Dozens of tourists victims of mass robbery when climbing the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio

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Dozens of tourists hiking toward the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro were held at gunpoint for up to two hours in a mass robbery that could mark an early test for anti-crime crackdowns promised by Brazil’s new president. Read full article

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REF: “victims of mass robbery”:

Better than a Google-Search; the ALL the answers can easily be found at the famous Gas-Station:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8ozDBAQCCso/WaRjVFLT7WI/AAAAAAAAPPk/MnTqP4G7E0oFFOiOhH7I7mTDXfuRACgoQCLcBGAs/s1600/onde-eu-encontro.jpg
Jan 05th, 2019 - 10:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Chicureo
:o))

You're so correct. As the illustration shows, many of them are still in power...
...time for the machine guns to go into action. ...Shoot first and ask questions afterwards...
Jan 05th, 2019 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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@Chicureo

REF: “Shoot first and ask questions afterwards...”:

The only problem is that the wrong-types will shoot + there won't be anyone to question - least of all, the masses.
Jan 05th, 2019 - 12:52 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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DemonTree
Yes, Chicureo's commander understood it better. Torture them for information first, then shoot them.

A Christian told me once that in the afterlife you get to experience directly all the joy and all the pain you've caused other people during your life. For some, that's hell.
Jan 05th, 2019 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Chicureo
Oh DemonTree, for a moment ...I thought your post was by Terry...

I'm greatly satisfied with my personal metaphysical beliefs and I have no reservations about criminals being severely punished. Torture really doesn't really deliver much satisfaction, unless you're running a MI6, CIA, Mossad, etc... intelligence interrogation. ...Otherwise it's just a waste of time...

Common violent criminals are best resolved directly with a kill shot. The Brazilian issued Beretta submachine gun works well against the commonly used AK47.

There has been a long out of control war going on, well before before Bolsonaro was elected and one of the major reasons why he won the popular vote, which was to aggressively fight crime.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BW12NGNlHGE

There are countless videos of criminals using machine guns against police patrols. Some of them remind me of the Middle East.
Jan 05th, 2019 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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DemonTree
“I'm greatly satisfied with my personal metaphysical beliefs”

So are the Muslims who want to inflict Sharia law on Europe. They have no reservations about severely punishing criminals either.

And the Middle East is an apt comparison. Fighting heavily armed criminals is much like a guerrilla war. How has the US army done at that? Do you think the Brazilian army is better?
Jan 05th, 2019 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Chicureo
DemonTree

I understand that petty theft is rare in Saudi Arabia, must be because they live under a religion of peace and merciful justice.

Women are encouraged to act modestly, with religious enforcers carrying wooden sticks. Women are even able to drive, which was probably a poor decision if you notice how females operate an automobile.

In the UK your police still set the standard of polite justice, in the movies you always see them arresting criminals by saying “ would you please come with us?”
They should try that in Rio or Recife...

Then again, Brazilian criminals commonly use AK47s brazenly in the streets. I'm kinda convinced kill shots seem to be a reasonable enforcement.
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DemonTree
It doesn't always go that way even in the UK. The police shot dead a man in Coventry yesterday.

If you want to know what it's really like, you can watch this series about police in the UK, one of my friends is in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxErnavG98U

And you should try telling your wife that stuff about Saudi Arabia. ;)
Jan 05th, 2019 - 09:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Chicureo
Nooo! She's much too vengeful and violent...

She already knows how to proficiently use a shotgun...
Jan 05th, 2019 - 10:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
I THINK..., me little Shilean brother is trolling above his league just now...

In uncountable recent posts he has ranted against any form of pregnancy termination calling it...: “”Bloody Murder“ and finishing usually with the ***”Deus Acima de Todos”*** mantra...

I ask meself...
Which God is he adoring...?
A God that damns a Woman for all eternity for preventing a zygote to implant itself in the endometrial lining of her uterus..., whilst gladly accepting the violent killing of a grown human being for the value of a Samsung Galaxy J3 smartphone....?

