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Interesting discussion regarding the exocets. It must be remembered that war isn't just two teams having one go, one pre-planned "turn" and then going home. A country's reaction will alter depending on the enemy's actions, a constant sequence of reappraisal and replanning. The UK would not have...

I'm absolutely shocked by this list.... ....there are 17 countries worse than here???? :lol:

...if they don't go along with govt. policy, they'll be blocked. http://opennet.net/blog/2011/08/argentina-judge-orders-all-isps-block-sites-leakymailscom-and-leakymailsblogspotcom

it would be a mess alright.... :lol:

Erm, I think that's the subte network when the borgs will be running things in about 2892, certainly not now. :lol: By then, the most popular topics on this forum will be "visa run to Ganymede" and "dollar hits 7000 pesos".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsN0FCXw914

how much would you lose by buying jewellery or gold coins? I'm guessing you'll first pay the argie jeweller's mark up, then when you sell, you're also paying an uncompetitive price. Would the "loss" be as low as 5/10%?

Who's up for it? Jumbo or Walmart? Get out of my way - I'm going for the peanut butter and Camembert. :D

percentage tip left? (i'm hoping it's a negative number...)

hmm, looks like there were posts in this thread, but they've been looted. Can't leave anything lying around these days! :mad:

There's a big ugly villa right on the edge of bariloche...called "las malvinas" or something, wonder if that's where they all came from today. Looked like something out of Bladerunner when we drove past on the bus.

some ATM in pueyrredon, took out 1000, bank next day showed 2000 withdrawn, go into bank, had to see 3 people and was finally handed a sheet of photocopy paper and told to write my "details". I put everything relevant I could think of, took it back to counter, was told I had to put my ATM/credit...

I lived in italy for ten years. I've lived here for three. It's a food crime to even compare the "italian" food here to what's actually in Italy. I've had good pizza twice here in three years. Good pizza in Italy is just the norm, what you count there is the times you have bad pizza. It's...

getting married is one of the only things (perhaps THE only thing) I've ever heard of where you need a valid tourist stamp.

I don't think there's corruption in Argentina. It's just a sensation of corruption. very different.... ;)

I want to know what is charged at 0%, 15% extra, 50% extra when you use an Argentine CC abroad. I've read so many stories about surcharges, taxes, etc. If my Argentine gf is staying in the UK and makes the following purchases in a month using her Argentine CC, how much would get taken out of...

pfft, all you people are shopping in the wrong places. There's a new supermarket called Indec in Palermo and I spend about 6 pesos a day on groceries there.

and you know where all the lawnmowers are? down in patagonia, readying for the off. I was just guessing before - now I'm certain! I hope they use grass collector boxes, or it will get real messy down there.

yes, the Argentines will use lawnmowers and leaf blowers to take Mount Pleasant air base.

it's mind boggling the sheer BILLIONS that would need to be spent on infrastructure here. You have trains falling off rails on a weekly basis, buses driving in front of trains, a hundred new potholes appearing every day and they can't even keep the power on. Argentina is the 1940s apartment...