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Malvinas-distance electronic boards to be posted in Buenos Aires City
Buenos Aires City legislative council approved on Thursday a bill by which road electronic boards must be posted in the Argentine capital indicating direction and distance to the Falklands/Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, which are claimed by Argentina. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThis cretin is a bit of a Fuk-ing idiot then!
Nov 06th, 2015 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh dear, another shot in each foot!
Epic BS. Truly epic BS.
Nov 06th, 2015 - 11:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0I want an electronic billboard where they point how far we are from the developed world. That should be our goal.
I suggest they should put up a sign for Narnia and Atlantis. They already have the mythical Malvinas and P Argentino wherever that may be?
Nov 06th, 2015 - 12:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Losers
I am waiting for some poor deluded prat trying to drive there and asking directions for the bridge .
Nov 06th, 2015 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They are not even slightly embarrassed?
Nov 06th, 2015 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm sure the money could be much better spent on sorting out some of the much more urgent urban and social problems which affect the daily lives of the citizens of BA.
Nov 06th, 2015 - 01:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps instead of wasting money they could be feeding, rehousing, and creating jobs for the 25% of the population that live in abject poverty?
Nov 06th, 2015 - 01:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I remember on Duncan Dares (1980s) when he tried to drive a water-tight VW Beetle with a raised exhaust and wheel paddles from Portpatrick in Scotland the 12 miles to Northern Ireland. I think he got halfway before it died and he had to be rescued. So I'm guessing a 300 mile drive across the S.Atlantic is a bit of a stretch, especially given that La Campora can't even manage it in a boat?
Nov 06th, 2015 - 01:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Comon not April fools day yet is it? God I cannot believe that the Argies are soooooo stupid, they were not so stupid when I was there. Still education is a good thing right? perhaps indoctrination is a better word than education.
Nov 06th, 2015 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Their silly electronic boards may as well say “10,000,000kms” or 100,000 years because the Argies have no hope of gaining any control over the Islands as long as they pursue such a childish and stupid attitude.
Nov 06th, 2015 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How juvenile can they get? This takes the prize for idiotic behaviour!
Nov 06th, 2015 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0little toys for little boys.
Nov 06th, 2015 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I sit here reading about these electronic boards shaking my head in bewilderment. Are these people completely, utterly and irretrievably bonkers or what??
Nov 06th, 2015 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So its official. They have all gone completely bonkers.
Nov 06th, 2015 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps there should be an electronic sign in Bs As estimating the distance between Argentina and reality.
Nov 06th, 2015 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina, ha sido, sos, y será siempre el hazmerreír del mundo.
I have a couple of suggestions for the council. In the interests of education and public safety include a “No Entry” symbol. And then more information relating to the direction and distance to the United Kingdom. Perhaps with a graphic of an RAF Voyager to represent 16 Air Assault Brigade. Or perhaps graphics to represent the British Army, Royal Air Force, Royal Marines and Royal Navy.
Nov 06th, 2015 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@16 - I would think it more meaningful to the local choripaneros that the signs show a Royal Navy nuclear submarine symbol with accompanying suppressed-trajectory cruise missile making its way inexorably to the Pink House with an unambiguous message.
Nov 06th, 2015 - 03:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0C'mon, is anybody going to say it... ?
Nov 06th, 2015 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Gabriel's Fukked!
They can't get the sign right. If you are going to display a sign in “ English ” at least get the sign correct. In “ English ” it reads 3 kilometres and 144 metres and not 3144 kilometres, should read 3,144 Km. Note Argies the full stop should be a comma. Look and learn.
Nov 06th, 2015 - 04:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0by all means sign post your war dead as a reminder of Argentine foolishness
Nov 06th, 2015 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sort of self-defeating to remind people that offshore islands they don't occupy, administered by Britain for 200 years, are over 3000 km away from the relatively small UP
Nov 06th, 2015 - 05:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The initiative was sponsored by three council members ”
Nov 06th, 2015 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They call this initiative?
How about taking some initiative and taking the case to the ICJ?
“so these electronic boards will show to our visitors a characteristic of our identity as 'porteños' ”
Unfortunately for you fukface , tourists will not have been indoctrinated and all this will show is a bunch of idiots have turned a potentially great country into a shambles.
Will the tourists be treated to more burning tyres and pelted with stones if they ignore the notice boards? Will it be stamped in the passport on entry “You are required by Argentine law to stop and look at the noticeboards or you will be deported for sneeping the Great republic of Argentina”
Brainwashing....at its best ! will only work on the portion of uneducated Porteños, not on foreign tourists.
Nov 06th, 2015 - 06:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 19 golfcronie
Nov 06th, 2015 - 07:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't forget that Jibber-jabber uses WTF it likes, especially in the lowest level of Jibber-jabber in SA, namely The Dark Country.
65 'standard' verbs and a full pack of 12,292 'verbs' means you are spoilt for choice!
It is even more complicate in Uruguay:
'b' is pronounced bee and so is 'v'!
The letter 'y' is generally 'sha' so playa (beach) is 'plasha'.
I could go on and on but there is one claim made by Spain that is disingenuous to the point of lying and it relates to 'Spanish is the second language of the world'. It is a fact that Uruguayos visiting Spain are unintelligible to those who use castellan and my Spanish teacher's daughter (20yo) who speaks perfect English was very upset when she visited Spain and people laughed at how she sounded.
But what can you expect from the ignorant Spanish?
I asked my Espanol teacher how you could differentiate the verbs when the same word can mean 5 or 6 different things? She said “it's how you form the sentence”!
That's why Espanol should NEVER be used in legal documents where money is involved.
#19 golfcronie
Nov 06th, 2015 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“They can't get the sign right....Note Argies the full stop should be a comma. Look and learn.”
The sign is in Spanish, my dear--not in English by any means!
And in Spanish, we use periods for separation every three digits. The comma is for decimals. Live and learn.
#24 ChrisR
“Don't forget that Jibber-jabber uses WTF it likes...Jibber-jabber in SA, namely The Dark Country...It is even more complicate in Uruguay.”
For Chris' sake. Don't drink and write. What this piece of literature means?
