On Saturday I finished lab. These were months quite enough tiring, but in the end it was worth it. There are results and they are good as well! Therefore going out was a must. Finally with the mind free and especially without alarm clocks for the morning. So I decided to go to the “Margherita gardens” to meet some friends that were there to celebrate a girl who was leaving. A bit of chit- chat, some beers, the garden, a guitar, the “delirious” improvisations of Nino… so a chilling and relaxing atmosphere.
At the beginning.
After a while, though, a group of guys from Marocco came threatening close to us.
OLIVETTI M40: It’s always them! Bastards!
Eh, no, though! As W.Blake claimed “Generalizing is for idiots!”.
OLIVETTI M40: They are all delinquents!
I’m sorry, but my typewriter has been for more than seventy years downstairs in the storage room and did not have any contacts with the world around, therefore she doesn’ t know what she is saying!In every population there are good and bad people (and after what is “bad” if not a consequence of a social failure). For example the italians in America were not all in the “mafia”. As the majority of the people from Marocco in Italy is reliable and working people.
So anyway, going back to the subject about that night, these guys came straight to look for a fight, without any kind of reason.
Pushing, punching, kicking, people on the floor and glasses that were flying. After we realized that this was all a plan to steal something taking advantage of the chaos caused (theory comfirmed by the fact that they tried to take a mobile from the hands of a girl).
Infact, if things were going to go wrong (since we were more than them), there were all of their friends spread around the gardens ready to attend. And as a matter of fact after 10 minutes four or five of them arrived, and one was under the effect of who knows what kind of drug started threatening us with a a bottle in his hands. So we went away and after the police arrived ( that in the while someone had called).

Results of the night: Pio (in the picture) would not get laid for a while (since in that mess he lost his “cool glasses that made him look so “intellectual” and as he says they were his “attraction point”); some other guys in another group who were a bit further away from us were threatened with a bottle, attacked and robbed completely; some other people, before it happened to us, caught them while they were trying to steal their bags crawling on the floor so they wouldn’t be seen.
Now, this is only one of the cases that lately are happening in Bologna. And for sure it’s not the most serious (thinking about the several rapes).
My disappontment is that the people from Bologna “has it” with the students! Complaining about the noise, the pee and the beers! And all the police are either in “Piazza Verdi” or “Piazza Santo Stefano” to gurantee silence!
A beer can be drank or broken on heads!There is someone that calls urban blight both of the things! Let’s begin to make a difference!!!
A small article came out on Leggo of today (at the bottom of the page to the left). See you. Gabriele

Here you will find the slideshows of groups of Flickr which share pictures Par Tòt Parata. The groups are opened for everyone ( there is no need of invitation, you just have to go to the page of the group and press the key “JOIN THIS GROUP”) and they are divided by years.
Clicking on connections over the slideshows, it will be possible to access to the page of the groups, see the authors of the pictures and if you want leave comments (that are always needed!). Bye all of you.

SEE THE SLIDESHOWS

AbetterBologna (Bolognaamigliore), o Bolognalamegghiu to say it in “leccese”, o Bolognanafigata… o…
OLIVETTI M40: But how? Did you change your mind?
Eh, no… I have to make a balance!!! Today, if you press the word Bolognademerda on search engines such as Google o Virgilio, as a first result of the research it will come out Gabriele D’Uva, even before the blog of the author, the piece I posted! With the trade-off of today, I will come out as first if you press Bolognaamigliore or Bolognalamegghiu!
OLIVETTI M40: Ah! All words that people writes everyday on search engines?!?
No, infact normal people don’t. Weird keywords= weird readers! Better!!! I’m sick and tired of normality! Limits and normality are words I always hated. In this way it’s not the search engine that selects my blog, but my blog selects people (the weird ones) who writes strange keywords!!!
OLIVETTI M40: Bah..
Anyway, going back to the original subjectof the post, therefore Bologna, I have to say that I like it and I always did.
OLIVETTI M40: It didn’t seem you were of this opinion last week!
The truth is that Bologna is dozing off and this is a shame. But it still remains a living city, young, a city to talk about, to argue about, where you can share opinions and initatives, the Par Tòt is an example…
Before leaving I inform you that on Flickr I created an open group with the purpose of sharing the pictures taken at the Par Tòt this year. There also two more for the ones of 2005 and 2006. I Invite everyone to join in and to see it.

By the way, these are my pictures. See you soon.