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Falklands receives US oil company temporary dock facility for exploration operations

Saturday, March 29th 2014 - 06:25 UTC
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Houston based oil company Noble Energy expects to inject 4 million dollars into Falklands businesses with the construction of the temporary dock facility which arrived in the Islands this week, Senior Vice President Susan Cunningham told those attending a presentation in Stanley on Monday evening. Read full article

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  • Boovis

    But...but...Argentina said they would take to court any company that exploits these resources, just like they have with...erm,...and...erm, and there was...

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 07:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Gordo1

    So clearly at least one American company is giving Argentina the two finger salute! Good for them!

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 07:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    All this investment and no oil according to some.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 08:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    We await your in-depth comments sr Think.
    On the edge of our chairs too, l might add!

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 09:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Geeeeeeeeeee.......

    That must be The ugliest raft I've ever seen....
    (Except for the kids one....:)
    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TTlZBOB3vGs/TE-djB4svrI/AAAAAAAAAKk/23HUTlnDL90/s1600/P6270032.JPG
    Anyhow..... Now I understand why the FIG(leaf) insisted on the Yanks removing it shortly...

    PS...:
    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TTlZBOB3vGs/TE-djB4svrI/AAAAAAAAAKk/23HUTlnDL90/s1600/P6270032.JPG

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TTlZBOB3vGs/TE-djB4svrI/AAAAAAAAAKk/23HUTlnDL90/s1600/P6270032.JPG

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TTlZBOB3vGs/TE-djB4svrI/AAAAAAAAAKk/23HUTlnDL90/s1600/P6270032.JPG

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TTlZBOB3vGs/TE-djB4svrI/AAAAAAAAAKk/23HUTlnDL90/s1600/P6270032.JPG

    Say no more.....

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • falklandlad

    Great news for the Falklands.
    @5 - great also for the development of port facilities in Stanley Hbr too Mr Think! I feel you would be pleased given our port exchanges of prev. Time for a smile all around, wouldn't you say?

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 10:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    “Houston based oil company Noble Energy expects to inject 4 million dollars into Falklands businesses with the construction of the temporary dock facility which arrived in the Islands this week”

    faa, wow, that's great news!
    4 million dollars!!
    that is a LOT in oil industry.
    guess you are ready now to extract your 2 barrels of 3rd class oil.

    well done little isleños!!!

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 10:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Nightingale

    I love the sound off envy in the morning

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    Thank you paulcedron

    A $4 million injection into an economy of 3,000 is indeed amazing

    Equal to a $56 billion injection into Argentina's economy. Has that happened recently?

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 10:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    so 4 million dollars...
    that would be equal to... renting a semi-submersible drilling rig for 4 days.

    way to go!

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 10:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    @7 Paulcedron

    “4 million dollars!!”

    In a country like the Falklands, a relatively small economy, where the most is made of everything and where they aren't as good at losing money as Argentina, $4million is a lot.

    Also in the Falklands, the locals are not banned from owning $ and made to use an absolutely impotent, useless, currency.

    Interesting that Argentina have not attempted to take Noble to court though, not that the threats to other companies are anything more than impotent bottom burps anyway.

    I'm still waiting with baited breath for the first arrest by Argentina of anyone related to the Falkland Islands oil industry.

    I mean the Argentines do mean it, don't they?

    Better not wait by the computer for this-I'm going to make some Elderberry Wine to empty the freezer-the results of which will be BETTER than Malbec

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    (6) falklandlad

    You say...:
    “...Think! I feel you would be pleased given our port exchanges of prev.”

    I say…:
    Not “Pleased”...
    Just slightly raising an eyebrow in acknowledgment that, sometimes, the FIG(leaf) is indeed able to take sensible decisions...
    “Pleased”…. I will be the day the UK gets out of the South Atlantic and a lasting solution is reached with that little bunch of Islander Diehards wishing to remain....

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 10:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    12. BTW Noble Energy is 2.x larger than YPF. Bet that sticks in your craw a bit.

    Looks like the vast majorities of Rgs will have to work at least a week a month to keep warm, clean and hydrated this winter.
    I guess we'll be seeing a lot more greasy mullets.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    To all the argie twats, especially the EX-Wheelbarrow pusher paulcedron but not forgetting the biggest liar on MP, the one and only (if you don’t count the sock puppets) The Lunatic of Chew Butt himself.

    Now read this carefully and use ALL your “brain” otherwise you will NOT understand it:

    “Houston based oil company Noble Energy expects to inject 4 million dollars into Falklands businesses with the construction of the temporary dock facility which arrived in the Islands this week”

    So the money is not for a few days drilling rig hire, or for lining the pocket of the GOD UGLY TMBOA, it’s primarily for ensuring the docking facility is up and working.

    But yes, I know you already knew that, you are just behaving like any argie would and lying through your teeth.

    BTW, is the oil tank fire out and how much gas have YPF managed to get out of The Dead Cow Field? YPF would get more methane (that’s gas to you knumbnuts) out of TMBOA’s backside than they have out of VM!

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    Comment removed by the editor.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 12:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    TWIMC

    Four (4) million American Dollars...
    That's ~2.4 million FKP...

    Ain't that about the amount of monies the FIG(leaf) fritters every time they decide to send one of those gargantuan delegations of “Sportskelpers & Kelperettes” to the Commonwealth Games, the Islands Games and other minor sports events?

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 12:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    16. Its still more than you can point to in FDI in VM last month.
    Rumor is Chevron is pulling out
    I wonder who will turn off the lights when everyone is gone?

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

    A temporary dock facility?
    Some people use them to find oil, not to extract oil...

    If oil is found and extraction is profitable, you don't see floating docks... I'd say.

    But what would I know?

