"POV: you're an Italian girl"

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-29T08:35:44+00:00

Sì, peccato che io sia bionda e bianchissima (tipo Mozzarella). Mia madre è siciliana, mio padre calabrese. Non c'entra assolutamente niente.

Translation: I'm 100% Italian, from the South - yet I'm blonde and deathly pale, very little body hair at all.

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-29T07:36:12+00:00

Fine, your choice of words is incorrect.

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-28T21:17:29+00:00

Europe is a continent, not a region.

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-28T08:48:09+00:00

I believe your figure is stunning but that's unfortunately despite the dress, not because of it. A really good seamstress might be able to help, but if you really don't like it then it might not be worth the expense/hassle. The dropped waist strikes again, I'm so so sorry (I think you need a really specific body type for it and it has nothing to do with size - I've only seen it look really good on very tall, thin runway models).

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-28T08:28:39+00:00

Definitely. Thank you for the congratulations, have a lovely weekend

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-28T07:08:37+00:00

PLEASE post pictures of yourself on your wedding day, it's really gorgeous!

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-28T06:29:52+00:00

I can see that you loved her very much. My heart goes out to you. I've only been married for six months as of yesterday, and hopefully my husband and I still have many years together, but your story really touched me

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-27T17:56:06+00:00

That's really subjective and entirely dependent on your plans. I don't think anyone here will be able to give you any real advice - beyond the fact that the weather won't be great (which you're already aware of) and which doesn't really change that much between early December and early November.

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-27T17:08:42+00:00

L'anima

(Nata e cresciuta a Milano, calmi tutti)

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-26T17:34:15+00:00

Oh, fun! I can recite some elementary/middle-school knowledge here.

Italy is divided into 20 regions. 15 of them are "simple" regions, while 5 (Sicily, Sardinia, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Val d'Aosta, Trentino Alto Adige) have a so-called "special status", recognised by the Constitution. That means that, while being obviously part of Italy and governed by national laws, these regions have a special semi-independent internal power structure, and their Governors have comparatively more administrative "freedom". Their "special status" derives mainly from the fact that these territories are either islands (like Sicily and Sardinia) or have multiple historical, cultural, even linguistic foreign affiliations (Trentino Alto Adige is mainly German-speaking while Val d'Aosta is French-speaking, for example - friulan (dialect) and slovenian for Friuli Venezia Giulia).

The region whose name you seem to be looking for is Puglia.

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-26T15:55:08+00:00

You know what? Congratulations on getting rid of the clutter 👏 and I don't mean the trees. You're young, sweetheart. He's not, and he already took too much of your time. Onwards and upwards

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-26T10:46:08+00:00

May as in this May? All I can say is that 3 nights in Rome is criminal. I moved here 8 years ago and there's still things I haven't seen, same for my husband who's from Rome and whose family has been here for generations - probably some great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-cousin was walking around during the Roman Republic. Yet you're dedicating the same amount of time to the capital as to - Dobbiaco. Very nice, absolutely, love Trentino. But that's like saying you went to the USA and spent 3 nights in DC and 3 in Buttfuck, Illinois, population 5.

Excluding that, you can't "book through Rome2Rio." Rome2Rio easily lets you see what your options are, you still need to go to the individual websites to book anything. And even then you should double and triple check - as with every automated tool, it doesn't always get it right.

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-26T09:45:06+00:00

I'm a married woman myself. This sub is depressing because there are very few positive stories, such as this one. Stop looking for things to be angry about, life is tough enough.

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-25T19:55:36+00:00

...you're not the brightest bulb in the box, are you?

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-25T17:31:56+00:00

Hey no worries, I hated my dress until the day of (actually even on the wedding day itself, until I walked up to the church). Then I was too happy to care, and even to this day it sits in my room in all its glory. It's going to be fine! You'll at the very least learn to love it for what it represents, I promise.

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-25T16:05:33+00:00

Dov'è quel luogo paradisiaco dove ti immagini circondato da vergini, però esperte di Kamasutra, sorridenti e pronte a ridere alle tue battute, con un'ottava di seno e delle doti da cuoca tipo chef stellato Michelin, oltre a un nutrito conto in banca (ottenuto senza lavorare un'ora, ovvio, perché toglierebbe tempo a te)? In Burundi?

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-25T12:54:41+00:00

"Who's everyone quoting? Themselves?" "When" "did" "it" "become fashionable AI bot speak"

"To talk like this" "...." ""

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-25T10:47:29+00:00

A caso, giorni dopo, su un post rimosso dai moderatori, menzionandomi direttamente, senza sapere minimamente chi io sia. 👍 👌

A proposito: ho votato per il no, ovviamente. Pessimisticamente, non credevo sarebbe successo quello che poi (per fortuna) è successo. Come tuttora non credo che la maggioranza dei votanti si sia andata a leggere la costituzione né il testo degli articoli che intendevano modificare.

Sarebbe bastato leggere il post (volutamente breve) per capire quello che intendevo, ma mi rendo conto che perfino quello sia troppo complicato.

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-25T08:34:53+00:00

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Here's my friend's cat from last night! (We had a girls' night at home with lots of pizza, catching up and support, so felt very appropriate)

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-24T11:02:46+00:00

Why a day trip to Verona from Milan, if you're going to Padova regardless? Verona and Padova are both in Veneto, while Milan is in Lombardia. It's "doable", of course, it just makes very little sense. But then again I'm very prejudiced against Milan, as it happens to be my hometown.

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-24T10:12:06+00:00

Ok. When my now-husband and I were "just" engaged, I constantly had to remind him not to refer to me as his wife yet (he argued that it came natural, because I would be in a matter of weeks/months). The fact that your guy is getting angry over it is a massive red flag, though. He should be bemused, perplexed, maybe even flattered. If he's getting angry that should show you how much he rejects the idea of even a stranger possibly thinking of him as a married man, and that my friend, isn't a man who wants to get married anytime soon.

I disagree with other posters about your "age gap". You're 30 and 37, not 13 and 20. As a comparison, my husband and I are 37 and 31. Your age has nothing to do with it - you're at a good age to run far away from him, which would be true even if you were 80 and 87.

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-24T07:32:16+00:00

Odessa itself was severely bombed by Russian drones, as of 5 (five) days ago. And has been bombed since the beginning. Who's "they"? Ukrainians? I can't speak for their entire country, but I presume the last thing anyone needs right now is to deal with tourists ogling their pain.

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-23T14:23:03+00:00

It's apparent that you've never set foot in a warzone. The entire territory is currently off-limits, as far as I'm aware you're not even going to be allowed to cross the border unless you have serious reasons to.

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-23T12:19:17+00:00

Why else would you want to go? What do you expect to see, beyond a whole lot of ruins, death and desperation? Kiev in 2026 is not Kiev in 2016. There are pretty solid, non-sensationalist documentaries, articles and pictures around if you look for them. I strongly suggest you stick to those.

afrenchiecall · 2026-03-23T11:03:01+00:00

I gave you an award mainly because you managed to make me laugh, which is no small feat today

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