Certainly NOT a Christian God..., I THINK...
Jan 05th, 2019 - 10:21 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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DemonTree
Bravo. Like Gandhi (possibly) said: “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
Jan 06th, 2019 - 12:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
For “obvious” reasons..., me favourite (attributed) Gandhiji's quote is...:

Q...: ”What Do You THINK of Western Civilization?”
A...: “I THINK It Would Be a Good Idea”
...
Jan 06th, 2019 - 12:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Chicureo
Estimado THINK

Do you remember the proposed Tupolev proposal, Argentina to The Falklands?
(Same thing)

The truth is that I really do find the termination of a 20 or more week old healthy fetus murder. Everyone has their right to their beliefs.

“Brasil acima de tudo, Deus acima de todos.”
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Terence Hill
Chicureo the flamer
“I guess you're engaging in “an informal logical fallacy” is your own way of conceding that you've lost both the plot and the debate ... ”
Informal Fallacies
Straw Man Argument
Pro-choice is absurd. How could anyone support killing an innocent human being?
https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/Straw-Person.html
Jan 06th, 2019 - 07:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
Hermanito Shileno...
- Trolling against the mightily majestic & magnificent Tupolevs was blasphemous enough...

- Trolling against CHRISTian humanism whilst callin' yaself A CHRISTian is beyond...

Besides..., IF you belive to be..., as I strongly infer..., a Catholic..., then you do NOT have “the right to your beliefs” if they..., in any way contradict the Dogma of the Holy Roman Church of Christ...
.... Despite all that Shiat your Shilean Military Chaplains may have learned ya...

Capisce...?
Jan 06th, 2019 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse +1
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REF: “mass robbery”:

Why can't the crooks be exported to some of the countries like those in the Middle East, N. Korea, etc. where they welcome crooks as slaves in the Labor Camps?

Instead of wasting the Taxpayers' Money to keep them locked, feeding them and looking after their families; Brazil can earn a decent sum from such exports. And as such the constitution is likely to change. So why not include such a change in it?

[NOTE: By the way, does “mass robbery” also include the mass-stealing by the political crooks?]
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2WHz3HPF7UE/UbfoOo0WoII/AAAAAAAAOH4/IsoP0-xXq0U/s1600/corrupcao+politico+ladrao.jpg
Jan 06th, 2019 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse +1
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Think
Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....
What a giant Turnip that poster ”:o))” just above is...!
Exporting perfectly able bodied Brasilian crooks to N. Korea Labor Camps..., pfffffft...!
When one can legally sell a heart in the U.S for a cool $1 million..., a liver for about $557,000 and kidneys for about $262,000...., each...!
Jan 06th, 2019 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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@THINK:

REF: “one can legally sell a heart in the U.S for a cool $1 million..., a liver for about $557,000 and kidneys for about $262,000...., each...!”:

Excellent Idea! Bolso will LOVE it! :o))
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DemonTree
“legally” ?
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Think
Be my guest...

120.000 USA citizens on organ waiting list at an average of $500,000 a piece = 60 billion U$D...!
And then you have the whole rest of the Free Western World to purvey...!

Ps...
When you run out of crooks you can start culling them blackies from the Nordeste...
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DemonTree
Not every American can afford $500,000. Maybe the reason China's illegal organ trade is only worth $1bn? They don't have any shortage of 'criminals', after all.

:o)) can't do it though, unless you think the EU is also run by crooks?
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Think
Boy...
Those 120,000 USA citizens on “organ waiting list” have health insurance... that's why they are on “organ waiting list”..., capisce...
Jan 06th, 2019 - 01:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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DemonTree
You can't even get on the list without insurance? Damn. It's so crazy that the richest country in the world just leaves its citizens to die.

I just looked up what the Catholic church say about organ donation. They allow it, but say it's not a sin if you don't want to donate your organs after death (when it won't even affect you). But it is a sin if you don't donate the use of them during your life?
Jan 06th, 2019 - 02:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Chicureo
My Catholic Church is currently under Argentine management and frankly have never really set the moral standard for ethics since the Borja Pope in 1492. I'd not recommend anyone seeking their virtuous guidance on commercially harvesting human organs.

Now that the North American public have wisely elected an exceptional progressive diverse and socially responsible controlled congress, health care is clearly in their primary agenda to solve. I read “Medicare” for all is a citizen's right.

