Malvinas spot could ruin Argentine Olympic team spirit, warns athletes’ delegate
The controversial Malvinas/Olympics advert promoted by the Argentine government ahead of the London Games not only has had negative reactions worldwide but has also triggered deep concern among members of the Argentine Olympic team.
“For us athletes that spot is really painful. The fact that the video is considered controversial hits us hard; it’s like telling us you’re heading for failure. Nobody questions the Malvinas issue but this is not the scenario or the moment to pick a fight ahead of the Olympic Games”, said Juan Curuchet a Beijing 2008 gold medal in track cycling and athletes delegate before the Argentine Olympic Committee.
“The spot couldn’t have been worst ill-timed: Zylberberg has been really affected by all that has happened and is being said about him. And I don’t even want to imagine what could happen and how our athletes could feel if they are booed during the opening ceremony. How can they compete after that?” added Curuchet (43) who has the Argentine record of having competed in six Olympic Games.
In the controversial ad field hockey captain Fernando Zylberberg is filmed training for the London Games by running past landmarks of the capital of Stanley with a strap line saying “To compete on British soil, we train on Argentine soil”.
Curuchet also questions the very strap line: “The spot says we are training in the Islands but in reality many of the athletes can’t even train here because all the equipment and materials remain retained by Customs since 9 October”.
The retained equipment valued in almost 8 million dollars has been claimed on several occasions before but on this time given the media impact of the spot and its consequences apparently some time next week it will be liberated.
“There are bicycles, oars, GPS, special tracks, mostly state of the art equipment, to better train and compete in equal conditions with athletes from other countries. Most of our boys are training with the old stuff, if they have it”, revealed Curuchet, who added an incredible ingredient to the anecdote.
“When I talked with Sports Secretary (Claudio Morresi) he told me that to receive goods purchased from overseas, the athletes would have to export to help compensate Argentina’s trade balance. It’s a joke I said: what are we going to export: athletes, quality, names, brands, images, I don’t know, I asked him please enlighten me”, confessed Curuchet.
The athletes delegate added the situation was also particularly bemusing and even humorous since the Argentine government in 2009 signed a law creating the Sports High Performance Office, with sufficient funds from a levy on mobile phone calls precisely to promote sports and Argentine participation in international events.
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Seriously, we would pay good money for this kind of publicity and the chance to show the world why we really really dont want anything to do with Argentina. And they've picked up the bill themselves. Thanks, guys.
If the athletes play it straight then there will be nothing to worry about but I can't help thinking that if the IOC boot them out for political dirty deeds then the finger of blame will point at the UK and perhaps other countries might back out in sympathy (Venezuela).
If Juan Curuchet is truly concerned about his athletes feelings if they are booed during the opening ceremony he should tell Madam President to ditch the “Malvinas Tracksuit” idea.
Maybe you should have thought about this when you offended the people of the UK, and the people of the Falkland islands with your memorial desecration and demands for land-theft.
I don't think you'll get booed though. No one here gives a furk about your country and their nazi-nonsense.
No thats for the feeble minded,argies for instance
That said, I have heard opposition fans chanting at Manchester City games to Tevez and Aguero, “The Falklands are ours, The Falklands are our, Fuck off you Argies, The Falklands are ours”.
'In the hole that you live,
there's nothing to give,
all that you be,
with nothing to see.
Peron ruined your country,
and pain you feel dear,
As never will you own them,
that Falklands lay near.
Rise up, rise up
And smite Argtardian foes,
from their silly cream buns and down to their toes,
rise up, rise up,
send them running with fear,
and free they be always,
the Falklands lay near.”
That's what I'm going to sing, I just wrote it for that moment... now I just need some bagpipes.
1) Confidently state he has no regrets over the video
2) Claim that it is not direspectful to climb over a war memorial
3) Deny that the UK has been provoked by the video
4) Look around to see if there are any foreign owned businesses that could be seized to plug the hole in Argentinas finances
5) Buy a mask and wooden baton and take to the streets to attack businesses that are beleived to have British connections.
He calls himself a patriot yet he has done none of these things.
