So Argentina wants the Falklands "back".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18453372

Agree? Disagree? Personally, I'm not that bothered, but the sabre wrattling occurs on a regular basis.
I've been to a nearby lump of rock, the Ascension Island, and they're crap. I'd imagine the Falklands are about as bad.
Alt, is it too early to enquire about lunch? I'm rather hungry here.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 15 Jun 2012, 9:54, 119 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

It's like the immigrants have taken over their country

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 9:55, Reply)

Got to watch them foreigners
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-18454262

(a much better link).
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 9:58, Reply)

We should trade them the islands for Lionel Messi
Or Diego Maradona's head on a spike
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:01, Reply)

I think they belong to Spain

( Peej, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:09, Reply)

Nobody wants the Falklands, what they want is ownership of the oil, gas and mineral rights that go with them.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:12, Reply)

What about the penguins?
An untapped resource just waddling around.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:16, Reply)

THEY CAN@T GET THE WRAPPERS OFF!!11LOLOL!!!

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:17, Reply)

It's just frost on my moustache honest!

( Peej, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:20, Reply)

Penguins are ace.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0428803/

Although I couldn't eat a full one.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:21, Reply)

I'm with the government on this
As long as the people on those islands want to be part of the UK, it's the UK's duty to ensure that they remain so. I don't care how many third world daygo countries that pisses off. There's absolutely no danger they'll be invaded again.

I am the voice of Imperialism.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:19, Reply)

I'm going to get a bunch on brits and stick them on an uninhabited island that belongs to someone else
and say the same thing. I just want the oil!
( Peej, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:21, Reply)

It doesn't "belong" to anyone else.
They have never belonged to Argentina. Their entire argument rests on the islands being closer to them than us and that they once belonged to Spain some three hundred years ago.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:23, Reply)

And as the Irish will tell you
Just because an island is near to your country, it doesn't make it yours.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:25, Reply)

Indeed.

( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:26, Reply)

Bloody potato wogs claiming Britain

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:47, Reply)

Ireland?
I don't think there's much oil there though.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:24, Reply)

There's loads of oil in Ireland.
Oil be doing this, and oil be doing that.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:27, Reply)

LTI
To be sure
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:29, Reply)

hahahahahahahahaha

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:29, Reply)

Yes!
One of the lads finally managed to take a photo of the mental woman who walks round wearing some kind of matching headgear/jacket combo

Her hat has some kind of massive plastic wings!


( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:20, Reply)

Looks like Judge Dread.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:26, Reply)

I AM THE MENKLE

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:27, Reply)

haha.
You said it buster.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:27, Reply)

I'm happy in our own skin

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:28, Reply)

That's one Kkerazy office you work in there
it just looks like someone wearing a hat to me, I must be missing something
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:34, Reply)

The patterning on the hat is actually about 2 inches mounted away from her head
It looks weird
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:38, Reply)

You've never experienced the Fashionistas of Hackney
In terms of kooky attention seeking she'd score a solid 0/10
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:43, Reply)

I think it is more mental than attention seeking
Never mind, move on
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:44, Reply)

Yeah, it's not like the two are related or anything

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:53, Reply)

Distant cousins

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:54, Reply)

Ascension isn't nearby?
its only about half way there.

The islands are ours, and the inhabitants want to be. End of argument.

Mind you, if it wasn't for the First Sea Lord happening to be in Downing Street when it all kicked off we'd have given them up in '82.

"If we don't act, Prime Minister, we will be living in a country who's word counts for little in the world".
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:36, Reply)

This is good knowledge sir

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Downing St
was willing to talk about it in '82, right up until Argentina decided force was the way to go.

The US, apparently, didn't think we were militarily capable of mounting a response.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)

Vulcan 607 is a very good book if you like that kind of thing...
about how they used a 1950s plane on the longest bombing raid in history (at the time). Pretty amazing stuff.

Apparently cos we withdrew HMS Endurance Argentina thought we weren't serious about the Falklands any more, and the military government needed a success to divert attention from the shit going on in their own country.

Sound familiar?

Those who don't learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it, etc
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:49, Reply)

It's all gone a bit "serious" this morning on here!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:50, Reply)

Quick call someone a bender
You bender.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:53, Reply)

Endurance was due to be scrapped
and we couldn't afford a replacement.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:52, Reply)

Nobody could say the same thing now
1,700 man permanent garrison, an airfield with three fighters, three RN frigates/destroyers and a nuclear sub in the area. The Argentines, meanwhile, still have the same planes they had in '82.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:59, Reply)

The problem now is that if Argentina were somehow to take them back
we would not be able to retake them as we have no sodding aircraft carriers left - or planes to put on them.

