Comments on: if you can’t touch yourself, who can you touch?

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:40:20 +0000

interesting!!! it’s now illegal to send text messages while driving in the state of new jersey…. people just love sitting around making new laws…..

OK well at least that one has some kind of logic since it would be dangerous to have no hands on the wheel

By: Irene

Irene — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:10:30 +0000

Oh poor you! I don’t believe you! That’s printed in my mind as such a manly gesture, tied with men sitting al fresco in the summer. All right, I was shocked at first, but i didn’t mind after a while because it was not malicious, just a time honored tradition. Men here used to do that. I suppose we are getting corrupt by the West , and they don’t do that all that much, now. They also used to do that gesture when they saw a priest. Am I right to suppose that Italian men are too Catholic to do that? DH calls himself the Antichrist and repeats the movement every time he sees one!

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Um actually I don’t know an Italian man that I’d say is “too Catholic” but I think it’s only the nuns that bring bad luck as opposed to the priest….

By: Nnna

Nnna — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:52:40 +0000

You know, it might be because I grew up in a house full of men, but I'm hardly even AWARE of crotch grabbing. Nnna's last blog post..“List”en to this. Hee hee....

By: jen of a2eatwrite

jen of a2eatwrite — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:18:30 +0000

Too bizarre for words.

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I can second that!

By: bleedingespresso.com » touring sicily: messina

bleedingespresso.com » touring sicily: messina — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:05:50 +0000

[...] 1943), Messina has been the victim of an enormous amount of malocchio. See, and you wonder why guys grabbing their crotches for protection is such a big deal round these [...]

By: bonggamom

bonggamom — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:04:57 +0000

Oh dear, if my 4-year-old twin sons were in Italy, they might end up in jail every day or so!

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Hah! There’s *probably* an age limit or something, but who knows when the law is so crazy to begin with

By: mentalmosaic

mentalmosaic — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:19:36 +0000

Hey, My Melange, funny you should say that, because the first time I ever watched a baseball game with my Neapolitan fiance, I made some smirky comment about all the crotch grabbing, and he was like, ‘Oh really? I hadn’t even noticed. Guys do that all the time in Italy.’

I had also heard/read something last year, shortly before coming here about how ‘butt pinching’ was not illegal in Italy, or… gosh, I can’t recall the particulars now. I will have to hunt for it, because it was the source of a lively conversation with my Italian bf and a lot of relentless teasing on my part …

mentalmosaic’s last blog post..New Look for mentalmosaic.com

Ooh I hope you can find it! Too funny, especially in light of the new “law”

By: My Melange

My Melange — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:16:15 +0000

Whoops…BASEBALL

Gotcha

By: My Melange

My Melange — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:15:44 +0000

Well, no wonder Italy doesn’t have a basbell team!!! They would all be arrested!!!

My Melange’s last blog post..Video Endorsements

Aw the soccer players do a pretty good job too

By: Frances

Frances — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:09:07 +0000

Gotta shout this one out to the group now.
Too funny.
A great Leap Year 2008 post.
Much bloglove,
Frances
http://blogjem.com

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Thanks Frances