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An unpredictable number of activities need to be done to solve the crisis. no flame
Trying to analyise the bond markets, knowing that they've been tampered (shorted, etc.) with a billion times over, badly rated. etc- etc etc is a big joke.
(markets aren't yet sure which side Ireland belongs on).
Do the Anglophone media really think Ireland needs some kind of protection? It is silly to say that the market don't know to which side Ireland belongs.
Do the Anglophone media really think Ireland needs some kind of protection? It is silly to say that the market don't know to which side Ireland belongs. boost your bust book
Te bet is really against the Euro; but it is a very risky bet because if the break out doesn't happen, the new balance will be at higher yields for the sovereigns that have been shelter during the crisis.
It will be a terrible summer for the EU; but also a very interesting one for the news circus, with all these inconclusive moves from the EU, the struggling featured countries show and the perplex slow moving markets astonishment.
Compared to a year ago, interestingly enough, not only has Ireland's spread decreased, but also...Portugal's.
It is as if the markets were behaving like a horde of Huns: once they have devastated a country, they move on to other, more appetising destinations in search of other countries to plunder.
An unpredictable number of activities need to be done to solve the crisis.
I believe that even this crisis wouldn't be resolved totally for many inter-linked reasons.
It is actually that markets have decided a crisis line for themselves.
Each bond-market participant speculates which countries the other participants may be thinking are on one side and others on the other. That is, markets have created a crisis line for themselves. Otherwise there wouldn't be a crisis line in the first place.
The rate of interest is not decided by the schedule of the investment demand and the savings supply. In the real world in which the quantity theory of money doesn't hold good the rate of interest is decided by the conditions of liquidity preference or the aggregate of speculations. Hence, a state of financial humbug is a natural consequence in the long run.
My recommendation is jubilee in different forms followed by debt-mutualisation.
Since you mention Ireland in the last line, could you update the chart to include data on their interest rates? Just so we can see what is happening so far?
Ireland hasn't been borrowing from the financial market, so there's no real market price for its bonds. The country did manage to auction off a small amount of three-month bills earlier this month. That doesn't tell us much though.
of course there is, it's the secondary market.
Irelands yield on bonds is just under 6% now
It is like the markets are betting either on a euro break-up (that would leave France and Belgium with Germany), or on a partial default from the periphery.
Very interestingly, it looks like the markets believe that France is less likely to leave the euro or default with Hollande than with Sarkozy.
Markets are not always right, but sometimes, they're capable of subtle analyses.
It's a pity you didn't have the UK and the US (though maybe asking for the US is not comparable) in the graph. Then we might have got an inkling of what effect printing money has on bond yields - but it is all so interconnected and some notional currency corrections (which would have to go beyond Europe, US) needs to take part in this "x is in a worse state than y" discussion. An interesting take (from the Berlusconi camp) is that Euro exit is already priced in for Italy. Maybe the free market does work - it has just taken a long time for it to understand that EZ membership deprives countries of the accellerator and the brake - leaving only the clutch to straw at.
I see what you did there.
In case anyone's wondering, here's the number for Portugal - a 9.014 percentage point spread over German 10-year bond rates:
Is the market pricing in some major appreciation of the dollar/ sterling (with 5 year/ 10 year yields below Dutch/ Austrian levels), or is it just that QE & unconventional monetary policy is overwhelming markets and cutting yields in the US/ UK?
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World-leading IT expert? We'll fast-track you into Blighty, promises PM
Tech experts will be fast-tracked to receive visas for the UK – as long as they're a "world-leading talent" – Prime Minister David Cameron announced today. Top tech bods are going to be added to the "exceptional talent" visa track for "people who are internationally recognised as world leaders" in their fields, which has the …
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The thing about importing talent is: what do you do with it, once it's here?
It appears that the government has swallowed the idea of a "magic bullet". That if you have a problem ... if nobody else can help ... that all you need is an "A team" and they'll somehow use their "world-leading talent" to sort you out.
