Chile Forum

PenquistaDeCorazon wrote:

patagoniax wrote:

FrankPintor wrote:And "Día del Joven Delincuente" only a few weeks ago slipped past you. This won't do. You need to get organized man.

En Santiasco todos los días son los Días del Joven Delicuente, más los Días del Adulto Delincuente y los Días de los Difuntos Delincuentes.

Yes we get it cause all Chileans are lazy, thieves, lack work ethic, pale in comparison to Finns, and wouldn"t know a good baguette if you hit them over the head with it.

You've got a point there, though that should have been posted on the thread about chileans-not-trusting-chileans porque ni los chilenos confían en los demás chilenos.

But nowadays, from time to time Unimarc and Lider have been coming close to a satisfactory baguette, at least in some venues. So there is hope, if we can get the immigration quota to bring in those 25,000 new Finnski managers every year.

Px,
Ever think of emigrating to 'delinquent free' Finland ?

I trust that you are scoping out suitable pasture land for our joint business venture meant to satisfy the anticipated demand for reindeer meat. I think if we get them drunk enough we may be able to substitute with llama meat.

PenquistaDeCorazon wrote:I trust that you are scoping out suitable pasture land for our joint business venture meant to satisfy the anticipated demand for reindeer meat. I think if we get them drunk enough we may be able to substitute with llama meat.

Actually I was hoping that we could harvest some of these surplus guanacos down here, since their meat usually tastes a lot like reindeer. Don't ask me now I know that.

The Movimiento de Furiosos Ciclistas (Movement of furious cyclists) announced that they consider the legislation an “aberration”. In response to legislation, the organization will stage a protest at 8:00 pm Monday in Santiago’s Plaza Italia.


there you go, get on your bike, 8pm tonight, plaza italia!!!!

zer0nz wrote:The Movimiento de Furiosos Ciclistas (Movement of furious cyclists) announced that they consider the legislation an “aberration”. In response to legislation, the organization will stage a protest at 8:00 pm Monday in Santiago’s Plaza Italia.


there you go, get on your bike, 8pm tonight, plaza italia!!!!

Just remember that some of the neighbours don't always approve of such aberrant behaviour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unLHmYyAw5g

If nobody shows up to the Plaza Italia, just wait. They'll be along. Be sure to dress like a gringo with a big camera and a laptop case.

John Hyre

Good segue for the bicycle discussion. I brought a nice Novara Safari touring rig down here, so in theory this could affect me at some point.

But in Santiago, another matter. This push-bike group, and the legislators, are at odds.

Up until now they, the bicycle lobby, have been clamoring for the right to use sidewalks for bicycles, which is normally prohibited by law just as in many of the civilised countries. Actually that noise has been unrestricted use of bicycles on roads, sidewalks, nature preserves, private property, swimming pools, you name it. It gets better: this "furiosos" bicycle group wants legislation to pull the driving licence of any auto driver who has been the victim of two accidents, but unsurprisingly such a restriction would not apply to bicyclists involved in two or more accidents. I think you can see what this group is made of. N.B. - I want to make it clear that I am not advocating a coup over this issue alone, though some of the Rojos will surely read that into these comments.

Now it seems there is a legislative group in Chile that is seeking to restrict bicycle use to the dedicated bicycle lanes. OMG. In other words, if there is a bicycle lane, you have to use the bicycle lane and stay out of the normal traffic lane and off the sidewalks, unless you dismount and become essentially a peatón on the sidewalk. That appears to be the central issue in la susodicha manifestación. Again, I am not yet suggesting armed intervention by the CIA and the installation of a brutal military regime to resolve this.

Just sayín.

Protest planned for tomorrow at 7 PM, May 10th, 2011 at plaza Italia in Santiago. This protest will be for the dam/energy/patagonia issue that was approved earlier today.

El Chupacabra wrote:Protest planned for tomorrow at 7 PM, May 10th, 2011 at plaza Italia in Santiago. This protest will be for the dam/energy/patagonia issue that was approved earlier today.

Perhaps we can get them to shut off all electrical supply to Santiasco for 90 minutes as a show of solidarity.

Looks like the protesting started early.

On the sixth night of my visit to Chile, I was entertained by a piss-poor excuse for a protest, complete with a fire no more than one metre square, Carabineros in riot gear, a water cannon and little or no tear gas. The Carabineros asked those of us with children in Plaza Nunoa to clear the area. But the people having piss-ups (drinks) at the restaurants at the edge of the plaza were not disturbed.

There were ´human rights officials´, complete with plastic helmets, but I am not sure whose rights they are supposedly protecting as the worst the Carabineros did was give a few people showers with their water cannon (despite repeated rock-throwing near bystanders).