Chile-Argentina qualifier heats up with UK ambassador reference to the Falklands
In an anticipation of Tuesday’s qualifier between Argentina and Chile for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, UK ambassador in Chile Jon Benjamin got muddled in a “twitter incident” involving the Falklands/Malvinas for which later he had to apologize.
In effect in what can be described as a non diplomatic intervention Ambassador Benjamin twitted “Which are the Islands that were taken from whom and, what was the reason? Maybe I’ll find out this Tuesday at (Santaigo’s) National Stadium? I already have my ticket!”.
Ambassador Benjamín was referring to an aggressive chant from Chilean fans whenever they play the Argentines which basically says: “Argentine faggots, you lost the Malvinas Islands because you’re a bunch of dumb assholes”
However following the stir caused by his words, Ambassador Benjamin apologized and said it was a direct and private message never intended to become public, it only happened by mistake.
“I apologize for having offended with a private DM (direct message) which I published by mistake. I have great appreciation for my Argentine friends and great respect for their national team”, was Benjamin’s apology in his @zjonBenjami19.
The Argentine media picked the story and asks whether the UK ambassador will join the Chilean fans in dedicating the Malvinas song to the visiting Argentine national team.
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What more can you say :)
I don't see why he should apologize, isn't he supposed to embody and espouse the values of his flag?
“argentinos maricones, perdieron las Malvinas por huevones”
Same with Paraguay: Argentine coach = world cups
No argentine coach = last in the standings.
No argentine coach = no brains = no world cup.
Opposite Colombia, which after 16 years hired an argentine coach, which means they have brains, and now are cruising into 2014.
As for the ambassador, it's the UK ambassador, who respect the UK anyway. This behavior is completely expected from them. No education, no diplomacy, no tact, no morals, no nothing. The beau ideal of moron.
Changing the topic is a major FAIL.
The truth is no one gives a hoot about the argie ambassador in London, a very minor posting in terms of Argentine strategic priorities. One sends to a locale what that locale deserves.
Which shows the UK doesn't really think much of the Chileans, look at the guy. He seems he was truant from half his high school courses, I wonder if he graduated.
2.bp.blogspot.com/-FeO8_uau9tY/Ty8PYs1atXI/AAAAAAAAGQY/be2ob9vXSwU/s1600/avestruz01.jpg
“Argentine faggots, you lost the Malvinas Islands because you’re a bunch of dumb assholes”
lol
Precisely, he is the apotheosis of Britannia, where no brains or manners need apply.
I'm sorry but we'er talking about the British ambassador making a gaff and reply by saying the rgenweenen ambassador constantly makes gaffs whenever she opens her gob, how is that changing the subject?
Interesting to hear what the Chileans think though.
Simple. In the Argentine economy articles (in this website all of them), I keep being told by the Brutish (I don't listen of course), that I can't bring up the economic situation in the UK because it is not the topic, that the topic is Argentina's economy.
Fine.
But then again I wasn't expecting you brits to actually keep to your word, as you so eloquently demonstrated. The issue here is the British ambassador, which while true to his origins by the churlish and depraved way he conducts himself, no doubt received orders straight from London to pull this little gem. The objective being to drive Chile and Argentina apart, a true and tried anglo-saxon lowbrow strategy.
@12
Well, to be fair, they did lose to an army. At least as an army we never lost to a rag-tag civilian squad, not once, but twice. Now that is beyond pathetic no matter what excuses you hold under your sleeves.
Took New York, Washington, Cape Town, Montevideo all within a few years of each other, but never could take Buenos Aires. How humilliating.
#4 - I doubt anyone denies the Argentine talent for football, unfortunately it seems to be sucking up all the Argentine talent leaving none for such trivial things as Governing, Economics and the Military.
I'm sure in his country this behavior is standard in and “high class”, but not in the SC.
no doubt received orders straight from London to pull this little gem. The objective being to drive Chile and Argentina apart, a true and tried anglo-saxon lowbrow strategy.
lols!
Chilenos liked it, UK doesn't care and No One cares what the Rgs think. It is not like they currently have good relations with UK anyway so it is at worse a wash and at best he made some friends in Chile.
We don't ask that our pets, foreigners, or other animals apologize, we just point out to them their idiocies.
