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US dollar approaching the 12 Pesos mark in Argentina

Saturday, January 18th 2014 - 06:39 UTC
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The US dollar in Argentina reached a new record on Friday at the end of nerve racking week which saw the greenback in the parallel market climb another 40 cents and close at 11.90 and 11.95 Pesos purchase and sale prices. During the week the US dollar soared 1.15 Pesos, and closed the week with a gap of 75.6% between the official dollar exchange and the 'blue' dollar. Read full article

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  • Mastershake

    TWENTY years ago?! Considering that 20 years ago (let's say 2013 vs 1993), the USD was worth 62 percent more(62% inflation for 20 years), that means the equivalent(of 21.9 billion) today would be 36 Billion dollars. Considering that Argentina's economy was an abysmal failure in the late 80's and early 90's, I'd say that's not a good reference point. So basically, he's saying that currently, the USD holdings are significantly worse (less than 30 vs 36) than 20 years ago, when the economy was in disarray. Um....congratulations??

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 07:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    “US dollar approaching the 12 Pesos mark in Argentina”

    The Peso is falling
    Look, there it goes.
    Where it will stop,
    Nobody knows..........

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 09:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • PacRim Jim

    Brazil is a country of the future, and always will be.
    Argentina is a country of the past, and always will be.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Idlehands

    A history of the Argentine Peso:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_exchange_rates_of_Argentine_currency

    The last line is probably the most compelling:

    ”The value of one current peso is 10,000,000,000,000 pesos of 1969 (or 1914), and more than 16,700,000,000,000 pesos of 1914 with the U.S. dollar as reference”

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Narine T. Nüster

    I think one issue we Europeans fail to understand is, that for other societies a currency fluctuation or making money and being rich is not a priority. We might only care about money, but they may not. Perhaps family and enjoying life before one dies takes precedent.

    We would do well to respect other people's values even if they differ from our priorities as EU citizens.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @4 Oh, I think the different priorities exist in all societies. I don't know anyone in my family and circle of friends who puts 'making money' above the health and welfare of their family and loved ones. BUT, it is difficult to enjoy life when you constantly live in a state of uncertainty. Where insecurity and the safety of your family is a constant worry. Where the thought that you may not be able to afford to feed your family or the possibility the hospitals will not have the medicine to take care of your loved ones is a very real problem.

    We have a saying here 'first world problems' aimed at anyone stressing over something really unimportant in the scheme of things. But the emails I am getting from my friends in Buenos Aires are full of very real concerns about the situations there. Problems I have never had to deal with.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 02:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    #4 you imply that because European's and I will include us, American's, have less emphasis on family because we demand our government to manage economic issues, jobs, inflation etc? How can you say another society cares more about family when they care less if they can be self suuficient to support themselves?

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Narine T. Nüster

    @5

    You would be surprised at how many people I know have the same concerns as those in Buenos Aires, in the first world, that are not first world problems, you just have to look closer. If you never had to face them, then count your blessings.

    Perhaps you believe such dilemmas are not a part of our EU landscape because when you return home you focus on your family, which may be well off. That does not extend to all citizens in our EU, or in your region of the EU even.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redp0ll

    @ 7 Narine Off topic I know, but as a French lady what is your view on the present sex scandal involving your President?

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Narine T. Nüster

    I believe his private life it is not our concern, however using a scooter is rather derogating. He should have used an auto with tainted windows.

    @6

    I think the Argentines have shown they can support themselves in situations most Europeans or Americans would not survive through. However, I think the statements one reads in this forum's commentary section are cartoonishly alarmist.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 02:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pugol-H

    Any of the trolls hereabout care to offer an explanation as to how this rapidly increasing devaluation, is a good thing?

    @ 9 Narine T. Nüster
    Argentinians do seem to survive economic collapses, like we survive rain showers.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Toby, Argentines have no values or morals. They are crooks to the very core of their being
    The only thing that will fix this mess is if the Military takes over again and wipes out all the crooks.
    Argentina needs to find its Pinochet to put it on a steady path to prosperity.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 03:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Narine T. Nüster

    @11

    Everyone has different definitions of morals in a society. For you it is apparently defined through economic management.

    For others it may be defined by how a society reacts, for example a retired police officer when confronted by a texting young couple at a theater, or by how 12 year olds decide to resolve their child disputes at school: with rock/paper/scissors, or with a bullet to the face and neck? Or whether you cover up terrorist attacks against your own citizens, or whether you block public-paid highways for political gain.

    Morals is either relative, or is universal.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    How was your 13 hour bus ride back to Mendoza?
    Sounds like a great way to end a vacation
    Was the water still oily and smelly?

    Did you know there are parts of BA that have been without electricity and water for 40 days?
    How many dead people you think they'll find when the lights come back on?

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 04:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Narine T. Nüster

    First of all I did not take any vacation, as we are in the middle of January in the EU, and second I certainly did not take any recent vacation to the US Gulf Coast, so I cannot attest as to whether Americans are still bathing in oil-bound waters.

    Third what does any of the above have to do with our discussion? The subject was morals, I indulged you in going off topic once. I shall not accord you the honor twice in the same thread.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @7 I think you are supporting my point. but don't realise it.

    I absolutely do not agree that Argentineans do not suffer when their economy implodes. If you had ever interviewed people that lived through the last crisis you would not think it was an easy path they skipped through. People suffered.

    And I don't agree that people in developed countries could not survive a financial crisis or difficult circumstances. The world wars? The great depression? People are programmed to survive.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 04:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    14

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 04:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    ?

