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		With mountains of festering garbage rotting in their streets because the country has run out landfills, Italian children hope Batman will save them (uk.reuters.com)		57
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brap		2007-05-25 01:02:35 PM

That "mountain of festering garbage rotting in their streets because the country has run out of landfills" HAPPENS TO BE MY WIFE!

fatal_exception		2007-05-25 02:44:36 PM

Ah, the old "not in my neighbourhood" problem. Well, good luck with that.

kinuman		2007-05-25 02:45:28 PM

It's this guy's fault.

rawbee83		2007-05-25 02:45:29 PM

Yeah, batman will save you....with BUTTSECKS!

NeoLuddite1		2007-05-25 02:45:59 PM

How much garbage could the Bat Cave hold, anyway? Alfred's going to be pissed.

Frameous		2007-05-25 02:46:06 PM

Batman? Don't think so. Who can help? The Garbage Man can!

Dogwood		2007-05-25 02:47:10 PM

Huh, I thought the Dagoes' traditional superhero was Jesus.

PsyLord		2007-05-25 02:47:25 PM

Wouldn't Oscar the Grouch be a better person to call?

kid_icarus		2007-05-25 02:47:28 PM

Another child simply titled his drawing: "Citta di Merda!!" (City of shiat!!).

I wonder if that one ended up on the refrigerator?

fawlty		2007-05-25 02:47:31 PM

Not impressed.

NineInchNader		2007-05-25 02:47:42 PM

Yeah, batman will save you....with BUTTSECKS!

Don't you mean BATSECKS?

Sir Roderick Glossop		2007-05-25 02:48:10 PM

Pffft. Europeans- always looking for Americans to save them from their self-inflicted problems.

*flips Flame Shield to "on" position*

Beavis_Christ		2007-05-25 02:48:10 PM

Batman's too busy searching for the missing "of"

fatal_exception		2007-05-25 02:48:34 PM

How much garbage could the Bat Cave hold if the Bat Cave could hold garbage?

Sorry, thought that's where you were going.

UKerupt		2007-05-25 02:49:06 PM

So one child = many Italian children?

/confused

Mohorovicic Discontinuity		2007-05-25 02:49:56 PM

President Giorgio Napolitano, himself a Neapolitan...

Never would have guessed, what with a last name that starts with Napoli.

RabidCanary		2007-05-25 02:50:10 PM

How do I get to Italy?

OtitisMEDIA		2007-05-25 02:50:54 PM

brap, that was some funny shiate right there ... thanks for the laff

Seymour's Fat Lady		2007-05-25 02:50:59 PM

Sometimes I see the Citta di Merda massacre in my nightmares. No one is spared.

Mohorovicic Discontinuity		2007-05-25 02:51:14 PM

Beavis_Christ

I see what you did there.

rawbee83		2007-05-25 02:51:41 PM

NineInchNader

Don't you mean BATSECKS?

Well played, Nader, well played.

/golf clap

CygnusDarius		2007-05-25 02:54:56 PM

Dariodevil		2007-05-25 02:56:31 PM

I'll have you know there's plenty of Italian superheroes!

There's Zatanna, The Huntress, um... The Punisher (if you consider the Castiglione retcon from the '90s canon)... and The Alpha-Centurion (who most likely isn't part of the DC Megaverse anymore, post-Infinite Crisis)...

Oh, who am I kidding. My people's hereos are hot chicks with fishnets and thigh-highs, and mobsters. Lots and lots of mobsters.

rawkus		2007-05-25 02:57:04 PM

brap wins out of the gate with a prime beerfest reference

also,

i've asked it before and i'll ask it again: why on god's green earth do we need three pages each consisting of about 4 paragraphs? is it so hard for the average reader to scroll down a bit? granted i'm making a big deal about clicking 4 links, which isn't that hard either, but damn it just bugs me.

a dingo ate me baby		2007-05-25 02:57:40 PM

why doesn't the pope just 'miracle' it away?

/"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." - George Carlin

lhclubs		2007-05-25 02:58:28 PM

rawkus i've asked it before and i'll ask it again: why on god's green earth do we need three pages each consisting of about 4 paragraphs? is it so hard for the average reader to scroll down a bit? granted i'm making a big deal about clicking 4 links, which isn't that hard either, but damn it just bugs me.

