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I was trying to come up with a way to address this video with decorum. However, after some thought, here's what I have: Feck eff, fox chaser. You have absolutely no idea what is going on here beyond your cable fed propaganda screen. And, of course... Fk your feelings!!
Fortunately for us, you have no outreach and influence. There were many factors responsible for what happened Uruguay isnt innocent either… educate yourself casual.
as an absolute gringo, you clearly have no idea what football means in south america....and perhaps you'll never understand being that the irish national team is absolute crap....south americans are very happy and emotional people, contrast to your pasty boring and depression ridden people...
Interesting perception. I do think there is something to your critique of excessive soccer fanaticism in Colombia. It is a quasi-religious carnivalesque experience. There is a lot more to this collective psyche than just national pride. Social malaise, frustration. A lack of other national raisons d'etre. How else does a stadium crowd in whole end up screaming that the president go?
@@augustofigueroa1062 La patria es la Selección. I guess in many South American countries, the national soccer team has been a chief vehicle for nationalism, uniting disparate parts of the country. Each person may have a different reason to love la Selección but showing support for the team is a symbol of one's patriotism. These days, I'm just not on the same wavelength. I enjoy watching many sports but not to the point of wild fanaticism.
....nobody cares if u wanna see a game alone with your tv or in a pub chatting so entusiasthic with friends or even in the stadium screaming like crazy!!........people with bad behavior and little cultural background, little empathy, and who unfairly believe they can go beyond the rules and legal limits, you will find them everywhere so it is a worldwide situation..... ....u are an adult who can understand all of the above that you accuse or point out, and you could very well make a difference by setting an example not only of tolerance but of emotionally "controlled" behavior, but if everything bothers you so much, u can stay at home & watch the games of your own native country on TV, or if you want, tune in to cricket or a poker match so you can enjoy other types of emotions without so much discomfort because honestly your pseudo-critical complaint ends up being ridiculous nonsense, which also lacks a real proposal. By the way, what happened in the game with the cowards fans of urugay is not the first time and the North Carolina authorities are already there investigating everything because the videos were revealed showing who the cowards of urugay were who sunk in their already recognized on the continent, typical cowardice of bad losers, because they started everything without any right, only that they found this time themselves in front of tougher and stronger people and now they miserably victimize themselves!!
@@nicedoppy2077 Uruguay supporters aren't the only ones who can play the victim, be both bad losers and bad winners. Colombians have done that plenty of times before. Indeed, already there are posts doing the rounds that Colombia won't only be playing against the eleven players of Argentina on Sunday, but also the ref, VAR, Conmebol, etc. Sounds a bit like playing the victim before the battle has even started. And as I say in the piece, there are fanatics everywhere for all kinds of pursuits, be that in sport, metaphysical matters and much else besides. If the winning of the game on Sunday by a team of millionaires really does make a measurable difference to the lives of the struggling masses, then great. One wagers that it won't. I concede, though, that it is how nationalism manifests itself these days in most parts. With that, I understand that to speak ill of la Selección Colombia is akin to an attack on the country. However, as I state in the piece, there are many things I like about Colombia. Also, not all Colombians are unquestioning supporters of la Selección, some are quite indifferent. This doesn't make them less Colombian. I may be indifferent to the result on the game but I shall watch it in my barrio popular in the company of others. I'm not immune to the carnival atmosphere.
Rodrigo Bentancurt from Uruguay smashed a GLASS bottle on his own physical trainer's head. Europe has ultras. People are tribal. People suck, news flash. Somehow you just hate Colombia but lack the self awareness to understand why.
It's a GAME! not a geopolitical conflict. Just a Game. Limmitted by the rules of engagement both the teams and the fans play their different roles. Football/Soccer is the most captivating spectacle in the world today and killing is NOT allowed unlike precursors the likes of the Roman Circus where the Players often died to entertain the Fans! but it was still a Game where Fan emotions played a part on the outcome. We Humans LOVE the creation of an effect whether it is conquering, fighting or playing with rules that apply and participation and involvement IS a personal choice. In International Competitions the emotional involvement runs high due to Pride and love for Country and it's an spectacular display of Freedom of Expression and for some folks it may be the only thing they have to identify with. I personally protest violence of ANY sort from fanatiscism and repudiate objectionable behavior but I don't blame it in the love for the Game, Competition, Country. It's just a Game!
