"Argentina in Falklands' Olympics row"

[WhingForPresident]

Falkand Islands: Argentina Makes TV Advert Before London 2012 Olympics On | World News | Sky News

"The advert was filmed with a handheld camera and shows the 35-year-old Argentine hockey player training outside a typical pub, the Globe Tavern.
The footage also shows Zylberberg running past the offices of the local newspaper, the Penguin News, and an iconic red British telephone box.
Reportedly created by the US-based Young & Rubicam advertising agency, it was shot early in the morning and no islanders can be seen in the footage.
The glossy advert, filmed beneath rolling grey clouds, also uses rousing music for dramatic effect.
It finishes with the slogan, "To compete on English soil, we are training on Argentine soil"."

Thoughts?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Falkand Islands: Argentina Makes TV Advert Before London 2012 Olympics On | World News | Sky News

"The advert was filmed with a handheld camera and shows the 35-year-old Argentine hockey player training outside a typical pub, the Globe Tavern.
The footage also shows Zylberberg running past the offices of the local newspaper, the Penguin News, and an iconic red British telephone box.
Reportedly created by the US-based Young & Rubicam advertising agency, it was shot early in the morning and no islanders can be seen in the footage.
The glossy advert, filmed beneath rolling grey clouds, also uses rousing music for dramatic effect.
It finishes with the slogan, "To compete on English soil, we are training on Argentine soil"."

Thoughts?

Unfunny, and pointlessly confrontational.

 

[NickBHAFC18]

Send nukes? BOOM

 

[Simster]

Feeble. It doesn't even work because why would any Argentinian athlete want to head for some isolated islands 300 miles off the coast to train for the Olympics 7,000 miles away - even if they were Argentinian?

 

[Lush]

Ooh. I'm scared. Go and assassinate a duke or something. Any one you like.

 

[somerset]

Illustrates the freedoms that communities like Port Stanley have under their present governmental system, would an Argentinian system in charge there allow freedom of expression in the same way?

 

[Dr Q]

Should have arrested him for trespass!

 

[beorhthelm]

yeh, funny, whatever. Argies have pissed off the Spanish and one of their ex ministers or army types recently said they only have enough ammo and supplies to sustain a conflict for a week (from Paraguay in trhe quote). fast turning into a joke nation.

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

nothing they do down there is as you put it funny

 

[Falkor]

there being juvenile, just ignore them would be the best option, if there that bothered why not just boycott the Olympics over here, cant say they would be missed

 

[Simster]

yeh, funny, whatever. Argies have pissed off the Spanish and one of their ex ministers or army types recently said they only have enough ammo and supplies to sustain a conflict for a week (from Paraguay in trhe quote). fast turning into a joke nation.

They've been a joke nation since about 1920 when they were the 7th largest economy in the world with a wealth of natural resources.

Tin pot country.

 

[Falkor]

My brother went there for a holiday and there are people still banging on the walls of banks for there money, not sure if what he told me was true but the government there believed there economy was as strong as america when they realised it was not alot of poeple lost all there money

 

[Don Quixote]

They won't give it up will they

 

[TheMajor]

Only hockey players I know do their training in the pub not outside.

 

[Beach Hut]

Argentina has decided to nationalise some companies it does not even own, all sounds rather desperate to me

 

[Superphil]

Feeble. It doesn't even work because why would any Argentinian athlete want to head for some isolated islands 300 miles off the coast to train for the Olympics 7,000 miles away - even if they were Argentinian?

As one of the comments says, "at least he can train in the Falklands without being robbed at gunpoint for his trainers"

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Whenever Argentina have financial problems they redirect the peoples attention by bringing up the Falklands/Malvinas....

 

[Fef]

Whenever Argentina have financial problems they redirect the peoples attention by bringing up the Falklands/Malvinas....

Exactly this.

 

[happypig]

"start the Vulcan"

 

[Superphil]

"start the Vulcan"

I doubt we'd be able to afford the fuel to fly it there now