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    Incurant

    in Rants

    Posted · Edited by Ciro

    Ciro,

    Have you tried "indifferent"?

    Or "doesn't give a ......."? (Fill in the blank with a dirty word.)

    Michael

    hahahahaha! Michael, I haven't thought of it, I agree, indifferent is as good as incurant.

    BTW in Italian "doesn't give a ......? is "Non se ne importa un cazzo!"

    Ciao my friend.

    Ciro

    Incurant

    in Rants

    Posted

    Is "INCURANT"an English word or not?

    I use this word a lot when I write in Italian. It means not to care about something,or someone. For example, " Michael is incurant of Kat's warnings to ware a hat" ;) Or, "INCURANT of the soffering of thousand of people the mayor keeps telling lies to his CONCITTADINI"

    Here is another Italian word concittadino-i it means Italian citzen-s from the same town, which could be translated in English as "CONCITZENS"

    I wish they would add words like these to the Enghish language.

    Ciro

    Where have you been?

    in Humor - OL LOLOLOLOL

    Posted

    Where have you been?

    Sometimes women are overly suspicious of their husbands. When Adam stayed out very late for a few nights, Eve became upset. "You're running around with other women," she charged.

    "You're being unreasonable," Adam responded. "You're the only woman on earth." The quarrel continued until Adam fell asleep, only to be awakened by someone poking him in the chest.

    It was Eve. "What do you think you're doing?" Adam demanded.

    "Counting your ribs," said Eve.

    If it doesn't taste right.

    in The Kitchen

    Posted

    When you go out to restaurant, don't be afraid to send back the wine if it doesn't taste right to you.

    Usually, if they find nothing wrong with the wine, they sell it by glass, or send it back to the distributor and get a refund.

    Ciao.

    How to enjoy different types of wine without losing any of their flavors.

    in The Kitchen

    Posted · Edited by Ciro

    That was good, Ciro! Common sense.

    I happen to be doing a great deal of dining out, lately, and it inevitably involves my girl and I ordering wine, that's almost exclusively what we do, unless we are slumming, having burgers and beers.

    So, I used to really prefer ultra-dry whites. But over time, I found my pallette changed, and also that whites just didn't agree with me at all any more. I think that sometimes they trigger headaches moreso than a solid red.

    Here in Ohio, we have Lake Erie wines, and many other wineries. Basically, though, I don't enjoy many of these regional wines.

    There are a lot of good wines available, if you look around for deals. Yellow Fin and its relatives are a good buy. Merlots are getting pretty quality at the low-end. I'm always happy if I find a real good Merlot for under ten bucks. Sometimes I get them for four or five...

    Nowadays, I put myself in the hands of the restaurant. Often, they have great reds around. I like Merlots quite a bit, and their relatives...Shiraz and so forth.

    I find that a really good move at some Italian restaurants is to simply order Chianti.

    On the other hand, sometimes no wine at all. Last night, I came off a performance and went to a very cool place in the loft district (Cleveland) called The Nauti Mermaid. They have excellent martinis, and stuff their own bluecheese olives. That went very well with steamed clams, and some seafood manicotti.

    I also think that if you are having sushi, you need be careful if considering wine with it. Chilled vodka is pretty good. But, for wine, there is plum wine. Now, most of this stuff is very thick, and caramel flavored; I don't like that at all. There is one- Kikkoman (like the soy sauce you buy). They make an excellent plum wine, it is about 7 bucks a bottle, but increasingly hard to find. I like it in a cocktail glass with crushed ice (preferably ice made from distilled water). This is tasty, but doesn't seem to interfere with the sushi.

    Rich:I find that a really good move at some Italian restaurants is to simply order Chianti

    That is a very good idea, Rich. Chianti goes with any kind of food, there is something miraculous about this wine. By itself it can be uninspiring, but put it on the table with food and all the flavors wake up.

    One thing I would suggest though, is that when you go to a real Italian restaurant, find out what part of Italy the owner is from, and see if they offer any wine from that region. Usually they do, and it is wine as good as famous Italian ones and costs much less.

    Ciao.

    How to enjoy different types of wine without losing any of their flavors.

    in The Kitchen

    Posted · Edited by Ciro

    How to enjoy different types of wine without losing any of their flavors.

    When I have an important dinner, I love to have different types of wine on the table.

    The ideal would be to drink a different wine for every dish.

    For those of you who are not experts, the rule to follow is to serve the white wines before the reds, the rose’ before the reds and after the whites.

    White wines are less structured and have less tannins that reds, which if drank before the whites it would anesthetize our palate causing the white wine to taste like water.

    Young wines must be served before older ones continuing always with older ones.

    Light wines must be served before the ones that have more body and are more structured.

    Wine having higher alcohol is served after wine that has less alcohol.

    Colder wines before warmer ones (an exception is made with sparkling wines like prosecco, and spumanti when drank as aperitif) this is so, because wines with higher temperature release more flavors and aroma.

    Dry wines must be served before sweet wines.

    I would love to read personal experiences when dining out at nice restaurants.

    Ciro.

    heaven

    in 3 - Ethics

    Posted · Edited by Ciro

    For me, moral perfection is not a state, but a continuous process of learning and adjustments to the changes of life. Moral perfection is a means to the life I desire, a means to that which religious people call heaven, the only difference is that I want to live it here, now, on earth.