Listen, Chris. There is a secret. Yes, I confess! We speak Spanish with different accents in most Latin American countries--indeed, we speak with different accents in most Argentine provinces! Some of those accents are very colorful, like the famous tonada in the Córdoba province. Love those accents.
The famous PLASHA is uttered by porteños.
Hey, if you want to get really down to it, there is no such thing as Español. If you go to Spain you got to say Castellano.
Why? Because Spain has several different languages including vasco, gallego, valenciano, catalán...and the so-called Spanish is in reality the language spoken in the Castilla region--the Castellano! Comprende?
Oh, and you show a bit of ignorance when you talk about Spanish having many synonyms. You have lot of them in English as well!
“The purpose of the boards is to ensure the “Malvinas cause” remains ever present in “the society's collective” and displayed to millions of tourists said councillor Fuks”
Nov 06th, 2015 - 08:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ok, so this guy is a weapons grade idiot. That is no reason for everyone else to pat him on the back and say “well done!” It will only encourage him.
Can a lie imprison a country?
Case in point:- argentina and the “Malvinas cause”......
Answers on a postcard please.
P.s:- Someone should really have warned him, his name says it all.
@24 Chris R
Nov 06th, 2015 - 09:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I asked my Espanol teacher how you could differentiate the verbs when the same word can mean 5 or 6 different things? She said “it's how you form the sentence”!
So when Galteiri said the British will not come in 1982, was the Spanish such that he actually meant:
They won't come.?
They might not come?
They might come?
I know damn well they are going to come?
Perhaps he formed the sentence the wrong way?
And did the commanders in the field order:
Fight the English to the death?
Perhaps fight to the death?
Perhaps not fight to the death?
Wait till you see the whites of their eyes and wave the white flag?
Surrender anyway?
Spanish seems very interesting. Perhaps it explains the people that speak it.
@25
”And in Spanish, we use periods for separation every three digits.”
That is actually interesting-I have indeed learned something from you.
But in English, full stops slow a sentence, so why is it that when you hear CFK speak, it comes out at the speed of a fax machine/like a verbal machine gun on full auto? (i.e jibber jabber).
All credit to you people for understanding speech at this speed, it must be like catching 15 speeding bullets all at once.
…with your teeth!
Nov 06th, 2015 - 09:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let us not forget, people, that this is, in fact, news! Amazing! And they call it “an initiative”! Words fail me.
Nov 06th, 2015 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(Note the correct use of commas and full stops).
Bloody hell Enrique your sign has “ periods ” most women in the world have “ periods ” every month when they are of child bearing age.
Nov 06th, 2015 - 09:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@25 ... “and the so-called Spanish is in reality the language spoken in the Castilla region-...”
Nov 06th, 2015 - 11:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This Enrique character is so misinformed on so many subjects, and not just his misconceptions concerning Argentina. But since I speak castellano (complete with the theta and the vosotros) and a good deal of català -- and I attended university in Spain before coming to Argentina -- I'll address his silly pronouncement on the topic: castellano is spoken universally throughout Spain, whether as a first or second language, and not just in “the castilla region” ( a most ambiguous concept at best). Even in the so-called autonomous regions, and as much as they might hate to admit it there, castellano is still the common language in the country. When in the Països Catalans I have had some amusing conversations in which I speak solely castellano and the local fellow stubbornly replies in nothing but català, but when there is a sale to be made it is clear who is kidding who.
As far as Enrique listing Valencian and Catalan as two of the languages there -- technically the former is a dialect of the latter. Even the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua officially considers that català and valencià are essentially the same language. They are as mutually intelligible as chilensis and argentinsis.
Next subject, please.
One small question for all and sundry and that is where in Argentina is 3144km from Port Stanley? The sign shown above seems to say 'Saladillo -Buenos Aires' but I'm fairly sure, although I'm happy to be corrected that BA is only around 2000 km from Port Stanley.
Nov 06th, 2015 - 11:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”...has the purpose of ensuring that the “Malvinas cause” remains ever present in “the collective mind of our society”.
Nov 07th, 2015 - 02:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0If they have to go to these lengths to keep the cause in the 'collective mind' of Argentine society, they must be losing the great lost Malvinas argument at home as well as abroad.
The telescreen underneath will watch anyone who objects.
Nov 07th, 2015 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ The initiative was sponsored by three council members belonging to President Cristina Fernández Victory Front...” maybe they can make it automatically point the way cfk ran when they came to arrest her.
Nov 07th, 2015 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0@32
Nov 07th, 2015 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Darragh, you are correct it is according to Google 1,794 Km from Saladillo to Stanley, they can't even get that right.
I seem to remember a thumping great signpost just outside of Port Stanley with all points under the sun being shown but I can't remember if Buenos Aires was one of those destinations. If the Argentinians want to erect signposts on their own soil, they are quite welcome to do it. Just as long as they don't try to put their signposts on the Falklands.
Nov 07th, 2015 - 01:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@36 and @32
Nov 07th, 2015 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Remember that there is a great deal of Argentina beyond Bs As province (though the porteños are largely unaware of it). And there are towns called Saladillo in other provinces.
If you look at Saladillo in Jujuy province then yes, it is more than 3000 km to the Falklands.
Not that anyone in Jujuy cares.
@38
Nov 07th, 2015 - 03:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks Marti, but the sign distinctly says Saladillo Buenos Aires but I take your point.
@39 --That part of the sign you see refers to the Argie veterans' organisation in Bs As province and is probably trying to suggest a link between Saladillo in Jujuy and the Bs As-based organisation.
Nov 07th, 2015 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 25 Riki Mashed Potato Head
Nov 07th, 2015 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh dear! You are so brilliant with English you cannot see the obvious? I inadvertently left out the 'd' at the end of 'complicate(d)! And you were lost!
BTW I don't drink alcohol and have not done so in 34 years except to toast someone's birthday.
It is the same in UYU. I ride a 1,255cc, four cylinder, 16V, twin cam. fuel injection with eight actual fuel injectors (2 per cylinder) for additional power above 7,000 rev/min and the owner of the local pissant moto shop refers to it as 'grande moto'. My new next door neighbour cannot speak English so I referred to my bike in the same terms which puzzled him. His 28 YO son said 'moto grande' and he understood perfectly: go figure.
Anyway Riki MPH, HTF do you know what they say in The Dark Country, you haven't been back in decades?
@ 27 Pete Bog
One amusing thing is to watch a family at dinner with 6 or more people. I know in the UK somebody can talkover someone else but it is rare to experience ALL 6 talking at the top of their voice at the same time!
I have been here 5 years next May and whilst I can read Jibber-jabber quite well, unless the speaker is speaking 'slowly' for the locals, I cannot differentiate many spoken words. Clock tripled Pentium about covers it.
But who GAF, I don't, I get on well with everybody I meet and together we can usually work things out.
The signpost is sure to confuse many Porteños.....they'll see it indicating a distance of 3,144 kms , and wonder how some land, that far away, could possibly be Argie territory ?? And what about when the more adventurous want to go to Pto. Argentino on a vacation and think they can drive all the way there ?? They'd better put their life-belts on or learn how to swim.
Nov 07th, 2015 - 07:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For all of our Argentinian friends commenting on this website - here's something to think about. The distance from Nuuk in Greenland to Copenhagen in Denmark is 3,532 km (according to Google so apologies if there is a kilometre difference or two.) Neither Canada or America complain about a “colonial” power such as Denmark running (and ruling) a vast country, full of natural resources which is probably closer to both of their continental land masses than Denmark is. (These damned Danes... stealing our good American land... yeah...right)
Nov 07th, 2015 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So why is Buenos Aires being so childish about an such an insignificant land mass as the FALKLAND islands based purely on geographic proximity? Based on the “Greenland” premise, the British should surrender the Channel Islands, the Chinese should give up the Spratlys and the Australians should claim New Zealand (hang on... that would be ridiculous... wouldn't it?)
@41 “Grande moto” isn't correct Spanish. I think you need some practice.
Nov 07th, 2015 - 11:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@43 Anyone in Argentina would tell you the Danes didn't take the land from Canada or USA, but the British took their land from us.
Also, for Argentina, more land is always good, and no piece of land is insignificant.
@44 Remind us. who did you take the land from.
Nov 07th, 2015 - 11:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“More land is good ”
Wasn't there an Austrian who had similar sentiments ?
@43
Nov 07th, 2015 - 11:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Because Denmark did not ATTACK Canada or the United States. Britain did attack and try to destroy Argentina. If you can't see the difference, you are a moron.
And yes Argentina has complained about Danish colonialism back in 2005. You should get the F“”” out of there because you are oppressive cunts.
Just like the Spanish, French, Dutch, Germans, Italians, English, and even Scottish, Belgians, etc... You EUians are pathetic, and deserve what you are getting now with the refugee Tsunami.
I told you people years ago, what goes around will come around. Well it's now true. Live with it... if you had only all apologized.
@46 The best thing that could have happened to Argenzuela would have been its becoming a British colony. Instead of sinking to the bottom of Letrine America, it might have learnt some manners and decency, as well as a of sense of responsibility and a limited tolerance for today's phenomenal rates of corruption and robbery. In that way Argenzuela would have avoided the demi-fascist peronismo. As an English colony Argenzuela would have enjoyed something better than its history of perpetual default and perennial economic chaos, its tendency to murder or disappear some 30.000 of its own during the 1970s (I was briefly detained myself, in southern Bs As province, so I know whereof I speak on such matters). Small wonder that Argenzuela finds itself now considered one of the worst places in the world to do business, why its inflation is still off the graph, and why its neighbours consider it to be “.... una manga de ladrones, del primero al último”.
Nov 08th, 2015 - 02:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0@47
Nov 08th, 2015 - 07:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Welcome to the 21st century Martin Llaco. Which means, no one buys the brainwashing, written in history books written by the BRITISH and distributed through their ex-empire and other areas, that the British were a good thing for humanity.
With the exception of one or two ex-British colonies, the rest are HELLHOLES far worse than Argentina. Spanish colonies are all mediorce, British ones are one or two good ones the rest shit worse. To tell you most Zimbabweans, Indians, and Guyanians would break a leg to go live in El Salvador or the Dominican for example.
And the one or two “good nations” on some areas are absolute murderous bastard nations in other areas. Canada and Australia, the only two good ones, to be specific. I read a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, they made a great point: While the United States (one of the horrible hellholes that is a former UK colony), puts 99% of troops and money to invade, destroy, and commit genocide on other nations in wars of aggression, it is the 1% combined by Canada and Australia that give any remote LEGITIMACY to the actions of the US. So while the actual contribution is negligible, the geo-political one is immense. So Australia and Canada are just as guilty of the genocide of 250,000 Iraqis, the deaths of tens of thousands of soldiers, and, via the creation of IS that this war brought about, the deaths of TENS OF THOUSANDS more around the middle east, Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, India, Pakistan, etc, in the last 5 years from terrorist attacks inspired directly or indirectly by IS. Even Malala, Charlie Hebdo, the British soldier hacked to death, the Canada parliament shooings, the cafe shooting in Australia... ALL THE FAULT OF OTTAWA AND CANBERRA.
Not even one investigation about their involvement has been undertaken by those corrupt, evil governments. As the Australian paper put it... the Ozzer government opened a Royal Inquiry into some roof collapse but none on this war.
So no, take your words and ---
@48 You poor, unhappy, petty minded, pettifogging little troll you. Go and eat a Snickers...
Nov 08th, 2015 - 08:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0@48 Nostrils,
Nov 08th, 2015 - 10:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Diddums dahlink!
Did an Anglo girl turn you down?
You have an unusual slant on history, but we'll let that slide.
At last you've stopped feeling sorry for your self……er, haven't you?
But you are right when you say that Australia & Canada(&Britain!) should stop getting involved in America's wars. l've always said that.
l can see what the USA is up to. lts called sharing the guilt.
lf the US stopped meddling in the Middle East(oil, oil & more oil!)& the stupid Europeans stopped muslim immigration, none of these problems would be here.
