{"id":74,"date":"2006-01-14T15:59:51","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T13:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/2006\/01\/14\/30-things-about-buenos-aires\/"},"modified":"2006-01-14T17:15:50","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T15:15:50","slug":"30-things-about-buenos-aires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/2006\/01\/14\/30-things-about-buenos-aires\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Things About Buenos Aires"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because it was hard for me to write a coherent post about my stay in Buenos Aires I decided to go with a random list of things that struck me about the city. Bear in mind when reading that I come from a town which is the size of one single real-estate project of said city.<\/p>\n

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  1. Every cabdriver has some religious item or other dangling from his rearview mirror.<\/li>\n
  2. Trafic is directed not by trafic lights, it is directed by the car horn.<\/li>\n
  3. Trafic flow will scare the bejeezus out of you.<\/li>\n
  4. Beer is sold in liter bottles.<\/li>\n
  5. Beer is mainly sold in shops owned by Chinese people who speak something which slightly resembles Spanish.<\/li>\n
  6. Men will kiss eachother when they meet — in fact they will kiss you when they meet you. Thankfully, so will women.<\/li>\n
  7. Cigarettes are insanely cheap.<\/li>\n
  8. Yet hardly anybody smokes.<\/li>\n
  9. There’s a bizarre infiltration of German culture. Leverwurst. Warsteiner. Isenbeck.<\/li>\n
  10. When walking the streets, avoid speaking English, lest you have a desire to get mugged.<\/li>\n
  11. Blond is the ideal, unless it is accompanied by an orange beard, in which case it is considered hilariously funny.<\/li>\n
  12. Get used to kids rummaging through garbage bags at 10 in the evening.<\/li>\n
  13. The botanic garden and the zoo are wonderful places to dwell.<\/li>\n
  14. Cats and dogs.<\/li>\n
  15. Turds on the sidewalk.<\/li>\n
  16. Any profanities uttered must not be of religious nature; they must however include the words “puta”, “madre”, or both.<\/li>\n
  17. The streets are one-way and adorned with big trees whose foliage provides shelter from the heat.<\/li>\n
  18. The Apple-store is every inch as expensive as it is here in Belgium. And the people that work there have cushion jobs, too.<\/li>\n
  19. Ignore the glue-sniffing guy to your left.<\/li>\n
  20. Wearing T-shirts without prints on them is like wearing a badge that says “I’m foreign, please gaze awkwardly at my composure” (as is sporting an orange beard).<\/li>\n
  21. The police is not your friend.<\/li>\n
  22. Football, football, football. La Boca versus Gimnasia.<\/li>\n
  23. The food is delicious and not expensive at all.<\/li>\n
  24. Do not bring up the IMF in any conversation.<\/li>\n
  25. Yerba Mate. You don’t drink it, you’re not part of the tribe.<\/li>\n
  26. Asado (the famous Argentine barbecue), during which you must eat at least 2 kilo’s of prime roasted Argentine beef or you are not a man. Having veggies on the side is considered “sissy”.<\/li>\n
  27. There’s an internet cafe every 300 meters, and they all have Keyboards That Suck\u00e2\u201e\u00a2.<\/li>\n
  28. Never leave the internet cafe complaining about how much the computer you were using sucks: you may have to re-enter the place because 2 Bolivians on speed are trying to get your wallet right in front of the place.<\/li>\n
  29. About 20 stamps, documents and stickers are required to be allowed into the country.<\/li>\n
  30. About 70 stamps, documents and stickers are required to be allowed out of the country.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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