    :)

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    14
    chris plunger aka toilet cleaner
    “So the money is not for a few days drilling rig hire...blablabla”

    again, let´s see if you can understand it.
    it is the equivalent money to rent a semi-submersible rig for four (4) days.
    no doubts noble energy is betting big in flakland oil and gas.
    the success is assured now. lol

    regarding the methane gas, nobody knows it better than you.
    toilets are big receptors of methane.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    Wow look at them squirm.

    All those predictions that nothing would happen.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Andy65

    AHHHH Think, paulcedron both a pair of bitter twisted twats-let the oil flow and let the dancing commence.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    21 andy
    lol
    with a 4 million dollar investment the oil flow will be as big as a piss.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    Think, Dare I suggest that the Commonwealth Games are the biggest in the world perhaps after the 3 Olympics as regards no of nations competing and no of athletes?
    As regards getting us out of our homeland- well we ve done pretty well for the last 180+ years and no signs at all of a problem on the horizon we cannot and are not handling.

    Paulcedron- can you get the following:
    1 Over the next few months Noble Energy will be spending $4million in setting up their port facility here.
    2 Next year they will start exploratory drilling - that will indeed then mean they will be spending some $100million every month - until they conclude
    3 2015-2016 it is most likely that RKH/Premiere will also start more exploratory drilling and perhaps also the exploitation drilling for Sealion.

    So there are indeed going to be several 100s of millions invested over the next couple of years again. Just like there was with RKH/Desire/FOGL etc a couple of years ago.
    And thanks to your silly President,s childish tantrums- Argentina will get not one centavo of it!

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    23
    islander
    well, the commonwealth games are probably the funniest thing ever.
    must be great to watch a football match between seychelles and st helena
    or a rugby match flaklands vs gibraltar.
    authentic sport powerhouses.

    it should be renamed as tax havens´ games

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    20. yeah remember a year or so ago Think et al predicted oil companies would choose VM over the Falklands.
    And now the only decent sized exploration commitment is probably pulling out!
    It does make me laugh
    and laugh

    That idiot Think said the same thing about the cruise lines
    He has never been right about one thing ever

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 02:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    “Noble Energy was, “a bunch of people, not a corporate entity,” Ms. Cunningham told her interested audience, adding, “everyone around us, those we touch,” should also enjoy success.”

    Paul, Think, Stevie,
    Hmmm, “everyone we touch will enjoy success”
    That won't be Argentina.
    You had your chance and spurned it - LOL !!!

    Now you're watching from the sidelines and stewing in your own jealousy.

    :-D

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 03:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

    I'm watching and all I see is different companies looking for oil. No one is drilling for oil. Don't count the chickens nor sell the furs, it's a risky business...

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Leiard

    @27 & co.

    With all of Argentina's fantastic oil reserves, how much is it that they are spending on importing oil ?

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Andy65

    @ paulcedron ,Do you even know what The commonwealth is?

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    andy
    ”The Commonwealth of Nations, commonly known as the Commonwealth (also, the British Commonwealth),[1] is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states[2] that were mostly territories of the former British Empire.”

    so?

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 03:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    30 teen Paul

    Ok, ok, we know you can google, but can you understand what you read?
    Can you see the significance of the Commonwealth?

    Never mind, I'm wasting my time asking you...

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 03:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Leiard

    @ paulcedron

    Like all the small teams playing in the 7's, and I thought you were a rugby supporter.

    https://d7k5k971lnexm.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/Rugby-Sevens_TicketingGuide.pdf

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 03:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • jwolf

    When Ms. Cunningham was asked why the “preferential treatment” (of not having legal action taken against Noble by Argentina) she said “ Who knows it could be because of where we come from....”. That's exactly why nothing has happened. I would LOVE to see CFK's minions actually go out and detain or arrest U.S. nationals engaged in lawful commerce with a British Overseas Territory. Keep ratcheting things up. The can of Whoopass she would open would be immense! Go on! Start taking U.S. business men and women prisoner. Make good on your threats. Keep escalating tensions. Piss off The United States and Great Britain at the same time. Then sit back with a bag of popcorn and see what “Shock and Awe” looks like on Buenos Aires. Actually it would probably improve that town considerably......

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Leiard

    Back again on the topic of oil -

    With all of Argentina's fantastic oil reserves, why is Argentina having to spend so much on importing oil ?

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    Paulcedron - such a shame you have never heard of just a few of the other Commonwealth Countries- Canada-Pakistan-England-India-Scotland-Canada-Wales-South Africa- New Zealand-- Mozambique-Nigeria-Kenya etc etc. Such little irrelevant countries I guess?
    And Mozambique was never even British- but the decided to join a civilised grouping of nations and are welcome.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 04:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    32 leiard.
    yes, there are some great teams in the sevens.
    but where are my favorites, the falklands?
    and gibraltar?

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 04:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • jwolf

    I think at the end of its 3 year life in Stanley it should be towed to Mare Harbour. Could be a useful addition to the Royal Navy there.......

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 05:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 18 “Free energy” Stevie
    “But what would I know?”

    Self-evidently not a lot when it comes to the present docking facilities of the FI.

    This thing is for vessels bigger than your RSV and don’t forget that all your docking facilities that your RSV has to hand are well established deep water ports, ABERDEEN ring a bell?

    @ 19

    Either you ARE a complete imbecile or you just cannot understand simple English: see my reply to “Free energy” Stevie.

    @ 33 jwolf
    “ The can of Whoopass she would open would be immense! Go on! Start taking U.S. business men and women prisoner. Make good on your threats. Keep escalating tensions. Piss off The United States and Great Britain at the same time. Then sit back with a bag of popcorn and see what “Shock and Awe” looks like on Buenos Aires. Actually it would probably improve that town considerably.”

    I would pay good money to see TMBOA open a can of “Whoopass” because her ass is big enough for it. The spectacle of BsAs undergoing “civic improvements” from a few dozen cruise missiles would also be a good crowd puller.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    32 Leiard,

    You're not likely to get anything relevant out of Teen Paul - just football and Campora Juvenil trash talk.