Well, no.
Most of the problems that the UK's IT industry have are nothing to do with IT. So bringing in outsiders to give it a boost won't produce the hoped-for results. The fixes that are needed start with better technical education, move on to recognising the worth of people who can wield a soldering iron (at the right end) or spanner or stack trace, and also address the basic issues of expensive cost-of-living, unworthy management, short-sighted investors, an innovation-stifling environment and a reticence to taking risks and recognsing opportunities.
As a country, the UK is quite capable of producing its own top-quality IT people - rather than sucking the talent out of other countries. But it needs to nuture, grow and reward those people. Not just cover them in fertiliser.
How can you "Attract" when people are leaving?
Just witness the 3'd person I did my IT with at university leave for a bigger better country, (one a senior Linux Pro for Red Hat).
Please explain why anyone would want to come to this over taxed country?
Re: How can you "Attract" when people are leaving?
Well, tax isn't that high in the UK, although there are a lot of stealth taxes, but that had little to do with my leaving.
Re: How can you "Attract" when people are leaving?
and I am yet another one looking to jump on the next available plane off This Sceptred Isle...
as others have said, its nothing to do with the talent in itself, plenty of that about.. its the rest of the 'system' thats the problem.
Please explain why anyone would want to come to this over taxed country?
To get to the US as far as I can tell. The first thing everyone from foreign climes does is start looking at how to get to the US. It seems a couple of years here gets you in.
Re: bigger better country
Define "better".
Over taxed? Again, you're lacking a clarification there with comparison against the "better country" (or indeed against other major industrialised countries).
It's easily possible to make a very nice living in the IT contracting industry in this country when you have the required skills. There are plenty of people coming to this "smaller, worse country" so it can't be all that bad.
Re: How can you "Attract" when people are leaving?
They get non-domiciled status meaning this is actually a tax haven for them.
Is it just me....
or is the following scenario the most likely outcome...
Gov bod - "So, what IT specialisation are <looks at form> Sanjay, Vikram and Vijay world experts in that justifies you bringing them into the UK and paying them
nowhere near average salary the going rate?"
Big Corp. IT bod - "Erm...erm...EndoExoCryptologicalMorphologic development methodology, yes, er, that's the one, definitely..."
Gov bod - <Rubber stamps form> "That's fine then sir, it's not as if you'd lie your arse off is it sir? Carry on..."
Re: Is it just me....
Friday beer for you Sir/Madam.
Here we go again....
Theres plenty of talent here.....big business just doesn't want to pay for it. Mr C wants to make his millionare mates a few more £ by undercutting the locals........again!
To do what?
I might be interested and I am a UK citizen
Re: To do what?
"I might be interested and I am a UK citizen"
Are you prepared to work for below the going rate (preferably below minimum wage)?
Are you prepared to forego any legal rights granted to you under hard-fought-for employment law?
Are you prepared to lie through your teeth on behalf of your global corporate employer?
If you can answer yes to all of those, please contact Dodgy Dave's IT Recruitment and Offshoring, c/o W1A 1AA, enclosing your CV and an indication of how low you can go.
The wages are rubbish - so is the tax
I've vaguely thought about working in the UK for a while but the offered wages are ridiculous.
In Australia I earn $125K while for the same job in the UK I can get maybe UKP40K - a serious drop. Plus I'll pay more taxes and have a dreadful climate to deal with.
The only positive thing I can think of is that the beer is slightly cheaper and so are coffees.
Re: The wages are rubbish - so is the tax
I hate to break this news to you, but if you're only capable of earning £40K in IT in the UK, then you're probably not very good. There are some pretty poorly-skilled IT contractors out there who earn £500 a day. I know this because I've interviewed them and turned them down because they're not capable enough.
Re: The wages are rubbish - so is the tax
contracting rates are very acceptable, and if you really have the skills then the work is there. Maybe your skills just aren't what's needed if that's all you're being offered ...
