Thread: Weird Argie things
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10-09-12 02:06 #44
Posts: 3040Fragata Sarmiento is Almost Dry. Docked
Originally Posted by Aqualung [View Original Post]
I have been in it's bowels, a revolting stench of oil and saltwater or a bad hangover; unable to sail, not sea worthy!
It is a museum in Puerto Madero.
Libertad is a different ship!
TL.
Maybe they should scuttle the turd instead of giving it to the Africans!
TL.
GO TEXANS!
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10-09-12 01:55 #43
Posts: 754Read here about the Fragata Libertad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragata_Libertad
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10-08-12 12:03 #42
Posts: 329Originally Posted by SimpleWrangler [View Original Post]
Fred
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10-08-12 04:52 #41
Posts: 151Fragata Sarmiento it's a symbolic ship for Argentina. It's some times seen at Puerto Madero.
I've been there by the way (as a visitor)
A private investor made possible to kidnap the ship in Ghana (African Country) in the midst of the Fragata Sarmiento world trip, so they can not leave the port.
Did spelling checker changed FUND to found?
I think it's important for you friends as a fact to understanding how a real third world country is, Argentina do not have the power to recover the ship.
The ship itself has little value, but represents a symbol of sovereign and national emblem as quoted from wikipedia he ship was originally built for the Argentine naval academy. The ARA Presidente Sarmiento made thirty seven annual training cruises including six circumnavigations of the globe. The ship was retired as a seagoing vessel in 1938, but continued to serve as a stationary training ship until 1961. She is now maintained in her original 1898 appearance as a museum ship near the center of Buenos Aires. This ship was named for Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the seventh President of Argentina.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragata_Sarmiento
It does not really matters if the claims are legit, moral or not. A 1st world country would recover the ship at any price. It's a matter of national pride.
Weird Argie things includes things like these: chauvinism in one hand, but, demonstrating they do not have a real power to lead with a private investors group.
I don't know the real value of the Fragata Sarmiento, but I can tell it's little compared with the debt the FUND are claiming.
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10-07-12 16:26 #40
Posts: 137Originally Posted by SimpleWrangler [View Original Post]
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10-07-12 16:00 #39
Posts: 428Originally Posted by SimpleWrangler [View Original Post]
Venture capitalists by definition invest capital only in pre-IPO, private companies, usually startups in idea, angel, or first to later rounds of investment. It can be floundering but usually it is a startup that has cash flow needs and and an as yet to be proven business model vs a mature but in distress company
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10-07-12 11:03 #38
Posts: 151This is weird
This is weird http://www.clarin.com/politica/Ghana...787121413.html
Argentina denies a legitimate payment to a private investor.
They call the investor Vulture Capitalist found. Anyway, a venture capitalist is anyone who invests in floundering firms in the hopes that they will turn around. It's not illegal.
However, the whole thing including the ship it's both weird and funny.
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10-04-12 17:03 #37
Posts: 1885Yes
Originally Posted by Mpexy [View Original Post]
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10-04-12 14:36 #36
Posts: 329Originally Posted by Mpexy [View Original Post]
Fred
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10-04-12 09:22 #35
Posts: 911Originally Posted by Mpexy [View Original Post]
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10-04-12 02:51 #34
Posts: 3040Straws?
What's withe the fucking drinking / snorting straws?
Is it a law?
Busineses will not sell you a drink without a straw!
My mother always told me NOT to drink out of a can because a #$$% may have touched it but that's like an old wive's tale.
What's with the straws?
TL
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10-04-12 02:38 #33
Posts: 2808Originally Posted by Mpexy [View Original Post]
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10-04-12 01:36 #32
Posts: 428Originally Posted by Gandolf50 [View Original Post]
Is that another weird Argie thing? That they'd rather go through the motions to make you think they are trying rather than just say we're cut off, can't recharge soon as you walk up and ask?
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10-03-12 20:49 #31
Posts: 911Originally Posted by Mpexy [View Original Post]
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10-03-12 16:53 #30
Posts: 428Prepago cellular recharging credits
Kinda weird and kind of expected. The overall consistent but random outages from your local kiosco of being unable to process cell credit recharging.
Only place I've ever found never had their system down is this large kiosco / photocopy / rapipago place in recoleta on Quintana next to cambio currency place.
Other than that, at small kioscos it seems a given that you'll walk up one day and be fine, next day unable to recharge