    He has tacitly admitted that he USA teen, living at home with his parents.

    ...tried bragging about his “classic, Hardly Ferguson”, whatever that is, his pride and joy, I guess.
    Don't know how he'll afford fuel for it. No more subsidies :-(
    With inflation, thanks to Kiss- off and CFK, he may need to sell it and ride public transit to La Campora Juvenil rallies.

    He'll impress even fewer women, with just his big mouth and nothing more.

    Hmm, Paul, - high youth unemployment, a parasite on your parents, and now, no school - Axel Aarrghhh and his fellow teachers are on strike for the 35% pay hike that will just match this year's inflation.

    What about next year?

    Things don't sound good in CamporaLand.

    Meanwhile, in The Falklands...

    all is well - looking forward to oil production.

    :-D

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 05:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    @18
    Yes what would you know. You have just proved that you know sweet F**k all about the oil industry so why comment.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 06:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    38
    “This thing is for vessels bigger than your RSV an...blablabla”
    it is a temporary dock you idiot.
    all this noise for that?
    the rest are only promises.

    “everyone around us, those we touch,” should also enjoy success.“
    yeah, right ms cunningham. lol

    ”Fracking and Flooding in Colorado: The More We Know the Worse It Gets“
    ”According to the Associated Press, the three new spills include: 5,100 gallons of oil from a Noble Energy facility east of Kersey“

    ”A government fact-finding trip to the US to study the impact of fracking was switched at the last minute away from a state where floods at drilling sites had caused oil and gas leaks.
    Greg Barker, the Energy Minister, had been due to visit Colorado a fortnight ago to learn about the environmental impact of fracking.
    Noble Energy, the company hosting his visit, moved the location 1,500 miles away to Pittsburgh after finding leaks at some of its Colorado wells and shutting them down.
    More than 40,000 gallons of oil and an unknown amount of waste drilling water leaked from sites in Colorado last month because of floods that killed eight people and damaged nearly 2,000 homes.”

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    Teen Paul

    Yup, we get it - you can cherry-pick headlines off of Google
    - now put together a coherent argument and tell us what it has to do with oil production in the Falklands vs. your non- existent oil industry and imprint economy.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Apparently CFK has fired of complaints to the UN , and all American enemies stating the Americans are in a conspiracy to take over the Falklands and militarise the south Atlantic,

    This has been seen as very provocative, and she has asked for world support to defend her deluded Empire…lol

    OOOPPS

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    27 Stevie

    “Don't count the chickens nor sell the furs, it's a risky business...”

    I would say it is, trying to sell furry chickens.......

    Chickens, my sweet one, have feathers, not fur... Feathers.

    Remember where you heard it first.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

    Don't count the chickens [before the eggs have hatched] NOR sell the furs [before the bears are shot].

    Sorry for overestimating your intelligence... I know, I keep doing that...

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 08:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #41
    But you keep telling us that Argentina has the largest deposits available for fracking. Are you going to ban the answer to your energy problems ?
    #12
    Prepare to be very disappointed.
    #16
    If Argentina COULD send a team to the Commonwealth games it probably would win very little,,,a chance in the football and hockey...track and field nothing !

    #23
    PC is just a bitter and twisted troll whose function is to twist everything to suit his brief. So you choose tiny countries and pretend that is all there is to see. He skilfully omits world class sportsmen from his list as that would destroy his argument. Are the pan american games much better ?
    As far as I can see, Argieland is only interested in three sports, football, hockey and basketball....all equally boring wastes of time.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 08:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britworker

    Not long now Argies, she will be launched in 4 months and she is absolutely massive.

    http://www.freewebs.com/jeffhead/worldwideaircraftcarriers/queene.htm

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 09:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

    And you had nothing to do with it...

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 09:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britworker

    Your right, just my income tax every month, but it was actually this lot that built it and look at our lovely new bomber in flight :-)

    http://www.baesystems.com/enhancedarticle/BAES_157659/taranis-unmanned-air-vehicle?from=homepage-rzz

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 09:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    @12 Think,
    Well, l guess that you'll never be pleased sr Think.
    Neither the UK or us are going to leave & Argentina is not coming here.
    Bear up, mate.
    Be a soldier,
    Take the pain,
    You'll get used to us exploiting OUR resources, in time.
    (but don't care if you don't! lol!)

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    45 Stevie

    Oh no my sweet one, it is I who is in the wrong, I keep hoping that, at some point, you may make sense.

    Obviously, from the sh*te that you continually spout, your language skills are not up to it.

    So sorry, I'll remember that for next time.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • inthegutter

    #41 paulcedron - I don't think we're done bashing you enough about your Commonwealth games insults.

    The Commonwealth has a population of almost 2 billion people. The last Commonwealth games were held in India and 6000 competitors, from 71 countries and territories took part. This was the first games in which Rwanda, which was never part of the British Empire, participated having recently joined the Commonwealth.

    Somehow insinuating that this is something more like the Island games just reinforces how completely uninformed you are. Pathetic.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 09:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    41, 52

    jealous teen Paul,

    Canada and Australia are both Commonwealth countries - they garnered more medals than most countries in the last Olympics - far higher calibre than Argentina.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 09:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    49
    britworker
    nice ship and nice toy airplane
    are you trying to invade and loot another country?
    again?

    46
    grandpa clyde
    what about rugby union, polo, volleyball, handball, pato, the best f1 driver ever, the best(s) footballer(s) in the world, and the list goes on.
    we are a powerhouse in the most interesting sports.
    who cares about track and field?

    50
    isolde
    your resources?
    in the mar argentino?
    weird

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    54 paulcedron

    and how many world cups have you won?

    “the best f1 driver ever”

    Gilles Villeneuve??? Gilles Villeneuve, is Canadian matey, not an argentinian.

    the best(s) footballer(s) in the world?

