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21-03-2009, 4:29 PM
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Was in Italy last week and I observed......
Young people out having fun and not getting bladdered or pushing prams.
Football supporters leaving a match after a heavy defeat and consoling themselves with ice-cream and not alcohol.
Newspapers with news and not screaming headlines about the latest celeb diet/death/....blah blah blah
Very few junk food outlets
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21-03-2009, 4:43 PM
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is that why they are **** at rugby.
Maybe they need more sustinance 
Having said that they nearly beat us DOH!
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22-03-2009, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by whiskyboozer  Was in Italy last week and I observed......
Young people out having fun and not getting bladdered or pushing prams.
Football supporters leaving a match after a heavy defeat and consoling themselves with ice-cream and not alcohol.
Newspapers with news and not screaming headlines about the latest celeb diet/death/....blah blah blah
Very few junk food outlets | Believe it or not I see this a lot too but in the UK.
Maybe you are just looking in the wrong places...
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22-03-2009, 1:27 PM
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Don't believe that the whole of England is the same. It's nothing like that where I live.
As for newspapers if you don't want to have to read countless celeb gossip don't buy the red top papers. Buy the Times, Guardian etc... Your find actual news in those papers.
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Originally Posted by whiskyboozer Football supporters leaving a match after a heavy defeat and consoling themselves with ice-cream and not alcohol | Guessing you weren't there for the Milan derby 
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22-03-2009, 1:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Iccz Guessing you weren't there for the Milan derby |  I went to watch my team play Inter at the San Siro in the Uefa cup not so long ago.
The Inter fans were a disgrace - throwing bricks at the coaches, hurling abuse etc.
Saddest thing is they battered us 4-1 - just imagine if they had lost... 
Also a few weeks before apparently the fans rode a moped up to the top tier of the stand and threw it over the edge onto the fans below
I think the OP was wearing their chianti tinted specs 
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Originally Posted by Grrrrrowler I went to watch my team play Inter at the San Siro in the Uefa cup not so long ago.
The Inter fans were a disgrace - throwing bricks at the coaches, hurling abuse etc.
Saddest thing is they battered us 4-1 - just imagine if they had lost...
Also a few weeks before apparently the fans rode a moped up to the top tier of the stand and threw it over the edge onto the fans below
I think the OP was wearing their chianti tinted specs | Let alone the Roma fans in the Champions League... They're worse than most British football fans.
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22-03-2009, 3:45 PM
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Yeah but Italian politicians are known for their corrupt practices.
Unlike ours! 
Seriously though has anyone ever been to Rome, where you have to keep an eye out at all times for moped riding bag snatchers!
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Trying to own a business in Naples, and trying to avoid Mafia intervention!
Still Italy is a great country to visit as long as you avoid Venice!
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22-03-2009, 6:36 PM
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What happened in Venice, Bill? Spill the beans.
On original point
Britain has one of the worst crime rates in Europe It is the most burgled country in Europe, has the highest level of assaults and above average rates of car theft, robbery and pickpocketing. Only Ireland has a worse record. http://www.gallup-europe.be/euics/Xz...esentation.pdf | |
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22-03-2009, 6:43 PM
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Originally Posted by whiskyboozer | The crime perpetrated there is of the pack em in & rip em off variety!
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To be honest the only drunken/binge drinking behaviour i see abroad, are brits on holiday.
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22-03-2009, 8:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Bill Hicks The crime perpetrated there is of the pack em in & rip em off variety! | I did find Venice shockingly expensive this time, especially with the exchange rate but really it is an unmissable place to visit.
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22-03-2009, 9:15 PM
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22-03-2009, 10:51 PM
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Could I butt in here please...?
I have Pisa down as one of the few places I would like to visit in the world...
Has anyone been there and is it a safe calm and nice place to go?
also is it rip off the tourist ville aswell?
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22-03-2009, 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Bill Hicks Yeah but Italian politicians are known for their corrupt practices.
Unlike ours!
Seriously though has anyone ever been to Rome, where you have to keep an eye out at all times for moped riding bag snatchers!
Or
Trying to own a business in Naples, and trying to avoid Mafia intervention!
Still Italy is a great country to visit as long as you avoid Venice! | Didn't have any problems in Rome with pickpockets etc (but we were careful), and I'd agree difference in the behaviour of the young people out there is pretty dramatic compared to the UK.
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