@Fall no need, i gotcha. i think i found it.
@MickMolloy can you confirm?
You live in la Boca. Poor area. You buy sandwiches from a panaderia. You buy sandwiches for friends and colleagues. You are almost certainly their best customer. You spend by Argentina standards a fortune in their shop. One day while waiting in line a 500 pound obese disgusting beggar rolls...
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Dec 20, 2023 - Argentina "the backwards land"
"You live in la Boca. Poor area. You buy sandwiches from a panaderia. You buy sandwiches for friends and colleagues. You are almost certainly their best customer. You spend by Argentina standards a fortune in their shop. One day while waiting in line a 500 pound obese disgusting beggar rolls into the shop, slams a disability card in your face and demands money. You politely refuse. He becomes aggressive. You know if you continue to be polite this will drag on for 20 minutes so you match his aggression, get in his face and tell him hell will freeze over before you give him a single peso so move on to the next mark, which he does. Guess what happens next"
"They didn't have the guts to say anything they just treated me like a lepper from then on so they lose all my business hope they end up starving in the street. I'll be there to celebrate in their faces"
(i didn't realize this post was copied so recently. i was on archive.org looking, lol)
now, time to analyze the
content of
@Rico Suave.
"
I want to get some advice for something that happened last week. Here is my situation: Oh, living the high life in la Boca, (sorry it's all I can afford). I mean, who wouldn't want to be the VIP customer at the local sandwich place, spending a small fortune by Argentina's standards? I'm practically the best customer (or at least in my head) and go there every day and spend a lot of money (at least for me it seems like buying a sandwich every day is a lot of money). But, of course, in this glamorous life, there's always a plot twist waiting for you. Picture this: you're in line, eagerly awaiting your sandwich masterpiece, when suddenly, a 450-pound embodiment of charm and grace waltzes in. A beggar, no less. All dirty, drunk and claiming he has no food and is very hungry and hasn't even in days. (Fat chance with his 450 pound body weight). Naturally, he approaches me, demanding money with the finesse of a Broadway performer. My initial polite refusal only serves as an opening act to the main event of his aggression. Well, I can't let this drama unfold for the next 20 minutes with my polite gestures, can I?
So, in a stunning turn of events, I decide to match his aggression, get right up in his face, and declare that hell will need to invest in a cozy fireplace before you part ways with a single peso. I have to admit I made one heck of a scene and although I don't speak Spanish, I was screaming F' bombs here and there. The beggar, not one to miss a cue, decides to move on to the next unsuspecting victim. Now, can you possibly guess what thrilling escapade awaits in the next episode of 'La Boca Chronicles: The Sandwich Shop Showdown'? Stay tuned for more riveting tales from the glamorous streets of Argentina! I was shocked at what the sandwich shop owner did to me. Guess."
"
Wow, surprising some of you are saying I'm the jerk. Argentina is like a backwards parallel universe on some things to me. I go in there every day and they used to be polite and all smiles but right after I yelled at the beggar, they barely talk to me and have this disgusted look on their face. It got so bad I stopped going in there. Even if it's a different employee that wasn't there that day it's like the owner told them to all be mean to me. I hope they go out of business and they too are starving in the street! I will have a fiesta and laugh in their faces."
"
I tried to be firm and he wouldn't listen. He kept asking over and over. He asked others in line and they said no. They were locals. They were talking to him in Spanish. I could't speak Spanish but no means no. I don't know what he was saying. He kept waving some card in my face. I don't know what it was. Maybe some disability type card or something. I'm not sure. I can't believe you all are siding with the sandwich shop. You all probably voted for Massa or Peronistas and pissed off for some reason."
"
hello @MickMolloy sorry. I had a very similar event than you. I am sorry. I just got warned from a Moderator not to copy posts from the other forum. I will delete if you want but I saw your post that you don't mind. I did see the Am I an asshole and I read your post and got inspiration from it. Yes i admit that. But I had a similar event. Not in Boca but in San Telmo. I don't speak Spanish so that is true. Very similar situation as you. I posted as I wanted to feedback and I guess i people think i am a jerk. I just hate people that keep bothering me after I saw no over and over. I said no 4 times. He was drunk and wasn't hurting for food or missing meals. Also i think that sometimes when it is clear i don't speak Spanish they come after me while with expectation I'm a jerk if i say no even if locals say no. Just because I have dollars. I didn't think I was hurting anyone taking inspiration from your post but I have been warned if I do it again I will get one warning and then banned. I hate the other forum now. Some good posts but volume is dying since this new forum went up."
Mick 1: La
Boca, best
customer due to daily patronizing.
Rico 1: La
Boca, best
customer (with a parenthetical comment about it being in his head, claiming buying one sandwich per day is heroic, missing the point of Mick's daily huge expenses for multiple sandwiches).
Mick 2:
500-pound obese disgusting beggar with
disability card in face.
Rico 2:
450-pound dirty beggar, drunk (why add the drunk?) with
disability-type card
Mick 3: worry about
20 minutes,
matched aggression, got in
face,
Hell freezing over,
beggar moved on.
Rico 3:
20 minutes,
matched aggression, in
face,
Hell needs a new fireplace,
beggar moved on.
Mick 4:
leper, hope they
lose business,
starving in street, will
celebrate in their faces, title is Argentina is
Backwards Land.
Rico 4:
won't talk to him, hope they
go out of business,
starving in street, will
laugh in their faces, "
backwards parallel universe"
well
@Rico Suave, you just got wrecked. congrats on winning the ClaudineGay award for the worst type of plagiarism.
too bad you won't get 900k a year like she will, since she's a DEI hire. you later changed your story to say already mentioned it was in San Telmo. why say La Boca? why add no Spanish? why add F-bombs? your username
Rick versus Rico, was it copied, just for this plagiarized (fictional) account?
and no, you didn't have a "similar experience" - you're full of sh*t. typical liar. i get the feeling you're one of the dumbasses like
@Quilombo over there that made this fake profile on this new forum, and you're trying to cause some sort of social contagion. you probably speak Spanish, since you're probably a local. no, you're not sorry; there is 0% chance you had this experience. you've lied since the beginning, then lied about it actually being in San Telmo, and now you're lying about being targeted for having Dollars/etc. - you are the worst type of person, taking time that you could be productive in the world, and ruining good forums like this with your unethical, idiotic, and false nonsense that does nothing but cause drama and negativity.
what really bothers me about this copied post (and dude, don't just Control+C and V, you need to write it from scratch or it's too easy to catch in its order and wording! moron) -
is that it takes a reasonable post about having a bad experience as a frequent customer, being upset at the cowardice of employees, and then not going back, and commenting about it on an Expat forum...and dumbass RicoSuave turns it into an arrogant-Expat-makes-an-unreasonable-scene and then creates a fake profile, continues the story as it has just happened to them, and
foments some type of negative stereotype about Expats.
i think the evidence is overwhelming, and RicoSuave's profile, thread, and further replies are intentionally fictitious, completely plagiarized, with the ill-intent of creating some kind of dissonance and causing division/argument here. i vote: ban, and log the IP address
@earlyretirement @God
did i miss anything about how there is 0% chance this was anything other than intentionally causing harm to the Expat community and this forum? does this piss-off any other peaceful and contributing Expats?
@Canada Goose @Betsy Ross
