Italian inside jokes and memes

bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"Spaccare il culo ai passeri" [lit. "Kicking sparrows' asses"] is a coloured expression to enhance the shade of the "kicking asses" image. The idea behind this is probably that such a small object as a sparrow ass requires an incredible amount of accuracy to be smashed. http://www.andthengod.com...

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Ex: pl."Le mie trofie al pesto fatte in casa spaccano il culo ai passeri" [my homemade pesto and trofie are kicking sparrows' asses]- sin "Questa nuova versione di frenf.it di cui senape ha fatto il deploy stamane spacca il culo ai passeri" [this new frenf.it version deployed by senape this morning kicks sparrows' asses] - bezdomnyj82 from Android - -

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That particular species (White-throated Sparrow) forages by kicking leaves. - John B. - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"puntinare" (dotting) or "..." : the condition of having not enough words of disappointment to express blame on someone else's thread. In preventive apologetic form is also "Non puntinatemi.." "don't dot-dot-dot me for.." before writing something really awful.

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Pea Bukowski to Italian inside jokes and memes, Pea Bukowski's feed
This is an umarell http://i.imgur.com/x304Av...

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lucah sei tu? - jAsOn - -

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però non ha scarpe orribili - bezdomnyj82 from Android - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"Il Molise non esiste" - "Molise does not exist" --- Molise is a small region between Puglie, Campania and Abruzzi, some of the major souther Italian regions.http://tinyurl.com/oo7yht... Due to its small size, and the the alleged irrelevance of the area by most of the italian internet, the joke about its inexistence started circulating during the blog Age previous to social media Era http://tinyurl.com/psjygl... and the joke is still popular...

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it would be like if nowadays someone in the US suddenly decided to make a joke about the nonexistence of Connecticut, and all the social media platforms and communities in the surrounding states supported the same joke for years and years until the very first sense of the joke it is kinda missing. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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I knew about Delaware jokes. When we were translating Hofstadter and Sander's _Surfaces and Essence_ we considered "translating" a Delaware reference as one about Molise - .mau. from Android - [ 1 ] -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
Today I will explain "La cucuzza e tutto il cucuzzaro". Let's see...

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ESTICAZZI! - Kristin - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"bellachesssei" (literally "what-a-nice-gal-you-are") used ironically to comment any female user, more often by other female users, who is posting a selfie by any purpose but looking for attention, like showing a particular dress, a piece of furniture, a place, a participation to any kind of event. It's a satirical expression used to slightly imply that anyone is an attention seeker inside. The male corresponding variant does exist ("bellochesei") but is rarely used in that way.

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We rather prefer using the same originally female form to address even male user "being" attention seeker. But it's never taken too seriously by anyone, it's a joke but also kinda a demonstration of affection, indeed. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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It's more like "what-a-lovely-attention-whore-you-are-there" as love expression. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
[by request] As you may guess OALD isn't an acronym for Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary but a distorted spelling for OLD to let it sound like an archaic "olde" or an almost barbaric YAWP over the rooftops of the interweb. Is used with the same purposes of screaming REPOST in the comments at forum or discussion boards. By commenting OALD to someone's post you are implying that your knowledge of the internet is deeper than its. http://i.imgur.com/SfG1WU... http://i.imgur.com/jvkB3s...

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You are implying that its purpose to share anything considered new is instead such a beginner's effort and therefore you are a much more internet fine expert, declaring something is OLD even older than a couple of hours, that in the internet time is equivalent to two decades. - bezdomnyj82 from Android - -

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better "youre right", IMNHO, or something like "you're rightest". Trouble is, too many people write "your right" thinking it's correct. "Ciai ragione" is ungrammatical, but on purpose. - .mau. - -

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Mister Quokka to Mister Quokka's feed, Italian inside jokes and memes
Avremo la certezza che gli amici americani si saranno totalmente integrati quando bezdomnyj82 scriverà: "e ora vi spiego l'origine di *La cucuzza e tutto il cucuzzaro*" e loro risponderanno con un sonoro ESTICAZZI!?

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bez <3 - Mister Quokka - -

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bezdomnyj82 to bezdomnyj82's feed, Italian inside jokes and memes
"Awanagana wazz amerigan boy..." is gibberish, doesn't actually mean anything. During the eighties, the period in which I mostly grew up, Italy was fascinated by American culture. Every single thing was tagged American to look cool, commercials often used gibberish English in jingles and slogan to appeal to youth. Tv shows had EngRish theme songs. [Edit] https://www.youtube.com/w... Using a notorious quote from the movie "Un americano a Roma" we somehow started mocking this habit.

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[EDIT] More recently the odd English spoken by Italian politicians having speeches for communitarian events in Europe, or during travels in the U.S. was mocked as well with some gibberish sounds resembling Alberto Sordi's spoken english. - As mentioned before there is a strong rivalry between people from Rome and people from Milan: some kind of people in Milan area, especially yuppies or people working in Marketing, often use english words inside italian conversations to look cool, to make an impression. There is a joke about an entrepreneur in Milan trying to open a new "Salumeria" (a Delicatessen selling salami and ham) but asking a term loan for a "Start-up in the business area of luxury Salami and Jabon sliced". In this context, and in FF, "Awanagana" is used to mock this kind of people behavior and attitude, but also odd English construct of people pretending to know the English language. - bezdomnyj82 from Android - -

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I edited the original post to add the video and to explain the concept better with your corrections. I hope I won't be mocked too much with "awanagana" comments when writing to many oddities while trying to explain stuff, form now on. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
mo chi glielo spiega Fissore...