Ah-diddums, poor Zylberberg with all his being offended by what people are saying about him. He's so affected by it, he's so affected and offended by what people are saying about him, it's so horrible, those horrible people. CAN THESE NOT-PEOPLE VICTIMISE THEMSELVES ANY MORE??? HE WAS F***ING PRANCING ON A WAR MEMORIAL AND HE FEELS OFFENDED BY WHAT PEOPLE SAID??!! WAT DE FOOK!!!
As a side note, their hockey ladies are sh!tter than sh!t and got their arses handed to them on a plate by Blighty's golden ladies.(www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/two-injured-as-gb-women-beat-argentina-in-bruising-hockey-final-7718619.html)
although the arg goverment is being dicks about refusing the olympic team a chance to train with decent kit.
mind you we have are own stupdity with target pistols.
”Ciru @ciruzabalia
Que bien salio @fzylberberg en el spot youtu.be/lSlyQp9NAoM #Malvinas
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3 May Fernando Zylberberg @fzylberberg
@ciruzabalia GRACIAS!!!!! ABRAZO.
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Hola @fzylberberg, traete una medalla de Londres, porque lagrimee un toque con #ElSpot, y si ganas no quedo tan marica. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSlyQp9NAoM
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3 May Fernando Zylberberg @fzylberberg
@SantiagoRoza jajajajaja GRACIAS!!!!! Haremos lo posible... ABRAZO.
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Meanwhile in Argtardia, police are shooting up children's parties and smashing jewish people's gravestones.
Hello @fzylberberg, bring yourself a medal from London, because I cried a touch with #ElSpot, and if you win I won't seem such a poofter.
How touching.... ;-}
If Argentina's President has the Olympic Spirit, it's one with a black hooded cowl and a scythe.
ah poems, always good to help.
CFK has xxucked her team, when are you argies ever going to learn, give gives nothing of your opinion, and cares even less, she has in fact, possably put her own team in danger,
not of any rough stuff, but one of humiliation,
if they get booed or intimidated, and feel upset, and cant do what they were trained for, how does that make them feel,
they have train for years for this one in a lifetime, only to have it all ffucked up by a deluded loony .
Sure has made a mockery of the Olympic spirit though, and if it wasn't prevented by the british resolve to completely and utterly ignore the monkey-business of the Argtards, they deserve to be booed into tears.
May 07th, 2012 - 09:46 am
Nah. They'd still be on here shouting abuse at all things British or remotely connected, lapping up the benefits and singing 'Malvinas son Argentinas'.
And I neer met any brits as LIAR,Aggressive,vulgar than the brits here,including you elaine!
What are you going to 'peacefully' lie to us today? Argtard.
Instead, this is what should happen:
Afghanistan - Crowd cheers and claps
Albania - Crowd cheers and claps
Algeria - Crowd cheers and claps
American Samoa - Crowd cheers and claps
Andorra - Crowd cheers and claps
Angola - Crowd cheers and claps
Anguilla - Crowd cheers and claps
Antigua and Barbuda - Crowd cheers and claps
Argentina - Silence
Armenia - Crowd cheers and claps
And so on and so forth. No need to boo at all, and it'll make them feel doubly sh!t. Passive demonstration can be so much eye-catching tham aggressive demonstration.
While we are on the subject, does anyone know :-
a/ If the Argentinian's even have any war memorials
or
b/ If they have any war hero's at all?
I mean the English have got The Duke of Wellington, Monty, H Jones to name but three. Mind you, I suppose you can't really give out medals for running away, unless it's the 100 meters......
Guess what? It didn't work :)
Greetings from Uruguay (we have quite a few of your “war heroes” as well :))
May 07th, 2012 - 11:43 am
Yes. They are memorials respecting people who died in wars that people like you engineered in a similar manner to which you are trying to engineer the next and that we are trying to avoid.
This is because we respect lives and we respect those who have died you do not. You just chuck 30,000 of them out the back of a transport plane without a parachute, laughing all the while. Your own people..
You don't understand the word respect be it in English or Spanish or any other tongue.
You are lying, cheating, murdering, warmongering disrespectful sod of dirt. The best of it is that you already know it and you feed off it.
So when you talk about raping and killing children, remember that is exactly what your ancestors did. Yes Guzz your Argentinian ancestors, because you are as much Uruguayan as the Pope is.