Moreover, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner specifically addressed the issue of violence in football and, after narrating some personal anecdotes she requested the system to be thoroughly implemented, stating that the violent ones are part of “small groups that are connected to things that happen outside the stadium and not inside it”.
“Many of the violent events have a clear political intention”, she said while also considering that sometimes, they are “directed and motivated” by interests. She also indicated that these actions “not only take place in the terraces but that there also many of them that take place in the stands”.
Show how thick she is I always thought the terraces were in the stands
Who was talking about football talent? I mean managerial skills.
Simple: Football teams that have an argentine coach qualify, no matter how BAD and awful they are. When the argentine coach leaves (they always beg for him to stay), the team fails to qualify to the World Cup.
.....bad hair..
....depressed eyes...big nose....and wearing glasses in the year 2012?
Oh! my....I had lasik surgery in 1996 to correct my eye vision...at a price of $2,000 dollars per eye!
and this idiot still cannot afford the lasik eye surgery?
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak Boring UK TheMan!
Bafoons are highly regarded in Europe, especially in monarchical demesnes. It explains European behavior.
www.lasikcomplications.com/long_term_issues.html
The chant whilst true isn't exactly eloquent in its delivery.
No one cares because there is not one person in Argentina who wishes to be befriended by a British. No one cares what they think. The only time its made into anything is when there is something to gain. In this case the UK has humiliated itself for the insecure troglodytes they are, so there is nothing Argentina needsto do.
Arrogance is trying to speak on-behalf of your people Tobias, especially when you know its obviously not true.
Anyway have fun!
Really? And you think it is the role of ambassadors to commit themselves to make jokes? I rest my case.
I do speak on behalf of all Argentines, though I am not one.
You've lost the plot, btw. You were a centered contributor but now have devolved into a cretin. To actually state with a straight face that was appropriate behavior for the representative of your country is quite revealing.
I am not the mythological Tobias figure. I have never encountered this legendary creature. I've read sagas about him. I've also overheard lore and rumours that he was also “Truth Tellling Trolls”, which I do remember catching sight of before his ascent to the pantheon of internet Demiurges to become the cynosure for all of us who wish to cast the light of truth athwart the digital world.
Sorry to dissapoint you.
@30 how you wish that nobody cared about what we think or do, your right rgenweener doesn't need to do anything CFK is doing it all for you.
@27 a so called african calling europeans buffoons..........priceless.
@25 cfk rubber neck, botoxed up to the eyeballs, mutton dressed as lamb, and a crazy bitch.
@31 if your african as you claim how the fuck do you know what people in rgenweener care about.
@30 sussie get your arse streetside.
As for speaking on behalf of all Argentine's it is you sir that has lost the plot if you believe that. Only a head of state may consider themselves to be speaking for the people and even then its not always supported by the people even if that is their elected position.
The behavior wasn't in keeping with a British ambassador however on the scale of things its remarkably small compared to the ranting and lying of your great leader and supporting cast.
All the best Tobias and I do truly understand why you've lowered yourself to childish and inflammatory posts in the face of Western hatred posted against your country on here.
So in other words, British foreign policy is set by how Buenos Aires behaves! Awesome.
Where did I infer that? I will give you a clue Tobias, I didn't.
Ive been listening all that crap from uk foreign office because of our ad
this man is also giving more fire to this kind of songs we use to bother each other, and he is a diplomat (he cant talk as anyone here, in public)
I am not Tobias. Do not stellify me before my time.
Well you immediately employed comparison of this individual's transgression with the supposed Argentine behavior. One must surmise that you insinuated that his behavior was extenuated due to the actions of third parties (in this case, the evil argies).
If that is so, then absolutely British foreign policy in this part of the world is tethered to whatever bar the Argentines set as appropriate diplomatic behavior. Thus what you condone depends on the standards and criteria set by others.
Have a good evening and I still have respect for you when you're not trying to cause outrage even if I understand why you do it Tobias.
All the best, Xect.
Better to have no standards than turpitudinous standards.
Thought of the day.
Neither Tobias, nor Truth Telling Toll, nor Sussie.
“
. My generation is not as forgiving as our parents were. Maybe the Argentine community should pay a late visit to the British embassy to remind them where they are and tech them respect.”
Leading from behind, again???
The “Argentine Community” might attack unarmed civilians in their Embassy, but you won't.
You're a parasite, living in Canada telling everyone else what to do.