But we can't have peace, can we.
Unfortunately the Anglo nations(they are not all Anglo blood now)do what they are told by the USA.
Time for a realignment of defence treaties.
#48
Nov 08th, 2015 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0So we should believe the Argentine version of history ? How convenient for you.
Mr. hyperbole strikes again. Living in the perfect society of Argentina which has NEVER so much as lifted a finger to harm anyone.
Who fell out of the sky into an uninhabited paradise and by dint of “hardwork” ruined it. That did take a form of genius not even your Euians could replicate.
Whatever you think, the Muslim world was in a collision course with itself.
Sunnis hate Shiites and vice versa. It is battle for domination that has nothing to do with western ideology.
ISAL are primarily killing fellow Muslims who disagree with their philosophy.
The West's mistake was getting rid of dictators and assuming that democracy would be put in it's place.
The dictators would have been eventually overthrown by their own people, but chaos, as now, would have still ensued.
The nearest equivalent is the conflict between Roman Catholicism and the Protestant reformation in the 15th/17th centuries.
As to Indians desperate to go to El Salvador or Guyana ? What a load of bullshit. Indians choose to emigrate to the UK, USA, Canada, or other English speaking countries where their talents can be appreciated.
Not banana republics
Europe is such a hell hole that millions of Syrians, Somalis, Iraqis ,sub equatorial Africans are dying in droves trying to get to N.Europe.....the homeland of your despised Anglos. NB. not your Hispanic or Latino countries.
They don't seem to think about S.America as an alternative.
Why could this be ?
As you succinctly put it...what goes around comes around...it will be coming your way soon.
Signs and propaganda...Keep that up: people will get even more bored than they are now.
Nov 08th, 2015 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Troll at 48...you really have lost it haven't you. I understand BsAs has more psychiatrists than any other city in the world...wonder why. Maybe you should check in.
Nov 08th, 2015 - 01:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps the boards should count the number day since they last lost the Islands as well?
Nov 08th, 2015 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Make it a really depressing reminder for the Malvinazis, of who is best.
@ 48 Just_out_for_a_sTroLL
Just a bit too much in that diatribe to fit on a Billboard, I’m afraid.
Not that the average Malvinazi would understand all the big words and concepts anyway.
@ 44 MagnusMaster
Nov 08th, 2015 - 05:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unusual for you to be nit-picking but you seem to have missed the main point which was that it was a Uruguayo who said 'Grande moto', not me.
Anyway, are you telling me that you didn't understand what I was referring to: a big motorcycle' no less?
No, you are just nit-picking.
@44
Nov 08th, 2015 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ but the British took their land from us.”
Wrong. Britain's claim on the Falklands did not start in 1833.
Where was the BA government in 1765?
BA was informed of the British claim before it sent the militia in late 1832 and did not reply.
This is in a similar vein to your country's head in the sand mode', as on 23rd April 1982 when the UK warned that any Argentine forces, anywhere that were deemed to be a threat to the UKs forces were liable to attack.
Your country had been warned but decided to risk the crews of its ships, and subsequently the Belgrano was sunk, because your country AGAIN ignored a warning.
Your bad.
Vernet did not hassle British ships as he had asked permission from the British Consulate in BA to be on the Islands and after he hassled ships from the USA, it was the USA that expelled most of the population and attacked Port Louis.
It was the BA militia in 1832 that was illegal-they ended up murdering each other-a good example of how Argentine authority has developed.
Out of 22 settlers encouraged to stay by the British (this is in your records if you care to look up Pinedo), 11 including Antonio Rivero were from BA .
Most of Pinedo's sailors were British (again look up Pinedo's letters)and they were evicted (as they didn't stay).
Your claims that the British hadn't had any previous connection with the Islands and just turned up in 1833 from nowhere, are false.
@46
“Britain did attack and try to destroy Argentina.”
Rubbish, Britain did more to aid Argentina's independence than Spain.
Every little Argie town seems to have its own Malvinas monument. I first saw one at the “Tres Frontieras” tourist spot in Puerto Iguassu -which, btw, is an incredibly scruffy town considering it is the gateway to RG major tourist sight. The irony was that the monument- and the tiled area surrounding it - was in a shocking state of dis-repair. You think that they would at least maintain a propaganda piece whose obvious purpose is to influence tourists opinions...?I've since come across many more of these silly monuments and, guess what, unless very recent they're all run-down - half-broken with rain-streaked blackened concrete. In one small town in Misiones there were 2 almost next to each other - the older one had just been left in a state of total ruin and right next to it they'd built a newer one which was also not being maintained. They seem to be a metaphor for the Argentine mentality and state of the nation in general.
Nov 08th, 2015 - 10:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@57 -- It's not just the silly monuments that are in tatters. A great deal of the infrastructure here is crumbling. Except of course for a few particularly profitable paving contracts in Sta Cruz province for certain of the Kirchner Faithful with special connections. Since the present government seems to prefer wasting money on foolishness and hollow populist symbolism, they've been begging money from the Chinese for public works. Meanwhile, there is a major rail line in the north where the tracks etc are in such terrible condition it now takes longer to travel between major destinations than it did in the 19th century. And in greater Bs As it takes some people up to 4 hours to get across town on the subte -- and that's on days there there are no fatal accidents or paralysing strikes. Recall that symbolism is much more important than substance in Peronist Argenzuela.
Nov 09th, 2015 - 12:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0@56 ”Vernet did not hassle British ships as he had asked permission from the British Consulate in BA to be on the Islands and after he hassled ships from the USA, it was the USA that expelled most of the population and attacked Port Louis.
Nov 09th, 2015 - 02:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0It was the BA militia in 1832 that was illegal-they ended up murdering each other-a good example of how Argentine authority has developed.
Out of 22 settlers encouraged to stay by the British (this is in your records if you care to look up Pinedo), 11 including Antonio Rivero were from BA .
Most of Pinedo's sailors were British (again look up Pinedo's letters)and they were evicted (as they didn't stay).
Your claims that the British hadn't had any previous connection with the Islands and just turned up in 1833 from nowhere, are false.”