Re: The wages are rubbish - so is the tax
I thought I had it good with my typical dailies in the £4-800 range. Spent today chatting to a Certain Big Data Analytics Outfit about bringing in some of their guys as support and they wanted that level of billing for their most junior of staff... per hour. I'm in the wrong [bit of the] business.
Re: The wages are rubbish - so is the tax
2 things...
1. If you're any good then go contracting and that $125k Aussie salary will look like peanuts.
2. Don't forget that the Aussie salary looks good now due to the exchange rate which can go down as well as up. Around 2000-2001 the Pacific Peso was 3:1 to the Pound. That's your GBP40k right there.
Re: The wages are rubbish - so is the tax
The cost of living is much cheaper here than in Australia. While the exchange rate for the Australian Dollar is about parity with the US Dollar, in terms of purchasing power parity, it is more like 2 Australian Dollars to the US Dollar.
Real deal industry superstar experts are very few in number in any industry. They are also extremely mobile and don't need government assistance to go where they want. Those sorts of people rarely speculate on finding a job, their new employer makes the red tape go away. There's already a perfectly functioning system for people of that caliber.
About 98% of the time people of that caliber aren't what you need though. You need lots of 'B' students who know their jobs well enough and want to work and places that will employee them. The superstar experts are generally about as useful as tits on a boar in business. In highly technical fields they're almost more of a hindrance as they aren't capable of 'good enough' and every time they open their mouths it's going to be expensive. They're good to have if you have a very mature business with a limited market where any advantage is a big deal. But if you're depending on one technical expert to drive a business you don't have much of a scalable business anyway.
They are worthless for starting something, which is what the the UK appears to be trying to do. Starting at the end never works. Forcing business never really works anyway. If it doesn't grow organically it'll always be depending on taxpayer subsidies to survive as they depend on that established revenue.
From working with 'superstar' experts, I'd say that they're more than worth their money. They might cost you three times as much as an average employee, but they'll give you far more than three times the value. If they're not delivering that, then they're not true 'superstars'.
You're way, way off on the pricing differential for industry leading expertise. When you start hiring from a global pool of 10-12 people the cost differential is more like 10x+ over standard high caliber staff, plus perks and you're usually on the hook for funding their unrelated research projects too.
There are uses for the superstars no doubt, but the reason there's only a dozen or so per field is there's not a big demand for them. They are oddly shaped pegs that only fit in on top of a jumble of other, established, things.
Our lead materials engineer is the titanium guy. He was the only guy on the planet that had the skills we needed to establish ourselves as offering a truly unique service. I met him at a conference and we hit it off because we were both researching on the same path. It took over a year to convince him to come to the States and in addition to his seven figure salary we fully funded his research and he shares in licensing royalties.
We're also stuck with him. I can't let him go because he knows too much about our internal operations so he's just another cost. But we meet the mature business and limited market criteria I outlined above. Without years of work and investment beforehand he would have added nothing to the business. We are highly dependent on a few unique competitive advantages built on top of a stable business. There are 30-technical experts here who anyone would like to have on staff, but they all had to be working for years to get to the point where we needed an industry leading expert.
Re: Real deal industry superstar experts @Don Jefe
I think you also hit the nail on the head, real superstars need to be managed. Unfortunately the manager will always be in the shade and so will only get recognition from those who are perceptive and have an inside track. By 'manager' I don't necessarily mean formal line manager but someone (or a team) who can influence the superstar to get the best out of them.
stuck with him eh?
Well, if I understand you correctly, he has added value to your company...I would assume you would have doored him before if not.
What exactly are you trying to say? Perhaps the old argument of the eggs in the basket?
Of course you will depend on the top notch if they provide you what no others can. Should have had arrangements for knowledge transfer if you had planned ahead. I personally strive to be on top of my field (rdbms analysis), and work hard at being on top. The difference with others I have met all throughout my professional life is sometimes abysmal...there IS a difference, and to justify x3 the cost for hard to calculate benefits (which, the higher the expertise usually the higher the benefit) is, I admit difficult in the short term, but sound further down. Most times the problem is the person who evaluates this, as they themselves might not be at a level good enough to recognize potential benefits, and consequently be able to exploit them.
