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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Sorry but I don’t think any country at this moment would be too happy to welcome fucking genocidal rapists maniac ex-convicted murderers.
    The fact that at some point along the way they went “aww this is so cold and they’re shooting back at me, I’m off” doesn’t make those bastard war criminals something one would want as neighbours. And paid for it too lol. No thanks.

    Not everything can be sorted with a cost-expenses spreadsheet.











  • When I met my wife she took me to a wonderful restaurant in a tiny village on the Alps near where she lived at the time, from which you can see the planes (the Pianura Padana) down below.

    It was a beautiful, clear day, you could see for miles.

    Then while taking in the view I noticed something like a disk of yellow fog in the distance, nasty looking and so thick you couldn’t see what was underneath.

    It really stood out, as it was the only blemish in an otherwise spectacular vista.

    “Ew what’s that?”

    “Milan” .

    If people could see how it looks like from above they would never live there.

    Last time I had to pass through I could feel the particles of smog on my tongue.



  • The way I got my full A was… interesting.

    So, in Italy (where I’m from) they changed the law two months before I got my B licence, in 1991.

    Before then, a B would allow you to drive any bike, whereas after the change you had to take a written and driving test for the first A (125cc I believe?) then another for 600cc etc.

    Long story short, I couldn’t drive bikes above 50cc with my B.

    Fast forward many years, I moved to the UK, converted my B to its British version, stayed there 12 years, then moved back to Italy and made the conversion again.

    I didn’t pay any attention to it, until a couple of years later when I walked to a shop to buy a scooter.

    They needed a copy of my licence, so I picked it up, turned it around and noticed that it included the A as well.

    “Hold on a second, what can I drive with this?”

    "The guy has and look and went “EVERYTHING”, so I said to forget about the scooter and bought my first bike instead:)

    Basically someone at the licence office fucked up when they converted from British to Italian, I never took any test. Oh well.