I didn't say you turned up of nowhere, just that you took the islands from us. Which is exactly what you did. We don't care why you took them from us, if it was illegal or not. All we care is that YOU took them from us.
And we will not stop until you and your kind follow OUR law, speak OUR language, and follow OUR international laws. Then you will learn to stop pretending to be superior and always getting your way, while treating us who want just to get a small piece we are criminals. F*ck you British who sh*t on us and expect us to like it. When you get ass-raped then you will learn to stop ass-raping others.
Magnus,
Nov 09th, 2015 - 05:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0“And we will not stop until you and your kind follow OUR law, speak OUR language, and follow OUR international laws. Then you will learn to stop pretending to be superior and always getting your way, while treating us who want just to get a small piece we are criminals. F*ck you British who sh*t on us and expect us to like it. When you get ass-raped then you will learn to stop ass-raping others.”
At least you are honest about your inferiority complex.
It's good of you to admit you're angry and unreasonable for no good reason.
Nobody has done anything TO you, for 180 years. In fact, the British helped make you great at one time, and since you've been on your own you've been in steady decline.
The Falklands have done well IN SPITE OF YOU, and you humiliated YOURSELVES by attacking and losing.
I bet you hate that.
“Nobody has done anything TO you, for 180 years.”
Nov 09th, 2015 - 06:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0You really have no shame. You know that is a complete lie on part with saying Britain was the aggressor in the Falkland's War.
Just this statement alone proves Magnus point, you expect us to allow Europeans to shit on us and just take it. In those 180 years there have been multiple acts of aggression by European nations (and non-ones), on Argentina. The fact you whitewash it proves the point about how much you disrespect people you deem inferior, a typical Europan-Anglo behavior trait.
#61 Tell me again, what is the predominant and official language in Argentina? Spanish. How European is that? The Spanish, your forebears, don't exactly have a peaceful history and also did unspeakable things in the name of civilization. They created colonies, fought wars, took slaves etcetera. You have everything to be ashamed of in your very own history
Nov 09th, 2015 - 07:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Second, even if I was, then I would agree with you. Spain's actions were execrable. Yet your country, ENGLAND, Great Britain, or whatever the correct nomenclature is, did no less than the exact same thing. And try to convince the world to this day that it was an act of benevolence.
Nov 09th, 2015 - 08:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0First reconcile your hypocrisy, then debate.
Nostrils @63 doesn't even mention the bald faced military aggression of Argentina against a peaceful civilian community of 3,000 people next door, but says,
Nov 09th, 2015 - 09:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0“... try to convince the world to this day that it was an act of benevolence.
First reconcile your hypocrisy, then debate.”
Hypocrisy at its finest!
Just the same as Magnus Master
Attacking peaceful communities of 3,000 civilians on islands the world over is just about all that BRITAIN did for 300 years at least.
Nov 09th, 2015 - 09:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0'65
Nov 09th, 2015 - 09:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0And Spain didn't? You Latams live in the past, time to move on. The UN asked ( told ) you to leave the FALKLANDS by UN 502, but no, you decided to fight . It was your choice.
Yes Spain did. And? I think you know I don't like Spain.
Nov 09th, 2015 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0EUians.
The past is the present if the past crimes go unpunished. Europe must be punished before moving on.
@67 NOSTRILS
Nov 09th, 2015 - 11:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your Jewish ethnicity was part of the European wave of colonization of SA and you exploited the opportunity to gain at the expense of the indigenous population, just as the Spanish and the Italians who settled at the same time.
#61
Nov 09th, 2015 - 11:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0”In those 180 years there have been multiple acts of aggression by European nations (and non-ones), on Argentina”
I am unaware of these multiple acts of aggression to which you refer for which we must be punished.
Could you enlighten us on what they were/are.
Let's take a datum point of 1950 onwards.......65 years would seem a reasonable timespan as it would affect most Argentinians and still be verifiable..
The only aggression I can think of was in 1982 when a mysterious country called a junta invaded the Falklands. Again, I could not blame Argentina for this as it was obvious it was nothing to do with the population.
I remember quite clearly the thousands gathering in Buenos Aires screaming their displeasure at this act .
#67 You don't like WHITE people tobi. To hate Europeans is to hate EVERYTHING in the Americas, because everything was founded and settled by white Europeans.
Nov 09th, 2015 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What tribe to you claim to be from?
I believe there was a similar sign at port Stanley in 1982, pointing in the opposite direction.....right next to a massive pile of 'only fired and dropped once' SLR's...
Nov 09th, 2015 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@70 Captain Poppy
Nov 09th, 2015 - 05:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Tobi is a caucasian male of European descent. He hates himself, hence why he hates Europeans.
He has lied in the past (shock there) and tried to claim that he was native Amerindian. But the problem with tobi is that he tells so many lies that he can't keep up, so when there was a report a couple of years ago about his 'fellow' native Amerindians accusing the Argentine government of human rights abuses, he was 1st 'troll' on here to let spew a tidal wave of racist rants against them.
In fact, since I've been viewing these boards Tobias (tobi, TTT, or whatever name he is currently going by) has stated that killing a few thousand people is okay (if they're against Argentina), and that killing a few thousand people from a population of only a few thousand, raping the women and destroying their culture ISN'T genocide (although it is in every legal definition going). And even IF Argentina had killed these natives it was all the natives fault for fighting the invading Argentines (sound familiar - always blaming someone else), and that these natives weren't from Argentina they were from Chile: because we all know that these native Amerindian tribes had the exact same territorial boundaries as the European colonists that were busy stealing their land and murdering them.
Tobias is a white male (probably adolescent) who realises that his life is already ruined, but due to indoctrination can't blame the government (because that is treason), so he turns his eyes to the success of countries in Europe, North America and Australia/New Zealand, and gets jealous. His jealousy then turns into the hateful, spiteful, lying troll that we all know and love.
And to think, he states that he doesn't back Argentina's stance over the Falklands, yet he's always the first to be defending the governments stupid policies.
@ 59 MagnusMaster
Nov 09th, 2015 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The British did not “take” the Islands from you, they “recovered” them from you, twice, in 1833 and again in 1982.