Here in Spain, home of retrogard IT mentalities I find this at every turn.
Re: stuck with him eh?
You're out of your depth. It isn't a question of assessing and exploiting value, it's a question of having the infrastructure in place where you can actually take advantage of what that person has to offer. What you are talking about is skilled staff, not top echelon experts.
Knowledge transfer is the problem. When you can actually justify having top of field staff you're dealing with a tiny knowledge base, it's not the sort of thing that can be compartmentalized. They have no value if you don't have an best in class infrastructure already in place for them to utilize but that same infrastructure is unique for each competitor at that level. You're way beyond legal IP protections and far into the world of industrial secrets and the information can't be compartmentalized away, the focus is simply too narrow.
If you move into that super elite level of output and staff you have to figure in the costs of keeping those secrets long after they are a growth factor. They represent stabilized revenue, but the costs of maintaining that revenue don't decrease significantly over time as they do with more standard output.
So yes, value is added, but it's icing on a very expensive cake. If you don't already have the cake the icing alone is kind of anticlimactic.
Re: Real deal industry superstar experts @Don Jefe
And of course the manager needs to earn more than the superstar. Because you can't earn less than somebody beneath you - that stands to reason. So you need to increase the salaries of everyone in management
"Tech experts will be fast-tracked to receive visas for the UK – as long as they're a "world-leading talent" – Prime Minister David Cameron announced today."
Were this said by Obama, you can bet that 'world-leading' "talent" would actually turn out being some poor sod just off the boat...
Sorry to sound cynical... but when you outsource and offshore your jobs, who is going to want to come to a country and face extinction?
How much IT talent do we need?
1/ We have enough IT talent to enable the government to know everything about its citizens lives
2/ We have enough IT talent to enable its citizens to exchange their thoughts on celebrities
3/ We have enough IT talent to ensure the smooth running of our financial systems.
Well, two out of three should be good enough, shouldn't it?
Dear Dave
You know we have so many imported "IT experts" the wages have dropped significantly in the UK?
Combine that with IR35 closing one man consultancies through fear and uncertainty.
Only hiring large bodyshops stuffed with offshore and imported labour for government contracts.
Selling off every organisation to foreign buyers who then offshore IT.
So not sure what these experts are going to do except work in Starbucks?
Anyway if they are any good why would they start an IT business in the UK, you would be better off in Eastern Europe.
IR35 closing one man consultancies through fear and uncertainty
Nobody I know has closed due to that badly thought out (Labour) policy. In fact the revenue has had zero prosecution success, and everyone I know signs off their contract as being "outside IR35". That said, get rid of it and simplify the whole procedure.
Re: IR35 closing one man consultancies through fear and uncertainty
You might want to check out what "Umbrella Companies" do for a living. Check the Annals of the PCG for cases they lost and talk to a few ex contractors. Oh look a handy list and look the Tories were going to abolish it.
It was part of my decision to close, shortly after a bunch of nice ICT chaps turned up at 30% of the cost we were. (We weren't actually charging a lot, much less than a backbencher's salary).
Of course despite being a tax avoider I was still paying more tax than the ICT chaps were earning.
So now you know someone!
IR35 - It's not the tax, its the uncertainty.
The VISAs were another problem which of course force down the tax take.
I just started my own IT services company and had to endure the hour chat with the business bank manager to get a bank account. (Barclays free banking for a year (only reason) )
He was polish and spent most of the time telling me I should outsource all my coding work to his mates in Eastern Europe as they are cheaper and would do a better job.
Much as I admire their apparent go getting style, I found the whole thing quite offensive to be honest, that somehow nobody in the UK would be able to do the work to a high standard.
Re: I just started my own IT services company
Sold by the year's free banking, personally better option would of been to join the FSB and then get free business banking for as long as you're a member, plus free access to lots of experienced business bods...