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 05:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    The mismanagement of the energy sector lies at the root of the government´s economic woes. Importing fuel contributes to the drainage of Central Bank reserves, since fuel has to be paid with actual dollars. This drainage in turn generates uncertainty regarding macroeconomic stability, and fuels speculation regarding a future devaluation, feeding the rise of the black market dollar, currently trading at almost 12 pesos. At the same time, the government allocates public funds to buy fuel and pay for energy subsidies to keep prices low. This accounts for 2.6% of GDP, half of the overall fiscal deficit, as mentioned above. Since Argentina has no access to credit, this deficit is being funded by transfers from the Central Bank to the treasury, which leads to an increase in the money supply and fuels inflation and furthers macroeconomic instability and demand for dollars by the public. Finally, the government has imposed energy rationings on private sector companies, which stalls production in key sectors and harms economic growth and job creation.

    http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/149949/power-cuts-in-argentina--a-crisis-foretold

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 05:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • MagnusMaster

    The Saturday daily demand record has been broken today, on JANUARY. There's no way the infrastructure will keep up till March.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Money , money money,

    my question is,
    is Argentina going down the drain or not.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    15 Narine T. Nüster

    “First of all I did not take any vacation, as we are in the middle of January in the EU”

    I think you'll find that we are in the middle of January no matter where you are the world. The international date lines only divide the Earth up by 24 hours love, not 31 days........

    I hope this helps you out....................

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 08:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    22
    in the southern hemisphere january is associated with vacations.
    i hope this helps you out...

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 09:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Ahh the blackouts are back! The heat is on. The Soy crop is done.
    Crissy better be packing.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 09:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    15 Narine T. Nüster

    “First of all I did not take any vacation, as we are in the middle of January in the EU”

    Oh, this SO Nostrils !!!

    ;-)

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 09:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Toby really should be studied to figure out how he got so whacked and to make sure it never happens again.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 10:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Doggy Rap

    Mercopress: “Meanwhile in neighboring Uruguay where many Argentines prefer to spend their holidays, the US dollar was selling at 12.50 Argentine Pesos”

    No it was not.

    To buy US dollar using Argentine pesos in Uruguay, you first have to convert AR fuffies to UY pesos a 1 AR for 1.30 UY.
    Next you have to pay 21.50 UY for 1 US$

    21.50 / 1.30 = 16.19 = the actual cotización AR$ to US$: not 12.50 but 16.19.

    The smart Argentines do it differently. In foreign countries they offer to pay e.g. supermarket bills using their Argentine credit card and get the price in cash. Thus all six of them get foreign currency at the official Argentine rate + 35%.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Don Alberto

    @5 Nostrils Toby Nostrils

    “we Europeans”

    so at last you admit you are implanted Europeans who do not belong in South America. It has taken a you long time to get to grips with reality.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 10:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • JuanGabriel

    Not even bothering to give more than half baked cover stories to his sock puppets these days. Only person who refers to himself as living in the EU rather than just the country they live in is an Argentinian masquerading as a French woman.

    Anyway plenty of people go on holiday in January, peak ski season

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 10:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    there is a good collateral effect about the dollar price rise and the cepo, because many people is investing their money in construction.
    so now, the cost of construction of the square meter in dollars is significantly lower.
    probably you dont know it because construction business is nonexistent in the islets, but it is the industry that creates more job positions per dollar invested.

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 11:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    31. How odd I just read the only construction going on is through the Gov't and private $ has all but dried up.
    In fact Nov was the worst property month on record in BA
    The worst
    So I think you are lying

    Jan 18th, 2014 - 11:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    you are answering to #31?
    que boludo que sos.
    what are you referring with “property”?
    sales property are paralyzed since the cepo, construction is alive and kicking through the fideicomisos. they are 2 different things, you dimwit.
    those buildings are not for sale but for rent, or just to invest your money.
    now, where did you read that construction blablabla...?
    in mercopress?

    http://www.arquimaster.com.ar/web/el-indice-construya-registro-en-noviembre-un-crecimiento-interanual-de-129/

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Oh Paul, you poor stupid sudaca.
    Take out the gov't construction and you have no growth.
    None
    or very very little
    Nobody is investing in Argentina
    Why would they invest now when it is clearly collapsing?

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 12:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    Comment removed by the editor.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 12:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • screenname

    Anyone else find the ideas of Narine T. Nüsteras regarding what the collective opinions of people in the EU are (and their holidaying habits) hilarious?

    Why are malvinistas obsessed with broadcasting some sort of bogus background? Yes, I know most of the parasite malvinistas probably do qualify for an EU member passport, but it's not the same as actually being raised in Europe.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 04:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    When your government lies continuously, it fosters a culture of lying.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 07:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    34paulcedron/Stevie

    Why do you keep posting,
    “Comment removed by the editor”?

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 08:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    LOL

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    35. Anyone who uses the phrase “My EU compatriots” has clearly never been there or met anyone from there.
    silly psycho

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 10:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    We had quite a few Argentines here over the last week; they left yesterday on the one LAN flight per month that is required to call into Rio Gellegos. All accounts say that most of them were well behaved, nice people including at least one family.

    A couple of them tried to make an exaggerated point of paying for things in Argentine pesos. I'm not sure if they were the same ones who were also seen waving Argentine flags. At least one of the Argentine families that was visiting disowned the ones who were trying to agitate the local community.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 12:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redp0ll

    @40 interesting Joe. Hoe did your visitors manage to get hold of FI pounds? Did they buy them in Argentina?

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Narine T. Nüster

    @35

    I will utilize your exact narration only with some very minor key changes, and maybe if you are cerebral and open with yourself you will ratiotinate up to the perception that we as EU folk may evince towards the Argentines:

    ”Anyone else find the ideas of yankeeboy/lephrcon/chris/anglotino/screenname/redpoll/troy tempest/conqueror/condorito/Juangabriel/toooldtodieyoung/pugol-H/Elaine B./captain poppy/idleheads/mastershake/faz/louspoo/captain silver/welshwizard/doggy rap/st. john/RICO/Briton/golfcronie/nigelpwsmith/A_voice/don alberto/the Chilean perspective/clyde15/britworker/lsolde/rupertbroosko/jack bauer/monkey magic/geoffward2/furry-fat-check/orbit/hans niesund/redrow/porkchop/bongo/GALaroosa/Lord Ton/Leiard/Usurping Pirate/Andy65/gface/pete bog/be serious/joe bloggs/inthegutter/Benson/boovis/Escoses doido/scarfo/ljb/war monkey/slaattzz/Xect/be serious/xerinox/ ________FILL IN THE BLANK THEY ARE NOT ARGENTINE, NEVER LIVED IN ARGENTINA, MUCH LESS RAISED IN ARGENTINA... regarding what the collective opinions of people in the Argentine are (and their holidaying habits) hilarious?