@@pedrobossio5440 It doesn't always just stay an innocent game, be it on the pitch or in the stands. And I would respectfully disagree that football/soccer is the most captivating spectacle in the world today. Give me a game of Irish hurling (look it up if you haven't heard of it!) or rugby over soccer any day of the week! It's not to say I dislike soccer, it's just my favourite sport. Cheers for taking the time to comment and enjoy the game. Here's hoping that it's a good, honest game with no controversial decisions and that the best team wins!
@@brendancorrigan Agreed in that it doesn't always stay an inocent game, true that. Passion mixed with evil intent is always in that mix. I'm glad that we seem to agree to disagree while understanding the other's viewpoint, awesome! I also love the game, I've played Pro in my youth (I'm 70 now LOL!!) and meant to state the World Popularity of the Sport as a matter of statistics not opinion. Agreed, may the best Team win!!
This guy does not understand the difference between passion and fanaticism. How did I come up with such a useless video with so much misinformation? You're just bitter. What a waste of time.
I don't get the point of this video, I'm Colombian I enjoy the games with my friends and we have been critical for years, but there are idiots everywhere, I just want to see my team to win something for the first time. I know some dumb people do dumb things but idk.
@@RoxyArietis Well, I've explained, I thought fairly thoroughly, why I am indifferent to la Selección. And perhaps I've just been unlucky to have encountered more of the insufferable types than the unbiased, reasonable types. They can be hard to find when it comes to fanaticism, though, regardless of the pursuit.
@@Lagosawee It'll be interesting to hear what the excuses are. I've heard "protecting family", but what exactly had kicked off in the stands so? Pretty impossible to justify a professional footballer jumping into the stands for a fight.
I didn't think you could do a panoramic shot of Chocontá without getting the huge 1960s satellite dishes, which were Colombia's first space-age connection with the world.
My first visit was 11 years ago and it's changed quite a bit even in that relatively short period ... wwcorrigan.blogspot.com/2013/08/palomino-and-cabo-de-la-vela-lighter.html
They trained a lot of dental assistant schools in Colombia. I am surprise they do not have a free dental care in Colombia doing basic list of checks. But I hate dentists just as much as I hate lawyers.
I think that even in social democracy where there a state-hung financial safety net. There is plenty to seek change in circumstance to advocate for change in the best examples; Germany, France, Denmark, The Low Countries,Canada, all the Nordic states(my opinion). The fact that the state should represent the people and serve the people is a noteworthy platitude. But I believe it is worthy struggling for, even if it is as basic for a decent public transport in one's city.
I don't disagree with a state providing vital services, helping to ensure a healthy environment exists for enterprise and suchlike. It's when the state interferes in practically every aspect of an individual's life, that's my concern. And in many areas this is happening. For sure, striking the right balance isn't easy but it's lopsided towards more state control these days than individual agency.
60 million pesos is over 3.5 million USD is how much this guy lost. I hope this adds in to perspective how incredible it is for him to think of all that had happened in a positive nature.
I'm not sure what conversion rate you're getting! 60 million pesos is just over 15,000 US dollars. Right now, one dollar exchanges at just under 4,000 pesos.
At least I have some good news for you: When you return to Colombia you won't have to pay Colombian income tax on your Irish pension income. DIAN changed the rules to attract more foreign pensioners to retire in Colombia. Also, you might well be able to choose instead to live in the libertarian paradise that Argentina will become. In that case at least half the Colombian Spanish you learned will be of use down there! If you just need any job in Ireland I can refer you to a lovely business, but you will need to speak Polish. That's not a problem, right?
My Polish isn't the Mae West, so I'm not quite in a position for an immediate start. As for retirement, I think that's a concept I'll never realise in my life. And many studies suggest it's best not to *retire*. Of course, the ideal is to be able to work well into one's twilight years but to be doing so not because one is forced to but rather because one wants to! We live in hope. Cheers for taking the time to listen and comment. Much appreciated!