PS word of advice NEVER business bank with the same bank as your private account, with small business'es banks don't tend to see the distinction between the two particularly when business account is overdrawn and there is money in your personal account...
"people who are internationally recognised as world leaders"
Why would anyone like that want to come here?
It doesn't matter how talented you are - UK Ltd has lost any idea it ever had of how to use the talent it has in abundance. Any world leader foolish enough to come here thinking he/she can make a difference would be delusional.
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It doesn't matter how talented you are - UK Ltd has lost any idea it ever had of how to use the talent it has in abundance.
We never lost it, we never had it. That's why so many of the technologies invented by Brits ended up being developed overseas. It's been going on for generations now. Sooner or later the government will catch on but they won't be able to do anything about it, because they are unable to recognise 'good ideas', they always have been.
Re: "people who are internationally recognised as world leaders"
We never lost it, we never had it.
True. I realised that some time ago but consoled myself with the thought that we were at least gifting technologies to the world.
My gripe now is that we can't even develop at that initial level, a level at which we would at least in the past have nurtured the people who could produce worthwhile ideas and products.
So much waste of potential now. Not just of people discarded because they are chronologically challenged, but also of the following generations, who are tragically unaware of what they could have done.
What a waste.
We need a change of mind in society
We need to come back to realizing how important skilled technical people are and how damaging greedy economists can be to the society.
Look at the 1980s, there literally was a TV series praising the skills of a hacker. This inspired quite a lot of people, including me, to go into engineering. Then there were great educational shows like the "Curiosity Show" (now largely on Youtube) bringing science and engineering to children in an entertaining and accessible way.
We need to learn from the Sputnik shock. We need to learn how much education can bring to a society, and we need that we should get our money into schools not banks.
I fear that the ship has sailed for the UK. While in Germany there is still some engineering and manufacturing (though German exports have recently been even surpassed by some Asian country) the UK seems to be dominated by the financial sector.
Not a bad idea, but not a magic bullet either
David Cameron's remit, as PM, is to grow the UK economy. So from that angle I have no problem with him inviting top talent to live and work in the UK, just like the UK would for a leading research scientist. The US has a system like this (the O1A visa, IIRC) and it works very well (and the standard is extremely high: this is *not* a backdoor for the underpaid IT contractor to get in. More like a system for people who have been on the cover of Time to get in. In fact, recognised global acclaim is one of the criteria.)
Having said that, top talent is fought over by employers and countries alike. So getting your superstar into your country is only a small part of the story. The bigger question is whether the environment they come in to helps. Are their good schools for their kids to go to? Is there a health care system? Is there ready access to sources of capital, not just money but land, people and machinery? Is the market fair and does it protect property? Will their success be celebrated, or sniped at (superstars have egos after all)? Are their cultural barriers (for example if the superstar would be in an ethnic or linguistic minority group within the host country)?
No one country scores highly in all categories, but the US, for all its faults, beats all the other major economies of the world hands down. I'm no superstar, but I left the UK for the US a decade ago, and it has been game-changing in terms of the opportunities I've had.
Re: Not a bad idea, but not a magic bullet either
> this is *not* a backdoor for the underpaid IT contractor to get in.
If you believe that I have a bridge, a Dixon's extended warranty and an HP storage solution to sell you.
Dave's mates in the city (who write the policies for him) are not concerned that ARM can't hire the best chip designers from MIT or Stanford.
After all their rhetoric about eastern european workers
Is this a Reverse of their Polish Notation?
I'm not being funny, but by all reasonable measures I *am* a "world-leading IT expert" and one of the reasons I left the UK to begin with was the lack of opportunities to demonstrate said talents in an environment where capital, greed, duplicity, politics, old-boys networks and risk aversion dominate.
The others related to home prices, tax, criminality, traffic, ignorance, road rage, lack of natural resources, ruined manufacturing base.. the list goes on. I moved abroad and frankly haven't looked back.
