Amanda Knox - Guilty or Innocent

[Loose]

Well passionate too which may be what Rhodes finds odd, perhaps he is more used to a Scandinavian aloofness.

 

I don't know how you can't think that Gatusso wasn't polite, didn't he say "excuse me you scots prize haggis while I plant one on your bonce"?

[Rhodes]

Loosely - Give me the unpredictability and excitement of Scandinavian aloofness every day of the week rather than predictable and clingy Italian passion, okay dinner is on the table when you walk through the door from work, housework immaculately done and dusted and pipe and slippers at the ready but is that what you are looking for in a woman.

[sjj2112]

Loosely - Give me the unpredictability and excitement of Scandinavian aloofness every day of the week rather than predictable and clingy Italian passion, okay dinner is on the table when you walk through the door from work, housework immaculately done and dusted and pipe and slippers at the ready but is that what you are looking for in a woman.

 

You really do talk absolute bo!!ocks

[Loose]

"pipe and slippers" - oh dear oh dear Rhodes. Says it all about you really. I think the last Ice Age left you behind.

[missunderstood]

And how many Italians do you actually know?

Quite a few as it happens, they're decent enough people but there's something about them isn't there

 

 

Nice country Italy, and the Italian woman always come across as a class act, the men though seem to spend half their lives either looking in a mirror or just posing, the food is mostly over priced and nothing special, and when you visit Venice a second time you realise its little more than an adults theme park.

Rhodes is right, there is something about them, but I love the place anyway.

[Loose]

the food is mostly over priced and nothing special, and when you visit Venice/London/Paris/New York/ Rome a second time you realise its little more than an adults theme park.

Could be any Italian eating at a Garfunkels in Leicester Square talking. Getting off the beaten track gives a more accurate picture than overpriced pizza/ice cream/coke. None of what you or Rhodes quote as evidence has got anything to do with their integrity or much of anything else. Stereotypes is all or perhaps you and Rhodesy really do talk like Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

[sjj2112]

And how many Italians do you actually know?

Quite a few as it happens, they're decent enough people but there's something about them isn't there

 

 

Nice country Italy, and the Italian woman always come across as a class act, the men though seem to spend half their lives either looking in a mirror or just posing, the food is mostly over priced and nothing special, and when you visit Venice a second time you realise its little more than an adults theme park.

Rhodes is right, there is something about them, but I love the place anyway.

 

I've visited Venice countless times and it is one of my favourite cities on the planet. We like to lose ourselves in the back alleys. The trick is to see which way the tourists turn at every junction and then head the other way. We once found a shoe shop that my other half thought was wonderful - despite numerous attempts we have so far failed to relocate it!

[Rhodes]

We seem to be deviating slightly from the topic of Amanda Knox so can we get back on track. I note that she has been winning over all and sundry in jail, whilst patiently awaiting her release, by translating letters for the other inmates, writing poetry and singing Beatles songs which the so called Fab Four would be proud of, you can bet your bottom dollar that Amanda will be handed a lucrative record deal as soon as she sets foot off the plane in Seattle and will no doubt be top of the Billboard chart three or four weeks later if not sooner:

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3244785/Amanda-Knox-wins-over-lags-with-songs-says-former-cellmate.html

[missunderstood]

And how many Italians do you actually know?

Quite a few as it happens, they're decent enough people but there's something about them isn't there

 

 

Nice country Italy, and the Italian woman always come across as a class act, the men though seem to spend half their lives either looking in a mirror or just posing, the food is mostly over priced and nothing special, and when you visit Venice a second time you realise its little more than an adults theme park.

Rhodes is right, there is something about them, but I love the place anyway.

 

I've visited Venice countless times and it is one of my favourite cities on the planet. We like to lose ourselves in the back alleys. The trick is to see which way the tourists turn at every junction and then head the other way. We once found a shoe shop that my other half thought was wonderful - despite numerous attempts we have so far failed to relocate it!

 

 

Once you have seen Venice once, the initial amazement can never be replicated, Angkor Wat is far more awe inspiring, and for now at least, not so commercialised.

[Rhodes]

Missunderstood - I wouldn't go to Venice if you paid me, I've heard stories that would make Telly Savalas and Yul Brynner's hair curl, for example the polluted canals are absolutely filthy and disease ridden, containing highly contaminated sludge and toxic heavy metals, the pungent smell is over powering particularly during the sweltering summer months.

[Loose]

We seem to be deviating slightly from the topic of Amanda Knox so can we get back on track.

Missunderstood - I wouldn't go to Venice if you paid me, I've heard stories that would make Telly Savalas and Yul Brynner's hair curl, for example the polluted canals are absolutely filthy and disease ridden, containing highly contaminated sludge and toxic heavy metals, the pungent smell is over powering particularly during the sweltering summer months.