    Why are anti-argies obsessed with broadcasting some sort of bogus background? Yes, I know most of the parasite anti-argies probably do qualify for a visa-free tourist visit, but it's not the same as actually being raised in Argentina.

    Thank you all, and good evening.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 03:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @ TTT, how was your bus journey home? Tis a long way from Mendoza to the beach and back.

    True I am not Argentine and never claimed to be. I was not raised (brain-washed) there. I have lived there and travel more extensively there than you have. You live in a very small world and that is reflected in your small-minded opinions.

    Keep posting, TTT, your nationalistic, xenophobic ideas are highly entertaining.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Toby, I've never claimed to be anything but what I am, an American who lived in Argentina for 5 years.
    I've seen more of your country than you ever will and have been to places that you covet from a computer screen.
    Most everything I've discussed has come to pass.
    I hope you took my advice and bought sugar and laundry detergent to trade.
    BTW what's up with the lightening on the beach. Here in the USA we have a saying “too dumb to come in from the rain.”
    Maybe you should start saying that in Argentina until people catch on.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redp0ll

    Nadine re your post @42. Perhaps if you read my posts again you will find I am one of the few who did not slag you off
    True I have never lived in Argentina but in Uruguay
    I try not to comment on RG politics, though sometimes I slip
    But in view of the continual harrasment of my country by our nieghbours I am not going to sit passively back and let Uruguay be treated as a province of Argentina
    We are an independent country with our own soreignty

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    42 Nostrils-boy

    Are those the only holes in your head? :-D

    I, like the other Brits and North Americans on this site, do not pretend to be South American.
    I have been consistent. I live in Canada, but I have travelled extensively, including Communist states and South America.

    I have no 'beef' with Argentina (pun intended), but your government attacks our economy, our people, our culture, and out values, as do the Trolls who support and promote CFK and her corrupt regime.

    Argentina generates state-sponsored disinformation and I will refute it as I see fit, along with those who perpetuate it.
    You included.

    Your current persona is NOT really a resident of the EU, but a fake.

    The real operator of this “Nasal Nuster” identity is an Argentine Nationalist and a tit.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • screenname

    @42 Narine T. Nüster was not quite clever enough to comprehend (or maybe just didn't notice) my use of the word malvinista in post35...no blanket reference to Argentina or Argentineans.

    Can we take it from this that Narine T. Nüster perceives malvinista to be interchangeable with Argentinean? Well that would make a bit of a mockery of the post @42!

    chuckle chuckle

    and poor stevie/Brasileiro/A_Voice (along with most of the world, which was meant to be malvinista?)...to not have their efforts recognised is a bit of a kick in the teeth...unless, of course, Narine T. Nüster knows they are Argentinean because they pick up their paychecks together (haha).

    Or maybe I'm not cerebral and able to ratiotinate up to my own perceptions (guffaw, splutter, chuckle)

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 05:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • A_Voice

    So....just wondering....is the adoption of a female persona a bit like cross-dressing...?
    Surely, this is one persona that you can never take credit for or questions are going to be asked....
    In your mind, is it a fit female, complete with nice lingerie...or an old bag...?
    Or have I got it wrong...and you were always a girl....?

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anbar

    why do these people, who insist on changing their names to some localised naming convention, believe that in doing so their opinions will hold any more water than they did previously?

    a) they make it immediately obvious they are bogus names
    b) they use the same arguments that failed when 'being' Argentinian

    and

    c) their doing so makes everything else they say of even less weight than before.

    Its certainly not just an Argentine affliction but it is universally stupid, obvious and self-defeating.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 42 TTT

    I have never been, nor will I ever go, to Argentina even though I live in Uruguay and could easily make the trip.

    But why would I with all the Argentines now holidaying here? Because you have never been to Punta Del Este you will not know that we are inundated with your compatriots who think nothing of abusing the locals as if they own the place.

    Last week in Canelones MVD I met a great Argentine, who with his liver coloured Labrador has lived in Uruguay for 13 years. As we are both dog lovers we got on like a house on fire and I asked him why he had moved to Uruguay all those years ago. He replied that he was always being robbed by the government and by the thugs and had really had enough. In all the 13 years he has never had a similar problem though he does of course take the necessary security actions that anyone with wealth in a large city takes and having seen the inside of the property he lives in I KNOW he is wealthy.

    I have never been to the surface of the sun either but I realise that it would not be good for my health!

    There are things called books and there is the web where you can find most things out, including photographs of the poor sods in BsAs burning tyres in desperation of being without “luz” for many, many days. So why are you so upset that people of intelligence such as those you have listed do not need to go to Argentina to know the truth and people like ElaineB who HAVE been there and who everybody on the list knows is telling the truth, confirms the truth by witness of her own eyes and the evidence of her Argentine friends?

    And I am forever grateful that I am not an Argentine or have been subjected to the delusional lies portrayed by successive governments of your country via the school teachers.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Redrow

    @42
    Ahh Narine, ma cherie, having seen the Crying Game i fear your French frock contains a quelle surprise - la viande et deux légumes as they say.

    Sorry to hear how bad things are in France. Still, it could be worse, at least you don't live in Argentina.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    If you guys just ignore [ 42 ]
    he will just fade away.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    Narine

    In your post at 42, you included me on a list if people that you state “ARE NOT ARGENTINE, NEVER LIVED IN ARGENTINA, MUCH LESS RAISED IN ARGENTINA”.

    I am perplexed by this claim. You would have to agree that after being on this site for only 4 days, this is quite a leap of logic.

    I, for one, am Argentine. I was born and raised in a city you may not have heard of called Mendoza. I had an interesting childhood, though my parents decided that the constant fear of crime, rampant poverty and all pervasive corruption by the government meant that I would probably grow up into a adult that spouts La Campora propoganda (they are entrenched in our school system) and trapped in a job that wouldn't enable me toake a decent living when the economy crashed again.

    So we emigrated to Australia. Here I study at university for free, don't worry about crime and am comfortably middle class.

