Thread: UK economy overtaken by Italy

The GDP's of both countries have been similar for a long time.

Italy are known for exporting fine wines, champagnes, exotic cars by Ferrari and Lambourghini.


The UK's biggest export these days seems to be dirty old men in singlets heading to Pattaya

Thats a point, where did I leave that singlet

Originally Posted by jandajoy

Originally Posted by kebabbaro

By the way, now poms can no longer make fun of Berlusconi and the Italians, can they?

Certainlt can. As can any one else who can walk and talk. The man is a buffoon albeit an immensely wealthy one. God bless "Cosa nostra".

Skipping the sh!t about Berlusconi, you have a point about "Cosa nostra": Italy is a country where the mafia runs 4 regions out of 20. I'm talking about the southern regions of Sicily, Calabria, Apulia and Campania.


This is well known and documented, so no need to squabble about it.


So in the end the UK has been overtaken by a country who cannot even enforce its laws in 4 of its own regions, that's how much of a 3rd world country the UK now is.

Originally Posted by daveboy

That maybe true buts its quality not quantity that counts.

Is that a joke?

What quality are you talking about? Fine weather, fine food, fine wines, fine cars or even....
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fine women?

Well, let me tell ya, I think Italy has pretty much NOTHING to learn about this things

The UK is a net exporter of money,
and a major importer of everything.

But hey Brown has saved the world, but forgot about poor old blighty.

as #9 says the country's GDP's have been similar for a long time, and you expect them to move up and down in relation to each other.

the last time Italy overtook the UK was at some point in the mid-80s, I remember all the hand-wringing articles that came out about it as a sixth-former.

about 10 years after that, the UK overtook Italy again. Now, Italy has come back.

in other words this one is a total non-story.

Originally Posted by kebabbaro

Originally Posted by daveboy

That maybe true buts its quality not quantity that counts.

Is that a joke?

What quality are you talking about? Fine weather, fine food, fine wines, fine cars or even....
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fine women?

Well, let me tell ya, I think Italy has pretty much NOTHING to learn about this things

Food: Peasants Fayre
Women: Grow beards at 25+
Cars: Fall to pieces
Wine: They don't stop
Men: Still breast feed at 45
Southern Italy: Historically poor

I lived there for 7 years. All over the place, loved it.

If I was ever forced to return to Europe Italy would be the place for me.

Loved the food, the weather, the wine and the women weren't half bad.

You need to learn to live with flow and suss out the games, once you've done that, it's great.

Especially rural Italy, fabulous.

Originally Posted by kebabbaro

Skipping the sh!t about Berlusconi, you have a point about "Cosa nostra": Italy is a country where the mafia runs 4 regions out of 20. I'm talking about the southern regions of Sicily, Calabria, Apulia and Campania.
This is well known and documented, so no need to squabble about it.

Well, here in Thailand the Royal Police runs 76 provinces out of 76 ....

Originally Posted by kebabbaro

Originally Posted by daveboy

That maybe true buts its quality not quantity that counts.

Is that a joke?

What quality are you talking about? Fine weather, fine food, fine wines, fine cars or even....
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fine women?

Well, let me tell ya, I think Italy has pretty much NOTHING to learn about this things

Apart.... the price tag ?
Come on Keb, if Italy was that good we would not have moved to Thai
Italy is so expensive that all its self appointed quality is useless because it's simply unaffordable.
How many times a week did you dine out when you were in the "land of taxes and hand jobs" ? Could you rely on public buses passing every minute , stopping at call and charging 20 cents ? And the list goes on and on...
Never been to the UK , but I can easily imagine it's an even worse shit hole , even after the pound slump.

Originally Posted by jandajoy

Especially rural Italy, fabulous.

Yeah, must be great to dine at an "agriturismo" , eat shit bought at the nearest town hard discount and pay a 50 euro/person bill

Originally Posted by wefearourdespot

Originally Posted by kebabbaro

Well, let me tell ya, I think Italy has pretty much NOTHING to learn about this things

Apart.... the price tag ?
Come on Keb, if Italy was that good we would not have moved to Thai
Italy is so expensive that all its self appointed quality is useless because it's simply unaffordable.
How many times a week did you dine out when you were in the "land of taxes and hand jobs" ? Could you rely on public buses passing every minute , stopping at call and charging 20 cents ? And the list goes on and on...

Agreed, but I was comparing Italy to the UK, and this Daveboy nutjob was implying that in the UK you have a more enjoyable life:
not even when you're stoned like Jim Morrison you can have such an hallucination

Never been to the UK , but I can easily imagine it's an even worse shit hole , even after the pound slump.

Lucky you! The UK is even more expensive than (northern) Italy, and as fringe benefits you get rainy weather every day, crappy overpriced food, aggressive drunk folks on weekends, extremely violent young criminals, and fat skank alcoholic ladies.

That's the quality of live Daveboy is talking about

So now THAT makes Italian men ...not only HOT, but Rich also __yeah?

Ok move over 007, here comes Fabbio.......aaaawwwwweeee

Should all the ladies in thailand be polishing their italian now?

Originally Posted by daveboy

Food: Peasants Fayre

Fayre not in the dictionary: whaddya mean?
Anyway the worldwide success of Italian food speaks for itself.
English food never had a chance...

Originally Posted by daveboy

Women: Grow beards at 25+

Talking about your gf? In Italy you can find Mediterranean-looking ladies just as much as blond nordic-looking gals, that's because our ancestries had the most different ethnic backgrounds.

Originally Posted by daveboy

Cars: Fall to pieces

Not any more, and when we talk about sports car Ferrari and Lamborghini have no rivals.

Originally Posted by daveboy

Wine: They don't stop

At least Italians can drink without turning themself into silly childish aggressive thugs like most English on a weekend binge drinking.

Originally Posted by daveboy

Men: Still breast feed at 45

Yeah in Italy the family institution is not yet an utter joke like in England

Originally Posted by daveboy

Southern Italy: Historically poor

That's right, and now the Englishmen are even poorer.

Originally Posted by mooncake

Should all the ladies in thailand be polishing their italian now?

Polishing their Italians what Moony?

Originally Posted by Shitdigit

Originally Posted by mooncake

Should all the ladies in thailand be polishing their italian now?

Polishing their Italians what Moony?

me no ungrit no ungrit..... only italiano now, hai capito tesoro_

Originally Posted by kebabbaro

Italians can drink without turning themself into silly childish aggressive thugs like most English on a weekend binge drinking

True story that, on the other hand, Italians tend to either get all emotional when drunk and start crying or they simply fall over after a couple of pints