But wait, stupidity is world-wide thing these days.
http://www.thelocal.it/20161214/is-rome ... 2735x84899 $1:
What's green, sparkly, ugly and sad? Rome's 'Austerity Tree', the Christmas tree in the centre of the capital which residents are saying is the "ugliest in the world".
A picture of the threadbare tree, which stands in the central Piazza Venezia, was posted to Facebook by city authorities and has received over a thousand comments - but mostly for the wrong reasons.
"It would have been better not to have anything at all, it's so ugly!" the top-rated comment, by Gianandrea Traversi, says. "And they wonder why tourists choose other cities."
"It's just like the rest of the city - full of holes and covered in rubbish," another resident grumbled.
The tree had its lights switched on by mayor Virginia Raggi on Thusrday, the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception which for many Italians marks the start of the festive season.
She called on children to count down from ten to zero, saying that at the end of the countdown, "the tree and Via del Corso will be magically illumated" - however, when the moment came, the flickering lights were met with silence.
The bare-looking fir is bereft of any other decorations and doesn't even have a star or angel at the top.
CKA Uber 
