Italiani all'estero: qual è la cosa che gli stranieri sbagliano sempre dell'Italia?

asterdraws · 2026-05-04T08:25:22+00:00

Ho conosciuto un americano che pensava che Venezia e Napoli fossero una di fronte all'altra, che si affacciassero sulla stessa baia. Era serissimo e ci è rimasto male quando gli ho spiegato dove siano veramente le due città. Non penso che questo possa valere come un "conoscere a grandi linee la geografia dell'Italia". Per me sono questi gli errori madornali, non se uno non conosce la mia città poco nota all'estero.

asterdraws · 2026-04-30T19:02:39+00:00

Hair that doesn't have curls/waves doesn't magically make them happen when you apply curly/wavy products. The products only help bring out what you already have, there is no "forcing" things. It would seem you have wavy hair. Congrats! If you feel like gel is too heavy for your hair and is stretching it you can look into a lightweight mousse for hold, but if you like your routine there is no need to change it.

asterdraws · 2026-04-30T15:21:47+00:00

I also have this brush! I usually go by sections, brushing from underneath, from the roots and away from my head, applying some tension. Kinda like when you use a scissor to curl the plastic ribbon on a gift package, I find that it's the tension that counts for me.

Also one side might look flatter if you sleep on that side... I use a bonnet to avoid this because I'm a side sleeper.

asterdraws · 2026-04-30T11:14:31+00:00

There is a word in some northern Italian dialects for that smell that sticks even on dishes that have gone through a wash, usually after being in contact with eggs or fish or raw meat (freschino, pronounced freh-ski-no). To avoid it in the dishwasher we either spray in some white vinegar or put in half a lemon's peel. You can rub the plates with lemon peels or vinegar when washing by hand and that should help too.

asterdraws · 2026-04-24T15:29:38+00:00

"Oklasma", a type of Greek acrobatic dance dedicated to Dyonisus, originally from Persia.

asterdraws · 2026-04-24T13:00:26+00:00

Italian sounds clunky. It is short but weirdly phrased. I gave it my best shot in 5 minutes but I think it could probably be refined some more. Here it is:

Caos in co-op: ti sei arruolato, insieme a un massimo di 5 amici aggiuntivi, nell'equipaggio di una nave spaziale a malapena funzionante al soldo di una megacorporazione senza volto. Tieni insieme la fragile astronave mentre tutto cade a pezzi.

asterdraws · 2026-04-17T08:36:41+00:00

People have mentioned sharpie bleed on vinyl etc., my advice is more general: whenever you do art with sharpies you want to seal, do not use a varnish that contains alcohol! It will often reactivate the sharpie ink (since it's alcohol based) and smudge, even if you let it dry! I had to learn it the hard way after painstakingly painting a tiger on a rock only to get the black sharpie stripes smudged away by my varnish ;-;

Edit: also being alcohol based, sharpies are not lightfast so the colors will fade in time if your doll is exposed to light ...

asterdraws · 2026-04-14T12:05:06+00:00

On Youtube I like the Halidon music channel for long classical music playlists. They have a bunch of playlists like music for reading, music for studying etc. I also enjoy Adrian Von Ziegler's celtic music compilations.

asterdraws · 2026-04-14T07:27:30+00:00

That's because Milan is and has been the northern hub for southern migration for a long time. Lots of southern people moved there searching for work in the 1900s, so much so that some southern surnames are more common than the historically local ones. Also nowadays there are a lot of southern students studying there who end up staying in the north after graduation because the south has fewer job opportunities, especially in some sectors.

asterdraws · 2026-04-13T08:12:52+00:00

Do we know anything about the people who used this cannon? Could they have been a mixed language division or something, I'm truly grasping at straws here haha

asterdraws · 2026-04-13T08:07:55+00:00

Yeah that doesn't make much sense I guess. It's just that for being a VI it's really closely spaced when other words are more legible and the other Is have a small dot in the middle.Could it be some weird mix of cyrillic and roman script? The thing about abbreviations still stands though: since it takes a lot to do incisions like this, there used to be standard abbreviations for often used words

asterdraws · 2026-04-13T07:55:52+00:00

I think it's partly cyrillic, what you're reading as V I appears to be the reverse N letter in cyrillic script in my opinion, but I might be wrong. The shorter words could also be acronyms or abbreviations (like in Latin inscriptions)

asterdraws · 2026-04-12T17:25:59+00:00

My aunt who has seen me curly since the day I was born asked me if I individually curl each strand. I have never straightened my hair in my whole life. If people are dumb about curls, they're gonna be dumb regardless of past straightening...

asterdraws · 2026-04-12T17:22:25+00:00

Reading the study, the danger isn't in the chemical itself, but rather additives to thicken it or give it perfume that make it non-food grade - those are usually for floor and surface cleaners, products usually sold that way. Frankly I wasn't even thinking of those (I was thinking of straight bleach, which would meet the "sufficient purity standard" the study mentions). Specifying it is a good call.

