Thoughts and not beliefs, with the occasional wild speculation
The following are off-the-shelf, ready-to-go replies to the vexations of deniers, liars and fools. Sufficiently concise as to fill a coffee break or banter around the water cooler, they could, possibly, have an effect on the recipient. Climate change denial First, try reason. Through ample scientific evidence climate change is real and human driven, you …
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“Feeling overlooked? Failing to Impress? Do people talk over you, or move to the other side of the room? Need to make your mark on the world? With a Very Loud Noise Car Kit you too can attract attention even when others don’t want to give it to you! No longer do you have to …
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Most everyone who has a PC and uses the internet has clicked around simply for the hell of it. Whilst we might answer that we had nothing better to do, which is a reasonable answer, it is more difficult to answer why we let ourselves do it, especially when we have more useful things to …
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By guest blogger Mr Peev Edoff Il Lungomare Trieste è una dei grandi attrazioni di Salerno. Sia per i Salernitani e per i visitatore. Naturalmente, se si vuole sperimentare il piacere del lungomare si deve camminare lungo di essa. Ecco il problema. Durante il giorno c’è il sole – naturalmente. E durante l’estate il sole …
Many of the villages of the Cilento are dying. Most have elderly populations that are not being replenished, because young people have moved and are still moving away to cities. Certainly the world will not be much different if these villages eventually die out. But it could be different if they live. A way of life …
So, here we are again, wasting time. To be exact, wasting time writing about how mobile communication operators (MCO’s) waste our time. As always, there is someone getting screwed, and this time it is Tre Italia who is doing the screwing. It has been six weeks since Angela woke to the shock of the month. Logging on to check her Internet usage with Tre mobile …
He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision — he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath—”L’aruba! L’aruba!” Fans of Joseph Conrad will immediately recognise this famous quote from his novella and masterpiece Heart of Darkness. They will also realise that here it has been quoted in modern …
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Well, it’s that time of year when the fruiti vendolo becomes the most important person in your culinary life. This is why, for a non-Italian, it is important to find one that doesn’t talk too much. For this estimable quality, our fruiti vendolo, affectionately known to us as Beelzebub, gets the prize of Best Fruiti …
As people come from all over Italy to spend their summer in traffic around Salerno, it is comforting to know that even if sometimes they can’t quite get to a beach, there’s still always something to eat. It is glorious summer again, a fact confirmed by the presence of a corn on the cob vendor …
This article focuses on recent “socio-sanitary developments” in the south of Italy that are “improving” the lives of residents. At about 5.30 am each morning, the city council where we live sends out a trained team of employees to wake everyone up, just in case we can’t manage it ourselves. As an extra service they sometimes …