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Dodgy Facebook pages used to power 'spam a friend' joke scam
Dubious Facebook pages host rogue Javascript code that creates a means for miscreants to spam people on a user's friends list, security researchers warn. Chris Boyd (aka Paperghost), a security researcher at Sunbelt software, explains that the ruse relies on duping prospective marks into completing surveys. Users who complete …
About time this was highlighted
Who wants to see Disney's hidden message?
"Users who follow through"
[Beavis & Butthead icon required]
this is why hooking grandparents to Facebook is bad
there seems to be a much stronger assumption of trust amongst elderly non-computer savvy relatives. Especially when they trust the initial installer or the person who recommended the site.
Once their son/daughter/grandchild decides they're too lazy to even email baby pics to Grandma so she can view them on her new netbook, and sets her up on a Facebook account, all bets are off. Because son/daughter/grandchildren would *never* recommend something harmful for Grandma to use would they?
The situation is worsened when they themselves lack the savvy to understand that no site, especially something that's popular, is full of valuable marks and appeals to "social"-ites, should always be trusted. Users should always be on the lookout for anything "weird" happening or unusual behavior. Trust But Verify.
I have my mother trained, to call me if anything happens that's different than what she expects. But that's because I'm a heartless IT bastard-wannabe. And I have no problem sending pics to people on a mailing list. My roomates' great grandma, and most of her relatives (mother, sisters, etc) would follow the instructions by rogue apps to the letter if they thought it'd get them another mission in Mafia Wars or harvest a crop sooner in Farmville. :(
Grenade because that's what needs to happen to people who take advantage of the electronically handicapped Lusers of SocialWeb2.0
That's life.
Interesting that you should identify this demographic of 600,000 gullible Facebook users as mainly belonging to the older generation who, unless they are suffering from senile dementia, are more likely to have acquired a healthy scepticism from their lifelong exposure to lying politicians, biased newspapers, scam-merchants, and every advert that has ever seen the light of day.
More probably the majority of this 600k belong to the younger generation of click-happy, celeb-chasing wannabees who are only just entering the same learning process that their elders have already experienced.
If we didn't have such a politically engineered shambles of an education system it might even be possible to include "healthy scepticism" as a suitable subject for the protection of the innocent.
It's MUCH worse than you think
It's even worse than you think. I've written an article about this on my own page if you feel like going through it in detail:
Briefly, Facebook is actively encouraging such scams through its addition of the "static FBML" feature to its pages app. One of the things which has made Facebook stand out against other social networks is the lack of theme variations - every page has the same style, and no cluttered, lagging, myspace style custom themes are allowed. While many would view this as a restriction, it has prevented Facebook from turning into the nightmare MySpace is.
Several months ago all that changed, when Facebook introduced a tool to allow only business owners to change the layout of their pages. The most dangerous aspect of this change is the fb:connection tag - it allows page owners to make certain content "for fans only".
Now they are, as you're saying, using these gimmicks to amass hundreds of fans. And why? Because the owners of these pages are starting to seel their fans and status updates on ebay and other sites. Do a google search for 'facebook fan page for sale' and you will find hundreds of results. And Facebook is not only doing nothing about it, they are actively encouraging this by showcasing the "exclusive fan only content" features of FBML.
If this is not stopped quickly, Facebook will become another cluttered, dead social network. And the only way to stop it is to raise awareness, which is why I commend the author if this article. Far too many people are joining these groups without first considering the serious privacy implications that the simple action of clicking "like" actually has for them and their friends. It's time the users of Facebook declare in one voice that we have had enough of this nonsense and that either Facebook can take proper action against it, or we will go somewhere else. We've already done that to Bebo, MySpace, and every other social network which has made this exact mistake - I don't see any reason Facebook should be an exception.
In the age of the internet, power truly does lie with the users, and not with the management. It's revolutionary, and the sooner businesses realize this fact and stop resisting it, the better for EVERYONE.
