The Italian version is here, specially tuned for young Italian men. But I bet that the great majority of these tips is good for young foreigners as well.

Now here is the series of advices collected in various ways about linguistics, travels, cooking, computer science, women, alcohol, sex, dope and health.

0   Italy is an exception, compared to the rest of the World, from many points of view (food, social life, jobs, university)

1   So try to capitalize the advice number 0.

2   You can get a good dish even if your pasta is overcooked and the sauce is dropped cold from the jar directly:  you’ve just to add some high quality olive oil on the top [note: yeah, this advice is strictly for Italians, every day pasta eaters].

3   When you’re stimulating a clitoris, you can get good results even you’re caressing it very gently, with a very little pressure.

4   If you’re cleaning up your ass using just toilet paper, don’t give up and keep on scratching. Don’t expect to see the shit spots vanishing gradually from the paper: in fact, in a very high non liner fashion, suddenly the spots will disappear from the paper (it means your ass is clean).

5   After cooking, leave pots and used dishes in the sink, with some water inside. In this way the food will not dry and attach onto the pots, and you’ll be able to wash them easily.

6   When you get a message from compiler you’re not able to understand, just cut and paste it on Google.

7   When you’re learning another language, don’t be shy and try to mimic the accents and the speaking attitude of the locals, unless you really want to sound foreigner.

8   While cooking pasta, thou shall add salt on the water only when the water is boiling (salt improves the waters’ ebullioscopic constant) [note: yeah, another tip for every day Italian pasta eaters].

9   Thou shall get used to the English keyboard [may sound meaningless, but think that Germans, French, Italians and many others have their own national kind of  keyboards].

10   When you have a doubt, ask it in a nerd forum before going insane.

11   In general, remember that electrical plugs are evil.

12   If you’re drunk already and you’re gonna get home, don’t ask for the last vodka: it’s useless (this tip comes from Nicola Zinni).

13   Whoever is you lady, thou shall always say to her she’s beautiful.

14   If you think you’ve got a secret spot in your car to hide your hashish in, beware that the police perfectly knows this spot, too.

15   If you cook just for one people, you don’t need to use a colander (in Italian: scolapasta; in Russian: Дуршлаг; in Chinese: 滤锅; in Japanese: コランダー). [This is the third tip thinked for fucking pasta eaters, as we, the Italians, proudly are].

16   If you use the softener and if you put them in the proper way while drying (straight on the hanger), you don’t need to use the iron on t-shirts.

17   You can enjoy moisturizer and conditioner even if you’re heterosexual.

18   Think about it: you don’t really need more than 3 pairs of shoes.

19   If you’re aware of that, you’ve go the right to be inconsistent with yourself if you want.

20   If you cannot repeat it or verify it, then it’s not science. Period.

21   Green tea is full of antioxidants.

22   When you get sick of democracy and universal suffrage, just remember that all other solutions we tried before were worst.

23   Censorship is good for weak minds and reactionary pigs; if you’ve got problems with an idea, fight it with a better one, not with censorship.

24  When a man with Linux meets a man with Windows, the man with Windows is a dead men.

You’ve got some good tip for Young Men (I don’t care if Italians or not)? Feel free to send me an email, I’ll be glad to publish them in a forthcoming post.

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