They're a very wealthy country and they already have trillions of Dollars proposed to solve the enormous ecological gigantic carbon footprint upon our fragile Earth as proposed most recently by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Organ trading should join the global carbon credit trading scheme. Organs and fossil fuel usage should be all a part of global income redistribution of wealth.
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Think
Hermanito Shileno...

You seem to get most of your info from quite “right” sources...

Just above..., you mention Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez..., who was recently trolled online by the GOP for not being a “serious politician” because of this auld scandalous video...:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WWVfGKW6lA8
Needless to say... that attack backfired completely and she's now America's favourite Commie...;-)

Previously, in another thread you quoted...: ***”A great writer, that few even remember once said that “In 1453 before the fall of the city the intellectuals of Constantinople were discussing the gender of angels. There were heated debates on whether angels were male or female.”***

Well..., the first of just three hits after googleing that specific text..., took me directly to...: Stormfront.org

Baaaaaaaaad boy...
Jan 06th, 2019 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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Chicureo
Estimado THINK

Congressista Ocasio-Cortez lifts this milico's conservative spirit, as she brings a refreshing reintroduction of the grandiose promises of Socialism to youthful progressive social justice warriors... which reminds me of the quote: “Socialism is like a nude beach, sounds great until you get there...” Yea, I know the Capitalist beach has some ugly broads lying down on its beach as well...

A couple of respectful points of your statements about my previous posts...

I'd never demean the incredible creations of comrade Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev. (Just imagine however if he'd been working in partnership with Boeing or Dassault...)

Also...

I actually wasn't referring to the site you linked, as my “lightly tanned” mestiza partner might bludgeon me unmercifully with a stick for visiting such ideological pornography: “Welcome to Stormfront...We are White Nationalists who support true diversity and a homeland for all peoples, including ours. We are the voice of the new, embattled White minority!” (What would I do about my mestizo children?)

I was referring instead to one of the philosophical discourses such as:
https://sureshemre.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/miletus-constantinople-istanbul-new-york/ To quote the thoughtful writer: My “fasciste she who must be obeyed” Lycée Français educated critic, constantly reminds me of that.

Then again, my dachshund has a highly suspect “Nationalsozialistische” personality.
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DemonTree
Cute video. What's supposed to be the problem, do those puritans in the US still disapprove of dancing or something? I thought that went out with Oliver Cromwell.

@Chicureo
You do know what those right-wingers you love to support, in the US and in Europe, think about your kids, right?
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Chicureo
Estimado THINK

I unfortunately left out the quote of thoughtful writer: My “fasciste she who must be obeyed” Lycée Français educated critic, constantly reminds me of that.

My post still does not make sense, but that's the point...

DemonTree

You should probably consult THINK's august opinion about how my mestizo progeny might be accepted socially into “those right-wingers” groups that I support...

...just to be clear, do you think conservative politics are exclusive to privileged white males? It's difficult when you define a person of color because most of us right-wing mestizos are hard to categorize by color. And then, how would you best describe some of the USA conservative's skin tone and genders of those that I really admire, such as Ben Carson, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Candace Owens and Herman Cain.
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Think
Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.....
Una de la Alianza Francesa de Malraux jumelléeada con uno del Grange......???......!!!
Talk about “Clash of Cultures”... ;-)))
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Chicureo
Estimado THINK

Now you begin to understand the insufferable long lecture I constantly endure on why Francophone literature is far superior to my “Engrish” authors. Mixed marriages don't work very well when you have to Gallic educated Catalan mestiza to contend with.

Which brings me to mention that I have learned something new on the Mercopress site. If you use the Guillemets style of quotation, MP omits the text. ...Interesting...

Therefore, my third attempt:

I unfortunately left out the quote of thoughtful writer: [There were few adjectives usually expressed in French that usually mean “pretending to know more than you know.” Those hurt. My goal in life is spiritual development not knowledge per se. I guess I don’t make that clear enough in my writings.] My “fasciste she who must be obeyed” Lycée Français educated critic, constantly reminds me of that.