    Wrong again.

    Brazil play the “beautiful game” better than anyone else on the planet. Correct me if I am wrong but the “Three R's” are Brazilian, not argentinian.

    It would seem, that what you are the BEST at, is getting it wrong..............

    Open your eyes.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 10:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    Time for a break from MP again; it's pretty boring at present and Argentina are doing nothing of interest

    See you all in 3 months.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    55
    tooold
    football world cups?
    2 and 1 2nd place.
    not that bad, uh?

    the best f1 driver gilles villeneuve??
    lol
    the best ever was, is and will be juan manuel fangio,

    the best footballers of the world are all argentinian, in this order: ricardo bochini, diego maradona, lionel messi and di stefano.
    brazil, with that c*nt of pele, cannot even compete.

    not to mention polo, probably you don´t know it there in the islets, because it is played with horses, you know, those four legged animals you see in the pampas.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    56 Joe Bloggs

    See you Joe, Take care of all the Bloggs's won't you?

    See you in 3 months time my friend.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britworker

    @54
    Toy plane? You had better hope that mad president of yours doesn't cause it get close and personal, although I hear we have moved away from the harassment and name calling and into an era of charm and respect. It won't matter one bit but should give us a laugh watching KFC cracking a smile under that polyfiller.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 10:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • inthegutter

    #57 I see you're too much of a coward to admit you were wrong about the Commonwealth Games.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Bye for now Joe.

    great post at 49. Love to it!

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anbar

    “”“I love the sound off envy in the morning”“”

    game, set & match.

    Mar 29th, 2014 - 11:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    62
    So true!

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 12:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    Paulcedron- Wrong once again! many horses in the Islands - used to be amny more on the farms pre 4wheelbike days- then most shepherd had 15-20 each in their troop provided by the farm, similar to as in Patagonia then. Some here even play polo as well!
    If I were you I would give up - every time you say something you think is clever - no its a all makebelieve and fantasy!

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 12:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    I think Paul is thinking the Falklands are like the small islands in The Tigre Delta.
    Boy would he be surprised!

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 12:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Heisenbergcontext

    @57 Paulcedron

    Fangio: definitely one of the great F1 drivers, and a gentleman besides, but I've never seen anything to match Ayrton Sennas's driving in the wet at the '89 Adelaide GP. Breathtaking, unbelievable, impossible...As to his character, well that's another question.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 04:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    @57 Paul

    Nothing against Fangio - well deserved.
    However, that was nearly 60 years ago - surpassed by Schumacher now. It's in the past, just like the Golden Age of Argentina.

    No need to put down Pele, either - give him his due.

    I don't think you'd see Brits behaving like that, and the Canadians don't mouth off about Gilles Villeneuve either.

    Are you that desperate to impress us?

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 05:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    grandpa troy
    “..and the Canadians don't mouth off about Gilles Villeneuve either.”
    gilles villeneuve was great, but you cannot compare him with fangio.
    anyway, what other sport achievement have the canadians had in the last...100 years?
    let´s see:
    football: 0
    rugby union: 0
    polo: 0
    field hockey: 0
    basketball: 0
    volleyball: 0
    handball: 0

    it seems you dont have too much to mouth off about.

    “Are you that desperate to impress us?”
    no, just to educate you lot.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 05:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    68 teeny Paul

    “anyway, what other sport achievement have the canadians had in the last...100 years?”

    Well, for a start, here are the last four Olympic Games,

    Canada vs Argentina
    Canada has a population of 33m and Argentina, 42m

    Olympic Medal Count:

    Canada 2014 Olympics
    10 gold
    10 silver
    5 bronze

    Argentina 2014 Olympics
    0
    0
    0

    Canada 2012 Olympics
    1 gold
    5 silver
    12 bronze

    Argentina 2012 Olympics
    1
    1
    2

    Canada 2010 Olympics
    14 gold,
    17 silver,
    5 bronze

    Argentina 2010 Olympics
    0
    0
    0

    Canada 2008 Olympics
    3 gold
    9 silver
    6 bronze

    Argentina 2008 Olympics
    2
    0
    4

    FAIL, teeny Paul, your generation of Argentinians has nothing to brag about.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 06:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

    The Olympics is for those who failed at football...

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 07:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    Sure, Stevie. So much for Paul's and your, Latin Superiority. :-)

    In Argentina, CFK realises that football is the “opiate of the Masses” - she uses it to keep their minds off their problems and their bruised egos.
    Paul is just one of the deluded 'masses'.

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  • Stevie

    And you a shite at football, hence you go skiing...

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 07:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Why are Argentines so deeply insecure? Is it in their Dna, or is it cultural?

    Seriously, why is this?

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 07:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

    Why are Brits so arrogant? Is it in their DNA? Why are they so ugly? Is it in their DNA? Why can't Brits cook? Is it in their DNA?

    Why are tey shite at fotball? I mean, they invented the game didn't they? Or was it merely the kick and run aspect of it they discovered?

    But the real question should be

    Why are you generalising and intending to create a debate where we attack eachothers countries?

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 07:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    @74 Stevie

    “Why are tey shite at fotball? I mean, they invented the game didn't they? Or was it merely the kick and run aspect of it they discovered?

    But the real question should be

    Why are you generalising and intending to create a debate where we attack eachothers countries?”

    Think @16 diverted the subject to theCommonwealth Games:

    ”Ain't that about the amount of monies the FIG(leaf) fritters every time they decide to send one of those gargantuan delegations of “Sportskelpers & Kelperettes” to the Commonwealth Games, the Islands Games and other minor sports events?”

    Since then, PC has admitted Argentina's economy and it's oil industry, is in the toilet, but he has tried repeatedly to assert that Argentina is superior to Commonwealth countries at sport. He failed - sadly, still feeling inferior...

    YOU are just as off- topic, too.
    This article has nothing to do with football.

    The Falkland Islands have just received a dock and $4m of investment, to kick off the next phase of their oil industry development :-)

    And Argentina can do nothing about it except gnash their teeth.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 08:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Troll bait, Stevie, troll bait. ...

    And boy, did you bite big! You jumped straight in didn't you?

    Lol! Great rant btw. Arrogant ugly and crap at football? Ooh stop it you nasty man...ooh! Lol!

    I really know how to push your buttons. I can make you jump up and down and scweam and shwout whenever I choose.

    Such fun!

    That's why we are arrogant Stevie. Because we are better than you.

    There you go dear, little button pushed. You have my permission to sqwueal..

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 08:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

    Troy
    It's not about the topic. I couldn't care less what topic you or MP choose to talk about, as I'm fully aware the topic will always be the same and with the same intentions.
    Take your topic and discuss it with the mirror and pat your own shoulder, for all I care.
    But attacking an entire nation with your hysterical generalisations is just silly and serves only to generate equivalent responses.

    As I said, if that is your agenda, lets do it. But be aware that I spit more poison than you...

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 08:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Button successfully pushed.
    Stevie totally troll-baited!
    Sqwueal at Troy all you like. I'm sure his shoulders are broad and manly, unlike your skinny hunches.

    Now, about that platform. Is it not fantastic to see any FDI in the South Atlantic?
    How's that Dead Cow deal with with Chevron working out?

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 09:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #54 Adolescent Paul

    what about rugby union, polo, volleyball, handball, pato, the best f1 driver ever, the best(s) footballer(s) in the world, and the list goes on.

    “we are a powerhouse in the most interesting sports.”

    In your OWN estimation

    who cares about track and field? The rest of the World...even Brazil.
    You “don't care” because you are useless at it.

    polo, volleyball, handball, pato

    Since when is polo an international sport ? Only for the well-off few.
    volleyball, handball, pato.
    More like children's games.

    Fangio...yes a brilliant driver but trying to compare past champions with current champions is almost impossible.

    are you trying to invade and loot another country?
    No, that is an ARGENTINIAN trait

    Mar Argentino...a figment of your over excited imagination.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 09:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    77 Stevie

    “...But attacking an entire nation with your hysterical generalisations is just silly and serves only to generate equivalent responses.”

    Stevie, this is not an. “Open ” forum. It is in the guidelines that discussions are to concern themselves with the subject of the articles - only.

    It is a common Troll technique to end discussion of awkward subjects by DIVERTING, DEFLECTING, or DISTRACTING the contributors onto something else easier to defend, or until participants run out of energy.
    Heck, I'm sure you've done that yourself.

    “Attacking a whole nation... ” - when have I ever done that???

    Let me repeat, for the umpteenth time - I have no quarrel with Argentina or it's people. My criticism and disdain is restricted to politicians and members of the corrupt, hostile, incompetent, Government of Argentina. The amoral, lying propagandists, Trolls, and cronies who support that pack of criminals, are just as bad.
    I am fully aware that not all Argentinians are Peronist/Campora robots.
    I have seen several Argentinan posters on MP who do NOT believe the State indoctrination and are also honest, good people. It is abundantly clear that not everyone thinks the way CFK tells us they do.

    Stevie, I am not “spitting poison” or “ throwing pies”.
    I am always going to challenge you when I see you spreading mis-information and lies. I will always question your integrity when it looks like you are deliberately lying and you know it. I will continue to question your motives and what you stand to gain, and I will question your morality when it is clear that the policies and people you support, are oppressive or harmful to others.

    Your threats are laughable from a sh!t like you.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 09:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    You beat me to it Clyde15.
    Couldn't get back to wee paulcedron as l had important things to do.
    Yes toto paulcedron, the Ocean is called the South Atlantic, NOT any mar argentino at all & we were sailing it loooong, looong before your pathetic country even existed & guess what?
    We'll be sailing it after you've imploded.
    Say it after me, young paul, South Atlantic, open to all the world.
    And as we OWN these lslands(i.e. you do NOT), WE will exploit any resources that we find here.
    Got it now?

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Keep it coming Isolde. Remember you have decades of indoctrination to break down.
    Best regards
    ilsen

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 11:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    grandma isolde / grandpa clyde
    i know you were educated in the 19th century, but anyway, you should know there is a lot of seas in the atlantic ocean.
    between them you have the mediterranean sea, the black sea, sea of the hebrides, (and you are scottish clyde?), AND the mar argentino.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Seas_of_the_Atlantic_Ocean
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Seas_of_the_Atlantic_Ocean

    funny, everybody knows and recognize the mar argentino in the map, except the deceived, brainwashed isleños.

    next you will say is that argentina is part of the british empire.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    Paulcedron- you should have listened to me and kept quit! So sad you have no ide of the difference between an Ocean and a Sea.
    Oh and I have 2 international maps in the house- one from DHL and one from Michelin- cannot find that mythical sea you talk about on either!

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 02:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    you have 2 (two) maps?
    that must be all an achievement in the islets.

    so i dont know the difference between sea and ocean?
    and which is that difference?

    ”Considered as one of the largest sea in the world, Argentine sea is located in the South Atlantic Ocean, within the continental shelf off the Argentine mainland and about 500 miles (800 km) North of Antarctica continent. Within the platform of the Argentine Sea, The Falkland Islands are situated. Its average measured depth is 1,205 m (3,952 feet) and maximum measured depth is 2,224 m (7,296 feet).”

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    You're still not getting any oil no matter what you say.

    He he he!

