There is every chance that, as we speak, Alexis Sanchez, one of the world's finest

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

footballers and native of beautiful Chile, is sitting on a glorified bus en route to Stoke, in which 'town' he will be forced to spend the night.

#prayforalex

[Berni]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Yes.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Opposite the Travelodge.

[PSRB]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

'At least it's not Stoke!'

[Luis Anaconda]

For a while tomorrow

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

I'd imagine stoke looks like Babylon to him

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I've got some ace grass, j. I might have a spliff to celebrate the arrival of Friday afternoon.

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

http://cdn.elciudadano.cl/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Tocopilla.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

The first party that floats legalisation will win the next election, mark my words.

Surely your Tories can see the benefit of having a whole new taxable income stream.

[Classic Jorge]

I'm sure Alex will be grateful to me when we meet

[Luis Anaconda]

* by all I mean the normal ones among us

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Mackenna

[Berni]

"We're going to liberate you from an antiquated, autocratic oligarchy and replace it with....ermm...well...never you mind. Have you seen my epaulettes? Shiny, aren't they?'

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

Though post-colonialism is often as brutal as what it replaced.

They seemed to be finding a just, sensible and representative form of government in the 20th century but gringos from the north were often the main problem with that.

I'm looking at you, Pinochet

[Berni]

Funny how vulnerable the socialist paradise was to market forces, eh?

[Berni]

By 'just and sensible', I take it you mean 'left-wing'?

Is Castro's regime 'just and sensible', j?

[Peter]

As bad as he is (and he is currently f**king awful) we need him.

[Luis Anaconda]

Dream midfield :cloud9:

[Classic Jorge]

[Peter]

[Luis Anaconda]

I still love him anyway :love:

[Peter]

[Berni]

I'd say Allende is only hailed as a socialist saint because he didn't get long enough in power to go full communist dictator. Pinochet did him a favour, really.

[Classic Jorge]

he was democratically elected so I'm not sure the people who voted for him appreciated it.

Pinochet's deeply pluralist and liberal reign was obviously such a huge success

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Peter]

Method here.

[Berni]

dictatorships start out. He was only around for a couple of years, so he didn't get the chance for things to get really bad.

[Ashberto]

thus accelerating the conditions of hardship, scarcity, and paranoia that make the dictatorship a self-fulfilling prophecy.