OT: Italian man crushed to death by wheels of cheese
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My initial reaction was that this isn't a bad way to meet your maker. But then I realized that being crushed to death probably isn't so nice.
Too bad it wasn't Swiss.. May have had a chance to crawl thru the holes.
if it was Brie, the article might have said he was trapped under debrie
I visited one of those places out in Emilia-Romagna and the cheese master allowed me to lift one of them for a picture and was shocked I was able to actually do it. They are pretty damned heavy (and quite slippery)! Can't imagine being avalanched under them like that. Crazy way to go.
I can confirm that I am completely ok. I appreciate everyone who reached out and sent their thoughts and prayers.
Articles say around 40kg each which is around 90 lbs - a pack of roofing shingles.
I can see why it took 12 hours to get to him under 1000s ofwheels
I recently heard a European journalist say that the French are just Italians in a bad mood lol
A man was crushed down the road from my shop in Hillsborough, He was at a work site at a private home and went to the port a john. An overloaded truck with dirt rode by and overturned on the port a john while the guy was in it.
It was grana padano. They don't serve it at Olive Garden.
Always pleasing to see whom people are allowed to be openly racist towards in 2023. A man died, didn't break a limb or otherwise have an incident where he would recover. Think about that.
I think we live in an overly politically correct society, but I would hope that pointing out a person's ethnicity in a tragic death wouldn't lead to the kind of juvenile and retrograde humor exhibited here.
Fairly certain that no one would have balls to crack jokes if a black man died tragically in an incident involving the handling of oversized food.
Has it been established what race the guy who died was? We know his nationality, but I didn’t see any mention of race.
In which case, I’m not sure what you’re trying to say applies here. For all we know the guy that was crushed was black. In any event, the jokes leveraged the likely accent of the person in question, but didn’t otherwise touch on any racial or ethic stereotypes, from what I saw.
Maybe it‘s in poor taste to joke about someone dying. But that’s not racist.
The decedent's name was Giacomo Chiapparini, who died in Italy, due to being crushed by oversized cheese wheels falling on him. I think it's safe to say he was an ethnic Italian.
Next, maybe you aren't familiar with the fact the largest public lynching in US history happened in New Orleans when a mob was incited to violence due to the belief that an Italian national had killed the police chief in that city. Ethnic Italians were rounded up and imprisoned and, when a number of those accused were acquitted, a mob broke into the jail and murdered around a dozen Italians based on racist group think and mob outrage. Relatedly, that led to an international row with Italy and President Harrison's way of making amends was to give Italians "Columbus Day" as a way to acknowledge the contribution of Italian-Americans to American society. That worked out well in in the long run.
For years, children in New Orleans mocked other children of Italian heritage with lines, like "Who killa da chief". Much like that reply from NumbnutsinSection117.
They don't teach incidents like that in the school today because now Italians are "privileged". Therefore, even people who should know better demonstrate how easily they flow back into mocking people who are different based on stereotypes. Even when someone dies.
But where do you stand on cheese based humor, like cheesy puns and that sort of thing?
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I think you are confusing cheese puns with racism. The jokes utilize different types of cheese.
Exactly. Everyone feels badly about this feta-lity!
Poor “gotcha” attempt, Mildone.
The world has not abandoned the traditional definitions of “race.”
Here is one of them:
“A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution.”
On top of it there wasn’t a single cracker joke. But do wonder if he planned to be…..
Cream aided ?
Cheese and crackers.
Wish I'd thought of it. We probably shouldn't talk about it though, because white people were persecuted in the past. All of humanity should probably stop talking or writing entirely. Because no matter what we say or write, somebody somewhere can infer a connection with a historic event where people of some sort were persecuted.
I'm gonna binge watch all of Bill Burr's Netflix specials tonight. That's clearly what's called for here.