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 03:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Steveu

    @85 Actually the best map of all is the Latzina Map of 1882 which is an Argentine map which shows the Falkland Islands as being other than Argentine
    See it at https://www.flickr.com/photos/53629230@N02/5040513492/

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    85 teeny Paul
    ”Considered as one of the largest sea in the world, Argentine sea is located in the South Atlantic Ocean, within the continental shelf off the Argentine mainland and about 500 miles (800 km) North of Antarctica continent. Within the platform of the Argentine Sea, The Falkland Islands are situated. Its average measured depth is 1,205 m (3,952 feet) and maximum measured depth is 2,224 m (7,296 feet).”

    What are you quoting, Wiki ??? LOL !!
    Maybe Wiki Spanish Edition ? :-D

    teeny Paul@ 83
    ” ... but anyway, you should know there is a lot of seas in the atlantic ocean.
    between them you have the mediterranean sea, the black sea, sea of the hebrides, (and you are scottish clyde?), AND the mar argentino.”

    Just because you have a quaint local name for that part of the Atlantic Ocean, the open water, that does NOT actually mean you OWN it. Sorry, Int'l waters.

    I suggest you look more closely at your amusing Peronist school map, the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, are NOT part of the Atlantic Ocean.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Black Sea. In the Atlantic???

    Bhaaahahaha! !!!!!!!!!!

    just can't take this guy seriously, now or ever again!

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 04:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #83
    funny, everybody knows and recognize the mar argentino in the map, except the deceived, brainwashed isleños.
    Yes, in ARGENTINA. They even think that the Falklands are part of Argentina !

    Mare Argentino...shades of Mare Nostrum. Mussolini found out that it was not when push came to shove.

    .Discovering that I was born in the 19th century came as a surprise to me. I have not received my congratulatory telegram from HRH Queen Elizabeth on reaching my 100th birthday which MUST have been at the millennium or earlier. She is normally punctilious in these matters.
    Maybe el diego could intercede on my behalf as he has links with the British Royalty in his polo circles.

    Worse than that, I must have been done out of at least 40 years of my old age pension.

    Than you for pointing this out. Your postings are always full of new “facts” only known to you.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    An easy multiple choice question to the many Anglo Turnips in here, experts on the Argentinean and other Seas..:

    ”What’s the name of the body of water in between France and England…:

    1) Ärmelkanal
    2) English Channel
    3) Ermarsund
    4) Het Kanaal
    5) La Mancha
    6) La Manche
    7) La Manica
    8) Mor Breizh
    9) Muir NIochet

    ”Think” before answering…

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 05:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    91

    Colourful DIVERSION, El Thinko, but nothing more.
    Thanks - but not going there.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 05:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #91
    The answer is ..............

    A saline solution of H2O and I claim my prize !

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    (93) Clyde15

    Before claiming anything....... you should know that the “Mare Nostrum” was a civilized place with luxury touristic resorts at the same time you Picts were chasing squirrels up the trees for food....;-)

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  • ilsen

    Still on the diversionary trip eh, Think?

    What about all that lovely black gold?
    What about the approx $15 billon in tax coming to the Falkland Islanders?
    What about the topic?

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    89
    ilsen
    i know you dont have universities, high schools, not even a library in the islets, but anyway, you could research in the internet about the seas and the marginal seas of the atlantic ocean.

    so, the BLACK sea and the ARGENTINE sea are part of those categories.

    go back to the school, if you find one.

    A
    Argentine Sea
    B
    Baltic Sea
    Black Sea
    C
    Champlain Sea
    G
    Greenland Sea
    I
    Irminger Sea
    L
    Labrador Sea
    M
    Mediterranean Sea
    S
    Sargasso Sea
    Sea of the Hebrides

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    We are talking about the same Black Sea?
    The one in South Eastern Europe?
    The one that is practically landlocked?

    Just because you can sail there doesn't make it part of the Atlantic OCEAN.
    By that logic the Pacific is part of the Atlantic. .....

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 06:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Turnip at (97)
    Still on the diversionary trip eh, Ilsen?

    What about all that lovely black gold?
    What about the approx $15 billon in tax coming to the Falkland Islanders?
    What about the topic?

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #'94
    You are probably correct. However, we did attain civilization eventually.
    When, if ever, will Argentina ?

    Can't be bothered adding anything else as it will set you off at a tangent once more.

    BBC TV has a couple of interesting programs starting at 20:00, so that's all folks......something intelligent to engage with. As my wife has first dibs on the main TV, I will have to decant to another room to watch my programs on the old flat panel LCD 32” TV

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    teen-boy Paul,

    F
    Falklands Sea

    P
    Patagonian Sea

    Call it what you will - it does not belong to Argentina - chump!

    International Waters, sorry.

    The UN, the same one you quote as decreed a “binding” resolution that UK must share or hand over complete Falklands sovereignty to Argentina, has already said repeatedly that neither the physical proximity of the FI to the Arg. coast ( 300 miles of water separates them), not being on the same continental shelf, confers ownership to Argentina.

    The waters surrounding the Falklands are their own Territorial Waters, and beyond that, International Waters - whatever you choose to call them.

    You have no claim to FI, their oil, or any other resources.

    Kinda funny claims you make when one realises that Argentinians can't any more than 'wading depth' from their shoreline!!

    Ooh, I'm laughing at you again, Paul

    :-D

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    (99) Clyde15

    Hope you enjoy the telly......
    Going off on a tangent once more......
    Anybody heard the news about the “Gramercy Plan” becoming the “Goldman Sachs Plan”?

    “Think” is happy.......... even if he doesn't like Goldman Sachs.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    grandpa troy.

    “The sovereignty of a coastal State extends, beyond its land territory
    and internal waters”

    “Except where otherwise provided in this Convention, the normal baseline
    for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea is the low-water line along the
    coast as marked on large-scale charts officially recognized by the coastal
    State”

    in brief, the limit of the mar argentino coincides with the limit of the plataforma bonaerense, plataforma norpatagónica and plataforma patagónica austral.
    international waters my @rse.

    try to not laugh too much or your set of false teeth will fall.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    -98
    Ok. Fair point.

