A common term used to refer to
Italy when things go stereotypically wrong, such as at the post office, corrupt politicians,
bad tv,
wasted public money, new infrastructure that is 20 years out of date by the time it is ready. Most used as a hashtag.
Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but
one woman dressed up as President
Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire
media mogul has accused of persecuting him. #Shitaly