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That is the actual headline of the most popular story on the BBC website.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8068088.stm

Puncicate.

That's well beyond the :awesome_for_real: and :drill: smileys.

It's Italy and they're Man U fans.  How doesn't it make sense?

How very Italian.

Good thing they aren't in Athens, it's be a whole different kind of buttock stabbing.  :awesome_for_real:

Clearly the author of that headline never watched I, Claudius.

Considering the title and subject matter, the choice of image is  :uhrr:.

Unless his head was up his ass when said stabbing occurred. I believe the same thing would happen to my boss.

Here is another awesome BBC headline: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7390109.stm

I liked the last comment, which is appropriate for almost any form of violence, essentially - "oh aye that - get dozens of those wounds in Casualty every Saturday night in Glasgow".

It's true.

The best headline ever written - Hereford Times (http://archive.herefordtimes.com/2001/7/12/57762.html).

Wow that's terrible.

 :awesome_for_real:

Wow, that's awesome.  How did they even think of that one?

OK, I'm a nub.  I'm not seeing the hilarity...

Google: OMD

Ah, never even heard of the band before, thats why.

You've never heard of OMD, but surely you've heard of "If you Leave," right?

Start here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq2vl99iIEc

All went downhill after the first single, although they remained decent for a few years. Even after they lost the plot they kept having hits though.

More interestingly, here's OMD's producer on their first couple of albums (including their breakout single Enola Gay) back playing bass with Gong, and also featuring Simple Minds' producer Steve Hillage on guitar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqyo9YU2FzI

Oh yeah, I'm going to see them in a couple of weeks. Brains will melt.

OMD is on the very short list of New Wave bands I managed to keep missing. Would love to see them. Also, as much as I love Electricity (and I do, and the Apoptygma Berzerk cover (here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL5HelZvKzg ), I still think they peaked with If You Leave. And it's almost guaranteed that he's at least heard If You Leave, if he hasn't, I think he might live on the moon.

Enola Gay was my ringtone for aaaages. Which as I'm a pretty metal kind of guy always surprised my colleagues.

What, no "Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious" (http://www.onthisfootballday.com/football-history/february-8-super-caley-go-ballistic-celtic-are-atrocious.php)?

In my training as a news journalist, the New York Daily News' sic transit gloria mundi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic_transit_gloria_mundi) headlines were said to be the best ever.

• About the transport of an ill Gloria Vanderbilt: Sick Gloria in Transit Monday
• Later, about the state bailout of the city's subway system: Sick Transit's Glorious Monday

Today's front page of The Metro has the headline "Crime of the Ancient Mariner", about a gang of superannuated drug smugglers.  Sadly, the website lacks the banner headline in question (http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Captain,_81,_led_drugs_gang_with_total_age_of_545&in_article_id=677557&in_page_id=34).

Oh, Italy.

Seriously, someone take me out of here.

This is bullshit, though. And I am not defending anyone here, just stating that "nearly every Roma game" is bullshit.
Not to mention that we have two teams here, Roma being the youngest and Lazio being the older. They both have violent groups, but Lazio are the worst.

Finally, about the word: "puncicata" is the singular, "puncicate" is plural. As in "la puncicata" or "le puncicate".
The word is a close cousin of "pugnalata" which literally means "a stab". The verb vould be "puncicare" (to stab in the ass).

Io puncico (I)
tu puncichi (you)
egli puncica (he/she/it)
noi puncichiamo (we)
voi puncicate (you)
loro puncicano (they)

Just in case anyone wanted to somehow use it in English. It drives me mad when I am abroad and people say "I want one panini". Fuck, panini is plural. Singular is panino.

Oh, what a bunch of uselss crap I just typed.

It'll almost certainly be from the same latin root as we get pungent (pungere, to prick, thus pricking the tongue), poignant etc.  Since we're doing etymologies.

facit

No, that shit about the sandwich is pretty cool. Now  I can order a "panino" sandwich rather than a panini and look like I know Italian. Win.

Why don't you hold some referendums or even censuses to come up with a single piece of data about it?

This is English, and it's coming for your useful words.  Panini is our word, now, and there is nothing you can do.  Just ask the French.

The thing that irked me the most when I was a kid? Magnum P.I.
Or .357 magnum, that too.

It's one of several interesting phenomenons these days.

Why don't you just, you know, leave?  I know plenty of people who did it.  It's easy.  Trains, planes and automobiles!  Go to Finland because people there aren't weird, right?  Personally, if I had to choose between living in Italy and Finland, Italy would win easily.  Luckily, I'll never have to choose that! 

I have to wait at least 6 years more. I can't do it until my son is at least about 20. He doesn't want to move and I really don't feel like changing his life.
In 2015 I am pretty sure I will move to Canada. What do you suggest? Toronto or Vancouver?

No, just no.

Move to Detroit





 :why_so_serious:

You are kidding, but I will be in Ann Arbor in two months. And they keep telling me how cheap is to buy a house in the Detroit area right now.

oooo - Canada!  Canadians are very sweet.  Like syrup.  I guess you should pick where ever it is that has the least number of Italians!  Also - 20?  TWENTY?  Why is it that Italians never let their boy children grow up?  

That was green, right?  I mean, it had to be green.

What do you mean? Should I kick him out earlier?
20 is definitely early for Italy anyway, but my decision is based on his/our personal history, not on national averages or other silly factors. And there's a chance he'll let me go earlier than that anyway.

But yes, the Italian family and society is a mess when it comes to that. People are encouraged here to NEVER become independent.

No, don't kick him out!  Don't listen to me.  I don't have or want children.  What do I know?  Nothing, that's what!  DON'T LISTEN TO ME ABOUT THIS STUFF!   :ye_gods:

Great work Signe.  You've just caused the homeless community in Italy to increase by one.  Not to mention the estrangement between father and son.

Downtown Toronto's not too bad. There's the Rat races on Spaldina... or the fact that every single building that's not in Yorkville or a high rise looks to be four weeks from condemnation, but seeing as you're from Italy, that's probably a step up :D

No, Signe has convinced me, despite her transparent attempts to provide balance in later posts.

Kick that sponging leech to the curb.  He's no good for you.  He's used you for too long.  He did it to me and he'll do it to you.

About Roma: http://www.amazon.com/As-Romans-Do-American-Familys/dp/006093395X - This is surprisingly interesting so far.

I did not realise it was so easy to trade kids. :oh_i_see:

Way to spell out the point of the joke rendering it unfunny.

I kinda stole it from Tom Waits, Henry Rollins and the story of the necrophiliac male nurse, anyway.

"Oh, you handled it all wrong!"

What a great story. I see him in person every time he's in the area.

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary".

What is a clubhouse whore?  Did you just make that up?

And you stole smörgåsbord from us. The credability of your lingual looting is questionable.

It's SHA-MORGAS-BOARD!  The little old Jewish lady I lived next to for a year used to go to an all you can eat one every Thursday night with her Bridge club.   When ever she saw me, she would shout as loud as possible (even though I would be standing right next to her), "HEY HONEY.  DO YOU WANT TO COME TO SHA-MORGAS-BOARD WITH US ON THURSDAY?"  Unfortunately, Thursday was the start of my night time work week.  I would have loved to have gone to SHA-MORGAS-BOARD with her and her old lady friends. 

crib-house:
Or: crib , a brothel , from the standard meaning of crib , a place where one lies down to sleep. See brothel for synonyms.
And no, it's a quote.

How did I completely read that wrong?  Sorry about that.   :ye_gods: