

The ones who have been to the states are usually like, "Lots of room, everything's big, ok food, good work environment, the most fat people I've ever seen in my entire life, had fun but would never enjoy living there." Fair enough.

The other camp thinks that the US is the New World Order and every American everywhere is planning on taking over other countries, that we eat the flesh of all weaker nations, feasting upon their bones and drinking their blood and tears like demons spawned from Hell. They all KNOW that Americans are spraying mind control agents through the air via aircraft and that the military bases here actually belong to the US, no matter how many times you prove to them that the military literally rents those bases from their governments. Basically they have too much time on their hands because they're jobless, communist scum who still live with their parents.
 
thank god, does this mean that all those douches will be out of here for at least a while? one of them dj'd at a club in the city and supposedly it fucking sold out. i mean honestly, some douche gets into pussy fights, tans and looks at himself in the mirror all day and is a shitty dj and he sells out a club and retards flock to see it? ridiculous.
 
I wasn't asking why the networks want it...it's obvious they'll make a shitload of money simply due to the fact that people who watch this show are so bored and lobotomized by reality tv that they'll watch anything. My question was more along the lines of why Florence would allow it to happen. However, after a bit of research I discovered that they refused to give them permits to film in public places and monuments, pubs, bars, and clubs, public drinking, and they are compelled to present Florentine life in a cultured, mature, and respectful manner by highlighting all it has to offer.

So basically the next season is just gonna be filmed in a villa, and if they do film shit outside it'll be normal touristy stuff. I can deal with that.

It's all completely fake, however; most scenes are written beforehand. Some people have told me they were in a bar where they were filming and it was like a movie script and that the cast was basically being paid to do what was written, which makes it even worse because they can't feign ignorance. They know they look like douchebags but as long as they keep being paid, they'll jump when they say jump and any self-respect goes right out the window. It's the new American way.
 
It's true, what can I say? After being away for so long, when I go back I sorta have these same feelings. I always ask myself, "Was it like this when I was here?", because I can't really tell if it has declined in the past years or if it has always been like this. When you live in a place you don't notice the good nor the bad...it's only when you look at it from the outside that you get a better picture.

I remember being shocked at how many fat people there were when I came back, but now that I think about it, it had been like that even when I was there...I just didn't notice it. Also the sheer crassness of ghetto black people was something I certainly didn't miss but was reminded very quickly how lucky I was to not have to deal with it anymore. Rude service, poor taste, obnoxious ghetto punks ruining any kind of atmosphere left, all the while the rest of the public says nothing about it because everyone lives in fear of being called racist.

When I got back I saw all these jacked up cars with gigantic tires that looked like a Fisher Price toy car and I couldn't believe my eyes. It was amazing how ridiculous things really are back home and how ridiculous some people are. Had I not spent time away, I probably would've never even batted an eye at it.
 
So if I remember correctly, you teach English in Italy? What degrees do you have? Some days I'd rather do that than spend 15 hours in lab.
 
No degrees...well, none finished at least. I just speak Italian and have a good command of the English language, so being a mother-tongue English speaker with good knowledge of Italian got my foot in the door.

Italy is shit for work, though. It's not that you kill yourself working, it's that IF you find a job working somewhere you'll be paid shit and you only work for as long as your contract states. There is ZERO meritocracy here. That is something I dearly miss about the US. However, I'd have to kill myself working in the US to live the life I live now working half-ass.

I'm a freelance teacher so I farm myself out to companies or schools who have either private or publicly-funded courses. I typically ask for 30 euros per hour but I'll let em jew me down to 25. However, you're paid a month after the end of the course, and each course usually lasts about 3-4 months. You need to have several overlapping courses to make any kind of decent money. It's basically a part-time job a few times a week. Annalisa works full-time at GraphiStudio and earns pretty shit money in comparison to what she could earn in the US with her degree and knowledge, but like I said, we'd have to kill ourselves working just to live at the level we're living now, so it's like, "Why work harder if you don't have to?"

Graphi's headquarters is like 5 km from my house and they are one of the most successful businesses in northern Italy...they have branches all around the world. You would think that it would be a great place to work right? Wrong. The work's easy and not too bad but the people who run it are three dumbass mountain farmboys who had an idea 30 years ago and since then it's a multi-million euro business for them, only they're still running it like three dumbass mountain farmboys. That's the problem with Italy; in the north it's quite organized and nice to live in, but people can't run a fucking thing to save their lives. Were this company an Indian or American or English company, it would make ten times what it makes now.

It's such a perfect example of how so much potential can be wasted by people here. It's still a fine product but it could be so much more if they had a fucking clue how to run anything besides a bath.

 
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If you're thinking about crossing the pond, I'd say the UK is where you wanna be. No language barrier and the job market is still better there than just about anywhere else in Europe. Go work for fucking Google in Dublin man, and fly anywhere in Europe every weekend for 50 bucks a pop. If you're tiring of the US, you might enjoy living here but just be sure you have a good understanding of how things work first.
 
I love the shit out of Ireland except for the weather, Belgium was great, except for the weather. by the time we got to Monza we were so partied out after the GP all I wanted to do was get home and detox.
 
Excellent information. I never thought much, until now, of any country in the UK or the Republic of Ireland. I figured they were suffering in similar to the US.
 
~Lynn~ said:
I love the shit out of Ireland except for the weather, Belgium was great, except for the weather. by the time we got to Monza we were so partied out after the GP all I wanted to do was get home and detox.
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You didn't miss anything in Monza. That whole Milano area sucks, imo.
 
Macharius said:
Excellent information. I never thought much, until now, of any country in the UK or the Republic of Ireland. I figured they were suffering in similar to the US.
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Well, they're suffering from a bad economy just like everyone else, the only difference is there's something to take your mind off of it.

If you've got the money and the means, I would move to Europe if I were you're looking for an improvement in quality of life. The only places I can think of where you could still live pretty well in the US would be possibly the bigger cities like NY or SF or Seattle.

The thing that keeps me here is that there's always something different to experience, whether it's another culture, scenery, etc. In the US everything looks the same no matter where you go, so you feel trapped. Unless you take a drastic change of scenery and move to Colorado or Arizona or somewhere like upstate California with all the gorgeous nature the US has, you start to feel like a rat in a cage. "Oh look there's another Burger King. Oh look there's another tall building." Things have changed and yet they've stayed the same.

I'd like to retire in a place like Montana, though.
 
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