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[francagoestohollywood]

Everyone's welcome

I'm not sure as what I am, tbh. I go for months without smoking here in Exeter.I'm a social smoker and noone I know smokes here. But I still fancy the odd one, especially if I have something to drink. Also is a form of rebellion to me. Of course smoking is bad for health,m but when moralism is involved than I regress to adolescence

Have been an ex-smoker for 7 years and I still get the odd craving too. Now for instance would love a fag and cappuccino. I love it when people smoke around me actually, I love breathing in their smoke!

Franca you are so lucky to be able to smoke the odd one then leave it. I have a friend like that, he will smoke the odd one if ut then goes fro months without. a packet lasts him about a year!

If I smoked just one I'd be back on a packet a day within a month.

if you smoke so little and sporadically franca I can only envy you. won't hurt more than what I just ate right now: a wurstel packed with e numbers, salt and god knows what.
unfortunately if I smoke I SMOKE and I started being disgusted by DD looking at us and copying.

one of my best friends stopped 3 yrs ago and still asks, per favore buttami il fumo addosso.

I used to smoke a lot more. when in Milan we coul smoke in ufficio! But I don't like smoking alone. Not sure about children copying. My parents 've never smoked. I started quite late, at 17. my db's never even tried.

have to go now, ciao!

yea me too. should have gone ages ago. have done f**k all and DD was not even with me.

you're pg, you can keep on doing f all

Pissed myself laughting at the idea of having a fag in an office. Soooo Italian!

and I tell you what, until 1989sh it was possible to smoke in one cinema d'essai, called mexico (with wooden chairs!). It was very popular going to the late night spettacolo of rocky horror picture show and smoke pot.

Thanks Lapserunner..I have not checked e mail yet came on here first. Am a bit worried about having to move the dish we have. In order to get to ours you have to go into next doors apt and into the attic and out onto the roof !!I doubt we will be able to put a second one up either and DH loves his discovery channels.
Oh so you are all ex smokers mmmmm Rosa only ever smoked socially when she was young and trendy !!! ( yeah right - not)
As for Mike Bongiorno I have a loathing for him as much as Cristina also any program that has scanty dressed women leaping about just to boost the ratings..Where are the scanty dressed or near naked men I say ????

yes, I can't stand those mignottoni to boost the ratings.

What really gets me is that the burning ambition of a lot of educated young women is to become una mignotta in TV. When they had the selection for Veline for Striscia a few years ago there were loads of contestants who were university students or laureate. Have these woman no sense of reality? I mean, who' sgoing to give them a sensible job as a lawyer or something after they've been on telly writhing around in a tiny pair of hot pants.

Having said that, I did have an airhead bimbo moment between school and university when I worked in a nightclub (had to get it out of my system), plus I had a stint as a cubista a bit later on, but then I was hardly in the public eye.

Cubista my mind boggles did you wear white platform boots ???

I jsut hate it when you ask a 10 yr old what they want to be da grande and they say ' una letterina'... Oh for heavens sake what about the vecchio , nurses, air hostess ( much better???'), teacher or whatever. I agree with the prove they did imagine that on your CV "got though to the semi finals of wearing skimpy knickers and a silver top girating to la bamba contest "
Mind you there are probably men who appreciate that and would hire them anyway ...But not getting to that discussion I would be here all day - Have had to battle in an Italian make dominated world too often .....

And I am not the letterina type LOL will remember that when we ever meet up !!!

a cubista ! ok rosa was a wild teenager, brange a cubista, pippi chaffeured Matt Dillon around Umbria, anymore scheletri negli armadi?
I'm afraid that going to university and being intelligent and saggio/saggia don't go hand in hand.

Actually I noticed that the number of "mignottoni" walking around Milan is actually increasing. But then again maschilismo is rampant (here as well, on different levels). However for example I think that if any English politician had acted like - I think it was Bossi - criticizing Rosy Bindi becuase she is brutta he would have been made to resign... grrrrr

Lol, not white platforms but did have some very dodgy footwear. The outfits weren't too bad, though, but as my gay friend used to say I'm a bit of a transvestite at heart (in terms of exaggerated clothing). I only kept it up for a few weeks as needed the cash, as soon as I could I stopped.

That's another thing I couldn't bear about my DD being an Italian teenager - the overwhelming ambition to become a velina/letterina/whatever. It would so make me cringe and go against all my principles, I'd have to send her away to a Buddhist monastery for a couple of years to purge it out of her.

or she could come here and wish to become Jordan !
The Buddhist monastery sounds like a good idea.

LOL, and agree, at the mignottoni around town. plenty everywhere. now I ask you how on earth can these women look so polished and immaculate at all times? Hair are always glossy and wavy and with a perfect haircut. lots of make up, perfect clothing. now i could not manage that even when I was free and single!!!! and, like Duncan Bannatyne would say in Dragon's Den (I am showing off my culture today!), 'for this reason I am out!!"

yes, I don't do immaculate, I'm like Charlie Brown's friend, the one with the nuvoletta di polvere. I do have some nice clothes, but I always have the feeling I look scruffy.

exactly!! tbh since I am here in England I feel a bit of a fotomodella as people normally comment on how stilish (really LOL, and you'll see when you meet me) I am and 'must be an italian thing' etc.
In italy I am more like one of the simpatiche canaglie, o pippi herself. really i always feel, and look, like a boy around all the 'real' italian girls/women.
that's why I like it here, all this success...

Lol at Bossi. There is something really hopeless about italian society!

Does anybody like Californication?