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Coming out: fissore mi stava sul cazzo ed è l'unico che avevo bloccato. Spero non si palesi anche qui. - corax from Android - -

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Si è mica mai saputo invece chi era Il Dr. Pruno/Rectoverso? - L'Andre from iPhone - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"Prendo i preservativi e vengo..." ["I'm taking my condoms and coming over there..."] Was a sort of embarrassingly awkward pick-up line, used by an annoying user to troll those female user that in his opinion were seeking for attentions. He just used this comment on any photo of any kind of dress, shoes, food, make up, french manicure, book, "feeling lonely" status posted by any female user for literally years.. http://media-cache-ak0.pi...

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He then achieved the result of pushing the whole italian community to a general level of annoyance that anyone was just mad at him whatever else he was saying, doing and posting, and no one ever gave a shit anymore about him and his opinion. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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yeah, I tolerated him for a while, but lately he became really annoying - low level - -

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.mau. to Italian inside jokes and memes
Sad man - http://web.archive.org/we... . This is Piero Fassino, present mayor of Turin and former leader of "Democratici di sinistra" (a more-or-less-left party, now part of Partito Democratico)

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Fassino is very tall and lean, and he nearly always bears a sad face: this time his face was just sadder than usual. This photo became a meme, with people jokingly try and guess what he was looking at, and often resurfaces. - .mau. - -

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(laughing out loud at "more-or-less-left party") - low level - -

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Kristin to Italian inside jokes and memes
Will someone please explain the use of the word SBORRA? Is there a joke / story behind it on FF? UPDATED with picture. :) https://i.imgur.com/aMz2A...

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(Of course, it was only a joke) - Fabs - -

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bezdomnyj82 to bezdomnyj82's feed, Italian inside jokes and memes
"VENDO NOKIA 3310!!!" in caps-lock during a massive discussion, literally means "I'M SELLING A NOKIA 3310!" is used to express sarcasm about the size of the crowd gathered around the thread, and a lack of interest in the topic itself, or towards the epic size of the possible flame-war, acting like you are in the middle of an improvised street flea market taking advantage of the concentration of people to sell a ridiculously old and useless mobile phone http://i.imgur.com/J83GtO...

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Americans tend to use "Someone is WRONG on the Internet!" for that, riffing off https://xkcd.com/386/ - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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But often we are only interested in the fight itself, and do not care about the topic that is being fought over or even the outcome of the fight. It's a form of internet "rubbernecking". http://en.wikipedia.org/w... We usually don't care how the fight/accident happened or who caused it. We just want to see the blood, guts, and gore. (and the more, the better!) And there may be the popcorn/peanut vendors, the opportunists, taking advantage of the situation for their own personal gain, who are just as interested in the fight/accident as the rest of the rubberneckers, but for different reasons. You can hear them shouting "Popcorn, get your popcorn! $1 per bag!" So, in a flame war, when you go make popcorn, you are either intending to eat it yourself while watching the show, or you intend on selling it to the spectators. Same with the ticket vendors that sell tickets to a free event, in order to profit while making the crowd bigger. While they may have a self serving interest in the event and/or the size of the crowd, it is still an interest, even if it differs from the crowd. - April Russo - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"C'è un medico/avvocato/sistemista in sala?" ("Is there a medic/layer/sys analyst in the house?") Is a common phrase used when experiencing difficulties that could obviously be medical, legal or technical. Ex: "I discover a bulge under my armpit, is there a doctor in the house?" - common sense is that you should seek for real help instead of asking on the internet, but often you could find good advices on the old good days, or at least a sarcastic comment... http://i.imgur.com/pNUgcx...

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He he. You should always trust medical advice from Yahoo answers. :) - Stephan from iPhone - -

strega ☆ to Italian inside jokes and memes
"vendo nokia 3310" ("nokia 3310 for sale") it has already been explained?

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Yes, go to page 3 - Maxime - -

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ma ci avevo messo anche il like! sono stordita forte! - strega ☆ - -

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Fabs to Italian inside jokes and memes, Fabs's feed
"Magna tranquillo" stands for "eat peacefully". Is used commenting someone that posted a great urge or worries about something or some detail absolutely and definitely irrelevant https://www.youtube.com/w... (this video sings small ads collected from newspapers, ending with "Franco, magna pure tranquillo" as answer to an ad who tries to sell a very old wreck of a car for a huge amount of money, specifying "call at meals hours")

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http://static.panoramio.c... - momobo - -

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We should highlight that's the same car owned by young Obama: http://www.virtualcar.it/... - Fabs - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"AGLIUTO" isn't related to garlic (in italian "aglio") at all. It's instead a misspell for "AIUTO", a request for "HELP", in the characteristic PUPPEHist idiom of our community (see: http://tinyurl.com/on4t9x... ), as if the request is coming from a 4 years old kid, or a cute animal http://i.imgur.com/YFJ7bS... http://i2.kym-cdn.com/pho...

