Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl) response
https://youtu.be/qD35ASXHmsU

Translated by some dude on reddit.

Hi Cesena, I'm David, hello!
I'm sorry, I don't speak Italian, just a little, a little
that video, how beautiful, how much beautiful!
thank you very much
we're coming to you, I promise
we'll meet soon
thank you very much, I love you, bye!

Italians have just gained some major cool points in my book

Your video, 1000 Italians Play "Learn to Fly" by Foo Fighters, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Those two Italian guys need to take some macho lessons from this girl.

Sorry, with ChaosEngine here. Not particularly funny, and it smacked of a really lame assed attempt to stereotype 'Western" couples. There's no such thing, and even if there was, having a US couple represent the entirety of western civilization is a bit of a stretch which I suspect the English, nevermind the German, French, Italian, etc. would object to.

So ya, just pointless.

well now I want to know more, more about artichokes, more about jewish roman cooking, more about this family, more about this restaurant. And I want to learn Italian.

Your daily dose of dafuq?! is brought to you by the Italian Army, who set up a weed plantation to lower the prices of medicinal marijuana.

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Invocations (dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Amazing-Italian-Designed-Space-Saving-Furniture) cannot be called by mxxcon because mxxcon is not privileged - sorry.

Straight from the Guardian's current article on the most recent shipwreck in the Med:

The deaths are likely to renew calls from campaigners for Europe to reinstate full-scale search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean. Last October, the EU opted not to replace the Italian-run Operation Mare Nostrum, which saved about 100,000 lives last year, amid fears that it was encouraging smugglers and migrants to organise more trips to Europe.

What they forgot to mention: Italy would have continued Mare Nostrum if the rest of this bloody EU had bothered to pitch in with a few bucks. The total bill was €114 million per year. Petty cash, by any measure.

The replacement, Frontex's Operation Triton, doesn't even have a mandate to save shipwrecked folks, just to keep them away from EU soil.

European values worthy of yet another Nobel Peace Price, I'd say...

They all want to touch his illusionary wand after the filming. Or does the filming end, hm? He'll probably have to pull some slight of hands on their drinks before the cameras are rolling. Well, that's just slight of law but he should be able to get out of any California prison with some slight of hand into my wallet.

And that'sa bouda the time Chico does the money out of his a'wallet and then into his a'pocket physical comedy gag.

But why is he Italian?

I think she does it here because that is her experience -- to random people that she meets, they immediately identify her as "Asian", but nothing more specific than that. Plus, the talk seems to be delivered to a group of mostly, well, Asians. There are massive cultural differences between subgroups for sure, but on the other hand I'm sure they do share some common experiences due to being someone readily identifiable as "Asian" in a Western country.


...And I think you're wrong about no-one referring to Germans, French, Italians, English, etc. as "Europeans". I think LOTS of Americans do that if they see someone who is white and doesn't have an American accent, but they can't identify their particular home country.

And as an example on the other side of the coin, as a white American living in Thailand, I get Thais asking me these same sorts of questions ALL THE TIME. "Where are you from", etc., just like Nat described as happening to Asians in the west. Heck, in Thai the word for any western foreigner (non-Thai) is "farang", which most likely has roots in the way Thais heard and tried to repeat the word "France" as said by early French visitors, who were some of the first westerners to visit the country. In Thai, "France" is said like "fah-rang-sey" or "fah-rang-set", and most people think that the word "farang" for any westerner comes from that. So, if I go out with my British friends, the Thais will refer to all of us as "farang", which is basically like calling us "Frenchie". My Brit friends tend to take a bit more offense to that than I do...

But in all seriousness, I don't find being called a "farang" offensive. It is basically never meant as an insult, and in my opinion westerners calling Chinese / Japanese / Thai "Asian" isn't either. It can get annoying, but annoying isn't exactly the same thing as offensive.