Just as the British recovered the Islands from the Spanish, when they tried to take them from us in 1771.
Anytime you want to have another go, whenever you’re ready Girls, we’ll send you straight to hell.
Unlike Atahualpa or the Mapuche, the British have more than just sticks and stones with which to defend their territory.
It’s the difference, as we say, between being able to “talk the talk” and “walk the walk”.
@72 LEPRecon
Or, he is just having a go back for what he sees as the incessant Argy Bashing that “sometimes” happens here.
Seen in that light the entertainment value is priceless, what we have crafted here over the years in Toby, is no less than a Dago version of an Anti-Conqueror.
72, 73 LEPR and Pugol
Nov 09th, 2015 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thinking that NOSTRILS is not Asian, Amerindian, Black, Muslim Arab, Pakistani, East Indian, as he has mentioned his fear or despising of these racial/ethnic groups.
He slags the “Anglos” - there is an identifiable group that is easy to despise and work up jealousies over.
As to Latin and Northern Europeans, he seems to feel he is distinct from them.
Yet obviously, NOSTRILS is a product of European migration to SA, and Argentina in particular.
He has stated proudly that his brother was fluent in Hebrew.
The ONLY group that NOSTRILS never, ever, criticizes is Israel or Jews.
It looks like this is his 'accountability loophole' to blame others for Argentina's actions.
Lep, one more point to note. He knows so little of anything in Argentina, places, locations et al, almost to the ignorant level of Enrique, one might think that he too is not on that continent. Maybe somewhere in Europe when his parents lefts....NA in Canada.
Nov 09th, 2015 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@59 Magnus master
Nov 09th, 2015 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“And we will not stop until you and your kind follow OUR law, speak OUR language, and follow OUR international laws. ”
OK
1/-Go to the ICJ
Or
2/-Fire up those Pampa jets.
Send across the Super Gauchos (that your very own Korned Beef Kate promised over the airwaves in 1982), the ones that were supposed to have knives longer than Kukris, and if you are as successful as the Brits in 1982, when we re-floated HMS Hermes and HMS Invincible after you sank them five times, then salvage your navy and have a pop, with the figurehead of 'Plastic face' Anaya on the leading ship.
The UK will be returning the Malvinas within the next 25 years.
Nov 10th, 2015 - 01:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Magnus Master has spewed his hate @59
Nov 10th, 2015 - 01:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0vocalizing his fear, resentment and inferiority has left him embarrassed.
One wonders if he was drinking - often that is when people are most honest.
As a matter of interest, why electronic boards and not permanently-fixed ones? The distance isn't going to change.
Nov 10th, 2015 - 07:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0#77 Welcome back Hepatia. I've missed your lively wit and humour. Always twenty five years. Similarly the distance from Argentina and the Falkalnds will never get any shorter. Keep dreaming
Nov 10th, 2015 - 09:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0@79 Faulconbridge,
Nov 10th, 2015 - 09:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Circumstances change……maybe Argentina will realise that Sta Cruz really belongs to us & will decide to return it!
Other than that…who knows how their brains work?(or if they work at all!).
Usually an arrow pointing upwards signifies North. So now the Mythical Malvinas are 3.144 kms from BA-to the North?
Nov 10th, 2015 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The tourists won't have far to go.
Is 3.144 Kms North of BA, Cordoba?
Argentine amigos, friends enlighten me on your geography..
That's where the Malvinas are, right?
and scratched record time again folks ...........
@77
Argentina will return Santa Cruz to the Falklands within 25 years.
@77 Hep-C
Nov 10th, 2015 - 05:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0JUSTICE FOR NISMAN!!
Argentina and her commodities will be owned by CHINA within 20 years!
China thanks CFK !
CFK and Boudou will be in jail very soon.
59 MagnusMaster
Nov 10th, 2015 - 10:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“.......Then you will learn to stop pretending to be superior and always getting your way”.
This is GREAT!! Your claim to the Falkland Islands centres on lies. Lies, lies and more lies. You don't like the truth? It sucks to be you!
and as for the :-
“Then you will learn to stop pretending to be superior.....” We don't pretend to be superior, we just are. We had the biggest empire the world has ever seen and the world has not yet forgiven us for it. After that went we went on to form the commonwealth. Other countries wish they were more like us because we are so f**king Mega.
See? Our country is just so brilliant, it even has the word “Great” in it!!
“And we will not stop until you and your kind follow OUR law, speak OUR language, and follow OUR international laws”.
It ain't EVER going to happen, E-V-E-R. Some tinpot, corrupt, banana republic at the ass end of the world? Dream on!!
You had best go back to your Stagflation and accepting back handers from corrupt government officials, we'll get on with all the important stuff.
Hugs and kisses
From the UK.
@84 “We don't pretend to be superior, we just are. ”
Nov 11th, 2015 - 12:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0See? You are the example of scum that needs to be ass-raped to hell and back. You're no different than the Nazi Germans.
@85 Magnus “Master”??
Nov 11th, 2015 - 01:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'll repeat what I said @60
“At least you are honest about your inferiority complex.
It's good of you to admit you're angry and unreasonable for no good reason.
Nobody has done anything TO you, for 180 years. In fact, the British helped make you great at one time, and since you've been on your own you've been in steady decline.
The Falklands have done well IN SPITE OF YOU, and you humiliated YOURSELVES by attacking and losing.”
Its your own fault, It eats at you. You could just take responsibility for yourselves and move on - but then who would you blame for failures?
@86 We cannot move on until we dominate you. Taking responsibility is not enough.
Nov 11th, 2015 - 02:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0@87
Nov 11th, 2015 - 04:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well, that's not going to happen, with your current attitude and blame-shifting.
Carry on being angry and feeling sorry for yourselves.
You are your own worst enemy.
...and like a spoiled child having a temper tantrum, if we notice you at all, it's only to laff at you.
