Years ago, Italian men used to disappear to the town squares in the evenings to discuss life, which generally revolved around women.
They chatted away, but as soon as a women walked passed there would be total silence as the men gauped, chins dropped. When the girl disappeared out of view, the conversation would continue as if they had never stopped.
In the Osteria ‘Il Botteghino’ the women do all the hard graft, while the men sit down, chat & watch tv, no guilt.
Italian men love Saturday evening television, especially with an attractive female presenter. There is no real content to the show but ‘throw in’ an attractive women and they are mesmerized. The football is the same, with the presenter always being a young women with big boobs – no chance of Gary Lineker hosting a program in Italy.
In my photo, the men laughed and chatted, but as soon as they noticed the female swimmer, the conversation stopped and the men just stared at the screen.