Posts by Rice

Quote from Splinter

Inflation is now at 70%

The dollar is now at $236 ($45 in April 2019)

Poverty is around 40%

Country risk is at 2400 points

I’ve forgotten what “country risk” is, and how it is determined. Refresher course, please?

What an awful saga, serafina . Don’t beat yourself up for not knowing about the scam and the scam within the scam. These people are clearly very experienced in parting people from their money. I’m absolutely sure I’d have done as you did.

The Dallas star was Linda Gray. Linda Evans starred with John Forsyth and Joan Collins in Dynasty, a contemporary of Dallas.

Yellowstone is very entertaining. There was a 1960’s western series called The Big Valley, starring Barbara Stanwyck as a widow with grown sons & daughter, fighting to save their ranch.

Yellowstone is the 2020’s version, with the contemporary version of Audra (Linda Evans, in the original) updated as an alcoholic nymphomaniac. How could this be anything but a winner?

Quote from UK Man

I think I remember who she is now.

Who?

Yesterday Rep Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania told a tragic family story from her mother-in-law, who was the youngest of 6 in 1930’s PA. When her own mother learned she was expecting a 7th, which she was told would be stillborn, she asked permission for an abortion. It was denied, even though the doctors said she would probably die if she carried the child to term.

The baby was, indeed, stillborn, and the mother did die in childbirth, leaving 6 children without their mother.

This will happen 90 years later, in 2020’s USA.

I would be less skeptical of the Supreme Court if their rulings demonstrated that they had any concern at all about life after birth.

Solution: it’s so cheap you can have two!

You’re right! 1350 doesn’t sound at all reasonable. I must need to clean my glasses!

Goldeneye , because you still have such bitterness about the tight-fisted, whining expats on whom you had the misfortune to bestow your largesse, I suggest that you direct your grievances directly toward the people with whom you had the misfortune of coming into contact, rather than painting the people in this, a post-party forum, with such an acrimonious broad brush.

I’m personally very sorry now, not to have had the pleasure of making your acquaintance.

350 pesos for a rotisserie chicken chicken with salad sounds like a decent price for what could be a meal for 4. MacDonald’s is always bursting with people willing and apparently able to pay much more - -

I believe it might be because bodies are not embalmed in Argentina, but it could also be just custom. Muslims and Jews all over the world bury the next day.

In the US, we follow the English tradition of giving family time to travel for the funeral, although in the last 5+ years, it has seemed many times funerals are delayed weeks or months. I think that would be so hard for the family.

The US now has 11 federal holidays, after adding Juneteenth in 2021, which “commemorates the final emancipation of enslaved people in the United States on June 19, 1865, following the end of the Civil War.”

As you will remember, Carlos , those prices are far lower than in the US. But it is the people earning in pesos that are important, and about whom I worry.

So it appears to be keeping pace with the official, not blue rate. I’m glad for the people.

What a waste to be in the premier Malbec country in the world! I’d see a doctor, Splinter !

Good grief. I hope inflation doesn’t keep up with the Blue. My test case is a liter of milk, which usually seems to cost $1 US, no matter the exchange rate. What is it now?

It IS very funny, but as the seasons go on, it doesn’t wear very well. We eventually lost interest.

You’re making me sick that we’re away ….

She’s smart. Making sure the pkg with all your paperwork and documents will actually reach the destination is priceless.