PULL MY HAIR OUT

...senza nulla togliere al Sig Commy che non ho il piacere ancora di conoscere, ma, mi permetto di dire e ricordo all'amico Sellioutuluntanu che, se non fosse stato per questo "passaparola", non ci sarebbe stato nessun 14 giugno.

Mr Peter Pullano, forgive me, but, I think that when Adm says: “let's not help perpetuate the stereotype about the lazy, good for nothing Italians”, you just asked for spank.gif As you know Italy is a catholic country and the USA is a protestant one, which makes, sometimes, two ways of thinking clash. However, you should realize that you are writing to and relating with, on this forum, a bunch of people that, as far as I know, could be relatives to those people that you almost overtly defined being unethical and lazy ones. This is not the right section to talk about Max Weber’s book “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, where, with what came to be known as "the Weber thesis", he argued that protestant ethic (particularly Calvinist) influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment that influenced the development of capitalism. Nevertheless, if that was your reasoning or assumption about the Italian state employees not answering you, then I must say that a non sequitur unwarranted assumption kicks in and give rise to a hasty generalization, to say the least. In other words, cave quid dicis, quando, et cui (beware what you say, when, and to whom). No hard feelings.