    According to your logic, the opinion of those that were born or raised there have more weight than those that weren't. So with all due respect I tell you that you don't now anything about my home country.

    You sit at home in a comfortable country, you can travel overseas when you want without paying a “special tax”, you have no inflation, you don't live behind barbed wire and your education wasn't disrupted by fanatics that put government propoganda before a proper education.

    You sit there and pontificate like some colonial throwback. We don't need a EUROPEAN such as yourself to tell us what to do or stand up for us. We don't need EUROPEANS such as yourself to sound reasonable or fight our battles. We can do it ourselves. It is the reason we threw out our EUROPEAN colonial masters 200 years ago.

    By all means state your opinion, but enough of the superior EUROPEAN attitude for us poor picked on Argentines.

    We don't need you helping us.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @15 “Honor” is an Americanism. Thus you reveal yourself.
    @23 In the southern hemisphere, january is also associated with death. Think on.
    @27 Ever felt like a prat?
    @42 Ever tried being a person? Is that a silly question? Here's some information. This morning I went into my toilet and excreted. The result was of more use than you. And it was being flushed to a sewer!

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    43.
    ”True I am not Argentine and never claimed to be. I was not raised (brain-washed) there. I have lived there and travel more extensively there than you have.”

    and yet you cannot understand a word in spanish...
    weird
    guess if you haven't had the capability of learning the local language, you don't have the capability to judge the country either, as you frequently do.
    it´s very characteristical of the british to not understand other languages, isn´t it?

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    Elaine there is only one twit troll obsessed with language and of course he can only GUESS everyone's Spanish skills.

    tobi......did mommy turn off the milk because you bit when you should have suckled?

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 08:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    55. Why in the world would anyone fluent in English care to learn Spanish? That's ridiculous all you could ever talk to are gardeners and maids.
    I guess it would help to understand why I ask for a lemon and get a most of the time lime though.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 09:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    so funny these 3rd class plebs, inhabitants of a sad islet think that they will get integrated with brazil and uruguay, for instance, when they don´t even know how to say obrigado, gracias or whatever.
    well, they are british wannabes, that is, even worse then the real british, and that is a lot.

    but the funniest thing is the superiority complex of some of them.
    i mean, they are “isleños” with a isleño mentality and minimum education.

    the icing on the cake is the jerk who thinks that miami is like the mecca of bon goût.
    hahaha...pathetic .

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 10:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    Who says I am not proficient in several languages? This board requires comments in English.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Paul, You are so bitter an angry. Was your visa denied? Are you just realizing that Argentina is a horrible place to live and that the govt has stolen all the money from the next generation to stay in power for the last decade?
    Your life is ruined if you stay there but maybe if you can get to an English Speaking country like the USA or UK you would have some hope your life and your descendants lives wouldn't be in vain. You'd have to first clean our toilets or mow our lawns but you'll still be better off than staying in Argentina
    Thats for sure.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 10:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    59
    there is a version in spanish.
    we can talk there anytime

    60
    “Are you just realizing that Argentina is a horrible place... blablabla”

    and you talk about being bitter and angry.??
    lol
    you confuse the govt with the country, simply because you have never been here, or worse, because you have never left puerto stanley in your sad life.
    i already told you, try to study something, open your narrow mind, try to travel, and maybe in 10 years we can talk.

    Jan 19th, 2014 - 11:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ron_57

    @53 aka troy tempest
    the 26,000 + screeenames posted in merco-sh*t-press belongs to britons hidden in the poor islands.
    No american citizen has ever posted in this web page, except me.
    BTW, my usa is also running out of money. The Secretary of Treasure Lew said to CNN that next month, on February 15, he does not have the authority to keep borrowing from Mother China. He is waiting to hear from members of Congress to see what is next. Unemployment funds are gone and, again, Congress cannot find funds to comply with the unemployment payments owed to the unemployed.
    Regardless of the shortage of funds, we are all going to survive the bad economic times. Remember past generations lived without ac units.
    So, go back to your room to play with yourself.

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  • yankeeboy

    Ron and Paul are you twins?

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 12:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • A_Voice

    62
    What about Pops...Captain Poppy surely he's a Yank, he reminds me of my Yankee relatives...I would swear he's a Yank....

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 12:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    Yank .....gringo...whatever works, I had interesting names in the past. I am not even going to dignify a response to ron.......sussie is beyond rehabing. I really thought la campora shot her.

    Yankee Ron is Sussie and Paul is Tobi......hiding.

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 01:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    62 sussie
    Do you remember all your earlier rants?

    You know, where you claimed to live in Tempe Az, but knew nothing about the slum address you gave us, do you recall that?

    Then, you “lived in Las Vegas” and made “easy money for doing nothing”.

    Here is your famous “Sussie Rant”:

    http://en.mercopress.com/2012/08/24/cristina-fernandez-in-good-health-condition-but-still-in-rest-and-recovery

    sussie/Sybil/susanna brown

    “Cristina looks like me after a day of work. As a working woman I understand her. I am a strong Argentinean woman and not matter what you say I will be here for 4 more years.
    Those people who copy me...///... you can’t copy me, I am Susana Brown.
    I do live in US. I came here to escape from my town in Patagonia. I grew up there but when was I very just being sexually active girl I was looked after by a Peruvian worker. He used to pick me up on way back from school. I didn’t like him first but then I like to call him papi. When I got pregnated for the first time by him my baby looked like a Peruvian. My parents sent me to USA. Here I have to work real hard turning lots of tricks, lots of man...sometimes 15 a day. But im proud, im gonna get back to Patagonia and buy some land better than the falklands.

    BUT LETS FACE THE FACTS:
    I miss my Peruvian papi, he liked my rossy arse. He used to screw my arse all day
    Bang, bang, bang, pppuuurrrrrrfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff!
    But now my arse get screwed all day by many men and some don’t pay just
    Bang, bang, bang, pppuuurrrrfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff!
    Drip, drip, my poor rossy arse.”

    I thought you claimed that one of your personalities did not write this, but it has appeared under your “sussieUS” identity on at least, two threads now!