    Ciro

    Moral perfection

    in 3 - Ethics

    Posted

    Mike, Rearden was not morally perfect, it is Francisco who teachs Rearden that the material production is an intellectual process and a great virtue.

    It is Dagny who teachs him that sex is the expression of an individual's deepest believes and values. Rearden is able to recognize his own superlative values "Only" when trows off the idea that the body and its concerns are low.

    Ciro

    Moral perfection is when at the end of the day your emotions are not in conflict with what you believe.

    And thus, because people think differently and have different emotions, there will never be a universal moral perfection.

    Hi Michael:)

    I think the key to understanding this is to look at the way "moral imperfection" is being used. When folks say that nobody can be morally perfect, they then say, "Everybody has a character flaw or two." They're not talking about perfection being associated with a point in time, as has been suggested in earlier posts. They're asserting rather, that everyone has a moral flaw. That no one is honest except a naive person. That no one makes a million without stealing some time in his or her life.

    To distinguish ourselves from this kind of stereotyping, I think we should all run to the security of Rand's notion that we can all be morally perfect. Can't we all be honest totally, in principle? After all, honesty doesn't refer to not lying to folks, just not lying to folks who you have reason to believe won't attack you unfairly because of it. Can't we all do that much?

    best wishes always,

    Mike Rael

    Moral perfection

    in 3 - Ethics

    Posted

    Moral perfection is when at the end of the day your emotions are not in conflict with what you believe.

    And thus, because people think differently and have different emotions, there will never be a universal moral perfection.

    Hi Michael:)

    I think the key to understanding this is to look at the way "moral imperfection" is being used. When folks say that nobody can be morally perfect, they then say, "Everybody has a character flaw or two." They're not talking about perfection being associated with a point in time, as has been suggested in earlier posts. They're asserting rather, that everyone has a moral flaw. That no one is honest except a naive person. That no one makes a million without stealing some time in his or her life.

    To distinguish ourselves from this kind of stereotyping, I think we should all run to the security of Rand's notion that we can all be morally perfect. Can't we all be honest totally, in principle? After all, honesty doesn't refer to not lying to folks, just not lying to folks who you have reason to believe won't attack you unfairly because of it. Can't we all do that much?

    best wishes always,

    Mike Rael

    Welcome

    in Meet and Greet

    Posted

    Ciao, Gonzalo

    I used to like Leopardi when I was your age.

    The reason I liked him, as much as I can remember, is only because I felt sorry for him, but I never liked his sense of life.

    Leopardi is the father of nihilism.

    No one has ever figure out if he really loved Silvia or not.

    I still have some papers about comments I had written in 1974 about

    "Il Passero Solitario."

    you write:Gabriele D´Annunzio (not so good...),

    I agree, Gonzalo. He was a pig! lol

    Welcome to OL.

    I am sorry that Spain is out of the world cup. :(

    Ciro D'Agostino

    THE PASSION OF AYN RAND: THOUGHTS AND EVALUATIONS

    in Barbara Branden Corner

    Posted

    One thing which is important to understand about Dominique is that despite the error of her pessimistic philosophy, she is independent in the use of her mind. One example is her evaluations regarding architecture, that is one reason why she detested her own father, because she understand that her father's career is phony and not worthy of admiration.

    She is able to understand and realizes at the end, after observing the life of Roark, Wynand, Keating, and Toohey that her believe that the good will inevitably fail and the evil triumph is wrong, and that Roark's benevolent

    assessment of life is true.

    CD.

    Wonderful laugh from Ciro

    in Humor - OL LOLOLOLOL

    Posted

    I think I need to explain about having a bigger one...

    Growing up as child in Italy, among friends, we had a saying that goes like this: If you do not pee in company of a friend, you must be ether a trader, or a spy. Thus, considering Michael a friend, and a person who lived in Brazil for so many years, I think he understood what I meant.

    This is the story of the bigger one: When I was 20, my friends and I, decided one day to go to Sperlonga, a famous beach, south of Rome. This was during the summer time. Therefore, after couple of hours of traveling, we arrived in Sperlonga. Sperlonga is a small village situated on top of a mountain, to access to the beach below, you need to descend about two millions steps.

    We packed our stuff and started to descend down to the beach. When we arrived down, I could not believe my eyes, there were naked beautiful girls everywhere, my friend and I, were shocked, we did not know that Sperlonga beach, was a nudist beach.

    After we regained consciousness, we decided to go by the water and cool our self off a little. We where the only ones out of all the people on the beach wearing a bathing suit:<<It looks strange, I told my friends, to wear our bathing suit on a nudist beach… people think that we are some kind of minoratis or something:>> In couple of minutes, we were all naked, playing, laughing, and making funny comments about our personal equipment. We had noticed that the majority of naked men where not joking at all about their personal equipment, daymnn, I think the sons of bitches where there just to showing off their well-kept shining cannons. One friend among us, who was the best equipped to compete with those men, lead the way so we could all enjoy the panorama of the beautiful girls. It was the only time that I was not jealous of having a friend with a bigger… than mine.

    I hope this explains where my idea of the bigger one came from, and my email to Michael. :D