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I imagine some scene from a movie, when under heavy rain, a man with tears in his eyes shouts that sentence at someone. It really is hilarious.
It reminds me of the mafia...i can see a scene where he has so many fridges(to keep the bodies of all the guys he wacked) and the police ask him why he has so many fridges and thats his respond
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Anything sounds devious with "capisci"...
"LE MIE SCARPE SONO ROSA, CAPISCI?!"
"VOGLIO TORTA AL FRAGOLA, CAPISCI?!"
"È UNA BAMBINA, CAPISCI?!"
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A sentence every person says at least once in their life. Thank you duolingo!
Honestly, who can think of a situation where you wouldn't need to say this? :P
"I sell refrigerators, got it! Not washing machines, not pianos, and I don't sell none a them fancy Picasso paintings. Re-fridge-er-a-tors! And if you don't like it, you can hit your bull for all I care."
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Ummm... does anyone notice that one of the translations under vendo is: (I) Sell one's body? Hmmmm..... And by the way, this is one of the most fun threads I've read so far.
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You'll have to go to the bookstore over the road for the complete works of William Shakespeare.
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it's-a serious business, capisci?
It's a sunny day at the refrigerator store in Palermo. It's a sweltering day, probably peaking at 95 degrees and it's not even 12 o clock yet. Your first customer comes in, seeing that you sell refrigerators, asks to buy ice, because clearly where there are refrigerators there is ice, isn't there?
Except he doesn't know they're all unplugged, sitting quietly as they await a loving family to take them home, and fill them up to the brim with fresh produce and fish. But now the situation starts to become very awkward. You inform the man in your broken Italian "Non vendo il ghiaccio," but he doesn't seem to understand that you don't have ice. Again, he pleads for ice, since most other shop owners have closed up to enjoy the sunny day. Again you clarify that you do not sell ice and try to indicate that there aren't even any electric outlets to plug in the refrigerators, and again he ignores your broken Italian, so that he may potentially cool down with the ice that you are probably hoarding to yourself. Pestering you constantly, you can feel yourself lose patience. Finally, out of pure frustration, you yell "VENDO FRIGORIFERI, CAPISCI? ADESSO, FUORI SUBITO!" "Scusca mi, signora!" He squeaks as he scuttles out the door, only to be never seen in your refrigerator shop again.
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Throttles him. He's dead on the floor. "Capisco? I understand the Refrigerator Vendors' guild just lost another member."
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I will be muttering this under my breath once I learn the word for "fireplaces." Best one yet. I think it all the time, people come in for light bulbs sometimes...
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Well, now you know! :) Console yourself with the fact that artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
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"you know" should be accepted, because "you know" iis like "isn't it" a grammatical indicator of a tag question, or almost an interjection. e.g. "He is an idiot, you know" or "He is an idot, isn't he".
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Not all that strange. You see, the question that elicited that answer was 'Sei con la mafia?'
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Why do i feel like this is a threat. Like - hey! You. I see youre new in the neighborhood, i see you buying a lot of wholsale appliances, wanna open a shop.?!?!??? "Vendo frigoriferi, capisci?" He says squishing his cigar on my front doorstep...
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Lmao. Damn. Someone is firm about what they're selling! Yessir / yes ma'am.
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Feels like a movie scene: I sell refrigerators, only refrigerators, no damn iPhones or iPads, understand you idiot?!!!
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-I want to buy socks. -But this is a refrigerator store. -So... you sell socks? -NO!...
