Vote for me, or you’re a testicle.

Silvio Berlusconi branded anyone who would vote for his “centre-left” opponents “coglioni”.

"I have too much esteem for the intelligence of Italians to think that they could be such 'coglioni' to vote against their own interests," he said.

"Excuse my rough but efficient language."

Apparently, coglioni means ‘testicles’ in Italian. The word is often used figuratively to label someone a fool, cretin, moron or idiot.

Below is a basic list of Australian coglioni.

Andrew Bartlett

Bob Brown

Pegg Putt

(Hobart Mayor) Rob Valentine

(historian) Henry Reynolds

Thom Lyons

Just about everyone here

... But especially Liam Hogan- what a little turd

Antony Loewenstein

Margo Kingston

Make sure you use coglioni in a sentence at least once this week, and repeating this story doesn’t count.

Example:

I’m really sick of the Socialist Alliance coglioni that gather around the campus like a bad smell.