    You seem very proud of your activities. :-D

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 01:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    Bahahahahahahahahaha

    I did think it was funny that Suzie was talking about “26,000 + screeenames”.

    I wonder where she disappears to every couple of months?

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 01:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    67
    what part of mendoza are you from?

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 01:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Narine T. Nüster

    It is quite shocking to read the sally of fulminations, vitriol, and rampant uncivilized discourse from my fellow EUians and our North American cousins.

    Of our behavior I apologize to the Argentines on this board, and share the deep embarrassment.

    And of course I am obviating for the sake of lenifying my compatriots from further loss of face, the inconsistencies by which certain posters state that

    'So why are you so upset that people of intelligence such as those you have listed do not need to go to Argentina to know the truth''

    and yet before I read

    'I have lived there and travel more extensively there than you have. You live in a very small world and that is reflected in your small-minded opinions.'

    I would proffer that the only conclusion to such inconsistencies in standards, patently manifest to a primary schooler, speak terribly of our education system in the EU/USA, or speak sadly of the mental sanity of the participants.

    A sad day to be a EUian / USaian.

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 04:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • LEPRecon

    @69 Tobias

    What have we told you about using 'big' words? You think that they make you sound more intelligent, when they in fact, make you look desperate to appear intelligent.

    Tut, tut, back to the drawing board for a new identity.

    Plus there is no such terms as “EUian” or “USaian”. You do make yourself look really stupid now.

    Another fail, Tobais, just like your 'precious' socialist paradise is failing.

    And now it's the beginning of a new week, I wonder what is in store for the Peso this week? US dollar at 13 Peso's? 14? 20?

    Who can say? Your President won't. She's still conspicuous by her absence.

    Fancy that! A head of state that just hides when the going gets tough, and doesn't do the job that she's being paid to do. I'd ask for your money back, and do it soon, before she flies the coup.

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 06:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    If Tango One is still at the airport, she's not left yet .

    Narcissistic CFK wouldn't pass up on an “ego trip” out of the country like that

    :-)

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 07:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    69. Give it up Toby. That post is as unreadable and nutty as the rest of your silly characters.
    You need to be studied so we can try to prevent another mishap.

    The old drag queen is not happy the Dollar Blue rate is published. Since only drug dealers and money launderers buy at that rate.
    I guess he doesn't read any travel mags because there have been a few articles in prominent USA mags that say don't use a credit card when you travel but buy from the illegal money market.
    Ooops
    And everyone seems to be talking about splitting the exchange rate since it works so well in Venezuela.
    Are they just trying to get through the year and not care what happens long term?
    Probably.
    I can't wait to see what happens this week
    My guess is they are praying for rain to break the heat but instead they'll get a downpour and hail.
    Just enough to ruin what is left.
    This works on so many levels.

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Welsh Wizard

    http://www.accuweather.com/en/ar/buenos-aires/7894/weather-forecast/7894

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britninja

    Toby, if you really want to perfect your method acting, why don't you take your French mademoiselle identity to the next level and become Hollande's new bit on the side? ;)

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 02:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Why do they think they have any room to negotiate?
    The other ambassadors must find the Rgs so tedious.

    Do they ever live up to agreements they signed?
    Ever?
    What a bunch losers.

    Chief of Cabinet Jorge Capitanich has assured that any negotiations held with the influential Paris Club will have to comply with what the politician dubbed Argentina's “national interest and capacity to pay.”

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Welsh Wizard

    National interest = we aren't paying
    Capacity to pay = we can't

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    For the other PC nations the amount owed is tiny. They could care less if they get it back now or later.
    Argentina needs this to be cleared up quickly to get Intl financing and potential FDI.
    I hear the main sticking point is ( as expected) compliance with IMF monitoring. The USA is insisting on it. The PC vote must be unanimous.

    My guess is the next Prez will ask the IMF for a bailout and enough to pay this off.
    The only hesitation I have with that is even as dumb/corrupt/slimy as CFK is she knows the she's reached the end of the rope with the holdouts and the world financial community.

    Pretty soon they won't have enough to pay for fuel or mfg supply imports.
    It might be 18 mos away.
    Might be sooner

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY-PEeX5xYY
    Why does this make me think of nostrils and his other alter egos ?

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    so the answer then is simple,
    1, if you don't like this site, then don't post, and leave
    2, yes their is a Spanish one, then go there,
    3, people always hate what they don't understand,
    4, the jealousy and envy of us, by you is phenomenal,
    simple, is it not,

    unless simple is not your first language...lol

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 08:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    My Spanish teacher, an Uruguayo, always laughs when I bring her a piece from Clarin to interpret for me because there are a lot of “words” I have not seen before.

    She explained that Argie Spanish is NOT, Spanish, that is.

    Most of the words are slang or misused in the context of the report.

    You can understand this when you realise that Axle is a teacher and there must be a few more like him in what is laughingly called the education system.

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 08:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Narine T. Nüster

    Stop being a racist, Chris.

    English is a horribly corrupted, slang version of Anglo-saxon, i.e Old Germanic. Where does one draw the line.

    The slang and the ~misused~ words are not slang nor misused if they CONVEY the message to its target audience. All else is irrelevant.

    In other words, the purpose of language was served.

    Dont like it or do not understand it, you are welcome not to read it.

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 08:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    so your spanish teacher, an uruguayan, told you that argie spanish in not spanish?
    that´s weird because we share a lot of slang words with uruguay.
    and most of the words that are slang for you, were recognized by the academia real española.
    either you are not the brightest pupil or your teacher is another islander impersonating an uruguayan.

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redp0ll

    @81 Yes Narine
    Quite a few corrupted Frankish words there too
    Honi soit que mal y pense?

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Narine T. Nüster

    I do not comprehend your point redpoll.

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 09:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Toby, Your posts are unreadable. They have a lot of words but put all together in run on sentences they make absolutely no sense.
    You need to go back to school.

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Narine T. Nüster

    Why do you insist on the name Toby... you really have a difficult time with the facts, even when it is as simple as first names.

    But if you are talking about my posts, they appear readable enough that half of the respondants addressed the very valid issue I brought up originally.

