italians and their living rooms

[monsterone]

ron brought it up at the beginning of the show, but what is up with that?

2 of my friends in hs that i used to skate with had otb parents and the upstairs of their house was imaculate. plastic covered the furniture, always clean, and nothing in the fridge.

the basement was where it was at. pool table, stocked fridge, home-made wine cellar, cable tv, etc...

can someone tell me why?

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[TheMojoPin]

Is this really an "Italian thing?"

My mom and dad's family members (Both come from two huge Irish/Scottish families) all pretty much have the "good rooms"...the living room/guest rooms/bathrooms that you simply canNOT go in, at all, never, EVER.

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[JohnnyCash]

A friend of mine had the typical brooklyn house. Nice kitchen, dining room and living room (covered in plastic). They only used the little beat up old kitchen in the basement. The small den and dining room down there too.

I worked for a kitchen design company and a bunch of times I would walk into the house and see a really nice kitchen and wonder why they would want to change it. Then they tell me its the one in the basement. And they never put any money into that one. I think its so wierd.

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[high fly]

...plastic on the lampshades, too.

And white shag carpet.




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[BoondockSaint]

I'm Irish and grew up with a bunch of Italian kids. My family had a living room that we only sat in only special occasions (esp. funerals) but my Italian friends had rooms that were never used. They had plastic on everything.

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[Snoogans]

im irish, i grew up where if there was beer in the fridge and a tv remote, no one cared about the couch

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

upstairs of their house was imaculate. plastic covered the furniture, always clean, and nothing in the fridge.


My friend's parents had all that plus plastic runners on the floor. God help you if you stepped foot off the runners!

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[BoondockSaint]

snoogans,
I agree. But we did have one room where we could stick people and give them the appearance that we lived some sort of normal life.

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[Snoogans]

well we had nice shit in the living room, but im sayin, it was never like becareful on that or stay off that with drinks or whatever

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[high fly]

...and a red and white checkerboard tablecloth.
Plus a candle stuck in a Mateus Rose wine bottle in the middle of the table....

" and they ask me why I drink"

[gypsy]

I'm a Ruskie Kike/Galician mix. That's why my hair is red. I'm not a Fucking Mc, Marcus, ya dumb Guido. Anyway, my grandparents in Buenos Aires have a living room with plastic on the furniture, and my grandmother gets pissed if you even walk trough the area.

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[high fly]

...and accordian players wandering in and out...

" and they ask me why I drink"

[hyperspace]

I'm 1/2 italian and most of my relatives use their living rooms i guess it must be a generational thing and an empty refrigerator??NEVER! alot of italians cook from scratch so they probably have alot of ingrediants in the cabinet.(canned tomatoes a must!)

[A.J.]

My Mom was that way with her living room. When we were kids were forbidden from playing in the living room -- lest her antique furniture get damaged.

The den was the room in which we played and watched TV.

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[Spank Daddy]

can someone tell me why?

Yeah, it's to keep the furniture clean and safe from the blood splatter after a mob hit.




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[furie]

I'm Irish, we had the living room that was never used, but we didn't take it too far like the Italian plastic covers. we spent most of our time in the den.

What's with the Irish and people not being allowed to use the front door?


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[SamoanWoman]

I think that this is more of a noveau middle class thing. When my parents moved us out of Spanish Harlem, the living room became sacrosanct with plastic on everything. I had to broom sweep the oriental carpet every day even though no one ever went in there.

[sr71blackbird]

Im Itailian and my moms house had and still has the off-limits rooms. Our dining room had this persian rug that came within a foot and a half of the walls, so if you wanted to walk through from the kitchen to the den, you had to walk on the exposed floor like you were walking on the ledge of a building and woe to he who stepped on that rug! But Thanksgiving? Sure! Come on in! Oh, dont worry about that spilled wine!

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[Doctor Manhattan]

plastic covering the furniture may be an italian sterotype, but everything goes for any race, people like to have nice stuff.

I don't understand the plastic on the furniture, don't you want to see the nice furniture? just make it off limits so you can enjoy the view.

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[MizzleTizzle]

Well, agreed it's not just a Paisan thing. My dad bought an Oriental Rug and we literally couldn't walk on it. We had to walk around it forever...

What I think might be meant was the room that literally was NEVER Used. I mean rooms that were literally roped off with those old movie theatre-type things. Why? I have absolutely no clue. Perhaps it's only for a visit from the Pope or something...

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[aerobicgirl]

Ok I'm Irish, don't know why people don't come thought the front door, they use the garage or kitchen door, and always go out the door you came in is a must
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[East Side Dave]

My family is Irish and Scottish and didn't have any hang-ups about living rooms but we did have a superstition of not drinking Jim Beam in church.......unless it's a wedding...or a funeral...or Chistmas Mass..Easter Mass...Masses in March through January...but after that- NO drinking in Church....except if you had a Mary flask then, well, shoot, Margaret, then bottom's up!

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[MattyBronx]

I'm Italian/Puerto Rican. So my uncle had the plastic on the furniture and all 12 of us would ride over in one car to see it.


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[furie]

Ok I'm Irish, don't know why people don't come thought the front door, they use the garage or kitchen door, and always go out the door you came in is a must
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yeah the same here. we always used the side door leading to the kitchen


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[TheMojoPin]

My family's Irish, and the only "door thing" they have is family must go in and out of the garage door, and guests have to go in and out of the front door.

Given that the garage is where they park their cars and the guests park in the driveway, it's really not that crazy.

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