Menefregista

Quick Quiz: What does the gesture that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is making in the photo at left mean? If you guessed it means "(expletive) you!" then you've been watching too much Sopranos. What it means (in Rome at least) is more like "I could care less" or "I don't give a damn" depending on how strongly you do it. Of course this doesn't mean that what Scalia allegedly said in Italian along with the gesture in a recent scandal wasn't offensive. Menefregista by the way translates to "I-don't-give-a-damn-ist." Either way, not something you really want to hear from a judge, huh?

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