More Argie Bargie

[jmorgan]

Deleted. Perhaps it was too much.

Edited by jmorgan on Monday 14th July 09:16

[Asterix]

I'm melting! Nooooooooooooooo!

[FatSumo]

Asterix said:

I'm melting! Nooooooooooooooo!

[cirian75]

FatSumo said:

Asterix said:

I'm melting! Nooooooooooooooo!

best post ever lol.

[Grumfutock]

FatSumo said:

Asterix said:

I'm melting! Nooooooooooooooo!

Fatsumo, sir you are a genius!

[Mojocvh]

eharding said:

Amirhussain said:

hornetrider said:

Over the moon they've lost the final. No opportunity for Malvinas bks. wkers.

Agreed.

Slightly tricky timing, but I'd recommend the Islanders celebrate "German Week" starting on Monday.

"Herzlich Willkommen auf den Falkland-Inseln", copious consumption of smoked pork products, German Beer, wearing of Lederhosen - as soon as they can be flown in - umlout annotation on street signs, and generally as much YouTube Bennies-Go-German action as they can upload in a week.

It's winter there. Good ideas but not really practical at the moment.

[DMN]

Looks like no the football is over, the people of Argentina have remember how utterly usless their government is:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/w...

[IanMorewood]

I doubt it's much more than some footie fans who didn't want to go home. Using rubber bullets though......

[eharding]

DMN said:

Looks like no the football is over, the people of Argentina have remember how utterly usless their government is:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/w...

The Independant said:

As officers in riot gear tried to clear the streets, the fans - many with their faces covered and having been drinking heavily - responded by hurling rocks, destroying store fronts, tearing down street lights and at one point breaking into a theatre.

What were they going to do with a theatre? - stage an impromptu, edgy, pissed-up-soccer-fan-as-street-artist production of "Evita"?

[NNH]

anonymous said:

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I give it a couple of months before the Falklands get trotted out again to try to distract ordinary Argentinians from how useless their government is

[jmorgan]

Looking at the bull surrounding the Putin stuff, it is already mentioned.

Reuters said:

Putin has called Argentina one of Russia's most strategically important allies in Latin America. The Russian leader, who is under pressure from the West to help restrain pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, told reporters in Buenos Aires that the two nations "cooperated in all areas".

Argentina abstained in March in a U.N. vote calling on member states not to recognise Russia's annexation of Crimea. Russia has been supportive of Argentina's claim over the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory lying off Argentina's coast.

From Reuters

Putin trying to get his mitts on the shale oil and trying to trip us up I think.

[Fishtigua]

The Argies' finances are down the crapper once more. A US court has told them to pay up on their debts and bonds. Some bondholders want paying properly, not with some vague mishmash that was on offer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis...

[IanMorewood]

Its harsh but fair, Argentina needs to understand that if your borrow from the international banks you need to repay on time and in full. Future credit will be hard for them to come across and expensive at least for the next decade.

[DMN]

The upshot of that is it will be even longer before they can start rebuilding their armed forces to be any kind of threat to the Falklands. By the time they start we should have UCAVS and all sorts of nasty stuff on call.

[ralphrj]

IanMorewood said:

Its harsh but fair, Argentina needs to understand that if your borrow from the international banks you need to repay on time and in full. Future credit will be hard for them to come across and expensive at least for the next decade.

They have been frozen out of global capital markets for 12 years since their last default because they opted to unilaterally default rather than go through the IMF. With this latest default (and blaming the US rather than acknowledging their own incompetence) I imagine that another decade might be viewed as optimistic.

Surprising fact (for me) in the Telegraph today - back in 1900 Argentina was the 5th richest nation in the world.

[jimbobsimmonds]

Up until as recently as 1965 it's GDP per capita was almost the same as Italy's and greater than Ireland by a significant amount.

[toppstuff]

Argentina has the most awful corrupt and downright unpleasant government. Their people deserve better.

That country is rapidly going the way of Cuba. They need a revolution.

[Mojocvh]

Here,








that should cover it...

[Axionknight]

DMN said:

The upshot of that is it will be even longer before they can start rebuilding their armed forces to be any kind of threat to the Falklands. By the time they start we should have UCAVS and all sorts of nasty stuff on call.

If they invaded again, which they wont, I'd bomb mainland Argentina if I were in charge, power stations and government buildings first.

/dailymail

[IanMorewood]

Great Falklands Gamble, a talking heads documentary detailing the events of 1982 about to start on Ch5 in a couple of minutes.