Hey, Guzz, why is your President CFK trying so hard to get Argentina banned from the Olympic games? Why is she denying the Argentinan athletes the equipment they need to train?
Is it to try and distract you fellow countrymen from their empty bellies, and cold houses. If the IOC ban Argentina, will she be blaming everyone else but herself? Is she going to pull the victim card on more time?
It must be awful living in a country full of victims. No awful isn't the word I was looking for...pathetic, that's right. You are pathetic and so is your government.
May 07th, 2012 - 12:07 pm
Argentinian officials lying and cheating? Oh the scandal!
We no longer mock lunatics or the mentaly disabled its not nice.
Business as normal, but it's really telling that they don't care about their young people competing in the games. Just politics.
No booing, no clapping, no standing for their national anthem (should they actually win anything). Just pretend that they're not even there.
That will annoy the Argentinian government far more than any outraged cries from the crowd, because that's what she wants, like any bully she's trying to provoke a reaction and then pull the victim card.
We just won't play her silly little game.
And I've never met Brits as toxic as Conqueror and co. OK there was that one guy who tried to beat me, a white guy myself, up for not hating p***s like he did, but thats about it
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This is all starting to unravel for Argentina.
However I have no sympathy whatsoever for Sr Zylberberg who very clearly knew what he was doing, or is incredibly stupid and naieve, or both.
Stop using sport to support your worthless attempt to colonise the Falkland Islands, and you'll get along a lot better with with other sportsmen and women.
Conqueror is a teddy bear. You should take him a jar of honey and some cookies to make friends, just like Timothy Treadwell, the “Grizzly Man” did...
We have much more specialised ways of not being nice to you, quiet diplomacy, a concept you are unfamilar with, can achieve a great deal. The world has heard enough of your rhetoric and is far from convinced by it, even your close neighbours are starting to distance themselves from your activities. The boy who kept shouting wolf got ignored and that is what is happening to you. Your country is only a few hundred years old and you have had one disaster after another. Your country is a messy hotch potch nazis, spaniards and italians, your incohesive and this presents itself in your character.
Complete silence, and people looking in the other direction, that'd learn 'em.
Unbelievable. Absolutely fucking incredible. Never has a staTEMENT SUMMED UP THE COMPLETE FARCE THAT IS Argentina.
CFK is playing with fire by repeating the video clip shows after a polite warning from the I.O.C.!! It can only be that she actually WANTS the Arg Team to be disqualified and barred!
All the Falklands and UK need to do is quietly sit back and watch - she started it- we have the moral high ground and the Int support in this case. If she wants to dig a hole - then thats her problem.
I would hope that if they do go to London that their team are not booed - that is not sporting at all and the rest of us I hope are above CFK,s level, and whatever happens will not be the fault of those athletes- with one exception of course!
From here in Chile, like it must do to most of the world, it seems absurd. We have a similar problem with Bolivia - they turn everything into a question about access to the sea (lost in 1879 war). Just stop. We can't turn the clock back. Chile, Brazil and now Peru and Colombia are surging forward, growing, modernizing, while the Chavez group, which now seems to include Argentina are going backwards. We want Argentina to prosper, it is a great country with great people, but why do they always fall in to the same trap?
It has been brought up in another thread but there is a very interesting article in Clarin where max-sized Maximo's youth army have been caught out tweeting support for CFKC under multiple ID's giving the impression of much greater support for her than is reality.
Somewhere between 2 and 4 million illegal immigrants were given national documents before the election and paid ARS $50 per vote.
This is why it is impossible for the true patriots, not nationalists, can't hope to get rid of the peronist plague.
”As usual, it is about the papers again.
The men, mostly those white men — also again, also as usual — have official papers upon which they have written their rules and their laws and their treaties. They are very sorry, but it is all there on the papers.
The Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy have papers, too, but those are no good. It is a shame and everyone is very sorry, but those papers are meaningless. Please stop showing us your quaint, useless papers.'
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@31 Of course you have craploads. Because you are crap. Fortunately for Britain, we didn't do the things that, for instance, italy, portugal and spain did. WE didn't believe in burning, crucifying, executing, strangling people for religion. Or commiting genocide. WE believed in trade. You can't trade with dead people. The blood guilt is YOURS and yours alone.