'Experts' reckon the only possible way for the Argies to take the islands would be through a special forces attack on RAF Mount Pleasant.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:08, Reply)

Not quite true, HMS Illustrious is still commissioned.
Not that she carries a great deal of airpower now all the Harriers are gone.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:14, Reply)

That makes it a helicopter carrier rather than an aircraft carrier, but I accept your point
but an invasion without air cover would be a disaster.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:17, Reply)

I have no evidence for it
but I suspect the Harriers could be recommissioned if necessary. The point I was making is that we have a ship capable of operating as a strike carrier. But yeah, the lack of planes is something of a handicap.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:26, Reply)

the harriers currently lying in bits and pieces being used for parts by the usaf
I like jigsaw puzzles
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:30, Reply)

Ah, in which case they probably couldn't be.

( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:30, Reply)

I used to read 'Commando' like all the time
you're talking shit
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:16, Reply)

Yeah you're right.
Re the nearbyness. I was under the impression it was nearer.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:41, Reply)

I think they used the long range bombers from there

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:42, Reply)

With half a dozen re-fueling actions on the way.
Our bombers only had the range to get to Moscow at the time. The Falklands are a fuck of a long way away.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:45, Reply)

Indeed

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:46, Reply)

"Because if we do not, or if we pussyfoot in our actions and do not achieve complete success, in another few months we shall be living in a different country whose word counts for little."

( Peej, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:48, Reply)

Seeing as my obvious sarcasm wasn't seen as sarcasm
I propose that David Cameron and Cristina Fernández have a live televised fight to the death, winner takes all.
( Peej, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:45, Reply)

She would tear him a new arse

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:46, Reply)

Either way, we win

( Peej, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:50, Reply)

*ponders this thought*
*agrees*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:52, Reply)

I think on balance
I'd give her both barrels.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:51, Reply)

She's quite cute.
Although I had to Google who she was. Apparently Thatcher, the fucking mentalist, was prepared to go nuclear, if France didn't give us the override codes for the Argentinian missiles they'd bought off them.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:52, Reply)

Really?!
Eek
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:54, Reply)

Allegedly so.
Not nuclear to the Falklands, nuclear to Argentina. She was prepared to nuke their capital. Barking old shit.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:58, Reply)

She'd have done it, too.
Howling mad.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:03, Reply)

Wouldn't surprise me....
One of the main reasons we won was our nuclear attack subs, which kept the enemy navy in harbour.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:59, Reply)

The subs in question weren't equipped with nuclear missiles though if my memory is correct
The 'nuclear' refers to nuclear-powered rather than nuclear weapons-carrying.

The Polaris boats would have been kept well away from the area, although they could have hit Argentina from pretty much anywhere on the planet.

I suspect the nuclear option was just a hypothetical exercise in case things went tits-up. I'd be amazed if the mad old bag would have seriously considered it.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:15, Reply)

You imbecile, their navy didn't want to end up like the Belgrano

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:18, Reply)

I didn't disagree with that, you ignorant tattie-muncher
Read the fucking post.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:21, Reply)

Spaz, the presence of the Conqueror kept their navy in port
you used it as an exercise in showing off that you know the difference between the propulsion system of a submarine and what comes out the top.

Christ have you never read commando
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:25, Reply)

I wasn't arguing that, you boss-eyed ignoramus
Presumably English is your second language.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:31, Reply)

You should revisit the post that I'm mocking, get someone to explain it to you and then go and kill yourself with the shame

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:33, Reply)

I was clarifying a point made by localboy, which he then agreed with.
If you can't understand that then I recommend that you DYAAKY.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:35, Reply)

Don't get me started on your fat wife whose kept the house leaving you in a bedsit cooking tins of beans on an iron.

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:38, Reply)

I didn't. Clearly you have some kind of attention disorder.
Perhaps you were dropped on your head as a child.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:41, Reply)

uv totes pwnd rory, iv lost all respect 4 him

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:53, Reply)

:(

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 12:02, Reply)

you are correct....
the subs were nuclear powered but armed only with normal torpedoes.

Apparently the Argentines were more worried about a conventional bombing of their capital by Vulcans than any nuclear option.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:22, Reply)

it's a British occupation of foreign land in pursuit of imperialism and oil wealth.
They should be handed back. Of course the inhabitants don't want that, but if they love Britain so much why don't they go live there?

