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Me, me, me and me ... I'm a great flopper
Sorry, didn't have need for the first, and don't subscribe to magazines. But i like your failed attempt at "reaching" to far. I bet it made you cub scout leader once.
Me, me, me and me ... I'm a great flopper
Sorry, didn't have need for the first, and don't subscribe to magazines. But i like your failed attempt at "reaching" to far. I bet it made you cub scout leader once.
Yeah, it's not surprising that you would subscribe to anything that requires the use of brain cells. Not that Insight necessarily does, which of course is why you strike me as a potential subscriber.
Enjoy that case of PBR tonight.
I think this thread is spamming, and nonsensical.
WHat's next?
We start drafting argentines with 2 working limbs and a pulse, because the No Limit Army Commanche has a hard on for all things that tango?
The response, was less an attack on your mother than it was on your stupid thread question.
Damn, why you got to bring PBR into it?
Enjoy that case of PBR tonight.
Yeah, it's not surprising that you would subscribe to anything that requires the use of brain cells. Not that Insight necessarily does, which of course is why you strike me as a potential subscriber.
Enjoy that case of PBR tonight.
i think you should go back to posting pics of tanks and ships getting blown up while spouting washed up rap slogans that weren't even cool during their hey day.
Look everybody, i'm the XX NO LIMIT ARMY FLUFF BOY XX lets get the Jazz to get Jiggy with it and Bout it Bout it, yey yey..
I like any sports "journalist", I'd like to contribute some gossip bull as totally relevantto drafting Argentinain players.
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BBC NEWS
Sealed with an Argentine kiss
By Daniel Schweimler
BBC News, Buenos Aires
One of the joys - and difficulties - of being a foreign correspondent is learning and adapting to local customs. Buenos Aires looks, on the surface at least, pretty much like a European city. You would think then that British journalists would not have too much difficulty blending in with the locals, but that is not always the case.
I have got nothing against kissing. In fact, I'm all for it.
But there is an awful lot of it going on in Buenos Aires and sometimes I do not know if I have got it quite right. You kiss pretty much everybody - one peck, right cheek to right cheek - when you greet them and when you say goodbye.
"What? Everyone?" I asked my Argentine wife on my first visit to the country.
"Yes, everyone," she replied.
I was doubtful.
That day we went to see her dentist - an elderly, very conservative woman who I was told had once scraped the plaque from the teeth of none less than the glamorous Evita Peron, wife of the former president, Juan Peron.
We met in the doorway, I stooped to kiss the diminutive dentist, she recoiled in horror, a door closed, hitting me on the back and pushing me closer towards her as she managed to duck and slip from my grasp in a move worthy of an international rugby player.
Charlie Chaplin could not have done it better.
"Well, perhaps not absolutely everyone," my wife explained afterwards.
Friendly kiss
Some years ago the custom developed for men to kiss men. Family members and very close friends had always done so. But in such a macho, sometimes phobic society, this was a radical move.
When dropping my children at school in the mornings, I kiss all the mums and all the dads... insurance salesmen, architects, lawyers and teachers. Then we kiss again to say goodbye.
The kissing between men is done in a very macho, Argentine sort of way
On Saturday mornings when I take my sons to football, we repeat the process, only then the dads have not shaved and that is when I had much prefer a distant and very British mumbled " o" and a weak wave.
I kiss colleagues, male and female, on my arrival and departure from work. I have kissed the cleaner, the bank manager, the receptionists and secretaries at the offices of people I have interviewed. But not the refuse collectors, my barber or the ticket collectors on the train - although I might if they were a little more friendly.
And everyone kisses children, enthusiastically and often. My own boys are well-trained to proffer their cheeks to all visiting adults.
Although on return trips to Britain they find they are often left hanging, with their necks arched, while stuffy, distant British adults look at them in confusion.
"Oh! You were expecting a kiss," they'll say.
Argentines are definitely more friendly. But sometimes, it is just too much. Too many lips and too many cheeks.
When two friends meet in the street, there will be the quick peck and a hearty slap on the upper arm accompanied by a loud: "Che! Que tal? - Hey mate! how's it going?"
You can still offer a handshake but that might be seen as a sign that you want to keep your distance, that you do not want to become too friendly in what is a very friendly, sociable society.
Too British
Kissing in public is important to Argentines.
Standing in the queue for the cinema the other day I heard frantic slurping and near drowning noises behind me. I turned to find a not-so-young couple quite openly and unashamedly indulging in a passionate kiss.
That is something I see frequently on park benches, outside offices and in restaurants.
"I hope you're not expecting that kind of behaviour from me," I told my wife. "No, you're still far too British," she retorted.
