Why I hate italians is retiring
When I first started my ironic depiction of Italians series I decided that if it starts to bring out the worse in people I would stop writing it.
Quite unsurprisingly, most of the feedback it got was negative, starting with idiotic offenses like “you’re really a dumbfuck i hope you get slashed next time you’re in italy” (yes, the intellectual level of Italians is rising, some of them can write nowadays) and ending with moral-leader wannabes that paternally advice me to “please reconsider your attitude towards Italians and especially foreign people”. I do appreciate the subtle humor and refined sense of irony that very few had in their comments and I just wanna let them know that it was for their kind that I wrote that.
However, just for the extended crowd, I would like to come up with a few explanations: in common spoken English the word “hate” benefits of a wide semantic value and the one I employed might be replaced with synonyms like “despite”, “dislike” or “distaste” rather than “enmity” or “animosity”. I do not believe for one second that someone that is not completely ill minded would consider that I’m suggesting any kind of racial, national or other types of hatred.
Doesn’t it seem like people take offense on this topic a little too much nowadays? I mean, can we still make Scottish jokes about them being cheap? Or at least blond jokes? Is that politically incorrect too now? I just can’t understand how someone can take that innocent Italian roast as a form of national hate whatsoever. Where are the days when we just made fun, smurked and moved on? Grow up people, get a life and stop playing moral teacher.
PS: No, I will not write any more funny stories from my Italian experiences.
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Yeah, don’t dare tell me that Romanians were communists 15 years ago, I might get pissed off and call you a racist.
All so interesting…Ted, you may be on to something here. I agree nothing is safe anymore. People seem to be so sensitive these day, afraid to really speak thier minds. We are all different even though we are the same and that in it’s self is funny. Why not joke? Why not find humor in a sterio types (that are oh so often true)? Ted, I am Italian and I don’t mind at all, if fact I really like your stories and think you should continue…unless your getting death threats you communist! JK MAN!
Funny, I recall about a year and a half ago you read a article in the journal that said some shit about romanians…did not take that as a joke. You were actually very worked up.
Kelsey, first of all it was two years ago. And those guys made a science out of bashing Romanians (it was “The Sun” from London), saying shit like “we don’t want that race here” and stuff like that. I think the difference between irony, sarcasm , joking and racism, ignorance and xenophobia should be quite obvious before we launch any debates of this sort.
Ted, you are extremely racist, maybe not on your blog but I have heard you in action. Quit trying to deny this.
Hey,
So back to the article in the Sun. I didn’t see that but when I was 10 I delivered the Toronto Sun and ended up quiting when I started reading all the stupid shit I was handing out door to door. It’s rediculous how much they blow!
After reading you I can only think that it is a pity if you are more than 10 years old..it would be a waste of brain.
Your problem if that you tried to be funny but you are not funny at all, have you all read his post regarding Italians? where the hell is the funny? you are not ironic at all, not finest humor nothing just shit, insults, even your fist reply to a comment post by anonymous was insulting and not IRONIC at all. Maybe after receiving some critics you felt ashamed by your stupid, idiot behavior.
And your other problem is that you are Romanian, not a Swedish, I mean your country is one of the most hatest in Europe (ask Italians, British or Spanish)
As I said in the other post, think just about what Italy has given to our world (If youknow a minimun of philosoply,histoy, arts and science you will know)and ask your self what Romania has done…..it is sad, isnot? yes, I think I hate Roamanis but I not pretend to be ironic for my ROmania is a garbage.
Okay. I will try and get down to your level and explain some otherwise obvious facts: the only racist here is you. The only illiterate here is you. Can you read what you wrote there? Because it took me a while to figure it out. That kind of sloppy grammar might function very well where you’re coming from but not in the rest of the world. How can you be as stupid as not to realize who is the one, out of the two of us, that insults people based upon their nationality.
On a side note: I wrote that for people that are naturally able to GET IT. Not for you. I didn’t call your ugly ass here, so take a hike, I dislike you for real, not because you’re Italian, but because you’re a monument of plain stupidity.
Bye now,
Ted
My bad. I’m just leaving the mistake there, so everyone can see that Romanians are (almost) just as retarded as their stinkier brothers from the West.
Truly, it’s quite unbelievable how Europeans hate each other so much. Not just that, they hate people from different regions of their very countries as well (terrone? polentone? Italians still call each other names that ARE MEANT to be insulting). The responses to Ted’s article reflect a reality that is quite harsh: human behaviour at its worst. I hate moral faggotry but the way xenophobia is promoted and encouraged in Europe is plain WRONG (and I’m not referring to Ted, who was as light as it gets at stereotyping Italians). Yes, it’s bad, it is politically incorrect and it causes a lot of harm. While in Italy, I heard a group of locals burned down a gypsy camp while the gypsies were sleeping. Italians around me celebrated this fact and nodded accordingly: “they deserved it; they were here illegally; they steal from us”. What the…? Horrible crimes are comitted all over the globe by citizens of every nation, gender, age and race, but it’s the celebration and acceptance of these criminal acts by the local population that is most concerning. You are on the verge of a civil war involving the whole continent. I think what bothers me the most is to see how Europe’s youth has incorporated the same thought patterns of the previous generations, promoting a plain miserable environment. I see the best thing you can expect from relationships between people of different countries in Europe is an uncomfortable resignation to the other’s presence if (and only if) the other person is a tourist (and therefore bringing money to the host country). The saddest part is that you feel proud or ashamed that you were born in a particular country, as if it had been a personal decision of yours. Boo.
Last but not least, Ted is a good writer; he’s quite witty and the way he’s responded to your attacks are hilarious, which made the whole post worth it.
European “Union” my ass.
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May 6, 2008 | 9:56 pm
Being a “NEWFIE” I feel I’m ours is one of the last cultures that doesn’t mind being made fun of. But yeah Ted I do fear you are very correct. Nothing is safe, even the word Newfie which was founded by Newfies for Newfies is considered a racist remark by way to many Newfoundlanders (as the spazzes demand to be called). Get over it, we coined the term, we write and publish ALL the Newfie joke books, yet when someone is programmed by us to call us Newfie and does, people freak out.
So don’t you dare call me newfie TED, even after i just used the term 6 times in my comment.
Cheers bud,
Cybrspin