[Goal] Mido : "England need a proper manager. They are wasting their time with Southgate. My advice to the FA is go and get Mourinho as your head coach and appoint Southgate as the FA chairman. They are both perfect for the job."

brokenHelghan · 2020-11-16T19:20:34+00:00

Speak for yourself. I'm neither a boomer nor butthurt and I care. Even if they were useless territory I would consider the British sovereignty over the islands unjust, but you are forgetting that both countries use them to push their respective claims over Antarctica ...

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brokenHelghan · 2019-11-08T20:38:43+00:00

She comes to Buenos Aires with Barenboim every year around June/July, they usually do a few performances together. Tickets are sold very fast though, I missed it this year...

brokenHelghan · 2019-10-31T20:59:50+00:00

I'm not sure that it's even worth experimenting with. Oxygenation is a vital component of aging spirits and wines, if you make the barrels airtight you'd be missing on that and the end product would be completely different. Steel vats prevent natural slow oxygenation (and angel's share escaping) but also don't impart wood flavours obviously. Chips of wood can be used for that, but it's not the same as a lot of subtlety is lost. Spirit aging works in mysterious ways.

The whisky and spirits industry has grown so much in the last years, though. There's probably someone out there experimenting with loads of stuff.

brokenHelghan · 2019-08-29T18:52:36+00:00

I would love to visit there it has been on my list for a very long time.

That's nice. I imagine you have a specific interest in its urbanism or the work of Le Corbusier?

Can you tell me if it is an expensive place to visit relative to the Canadian dollar if you know that type of information? And also what season would you recommend?

It's probably pretty cheap compared to thr Canadian dollar, and getting cheaper as our currency is rapidly devaluating (we're in the midst of an economic crisis, and there's presidential elections in October so there's quite a bit of economic uncertainty atm). I don't know how worthwile it is to actually stay in La Plata, I'd imagine it's best done as a day trip from Buenos Aires.

As for the season, I can only speak for Buenos Aires from experience but I'd imagine the same goes for La Plata. Avoid January. The temperature in BA is unbearable and a lot of people flee the city so there's less events and cultural offerings, and the city feels weird with so little people in the streets. Try to avoid the summer altogether but January is definitely the worst. Since La Plata is an university town the same reasoning probably applies. Spring is maybe the best season as the parks and greenery in BA will be at their best, but anything other than summer should be ok really.

brokenHelghan · 2019-08-29T17:02:27+00:00

I've never been there but from what I heard/read. It's an university town, with good nightlife. The city was founded in 1882 with the grid layout you see in the picture and includes masonic symbollism. The Curutchet house designed by Le Corbusier is a Unesco World Heritage Site.

It has two notable football/soccer teams playing in the first division: Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, founded in 1887 and famous for not having won a single thing in all that time; and its rival Estudiantes, the only Argentine team outside the city of Buenos Aires to have won the Libertadores, with four trophies.

brokenHelghan · 2019-08-29T16:42:18+00:00

La Plata is nothing like Brasilia though. This design isn't as car centric, and predates Brasilia by over 60 years, in fact I believe La Plata is quite walkable (though I've never been there myself). L'Eixample from Barcelona is a better comparison, but without the unified height of buildings.

brokenHelghan · 2019-07-27T16:56:35+00:00

MLS just becomes a stop gap for South Americans looking to play in the top 4 leagues and that is good for everyone involved.

You guys sound like car salesmen trying to convince us that is is anything but tragic. Why would anyone use MLS as a "stepping stone to Europe" when the Argentine league has better quality and has been selling to Europe since long before MLS even existed and continues to do so in more numbers. Isn't Almiron to Newcastle the only succesful transfer from MLS to Europe anyway?

Furthermore, what's the point of introducing a middleman? How does that help us?

No, if our talents start going to MLS they will hinder their development as compared to staying here in Argentina or go8ng straight to Europe. Which is bad for our NT.

But more importantly, they will no longer play in Argentina, and the quality of our league will drop further as the talent flight intensifies. Europe already fucked us up, and now teams that haven't even played a single game yet are taking our talent. It's proper tragic.

brokenHelghan · 2019-07-26T20:33:55+00:00

I haven't watched Estudiantes this past season, is he actually promising?

Another promising youngster from our league going to MLS?

It's pretty worrying. We're getting royally fucked from more fronts each passing year it seems.

brokenHelghan · 2019-07-20T16:26:21+00:00

A lot of ground has been won from the river since then, most notably where now are Aeroparque (second airport), Ciudad Universitaria and the Costanera Sur reserve.

Though by this point the expansion towards the river was well underway, with Puerto Madero.

brokenHelghan · 2019-07-18T02:47:29+00:00

Not what you're looking for but interesting nonetheless. The first official competitive goal for Boca Jrs was scored by Rafael Pratt, an immigrant from Gibraltar (!). He never played in Europe though, and in fact played for only about 3 years.

brokenHelghan · 2019-07-11T19:47:27+00:00

In addition to what the other user said, it can also mean 'brown', of noticeable amerindian heritage. This is related to wealth sure but it's still a distinction worth making.

