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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8544634.stm

I heard her on the news this morning, i really am getting pissed off with Yanks.

There was a load of bloody fairies in Buenos bloody Aires
With greasy hair and sweaty bums, they'd never heard of Boddington's
A different culture and a different race, - no chippies in the fucking place,
You can keep that poof Ardiles, we're going to have your Malvinas
Eh Up!
They got our backs up without a doubt, time to sort those Argies out
Costa Mendez lives in fear of real men who can hold their beer
Eh! Eh! Eh! The lads are on their way,
With bayonets and tommy guns and bellies full of Boddington's
Eh Up!

Fray Bentos and cheap red wine is all they eat in the Argentine
But after a scrap with the British Navy, they'll ask for the recipe for chips 'n' gravy

Thanks to the Macc Lads

But they can't 'alf Tango them greasies...

Hmmm.........


Prefer this one myself.........

Does anyone really believe that the US would seriously interfere on this matter? It's the usual political engineering to show the US Latin American voters that he "cares" and to "introduce" himself to the Latin American countries.

It's the "let's all the friends and talk about it" approach ... just like it is in the Bunker.

The lad who was in the army, who went to the same school as me, had his memorial service back in Gillingham last week.

They had that song played in the church as part of his service.

As for the Falklands, we've got enough on our plate trying to deal with Afghanistan, let alone trying to deal with these current problems with the Falklands.

Can't we just sit down with the Argentine Government and discuss their concerns like civilised human beings?

Not after 1982. Too many British soldiers died for Britain now to give it up.

Just like someone approaching you and asking for your wallet, there's nowt to discuss.

I think you had better get yourself into hiding before Mr I sees that.

Don't people believe in reconciliation, you know, forgive and forget?

What's the point of trying to improve international relations with other countries if we're not prepared to talk to people?

Our relationship with countries like Russia and Iceland is at best, if you'll pardon the pun, frosty.

Did you have a great grandfather callled Neville Chamberlain ...?

They tried the school bully tactics back then and failed now they have rang their bigger cousin to help.

In 1982 after the war I visited two sets of grieving familes and it was as traumatic as the war itself. How I would revisit them and explain to them that their young sons died for fuck all I can't even begin to consider.

Of course we should reconcile with the Argentines, I did exactly that in 2003 when I visited Argentina as a guest of the Argentine Marine Corps. But as for soverignty; its non negotiable, too many lads died in the mud and the cold seas for it to be otherwise.


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If you cant say anything sensible dont say anything at all. I dont know anything about the Falklands and its obvious that people on here were involved with the conflict, so to be blunt PoK I think you should shut up about a matter you know sod all about.

I think it was a reasonable, if a little naive, question from someone who wasn't around at the time so does not understand the magnitude of what happened.

Mr. I's response, I assume, has left POK under no illusion as to why reconcilliation won't and can't happen (or at least it should have).

There is no need to have a go at POK for asking a relevant question.

Sorry I shouldnt have had a go, I didnt realise how many people died in the Falklands until reading this thread.

By way of comparison POK, I know people who lived through the occupation who still wouldn’t consider buying a German car or even set foot in certain restaurants or hotels because the family that owns it collaborated with the Nazis. Then again, I know others that had friends and family members deported to Biberach who now drive BMWs and will happily talk to German tourists asking for directions in the High Street. That's just the way people are.

Like Channel Islanders, I don’t think anyone in the Falklands would chose war over diplomacy again but, as Mr I says above, sovereignty is non-negotiable.

It's nowt but a bit of sabre rattling from the argentinians.
They where going to get a slice of the cake under the bilateral
agreement that they tore up a while back - clearly now they want a bit more of the cake.
All that will happen is that they'll get a city the equivalent of Aberdeen and the Falkland islanders ( not necessarily the Brits) will end up very rich like Norway

Apology accepted, Compo.

Don't care who they get to talk for them its non-negotiable ..Greedy Diego Bastads (c) adg

( How about we intervene and get the Yanks bastads to give Texas back to Mexico?)

It's quite simple..................we negotiate with the Argies the day after the majority of the Falkland Islanders decide they don't want us and would rather have the Argies...........which will be the twelve of never.
Until then we make it quite clear that we are not going to enter a similar conflict with that of 1982.
Instead, if they put one wrong foot on those Islands, we will select an Argie city at random and wipe it of the face of the earth.
Our lads and lasses won't be killed that way, but quite a few of theirs will.
No pussyfooting around, just do it.
Don't mess with me.

Tell you what, we'll tell Hilary we're sending a Task Force to re-colonise the United States where the lawful government was over turned by armed terrorists.

Of course the US is taking an interest in the Falklands - there's oil there

We were oppressive back then.

If you read the Declaration of Independence, you'll see just some of the things we did (or rather, didn't do) before the Americans said "Enough is enough"!

[youtube]http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm[/youtube]

Give me strength, have you only just found out the British were bastards way back when, we used to rock up to a place usually populated with folk who were fighting with sticks and catapults plunder everything stick a flag in the ground and say hey presto this is in the Empire.

Easy, just blow the gobby, useless bitch's brains out. She'd be nowt without her libidinous husband, she'd have faded into obscurity. 'I did not have sex with that woman...' Jesus Bill, having had a look I don't blame you....that Monica was alright though.......

I reckon if she annoys China once more, she'll regret it.

Easy tiger. I would, and you probably have.

Hilary?? Not even with yours mate.

Our Far Eastern correspondent doth protest too much.

Well... there was that night in Cincinatti.....

Oh fook, someone has got Mr I started again, was he in the Army or did he run the bloody thing.

I was joking why would we want that zoo of jackasses back in the 'family' ...?
As for the Americans, if you're gonna read the nonsense they write about 'their history'...expect it to be coloured in their favour.

I just spend two hours with five of them on the next table and trust me if you had an 'I'm an anti-social idiot' badge, you'd be getting four more printed.

The Americans are just like any other people, you get gooduns and you get twots. I'm a big fan of the US.

It's nothing new countries owning/laying credit to islands and territories thousands of miles from their homeland. France, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Portugal - just about any country with a past of adventurous flirtation can or has fallen into this category.

Most if not all are subject to contentious ownership.