Feanor

I guess he is:
http://inter.it/aas/squadra/player1?codgioc=G0816&L=en&stagione=2007/08

Girls...

Then you don't want me to call you silly

Besides the fact that in the whole post you noticed only the guy with tattoos?
On a side note, what's wrong with being from Chile? In the Inter team most players aren't italian. I guess there are only 2 oe 3.

Yes, the problem is, despite having common roots in the roman age, Italy was unified very lately as Nation compared to other european countries and the real unification happened only with the first world war, when soldiers from all over the country met together for the first time. Before the unification Italy was divided in different "areas" that had been indipendent at times or occupied by some foreigner. Different languages were spoken and there were different "cultures". Mostly you can divide Italy in 3 main "areas", the north with celtic - latin - german roots, the center mostly latin and with the strongest influence of the Church, the south with greek - roman - arab roots. Besides the many migrations of people that arrived in Italy in different ages, it is obvious the north of italy had stronger trade routes and cultural exchanges with France and Austria/Germany, while the south had stronger connection with the mediterranean.
In the north and center of Italy there was also an age of rich indipendent cities/states, 4 of which were sea powers in the mediterranean, the strongest were Genoa in the west coast and Venice in the east coast. Milano was more an agricultural and trading center, having Genoa as sea hub and ally (see the common flag) and mostly at war with Venice.
Upon the unification of Italy it was decided to pick up the tuscanian dialect as national language and to insist on the roman age as common root, while big efforts were made to make people forget the local languages and traditions, starting from schools and other public services. That, together with the migrations of people from the south to the north, explains why today you have got difficulties in seeing the ancient local flags and to find somebody who can speak the local language. It is more or less the same of Britain versus England, Scotland, Whales and Ireland.

About Turkey, I can't tell my real thoughts because of the european and italian law.

Italy around 1000:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:Italia_1000_v2.svg

Italy around 1500:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:Italia_1494.svg

Italy around 1800:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:Italy_c_1810.png

Italy is divided in "regioni" and yes, each has got is own "symbol" but often those things were made with the idea to overwrite the real local autonomies instead of keep them. When Italy wasn't under foreign control the indipendent states/republics usually were made like the ancient greek "polis", meaning the main city-state and its surroundings. So italians usually are much more connected to their own city than to the "region".

The main difficulty in south Italy is that area did not have a strong and long experience with indipendent states but was almost always under foreign occupation. As result people there did not develop the sense of belonging to a wider community like any "state" and instead is focused on the idea of "clan-family". While traditionally in the north-center people were used to working together for the success of their own "state", in the south the government was (and in some extent still is) an occupying enemy to oppose or work around.

About understanding, I guess you are more used to northern-italians.

Meanwhile I've added the ads from that site to my block content filter

I don't use the alphas/betas (both Opera and Firefox) besides some test run from time to time.
Actually the current filter I use hasn't changed much lately, the previous update was 1 month ago. It uses mostly generic kyes so it can stops most ads regardless the site. But of course the keys are mostly english and italian so I had to add some lines to get the norwegian adservers. My concern is false positives and I would have liked more feedback.

I would appreciate if you could test the filter

I guess the block content do blocks objects before they are loaded. I've just checked the cache and it doens't contain any blocked thing.

Maybe you are confusing the other CSS/JS block tricks (mostly used with older Opera versions) that hide html elements.

Could you please empty your cache and test the filter you can find on top of my blog page?