@43 Yeah, but you're shit. Most people would find it difficult to beat you at being that!
Your really scraping the bottom of the barrell this time Slimon. Blaming immigrants? In Argentina, a country of immigrants?! Your having a laugh. At least thats another similarity between Cristina and Britain's George Galloway - both have been accused, falsely, of relying on the “immigrant vote”! =)
May 07th, 2012 - 03:43 pm
The bottom of the barrel was scraped by Kretina.
As usual, it is about the papers again.
'The men, mostly those white men — also again, also as usual — have official papers upon which they have written their rules and their laws and their treaties. They are very sorry, but it is all there on the papers.
The Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy have papers, too, but those are no good. It is a shame and everyone is very sorry, but those papers are meaningless. Please stop showing us your quaint, useless papers'
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May 07th, 2012 - 03:52 pm
“Where was all this people when the military was killing thousands of Argentines”
They were mostly at home doing their own thing. Meanwhile Nestor and Kretina were cozying up to the dictators in Santa Cruz and making money out of usery.
I might add that a lot of Brits were denouncing the junta while we Argentines were keeping quiet, so really we have little to grumble about.
I have heard the same small group on NewcastleUnited fans after the game crying and saying“ Didn't work,we had are a..es kicked and we are out of Champions League too”
'As usual, it is about the papers again.
The men, mostly those white men — also again, also as usual — have official papers upon which they have written their rules and their laws and their treaties. They are very sorry, but it is all there on the papers'
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The Falklands are British like they will always be.
@ 63 dejá de llorar maricona.
I hope they are booed, that's one of the reasons I'll be watching these olympic games hahaha, but knowing how the British peoples are, respectful and not resentful like the malvinistas, I know they will not get booed. That's the sad part :(
You are soo stupid,chris!
@28 The next argie war memorial will need to be 2 miles square and 2 miles high in order to get the names of all the argie corpses on it. On microdots!
@31 Of course you have craploads. Being a cuntry composed of crap, how could you have anything else? Not really something to be proud of!
@43 But then you are shit. Have you not noticed? Do you not feel attracted to WCs, public lavatories (possibly for other reasons, e.g. George Michael), cesspits, sewage works?
@55 Don't worry, we don't mind your racism, nigger. After all, white is pure. Although most Northern Europeans are actually PINK! Southern Europeans and Latin Americans, on the other hand, are tainted.
@57 Oh dear. Argieland. A cuntry of immigrant imperialist colonialists. Let the side down there, twat. Looky, looky, looky, an “implanted” racist population.
@60 Who gives a toss about argieland? Best destroyed. Population of retards included.
@64 No Falkland Islander would want to claim to be an argie. Similar to claiming and being proud that you shit in someone else's bed. But then argies do that. They also shit in bathtubs, on furniture and in post offices. But it can be controlled! Shoot them dead on sight.
Ah yes. Tavez. Another Argentinian who doesn't understand the concept of an agreement.
Your Spanish is better than your Norwegian.
I believe that CFK is trying to get Argentina banned. She, or her government, don't care about the dreams of a couple of hundred people.
If they are banned, then CFK can pull the victim card and blame the evil, imperialist British for it.
The IOC need to be careful.
If they ignore these politiced provocation by Argentina, other countries may try to use the games to vent their spleen. Also what if the Argentine's try to politicise it further by a deliberate provocation at the opening ceremony?
The Argentine Olympic Committee can promise that their athletes won't do this, but they alo didn't know about the illegal adverts either.
The government of Argentina has no problem breaking their word, so it's probably safest to ban them from the games.
The world are getting fed up of the Argentine governments constant lying and crying.
Why do none of you cretins live in Argentina? You all choose to live in the British Commonwealth countries which are far more civilised and wealthy.
There is one thing I can not stand uber nationalists and you are one. Real scum of the Earth, the same type of scum that filled the ranks of the early nazi party and SA.
Burn some more flags you hate mongering shit.
It's a stunt but they haven't thought it though very well, they wont get any backing for it because the entire the olympics will be tuned into a farce if they're allowed to get away with it.