In fact now I think about it, Argentines in general like to get much closer than I am accustomed to. While in queues at the supermarket check-out for instance, I have elbowed many an elderly lady as I stoop to sign my credit card slip since they were standing too close.
Worse still is when they are practically in my back pocket while I take money from the bank cash machines.
"Perhaps you'd care to dance madam," I feel like saying. "Although I don't know you and I'm not sure this is the appropriate time or place to do a tango."
The guide books all say the same - that Buenos Aires looks, on the surface, like a mixture of Paris, Milan and Barcelona. And the immigrant mix of the residents reflects the same, with the subsequent evolution of a kissing culture.
Which is better? One kiss or two or three? On greeting and departure or just greeting?
The portenos, as the residents of Buenos Aires are known, have evolved their own style. So if you should visit Argentina, have your lips at the ready, beware of diminutive elderly dentists and, gentlemen, please shave first.
From Our Own Correspondent was broadcast on Thursday, 24 May, 2007 at 1100 GMT on BBC Radio 4.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/h...nt/6684727.stm
Published: 2007/05/28 15:28:07 GMT
© BBC MMVII
Scola? who's?Hermann? who's?
ANDRES NOCIONI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! our future!
Yeah, it's not surprising that you would subscribe to anything that requires the use of brain cells. Not that Insight necessarily does, which of course is why you strike me as a potential subscriber.
Enjoy that case of PBR tonight.
This is the same guy who rips graphics and knowledge from the Grudgereport.com, the last guy who would have been pulling the insight magazine card.
Not that I'm not thoroughly enjoying this...but you really come off as an ass for bashing MB's No Limit Commander Schtick, an Eternal Spurs message board icon, associated by many with happy moments in Spurs History.....
I, admire his enthusiasm for the spurs and all, but his shtick is old and was golden maybe during the Spurs sweep of 01. But i bet all the pistons and jazz fans are getting a good laugh at this clown, and us getting riled up.
It's time to be more creative, and not sound like a bunch of overweight white college station kids trying to act steet about the spurs.
Aformentioned Nocioni, Scola, and Hermann...
Scola is the most realistic because the Spurs own his rights, Nocioni and Hermann are both longer shots because they are restricted FA and would cost the team some amount of draft picks or players in return....a harder deal to work out.
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned G/F Carlos Delfino, but I think he's a restricted FA as well...though I could be wrong.
Finally, there is one European player that though he is actually of Spanish descent, is compared to Manu Ginobili with his fiery play and stature....Rudy Fernandez. He's a guy that I would very much like to have on the Spurs.
Funny, I haven't seen any complaints save for your babble which seems to be centered around some kind of forum inferiority complex.
maybe if you would windex your sperms goggles every now and then you'd be able to recognize your shtick is a joke.
Delfino is under contract until 07-08, then he has a qualifying offer. Delfino is nice though, solid player
Thanks for clarifying....
wtf is wrong with these Argentines?Notes: Nocedal has signed an eight year contract with TAU Ceramica (Spain) in August 2006, but will remain in Argentina for at least one more year, playing for Argentino de Castelar in Liga B.
The odd thing is, the 'schtick' only exists because of popular demand. I guess that eats at you. Another odd thing is that I've yet to see you post anything of value in this forum.
Im a fan
I'd take MB over Gtown any day of the week.
Gtown, you are coming across as an idiot. No surprises there because you are an idiot.
Does that contract also stipulate a $15 mil buyout ala Scola's?Thankfully, the contract he recently signed with Tau Ceramica stipulates that he must play with and against older players from now on.
You'd be too busy scavenging drudgerport for siren graphics, and searching for tank and helicopter pics on yahoo.
I don't like Delfino...I can't believe people(even Argies) said he was better than Manu...
I'm not that crazy about Scola either, but the main reason for that is IMO, his at ude
...but Oberto is making the thought of adding him to the team a nice one. I don't think Scola is going to be as effective of NBA player as Oberto...and I have thought this from day 1. I see Scola's game being impacted by the athleticism of the NBA and the players he will be matchedup against at the PF slot...and I never thought that would be a problem for Oberto...because Oberto's game isn't predicated on athleticism in any way shape or form.
I think Scola will wind up being to Oberto as Delfino is to Manu. They said he was better...didn't turn out that way once they made it to the NBA. Oberto and Manu are definitely more of the just shut up and play type guys, that seem to bring nothing but positive energy to your team...Delfino and Scola seem to be more of the, "what about me" type guys.
Of course I want Noccioni...who seems to have the fiery demeanor that so many laud in Scola...without the mouth....and Nocioni definitely ups his game when the pressure goes up...that hasn't been true of Scola in Europe.
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