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money, new infrastructure that is 20 years out of
date by the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