>Baits being used in the ruse offer supposed access to the "world's funniest joke", among other ruses.
Surely that's a self defeating? I mean everyone knows that hearing that joke is fatal...
Mine's the one with the Holy Grail in the pocket.
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It can't happen fast enough.
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Paz / Renata
Saw Paz recently. She also goes by the name Renata on the bairesgirls site (note the domain has changed from .com.ar to .net). She has other listings too. It is a privado on Corrientes 13XX, piso 2-C. In the privado her name is Adri (Adriana). The number is 15-6729-1461.
I actually called to see someone else. I was told she was there and was quoted 600 pesos. When I got there, the original chica was not there after all (not a huge surprise) although I do notice the original chica is no longer listed on BG. Anyways I got a lineup of 3-4 chicas and the quality was fair to good, with one outstanding chica named Adri. I quickly forgot about the original chica and picked Adri, who said the rate was 500 per hour. Facilities are average, good large room with large bed, but poor bathroom. Did not see a shower.
She is the same chica in the photos, a bit of photoshop but pretty close. Great body but best feature is her face. Absolutely gorgeous especially with her eyes closed in session. An 8.5 for me. Nice, friendly chica, soft and sensual, LFK, did not inquire about BBBJ so cant comment on that. Good time, would repeat. 500 pesos.
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Malena hot
Saw this chick today. She's the chick in the pic and has pretty good reviews on the local board. The price was a little steep at 800 pesos but the reviews were good and she has the freaky big tittied porn star look I like so I thought I'd give it a shot.
She's the chick in the pics, she's not super pretty but her face is ok but she's got a banging fucking body.
Service was good, impressive mic skills, seemed to enjoy her work, she either prelubed or got pretty wet.
Front and back door available, no cim but BBBJ.
Only real ***** was the knock at the door came after 40 minutes. In a privado I'm ok with the 50 minute hour, they should be able to clean up between sessions, but this was too quick.
I can't give her my tramp stamp of approval because at 800 P the hour should be cim, and the time should be relaxed. I would put her in steady rotation at 600 but at 800 I'm glad I did it but probably won't return.
She speaks no English but whoever is working the schedule responds to texts which is rare and nice. Place was really clean, bit mirror on the wall.
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05-22-14 15:26 #366
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Advice BairesGirls
Hello all. I am taking my first trip to BA in June. Do not speak Spanish. I was hoping someone could answer a question for me.
In attempting to contact a lady on an escort site without any Spanish language skills, should I just make a list of girls I am interested in and try to call as many as I can until I find one that can communicate with me?
Is it best to send SMS / text in conjunction with Google Translate? It would be much easier if the escort sites listed e-mails so I could use a translator for the introduction and negotiations.
BA seems like one of the toughest places for a non-native language speaker of all the places I have traveled. I am just worried I am going to spend my entire vacation trying to do legwork to meet the ladies.
Any help would be appreciated. I have posted many reports on the main ISG board "rog123".
04-09-14 02:18 #365
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I hope you all don't mind...but I am seeking advice from be. A. Experts like yourselves.
I have been there many / many times, but never had the time to have fun and explore the mongering scene like one really should.
Do any of you you have any advice specific to these girls??
Mainly, I want to know where the best places are to find the best look and best service??
Or which girls?
Good looking and clean is important, but service is essential!
You can also send a PM!
THANK YOU! (I will report back in detail!
03-19-14 20:31 #364
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She's the girl in the pics
She's cute but not as hot as the photos. Stop banging the sheep and get your ass down here and you can bang her as well.
03-19-14 19:11 #363
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Perspective, Daddy
03-15-14 21:13 #362
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Carolina and company
Nailed this today, I think the pics are kinda older. She's not as pretty but ok for 500 and her attitude and service was really great. She's Paraguayan, so that pretty much says everything you need to know.
Funny, I had banged her once before in a threesome with her sister but we had both lost a lot of weight we didn't realize it until we were almost done. She told me the sister I fucked her with was preggers, but her next younger sister had just arrived from Paraguay so I could bang them both if I wanted.