 

 

Prize horsecock. You took it off topic in the first place and here you are yet again talking about the state of Venice's waterways. Fool.

[Loose]

Right, hold on folks, Rhodes having been unable to prove his allegations against Italian integrity by claiming that they are different (for god's sake, idiot) wants us back on topic.

[Rhodes]

and here you are yet again talking about the state of Venice's waterways

Loosely - So you admit they are diabolical then, I gather that the old city of Venice is currently exactly at sea level and by 2050, if not sooner, it will be permanently lost under the Adriatic Sea where it belongs. Anyway you seem to be waiting for me to post so you can come back with something contradictory, you do it time and time again don't you.

[BUFC]

Right, hold on folks, Rhodes having been unable to prove his allegations against Italian integrity by claiming that they are different (for god's sake, idiot) wants us back on topic.

 

I once spent xmas in Rome with the kids................beautiful place

[Loose]

and here you are yet again talking about the state of Venice's waterways

something contradictory, you do it time and time again don't you.

 

Rhodes, it's not just me though is it? You provide the horseshit and there are plenty of us who feel capable of shoveling it out of the way.

 

To get back to your off topic branch yet again, Venice is over 1600 years old built in a time when they hadn't developed the science to predicy climate change the idiota! Of course the water is dirty, what do want to do in it, go swimming? I wish you would, You want to go to the Belgian City of Bruges, take my word for it, far dirtier and more smelly. Why have you picked on Venice btw? Population around 270,000, that's roughly less than one half of one percent of the total Italian population, hardly makes up a complete picture of Italian culture does it, did you go on a 70's package tour and have your cornetto knicked? That would explain your grudge.

 

 

 

[BUFC]

and here you are yet again talking about the state of Venice's waterways

something contradictory, you do it time and time again don't you.

 

Rhodes, it's not just me though is it? You provide the horseshit and there are plenty of us who feel capable of shoveling it out of the way.

 

To get back to your off topic branch yet again, Venice is over 1600 years old built in a time when they hadn't developed the science to predicy climate change the idiota! Of course the water is dirty, what do want to do in it, go swimming? I wish you would, You want to go to the Belgian City of Bruges, take my word for it, far dirtier and more smelly. Why have you picked on Venice btw? Population around 270,000, that's roughly less than one half of one percent of the total Italian population, hardly makes up a complete picture of Italian culture does it, did you go on a 70's package tour and have your cornetto knicked? That would explain your grudge.

 

 

 

 

i like Italian ice cream

[Loose]

Right, hold on folks, Rhodes having been unable to prove his allegations against Italian integrity by claiming that they are different (for god's sake, idiot) wants us back on topic.

 

I once spent xmas in Rome with the kids................beautiful place

Spent xmas in Florence about 15 years ago Keeps, you probably can't beat Italy for that time of year, reminds me to do it again, maybe Rome next time,

 

BTW, when you were there did you get beaten up by the police, denied food and water, an interpreter or a lawyer? Did you find the Italian authorities to be corrupt and distrustful in any way? I'd ask Rhodes if I thought he'd ever been to Italy apart from a possible package holiday to a resort

Edited February 17, 2011 by Loose

[BUFC]

 

I'd ask Rhodes if I thought he'd ever been to Italy

 

Closest Rhodes as been to Italy is Pizza Hut

 

 

 

Of all the places in countries i have visited, Rome is my favourite...........though Zurich on a NYE is special.

[sjj2112]

Missunderstood - I wouldn't go to Venice if you paid me, I've heard stories that would make Telly Savalas and Yul Brynner's hair curl, for example the polluted canals are absolutely filthy and disease ridden, containing highly contaminated sludge and toxic heavy metals, the pungent smell is over powering particularly during the sweltering summer months.

 

 

It's obviously a much better approach to listen to a few scare stories and base your entire opinion on that than it is to actually take the trouble to find out for yourself.

 

At least I know that when I'm travelling around the world, soaking up all the new sights and experiences, I will never bump into the prize xenophobe that is Rhodes. He'll be at home in his bunker, tin hat on, railing at how awful Johnny Foreigner is.

[BUFC]

It's obviously a much better approach to listen to a few scare stories and base your entire opinion on that than it is to actually take the trouble to find out for yourself.

 

At least I know that when I'm travelling around the world, soaking up all the new sights and experiences, I will never bump into the prize xenophobe that is Rhodes. He'll be at home in his bunker, tin hat on, railing at how awful Johnny Foreigner is.

 

His Mothers attic.