This is why Italians don't get cancer. Italians have a long, storied tradition of yelling out of windows. There was a local man, a known philanderer, who returned to his apartment after a few days of cavorting with his mistress. His wife locked him out, and even when he positioned himself underneath the balcony and pleaded with her in full view of everyone in the piazza, she continued to yell at him in loud, theatrical Italian and refused to open the door.
Greeks are similar creatures. I remember my first time in a taxi in Athens. Traffic, as it always is, was buggered up for God knows what reason (or no reason at all). People were out of their cars screaming, gesticulating, and just generally carrying on as if they were hockey players about to drop their gloves. No, my companion told me, this is how Greeks communicate. Being the repressed American I am, I never did get used to it.
I've always tended to the loud and theatrical. But once it is out of my system, it is done. By the bye, this line reminded me of something: "I stood at the window and screamed at that guy. In English. I’ve discovered that when you scream at someone in a language he doesn’t understand, it can be really motivating and effective."
Ph.D. in philosophy and all, I've studied a fair amount of logic. It really burns people's toast when you identify the logical fallacy they're committing, giving the Latin name for it without further explanation.
BAHAHAHA! My astrologer friends say my Scorpio Rising and Aries Sun make me a formidable opponent in war. I rather think of myself as more of a lamb than a ram.
Greeks are similar creatures. I remember my first time in a taxi in Athens. Traffic, as it always is, was buggered up for God knows what reason (or no reason at all). People were out of their cars screaming, gesticulating, and just generally carrying on as if they were hockey players about to drop their gloves. No, my companion told me, this is how Greeks communicate. Being the repressed American I am, I never did get used to it.
Right? We're SO repressed! I'm convinced if we yelled more, we might shoot less.
I've always tended to the loud and theatrical. But once it is out of my system, it is done. By the bye, this line reminded me of something: "I stood at the window and screamed at that guy. In English. I’ve discovered that when you scream at someone in a language he doesn’t understand, it can be really motivating and effective."
Ph.D. in philosophy and all, I've studied a fair amount of logic. It really burns people's toast when you identify the logical fallacy they're committing, giving the Latin name for it without further explanation.
LOL! "Burns people's toast" and I might add, "makes them hate you." Some of us are better at that than others ;-)
At that point in the conversation they probably already hate me.
I'm a pretty intelligent guy, but I think I'd rather have you on my side than as an adversary.
BAHAHAHA! My astrologer friends say my Scorpio Rising and Aries Sun make me a formidable opponent in war. I rather think of myself as more of a lamb than a ram.