    Let's talk about black gold and energy resources.
    How is Dead Cow going?

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 08:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Turnip at (103)
    You want good news about Vaca Muerta?
    Here are all the good news about Vaca Muerta..:
    http://www.vacamuertanews.com.ar/

    I would prefer though to speak about my question at (101)...:
    - Anybody heard the news about the “Gramercy Plan” becoming the “Goldman Sachs Plan”?
    Suppose not...
    Stay tuned...

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 08:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    back to topic, 4 million dollars in oil industry is less than nothing.

    considering the poor education system they have in the islets, they should invest those 4 million dollars in building a university, a research centre, a school, a library, hiring enseignants, whatever related with learning.

    nothing to be done... they will be 3rd class plebs their whole life.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    102 tiny teeny Paul

    ““The sovereignty of a coastal State extends, beyond its land territory
    and internal waters”

    ”international waters my @rse.“

    teen boy,

    You really are stupid. You have no idea of coastal sovereignty, and your own link betrays you - the so-called ”Argentine Sea“ is NOT yours - in fact, it's ours!!!
    How humiliating.

    ”International Waters“ are outside the 12 nautical miles of ”Territorial Waters“ extending from the ”Baseline“

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters

    There may also be a 200 nautical mile Economic Exclusion Zone EEZ, extending from the Baseline.

    Teen Paul's link:
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters
    ”This page has issues“

    Territorial Claims

    ”According to the law 23968, the territorial waters of Argentina extend 12 nautical miles from the line from the goulfs of San Matías and San Jorge to the outer limits of the Río de la Plata. The contiguous zone extends 12 nautical miles after the territorial waters, and the exclusive economic zone 200 nautical miles from it. The continental shelf extends to either the limits of the exclusive economic zone or the shelf slope. Argentina has signed and ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
    The exclusive economic zone claimed by Argentina overlap with claims maintained by the United Kingdom on behalf of the Falkland Islanders and similar claims around the Island of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The UK Falkland Islands claim boundary starts from the midpoint between Argentina and the Islands to the West and stretches 200 nautical miles in other directions with similar claims around the other British Overseas Territories.[2]
    Argentina announced its claim without consultation with the United Kingdom and despite the fact that the United Kingdom has administered the area, for the most part peacefully, for over 180 years.“

    Is it a ”school day” tomorrow, teen- boy, or are the teachers still on strike?

    Tic toc !!

    ilsen,
    Think is OFF- TOPIC

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    delirious grandpa troy
    “... in fact, it's ours!!!”

    ours? you mean canadian?
    were not you canadian?
    it seems you are another liar little islander...

    “The Argentine Sea progressively widens going southward, in contrast with the narrowing of the continental mass.[1] The sea platform has a series of plateaus which descend to the east as large terraces or steps. Because of its stair-shaped plateaus, the Argentine Sea is similar morphologically to the Extra-Andean Patagonia. The Falkland Islands are also located within the continental shelf of the Argentine Sea.”

    “El espacio marítimo argentino es el área compuesta por el mar adyacente a las costas continentales argentinas y de sus islas, así como también el lecho y subsuelo de sus áreas marinas, sus recursos vivos y minerales y sobre su espacio aéreo marino, sobre el cual la República Argentina ejerce soberanía en distintos grados: aguas interiores, mar territorial, zona contigua, zona económica exclusiva, lecho y subsuelo de la plataforma continental.”

    i do not expect you can read spanish (or french, german, or whatever).
    try with google translator.
    and learn what a plataforma continental is.
    and do not forget the pills.
    the alzheimer is ripping you.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Paul slapped down by Troy!
    El Think -aka The Sewer of Distraction. Ignored!

    Let's celebrate the continuing potential of the B.O.T. that is the Falklands! Soon they will be able to buy Argentina and civilise it!

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    107 teenybopper

    “ours? you mean canadian?
    were not you canadian?
    it seems you are another liar little islander... ”

    tiny teen,
    I told you before that I do NOT live in the Islands - you erroneously said I did - even after I told you I have joint British and Canadian citizenship, living in Canada now.

    The Continental Shelf does NOT define your sovereignty - jeepers, niño, it's ALL in the links I gave you - did you read them, or just the bits you 'like'?

    Your sovereignty actually extends out only 12 NM from your coastal BASELINE, after that it is INTERNATIONAL WATERS, but you have a 200NM EEZ, except where it overlaps with the FI 200NM EEZ.

    The “Argentine Sea” surrounding the Falklands is “ours”, within the 200NM EEZ extending in ALL directions, and “ours” ( meaning, “not yours” ) as FI Sovereign Territory for 12NM all around.

    Ok... I've repeated it if you had trouble understanding.
    Sorry you don't like it.

    Must be “nap time” for you, you seem cranky and tired.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Monkeymagic

    This is a funny thread....

    The Noble investment in the Falklands already runs at hundreds of millions of dollars, this $4m is just the latest.

    The hundreds of millions was to farm into the FOGL east Falkland and south Falkland licences.

    Noble are yet to drill, so why would they be developing?

    Those with already commercial discoveries Premier, Rockhopper and Fogl in the North with be developing.

    Possibly Borders in the south too...

    All good fun....Falklands oil already seen near $1bn of investment and commitment to about $3.5bn more.

    Sorry if this doesn't suit our trolling friends.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 09:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    @97 ilsen

    “Just because you can sail there doesn't make it part of the Atlantic OCEAN.
    By that logic the Pacific is part of the Atlantic. .....”

    ilsen,

    - great answer !! - and quite 'on topic', despite what Think says - you were responding intelligently to teenybopper Paul's stupid point.

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 10:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Metaphorically, Argentina has that rotten-egg smell. It’s had that smell for decades. It’s gotten worse as the years have gone by. The government’s answer to the problem, up until now, has been akin to spraying more and more air freshener in a futile attempt to cover up the odor and ignore the real problem.

