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Argentina's May official inflation 1% or half that claimed by private consultants

Tuesday, June 16th 2015 - 06:11 UTC
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Argentina's National Statistics and Census Institute, Indec reported on Monday that the inflation rate for May reached 1%, totaling 15.3% in the last twelve months and 5.7% for the first five months of 2015. Read full article

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  • yankeeboy

    All of these imaginary numbers while Unions are demanding and receiving 30-36% raises.
    Who do they think they are kidding?

    Kaboom

    I can't wait until middle class housewives are street fighting over the last bag of bean in Buenos Aires.
    I will laugh and laugh.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    It is obvious that most of the liars are employed by INDEC.

    Pitiful creatures with no self-esteem.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 11:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Its not their fault, they just want to live. Those of us that live in civilized countries don't understand how the Kthugs intimidate and terrify people to get their way.

    You may remember me telling the Kidiots not to rely on Brazil to bail them out.
    Guess what, I was right again.
    Brazil is a few steps behind Argentina, economy is dropping like a rock.
    :)

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • chronic

    A little bleach seems to take the stink away:

    Reeeekie writes: “Here It is, all the issues of a nation of forty-some million people explained in just seven words. We are all liars.”

    http://en.mercopress.com/2015/05/15/cristina-fernandez-comes-out-strongly-in-defense-of-minister-kicillof

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    Jun 16th, 2015 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    Troy Tempest, Brasileiro, Voice, CabezaDura2 are all sock puppets of an idiot living in the United States.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 02:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    Is there anybody in the world who believes INDEC figures? Apart from Kirchner who tells them what to say? Less than 5% in poverty she says. 25% in poverty says everyone else. Let's consider the villas miserias. Do they all have 4x4s or SUVs parked outside? How lovely to get in your car because it's better constructed than your home. Plenty of electricity though. Since you just tap into the company's power cables. Unlimited power and no bills. Anybody seen flush toilets in the villas? A statistic. City of Buenos Aires population - 2,890,151. Population of local villas - 120,000. 4.15%. Anybody think Kirchner just went for saying everybody in a villa is poor, and everyone else isn't? Will the next 'government' have the guts to say that everything Kirchner did and said was a lie.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    5 Chicureo

    where did THAT come from?

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 02:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #7 José

    Troy Tempest, Brasileiro, Voice, CabezaDura2 are all sock puppets of an idiot named José living in the United States.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    @8
    Do my posts and my history, bear any similarity to at all, to the ideologies and political stances of the voice/Brasiliero twins, or the anti-Muslim, misogynist rants of CD2 ?

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 02:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    CabezaDura2, Brasileiro, Troy Tempest and Voice are the very same José Oribe...

    See: en.mercopress.com/2014/10/31/pacific-alliance-and-mercosur-begin-round-of-ministerial-informative-meetings

    Read the successive posts of #36 Brasileiro, followed by #37 Troy Tempest and then #38 CabezaDura2

    He now takes more effort to differentiate his sock puppets.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 02:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    10.
    Jose Oribe is none other than Keyser Söze. The guy that sent you those e-mails is Jose Oribe... Or better yet, how do I know that you are not José Oribe... ???

    Hmmmm

    What a retard, fucking Jesus!!!

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 02:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #11 José

    Just repeating that Brasileiro, Voice, CabezaDura2 and a unknown number of posters are all sock puppets of an idiot named José living in the United States.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 02:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    Its true.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 02:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    you are my puppet...
    and
    you are my puppet..
    and
    you are my puppet...
    and he is...
    and she is...
    Raise your hand if you think Chicureo had gone over the edge...
    ...Your fault CD...you pushed him....

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 03:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    Add Trunce to the sock puppet list as well. Brasileiro, Voice, CabezaDura2 and Troy Tempest are all sock puppets of an idiot living in the United States.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    14
    Its not very difficult to push a Chilean off the edge of a cliff and into the Ocean...

    Can it be that Chicureo is living in the Matrix and all here are puppets of this Alfa-Omega entity called “José Oribe”??? So if we all raise are hands it only counts as one.

    Take the red pill Chicureo, you are near the truth ... you can do it son.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    For a everyone, this is a perfect example:@16 commenting to @14, after posting @7 & @9...

    José Oribe resides in the United States, expresses highly offensive ethnic and racial views against Latins, despite the fact that he appears to be a dark complected Hispanic himself.

    There is no telling of how many identities he uses on this board, but he typically will use one pro-Palestinian sock puppet to argue against a pro-Israel identity.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    “There is no telling of how many identities he uses on this board, but he typically will use one pro-Palestinian sock puppet to argue against a pro-Israel identity”

    Ohhh dont tell me I'm the same guy that HamasNiesund is!!! Please not him, anybody but him!!!!

    LMAO... !!!!

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 04:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    @6 @12 & @14 @16 & @18 are all José Oribe and there's no telling of how many other ignorant adolescent identities he uses on this board, typically using one sock puppet to argue with opposing view sock puppets all day.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    19 Chicureo

    All kidding aside, who is Jose Oribe.

    The only reference that appears in Google, is that of a rather prominent guitarist or craftsman who makes guitars.

    http://www.oribeguitars.com/about-jose-oribe.html

    I don't know where you got that from?

    Other than that, you are free to pick out posts that fit your 'conclusion', I suppose.

    At least it's keeping you busy, and gives you some satisfaction.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 05:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @18

    Let me explain. The moral of this tale is, never mess with the psychological warfare department of the Chilean Navy. I haven't seen such a spectacular meltdown since Ghana impounded the Libertad and Tobi lost the plot for ever, yet this one was conjured up out of nothing.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    21
    Oh well played...giving the nut-job a way out....

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 05:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @22

    Pfft. You could send Thunderbird 1 to get Cabeza out of the hole he's in, and still he'd keep digging.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @22. Shut UP. You aren't real. You aren't honest. And you have NO integrity.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #21 Hans,

    José is also starting to lose it over at the Brazil Auto Slowdown.

    About half of of my active and reserve career, I've had the honor to be assigned with signals, including reserve training in Bedford where I learned never open an unknown attachment, as the outside server could easily then read your IP, even through a third party buffer.

    José is not the “Sharpest knife in the drawer”...

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    About half of of my active and reserve career, I've had the honor to be assigned with signals

    Lol We used to make fun of those Chumps (Signals) when I was in the military.
    One time one got so drunk he shit his bed in the barracks LOL

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    21. For once I will have to agree with you “I haven't seen such a spectacular meltdown since...”

    Chicureo has lost his mind. But I have to admit never being having so much fun since Im on this board.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    More information can be found regarding the real José Oribe at:
    www.armada.mil.cl/armada/tradicion-e-historia/glosario-naval/c/2014-05-15/121453.html

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 07:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    Hmmm are the guys in the white jacketts that take care of you not called José Oribe??

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    28 Chicureo

    I don't see any reference to Jose Oribe.

    Mind you, I don't speak Spanish, but his name did not seem to come up

    Any other links

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 08:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #30

    You should see a Charlie link...

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    yeah probably a “right” Charlie link...

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    31

    Did see the “Charlie” signals link - not seeing a connection to Jose Oriba - is he mentioned by name?

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redp0ll

    @31 Chicureo, if you dont lay off on the pink gins in the wardroom your mess bill is going to be horrendous this month.

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 10:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    33
    There is no link to Jose Oriba...he's playing you for a fool...
    because you are a fool ...looking for a link on a naval site after he has stated that he has a social media site...
    There's always one idiot....
    The whole thing is a hoax....like I mentioned yesterday....

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 10:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #34 redpoll

    Actually at home to watch the Copa America with a glass of 2013 Colchagua Malbec.

    Imagine someone had a curiosity about someone anonymously surfing at www.armada.mil.uy, EMINT would immediately identify the IP and some other basic information as well implant cookies and spyware. (Especially if the person knew a specific page they visited.) There are a number of sources that would provide tracking information. Hypothetically, EMIT could see through a secured server and learn a lot. But really I don't know very much about the subject myself.

    A very simple and basic example is at: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
    Click on the red button and you'll get an idea.

    Good luck to your national team!

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 11:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    Imagine all the fools that don't use a VPN....Doh!

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 11:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    Yes, it's rumored that basic hacking cannot break through a VPN, however EMINT N2 of the Uruguayan Navy hypothetically could like a hot knife through butter. (They're a small navy, but their vessels don't roll over and sink at the dock...). Anyway, that's only conjecture on my part...

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 11:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    You pay for what you get..roaming networks not fixed to a single IP address..not a chance of linking back to the source....
    Beside only an idiot like Troy would go looking for a link on what was clearly stated in the address as a naval site...
    Talk about obvious...Doh!

    Jun 16th, 2015 - 11:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    39 sure, voice...

    paranoid, much???

    “hypothetically”, “rumoured”...

    Chicureo has nothing, or he would have been crowing by now.

    Neither have you.

    I can confidently say, that should my IP ever be captured, it would be unique from any other on Mercopress.

    I expected this sort of childishness from “voice”, but “Chicureo”...?
    “voice” and “Think” could not say the same.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 12:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #39

    ....I'm so glad and feel relieved that nothing might somehow REGIN because of my careless surfing. Especially since I have commercially available virus protection installed on my computer as well as my router....

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 12:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    Chicureo has not done himself any favours at all....
    Who is going to take him seriously from now on..
    ...crazy guy....
    Still at least he doesn't think I'm Mr. Think...;-)))))

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 12:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #42

    More like the sock puppets, Hansel and Gretel that came across the house of sweets...

    Cookies REGIN I'm my estimation of sweets.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 12:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    I think it's about time to leave this naive delusional nutcase to ramble on to himself content in his idiocy...spreading his memes throughout the threads...politely ignored with sympathetic sighs....
    I think the breakdown is complete....
    RIP Chicureo...

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 12:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #44

    Oh I wouldn't worry about the nutcase..

    If you do start having strange problems, I suggest the following site as friendly advice:
    http://www.howtogeek.com/202590/stop-trying-to-clean-your-infected-computer-just-nuke-it-and-reinstall-windows/

    Have you been watching the Copa America? It's great!

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 12:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    And hiper overly concluded.........Argentina is not a mainly Italian country but a Hispanic one.

    Chi chi le le
    Chi-chi-cu-reo-reo
    Chileno- culeado

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 12:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #46 José

    We're all having a great time here and are not concerned about defending Argentines.

    You shouldn't be concerned either if programs like Windows Update, Task Manager, Regedit, System Restore, or Msconfig fail to work in the next few weeks.

    Mercopress has an excellent firewall and there is no danger of problems as long as you stay on the site. Just relax and enjoy the experience.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 01:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    42.
    Can it be that Chicureo is Mr Think??? Mr Think always calls him “little Chilean brother”

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 01:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #48 José

    Difficult as it may be hard for you to understand, having THINK considering me as his “little Chilean brother”is an honor. There are two timepieces he owns of Russian and “Portuguese” Swiss design which I'd be ready to buy a moment's notice, if it weren't for my “troubles and strife”...

    YankeeBoy

    Someone has been in a bar fight and many sock puppets now lie face down in their own vomit of too many cookies and blood.

    No southern Italians my arse...

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 02:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @49

    Has anyone been found impersonating an Egyptian yet? We've had pretty much everything else.

    http://www.answers.com/Q/Why_was_impersonating_an_Egyptian_a_capital_offense_in_eigteenth_century_England

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 09:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    “And hiper overly concluded.........Argentina is not a mainly Italian country but a Hispanic one.”

    And the UK is not a mainly Muslim country but a Christian one. So we can now put that meme to bed.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 09:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #50 Hans

    Oh no, let's hope not! We already have enough Gypsies and sock puppets here at Mercopress.

    The moral of the story is at @28, which reminds me of the benefit of flypaper. Imagine a lonely obscure link that rarely gets visited, receives several hits in a short period of time. Strange you would think...

    Reminds me also to never open a page you don't trust, as you could end up with a stomach full of cookies and sweets, yet not realizing you consumed them. Take the hypothetical case of visiting an obscure page of the Uruguayan Navy. Not only could they go right through all the walls and “see your soul”, but then trace your sins through a third party service re that collects data on where that unique IP has been frequently visiting.

    How you might ask? Truthfully it's far beyond my pay grade, but imagine sock puppets named Hansel and Gretel that leave a trail of cookie crumbs all over trail. Anyway, it's only a fairy tail.