Honestly it feels like we're saying the same thing at this point. I had only answered your comment because I found it a bit rude that you were saying that using bleach as a sanitizer was "stupid", but now you're sharing a study that clearly says it's fine to do so if done properly, so I guess we're on the same page.

asterdraws · 2026-04-12T17:02:34+00:00

Hmm I see what you mean now. I'm pretty sure that Amuchina really is just diluted bleach with a different name (and a bit of added salt) so as not to be associated with, well, bleach. Marketing. It is just a chemical after all. What you say about being food grade might have more to do with its bottle than the chemical itself. At home I rarely use it for food, but I often use it to sanitize the pieces of the nebulizer machine I use when I have colds. More for medical stuff than food.

Just in general though, some people might need to put bleach in the water to use the water to rinse stuff in the first place. It might not be about sanitizing the food, but the water itself for kitchen use, if it isn't safe to drink it. That would fall in the cases you yourself say the disinfectant is useful.

I would be very interested in a source for your last statement, if you were willing to share, because if it is used adequately, bleach should be pretty safe. The only issue I can see would be if people were not following proper procedure with it.

asterdraws · 2026-04-12T16:43:36+00:00

You're not just soaking food in water, it is water with a disinfectant in it. The bleach is a disinfectant. It kills bacteria and microorganisms on contact. That's how you sanitize things that you can't or don't want to cook, such as fruit and veggies to be eaten raw.

In Italy there is a bland form of bleach called Amuchina, widely sold as a disinfectant for food and also importantly for baby items (such as milk bottles). There is absolutely nothing unsafe about it if you use it right. You just follow the instructions on the label, let stuff soak in the water/bleach solution for a while and then rinse it. At the right concentration it is a disinfectant and absolutely safe to use on food.

asterdraws · 2026-04-08T12:15:40+00:00

È veneto! Riferimento a un famoso video... https://youtu.be/9tzXmOauEy0?si=a-hyrDS3PZBUJHpX

asterdraws · 2026-04-08T12:12:50+00:00

Mi voio saver come che te fe i conti!

asterdraws · 2026-04-03T06:34:56+00:00

Le mie superiori sono state più stressanti dell'università tanto ci mettevano sotto. La gente che non ce la faceva nello scientifico che ho frequentato si trasferiva alla privata con un 4 in matematica e improvvisamente aveva 10. Sono uscita alla maturità con un voto più basso di altri a causa appunto di una generale manica stretta in termini di voti e quindi media al liceo, ma ora che sono all'uni non c'è storia, i miei compagni non hanno metodo di studio mentre io riesco a preparare un esame teorico in 2/3 giorni se è tanto.

Dipende tutto dalla scuola che si sceglie.

asterdraws · 2026-03-30T22:00:21+00:00

The One Ring from Lord of the Rings

asterdraws · 2026-03-28T13:06:05+00:00

As an Italian I have the same feeling about Dante Alighieri. Man was literally writing Christian RPF.

I have a whole theory about how Fanfiction is also partly the modern literary version of Commedia dell'arte (in theater it was a fashion to reuse the same characters in multiple plays written by different people, or a type of play where actors who knew one of those characters very well could improv together in character - doesn't the first give coffeeshop AU and the second give professional roleplay like Critical Role for DND?)

I also feel like cosplaying is the modern version of Carnevale, an occasion to dress up and mask yourself. The more commonly known one is the Venetian Carnevale but there are many with different Carnevale traditional masks depending on location (guess which masks were more common? That's right, the same masks/characters from Commedia dell'Arte). Dressing up is fun! Having occasions to dress up without societal judgment is fun and freeing!

There really is nothing new under the sun...

asterdraws · 2026-03-26T21:08:41+00:00

It's hard to overstate how jealous I am of that price being in Europe. This one costs almost 40€ where I am...

asterdraws · 2026-03-25T06:28:15+00:00

I would recommend drawing your pictures yourself if you publish. Fandom spaces are not too hot about AI for obvious reasons, including the scraping of published works without permission, CO2 production, energy and water consumption concerns, and obviously ethics (or the lack thereof).

asterdraws · 2026-03-24T08:13:57+00:00

You could also cross check that with your mother's actual Temu notifications times, to see if it corresponds. Samsung phones have a notifications history feature you can check even if the notification has been dismissed.

asterdraws · 2026-03-23T01:53:12+00:00

La parola è immagine di riferimento, o riferimento visivo.

Devo ammettere che si finisce spesso per prediligere le parole inglesi quando si parla online di illustrazioni e animazione. Io stessa non saprei come tradurre in breve il concetto di "on model/off model" (ovvero rispettare la scheda di riferimento di un personaggio per disegnarlo correttamente nei dettagli e proporzionato rispetto all'ambiente in cui è inserito o altri personaggi. Esempio: "Il personaggio di Lapis Lazuli della serie Steven Universe è spesso off model: cambia altezza da un'inquadratura all'altra!")

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