"“We have lent a huge amount of money to the U.S. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I am definitely a little worried.” "


Chinese premier Wen Jiabao 12th March 2009


""We have a financial system that is run by private shareholders, managed by private institutions, and we'd like to do our best to preserve that system."


Timothy Geithner US Secretary of the Treasury, previously President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.1/3/2009

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Berlusconi reaches for the Hearts and Minds

Nur al Cubicle in a characteristically learned post identifies the new voice of dissent on the Italian Street, Berlusconi has remarked in his infantile fashion that people who don't vote for him are coglione - assholes. (Although I thought a Coglione d'oro meant Golden Balls)

A result is a Website claiming I am an Asshole Io Sono Un Coglione website (in Italian)

Corriere della Sera also have a photogallery of young attractive Italian (?) ladies bearing the slogan and looking very jolly.

PS Just in case the lawyers are reading - coglione is NOT a reference to David Mills AKA Mr Tessa Jowell - or indeed any of his spaghetti munching friends.

at 4/05/2006 11:41:00 pm

2 comments:

Nur-al-Cubicle said...

Well, you're right, PP. Coglione does refer to testicles...But "ball head" doesn't convey quite the right meaning.

7:57 pm
ziz said...

"Golden Balls" has a particular resonance here in Limey land, the satirical Magazine "Private Eye" frequently awards, (generally annually,) but when they feel like it, the "Golden Balls" awards for the "Most adulterous MP", the "Stupidest MP's Question" etc.,

9:30 pm

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