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The Norfolk Broads?
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Oh, I've done North Africa -- M'Diq was the worst I encountered. You expect it there, but this is Rome!
I've been to Roma loads of times, but not in the last few years. The change is unbelievable.
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How do you recognize foreigners from Romans on Neapolitans? They usually have accents so strong to be almost uninteligible even for the other Italians. We have something like 50-60 strong dialects and maybe more - I'm counting the ones I heard - in Italy. Anyway the probability they are foreigners is still high, we have a lot of unregistered immigrants here, all of them loosely correlated to crime syndicates - mostly without knowing, they are simply used to get charity bonusses from the connivent local governments.
I've been to Rome and the rudeness of its inhabitants is epic. There's a common saying that romans are "burini", that means rude, arrogant and ignorant.
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den2k88 wrote: How do you recognize foreigners from Romans on Neapolitans?
Because if you use really, really difficult grammatical constructions, e.g. the plain ol' subjunctive, their eyes glaze over with incomprehension -- if you say "fosse", they worry they'll be chased by angry cowboys.
den2k88 wrote: I've been to Rome and the rudeness of its inhabitants is epic.
Capital-city syndrome. Avoid Paris.
den2k88 wrote: There's a common saying that romans are "burini",
Presumably because "paesani" is already claimed further South, so they had to find a synonym.
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I see that you understand perfectly the matter. Except that "paesani" means "from the same town", the national derogative term for southern people is "terroni". In the northern regions they are also referred as "napuli", pronounced similar to "Napoli" the city, depicting that for a northener any southener is from Naples, no exceptions.
In Turin, my hometown, until 30-40 years ago there were still the signs on the doors "we do not rento to southeners". It should be said that in the FIAT golden age many people from the south, especially poor, illiterate, hygienically deficient and/or outright criminals came in great numbers in Turin. There is a saying depicting this, in Bari's dialect "Se Torin iev' o mare iev' na' piccola Bari", literally "If Turin had the sea it would be a small Bari" - since there were many many people from Puglia.
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As our official and honourable CCC host, Herr CDP1802, evidently is unable to perform his duties, due a near lethal dose of various German poisons[^], I feel an obligation to fill in with this little miniature:
"Element against criminal elements" (6)
[EDIT:]I agree with Griff: as Agent 007 figured it all in no time, he should be the chosen one Wednesday!
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Copper?
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Yes of course!
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Quote: "Element against criminal elements" (6)
But let's see:
against -> per
element -> Copper
So, criminal elements -> Cop? 
Sorry, it was just a guess from my side at first until you confirmed. 
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To be honest I was even more primitive:
Element: copper
Against criminal elements: copper
But you were pretty quick!
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megaadam wrote: But you were pretty quick!
Thank you. And lets wait for CDP1802 to post one tomorrow. 
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Copper - a slang term used for police officers...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Thanks, did not know that. 
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Cop or Copper
The term Copper was the original, unshortened word, originally used in Britain to mean "someone who captures". (In British English the term Cop is recorded (Shorter Oxford Dictionary) in the sense of 'To Capture' from 1704, derived from the Latin 'Capere' via the Old French 'Caper').[5] The common myth is that it's a term referring to the police officer's buttons which are made of copper.
Cop derives from a Gaelic word which has the equivalence of saying, protector, leader, or chief. The terms are almost nearly homophonic but have similar meanings.
(from Wikipedia)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So...should it be him to set it tomorrow? Or Manfred (who set the WSOCCC that CDP1802 got on Friday)?
I think we can discount CDP1802 himself...just not reliable!
I'd vote for Agent__007...
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@Grifff where is DD ?
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Due to political aspirations and a looming election Mr Dave has decided to take his toys along with his pram back to mummy.
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So he's standing as a candidate ? Luton used to be a working class Irish community not tory ah well nothing is sacred anymore.
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Trying to hide his real beliefs from the electorate of Luton.
There is a local council election there in May, and he wants access to the Council Planning Committee (because in his words "that's where the money is"). So he needs to convince them he is going to work for them, instead of his bank account...hence the silence...
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OriginalGriff wrote: hence the silence...
My question is then, is it working for him?
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I agree. Double-oh-seven should do it Wednesday!
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Disaster has befallen beautiful Surrey, with some areas under a deluge of 10-15mm of snow! The Army have, of course, offered to step-in and help, delivering much needed supplies of Chai Tea Lattes and Prosecco Prosciutto & Mozzarella Paninis. Should the situation deteriorate any further, the PM has issued orders to shoot on sight anyone looking 'a bit working class'.
In other news, something happened somewhere but it involved foreigners so there is no need to worry.
We now return you to you regular time wasting...
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modified 3-Feb-15 5:48am.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: he PM has issued orders to shoot on sight anyone looking 'a bit working class'.
Yes, but that's just in the hope that they'll get Boris... 
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There is absolutely nothing werkin class about BoJo. No-one called Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson could ever be anything but top drawer blue blood.
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