Are we depressed, yet?

[FrankPintor]

It's Friday afternoon, and the forum is pretty much... dead. In the big wide world outside, our toddler-president (*) has created a memorial room for Conan, his favourite dead (or not) dog in the presidential residence in Olivos (**).

Much less importantly, the US is running, not backing, away from the idea of lending money to Argentina, the "shock and awe" effect of said idea has evaporated, with the Peso again at the top of its band, even after spending billions to bring it down. One would be happy, as an expat, but we will not do well if our host country dies.

We're at the point where not gaining a currency swap can be viewed positively, And there's no real impetus to lend Argentina even more. The extreme right has finally run out of other people's money. No libertarians in foxholes, right? Not many in evidence on the forum right now, either.

Our president is a nutcase, as incapable of forming alliances with other politicians as he is of repudiating his 3% sister, and backing a narco for re-election in Buenos Aires Province. As Hugo Chavez said, for my friends, everything, for my enemies, the law.

October 26 looks to be a derailment in slow motion.

I could go on, and I probably should, there's too much going on out there. Wake me up when it's over, please (***).

* that should get a rise out of at least one forum member.
** my dog is running wildly in circles in the garden and we have no need of seances or memorials.
*** this thread is not apt for economists, especially those named for dead ones. The dismal science will not help my weekend mood. Fin.

 

[FrankPintor]

Never mind, things can always get worse. I was in search of something to mix my Friday afternoon whiskey with, and I came across a bottle of Inca Cola in the fridge. Oh dear, oh dear.

** The dog is a Cocker Spaniel. You can never tire them out.

 

[LuckyLuke]

Cheer up old chap, this is a well worn road for Argentines. They will do just fine...

3/4 ounces of Cointreau, few drops of bitters, some simple syrup, and a twist of orange ought to set you straight with your whiskey.

 

[FrankPintor]

Cheer up old chap, this is a well worn road for Argentines. They will do just fine...

3/4 ounces of Cointreau, few drops of bitters, some simple syrup, and a twist of orange ought to set you straight with your whiskey.

Señor @LuckyLuke, have you seen the prices of the ingredients you call for? 50k Pesos for the Cointreau. Half that for the Angostura bitters. Oranges seem to be in season, fortunately enough.

Happily, I am off to Paraguay this weekend, where I will buy half-priced aircon, as much as my SUV can hold (3 units, I fervently hope), a bunch of bottles of decent Irish whiskey, and some stupidly cheap and surprisingly good Paraguayan rum. I will probably get Tequila as well, to go with the strawberries in season now, and maybe even the Cointreau and Angostura. Be prepared to cry, when I post the prices.

 

[LuckyLuke]

I'm afraid my bar is a little dusty these days...I'm short on drinking buddies down here in Neuquen.

 

[elhombresinnombre]

Never mind, things can always get worse. I was in search of something to mix my Friday afternoon whiskey with, and I came across a bottle of Inca Cola in the fridge. Oh dear, oh dear.

** The dog is a Cocker Spaniel. You can never tire them out.

Whiskey? Luxury! I dream of whiskey. I'm over on the other side of the Atlantic[1] currently in the middle of Storm Amy[2] and I'm on a course of antibiotics which don't just politely nudge you and suggest you cut down a bit on the booze but state in bold type exactly what will happen if you don't.

And now I'm all wistful because you've mentioned Cocker Spaniels and I miss mine. Well, I suppose it's my fault really because I didn't think to clone him while I could but it's the little things that still get me like remembering to put two fewer spoons of oats into the porridge in the morning.

[1]I haven't been in Argentina at all so far this year and what's more the Argentine half of our partnership has hardly been there either. I've come to the conclusion that grandchildren are like garden moles: you think you 've finally got them under control when another one springs up somewhere else. We've been travelling all over the place, sometimes separately, sometimes together, to welcome yet another newly arrived sprog or sprogette to our melded families.

[2]I personally blame The Orange Emperor for this storm. If he hadn't unilaterally renamed the area where it originated then I'd be blaming Claudia Sheinbaum. But he did, so I do.

 

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

I did foolishly hold out some hope that what Milei was doing would be for the good of the country as a whole eventually.

Now realise they’re just a corrupt as the rest of them, or in fact worse, and appear to be spunking the countries future up the wall to defend the interests of the oligarchs.

 

[FrankPintor]

Now realise they’re just a corrupt as the rest of them, or in fact worse, and appear to be spunking the countries future up the wall to defend the interests of the oligarchs.

Spaffing? Or spunking? Linguists wanna know.

 

[sergio]

$20 billion from US taxpayers will be a stopgap. I think we all know it won't work for long, if at all.

 

[devilclam]

The long lost member of A Flock of Seagulls depresses me much less than old yam tits, if not only because he's got no bite behind his bark (outside of national politics). Yam tits on the other hand, grifter he may be, has much smarter, malevolent characters on his side this time around that are operating unchecked. and THAT depresses me greatly.

Anyway, I had a bad hangover today.