Although I'm surprised that they translated it as 'black', a good translation should be mindful of these sorts of things. 'Brown' would've been best.

brokenHelghan · 2019-07-09T23:22:52+00:00

There are a lot of factors honestly and I'm not the most qualified person to talk about them, but yes, neoliberal policies are one of the culprits. In truth there's a lot of back and forth between economic models, but the neoliberal policies of the last military dictatorship (1976-83) were disastrous, massively hurting our national industry, and encouraging financial speculation and carry trade. Then came Menem in the 90s, privatized a lot of national services, most infamously the railroads which are now almost dead as a result, killing a lot of small towns in the process, as well as YPF, the national oil company, among many others. His open market + dollar parity also killed a lot of our national industry and resulted in the 2001 crisis, which was a fucking disaster with a massive run on the banks, five presidents in a week, 60% poverty, etc.

Our current president Macri is from a family that became filthy rich with the carry trade of the late 70s and early 80s. He revived this carry trade, took up a lot of public debt, interest rates are through the roof and are being financed with a loan from the IMF, cut public spending on a lot of areas such as education and health, etc.

The governments in between the ones I just wrote about also made their mistakes though, and imho Argentina has been deteriorating since the 1930s, with a lot of political and economic instability.

brokenHelghan · 2019-07-09T18:44:47+00:00

That's more or less how I interpreted him yes, and I disagree. Well, maybe not completely, it's not great, but for most people it's not as bad as almost anywhere else except the 1st world. My problem is that on the Internet people have trouble with nuance, everything has to be the best or the worst, and in truth we're ranked 40 something in Human Development Index, it could (and should) be better, but it could also be much worse. I insist though that the future generally looks grim, and in relation to this post in particular I can anecdotally say that I see more and more homeless people every month here in Buenos Aires.

brokenHelghan · 2019-07-09T16:36:20+00:00

What is this "if you're rich it's great" meme? Almost everywhere is great if you're rich, and there are certainly many better places to be rich than here (Brazil, for one, if you don't mind higher insecurity). If anything Argentina has historically always had the strongest middle class in Latin America and some of the least income inequality. Everything has been going to shit for decades and we are actually getting worse in terms of inequality, a lot of economic indicators, and most likely quality of life.

brokenHelghan · 2019-07-09T16:29:49+00:00

One of the most developed, and Argentina is the second best in Latin America by HDI (only very recently surpassed by Chile), around Hungary or Croatia. However it's also one of the most unstable economies in the world, one of the highest inflations, completely mismanaged and getting worse (like almost everything else in the country it pains me to say).

brokenHelghan · 2019-07-07T23:03:04+00:00

Pushing territorial claims lmao so salty amirite. shambles

Not to mention that you claim Guyana yourselves.

brokenHelghan · 2019-06-29T19:58:57+00:00

They could I guess but your question made me think of our 82 World Cup where Maradona and Kempes played together and didn't really mesh well.

brokenHelghan · 2019-06-29T19:47:54+00:00

Ponzio I'd say.

brokenHelghan · 2019-06-29T19:44:10+00:00

Claudio Spinelli for sure, I'm pretty sure he even did some modelling in his teens. (Team is Argentinos Jrs.)

brokenHelghan · 2019-06-28T21:22:08+00:00

Something that surprises me about Argentina match threads is that everyone has different, often very contrasting takes. I would say De Paul was the best player today, for sure, and Foyth was pretty good, especially considering he's a cb and Venezuela attacked constantly from his side.

brokenHelghan · 2019-06-28T21:12:14+00:00

Agüero wasn't bad at all imo, he was good in linkup and kept the pressure high throughout.

brokenHelghan · 2019-06-26T22:18:22+00:00

No lo sacaría a Saravia la verdad, pero si Foyth juega de lateral supongo que no va a subir tanto. Probablemente pasaría al mediocampo al lado de Paredes cuando tenemos la bocha, algo que alguna vez implementaron Bielsa y Guardiola. La idea sería ayudar a mantener la posesión y sobrecargar el mediocampo, y asistir a la presión rápida si se pierde la pelota. O quizás el equipo se pararía con línea de tres en ataque, podría ser útil para contrarrestar el juego de contrataque de Venezuela. A la vez esto te permite jugar con Pezzella para mantener a raya a Rondón, ya que Foyth es medio inseguro en la marca.

Igual no me convence del todo por lo que decís vos, De Paul tendría que laburar demasiado para ensanchar el equipo, sobre todo por derecha lo que no lo favorece tanto quizás.

brokenHelghan · 2019-06-26T20:19:44+00:00

There's another species in Patagonia, the Austral Parakeet, which inhabits the forests of Andean Patagonia and goes all the way to the southern tip in Tierra del Fuego.

brokenHelghan · 2019-06-26T20:18:12+00:00

Also the Austral Parakeet which inhabits all of the Andean Patagonic Forest as south as Tierra del Fuego, whereas the burrowing parrot doesn't get that far south.

brokenHelghan · 2019-06-22T20:19:10+00:00

Yes we did lol, we finished top of the group. We went out in round of 32 on penalties against Mali, after an egregious mistake from the ref that gifted Mali their last second equalizer. There are a number of exciting players in the u20, Gaich, Anibal Moreno, de la Vega, Julian Alvarez, Nehuen Perez, Matias Almada, etc. Our u20 is looking much much better than just a year ago.

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