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as far as phonetics is concerned, the same applies for MAGLIALE (misspelling for maiale, pig / pork) (see also: SVGNA, sugna) - Zu - -

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and lots of viagra - bezdomnyj82 - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"Bello 'X' ma non ci vivrei..." (where X stands for anything from a nice place, an object, an existential state) literally means "X is fine, but I can't see me living by/at/on it..." is a sort of catchphrase used often in context like those described in the tale of the "Fox and the Grape" http://i.imgur.com/bVbqMb... - more recently de-contextualized somehow and repeated in nonsensical ways, just for taking a shot to reach a comic effects by simple repetitions.

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ex. for current use: During the aFFterlife, on april the10th, it was used for posts like "Bello l'aldilà ma non ci vivrei" ("The great beyond is fine but I wouldn't like living at it...") "Bello lo shutdown ma non ci vivrei..." ("The shutdown is fine but I can't see me living there...") ect. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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correct my phrasal verbs, if they are wrongly used. :D - bezdomnyj82 - -

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Kristin to Italian inside jokes and memes
I've started a room for the English inside jokes here: http://www.frenf.it/early... (:

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nice idea :) - Nervo - -

bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
the "PICCISMO" (PUPPEHism) the piccyness school of thought or "G.'s cultural heritage in the construction of the shared slang of the italian community" [ http://i.imgur.com/knITHk... http://i.imgur.com/HYsiW2... ] - it'll require quite an explanation and some precisations. [I edited for privacy issues]

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Quite at the beginning of time of the "socialino" the user G. (or G_____y) went mad at the community, because of some side effects of a flamewar, or probably some other reason lost in time, and rage-quitted her account and erased everything of it. Because lot of her real life friends and her boyfrend stayed on the social network despite her leave, and because she was lurking her fiancé's feed she suddenly created a profile for their cat, named C. P. G-----i (sounds like "C. P. Kitteh") written from the point of view of the cat. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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Personally, I call the jargon "FF-speak", as a close relative of LOL-speak: http://en.wikipedia.org/w... - Fabs - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"GOMBLODDO!!" and "SVEGLIAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!111!!!undici" http://i.imgur.com/5rEmhu... : "Gombloddo" is a misspell for "complotto" ("conspiracy") and "Sveglia" written in all caps is "wake up!", a parody of the tone often used in conspirationist pamphlets, "undici" is "eleven" as if by repeatedly and quickly pressing the key for "!" some strokes produced "1" and "11".

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Italian community is active in promoting the debunking of the most known conspiracy theories, and against human kind stupidity, because we are secretly part of a bigger plot conceived for a new masonic Illuminati reptilian world order, by jews and homosexual lobbies, pushing their world dominion agenda. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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Almost forgot to mention "FATE GIRARE" ("SHARE IT" in all caps) usually added at the end of any message, to ensure the reader that this sort of message would be surely ignored by traditional media due to their obvious involvement in any conspiracy theory ever conceived. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
The "Birra in ghiacciaia" event. To explain this I'll surely need some help in recollecting names, because I couldn't find many concrete evidences of what happened, due to the fact that most of people involved, and maybe even the author of the original thread deleted and recreated their friendfeed accounts a couple of times, and some others vanished. As absurd it may sound, all the following really happened, and is now somehow lost.

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On August 1st 2010 temperature was rising significantly on the Italian peninsula, a certain user (I can't remember if Zadigone or S., so please correct me if you know it) posted a thread saying "Potreste ricordarmi di togliere la birra dalla ghiacciaia fra qualche minuto?" ("Would you kindly remind me to take the beer out of the freezer in a few minutes?") - the absurdity of the request, the hot temperatures, the lack of any relevant news coming, or any occupation by most of the user connected at that time of the day, created an explosive combination of factors, that led to the "Birra in ghiacciaia" flooding event. - bezdomnyj82 from Android - -

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Usually, months or years later, the sentence “TOGLI LE BIRRE DALLA GHIACCIAJA” (“Take the beers out of the freezer”) was used as an impromptu dadaist comment to some thread having nothing to concern with the original one, just for fun. - marcobeccaria - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"#sugna" (lard) hashtag used on threads or pictures of food that sound and look extremely libidinous, almost sexual. http://www.maillard.nl/wp...

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Often used with #ORGHL or the sound of someone wetting his/her pants. - bezdomnyj82 from Android - -

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That bacon gif is mesmerizing. And I am not really that crazy about bacon! - April Russo - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
Somehow renamed as "reaction guy" and "do not want guy" this picture actually portrays Massimo D'Alema former Italian Prime Minister (1998-2000) and now an importan representant of Democratic Party (center left) in all his expressive glory http://i.imgur.com/tQQqny...

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That's definitely a great reaction shot. - Spidra Webster - -

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