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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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To our american friends: we are busy trying crashing every previous record for the most commented thread ever on friendfeed, we are actually over 9000. Would you like joining us and became part of the history of Internet? The thread would be preserved in pdf at the end. https://youtu.be/QsDDXSmG...

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the link is this http://friendfeed.com/slu... - bezdomnyj82 from Android - -

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we are over 10000 - bezdomnyj82 - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"RISP E IMPO!!!" is the equivalent of "DO ANYBODY NO..." (see: http://www.frenf.it/early... ) [literally "RISP E IMPO" is a misspelled juvenile contraption for "RISPondi è IMPOrtante" meaning "ANSWER ME IS IMPORTANT"] is an typical expression often used in Yahoo Answers kinda submission sites mostly used beside very dumb questions like "DO ANYBODY NO IF I CAN GET MY GF PREGNANT BY KISSING AND HOLDING HER HAND? PLEAS ANSW!!!"

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"RISP E IMPO [also] became popular when Google introduced the suggestions on its search box, we discovered that someone wrote that at the end of the keywords list thinking that it would have been read by actual human beings filling the search result page within 0.3s or even less" low level - bezdomnyj82 - -

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I made a room dedicated to giving possible answers to silly questions and named it "RISP E IMPO!!!" here: http://www.frenf.it/early... - bezdomnyj82 - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"Culopeso" and "culopesismo" - "heavybutt" and "heavybutt-ism" [ http://www.funny-games.bi... ] The lazy attitude of the sottish italian friendfeeder parking his/her butt on the couch an keep on commenting or posting or flaming on Friendfeed, instead of doing something IRL. Extremes laziness like: Sending a DM to your roommate in the kitchen from the living room asking to bring you a soda instead of raising your ass and going for it. http://i.imgur.com/3EZ3yA...

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One particular friendfeeder has such an affective relationship with her couch to the point of naming it "Silvano" and act like having conversations with this piece of furniture. (Silvano rhymes with "divano", the italian word for sofà). - bezdomnyj82 - -

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Edit: Added a picture of the actual Silvano (the couch) traced down in friendfeed's memories. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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signorn to Italian inside jokes and memes
"Severo ma giusto", meaning "stern, but fair" is a comment that often shows up after some kind of harsh rebuttal or very opinionated comment, in most cases following a debatable topic.

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Uses may be like: User1: "I think One Direction are better than the Beatles!" User2:"I'll rip your guts and use them as cake decoration" OtherUsers: "severo ma giusto" - signorn - -

bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"Miglioriamo la home" or "#miglioriamolahome" (Lit. Homepage improvement - #homeimprovement) is a meme going on during empty days while nothing interesting is in home. The improvement is generally reached by posting awesomeness and something sexy but tasteful - Robert Downey Jr. is generally used for this purpose, most of the time, mostly by those interested in men http://media.tumblr.com/t... https://coedmagazine.file...

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For user interested in females the goal is often reached with Christina Hendricks. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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that was easy - bezdomnyj82 from Android - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"Escono dalle fottute pareti..." is a quote from the italian translation of James Cameron's Aliens "They're coming outta the walls. They're coming outta the goddamn walls". Is a meme used in contex similar to the Woody & BuzzLightear meme, but with a more worried tone.

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
Ok, for now I think we have covered a sufficient number of episodes and jokes circulating in the italian community, that ye may have had some suspicions about our degree of insanity. http://i.imgur.com/g0mJsE... So before we may lose the last shred of good reputation, we may have had, I'm thinking about starting a thread to debunk many myths about Italy, italian culture lifestyle and recipes, with a little help from my friends. This could be also our Ask Us Anything kinda thread.