I've sent my letter in to the IOC!
There you go scraping the barrel again
American who was born in Argentina, but your politics don't belong in this continent don't think the wall in US/Mexico borders is going to stop people from coming in, it didn't stop the Germans for long anyways and the one in China is just good for turism. Besides Nowdays to come in and out of Canada I used planes. Do something useful and join our cause. www.facebook.com/groups/406831156008806/
That is one thing you are definatly not - American. You can't even write English. In previous post you said you were Argentine. Maybe you haven't a clue what you are.
lol the more hate mongers that stay out of the UK the better. Go and burn some flags why don't you.
28 Pirat-Hunter (#)May 07th, 2012 - 03:42 pmReport abuse
a brtish ship drills in Argentina's waters to theft our natural resources and the olimpics is worried about a sports???? Maybe the Olympics is really a stage to push a KKK agenda
A leader who knows what to do, a responsible and dedicated and clever leader,
[perhaps you would consider MR.BEAN.]
Well respected, and will deal with all ya problems.
USA stand for United States of America, America being the continent. This means that any South AMERICAN is of course AMERICAN, dimwits!!
HAHAHA
@ 80 Canada is beautiful, and you know it, that's why you're living there, you've done right, my friend :)
Everybody knows that people are talking about the USA if they say America. Nobody thinks South Americans are Americans. Get over it and don't be so sensitive. Geeeez!
I'm sorry to disagree, if everybody “knows” America is USA, then everybody “knows” wrong, which would mean everybody thinks America is USA.
Now, if these threads had had an inch of seriousity mayhap USA could've passesd as America, and vice versa, but having in mind that these threads are all about spitting, shouting and threatening, well, then at least get your (not yours personally) facts right...
Someday mayhap we can have a serious conversation about this mess, stating our views without having to accept personal offences. Until that day, these mofo's will unluckily decide the agenda...
Well you are both right. It is a linguistic problem. To English Speakers “America” is the USA. To Spanish speakers “America” is the continent. It is a linguistic error in English that is due to history. Much like a similar error in Spanish where spanish speakers refer to the UK as “Inglaterra” ignoring the existance of Scotland, Wales and Northern Island.
Regardless, Pirat-Hunter talks such utter rubbish that it is irrelevant.
america=usa
south america=south america
canada=canada
we come from britain
britain=great britain
not europe
mmmm
An American is someone from the United States of America. It is the only country with the name “America”.
No one calls people from the Republic of Ireland “British” because they live in the British Isles but following your logic maybe we should!
People of USA are northamericans. For me they are norteamericanos.
And people of arg, br, perú, etc are southamericans.
And then you have centroamericanos, from central américa.
But its true USA refers to themselves as “americans”, well in fact we are all “americans”, from south central or north america. They are not the only ones. But who cares.
To : Mrs Cristina Fernadez de Kirchner
President of the Republic of Argentina
C/O Casa Rosada
Plaza De Mayo
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Your Most Exalted Excellency,
I am writing in response to your continued demands for the transfer of sovereignty of the Falkland Islands .
Having consulted with my colleagues, the British readers of the Daily Telegraph and the Falklands Islands legislature, I am afraid your request has been refused.
However, being British, magnanimous and fair , we cannot see you leave the negotiating table empty handed.
HM The Queen has graciously commanded that henceforth, Liverpool and its dependencies, Widnes and Runcorn , will be ceded to Argentina in perpetuity.
The population of Liverpool is very similar to the rest of the Argentine people, so will assimilate very quickly.
You will also be pleased to know that the whole of Ireland is on Liverpool's continental shelf, so you will no doubt be claiming that as well, especially since a great part of the Spanish armada was wrecked off the Irish coast, which automatically makes it Argentine territory.
The owners of Liverpool FC and Everton FC have confirmed they are looking forward to playing in the Belgrano League, though they admit away matches will be a bit of a strain.
It's only fair to warn you that buying the votes of scousers will cost you a little more than votes in Lanus or Avellaneda.
They will expect a council house, £300 pw, a pair of white trainers and a Plasma TV.
