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Sunday, April 17, 2005
Italia
Italians are really weird.
One thing they cannot do is drive. At all. Not even in a straight line. Instead, they tend to go for the racing curve, regardless of who's in the way. Lanes are seen as optional; a kind of route that you could follow if you wanted to, but it would be a bit boring.
The police are even worse. We arrived in Rome the Friday before last (the day of the Pope's funeral and hence the busiest day Rome has seen in its 2759-year history, with, I'm told, over 6 million people; pretty good timing on our part really). With surprising idiocy, the Italian government had decided to place about half of Italy's police force on Rome's ringroad. They are physically incapable of driving. They're under the impression that the car doesn't work unless its siren is on, and that crashing is an inevitable fact of driving, and hence is not worth trying to avoid.
They have amazing icecreams though. We went to the best icecream shop in the world, San Crispino I believe, and had the best icecream in the world. And then, a couple of days later, we did it AGAIN. From experiment, I can conclude that the best icecream ever invented is their Pear, Apple and Wild Orange.
Mmmm.
I decided the Romans were awesome. They not only conquered, looted and enslaved the entire known world, but built statues to how great they were. What more could anyone want from an ancient civilisation?
The PGFs also performed in Ye Olde Romane Amphitheatre, in which the accoustics were amazing. When we get world-famous we'll build an amphitheatre and make people pay lots of money to come and watch us in full gangsta.
Knows it.
One thing they cannot do is drive. At all. Not even in a straight line. Instead, they tend to go for the racing curve, regardless of who's in the way. Lanes are seen as optional; a kind of route that you could follow if you wanted to, but it would be a bit boring.
The police are even worse. We arrived in Rome the Friday before last (the day of the Pope's funeral and hence the busiest day Rome has seen in its 2759-year history, with, I'm told, over 6 million people; pretty good timing on our part really). With surprising idiocy, the Italian government had decided to place about half of Italy's police force on Rome's ringroad. They are physically incapable of driving. They're under the impression that the car doesn't work unless its siren is on, and that crashing is an inevitable fact of driving, and hence is not worth trying to avoid.
They have amazing icecreams though. We went to the best icecream shop in the world, San Crispino I believe, and had the best icecream in the world. And then, a couple of days later, we did it AGAIN. From experiment, I can conclude that the best icecream ever invented is their Pear, Apple and Wild Orange.
Mmmm.
I decided the Romans were awesome. They not only conquered, looted and enslaved the entire known world, but built statues to how great they were. What more could anyone want from an ancient civilisation?
The PGFs also performed in Ye Olde Romane Amphitheatre, in which the accoustics were amazing. When we get world-famous we'll build an amphitheatre and make people pay lots of money to come and watch us in full gangsta.
Knows it.
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