Armchair patriot.
BTW, you were asking about the TTC.
Here is the bus schedule - find your way to the Ghanian Consulate for your sit-in.
The Toronto Transit Commission - TTC
www.ttc.ca/
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truth telling troll/ arifu/alex vargas......5trapped in Canada, a country to the xth power better than argentina.
Your to kind to him,
We aint.
Any ambassador that looks like him, but stupidly silly,
A very stupid of the cuff remark.
If you guys take Ambassador Benjamin
Seriously then you have a bad sense of humour.
Look at his for crists sake,
Does he look human, or does he look like a geek
Sorry Benjamin, but you have only your stupid self to blame,
Countries have gone to war, for much less.
.his only learning.
@jonbenjamin19 His twitter account for more details.
LOL
Nothing new about football fans singing really offensive songs to try to get under the skin of the opposing players, however for MercoStanley to write an article about that and a non story for a nobody like that British ambassador in Santiago is clear how desperate they are.
Gosh that Truth Telling Troll is attributed the nature of a veritable quaquaversal, the singularity from which everything on this website ultimately originates. Is there one contributor who has not been ascribed to this Mahatma, merely for refusing to truckle to the anglo-saxon narcissistic cabal?
I thought the homosexual and stalkers had a more secretive convention today. Then again how would I know you guys never tell where you too go.
stopdebtvultures.org.au/?p=447
As the wise old people of Chile know
“Argentine faggots, you lost the Malvinas Islands because you’re a bunch of dumb assholes”
“#51 And #52 if it isn't the dynamic duo buttman and his buddy rubbing.”
Ooooo, brilliant riposte. What a razor sharp wit!
Calling names now instead.
Ok, Mister Poopy-pants.
:-D
Lets see if he has the guts to go to the game........he has the ticket, I want to see him singingggggg so good humour he hasssssssssss this diplomat
Like Cameron accusing Argentina of colonialism, at the G20 going to face President Kirchner, At the Interview on the American TV. Minister Hague at the conference about Human Rights. Those two English guys advocating for the “Falklands”. Now mister Benjamin “the great ambassador”.
Fabulous guys.
Terrific!!! mein Gott
The only positive thing in this saga is that they still play very good football and we are very unlikely to beat them. I still wish La Roja good luck though.
“And we will be coming back like it or not. One day they will wake as in 1982 to find us Argentine come home again”
And the next day you will be sent home having lost your entire airforce and at least two runways.
Plus over the following week will see your naval and air threat removed for another 20 years as the UK destroys the Argentine pirates in self defence.
Your chief of naval staff can't even control a sailing ship to his rubber faced mistress's satisfaction, so how you expect to succesfully take on one submarine, a T45 destroyer and less than 10 combat aircraft, especially when their numbers are reinforced to 10-20 aircraft, and be successful is anybody's guess.
you also forgot to mention the 1200 or so military personnel, of whom a large percentage are highly experienced in fieldcraft, with battlefield experience, and moreover enjoy a tear up.
Thank you for your vote of confidence. I am sorry for your country that you do not have people of this calibre.
You can only field a bunch of cretins headed by the CRETINE in chief.
That was the post and all know which islands are being referred to.And all can see the 'taken from' in the tweet.There is no further comment required but the UK must be embarrassed and will have to pretend it wasn't a Chilean matter and he wasn't referring to the Malvinas but that he was ignorant.In truth it's a serious failure on his part.
But yankeeboy,who has probably spoken to loads of Argentinians,will know that it wasn't noticed.Well it wasn't on here was it Slatzzz#1. Um!
you lost me.
You often tell us how clever you are, and yet you use the same 18th century dictionary and thesaurus under both those pseudonyms, as in:
“monarchical demesnes”, “insecure troglodytes”, “pantheon of internet Demiurges”, “the cynosure”, “athwart”, “stellify”, “turpitudinous”, “noetic nabob”, etc.
and spew the same childish insults, as in: “We don't ask that our pets, foreigners, or other animals apologize”
How can you possibly imagine, that we cannot see through this thin veil of disguise?
What is the origin of the word “colony”?
Why do you insist on using so many names? When I started posting on this site you used 2 names, Tobias and TTT and you talked a lot more sense. I am still Condorito, ElaineB is still ElaineB, Simon is still Simon, Guzz is still Guzz, Yanqui is still Yanqui, etc, so why this nonsense of making up names and pretending you are from different places?