    The moral of this story is that those with pure hearts have nothing to worry about.
    If my had something to hide however, I just might go for @45.
    Hypothetically thinking at least...

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @50 I brought this subject up at a dinner about a week ago in the context of dormant laws in the British legal system. I believe it was once a capital offence to impersonate an Egyptian. We came to the conclusion that being Egyptian must have had some special status that people tried to abuse. Something similar would have been the Jewish people allowed into England under the protection of The Crown to conduct banking when it was still illegal for Christians to do so. We are talking centuries ago.

    With regards to sock-puppets, as I said before, it doesn't really matter. I have no doubt at all that people use more than one identity on here to stir shit. Like anyone assuming an identity, they cannot sustain it. Their true character traits and use of idioms always shows them up. Though why they are so keen to garner personal information as opposed to debating is plain weird. Maybe they are incapable of debate.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    LOL @ Hamas, Elaine & Chicureo. Scratching each others backs and bitching to themselves.

    3 bitter cunts of Hard Head.

    Grow up.... Ohhh shit they combined age is like 250 years...... of State employement.

    No street smartness at all. Ohh well.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #53 Elaine

    From what I read in a historical book about Judaism, Egyptian was a name for Gypsy. It was a way of condemning the entire group from engaging in any “Gypsy” negative stereotypical behavior. There were special permits for the rare specimens of Chinese, Arabs and Indians that arrived to seaports that were bizarre.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @55 Could well be true. We have some extraordinary laws that seem absurd now but there is always a reason behind it.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 02:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #56 Elaine

    Chile has a few strange laws as well. We were the last country in the Western Hemisphere (ten years ago) to legalize divorce.

    From La Tercera:

    Article 496 of the Chile Penal Code punishes all those who profit from making “premonitions” or interpreting dreams.

    Article 404 indicates that you must face “imprisonment in its minimum degree” if you challenge your opponent to a duel.

    Under the Chilean Constitution the presidente/a is not allowed to marry or become a godfather/godmother without the consent of Congress.

    Of course, we have adopted her as our “Momi”...

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    54
    I did warn you a long time ago that they would turn on you...
    I didn't realise they would then turn on each other...poor Troy...all that sycophant-ing got him nowhere...
    Ya gotta laugh....;-)))

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @54

    Here's an interesting passage I recently came across :

    “Studies of perpetrator motivation explain that those who incite acts of hate are seeking to rid themselves and the world around them of its unsettling, messy, ambiguities and complexity. The perpetrator mentality is one of 'splitting' - that is all-or-none black and white thinking. Perpetrators often see themselves as enlightened, as holders of a greater truth, superior to their foes, above reproach and accountability, struggling to break free of a world of dichotomies”

    Remind you of anyone?

    It's from the book “Hitler's Furies”, a study of Nazi women, by Wendy Lower.

    @56 I believe it's still legal to walk like one, or the Bangles might have got into trouble.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 02:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    59
    Conqueror...?

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    58.
    Yeah they are bloody insane... Too much time to waste stalking and spreading goebblian lies just to discredit people.

    Amazing list however....
    CD2, Troy Tempest, Voice, Trunce, Brasilero... and in the nick of time Hamas broke in to lick his backiside if not he would have fallen in the bag as well.

    Jesus... Im still waiting for a explination of who is Jose Oribe a link to his profile and a proof of why him living in the USA is me...

    Ohhh well sure enough Chile's finests are at it.

    You do get the impression that they are a bunch of old cunts that have lived in a jar all their lives.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #59 Hans

    Yes, unfortunately there are miscreants that fit the profile perfectly.

    Speaking of miscreants, and just making a few minor changes to a paragraph over at the current OAS article, it puts the current Peronist mentality in a historical perspective and and showing what bullies they are.

    “Reich Minister Timerman refers to the Falkland Islanders as a 'non people' since they were 'implanted' and thus with no rights to Lebensraum (”living space”) or self determination, while Reich President Fernandez refers to them as 'non-Latin squatters' and calls for a Final Solution to relocate elsewhere”...

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    59
    I've got it....Yankeeboy....?

