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I also like how "I was speaking from experience" matters when his six months totally equal the years I've been driving in Italy and Germany.

Plus Southern Italy is not the same as Italy.

I hear people in Mississippi don't drive like people in NYC.

 

You excel in writing inappropriate and offensive things.
I don't forgive you, no. Your posts are often unpleasant, hostile and arrogant. Comparing me to a victim of domestic violence is just another low in your long list of lows.

There's a big cultural difference between Northern and Southern Italy. And that leads to people from the North finding traffic in the South stressful. I do prefer the Northern way, I said that.

 

I'm not even sure why he's digging his heels in. Statistics clearly prove that driving in Italy is safe, in fact safer than many other countries. "Italians are bad drivers" is an ignorant stereotype.
Anecdotal evidence from one region he has spent six months in says absolutely nothing about "Italians in general". Heck, it varies so much even in other countries. People in Berlin have a different way of driving than people in Cologne.
Yet, he made a general statement and that statement just looks very stupid once the facts come in. He could've decided to own up to that but digging his heels in is more fun I suppose.

It's tedious how much people insist on their anecdotal evidence as valuable objective experience. You could also say he had a string of bad luck in Italy since statistics don't support his argument but of course he wouldn't accept that.

I don't think it's hard to address and criticize people's posts (even harshly like I did with your asinine post) without making ad hominem attacks. Yet it seems you have to be reminded of that rule frequently.

 

I did say they break the rules. And statistically the fact that they drive based on awareness instead of rules seems to work relatively well for them. I don't think it's the right way and it surely stresses me out at times when I'm there.

I also wouldn't be surprised if road fatality statistics for Southern Italy are worse than they are for the North. But that doesn't really help your generalized asinine statement "Italians are bad drivers" either.

 

And of course you had to bring the person into it by comparing me to an abused spouse. Your posts are full of these excursions in bad taste.

As a reminder: Repeatedly claiming people fail to read your posts properly and they don't know certain words is also pretty inflammatory. We are perfectly able to read and we all understand the terms you use. We just disagree with the nonsense you write.

 

And it could've ended here, right?
What a missed opportunity!

 

No. Calling your statement asinine is criticizing your statement, not you. That is a simple rule on this site. Attack the post, not the poster. I encourage you to internalize that.