Page 1 of 1
Ten Commandments of the Mafia
Posted: 2007-11-09 06:26am
by Androsphinx
Wasn't sure if this should go here or in N&P.
But you've seen the
Ten commandments of Driving. Now, the Ten Commandments of the mafia are revealed to all. For example,
here
1. No one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
2. Never look at the wives of friends.
3. Never be seen with cops.
4. Don't go to pubs and clubs.
5. Always being available for Cosa Nostra is a duty - even if your wife is about to give birth.
6. Appointments must absolutely be respected.
7. Wives must be treated with respect.
8. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.
Posted: 2007-11-09 10:05am
by PeZook
10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.
This just made my day. It's the fucking mafia! They kill people and blow up roads and extort money and run drugs. How moral can you get if you want to be a member?
Posted: 2007-11-09 10:46am
by fgalkin
PeZook wrote:10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.
This just made my day. It's the fucking mafia! They kill people and blow up roads and extort money and run drugs. How moral can you get if you want to be a member?
Don't forget, it's the
Italian Mafia, so they're all good little Catholics. Which means that killing people is perfectly OK, but porn, sex out of weldock, or using condoms isn't.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
Posted: 2007-11-09 11:21am
by Kanastrous
Morality is subjective.
Posted: 2007-11-09 11:33am
by Darth Wong
Kanastrous wrote:Morality is subjective.
Not necessarily. If you recognize where morality came from (tribal society) and why (rules necessary for collective survival and properity), you can assemble an objective, logic-based morality scheme. The only trick is first defining what such a scheme is supposed to accomplish: a question which is answered by realizing where morality came from.
Posted: 2007-11-09 12:08pm
by Kanastrous
^ Ideally, perhaps.
I probably should have qualified it: Morality is subjective, in practice.
Posted: 2007-11-09 12:14pm
by Ghost Rider
Off to OT.
Posted: 2007-11-09 12:23pm
by lord Martiya
fgalkin wrote:PeZook wrote:10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.
This just made my day. It's the fucking mafia! They kill people and blow up roads and extort money and run drugs. How moral can you get if you want to be a member?
Don't forget, it's the
Italian Mafia, so they're all good little Catholics. Which means that killing people is perfectly OK, but porn, sex out of weldock, or using condoms isn't.
Have a very nice day.
I cannot have a nice day, if my connationals apart Berlusconi make all the world laugh of us. And the worst is that you are right: lupara is good, porn is to shoot with the lupara.
Posted: 2007-11-09 12:26pm
by Dalton
lord Martiya wrote:I cannot have a nice day, if my connationals apart Berlusconi make all the world laugh of us. And the worst is that you are right: lupara is good, porn is to shoot with the lupara.
Is this a secret code or something?
Posted: 2007-11-09 12:48pm
by Kanastrous
lupara = sawed-off double-barrel shotgun.
Posted: 2007-11-09 10:09pm
by SpacedTeddyBear
Isn't #5 and #7 kinda contradictory?
Posted: 2007-11-09 10:23pm
by Enigma
SpacedTeddyBear wrote:Isn't #5 and #7 kinda contradictory?
Somewhat, a made man can respect his wife but the Cosa Nostra trumps that. But then again that list is pure grade A bullshit.
Posted: 2007-11-10 03:36am
by lord Martiya
It's like G Canon and C Canon for SW
Dalton wrote:lord Martiya wrote:I cannot have a nice day, if my connationals apart Berlusconi make all the world laugh of us. And the worst is that you are right: lupara is good, porn is to shoot with the lupara.
Is this a secret code or something?
Lupara is a common weapon here in Italy, at the point that in some old Disney stories Scrooge possessed and fired a lupara, so I forgot that in other countries someone could don't know them and their old association with the Mafia. For further infos, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupara .
Posted: 2007-11-10 10:29am
by Thanas
Even funnier is the fact that all those commandments have been broken by Mafia bosses in the past...so I guess those are more designed to actually protect the bosses from the footsoldiers.
Posted: 2007-11-10 11:13am
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Kanastrous wrote:lupara = sawed-off double-barrel shotgun.
A bit OT, but it's what King shoots Ronald with.
Posted: 2007-11-10 12:21pm
by Androsphinx
Thanas wrote:Even funnier is the fact that all those commandments have been broken by Mafia bosses in the past...so I guess those are more designed to actually protect the bosses from the footsoldiers.
It's a series of rules imposed by a powerful elite on their subordinates. Of course that's what it does!
Posted: 2007-11-10 12:26pm
by Havok
Thanas wrote:Even funnier is the fact that all those commandments have been broken by Mafia bosses in the past...so I guess those are more designed to actually protect the bosses from the footsoldiers.
Based on the story, I figure that these were going to be the rules
if this guy had become the BIG boss.[/b]
Posted: 2007-11-10 04:01pm
by Phantasee
Einhander Sn0m4n
Is that from The Sopranos or something?
Yeah, it's like most organizations. In fact, it should sound very familiar: Live a good life, do as we say, and you'll get a hojillion virgins when you blow yourself up. You think most of the top Islamic dudes believe this stuff? And I mean the crazy fundamentalist stuff, not the mainstream Islam.
Posted: 2007-11-11 01:26am
by TithonusSyndrome
fgalkin wrote:PeZook wrote:10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.
This just made my day. It's the fucking mafia! They kill people and blow up roads and extort money and run drugs. How moral can you get if you want to be a member?
Don't forget, it's the
Italian Mafia, so they're all good little Catholics. Which means that killing people is perfectly OK, but porn, sex out of weldock, or using condoms isn't.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
You have no idea just how right you are. Unless, that is, you have a senile grandmother charged with taking care of her stroke-stricken husband who moans and wails over those short skirts the girls these days wear and all them gays and Pakis taking over this country, but Pope Ratty and her scatterbrain father are paragons of virtue.
Posted: 2007-11-11 04:28am
by lord Martiya
You don't know what are you saying: the godfathers are the paragons of virtue if confronted with Herr Ratzinger. I live too near to them, I know this.
Posted: 2007-11-11 12:19pm
by Kanastrous
Aren't the godfathers and Herr Ratzinger simply in different departments of the same organization...?
Posted: 2007-11-11 02:15pm
by lord Martiya
I don't know, but I think no. But the real difference is that the godfathers pay the electricity they use, punish their subordinates that rape women and children and don't tell us what's morality, the Pope doesn't pay the electricity that he imports from Italy because "a country cannot enforce taxes in another country" (the Vatican is separated from Italy), even if Italy pays the electricity that it import from France, protects his subordinates that rape women and children and then tells to all world the nature of morality.
Posted: 2007-11-11 03:26pm
by Phantasee
lord Martiya
Would you say you prefer the Mafia to the Church as an influence in Italian society?
Posted: 2007-11-11 05:20pm
by lord Martiya
No, I'm saying that Mafia is more coherent than Ratzinger.