I have said many times the UK is gradually and inexorably becoming the Fourth Reich: first the rise in Euro skepticism at the highest levels of government which has slowly tricked down to the masses, which has morphed into Europhobia, only a step from full and open xenophobia. On the opposite end, from the lower white British class, long ago a more traditional racism began to take hold, against south Asians primarily, also blacks and Arabs. To a lesser extent but growing against eastern EUians. Sometimes southern EUians. This racism has trickled UP, so now the UK has both the biggest racist party and biggest xenophobic parties in Europe.
Nov 11th, 2015 - 08:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0A very interesting phenomenon, where xenophobia tricked from the top down, and racism from the bottom up. Both have now merged and you have this brand of Anglo supremacist ideology permeating the culture. And getting more extreme year by year.
Eventually it will lead to war, the UK will be bombed in a way that will make Dresden look like a spark of a battery.
MagnusSlave is just another troll.
Nov 11th, 2015 - 08:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Best ignored, but it is fun to stir them up!
#89 Have you been taking your medication recently? You really ought to. Either that or you should take up writing film scripts.
Nov 11th, 2015 - 09:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0None of the facts in my post are untrue.
Nov 11th, 2015 - 10:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0#92
Nov 11th, 2015 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just because it gives you wet dreams does not make it true.
It comes from your mental instability....seek medical advice.
@80
Nov 11th, 2015 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“first the rise in Euro skepticism at the highest levels of government ”
If you paid any attention to the last set of European elections, many countries in Europe including Greece Spain and France elected Eurosceptic MEPS, France more than the UK (Marie LePenn ring any bells)?
“Eventually it will lead to war, the UK will be bombed in a way that will make Dresden look like a spark of a battery.”
By your Pampas, few remaining Skyhawks or with the Hercules you used to bomb a civilian tanker in 1982??
Dream on.
I never said it would be us.
Nov 11th, 2015 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just_out_for_a_sTroLL
Nov 11th, 2015 - 03:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are evidently an uneducated peasant who is full of self-loathing and hatred of your own country because you were never fortunate enough to be born in the greatest country in the world, Great Britain. So it gives me enormous pleasure to reinforce your despair. Read on...
Some expert opinions on poor, bankrupt, corrupt, Third World Argentina to keep you choking on your bile.
The Washington Post: “The economy is stagnant, the fiscal deficit unsustainable and growing, foreign and domestic investment pathetic, inflation running at 30 percent, drug-related violence rising and the country remains an outcast in the international financial community.”
USA Today: “The reality is that Argentina is a completely irresponsible government,” says John Baker, professor emeritus at Louisiana State University Law Centre. “They have taken a very rich country and destroyed it financially. … Without the discipline of having to be responsible to somebody, there's never any hope of change down there.”
Arturo Porzecanski, the distinguished economist, has said the Kirchner regime gave up trying to solve Argentina’s problems, it decided to leave them to the next administration. The host of problems Porzecanski lists include energy, trade, exports and imports, government spending, the tax system, huge deficiencies in the national bank, problems with price controls, import controls, exchange controls, the list goes on and on. Porzecanski calls Argentina a lawless rogue debtor.
No one could put it better. A lawless rogue debtor. We send our pity and sympathy to you.
And I for one LOVE it that Anglos think of us like that. Since the opinion of an Anglo is about as useful as a fireplace in an igloo, I just will keep posting the truth.
Nov 11th, 2015 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 097
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@96....Argentina a lawless rogue debtor.
Nov 11th, 2015 - 05:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the civilised nations Argentina is called “the serial defaulter.” It enjoyed its first default on its sovereign debt in 1827, just 11 years after declaring independence, thereby setting a record which still stands. Since that time, Argentina has elected to celebrate the glory it perceives in such recognition, as a “serial defaulter and lawless rogue debtor.”
What is Argentina going to do in December when everyone recognises that those 100-peso Evitas have no value ? When the national treasury holds only 12 centavos?
#97
Nov 11th, 2015 - 06:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I just love it when you give your opinion which only you think is the truth.
It is as useful and welcome as a fart in a space suit.
97 Just_out_for_a_sTroLL
Nov 11th, 2015 - 07:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Love it, love it, love it, chico. Here's another recent damning judgment of Argentina which we are sure will have you choking even more with rage.
You probably have never heard of this, so let me explain that it is the most prestigious and authoritative economic newspaper in the world. And it's British! Ja, ja, ja...
The Financial Times: “A century ago Argentina was one of the most prosperous countries in the world, today it has the dubious distinction of being the only country to have lost its rich nation status.
Kirchner has left behind a country in dire economic straits saddled by a yawning fiscal deficit, double-digit inflation and critically low foreign exchange reserves.
“Argentina has run out of road,” says Patrick Esteruelas, senior sovereign analyst at EMSO Partners, an emerging markets asset manager. “It’s not a question of whether there will be an [economic] adjustment or not. The real question is whether the next government moves quickly, or whether the market ends up doing the adjustment for them.”
The challenges are daunting. They include tackling a fiscal deficit equivalent to 7 per cent of gross domestic product — currently financed by printing money; inflation that private forecasters estimate at about 20 per cent; an overvalued currency with a soaring black market rate; a fast-disappearing trade surplus; capital controls; and shrinking foreign reserves.
Feel really sorry for you, pobrecito. There's only one way you're going. That's down, down, down. Goodbye.
Deep financial doodoo in Argentina? It sounds like Argentina is an anagram of Zimbabwe...
Nov 11th, 2015 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@101 The 20% estimate for inflation this year is a bit conservative. Normally we would take the fallacious INDEC inflation numbers and double them. Right now I think the INDEC is saying about 15% for this year (still a bad number, and quite a deliberate understatement). The real numbers suggest about 23 to 26 percent inflation by the end of the year, based on trends so far. Could get worse.
Nov 11th, 2015 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@102 That is why, both here and away, the country is affectionately called Argenzuela.
This Anglos are funny. All trashing Argentina yet no one in the world can even guess if their dis(UNITED) Kingdom will even exist in 5 to 10 years.
Nov 11th, 2015 - 11:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's like the blind man making fun of the Cyclops.
104 NOSTRILS
Nov 12th, 2015 - 06:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Maduro has destroyed his country
Dilma has been rejected.
Now CFK is spurned as a corrupt inept harpy.
