Silvio “Papi” Berlusconi: Oh, Come ON.

I would LOVE to see him humiliated and driven from office.

The man makes Bill Clinton look like a choir boy. Bill had to hide his indiscretions. Silvio’s more Hefner.

Why doesn’t he just stand up and admit he goes through 12-20 teenage girls a day, one after another, in hour-long sequential shifts because that’s all the non-stop orgasming they can endure before they lose their minds? It’d give him a lift in the polls and he could stop hiding behind a transparent curtain of similarly ridiculous lies.

@FlyingChainSaw: He can’t because he has just come out with a slick multimedia presentation about how he’s a family man. He tried the Red State move of being above it all, when he wasn’t. And we all know how that turns out for the people who try it.

@ManchuCandidate: At least with Bill, you could understand – the shutdown, she was coming onto him, etc. Silvio contacts modeling agencies and asks for photos to be sent over for his perusal.

I lurves our Europe Bureau.

There was a story in the New Yorker some time back about a lefty comedian/politician — no, a real one — who was gaining some traction in Italy. I forget all details, of course, but if that’s sufficiently recognizable, how’s he doin’?

Many thanks, RomeGirl. You brought some much needed levity to my day and some extra estrogen to the site.

@Mistress Cynica: That calls for another automotive post …

@blogenfreude: …and a fashion related TJ of same.

Excuse me.

Chippie?

Explanation of term required. Plz kthxbai.

@chicago bureau:
English term for “other woman”, I think.

@ManchuCandidate: I’ve always thought of it as akin to “harlot” or “hussy,” kind of an old-fashioned word for a slut and/or whore. The British angle is interesting — can’t you just imagine QEII calling Di “that chippie”?

@mellbell:
According to the urban dictionary, it’s both.

A younger female (sometimes dumb) dating older man (aka sugar daddy) and/or hussy.

WTF? In Italy, a man can get in trouble for having an affair? Please, say it ain’t so!

@Prommie: What next, France? Didn’t Pompidou’s wife and mistress walk together behind the hearse?

@chicago bureau: @ManchuCandidate: @mellbell: I dunno – it’s what my dad has always called “the other woman,” especially if said woman was 18 FUCKING YEARS OLD.

@Prommie: I’m tellin ya, it’s because he played the conservative Christian family man card. If he had shut up and tried to be classy, no one would give a shit. Everyone knows politicians are dity here – nothing happened after Mani Pulite scandals. But he had to scream from the mountain tops that he was different, and he flouted his private life as a selling point to his “product.” And then he goes around with the chippie, and he’s SHOCKED, SHOCKED to find everyone is aghast.

@Dodgerblue: Oh please, it’ll never happen in France. A man’s right to his mistress is in the constitution.

@nojo: I’ll have to ask my ghey mafia. They know all the cool shit.

@Mistress Cynica: Post is up … I double dare you.

@RomeGirl: He’s the Italian David Vitter …

By the way, I cannot believe no one bit on the “only did it for Britain” quote or the NSFW pic. I obviously overestimated the depths to which we plunge.

@blogenfreude: Actually, with his most recent foray into talk show land, he’s becoming like Blagojevich more and more every day.

@RomeGirl: Bit? And at least Blago has his own hair.

Yeah, but she had the body of a 7-year old!

@RomeGirl: . . . especially if said woman was 18 FUCKING YEARS OLD.

@nojo: It is indeed incredibly cool to have RG beating the fucking bejesus out of this fascist fuckwit on his home turf.

@FlyingChainSaw: …I’m sure to be deported in the morning. Get the couch ready. And if you knew any seven year olds with an ass like that, I’d be scared.

@RomeGirl: No chance. Silvio is terrified of making you a popular hero, knowing one false move from him, an uprising would follow with your loyal readers placing you in the PM’s seat in a lightning coup.

@FlyingChainSaw: Werd! My tens of readers would stage a protest (hopefully involving mozzarella, tomato and basil sandwiches, and plenty of wine) and the administration would crumble as… well, as we… can you pass the wine?

P.S. I’d be an awesome PM.

@RomeGirl: I love those sandwiches.

@RomeGirl: Agreed. Once Silvio sees the sandwiches come out. Ball game. When you are PM, can I be Chancellor of the Exchequer? I have a nifty economic model based on sex on the beach and community concert bands.

Olde Europe. How quaint. They still do sex scandals the old-fashioned way: in the flesh with tasty young tarts instead of cyber-yiffing with underage young men.

@FlyingChainSaw: Exchequer, definitely. All my administration’s position names will have the letter q in them.

@homo limeyensis: Right? He’s an old school philanderer, our Silvie.

@RomeGirl: Put me down for anything with either “quaff”or “quim” in the job description.

@RomeGirl: Oh, I am hated for it, but I respect the european view, not acceptance, really, but understanding, of the fact that, people can phsysically stray, without straying in terms of ultimate commitment, love, and even respect, for their spouse, and its not a sexist attitude of men have their urges, because I understand it extends to women as well.

And yes, flaunting of it, publicly insulting the spouse through indiscretion, is not tolerated, and hypocracy is not tolerated, even in France and Italy, which is as it should be.

And I also know that the european ways are not translatable to our society, because in our society, the understanding of marriage at the outset does not include this, whereas, in europe, it does.

It just hit me, he’s the Donald Trump of Europe, isn’t he?

@Nabisco: Words with such different meanings, but, one can quaff a quim, metaphorically, can’t one?

@Promnight: quite right.

Oh, I play quoits, as well.

@Nabisco: You know you are doing it right when there is a lot of quivering. Quaking can happen, too, also. When questing, quivering quaking quims are involved, all is right with the world.

Prom = our own fuckin’ Dr. Seuss.

@Promnight: Don’t forget to chew QAT, the shot across the Scrabble bow from Dodger.

@SanFranLefty: I bow to SFL, who kicked my butt in Scrabble by running the table using all seven tiles.

@Dodgerblue: Maybe Stinque backgammon is next? Could be …

@Dodgerblue: Use ’em or lose ’em, sugarplum.

Really, my ruthless bitch side comes out in board games. My parents stopped playing backgammon and chess with me when I was 8 because it got really ugly.