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I'm interested in your 'candid versus two-faced' view, Lurid.
Not really my view, Ariadne, it more the different ways to look at certain cultures. And actually, the way I've put it isn't quite right. I meant that the candid or blunt latin as a constrast with the polite or two faced brit, respectively. Except two faced works in either position, depending on who one is criticising. Which makes what I said confusing.
Do you really think I'm missing the opportunity to make new pals? (That sounds snotty, but i actually mean it - in your experience, are Italian guys 'just' being friendly?)
No. I think your impressions are probably right, that you are being chatted up, in a slimy way. But...that doesn't preclude friendship and the guys are usually expecting to be turned down from anything sexual. At least from an Italian woman. Hmmmm. Being a tourist might make it different. On balance, I tend to think its a bit creepy, but then I'm an uptight brit in many ways.
Xoc: I like the idea of you, barely constrained, in your summer dress, skipping through a cotton field into the arms of a manly Nesh whose brooding demeanour assures us that that dress won't survive the night. Or the other way round. ahem. yes, and moving swiftly on,
Its a shit about your card but I am so pleased that someone else does things like that sometimes. |
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