Life in the Living Museum
This is the kind of story which will probably find its way into the comical Reuters' Oddly Enough news columns. An Italian carabinieri policeman was recently arrested for growing cannabis plants - in his police station! Well, he grew the dope within the apartment he occupied on carabinieri … [Read more...]
A 20 year old Italian girl has offered to give up her virginity in return for one million Euros.That said girl was one of the contestants from that most vacuous of TV shows in which a group of air heads are kept in a vacuum for a certain length of time is not much of a surprise.Yes, said girl … [Read more...]
I've been seeing these odd symbols on quite a few websites recently, and even within Google search results. I don't know what they are, or why they are there?Anyone care to enlighten me?Here's a picture of these mysterious critters: … [Read more...]
Don't ask me why my odd little mind ended up considering this, but the fact remains that in Italian the word 'giorno' - day, is a 'male' word, whereas the word for week - 'settimana' is female.I'm sorry, but I don't understand why this is the case.Italian is one of those languages, that, unlike … [Read more...]
When I got to the business school in the Fiera area of Milan this morning, at around 9, I found just about all the classrooms deserted. Oops, I've arrived far too early, I thought. I checked the time, and it was indeed around 9, on both my trusty mobiles.Very odd. I had noticed that the traffic … [Read more...]
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