    You were not raised in Argentina, thus you are disqualified from casting judgment on the society there.

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 10:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    @80
    ChrisR, you are correct the spanish as spoken in Argentina is in fact Castellano, and is very different to correct spanish, in fact if you spoke Castellano to a spaniard he would be offended by some of the words and meaning.
    @83 Evil be to him who evil thinks

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 10:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    nobody expects a bright comment from an islander.
    not because they are not intelligent, but for their lack of tertiary education.
    now after reading the post @ 87, you realize that they don´t even have a proper primary education.

    so, the spaniards don´t speak castellano, according to him, and yet it is the official language of the estado español.
    weird.

    go back to school.

    http://sepam.dipcas.es/portals/files/Normativa_lenguas_oficiales_es.pdf

    http://sepam.dipcas.es/portals/files/Normativa_lenguas_oficiales_es.pdf

    Jan 20th, 2014 - 11:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    86 Teen Tit Toby

    “You were not raised in Argentina, thus you are disqualified from casting judgment on the society there.”

    Who are you to decide who is allowed to have an opinion?

    I would suggest that those born in Argentina born in Argentina, and especially those who have never left Mendoza, are unqualified/unable to comment objectively on that society, Toby-Nostril.

    88 Paulo “Tantrum” Cedron

    “so, the spaniards don´t speak castellano, according to him, and yet it is the official language of the estado español.”

    Now, don't have a conniption, but... I think what he is saying is, the “Spanish” spoken colloquially in Argentina has evolved along an independent path from its origin in Spain, 200 years ago when “you lot” were revolting.
    Spoken Spanish in Spain too, has evolved/changed.

    Just like the“French Canadians” have a dialect distinct from Parisian French (which the true French say they despise), or the Maritimers of Eastern Canada have a pleasantly quaint spoken form of English with obsolete terms, your “Spanish” is different.

    Its likely that, as close neighbours, your language and use of slang is closer to the Uruguayans, than to people living in Spain.

    I guess you were too thick to figure that out, or too determined to find a way to take offence.

    Too bad for you.
    Your day to day life must be miserable.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 12:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Narine T. Nüster

    Only a mentaly deranged person would make a statement such as:

    “Those born in Canada are unqualified/unable to comment objectivelyon that society”.

    OR...

    Then you are suggesting I am eminently qualified on commenting on your country, and on the UK, and the USA, and all the rest.

    In either scenario, it is not you Mr Tempest that comes out on top of this argument.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 12:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    Troy

    Honestly why bother? Narine doesn't actually say anything. Same as A_Voice, just argues for the sake of arguing while presenting the smallest possible profile.

    It seems there may be no actual Argentines left on these fora. How is it that a country of over 40 million people can't seem to produce anyone other than Think, Marcos, Alejandro and Paul?

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 12:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britninja

    Hmm maybe Toby's had a genuine psychotic break and thinks he's a woman. The next step is probably opening a motel, drilling peepholes in bathroom walls and buying a new carving knife...

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 01:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    89 troy “cabeza dura” tempestilent

    what you are forgetting is that in these 200 years, the media, communication technologies, etc. have evolved / changed too.
    ok, maybe not in the islets, but in the rest of the world.
    so now, a spaniard knows perfectly our argentinismos and reciprocally.

    it is small world when you are communicated.
    of course that does not count for some narrow- minded isolated populations.

    another contra of being a 3rd class pleb in a 3rd class colony

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 01:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • A_Voice

    Hahaha......PMSL...like Anglotino has anything to say of worth, all he does is what I'm doing now...posting about other posters....

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 01:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    Yes yes A_Voice.

    Can't argue with that, so run along.

    Poor Paul just called Argentina 4th class... tsk tsk, not very patriotic of him.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 02:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    93 PaulCedron

    “so now, a spaniard knows perfectly our argentinismos and reciprocally.”

    I agree, I'm sure they do know your peculiarities.
    Unfortunately, I expect they would quickly identify both you and the Uruguatans as “Provincials”, not 'real' Spanish.

    Of course, if you were nicer to people...

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 02:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    96
    neither provincials nor real spaniards
    they identify us just as argentinians and uruguayans.
    identity is another good thing of being born in a sovereign state.
    in the case of the islanders, llanitos, etc, they are not considered “real” british, are they?

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 03:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    They are all, Falklanders, but nobody else is.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 03:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    @88
    Show me in my post that I said the Spanish don't speak Spanish, I stand by what I have said, at least I spent years there.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 09:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    99
    “ChrisR, you are correct the spanish as spoken in Argentina is in fact Castellano, and is very different to correct spanish
    in fact if you spoke Castellano to a spaniard he would be offended by some of the words and meaning”

    now, you tell me what language the spaniards speak
    it is not Castellano according to you...

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 10:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    This thread seems to have degenerated into a slanging match. oh well.
    paulcedron, you come across as an envious type. Don't like us lslanders, do you?
    Think we are all uneducated? l think that you are jealous of what we have & are one of those types who think that Argentina actually has “rights” in OUR islands.
    No, paul, you do not.
    And as for you, Narine, l don't know why l am on your list.
    l've never been to Argentina & have absolutely no desire to do so.
    l have never said that l have been there.
    l've lived in a lot of other countries though.
    l do not speak good Spanish yet, but am learning it slowly, however to whoever it was who said that we are monolingual, l speak six languages thank you very much. ln three l am fluent, the other three quite good.
    l don't know from where you get your information.
    btw-Paul, an ltalian friend of mine has an aunt living in Argentina & he told me that his aunt told him, that there are many ltalian words in Argentine Spanish.
    True or not true, paul?
    Peace.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 10:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Welsh Wizard

    101 - what is the verb “to work” in argentinian spanish (i.e. the one most commonly used)

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 11:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    101 isolde
    well, of course i think the islands are part of our territory.
    but after a war just 30 years ago, i do not think argentina has any rights over the islands now.
    so you are wrong about that.

    about being jealous / envious of the islands / islanders, well, i love to live here in buenos aires, in spite of our politicians, etc,
    so you are wrong again.

    about argentine spanish, the italian words are not in “argentine spanish” but in “lunfardo”, a local slang that is only spoken in buenos aires.
    wrong again isolde (beautiful name, is it irish?)