¡Saludos!
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DemonTree
@Chicureo
“do you think conservative politics are exclusive to privileged white males”

Hardly. Neither is racism, xenophobia, etc. But I'm not talking about ordinary conservatives; scratch the surface of the far-right and you'll see it's riddled with every kind of 'ism'. Bad enough to support them if you're not one of the groups they hate, downright pathetic if you are.

PS. I found out a while ago that Mercopress will not allow the less-than sign. It omitted everything after it. Not the best way of sanitising input...

« essayer »
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Chicureo
DemonTree

I do not embrace hateful, racist, xenophobic, fascist or Marxists.
Other than my suspect Dachshund, I loathe white supremacists.
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Think
Mr. Shicureo...
Needless to say... I side with your Missus (on the literature front...)

Mr. DemonTree...
You say...:
***” Bad enough to support them (the far-right) if you're not one of the groups they hate, downright pathetic if you are.”***
I say...:
Seems that your recent trip to S.A. has quite elucidated your wiews on our indigenous middle-high classs down here...
Jan 06th, 2019 - 09:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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DemonTree
Perhaps. The -- extensive -- preparations for the march were also revealing.

Also, guillemets are fine, you must have been using double angle-brackets, Chicureo. But what are the adjectives for pretending to know more than you do? I can't think of one in English, although I've been an unwilling witness to plenty of examples.
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Think
In me world..., the -- extensive -- preparations for the march are an integral part of any trip..., boy... ;-)
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DemonTree
Heh, I meant the government's preparations before the G20 demonstration. Temporary walls with the area totally locked down, police checks to get inside, and outside the walls riot police, more riot police, and water cannons.

And then after all the dire predictions from MP posters, nothing happened. Were your grandchildren not there?
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Think
Mr. DemonTree...

***“Were your grandchildren not there?”*** ..., you ask...

They are Black Bloc..., not Boludos..., I say...
Japan 2019 is a big maybe...
They already booked my Italian Pied-à-Terre for 2021...
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DemonTree
Guess that explains the lack of violence. What do these black blocs even hope to achieve?

Also 'poor humble Patagonian' does't fit too well with 'Italian Pied-à-Terre'...
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Chicureo
DemonTree

As THINK can better explain to you, we mestizos are sent to pretentious archaic schools and expected, for some idiosyncratic reason, to have at least a “varnish of le français” which we really paid no attention .

...And then I fell in love with an Alianza Francesa jeune fille who eventually transitioned into a Madame Defarge.

French adjectives Il m'est impossible de le faire. I could never comprehend that as “un étudiant curieux” I was inquisitive, but as “un curieux étudiant” I was a strange schoolboy instead.

An easier explanation is if you've ever watched the Game of Thrones, my wife verbally reminds me of my cultural ignorance just as the combative Ygritte repeatedly says: “you know nothing, Jon Snow, you known nothing”
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DemonTree
'We mestizos', mmmhmm, right.

But you obviously got something out of your 'pretentious archaic school'; I went to the comprehensive for plebs and had to look up who Madame Defarge was.

Plus for all its faults, at least French doesn't have two words for 'to be'. What were you thinking?
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imoyaro
“'We mestizos', mmmhmm, right.” Why Delirium, you sound like the Trump supporters mocking Elisabeth Warren for being part Cherokee, a common thing in the US. Being part “Indian” is a lot more widespread than you could imagine in the US, and the same is certainly true in all the other American countries.
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DemonTree
Why Imoyaro, how sweet of you to defend Elizabeth Warren. :)
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Chicureo
Trump thoughtfully even designed a campaign logo for Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign:
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1-2020th-trump-tweets-jab-at-elizabeth-warren-s-2020-campaign-1.6807344
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DemonTree
Republicans sure are obsessed with irrelevancies. Meanwhile life expectancy in Chile has overtaken the US.
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@DT

REF: “China's illegal organ trade”:

The fact that it's “ILLEGAL”; there is no way to pinpoint the Real Figures - considering the volumes of illegal stuff [also from the N. Korea; by the way] - of all kinds [including humans & including Fake US$] - worth billions, which regularly enters into the USA [and into EU by the way] - the drugs being the topmost on the list.
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The Voice
This is a non event. When Kretina was running RGland 40 million people were the victims of robbery encouraged by ex pat hypocrite kriminals like Rique Twinkle and dear old Patrick!
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DemonTree
What, the entire population of Argentina? Were you also a victim, TV?
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Chicureo
DemonTree

You just don't understand... of course the entire population are victims.