As a thank you to your good self in being so patient with us, Her Majesty has graciously presented you with some Harrods gift vouchers, a William & Kate souvenir pack with a mug, tea towel and DVD and a brown envelope containing an unspecified amount of cash in US dollars.
Yours sincerely
The Right Hon William Hague
Foreign secretary.
her Britannic Majesty's Government
London SW1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSlyQp9NAoM
'As usual, it is about the papers again.
The men, mostly those white men — also again, also as usual — have official papers upon which they have written their rules and their laws and their treaties. They are very sorry, but it is all there on the papers.
The Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy have papers, too, but those are no good. It is a shame and everyone is very sorry, but those papers are meaningless. Please stop showing us your quaint, useless papers.'
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What the rest of the world will never understand is that Argentina will not follow the “World Order”. If that means being f'ed, so be it. But we will not become slaves of US/EU/Asian/Latin American domination, which is exactly what this is all about. That is why the rest of the world gets so mad at Argentina, they want us under their boot, we say no.
It's like Star Trek, between allowing the ship to be taken over by aliens and self-destruct sequence, we choose self-destruct sequence.
Get your fat ass out of the couch and do some exercise.
Argentina is a product of colonialism, conquered by the sword, most of the natives killed and infected by disease, their land taken from them and worked by imported African slaves, oversean by imported European colonials. The African's who made up 50% of the population would themselves completely disapear from Argentina between 1850-1900 in what could have been a chilling fore runner to the disareances of the Dirty War in the 1970's when an estimated 30,000 Argentines were raped, tortured and murdered, many more were held illegally in detention camps and tortured. The true figure for the dead could be as high as 100,000, no one knows because there is little official documentation and most bodies were dumped in the sea.
Argentina took land from its neighbours in numberous wars , civil wars and land grabs - Paraguay, Uraguay, Chile. Today Argentina despite the changed political landscape is still a nation characterised by uber nationalism. The claim to the Falklands was surendered in 1850 but reserected in 1941 by a fascist junta, which inc Peron, they thought their friends the Nazi were going to win the war, the Falklands looked easy picking.
In 1982 Argentina was under the latest succession of a series of fascism military junta's. Their hold on power was looking precarious, in deperation they sort a war, Chile looked like a good victim, they already claimed lots of land and were ignoring the international tribunals that had ruled in Chile's favor. But then they changed their mind and invaded the Falklands. Today the war is romanticized by a nation ruled by a kind of cross between a Neo-Nazi uber nationalist and a Charvesta Revolutionary uber Marxist. The only thing missing is the land reform. Maybe that's for later? But as few natives remain, maybe they'll just ignore their rights... God knows they always have. An entire culture replaced by a European one. Entire languages destroyed.
“It's like Star Trek, between allowing the ship to be taken over by aliens and self-destruct sequence, we choose self-destruct sequence.”
Good job Argies, we're in a nice position to watch it happen. I'll get myself some popcorn and settle in for the show.
Sorry, but we don't give a f'k what you do. Sorry.
thousand kilograms of bombs, then we will in one night drop 150-, 230-, 300- or
400000 kilograms. ... We will stop the handiwork of those night air pirates, so help
us God!” ...
And not too long ago they had a President who couldn't even speak English =)
#83 “You're as much an American as the Arabs who have citizenship in Europe can call themselves 'Dutch' and 'English'”
In other words, fully! Unless you believe citizenship should be racialised?!
#86 “Unless she starts dipping into her mummy and daddy's Reichsgeld in those swiss accounts to pay for it”
Greek you really are an unpleasant creep, these fascetious lies and snipes at my beautiful peaceful Queen which I can't imagine even you are silly enough to actually believe really get on my nerves. Even ElaineB, hardly a Cristinista, said her “German” ancestry was likely German Jews fleeing the Nazis; there is absolutely zero indication that she is descended from war criminals, though that didn't stop someone on here (maybe you) quipping that her father was Eichman. Please cease and desist, your just embarrasing yourself
#96 “Your Most Exalted Excellency” I like that, she so is =)
At the ceremony 80% of the crowd won't even recognise the Argentine flag and roughly 80% of those that do will know nothing about what's going on in Argentina anyway - it's just not a big news story over here.
However it is quite possible that we can rely on CFK to do something really stupid between now and then.