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Welsh Wizard

    @103 Don't know about that, plenty of lunfardo spoken in neuquen

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    welsh.
    as you said, you dont know about that

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 11:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    102. Is it the same verb we use that means to steal? or to Sleep? Or to drink Mate?

    I don't think “work” is in their vocabulary.

    Toby, I am sure most people do what I do, scan quickly and then decipher your posts. You think they make you looks smart, as we've all told you 1000X they don't. They make you look stupid and ridiculous. This along with the other 100 personas you've tried over the last few years have failed. You might as well give up.
    And I can and will comment on the thieving violent scofflaws and rotten society you call home. You know why? You can't prove me wrong.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Well, I stirred up a nest of Hover Flies about the argie lingo, eh?

    I was going to use Wasp until I realised that the Hover Fly was closer to an argie than a wasp. Wasps STING and most people are frightened of them, whereas Hover Flies are true flies (one pair of wings) and only LOOK frightening and NOBODY is frightened of them.

    Perfect fit for an argie then.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 12:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    “I don't think “work” is in their vocabulary.”
    says a parasite. lol
    try to tell that to the real british taxpayers that pay for your food.
    considering the current situation of british economy, it seems it will not last for too long.

    13 million people live below the poverty line in the UK.
    http://www.trusselltrust.org/foodbank-projects

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    108. So says a person from a country where 50% of the population makes less than U$300/mo!
    According to INDEC you can live well on what U$0.50/day so that gives you another U$0.50/day to save and go wild with a couple cents a week!
    Bahahahaha

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    at least they work.
    you, on the other hand, are parasitizing another poor nation with 13 million people living below the poverty threshold.
    and you don't feel ashamed for that?
    no?
    that´s why you are a parasite

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    How many times do I have to tell you I am from the USA. My family has lived here almost 400 yrs. I am as American as I can get.

    Why are you so jealous of the Falklanders? Are you mad they can work and survive, let's say THRIVE better than Rgs on a couple little rocks? There is basically no crime, they can travel just about anywhere they want without a visa, they can afford to travel, they can go to any University in the world, and pay for it with no problem?

    Why so glum chum?

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    “How many times do I have to tell you I am from the USA. My family has lived here almost 400 yrs. I am as American as I can get.”

    an american interested in argentina / malvinas...
    yes, right...lol

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Yep, where were you spawned or hatched?

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    Paul

    Your own Argentine Catholic Church estimates that 27% of Argentinians live in poverty, and growing.

    That's 11 million people.

    And it is getting worse.

    Do you work for La Campora or the Government?
    ( you can answer to yourself, quietly)

    If so, then you are a leach, truly living off the poor - and working to keep them there.

    Have you no conscience??

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 01:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    i know very well the situation of the poor here, and i trust in the data provided by the rcc and caritas.
    now, i don't know what has got to do with this conversation.
    about la campora, i am exactly in the other extreme, again, it has nothing to do with this conversation.
    then, the rest of your diatribe is just a fallacy.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    112. You'd probably be surprised to know that there are a lot of Americans that remember Thatcher/Reagan with much fondness.

    When I ask Rgs about the Falklands they have such a different memory than we do. I hear the military was putting out propaganda saying you were winning right up until you surrendered. Then everyone was shocked!
    I think its funny

    I love the Falklands! I was lucky enough to have visited there when I lived in BA. It is a lovely island with wonderful people, its very clean and safe with happy optimistic people.
    One thing foreigners note about Argentina is that the people are sullen, moody and sad looking. Like doom is always around the next corner but I guess it is.
    I took an Rg friend to Chile and he was astounded that people were lined up to pay their taxes! He also commented that the people looked happy. He really liked it a lot.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 02:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    116
    you are not american, you have never been here, you have never lived here, you dont even know 1 word in spanish and even less in argentine spanish.
    so stop lying kelper

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 02:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    I learned enough Spanish in Argentina to talk to my maid, construction workers and waiters in the USA. That's about all I have use for.
    If your 1st language is Spanish you must learn English to survive or at least carry on an intelligent conversation. You'll never get that with Spanish.
    Obviously you learned it for that reason.

    I lived in BA for a couple years then Znorte then finally near Pilar.
    I know BA and Znorte better than you ever could. I went places most Rgs would only dream of going.
    I remember the 1st time I was staying at Llao Llao. It was right after I decided to move to Arg. Some Rgs tried to walk around the resort and some nice security quickly escorted them off property.
    At first I was shocked but after I lived there a couple years I saw it happen a lot in the nice places. The places built mostly for foreigners.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 02:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    so, you think that naming a pair of places is enough to trust you have lived here?
    lol
    and it is not “znorte”.
    next time learn how to use google maps properly.

    by the way, pilar is also “znorte” (lol), you dumbass.
    poor ignorant isleño

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 02:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @58 How strange that these “3rd class plebs” can point to a GDP (PPP) per capita 3 times that of “argie plebs”. It's not an “islet”. The Falkland Islands consist of 778 islands over an area of 4,700 square miles. Which Islander would want to be “integrated” with 4th and 5th rate losers like brazil or uruguay? Don't you worry, sonny, we realise it's beyond your comprehension. Are they paying you enough for your efforts? Might be worth as much as a whole dollar a week!
    @61 Trouble is, moron, that you reveal yourself so easily. Ever been to the places you slag off? You are identified as a paid employee of the argie foreign ministry spouting the “government” lies, a nationalist argie ex-pat who can't believe current conditions in argieland, a brainwashed robot or a twat.
    @62 I feel, marginally, sorry for you. Is it hard existing without a brain? Licking your arse like any other dog? Drinking out of puddles? Sliding up and down on your floor-mounted dildo? Getting excited about sniffing out a cockroach nest? Yummy. Could you get in touch again when you've spent some time in a nuclear reactor and “think” you might have evolved?
    @66 You mean sussie's a low-end doxy, hooker, prostitute, slag, whore? Do we think she's “full-spectrum”? Pay your dollar and she'll do anything? Think she can do more than 6 at a time? Might be bi- or a trannie?
    @69 Branching out are you, Sussie? Germans like torture. New experiences for you. But 14 at a time may “stretch” you.
    @81 Shove off, gaping holes.
    @88 Here's a “bright” comment. Most of your supposed “compatriots” deny that you're spanish. At what point did you mongrels decide to use Castilian as an “official language”? What was wrong with Basque, Catalan, Galician, Occitan? What was wrong with an Amerindian language?
    @97 Want to try floating their way? I will happily demand that my goverment teaches your “floaters” how to “fly”. With our assistance “floaters” might achieve 500 foot. Want to teach the swan dive?