Self declared victimization is a part of the Argentine mentality... just like the Chilean symptomatic conscious of inadequacy.
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DemonTree
What's that, some kind of national inferiority complex? I really don't understand why you'd feel that way.
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Chicureo
DemonTree

For much of our history, we were always the poor cousins of the Argentines.
They were for decades a symbol of the Latin ideal prosperous country with a large middle class. Good public schools and health. The average physical attributes are different with the fact that they are taller and certainly have no qualms about their national superiority. Even today, they have a higher percentage of university educated populace. Despite themselves, they still excell in agriculture and moderately preform sufficiently with manufacturing.

Argentina had an impressive naval fleet, they even had their own aircraft carrier, while ours was decrepit. (Our navel intel was certain they'd decimate our defense flotilla in the late 70's.)

Unfortunately, they have a bad habit of electing politicians that just don't rarely get it quite right.

Argentines have an elegant national dance which reaches art form, Chile has monotonous pheasant dance which is pathetic.

Saying that, right now in 2019 we are considerably better off and progressing well, but if our neighbors every got their act right, they'd easily rapidly eclipse us.
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DemonTree
Huh. That's really a shame. Seems to me that most countries in Europe have something they think they're the best at, whether it's food or efficiency at work or family life or being eco-friendly. If you've heard the joke about European heaven and hell, you'll get the point - that although each country may be bad at some things, they are good at others. Isn't there anything similar in Latin America?

Also: “Chile has monotonous pheasant dance which is pathetic.” What???
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Chicureo
You've seen a Tango I assume?
This is the official dance of my country...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hl4wEwBI5w

We do however kick ass with our military and seafood...
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The Voice
There is plenty of evidence of Kretina's Korruption. I am not a victim of anything. Having visited both RGland and Chile I liked Chile best. Scenery is awesome, Wine terrific, people gentle friendly and nice, Cities and Ports steeped in history. The Navy and museums reflect Chile's friendship with the British, no evidence of that in RGland which has pockets of hostility as continually evidenced by the trolls here.
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DemonTree
@Chicureo
At least it's not Morris dancing... though I have to say dancing in spurs seems like an accident waiting to happen.

But seriously, ballroom dancing looks impressive, but I've gone to traditional country dances lots of times, and although it's uncool it's a lot of fun.

Also, I have never seen an Argentine avocado in the supermarket. ;)
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@Chicureo

REF: “Unfortunately, they have a bad habit of electing politicians that just don't rarely get it quite right”

Aren't your praises a little bit too exaggerated?
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Think
Mr. DemonTree says...:
***“Also, I have never seen an Argentine avocado in the supermarket.”***

Has he looked..., I say...:
https://www.tridge.com/intelligences/avocado/AR
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DemonTree
@Think
Not particularly, I just remember seeing 'grown in Chile' on certain unseasonal vegetables I've purchased. I'll have to keep a look out.

Have you ever been to a ceilidh, or what we used to call a barn dance?
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Think
Barn dances...? Luuuuuuv them...
Specially when they play anyhing by them Saddam's Angels...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MI7nWklQwrg
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DemonTree
Huh, I've never heard them called that.

Is this inferiority/superiority complex thing the reason you call him 'little brother'?
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Think
Well... He's me Junior Shilean brother...
What am I suppose to call him...?
Big brother...?
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DemonTree
Only if he's watching you. ;)
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@Chicureo

REF: “Unfortunately, they have a bad habit of electing politicians that just don't rarely get it quite right”

From elsewhere on MercoPress:
“Brazil seeks supremacy in South America, said Bolsonaro, who did not discard a US military base in Brazil”:

Is Brazil likely to show supremacy in the FAVELAS?
https://www.materiaincognita.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/operacao-militar-na-favela-carlos-latuff.jpg
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DemonTree
They haven't so far. Brazil hasn't had a war for ages, the gangs are better armed and more experienced in fighting than the army.
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