1. “Her Most Exalted Excellency President Cristina”
2. Countess Elizabeth Bathory
3. Mary Ann Cotton
4. Irma Grese
5. Queen Mary I
6. Belle Gunness
7. Beverley Allitt
8. Gertrude Baniszewski
9. Myra
10. Marybeth Tinning
All in good company...
Saying that i do love a picinic and telly tubbies is a fine show, apparently Tinhead uses the works of Telly Tubbies for basis for his inspiring rants. The Reichmistress is actually thinking of replacing the sun in the flag with her own little telly tubbie maximo...true story
Charming parrochialism. Most if asked don't even know where they are being held.
If Argentina does not care about the games, then why bother with the propaganda film in the first place?
QED!
Argentina would NEVER do this for a world cup, be it football, rugby, or other.
I sincerely hope Argentina either boycotts or get sanctioned from the games. And most people either think my way or don't even care about the issue.
What about the athletes from the 1916, 1940, and 1944.
Oh that's right, you savages were busy killing each other. Complete lack of decency is the typical British, European, and non-argentine way really.
With the added “quality” of unrepressed hypocrisy. Lovely.
Interested in seeing the Games on TV: 31
Not interested in the Games: 1
BTW I don't live in a large city, we are about 14000 inhabitants in northern Patagonia.
I just finished in my university class (young people, who are the coveted television viewing group, not senior citizens from a different era), using more modern texting poll:
Interested in seeing the games: 3
Not interested: 11
BTW I live in a lage city, about a million people with a far better cross-representation of society.
When we won the bid in 2005 the prevailing attitude to it was “now we've beaten the French and been awarded the games shall we just let them have it because we can't be bothered”
I'm not kidding - the general populace is totally apathetic about it.
Might perk up once it actually starts - but most are more interested in the European football championships.
Given the visceral, vitriolic reactions of the past days when I have said that in comparison to sport world cups (mainly football and rugby, or the Davis Cup) argies are incurious about the Olympics, it suggests otherwise.
I also said we do care about Olympic basketball because that is the “world cup” of the sport, and to a lesser extent field hockey though it has its world cup.
So we would care about the basketball, but Argentina is not a country that cares much about individual sports, which most Olmypic competitions are.
Notice how I never said that is good or bad, I only have restated the facts. I have nothing personally against the sports themselves, which are all wonderful to play and engage in. That doesn't mean the fact remains most people give fkall about it.
Cities bid for the Olympics as an act of jingoism and machismo, that's a fact. A “see, I can do this” kind of attitude. Olympic games much more than world cups are a huge financial pit because all the infraestructure is concetrated in one city and 90% of the venues are marginal sports which means the facilites will be woefully underused in their usable lifetimes.
World cups on the other hand spread the infraestructure, attract many more fans per venue and due to stadium capacity, and the stadia will have far greater bang for the buck in their lifetime.
Brits are far too polite to boo but there will be quite a few Spanish attending the games who are not as nice.
and what is the british going to do abt it, if we dont say sorry,
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we are waiting .
You wanna bit of me do ya (crash as Tinhead falls to the floor)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSlyQp9NAoM
Personally I normally enjoy the olympics, but I can't get enthusiastic about London 2012 either. There is more to the UK than London. The Labour govt that got the games for us were happy to spend our cash on trivia, until we had none left..................
To me it's just bread and circuses, so that the political elite along with seb co and his cronies can have a massive jolly at our expense. At a time of asuterity the last thing I want my country to purchase is a a set of white elephants like the olympic stadium.
AHAHAHAHAHAA briton if you do not smart up,they are going to shoot you!
You have to understand I have to fight fire with more fire. If 90% of people here speak utter bunkum and irrepresed nonsense, fibs, and scurrilous responses I have to respond in kind.
I have said it here repeatedly WWII was more of a black/white morality war, while WWI to me just was the Germans/French/British/Italians/Austrio-Hungarians just trying to prove who had thicker balls.
Reina Cristina
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My Queen is in good company indeed. Unlike yourself; Pinochet aint coming back
Just be glad that your country did'nt get sucked in. People over here forget we lost more servicemen in 1914-18 than 39-45.
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