Apple Store to open in Rome
Website MacScoop discovered that Apple will open a store in Rome later this month, the 31st of March at 9:00 AM. The first 1000 visitors will receive a free Apple T-Shirt because you know those Italians, they're really big on wearing free T-Shirts...not! Even though Italian society continues to change, as far as I can tell from a sampling of relatives, the BuonApple Store Roma Est aprirà sabato 31 marzo alle 9:00. Prendete parte ai festeggiamenti per l'apertura di Apple Store, Roma Est. Partecipate all'inaugurazione e, se sarete fra i primi 1000 visitatori, ricevete gratuitamente una T-shirt Apple.
Oh by the way, if you're looking for a job? Apple Roma is hiring.
[1] Thanks for the corrections
Update: I want to send regards to all our Italian readers who have stopped by to wish me well with my love life in such marvelously emphatic terms. I believe the translation you have been given is incorrect. This post only reflects that my Italian relatives, from an older generation, would never wear a t-shirt--free or not. The "look good/feel good" line comes from Saturday Night Live and Billy Crystal.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
nutsmuggler said 7:15PM on 3-20-2007
You missed a couple of keywords in this post, like spaghetti, mandolino and mafia, or the wonderfully mispelled bruscetta. By the way, brutta figura is feminine, thence it ends with -a. Also, there is no apostrophe between buon and affare. But you're still competing for the most stuffed-with-commonplaces-about-Italy post I've read this year. Guess where I' from :-)
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VanillaSpice said 8:27PM on 3-20-2007
Surely a post that didn't mention pizza, pasta, the Mafia, Benito Mussolini, frequent changes of government, "buon giorno", the Colosseum, or Ferrari can't be competing for "most stuffed-with-commonplaces-about-Italy post" ? Your comment had more commonplaces about Italy that the post, which, apart from the use of language, only hit the "fashionable" stereotype!
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lobo said 9:44PM on 3-20-2007
btw, italians do it better ! ;)
greetings from Rome
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Settimio perlini said 12:23AM on 3-21-2007
Check for some pictures and (on friday 30 / saturday 31) photo and video reports here
http://www.macitynet.it/english/aA27594
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James Young said 12:47AM on 3-21-2007
iTaly
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Giuseppe said 3:35AM on 3-21-2007
Luckily you do not represent your nation.
You should be ashamed about your post.
Giuseppe Caruso
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antonio said 6:53AM on 3-21-2007
There is still something missing: cappuccino, Berlusconi, Latin Lover, Dolce Vita.
I think that's all. Now you can write e detailed touristic guide for dummy.
ciao
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Alessandro said 7:47AM on 3-21-2007
Oh my god... this is the worst post in the galaxy!!
Can u do wiki for italian commonplaces, you're in the right way!!! are u so mind-limited that you wrote first thing you think about my country? What did u write if apple store opens in Germany (iWurstel, iHitler and so farth?)
Btw: bruscetta is BRUSCHETTA and don't forget TORRONE e Paisà!
Saluti a tutto il mondo!
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Francesco said 7:52AM on 3-21-2007
well Tuaw, I visit your blog daily, it's a very serious voice in the apple world. I'm a switcher, so I read with interest every post.
But this time, I've found this article so useless and so stupid. The author may pay a visit to Italy and see with his own eyes that he's wrong.
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lux said 5:09PM on 3-24-2007
Erica, I'm Italian and only wear T-shirts. I even love the U.S., go figure. :-P
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Carolus said 8:42AM on 3-21-2007
Ok, I propose the final duel: Big Mac (no I don't mean the Mac Pro :)) vs Pizza Margherita. The winner will rule the whole world.
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Jeby said 1:43PM on 3-21-2007
Oh! And "Mafia, Spaghetti e Mandolino"???
questo post è RIDICOLO!!!!
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Marco said 3:49PM on 3-21-2007
it's better to be a stupid italian than a stupid american like you.
tu e tua madre potete venire qui personalmente e succhiarmi il cazzo,
ciao!
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Ema Skew said 5:56AM on 3-22-2007
Vogliamo le magliette per contrastare le minchiose pubblicità di Wow di Microsoft, dato che Apple non fa in tv i suoi spot Get a Mac.
Almeno ci sarebbero un po' di mele in giro a pascolare per Roma...
Ah, l'inglese...
vabbè, dato che sei tanto brava con l'italiano, traducitelo, ok?
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macanatomist said 4:30PM on 3-21-2007
You missed "Sofia Loren", "Capisc'" and "mangiare".
Worst post ever.
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MetalSho said 4:38PM on 3-21-2007
"This is the american way!"
This post is the demonstration of how much is poor the yankees mind. Bush is your perfect leader.
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Gustomela said 7:25PM on 3-21-2007
«I didn't have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Sadun.»
- Steve Jobs
Ciao bella :)
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Carolus said 7:21PM on 3-21-2007
MetalSho, remember that half of the voters in last presidential election and more than a half in last congress and senate election did NOT vote for GWB and neocons, teocons and stupididiotcons.
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VanillaSpice said 6:39PM on 3-21-2007
Now I'm really confused. I made the same error, by not referencing in my comment (3) that I was addressing commentor 1. But I've got no idea who anyone is replying to. I have no idea if comments 8. 9 and 10 are addressing me, commentor 1, or the original post.
Francesco (11) at least makes it clear that they're addressing the article, and that they think the author should visit Italy so she can see with her own eyes that Italians are not fashionable, and that they would gladly wear an ugly t-shirt if it was free.
I think 13 is addressing 1, but cannot be sure. Don't know who (and their mother) 14 is talking to; 15 could be addressing me or 1, possibly; and 16 had a quote I can't find anywhere on the page, so I don't know who they're responding to, either.
Any help would be gratefully received.
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darko1982 said 8:08AM on 3-22-2007
I'm italian, and I agree that this post can be a little bit offensive. We are not the stereotype painted in this post. First of all, I can't understand where is the problem if Apple decides to give free shirt as a gift. It's quite normal that Apple uses some free gadgets to promote a new store everywhere in the world, so why in Rome this is considered a strange thing? Second, we are not that fashionable kind of people. If it's true, maybe, that Europeans are more fashionable than Us people, it's quite obvious that we don't live and don't die for it. This wild use of commonplaces it's just.... useless.
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