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    119. I know that in your culture you must assume someone lies. There is no reason for me to not tell the truth on here.
    I lived in a gorgeous house near Pilar.
    I could tell you the name of the quinta but that would give you too much info.
    All the places I lived were owned by famous Rgs that could no longer afford to live there.
    They liked getting my U$ tho

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    these ignorant isleños are funny.
    they think those islets are important because they have...4000 sq miles?
    lol
    and because they have a pair of barrels of oil in the middle of the sea?
    lol
    sadly they will be a burden for the honest british taxpayer for many years more.
    the worst thing is they don´t feel ashamed for that.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    122. Why are you so upset? Because the humiliating defeat and surrender brought the downfall of the Rg Military rule and you want it back?

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 04:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    I don;t think so yankee, there are aware that humiliation and defeat is a bad thing. Someone here said that Argentina is like that movie....idiosyncracy where where everything is the opposite.....that explains the pride in defeating on dead, they believe being a deadbeat is honorable. Looks whos laughing now. They desperately need to borrow so they are talking to the Paris Club. It's not long before Paul Singer will be getting a call from them. I would love to see how Nasty “the Bug Eyed” Nestor Kirchner would have handled this.......lol

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ron_57

    @123 troy tempest aka anglotino
    have to accept the fact that their “Mission Accomplished”in their IRAQUI INVASION is worst than the argentine attempt to claim the disputed islands. The britons followed the usa insanity to invade Iraq under false pretext . Only cowards acts in such way!

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    125 ron
    they cant help it
    it's their best and only business
    http://www.theguardian.com/cartoons/stevebell/0,,1601562,00.html
    so it is funny when many of these brainless warmongers talk about their mighty navy, torpedoes, eurofighters, and stuff.
    they don´t even know they are financing all that sh*t with 13 million people living under the poverty threshold.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    Troy

    Suzie reckons you and I are the same person. LOL.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 07:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    BCRA sold 120MM to try to keep the peso from running but alas it wasn't enough. Back to 12.
    And Thicko thinks its controlled
    what a rube

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    lol....one would have to be a single cell life to think Anglo and Troy are one of the same......but then we are talking about sussiestein, the incarnation of kirchner's experiment that went awry.......or was that christina?

    The official rate was pushed up 6 cents in one day......7 almost and that's still way too low.

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 09:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ron_57

    @129 old poop
    the usa economy is worst with 330,000,000 millons, 47 milllons collecting food stamps because of president Barry Saetoro idea that his slum house in Jakarta is the perfect home. The usa goverment don't have money to pay the unemployed which don't have a penny to survive!
    BTW, Barry Saetoro aka Barack Obama published in the New Yorker 1/17/2014 that his low job performance approval is because of his race: blaaaaack.....instead to say he does not have any braiiiiins!
    What a loser!

    Jan 21st, 2014 - 11:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    130 Ron 57 AKA “Sussie”

    “Sussie,”
    Just one of your many identities...

    Do you remember your SUSSIE RANT?

    sussie/Sybil/susanna brown/guzz

    “Cristina looks like me after a day of work. As a working woman I understand her. I am a strong Argentinean woman and not matter what you say I will be here for 4 more years.
    Those people who copy me...///... you can’t copy me, I am Susana Brown.
    I do live in US. I came here to escape from my town in Patagonia. I grew up there but when was I very just being sexually active girl I was looked after by a Peruvian worker. He used to pick me up on way back from school. I didn’t like him first but then I like to call him papi. When I got pregnated for the first time by him my baby looked like a Peruvian. My parents sent me to USA. Here I have to work real hard turning lots of tricks, lots of man...sometimes 15 a day. But im proud, im gonna get back to Patagonia and buy some land better than the falklands.

    BUT LETS FACE THE FACTS:
    I miss my Peruvian papi, he liked my rossy arse. He used to screw my arse all day
    Bang, bang, bang, pppuuurrrrrrfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff!
    But now my arse get screwed all day by many men and some don’t pay just
    Bang, bang, bang, pppuuurrrrfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff!
    Drip, drip, my poor rossy arse.”

    Jan 22nd, 2014 - 01:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    OMG Troy....that really is sussie!!! I thought for sure la campora took her out back and shot her. She must havae gotten 6 months in Vegas for turning ticks on the strip.........at least she is probably disinfected now.

    Jan 22nd, 2014 - 09:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    Captain,

    Yes, it's pretty obvious isn't it?

    :-(

    Jan 22nd, 2014 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    Where could she have been all these months? lol

    Jan 22nd, 2014 - 08:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redp0ll

    In a clap clinic?

    Jan 22nd, 2014 - 09:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    Electro-shock therapy ?

    Jan 23rd, 2014 - 02:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    It's like the chicken and egg dilemma........which came first...the clinic or therapy? ....lol

    Jan 23rd, 2014 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    Capt.

    Your cher1160 mailbox is full

    Jan 23rd, 2014 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ron_57

    when the britons can not cope with the truth about Barry Soetoro (usa president) they start picking on other people....
    well we all know the bloody rubbish britons don't worth anything!

    Jan 23rd, 2014 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #139
    Sussie, you don't even know your own name !

    What “truth” about “Barry Soetero” ? One of the many conspiracy theories in which idiots such as you are desperate to believe.

    Jan 24th, 2014 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    no Troy it's not I think you had the wrong email.

    m.cher1160@outlook.com

    Yes Clyde.....it's right next to Roswell UFO's, No one landed on the moon and JFK lived

    Jan 24th, 2014 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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