So much for YOUR ways...
Let Troll have his rants……he is just letting off steam.
Nov 12th, 2015 - 09:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Whats the matter, Troll? World closing in on you again?
Drink more coffee, man.
Maduro sobrinos were arrested in Haiti on narco smuggling and being shipped to NYC for arrangement as we type. Ortega lodged a complaint with State in DC claiming they had immunity because they had a diplomatic passport.......good luck with that. Narco States!.
Nov 12th, 2015 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0#104 Brassole.......when will you return to Argentina?
107 Capt.
Nov 12th, 2015 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's a brilliant move by Ortega - tantamount to admitting to the world and the diplomatic community that your Venzla representatives are abusing diplomatic protocols by working under the umbrella of diplomatic immunity to make large scale narco-deals, with the full knowledge and backing of the Venzla government.
And this is the government and leadership that Quique's idol strives to become for the people of the Republic of Argentina. Great goals to strive to become.
Nov 12th, 2015 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Has anyone heard from VP Booboo?
109 Capt
Nov 12th, 2015 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is strange about Booboo
- he is inexplicably absent
@104
Nov 12th, 2015 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0” yet no one in the world can even guess if their dis(UNITED) Kingdom will even exist in 5 to 10 years.”
Why? Do Wales and Northern Ireland want independence?
85 MagnusMaster
Nov 12th, 2015 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“See? You are the example of scum that needs to be ass-raped to hell and back. ”
Says he, who's country got comprehensively butt_f**ked on the world stage back in 1982.
Still not recovered from it yet have we?
We did give you plenty of warning, lots of time to lube up. Not our fault that when the time came you chose to be ridden bare-back now is it?
See? We are better than you. You out numbered our troops on the Island by 4 to 1 and we won.
Your air force outnumbered us 10 to 1 and we still won.
Come on now!! Give us a challenge!! We are better than you just because we are better than you. Without even trying to be better than you, we STILL are.
BTW:- those “Malvinas-distance electronic boards” should be re-named “Distance to Never-never land” for all the good they will do you. 'cos you ain't never, never going to get your thieving mitts on them again.
85 MagnusMaster
Nov 12th, 2015 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“See? You are the example of scum that needs to be ass-raped to hell and back. ”
We all have to acknowledge that sad boobies like this chappie have only a basic education and are crippled by an extremely childish knowledge of English. Because of their reduced intellect they are incapable of forming human relationships and so seek an outlet for their failures by writing puerile nonsense here. We just need to humour and pity them. Pobrecitos.
They live in a ghastly, failed country and have no means of escaping to a better life in Great Britain like so many thousands of Argentines have done. No wonder they are in such mental torment.
@112 Keep bragging, all you are doing is proving the world you are a Nazi piece of scum.
Nov 12th, 2015 - 10:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@113 I have no desire to move to a country like the UK that is full of people like toooldtodieyoung who think they are the master race and denigrate and treat Latinos like subhumans.
@114,
Nov 12th, 2015 - 11:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Awwww, diddums. Loser.
How do you know how people think?
You post makes no sense, some of us ARE Latinos.
l feel that you are jealous & frustrated.
You'll just have to live with that as you're NEVER agoing to get your thieving paws on the Falklands.
lt is NOT your land.
Troy I heard he is romantically involved with a Mexican senator. Perhaps he is seeking marriage to relocate. All those charges and no trials....WTF!!
Nov 13th, 2015 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0114 MagnusMaster
Nov 13th, 2015 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pobrecito, your self-pity is really sad. No wonder that travels throughout Latin America, outside Argentina, experience no self-pity anywhere else. Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, I could go on and on about the countries that don't need to wallow in self-pity. The Argentines who have moved to Europe say they had to escape from Argentina because their country is doomed to decline even more. That's what they tell you.
Probably the most idiotic waste of money since Menem's Winnie the Pooh books.
Nov 14th, 2015 - 10:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh, the beauty of it. These electronic board will show just how far the Falkland Islands were from proto-Argentina in 1833, thus - using the Argentine distance argument - to show that in the days of sails and a speed of 8 knots, they were not a part of the Buenos Ayres state.
Nov 15th, 2015 - 04:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0MagnusMaster wrote: “that you took the islands from us. Which is exactly what you did. We don't care why you took them from us, if it was illegal or not. All we care is that YOU took them from us.”
Nov 15th, 2015 - 04:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let us assume you are right, that Britain took the Falkland Islands by force.
Now tell us, MagnusMaster, how did Argentina acquire Patagonia: by treaty or by force?
Now tell us, MagnusMaster, how did Argentina acquire the provinces Chaco, Formosa and Misiones: by treaty or by force?
Now tell us, MagnusMaster, how did proto-Argentina acquire a part of el Virreinato del Río de la Plata: by treaty or by force?
Now tell us, MagnusMaster, how did Spain acquire Virreinato del Río de la Plata and the rest of Spanish America: by treaty or by force?
Now tell us, MagnusMaster, have you bought a one-way ticket back home, now that you are going to hand all of Argentina back to the original owners?
@ 79 Faulconbridge: “As a matter of interest, why electronic boards and not permanently-fixed ones? The distance isn't going to change.”
Nov 15th, 2015 - 05:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What? never heard of Continental drift? :)
2 cm a year changes the distance by 1 km every 50,000 years. They are planning to change the distance while they wait, thus electronic boards.
In # 114 MagnusMaster wrote: “I have no desire to move to a country like the UK that is full of people like toooldtodieyoung ...”
Nov 15th, 2015 - 05:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That same country houses some 125,000 other Argentinos, who knows on which side of the bread the butter is found.
@122 Don Alberto,
Nov 15th, 2015 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0MagnusMaster is another Think puppet.
@120 And do you expect us to be happy with you taking land from us, like the poor Indians?
Nov 15th, 2015 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unfortunately, Europe isn't as welcoming of Latinos as it is with Muslims.
@123 I am not anybody's puppet, but you have to take my word for it I guess.
@124 Magnus
Nov 15th, 2015 - 10:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0” And do you expect us to be happy with you (Argentina) taking land from us, like the poor Indians?”
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