Click 'Print This Article'. Read that.

Catracks		2007-05-25 02:58:58 PM

"The Camorra runs its own illegal waste dumps in the Naples hinterland and does not like competition."

Organized crime rubbish disposal. Who knew?

devilduece		2007-05-25 03:02:13 PM

NineInchNader		2007-05-25 03:03:27 PM

i've asked it before and i'll ask it again: why on god's green earth do we need three pages each consisting of about 4 paragraphs? is it so hard for the average reader to scroll down a bit? granted i'm making a big deal about clicking 4 links, which isn't that hard either, but damn it just bugs me.

Apparently, many online advertisers look to page clicks as some meaningless indication of how many people managed to see their ad. I'm not exactly sure their logic pans out to reality, but the statistic does help set advertising revenues for the pages being clicked upon.

Therefore, many websites prefer to force a person to click many times as opposed to once.

I_Attack_People		2007-05-25 03:03:42 PM

Another child simply titled his drawing: "Citta di Merda!!" (City of shiat!!).

Thus, wresting the title from Baltimore.

brap		2007-05-25 03:04:08 PM

rawkus -

Beerfest? What in God's name are you talking about? I've been using variations on that joke since I was knee-high to Billy Barty and event then I knew that I had ripped it off from some crusty vaudevillian.

Lord_Farktard		2007-05-25 03:05:44 PM

Have the Italians somehow transported to the year 2505?

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Odd Bird		2007-05-25 03:06:21 PM

devilduece
LOL!

phillydrifter		2007-05-25 03:07:38 PM

Just dump it over the border into France. I don't see a problem, they'll probably appreciate it since it improves the smell there, right?

Donald_McRonald		2007-05-25 03:09:08 PM

Ciao!

buckler		2007-05-25 03:10:58 PM

I wouldn't look to Batman for help...that mofo used to leave discarded bat-chutes all over the place in Gotham City.

milk_plus		2007-05-25 03:11:54 PM

My idea on garbage issues for industrialized nations:

Form the garbage into a giant wall at the nation's borders. The funk and scale of the wall should prevent invasion and illegal immigration. Anyone who can scale the wall in search of employment should be allowed to stay as they are strong, brave, and willing to work hard.

give me doughnuts		2007-05-25 03:12:35 PM

Donald McRonald
Props for the subtle Eddie Izzard reference.

epoc_tnac		2007-05-25 03:12:52 PM

Lord_Farktard: Have the Italians somehow transported to the year 2505?

I think the year 2505 has come to us.

rynoon		2007-05-25 03:14:06 PM

Why don't they do what Toronto does? Ship it off to Detroit.

rat_brain_flies_plane		2007-05-25 03:15:43 PM

I hope Batman does something soon!

Those poor children!

That place looks like total shiat!

onefunkydago		2007-05-25 03:23:51 PM

I believe my presence in this thread is obligatory.

Savian		2007-05-25 03:25:54 PM

darth_nick23		2007-05-25 03:28:29 PM

screw batman, they need captian planet.

amoricanCrowe		2007-05-25 03:33:18 PM

I just came in here to make an "Idiocracy" reference.

/I like money

toonz		2007-05-25 04:15:35 PM

amoricanCrowe

I can't believe you like money, too.
We should hang out.

give me doughnuts		2007-05-25 04:37:22 PM

Go 'way! 'batin'!

FunkOut		2007-05-25 04:39:24 PM

Dogwood - I believe you have mistaken Italy for Spain. I understand it may be cconfusing since both are strongly Catholic, use olive oil, and full of handsome tanned men who play soccer/football, but there is a subtle difference : in the one country, gangs will knife you and leave you to die in a giant bowl of gazpacho and in the other, they will beat you to death with tiny cups of strong coffee and try to drag your corpse behind a moped.

lajimi		2007-05-25 04:41:15 PM

Italian children hope Batman will save them

Watsamatta you kid no like-a Micky Mouselini?

Tucci		2007-05-25 04:52:35 PM

Even with rotting mounds of garbage, NAPOLI looks better than most Amercian cities on a good day.

Va fa'a Napoli! Managgia la miseria! O, Subbi, va fare in culo, stronzo!

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