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April 4th 2006. Our reports from general elections front no. (I lost count). Everybody is a coglione

Many of the left-wing bloggers are calling 'coglione' themselves right now. 'Coglione', which means testicle, balls, stupid idiot, is the adjective our beloved Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi used today to define left-wing voters. Since we are a few days before the elections, and there's been a lot of talking about him going to finally lose his chair and all, apparently he's reacting pretty bad to the trend.
Anyway, although this is actually what he meant, Berlusconi didn't say left-wing voters are 'coglioni'. This is not what he said. He said "I think too much of italians to believe someone would be so much coglione to vote against his own interests".
Now, well, you know. I can't believe it either. Still, that's what has been happening in this country since this country was born, almost 150 years ago. No doubt it is going to happen again this time. Whoever wins. But what can you do? I know we're all coglioni.


 
 

 

2 Responses to “Our reports from general elections front no. (I lost count). Everybody is a coglione” :

Buzzurro said

A politician shouldn’t use such language anyway,well, at least in Public.

corpodibacco said

Oh, I don’t mind the language. I mean, he shouldn’t use it, true, but I don’t mind a politician so out of the league to speak on public occasions like in private.
The real tragedy is this contempt and scorn that all political sides have for their opponents, here in Italy.
Even though there are a lot of reasons for this, it is really getting old. We all should move on, but it seems the most difficult thing to do.
All the parts seems to be forver stuck into this endlessly repeating hom much the other side is unrespectable. This one it’s just the last episode.
It’s really sickening.

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