As a wise man once said, there can never really be justice for stolen land.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:53, Reply)

Wasn't Argentina colonised by the Spanish?
Perhaps the Aztecs or whatever should put in a claim.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:55, Reply)

Was it a Scotsman?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:55, Reply)

it was KRS One actually.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:57, Reply)

Someone round here has that as their car reg

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:59, Reply)

there's a truck in York with BDP on the side of it.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:16, Reply)

Kindly show your working
when did The Falklands ever belong to Argentina or were inhabited by Argentinians.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:00, Reply)

2 April 1982 to 14 June 1982

( Peej, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:02, Reply)

Hah!

( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:03, Reply)

I thought we nicked it from the spanish.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:04, Reply)

The Spanish had it in 1760 something.
By the time we settled them in 1833, they had been empty for years. The Argentinians have never had people living there. When we settled them, Argentina wasn't even a country yet.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:05, Reply)

Yeah, something like that.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:06, Reply)

No, nothing like that.
It's British OCCUPATION of FOREIGN soil.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:07, Reply)

Here's the ownership in history.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Falklands.permanence.png

Spain gave all its south american colonies to the newly formed Argentina, so the spanish occupation is part of the argentine claim.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:11, Reply)

If you look at that graph
it shows that there's a period of non-ownership between Argentina and the UK's possession. Although it's true that I was incorrect in stating Argentina wasn't a country at the time.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:16, Reply)

Yeah, no one owned it for a while then there was an Argentine group on there
for less than a year and a british warship turned up and told them to fuck off.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:19, Reply)

Sounds reasonable to me
Fucking whining Argies.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:23, Reply)

To be honest, we both have valid claims
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands_sovereignty_dispute
Thats why neither country will ever take it to court or to a UN judgment, because neither the Argies or us are sure who will win.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:21, Reply)

How much do they cost us to keep?

( Peej, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:24, Reply)

A fuckton

(PsychoChomp, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:25, Reply)

Then fuck um

( Peej, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:26, Reply)

50p a mile, but we get 64p for every half gallon of oil
so technically, penguins
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:25, Reply)

hahaha!
I love this
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:56, Reply)

We were there first!
apart from France, who don't count. But probably why Kroney is so upset about the whole thing.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:19, Reply)

France sold it to Spain,
Spain gave all their lands to Argentina.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:22, Reply)

France never counts when it counts.
All bluster.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:28, Reply)

I thought of you the other night
I was in some shit club and they played 'Fuck da Police.' There were cunts around me singing along.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:33, Reply)

When I tell people that I have been thinking about them
They call the police and I don't get to fuck them or anyone else.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:41, Reply)

It was never Argentina's in the first place.
Whatever the inhabitants want, let them have it.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:12, Reply)

The sun has come out! the sun has come out! still windy as a motherfucker though. Might do some painting.
(ThunderCuntThePendejo officially less shit than NakedApe, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:15, Reply)

i fatlolz
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:20, Reply)

hmmmm, you might have a point, my fine detail brushes are upstairs. fml.
(ThunderCuntThePendejo officially less shit than NakedApe, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:22, Reply)

Visit britain
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18447470
(PsychoChomp, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:17, Reply)

Poor Monty!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18447476
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:21, Reply)

"The police's actions were extremely arrogant and unprofessional".
Duh.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:27, Reply)

yeah cos a sandwog leaving an abandoned car outside a government building should defintielry just be left as is

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:33, Reply)

What an offensive term.

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:43, Reply)

true though
if you're going to break down outside the houses or parliament and then 'go sightsighting' your a prick and you need more than just your boot being blown off
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:46, Reply)

Hahaha
I love that story.

"A controlled explosion took place...the incident was subsequently deemed as unsuspicious."

Masterful understatement, there.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:32, Reply)

Was the ticket issued after they'd blown in up?
That would have been harsh.

But why the fuck did he abandon it if the AA were on their way? I thought they usually responded within an hour? It's hardly enough time to go to the fucking zoo.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:39, Reply)

That's how I read it, they blew it up then decided to ticket it.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:52, Reply)

Look, just because it's an exploded wreck
it doesn't make it exempt from parking laws, you know.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:53, Reply)

which is fair enough
it could have been a bomb, given its location, and it was parked illegally and abandoned, despite the shitty handwritten note that most likely blew away
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:55, Reply)

you kniow what? your all whores and i don't even care anyway

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:23, Reply)

Stop being so needy!
(ThunderCuntThePendejo officially less shit than NakedApe, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:25, Reply)

shut up ThunderCuntTheDestroyer, i'm talking about the falklands yo

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:26, Reply)

Like Winston Churchill said.....
History is written by the winners.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 12:07, Reply)