Italian fail

If you take a close look at the competency of Italians, you will note that it is really not the best idea to put them in charge of the running of anything of importance.  But fortunately, they are fairly genius when it comes to manfacturing stuff.  For example, the Italians excel amazingly at making quality sports cars. 

If I had a few extra billion lying around, I would buy a ferrari in every colour, except that gross mustard colour that seems to be fashionable at the moment.  Mustard and ferrari equals fail.  Mustard and anything that does not resemble a hotdog equals fail.  And I would complain loudly if they sent me one in baby poo brown.  There's something very wrong with the world if there is actually a ferrari in existence that is baby poo brown.

Italians are also pretty darn impressive at manufacturing footwear and the type of clothing that snooty, wealthy wankers wear to the mall, but secretly wish they could wear tracky dacks, rather than fancy schmancy haute couture designer sweat pants made from silkworms and baby duck fur.  The Italians can also kick around a football, but when you think about it, this isn't much of an admirable list.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter if your country excels in the manufacturing sector; what actually matters is if it can be trusted and is capable of being in charge of anything.  For example,  Italians clearly cannot be trusted to be at the helm of a cruise liner without running it into the ground. What makes Costa Concordia cruise liners so special? Um, at least one of their captains can't fucking drive a boat.  And Italians sure as shit cannot be trusted to be in charge of a government without running it into the ground. 

Former Italian PM Bonkasconi's superlative fiscal skills would run a brothel into the red.  Actually his government frequently resembled a brothel, and look how well that turned out with an Italian at the wheel. 

Italians clearly shouldn't be allowed to operate or be in charge of the security, protection or management of anything ever; they should just stick to making fast, red, shiny things and then let the grown up* nation states take over.  And Italy, if you don't want crude, offensive, insensitive jokes at your expense, then stop being so incompetent at everything that affects your citzens lives.

* When I say grown-ups, I wasn't technically referring to any of the countries of the E.U., which is, in my opinion, a dsyfunctional family of idiots.