@Brendan. You nailed it when you said "... being far from an expert on the subject." Likely, you've never heard of Aleksandr Zakharchenko, have you Brendan ? He truly was a mild-mannered, non-offensive, persecuted popular persona, Propagating financial independence from all 'parties', especially the IMF: And got to work on Solutions for his people, primarily Food Production, First & Foremost. When Irina Bokova was boss of UNESCO, remarkably, she established a uniquely profound amplification of international Law. " The destruction of any Culture is a Terrorist Act ! " that sounded Reasonable, post Bamiyan Buddhas & Palestinian Persecution. Which is why Western Leaders like Merkel & May conspired with KriStalinka Georgieva (Bokova's fellow country'woman'), against Bokova's appointment as Secretary General of the U.N. , in favour of António Guterres. F.y.i. Stalinka was Georgieva's Father's pet name, not my bias! It appears to me that you have got much 'completely wrong' Brendan by failing to understand why, how, what & from whom your media digest Is actually Fed: your daily diet from the P.R. marketing agencies WPP IGC PUBLICIS & OMNICOM is what creates & determines the delivery of AP AFP & REUTERS to disseminate to Murdoch & Co.... E.g. the W.H.O. are represented by Hill & Knowlton Strategies & Partners, owned by WPP. The Big4 PR Corporations operate in a unified fashion, exactly like the Big4 Accountancy Corporations, Deloitte, E&Y, PwC & K.P.M.G. ... Initial research might tell you that it was Ogilvy & Mather that created your Carbon Footprint, paid for by B.P. in 1999, but a deep dive will show you again, that O&M actually belong to WPP. Let us hope that you become more expert in understanding who actually creates your daily news digest and that you come to understand that Aleksandr Zakharchenko did not want to deal with the IMF at all... before the bomb blast that killed him in 2018. Get my drift...?
You've put down a lot of words, there, but in essence there's not a lot of substance to what's written. It appears that you seem to believe that you're on some higher plain. And what do you know about my media digest? In an information-laden world, one tries to analyse the state of affairs from as many angles as possible. Nobody has all the answers, nobody knows the *correct* path ... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QdizFwr2uKE.htmlsi=hBZ37omuj_sWuqYk
Russia's guilt is everybody's guilt. Existential threats are answered existentially. Everybody knows this to be true. The USA and its lackeys have turned Ukraine in a bulwark against Russia, despite the constant and very clear warnings from Russia to stop this madly irresponsible policy. It's been the same scenario as the cuba crisis in 1962, then the USA - again the USA started the conflict - placed weapons of mass destruction in Turkey and as a response to that, Khrushchev installed WMDs in Cuba. Kennedy threatened with war, they got together and both withdrew their WMDs from Turkey and Cuba respectively and thus a war was prevented. Not so this time, one part of the parties ignored the rules of the game, knowing where this would ultimately lead to- war. There was no existential problem until the US-intitiated bloody coup d'état of 2014, when the last all-ukranian democratically elected president had to flee the country and was replaced by a US-selected fascist regime (see phone call Victoria Nuland with Geoffrey Pyatt). From then on it all went downhill. The Minsk agreements were never taken seriously by the USA but were used to buy time to pump weapons and NATO personel into Ukraine for the coming war (Hollande, Merkel admitted this last year). The war would have been over in April last year, Moscow and Kiev agreed, but Boris Johnson flew in, delivered the message: the war continues or the USA and its lackeys would let Kiev fall, so Zelensky walked away form the negotiation table (Naftali Bennett)- several 100'000 more people dead and forever traumatised was the consequence of this devilish, murderous US-policy - and the dying continues, day in day out. So who is to blame? Very obviously and as usual : the murderous, narcissistic, megalomaniac psychopath USA and its despicably slavish cohort of blindfolded castratos of the EU and elsewhere. And instead of finally coming to their senses the population of these countries continue believing the lies that are fed to them by their massmedia and governments with the exception of Hungary and Serbia. Not that people couldn't know the truth, but they are too lame and too afraid to question their governments and the msm... Ignorant cowardice and moral bankruptcy, the Pest of our times
@@alanmalarkey If you manage to sleep, although once you get to the department of Cesar, it's pretty flat and straight all the way, unlike slowly winding through the Andes! On the way back, I'll probably break it up, stop for a night somewhere.