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1 - Carbonara is a religion. Its preparation is rigidly established, variations are not permitted, apostasy and other kinds of heresy are not tolerated. The ingredients are Guanciale (jowl bacon), Eggs and Pecorino Romano, salt and pepper, and nothing else. For nothing else I mean: not ordinary bacon but the only bacon produced by the cheeks of the pork. Not milk, nor cream, sour cream, double cream, fat cream, or other kind of creamy cheeses, but Pecorino Romano, not even parmesan kinds of cheese or Parmigiano Reggiano D.O.C.. Not garlic, neither onion, or other kind of spices but salt and pepper. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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5e - People from Rome despise people from Milan, and together they despise people from Tuscany. Tuscany is divided in cities, any city of Tuscany hate people from any other cities of Tuscany, and everyone hates people from Pisa, and people from Liguria and Genoa. People from Calabria, Campania and Sicily, are generally depicted as always related to mobsters or connected somehow to criminal cartels. People from Sardinia are mostly depicted as shepherd: their caricatures portray them as short people, very hairy, with jointed eyebrows and somehow cousins to each other. (In our localized version of the Simpsons for instance the gardener Willie is speaking with a Sardinian accent instead of Scottish, and many jokes about Scotland are transposed to Sardinia). Local idioms are very different along all the country that sometimes is very hard for people from different region to effectively communicate, if their common "Italian language" isn't known very well. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
The difference between "e sticazzi? (sottointeso: "non ce lo metti?") " and "mecojoni" -- both expressions derived from the common street slang in Rome. Literally the meaning of the first is "and these dicks? (implied: "aren't you adding them?)" and figuratively means: "and 'who gives a shit?!?' is not included?", and is used to express a total lack of interest in what someone is telling you. [ http://m.memegen.com/hzi5... http://i.imgur.com/kXCcZo... ]

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"Mecojoni" instead means "are you kidding me?", cojoni sounds similar to coglioni (bollocks) but actually comes from coglionare, taking somebody for fool. Is conversely used to express interest in something with an attitude of light disbelief to a good news similar to the meme "Not Bad" [ http://knowyourmeme.com/m... ] another possible translation could then be "NOT BAD AT ALL". (edited thanks to: Low Level) - bezdomnyj82 - -

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esticazzi! and mecojoni! are cousins - Mario Pietrinho - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"sei tu?" literally "is this you?" is a joke used to comment pictures of handsome guys or gorgeous women published with any purpose, like sharing a particular hairstyle, outfit, event, or just to enjoying any peculiar physical feature of said men/women.

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More recently used even in any casual pictures portraying random people randomly. Ex: someone take a snapshot of his lasagna in a diner, and there is an old lady in the background of the picture. And soon someone we'll comment "sei tu?" or "seitu?" - bezdomnyj82 from Android - -

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I think the effect is more funny the most wtf is the picture - bezdomnyj82 - [ 1 ] -

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bezdomnyj82 to bezdomnyj82's feed, Italian inside jokes and memes, English Inside Jokes
Not sure if best or worst name for a knockoff product ever... http://i.imgur.com/seFNxJ... I'll let you decide...

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Lester to Italian inside jokes and memes
"MUOI" and "MUOITE" (always written in all-caps) - misspelling for "muori!" and "morite!", which both means "die!" (the former is said to a single person, the latter to a group of people)

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Also in the forms "MUOI/MUOITE MALE" (die awfully) and "MUOI/MUOITE DI MORTE MORTA" (die of dead death) to make it worst. - bezdomnyj82 from Android - -

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LOL I thought someone would have said they say GOMBLODDO IRL from time to time, but it seems like MUOI wins :) I think I'll start using it myself as well. [- Come lo vuole il cappuccino, con tanta schiuma o poca schiuma? - MUOI!!!] - rimba - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"Caccaculoprot" or literally "poop-ass-prot" is like writing "insert a not funny fart joke here". Used to sarcastically comment threads that supposedly were meant to be funny, but failed. While "Caccapupú" (poopy-poop) is a childish word used instead of "shit" and "shitty" due to already mentioned PICCISMO (PUPPEHism) to sound less intimidating than "crap".

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"CULO CULO CULO" ("ASS ASS ASS") is used as well as "GNE GNE GNE" (LA LA LA) as NOISE to mimic the gesture typical of children to cover their ears and make loud noises to avoid listening (LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA) - bezdomnyj82 from Android - -

bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"Pupi" or "infants" --- a trend started by the user Yeridiani, known to have a slightly more advanced age of the other patrons of friendfeed, and have lived several generational changes before this era of the internet. He usually start his answers to threads as he is trying to talk and explain things to very young children. It shortly become a common catchphrase for anybody claiming to have a much deeper knowledge of a subject in a thread compared to the others. http://i.imgur.com/uv0941...

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The sense is near to "You know nothing, in my days we had it right, now it's all a mess." - bezdomnyj82 - -

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"Whippersnappers!" - Spidra Webster - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"Umarells" (Emilialian slang for "little old men") are the typical retired old men that usually camp around construction sites, standing with arms behind their backs, commenting on other people working, as they know what they are doing wrong but they are not saying. "Umarell-ism" on the internet is the attitude delegate to others any hard work but not sparing any kind of comments while not contributing concretely in doing anything. - http://i.imgur.com/353FuU... http://i.imgur.com/B3WR9h...

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Ehm... Umarells viene dal bolognese 'umarein' ( omarino ). Cerca Danilo Masotti (il padre dei) per conferma - ostelinus from iPad - -

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Scusate la precipitevolezza, ma le fonti sono importanti. All credits to Danilo Masotti. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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"...E le Foibe?" meaning "Then what about the foibe?" is a recurring catchphrase used when someone wants to steer discussions to an unrelated argument http://i.imgur.com/neaaJd...

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The "Foibe" are a kind of cave common in the north-eastern Italy. At the end of WW2, the region was going thorugh a very complex political scenario, with communist and fascist parties fighting together, and different ethnic groups divided trasversally between the two parties. In this turmoil, massacres ensued, where the victims where thrown into those caves. - signorn - -

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So you too are interested in architecture. - Slow - -

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Lester to Italian inside jokes and memes
"GAC": an acronym for "grazie al cazzo", literally "thanks to the dick", a vulgar expression used sarcastically when someone says something very obvious.

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also known in form "GGGAC" "Grazia, Graziella e grazie al cazzo" (Grazia and Graziella are unrelated female first names whose sounds are identical to "grazie" that means "thanks"). - bezdomnyj82 from Android - -

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It's more like ''Thank you, Captain Obvious'' - Alez - -

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chiaratiz to Italian inside jokes and memes, English Inside Jokes
I guess PUPPEH is the word which will break the internet

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Someone said PUPPEH? Where are they? #piastrelle - sioD - -

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Thanks, I will never read that the same way again. :) - Stephan from iPad - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"O VINDO IL FLEIM" (misspell for "ho vinto il flame" - "I WON THE FLAME") is an expression used like "CHIUDI I COMMENTI" when someone claims victory during an argument, asking to consider each subsequent comment invalidated. Usually "Winning the FLAME" is closing the discussion with a silly joke, or acting awkwardly in order to "Close the Internet" http://i.imgur.com/Ra7Ozq... http://i.imgur.com/fmvsxh...

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The more the claim of winning sounds dork and awkward the more the flame is actually considered WON. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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Example situation: 439 comments in a discussion about Keynesian economy and liberalism and suddenly someone is claiming to be able to do "helicopter with his penis" and consequently HAVE WON THE FLAME. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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Lester to Italian inside jokes and memes
"Il thread dei commenti che suscitano stima" - Literally "The thread of respect-eliciting comments". In June, 2011 FF user reloj created a thread to collect the smartest and funniest comments of Italian FriendFeed. The thread became a sort of Hall of Fame, a place where all users aspired to be quoted.

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In almost four years, more than a thousand comments were quoted in the thread. They retained all their wit even when extrapolated from their original thread. In the last weeks of life of FF, even a few comments from non-Italian users were added. - Lester - -

bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"CHIUDETE L'INTERNET" meaning "CLOSE THE ACCESS TO THE INTERWEB" - is used when a smart joke with a perfect timing succeed in closing a discussion, in sealing the argument, and invalidate any other argument, causing the general mockery of the contenders and the topic in general. It's also synonymous for "the internet is perfect as it is with this joke right now, close it like these are its last words at least for the day"

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And who writes that joke "vince l'internet" (wins the internet) - corax from Android - -

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In Italian we often say "oggi vince l'internet" (that is, "wins the internet for today"). Is it the same in English? - .mau. - -

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pierluigi to pierluigi's feed, Italian inside jokes and memes
Posso dire che questa cosa serve più a me che agli ammericani?

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puoi - chiaratiz - -

puoi. Però avresti anche potuto usare la stanzetta 'sottotitoli' su Friendfeed :-) - .mau. - -

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bezdomnyj82 to Italian inside jokes and memes
"Osservatorio FB" "facebook look-up" http://i.imgur.com/LPHTTd... was a room in which italian friendfeed exchanged and posted oddities and extreme stupidity examples from their facebook timelines. "GOMBLODDO" theories, horrible jokes, ignorance and intolerance of the much more wider varieties of douchebags of the internet available on facebook were published daily.

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a copy of this room was made here http://www.frenf.it/early... recently feel free to partecipate with your own douchebags. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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