Anyway...Chile’s chances are slim tonight, the team is having a disastrous time. Players who think they are so much better than they really are because the press treats them like gods and an ARGENTINEAN manager who has lost the respect of the team and the country. Yes, el Guaton Parrillero Borghi is an Argie and he is no Bielsa.
Eg... Ireland ....troll name.... Shamus O,grady, phil mc cavity etcetc
we expect England to win.
but we do not have that good a record with poland.
may the best team win.
its only a game. [isnt it ??]
@74 Ah I see now. Still, it is annoying and it is only his entertaining eloquence that separates him from the likes of Suzzie / 2012 / adorable / Pro-argi / etc multiple name nonsense.
The words (allegedly) were “”Argentines, gays, they took the Falklands off you because you are cowards“ in rhyming Spanish slang ” (DT 16th Oct.)
Seems about the truth of the matter in my judgement: many LatAms have posted on MercoPress how the women of AG are niggled by the stupid bollock grabbing antics of the AG men.
And as for the Falklands (there are STILL no Malvinas) how else would you describe the antics of the AG Military when faced with a force of much smaller numbers?
Any Brit realises the tremendous fear that 3 Para and 42 Commando and the other illustrious units, the Navy and the planes would have instilled in the average untrained, poorly equipped and ingloriously led AG forces.
All the time the Brits were coming the 8,000 miles (that is 12,900 Km for the dumb AG’s) at them the fear would have been mounting and mounting, much like an Alfred Hitchcock film until the realisation became true. They were and still are a bunch of cowards.
Think about this the next time TMBOA tries to mislead you about us.
“As a newly appointed ambassador, how unprofessional, parochial, crass, and boorish.”
He is trying to emulate the Argentine ambassador Castro in the UK - but to get an edge he needs to be much more unprofessional, parochial, crass, and boorish.
If you paid $2000 per eye you were robbed.
The current cost, in the UK is approx £395, at the current rate of exchange this would come in at $600.
In your case I think that the laser missed the target and hit your brain. This would account for some of the peculiar postings you make such as not remembering your name - or it could be the onset of senility.
BS. AS. To watch Chile Argentina next time they play. Very distinctive features.
This is very funny.......he should have a secretary for twitter
“. I am looking forward to see the ambassador come to
BS. AS. To watch Chile Argentina next time they play. Very distinctive features.”
OMG, an overt threat against a British diplomat!
Of course, you can't carry this out, personally.
As usual, you are trapped in Canada and cannot travel to Argentina.
If you leave somehow, you will not get back in :-(
You seem to have some kind of a dialogue with Pie-humper, how do you understand what the fook he is talking about. It's not English, not even Canadian English ay.
“all the Argentine maricones do live in Chile” - WTF??
I thought they would have been happier in Argieland with legal gay marriage and all that.
“You seem to have some kind of a dialogue with Pie-humper, how do you understand what the fook he is talking about. It's not English, not even Canadian English ay.”
LOL, I've got no bloody idea, eh!
I don't think HE knows either.
Some sort of barrio-Spanish from his ghetto.
He's more than a little delusional ,
“ I do depend on a network of people who are not maricones.”
He is always inciting Argentinians to commit crimes of violence or civil disobedience, while he sits alone in Canada.
From what I can gather, he thinks he is a terrorist and an expert in the tactics of MI6, CIA, and Mossad:
“Argentina will give me much support when I get back”
I agree with you, he might be happier with his “maricones” friends.
They are always included in his posts and always on his mind.
Fortunately, this “ terrorist” seems limited in his travels, can't leave Canada, has only a bicycle and a bus pass...
I am glad that I am not the only one who thinks his post are incoherent gibberish. All I can decipher from them is that he likes to live in a liberal country where he can go about his “way of life” without discrimination. He is paranoid about homosexuals stalking him; he thinks a nuclear weapon can be delivered without a delivery system; he works for a secret terrorist network of maricones. Eccentric character. Does his bicycle have a seat?
“Does his bicycle have a seat”
LOL !!
Seriously, now.
He did say about a month ago that he was Argentinian, his “family moved to Canada in the 80's because pirates stole everything and criminal government not get it back”
more ranting gibberish about “ hate the white man ” and British criminals“ , ”I am Amerindian, you can't stop us travelling, all American land is ours“
Something more about ”Canada oppresses aboriginals, and no self-determination for Québécois people...“on... and on...
