Jersey Shore : Guidos and Guidettes

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Just read of the rumours about MTV reality show "Jersey Shore" on screen next wednesday ... maybe someone lacks of a bit of self-irony, cause "guidoness" and "guidetteness" do exist in Italy too !!

I read somewhere they're mostly southern Italians : this is not true. In Rimini (seaside town) clubs you can find guidos and guidettes coming from every part of Europe. Indeed some dark hair/skin southern italians who trim their eyebrows and get UV lamp suntanning achieve easier the guido/ette-look than others.
The attempts to be anyway -beyond ridiculous - trendy do miracles, take as example those ugly single-lens "fashion" glasses, maybe stolen from Star Trek set.

This is the Mother of all Guidettes - Sabrina Salerno - back in the eighies when she sang "boobs,boobs,boobs" ...cough.... "boys,boys,boys"

 

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OMG !! She's back *LOL*

Just found her new masterpiece.
One can sing a cover and do a great job (i'm thinking of Roisin Murphy with her nice Brian Ferry's "Slave to love").
No, Sabrina doesn't want. She takes a great song as the Cardigans' "Erase & Rewind" and she sings it as if she were Kylie on "can't get you out of my head".
It's pure trash art, definitely the fifth essence of guidetteness *LOL* - no offence, ME TOO AM italian

 

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Guido's grandpa and his wife

Maybe one has a lot of money, owns a Formula One team but that's not enough to avoid the guidOlines ...

 

[panthera]

favorit,

I cringe everytime one of my American relations of Italian descent comes to visit me in Europe.
They love Germany, they would give their right arms to live in London...but Italy invariably disappoints them.

The food is not at all what mamma cooks. The women wear sexy clothes - even the ones over 30! The Church plays no role in normal people's everyday lives! Why aren't they all at mass?

The government! My god! It isn't run by Republicans! That Berlusconi, why he sounds like a socialist!

And the relations, we're all too modern and we don't speak proper Italian like they learned it...

The best thing a gen-u-whine 100% Italian-American can do is to come to Europe, visit everywhere but never, ever set one foot in Italia. They'll be heart-broken.

Same goes for the Irish-Americans: Go everywhere but Eire.

German-Americans suffer the same shock...

Here in Europe, it's the 21 century. For all the European-Americans, it's still the 19th century.

Strange, how a culture freezes when people leave their country. I still keep expecting the liberal, tolerant, progressive America of the 1970's when I go back to the 'States and am always in shock at how conservative the country has become.

Oh, and, yes - the Guidos are to be found everywhere. They're easy to identify...the more guido-esque they are, the bigger the Rolex, the heftier the gold chains, the longer the hood on the Maserati gran turismo...the more you know they've got a cacchio básso...

 

[hunter]

Agreed Keven.

The unfortunate thing about the conservatives in this country is that they are both republican and democrat.

When liberalism meant 'you do your thing and I'll do mine and we'll both have a government that stays out of our way' I was liberal and proud.

Then it morphed. Ugh. No thanks.

As for Europe -- sometimes I think Europe is in the 21st century then I hear about stuff and think it's in the 14th. Of course, the same is true here too. Of course, I don't live there so take my comments with at least one grain of salt.

I miss an America that looks forward to the future with a can-do attitude and the idea that science and progress can save us. Now, it is an anti-intellectual science hating country that only wants patent medicines and financial services. What happened?

Hunter

 

[toggleswitch2]

Tacones Altos

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GUIDO, GUIDA

In New York City that's "G-WEE-DOUGH", and "G-WEE-DAH" and in Central Connecticut it's GUY-DO and GUY-DA.

Still, a very pleasant "flavor", at least to look at!

My favorite guidette ever was a young lady from Brooklyn I'd seen in college. She wore red stirrup pants ("trousers") with CFMP in black (high heels) and had a rat's nest of high hair.
Way too much gold to be traveling NYC subways. Accent to match. I'm guessing she was in school to get her MRS decree/degree.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=guido

 

[panthera]

Beats me

I read yesterday that those Cantons which have the highest percentage of foreigners all voted (some overwhelmingly) to permit the spires.
Those Cantons with the fewest or as good as no foreigners voted against.

This is the reason the US is a republic and not a direct democracy. The tyranny of the majority against the minority is far easier to experience in Switzerland than elsewhere in Europe.

Not that Switzerland is a bad country, just, I'd rather not live in a country where my civil rights can be stripped from me by mob rule.

Which is why gay marriage will eventually prevail, Negroes are now full citizens and women have the vote.

But, yes, it's a bad time.

Personally, I blame it more on illiteracy and nationalism more than anything else.

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori...
has been replaced by
knee-jerk: Love my country the way I want you to love it or leave it you g'dam' Marxist/Fascist/Leninist/Hippy/Socialist/Anti-Christ!

My favorite line of 2009 was "Get your gubiment hans' off my Medicare!"

The left has become too reflexively politically correct and too splintered into groups, each of whom is convinced that their program has priority. Lacking education (tho' not as badly as on the right), they lack the perspective to see that telling a rancher in Wyoming he can't have a gun is not the same as trying to keep guns out of the hands of 14 year old kids in inner-city Detroit. All or none.

Anyway, that's my two-cents, gotta run, hope we can talk about this more later.