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    FYI Comments from:
    6-12-14-16-18-20-22-27-29-30-32-33-35-37-39-40-42-44-46-48-54-58-60-61-63- are all from the same sock puppeteer. There is no telling of how many other ignorant adolescent identities he uses on this board.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 03:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    Troy again @20 @30 & he even posts himself as a puppet @12...

    Hey Mini Me go to bed now and set the alarm clock at 4.00 pm in the morning, you are doing the Scotland time table shift

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    FYI Comments from:
    6-14-16-18-20-22-27-29-30-32-33-35-37-39-40-42-44-46-48-54-58-60-61-63- are all from the same sock puppeteer. There is no telling of how many other ignorant adolescent identities he uses on this board.

    (José corrected that @12 was an error...)

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redp0ll

    @56,57. Trial by Single combat.
    This old method of settling legal disputes was I think still on the Statute book in Scotland till 1985 when a litigant insisted on his right to settle his case by this method and issued a chalenge to fight the Queens Champion in Scotland, at that time Lord Lyon King of Arms.
    As this gentleman was well over 80 years old, perhaps not a very fair contest.
    I write from memory as there is only a passing refernce on Wikipedia.
    The law was also invoked in England in 2002 by amechanic who offered to fight to the death with kukris the chief Clerk of the DVLA over a vehicle licencing fine of 25 pounds. On appeal he lost his case as the relevant statute had been repealed in 1818.
    Perhaps the most entertaining case , although fictitious, was The board of Inland Revenue v Hadddock where Mr Haddock wrote a cheque to the tax authorities on the side of a live cow, “ duly stamped on the horn dexter”.
    A.P Herbert was writer for “Punch”and conducted a lifelong vendetta against the tax authorities. The twists and turns of the case makes hilarious reading

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tarquin Fin

    Hey kids! Easy on each other ...

    Chicureo is no yankeeboy
    CD2 is not any of those other people

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #67 redpoll

    Lots of legal nonsense in the UK. I remember traveling with my wife from Scotland to London and experienced a Pakistani shopkeeper refusing our Scottish banknotes. My wife became enraged and began a quoting an English non-existent law that gave her the right to have the shopkeeper jailed for a day for refusing the Queen's legal tender.... The shopkeeper quickly changed his position.

    Supposedly, there's still a law on the books in Peru that fines anyone that addresses a llama with profanity...

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 04:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    67
    I like it...I'll fight you all....

    Oh no Tarquin Fin defends CD...he's now going to be added to the list...
    69
    There is a difference between English and Scottish banknotes....
    The English one says
    Bank of England promises to pay the bearer on demand...Twenty Pounds...
    The Scottish equivalent says..
    Bank of Scotland or Royal Bank of Scotland or Clydesdale....promises to pay the bearer on demand Twenty Pounds Sterling...
    Must mean something...

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 05:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    I used to think Scottish banknotes could not be refused but I think they can. Also, there is a maximum amount you can pay in small change before they can be refused in favour of notes- though I can't be bothered to look it up.

    I knew about the divorce laws of Chile but annulments were available if you had the money, right?

    The conversation I had at dinner the other week also moved on to the strange covenants that can be attached to property here in England. Some people have found themselves liable for repairing the parish church even if they have never set foot in the church and are, in fact, practising satanists due to an ancient covenant.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 05:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    Arturo Vidal & Chicureo had more cups than Chile will ever win.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #71 Elaine

    I spent some time in training in Dartmouth and Bedford England where I learned you couldn't force a shopkeeper to legally accept more than 20 pence in individual coins, but you could make him accept Scottish or Irish (North) banknotes. (They hate it because they have to keep it separate and deposit it apart from the English money. Apparently there are a few other regulations, but you can make them accept notes issued by the Bank of Scotland.

    As far as marriage, the only solution in Chile prior to 2005 was murder or an annulment. Costly due to lawyers and time. The really well connected then would also arrange a Catholic annulment through the Vatican that was even more costly.

    What has really changed in the past 30 plus years has been women's rights. Today women in Chile have more legal rights today than men.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 06:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Voice

    #73 You will know the Carved Angel then? My boat is in Dartmouth Marina. We are often there our holiday home is up at Dittisham. If I am a sock, I am a posh sock. I note Voicy is sobering up, must be the rain they had today?