Most telling was ”I wish I could return to Argentina... hate living with British“
”Ken Ridge“ says Alex V speaks of being an illegal immigrant in Canada on FB and other blogs. Alex speaks of shoplifting or anything to ”damage the Canadian economy“.
I haven't seen that personally, maybe removed. I have seen him elsewhere on the 'net as ”Alex Vargas“
He describes himself as a ”racist“ and a ”terrorist” on Mercopress.
On a forum, RT Comments, he rants about US/UK bombing Muslim women and children - the same as he does on here, regardless of topic.
www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2011/12/13/3389001.htm
Http://stopdebtvultures.org.au/?p=447
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnK5BKvQwdY&feature=related
www.lanacion.com.ar/1517754-alicia-castro-se-reunio-con-isabel-ii
Wah wah. When you personally and individually call out all those that insult my adopted temporary transitorial fugacious country with “childish insults” (mostly lies) about how horrible of a country it is and that it has not ONE positive characteristic, then get back to me. Your indignity is otherwise as hollow as a treaty signed by a European nation.
@72
I am not Tobias, nor TTT. I have used the name “Gabriela Sabatini”, and I use two names because I don't have microgram of respect for 99% of people here, who do nothing but lie about Argentina and use every opportunity to vituperate about it.
Re: “Spain has lost a million people...”
Please answer my message regarding this matter (it was truncated) and I’d like to send you its second part.
Cheers!
Jim Handley, in Madrid, Spain,
“Is this Alex another homosexual like you or it's someone else you like to stalk?? Lol”
To be clear, “Pirat-Hunter” is really Alex Vargas, who lives near Toronto, Canada, and cannot travel out of the country.
And you are proud of that? Proud that your country is known to have the most uncivilized, drunken, violent, ugly, boorish football fanatics in the Solar System?
In fact World Cup hosting countries always root so that England MISSES the World Cup. One less hassle to deal with.
Odd that the other Trolls who “love CFK” don't back you up, Alex.
Are La Campora embarrassed by you??
Won't they let you join them???
St John, those words are basic secondary level vocab. Those are not even “fancy” words.
They are neither subfuscous amphigory nor anfractuous sesquipedalianism, but rather your benighted condition in regards to lexicon, which luculently betokens the paucity of pabulum in your educational curriculum. This statement is apodictic verity and not covert charientism.
This soi-disant “18th century” prose is athwart and throughout my own.
Try posting something without using a thesaurus or dictionary.
Well, by all means, rectify my errors.
www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2002/2-2.html
Got the CIA all figured out?
Argentina 4 invasion 2 world cups...
Come on sing...
BTW and the Chileans supporters?
where are they when you need them most?
2Arg. 1Chile ???
Just as a matter of interest, as you are such a brilliant linguist,so much so that you dazzle the native English speakers with your archaic use of the language, could you give us a post in your native - Sudanic -tongue. I am sure that we would make allowance for this in what is purported to be an English language ONLY forum. Many thanks, in anticipation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ch4rsMmZI
Como te quedó el ojo??? Lol
Please end the illegal occupation of Islas Malvinas Argentina and take the british illegal aliens home we don't want pest in Islas malvinas Argentina. And mr ambassador get some real hair that crap looks like pubics.
www.gregpalast.com/the-globalizer-who-came-in-from-the-cold/
Come on...you sound like the rest to the UK Team..... Chicureo=Isolde=yneserely=skare=yankeboy=Zhivago=Simon68=ChrisR=
britishbulldog=brit boy=====same rubbish bloody english people!
jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaajaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaajaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Benja write more twittersssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!
Thanks for the luck you gave us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We answer you in the field babies........as it has to be
Cholo of Scarborough LOL
“ that crap looks like pubics.” You being an expert on that ?
Oct 17th, 2012 - 06:34 pm
I must admit that Ambassador Benjamin is only slightly better looking than you, Dany!!!!!!!!
“I must admit that Ambassador Benjamin is only slightly better looking than you, Dany”
Whoa !! If Dany is actually Pirat-Hunter (ALEX VARGAS), then he is a sick and twisted half-wit, communist!
I had an affair with him in my dreams....
lol
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