Really great attitude, exceptional mike skills, cum wherever you want, all ports of call open.
Not beautiful in anybody's book, but nice and worth the money. The session went long and she didn't say a word.
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I'll be staying at the Hilton, so I assume that my "hunting grounds" will be Puerto Madero and Microcentro?
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I have been reading the reviews here and it sounds like most of the girls have their own apartments and customers go to them? Do they also go to hotels that are in their area? Any upcharge? I'm just wondering, cause I can go either way, but prefer to have my fun in my luxury hotel room with a nice clean shower..
02-04-14 04:07 #357
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He is in Argentina!
PM were created for a reason.
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02-03-14 00:19 #355
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Here's some language that describes my experience with the men of this part of the world - they're pretty much all inadequate, dim-as-shit, retards with inflated opinions of themselves despite their pathetically small cocks and double-figure IQs. A perfect example of which is Caricoso, who is such a brain-dead wank-stain that he comes on a mongering forum and complains about someone reporting on the services that a puta is supplying!
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Caricoso--read the argentine forros before you criticize this group
The argentines are very explicit in their reviews of exactly what each girls excels at doing in detail. I do not understand your negative reactions to the daddy review? She has been reviewed in the bairesgirls forros in a simular manner.


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Amid a never-ending firestorm of controversy, Chris Brown was spotted leaving Tru Nightclub in Hollywood last night with girlfriend Karrueche Tran.
They look happy. Guess there's no trouble in paradise ... at least not yet.
Karrueche Tran and Rihanna, Chris' ex-girlfriend and recent collaborator, are said to be engaged in a war of words, Facebook messages and Tweets.
In case there's any doubt where his heart is (at least last night):
Karrueche reportedly said earlier this week on Facebook, in what was seen by many as a jab at Rihanna, "I'm Angelina, you're Jennifer. C'mon you see where Brad at."
It's starting to look like the aspiring model may be right ... and may be morphing into Rihanna, with her newly blonde hair and sharpened fake nails. Just saying.
There's also this random Rihanna topless pic Tweeted yesterday. Which has nothing to do with this story, in all honesty, but still felt worth noting.
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i feel like yah some haters he didnt beat her for no reason rihanna had to do some to make him mad. and never will chris brown be ugly. as you see he still on his grind he still making music he making money and he still gettn bitches so WUSSUP thats virgina for yah asses . Havonna was here book me at Havonna KeepsIt'Real Carter Follow me at BossBitch1
@D-rod321 Ohhh, I'm with you D-rod! I mean where's the attraction to this woman beater with no talent?????
Chris brown is an ugly ass mofo..she can do waaaaaay better than that. maybe someone who doesnt beat the ish outta girls perhaps? I hope he loses his voice one day so he can dissapear for good..
All u girls who defend this disgusting arrogant woman beater honestly need to get beat so u wont feel the same way..team breezy? Gimme a break..he shldve never won that grammy cuz now his head just blew to even more than before
claro que chris não ama kau como rih.....ele nunca amou rih.....além do mais não temos sentimentos iguais por duas pessoas.....são tantas coisas abusurdas que falam.....pior são osa fans acreditarem .....chega de tudo isto.... não sou fan dele....mas deixa o cara em paz com a namorada.....
I feel Chris really loves Rihanna but because of the incident society will never allow them to be together. Just look at what happened when they made a song together. Both of their careers would suffer. I like Karrueche and I think Chris cares for her, they have been dating since November 2010. So he would have to care for her to be around that long. I just don't think he loves her like he loves RiRi. In all the pictures with RiRi they were always smiling, holding hands, he would carry her everywhere. But with Karruche he walks in front and you hardly ever see them touching. This is one of the few pictures that I have seen with both of them smiling. It must be torture to realize that you can never be with the one you love because of something you did. I just wish Chris and Rihanna happiness.
Tran's hair was blonde first... just sayin'.
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