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 06:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    What do you think...?
    Is my The Voice extra bonus sock puppet developing nicely...?
    Should I have him as a dynamic workaholic or a retiree...?
    ...how about a bit of a military background...that always works a treat..
    An ex Trawler Captain maybe...nah ...that's been done...
    Any suggestions...?

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 07:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CaptainSilver

    The Voice, we prefer the Cherub. I had my boat upriver at Noss Marina but we moved it back to the Hamble a couple of years ago because it was rather far away from our pile. Dartmouth is a very nice place though. We still visit regularly because our daughter lives nearby.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Voice

    #75 There was not so many pipers in the Scots Guards when they visited the Falklands in 82. Some strange names and ordinary ones too. Cross reference that with Dunoon and environs and bingo, we have Big Mac! Like me to give you a ring?
    Or, are you Para Handy in disguise? A scruffy puffer where you cook brekky on a shovel is about your mark. House prices are very cheap in Dunoon. You could move down here, we have trailer parks for folk like you :-]))) The westhers much better

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #76 Captain

    Beautiful place. I was fortunate to attend classes at the BRNC.

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    Jun 17th, 2015 - 07:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Voice

    Captain, we love Dittisham, the pub is a hoot, as you probably know you can Anchor in the pool up there and dinghy over to the pontoon. Very nice spot. Agatha's house nearby is interesting to visit. All the yacht clubs in the area are great too, excellent views, cheap beer.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    Captain

    FYI
    Voice is a sock puppet.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tarquin Fin

    @78 Chicureo

    Are you seriously including me in your black list?

    If anything, I could be your “suck puppet” since I praised your post in the other thread.

    Come on, you're a reasonable man with lots of wit. Don't go McArthy on us.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

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    Jun 17th, 2015 - 10:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tarquin Fin

    Wow! Did I just spearheaded the beast? Dang!!!

    I find it rather funny than offensive. Guess that is because I perceive some tone of irony in your sudden ostracism.

    Or should all of us in that list be taken to “Estadio Nacional”?

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 10:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    You mean like the 30,000 Argentine “desaparecidos” that as ordered by President Videla were thrown from helicopters to their deaths into the Plate river? Certainly not, as we have our stadium filled with people all over the world enjoying Copa America.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 10:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tarquin Fin

    No, I mean like: what's your point about gathering such an heterodox group like Conqueror, Voice, The voice, CD2, Troy Tempest and myself in a black list?

    It is even more surprising when I recall that we've had an interesting and respectful exchange of views in the past.

    You just don't sound like you today.

    As a side note, you are pretty much aware that the 30,000 missing during the “process” is hardly tenable anymore. That number has been inflated -as most things in Argentina currently do- due to propaganda purposes. As a second side note, I'm not denying the atrocities carried out by the Junta, including but not limited to dropping political prisoners from helicopters.

    Have a good night sir.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 11:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    Conqueror is not a sock puppet. He is one of a kind.

    You were too curious about José...

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 11:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    His medication ran out...there is no reasoning with a crazy person...
    I don't see a mention by Tarquin Fin of any Jose on this thread...
    ..the guy has lost the plot...

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 11:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tarquin Fin

    But your list includes post #6 which belongs to 'Conqueror'. Besides, I never even mentioned that 'Jose' guy.

    I just stated that I believed that CD2 is who he says he is because he did mention some little known things from Cordoba which would be rather rare to come by in Wikipedia or other internet sources.

    Scrolling back then *and only then* I find some link that you posted about this 'Jose Oribe' being CD2 and a link to some site which other posters warned against.

    Jun 17th, 2015 - 11:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    85

    Brasileiro and Trunce are also in the infamous list.

    It started with a debate he coudnt sustain, he lost and for worst there was also some pussy he wanted to impress and the only way for a honorable retreat was consistently lying that I’m this guy Jose Oribe, then he just went entirely paranoid and suffered a melt down.

    The only option left for him is keep on lying and lying in hope that someone believes him

    Jun 18th, 2015 - 12:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tarquin Fin

    Occam's razor dictates that the simpler explanation is usually (not always) the right one.

    Everybody is entitled to day or rage. I know I had some of those on my own.

    Jun 18th, 2015 - 01:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

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