Italian inside jokes and memes

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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"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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"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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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 - -

bezdomnyj82 to Slucchettati, Italian inside jokes and memes
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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"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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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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"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 - -

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