Today´s final note is the absolute fashion train wreck that is Argentine men, especially when they purport to be dressing in business attire. Neither dangr nor the Good Senator have ever witnessed such a shamockery of fashion as these baboons put on every day: sweater vests rule the day; jackets don´t even seem aware that they perhaps should match pants; a single outfit will regularly employ pinstripes, plaid, checkers, and polka dots; pink and baby blue are both in, big.

What makes the male fashion crisis so amazing is how obsessively well dressed Argentine women are, which is inextricably linked to pandemic eating disorders. A quick google search confirmed the clear visual indicators of repulsively and unnaturally skinny women:
http://www.something-fishy.org/cultural/roles.php
and
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/1456/16292
both note that "In Argentina the incidence rate of Anorexia and Bulimia ... based on population is almost three times greater than that of the United States."

Salon.com indicates indicates a link between the disgusting and obsessive smoking and eating disorders:
http://www.salon.com/news/news970124.html
"Ironically, in the land of beef and "papas fritas," eating disorders are rampant. Argentina has a higher incidence of anorexia and bulimia per capita than either the United States or Europe. I asked one young woman how the populace remained so thin in a land awash in rich foods. "Young women just don't eat," she said. "They smoke.""

It´s gross.