I really don't care about the subject either way. Obscure islands in the middle of no where to me. If anything their only use is for exploration and scientific study of Antarctica. Land ownership is as relative as the entire time it takes you to read THIS word. No one owns land. The Falklands and South Georgia belong to themselves. The argument of "who had them first" is entirely irrelevant. If it was relevant then it would be a couple of sea faring species of birds that owned the islands, or penguins or some ****. People get hung up over some silly ****, I tells you. Deep MD OUT.
Why does it matter? It's the UN. People have long since stopped giving two ****s about what the UN says. In fact, chances are that every single country is breaking one convention or another at this very moment.
Navy days in Portsmouth used to be exactly that. Now you could rename it Navy afternoon. There's nothing left to see, except a couple of scruffy tugboats and a pile of wood Prince Charles dredged up.
Haven't read this thread but I'll ask a question to Jakey and our other resident mikes*, recognising your experience in matters of territorial dispute: do you think Argentina has a rightful claim to the Falklands? *you can answer too if you want Keiron
The film was pretty good I thought. The tv series were more misery inducing than an outbreak of bubonic plague.
Yeah, but when you know it's going to end with some poor cow getting chopped up with an axe and flushed down the sink, l find it a bit hard to watch.
Does tend to clog the drains up. I live just up the road from Denis Nielson's old gaff, so I wouldn't take a job with Dinorod round here.
TBH I couldn't really give two ****es about the Falklands. Saw the headline this morning and could see it was a nailed on 5 pager at least. Its gone pretty much as expected. The usual nige tactic of hiding behind semantics and technicalities. The good old "x, y & z wasn't really a country when we began our bloody conquest so our claim is legitimate, theirs isn't" ... the same nonsense gets trotted out ad nauseum when discussing the conquest of Ireland. The the other go to tactic is the whole "democratic mandate" one - ya know, we have planted a population ergo we now have the democratic mandate. And how its just not cricket to try and reclaim territory through undemocratic means, despite the fact colonialism by its very nature is the very antithesis of democracy. Double standards I suppose ...