    This time though, the country might blow.

    Yesterday, March 29, the demonstration was announced. There will easily be 100,000 people showing up.

    What is that figure and prediction based on? In November a demonstration was announced. The protest was against corrupt government, inflation and crime. One hundred and ten thousand people showed up one week later.

    110,000 in one week. That figure comes from the government. Casa Rosada has all the reason to downplay the numbers, so the actual figure might even be higher.

    The intersection of massive subsidy cuts, extreme unrest might just finally have been reached.

    People have been smelling the tell-tale odor of rotten-eggs for awhile.

    The explosion might clear the air. Argentina needs more than air freshener.

    http://guardianlv.com/2014/03/what-is-that-smell-in-argentina/

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Like the rotten egg / air freshener metaphor.
    112

    Smells about right!

    As does the rest of your comments. I feel you have a greater understanding of the Argentine reality than many here.
    Respect is due Sir!

    Mar 30th, 2014 - 11:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • A_Voice

    91 Think
    Mor Bretannek......what is my prize....?

    Mar 31st, 2014 - 12:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    91, 114 AvoiceofThinkedover

    Off- topic.

    Are you wanting to start your one-man pantomime again?

    Panto season, again.

    Mar 31st, 2014 - 12:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • A_Voice

    “- even after I told you I have joint British and Canadian citizenship, living in Canada now.”
    living in Canada now....hahahahah PMSL.....

    YOU HAVE NEVER LIVED ANYWHERE ELSE........
    British my arse.....

    what a wanker......

    ...I didn't comment, but I had to laugh at Stevie catching you out...trolling others comments off topic....and never adding to a topic...that was so funny and soooo...you.....
    First thing you did after, was to make a comment about the article....
    Too little too late......but very funny.....

    Mar 31st, 2014 - 12:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    And you do exactly the same.
    Time to retire your sock puppet me thinks.
    You have just hanged your self by your own petard. Fool!

    Mar 31st, 2014 - 01:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    116 a voice of Think Dover and... Stevie?

    More play acting, methinks!

    :-)

    Mar 31st, 2014 - 01:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    It really looks like someone is setting up the high ministers and probably CFK and family up for a very big fall and letting the USA prosecute her for all kinds of ills.
    It is a very clean solution to a bad problem.

    BCRA reserves continue to fall due to the peso support. At some point they have to throw in the towel. My guess is they think they can make it to 2015.
    I think they're wrong.

    Mar 31st, 2014 - 12:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    I find it so funny, and almost Groundhog Dayesque, that A_Voice eventually sides with Stevie and Think.

    Mar 31st, 2014 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • A_Voice

    Why funny...? I have never, whilst on this forum, been attacked or insulted by either Stevie or Think...
    Even though we have had differences in opinion....
    Or Briton...Heisenberg....Geoffwards2....
    and so I have never insulted them....simple...
    I'm reciprocal....

    Mar 31st, 2014 - 05:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Philippe

    Ms Cunningham might be an ideal candidate to be US Honorary Consul
    in Stanley- in addition to her other functions. Thank you very much,

    Philippe

    Mar 31st, 2014 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    On the above Topic….

    Robert Keith, main English shareholder in DES, said in 2010…:
    “I do not want Argentina to stop the potential oil adventure off the Falkland Islands. I remain a shareholder ”TILL THE BITTER END.”

    Today, 31/03/14, Robert Keith sold his whole ”Potential oil adventure off the Falkland Islands” FOGL (Ex DES) share portfolio…
    http://www.iii.co.uk/research/LSE:FOGL/news/item/1038436/holdings-company

    FOGL shares 3.77% down today on that news…
    The bitter end…?
    Chuckle chuck.

    Mar 31st, 2014 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    Just because you own no shares, Think, no need to get all bitter & twisted.
    Lol!
    l'd consider a loan to you, but, well, you ARE from Argentina after all & they have a history of refusing to pay their debts.
    Sad

    Mar 31st, 2014 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    104. Looks like AxelK just shot down your Goldman Sachs loan. You should learn to keep you trap shut and stop reading the propaganda put out by Pagina 12.
    It makes you look even more stupid that you are....well maybe about the same.
    BTW are you ever right about anything?

    When CFK devalues again do you think the peso will be 20/1 by eoy?

    Apr 01st, 2014 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    (124) lsolde, honey....

    You say...:
    “Just because you own no shares, Think, no need to get all bitter & twisted.”

    I say...:
    I DO own some Malvinas Pirate Oil Adventure & Mississippi Bubble shares!
    Your British compatriot, Mr. Doveoverdover, was very generous a couple of years ago and invested 50£ on BOR shares under my name...
    If memory serves me right, he paid ~95p a share...
    Today's value of them BOR shares.: ~11p :-)))

    Oooops........... Checking the BOR share price i couldn't help noticing that the shares of ROCKFLOPPER,the “Starlet Company” of the Malvinas Pirate Oil Adventure have dropped ~5% today...

    A bristing oil bubble, perhaps?

    Apr 01st, 2014 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    Was that £50 as fake as Doveroverdover?

    So technically your shares are worth nothing.

    Like your predictions.

    Apr 01st, 2014 - 08:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 126 The Lunatic of Chew Butt

    11 pence, eh!

    Perhaps you should give your sock puppet a “good thrashing”, he bought them too high.

    Mind you I always knew you were the “Last of the big spenders”, or was that “suspenders”.

    Back to the shed with you then and leave the grown-ups to talk among themselves.

    Apr 01st, 2014 - 09:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Argentina is broken and broke.

    They need to get humble, and fast.

    Apr 02nd, 2014 - 12:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    @126
    Rockhopper oil close to securing a rig to drill in 2014/2015

    Apr 04th, 2014 - 12:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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