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AcceptablePool8990 t1_itv1cu0 wrote

I assume Italians use hand gestures while talking🤔. Otherwise this went over my head

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Vana92 t1_itv2818 wrote

>ff. The others hear him scream. It goes on all day and all night. Finally as the sun rises, he is thrown back in the cell. The other two look at him with new found respect, but he says
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>I wanted to tell them everything! But they wouldn't u

Yeah it's a common stereotype. Italians are very animated with their hands when they talk.

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Make_the_music_stop t1_itv5ttc wrote

I went on a date with an Italian beauty. We had a great conversation until we held hands, then she was speechless.

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TaikaJamppa t1_itv7s17 wrote

So that’s… how you shut up an Italian? Hold their hands? Just like a person using sign language, you just turn the lights off? 😆

Edit: Come to think of it, Italians are speaking in sign language… kind of? So holding either’s hand would shut both up?

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TooShiftyForYou t1_itvbgv1 wrote

A woman travels to Italy for a work conference, so her husband drives her to the airport.

“Thank you honey,” she says, “Is there anything I can bring back for you?”

He laughs and says, “How about an Italian girl!”

When the conference is over, he meets her up at the airport and asks, “So how was the trip?”

“Very good,” she replies.

“And what about the present you were going to bring me?”

“Which present?” she asks.

“The one I asked for - an Italian girl!”

“Oh right, well I did what I could. We’ll just have to wait 9 months to see if it’s a girl.”

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Vohn_Jogel64 t1_itveaf5 wrote

I’m walking down a road in Italy and I’m lost.

I ask a man carrying two watermelons under each arm which way to the train station.

He carefully works the first watermelon to the ground, and gently lowers the second watermelon to the ground.

He looks me dead in the eyes, throws up his hands and says “I don’t know”

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aRubby t1_itvnkc3 wrote

That checks.

I grew up with my Italian grandma. I have to move my hands to speak. Mom loved to complain that it was "too dramatic" and commented that she wanted to tie my hands to make it stop. I just told her that it'd be easier to sew my mouth shut.

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dontcalmdown t1_itvoxea wrote

What do you call an Italian with no arms?

A mute.

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CdnPoster t1_itvrxfd wrote

This would work for a deaf person that uses sign language too!

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DerRaumdenker t1_itvt2jj wrote

An italian guy picks up a blonde from the bar, He takes her home to make love to her, after finishing he asks her:" are you finnish?"

"No" she answers

Determined not to leave her unsatisfied, he makes love to her again this time with more intensity after half an hour he asks her again:"are you finnish?"

"No" she replies again

This time the Italian goes for an hour, he rolls up in bed covered in sweat and asks: "are you finnish?"

"No, I'm Norwegian" she answers

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tobaknowsss t1_itvy96g wrote

How do you teach an Italian how to swim?

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Ask them to explain something and throw them in the pool....

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LEGITCUBANO t1_itw4fd8 wrote

LMAO AYO i lold way too hard at work.

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teneggomelet t1_itw6tsj wrote

I actually saw a fender-bender accident in front of my little hotel in Italy

The next hour I just sat on my balcony and watched the show. The hand waving and arguing was insanly entertaining. Even people who weren't even there to see the accident would walk by and get involved in the arguing and gesticulating.

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BattleGoose_1000 t1_itwbmza wrote

This is an amazing fact about Italians, please don't stop doing this

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Ghaladh t1_itwca1h wrote

We Italians hate chatting on line. We gesticulate even as we type on the keyboard and it really takes a long time to write a message. It took me two hours just to write this.

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Ghaladh t1_itwd0p3 wrote

You should have joined in with random yells and hand gestures. Just go "eeeeeeeeeh", "ooooooooooh", "ueh" and do something with your hands. they would have been scared and confused and drop the argument.

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Dicho83 t1_itwd0x7 wrote

That's what a stereotype is...

A portrayal of a group of people with common characteristic and subsequent behaviours.

Whether factual or not, it's still a stereotype.

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