Hi Brendan, so pleased you are enjoying Boyaca. Pretty sure the locals do not see people from our neck of the wood that often, Manta is also a nice place to visit, Ive been to the other towns you mention which are very beautiful. Guayata is also famous for the mogollas, which are off the charts, very nice to eat with a coffee from that quaint coffee shop on the corner !
Hi Guy. Alas, I'm back in Bogotá, but I'm due another getaway soon! Yeah, I'm not sure how many Irish/UK visitors these towns get, but probably more than we think. My favoured mogallas are of the savoury kind, mogallas de chicharrón, an old addiction of mine, wwcorrigan.blogspot.com/2020/06/coming-clean-on-my-colombian-addiction.html. Are you planning a visit back this side any time soon?
Hi Brendan, theres me thinking "I was the only gringo in the village"😀 I must admit to liking the traditional mogollas Guayatunas, along with my mantecada, bocadillos, but dont get me started on empanadas & buenuelos !! Sadly the wife & I (a Bogotana lady but born in Tenza) have no plans to visit in the near future.
Subí por el barrio Codito, cerca Calle 183 con séptima hay escaleras por un parquecito que va hasta Calle 182c. De allá hay varias rutas para llegar a Carrera 2 que se convierte a Calle 185. Toma la Calle 185 hasta Lomitas y de allá a La Capilla. De la Capilla hay un sendero por todo la cresta de la montaña hasta el mirador. ¡¿Está claro?!
@@juanchossebas2569 Sí señor, subí solo. Y no fuera mi primera vez hacerlo solo. Había escuchado que podría ser peligroso, por ejemplo el riesgo de bandas andando por el sendero, pero solo puedo contar de mis experiencias y todo fue tranquilo.
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Hi Brendan, greetings from the UK !! Ive been to Guayata many times as my in laws live there & I was amazed that another "gringo" has stumbled across this place. The coffee shop next to the church is awesome, hope you enjoy the rest of your Colombian journey, the scenery there is something else.
Hi Guy! Yeah, I decided to walk there from Somondoco. It seems to have a bit more life to it than Somondoco to be honest! And yes, I did indeed have a tinto in that café, excellent stuff. That's another plus point for it. Somondoco's still stuck with greca coffee - a crime against coffee as I put it here, wwcorrigan.blogspot.com/2022/09/hooked-on-bbc-or-ccp-if-you-will.html. Alas, back to the hustle and bustle of Bogotá tomorrow.
I've seen worse! And for sure, the setting is quite nice, ru-vid.com9EFgmyKXoq8?feature=share. Although, of course, one could say the same about pretty much any Boyacá town!
It didn't escape my notice that the promoters of Working From Home weren't the people who have to empty bins or deliver food. There was a heavy class element to this. The laptop class seemed to think that their lives were the only ones which mattered.
Quite. And many of such types work in spacious homes at that, not house-sharing in a small space. Not everybody lives in a "home" - i.e. a place that they feel comfortable in and call their own - to work from.
A lot of the vernicular architecture is the 'pancake' architecture. The same architecture construction in the places affected by the earthquake in Turkey.These did not withstand the earthquake and have increased the numbers of deaths in their collapse.
I certainly wouldn't have much confidence in much of the building work here. Perhaps one mitigating factor is that a lot of the buildings are made out of those breeze blocks, so they don't weigh that much. Of course, having hundreds of them collapse on you is another matter.
The Colombian government plays a game where they say they do not want people not to come for sex tourism.Yet they don't want to admit that many come to meet women.
I think that most people do things to fund the activities they enjoy. It is much difficult to say this for those with children and financial obligations such as mortgages and cars. For most men being in a relationship with a woman, involves making a with deal with the devil, because this woman will demand a certain lifestyle. Men are a utility for women and with children comes inevitably expenses.
Quite. To borrow from the wisdom of Homer Simpson, 'Never help anybody.' That's my line of thinking now. You do somebody a favour in a time of "need" (questionable as this need appears in hindsight) and the repayment is lie after lie.
