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Falklands Historic Dockyard Museum shortlisted in Museums/Heritage Awards for Excellence 2015
The Falkland Islands Museum & National Trust is very proud to announce that the Historic Dockyard Museum has been shortlisted in the International category of the Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence 2015. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCongratulations to Museum Manager, Leona Roberts, all the staff and supporters, and to all the people who put such a huge amount of effort into creating this!!!
Mar 11th, 2015 - 03:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well Done to All involved, you can be very proud.
Equal to Uffizi and the Louvre.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 03:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0They should hang a picture of their English hero Jeremy Clownson...
“Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear host, suspended by BBC ”
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31824040
@2
Mar 11th, 2015 - 03:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0How sad, that you have no life, that this is so important to you. You sad, sad little Argentine.
I expect we will see more of this here.
How is your Economy? How is your World Standing in the Global Corruption Index?
Haven't you got more important things to attend to, at home?
Sad little troll.
What has J Clarkson got to do with this article?
Fail.
Again.
Yawn...
Marquitos Alejandrito @ 2
Mar 11th, 2015 - 06:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0More evidence of your immaturity and childlike ways, you silly troll!
@2“They should hang a picture of their English hero Jeremy Clownson...”
Mar 11th, 2015 - 08:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe they've got pictures of Colonel H Jones and the thousands of British heros that encouraged your white national flag to be shown in 1982.
@5
Mar 11th, 2015 - 08:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0The most relevant part of the Argie Flag is WHITE.
The rest is just the Blues... and they have that in spades, just ask Jhonny Cash, if you know what I mean...
How fabulous, and fingers X for the award announcement. This recognition is just more evidence, if it were needed, of the vision, determination and hard work that characterises life in The Falklands. I was the last visitor on the last day at the old location last march, and the mammoth task of cataloging every item for removal was well underway that afternoon. I'll have to go back some time.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0@7
Mar 11th, 2015 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thank You for your work, and thank you for your comment here.
@6. Haven't you missed the yellow bit in the middle? Shouldn't there be some research? Thinking of the boiled sugar confectionery called 'rock', shouldn't someone see whether argies are similar? Do they all have yellow down the middle?
Mar 11th, 2015 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Doesn't it get boring congratulating the Falklands time after time, after time, after time, after time?
Incidentally, congratulations to the Falklands for having a GDP (PPP) per capita 2.5 times that of argieland. $22,101 for argieland, $55,400 for the Falklands.
what a wonderful museum.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and what a prestigious award.
organized by a...british organisation.
and an unknown comedian is the one in charge to give the prize...lovely.
now, if this joke of museum is one of the best for this bunch of twats, what the fuck do they think of the louvre, prado, guggenheim, guggenheim bilbao, museo de arte contemporáneo barcelona, galleria uffizi mamba, malba, etc?
@11 I knew you would comment eventually. No one is comparing to the Louvre, it's a small museum about our local history, that is it. We have had very good feedback from the tourists who have visited and that is why we have been nominated for this award.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 06:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Frankly I imagine it is far better than Argentinas Malvinas Museum as it isn't full of propaganda and making heroes out of war criminals, perhaps when you visit our beautiful islands Pauly you will see this.
Anyway, you have never been to any of the Museums you mentioned, I have been to the Louvre, it's impressive.
Also, comparing the Falklands to some of the world's greatest monuments or establishments is frankly retarded. It would be like me saying “Those twats in Argentina are so impressed by the Andes, what would they think if they saw the Himalayas”.
So when will you be visiting my beautiful home Pauly? And if and when you do get here, don't shit in the streets like you compatriots did in 82.
brainless f.y.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0first, you are answering to yourself, you brainless.
second, you have been to the louvre?
you??
LOL
L-O-L
yeah, right...
and calling the islets “beautiful” home is a bit rich, brainless.
remember, they are just a pair of stinky ilsets covered with guano.
@12 From your silly comments it doesn't sound as if you've ever been to the 'islets' paulcedron - they ARE beautiful, I don't recall any stinks anywhere, and apart from some bird splats here and there very little guano around.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@12 Ah I did answer myself, very clever of you to realise. The Islands are beautiful, in a rugged sort of way, but to each their own. You only seem to see beauty in man made objects and things of extreme grandeur. Subtlety can be a thing of beauty as well. Anyway all you know of the Islands is from the propaganda you are force fed every day.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes i have been to the Louvre, have you? I bet the only museum you have been to is the Malvinas Museum of lies and propaganda. Only Argentina would celebrate starting a war they lost and make heroes of war criminals and terrorists.
Also, when will you be visiting my beautiful home?
12 paulcedron
Mar 11th, 2015 - 06:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I've been to the Louvre. I've also been to the Uffizi, to the Van Gogh and to the Rijksmuseum, the Tate and the National Gallery....and plenty more, including lots of smaller, utterly fascinating local museums. One of my favourites was the Folk Museum in Innsbruck.
If you had even half a brain cell, or any experience of the world, you would know that experienced (and grown up) travellers take each experience on its own merit. They don't say that everything is rubbish because it isn't the Louvre. Seriously, if I overheard someone in the Stanley museum saying 'Well, it's OK but it's not as good as the Louvre', I'd think they were not quite right in the head.
I know why you're upset about the Dockyard Museum; it's because it tells the history of the Islands in the way that we want to tell it, and visitors really like it because of that.
Onwards and upwards :-)
brainless
Mar 11th, 2015 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0what happened now?
you discovered that you have to type the number of the message you are answering to?
well done, brainless.
very proud of you.
now, try tying your shoelaces yourself.
now, do not insist with that joke about you in the louvre.
first because it is clear you have never left porko stanley.
and second because visiting museums does not seem to be your strong point.
now, the funny thing is that when you read a serious publication about the best museums of south america, you have in the first place 2 argentinians, the MNBA and the MALBA, but the Déclassé Museum of the Islets does not even appear in the 1000th place.
it does not exist.
http://www.theartwolf.com/galleries/museums-location-south-america.htm
http://www.theartwolf.com/galleries/museums-location-south-america.htm
@16 Well it does exist, I have been to it, as have thousands of tourists, who were very impressed by it.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 06:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't understand why you are so pompous about everything, your country is a shit hole and you have propaganda on your money and buses.
Yes I have left the Islands, and I have been to the Louvre, it's not that difficult to travel from the Islands. Why do you think I have never left Stanley? give me one reason you idiot.
Also, when will you be visiting my beautiful home?
16 paulcedron
Mar 11th, 2015 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh dear. The reason the Islands are not on the list, is because they are not treated as a part of South America by that website. seriously, go there and look under 'Island Groups', then look under 'All destinations'. You will not see the Falklands anywhere.
I'm not surprised either; any site that mentions the Falklands runs the risk of being harassed by weeping Argentines. Probably just not worth it.
I think I'm with Brian on this one; I can't imagine why you would think Falkland Islanders don't leave the islands. Most Islanders I know are very well travelled.
brainless
Mar 11th, 2015 - 06:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Why do you think I have never left Stanley? give me one reason you idiot.”
your answers and your immense ignorance about everything, including your own language, scream that you have never left that dirty shack where you live.
anyway, if you want to impress the other isleters saying that you have been to another country, well, that´s ok with me.
lol
POLLY
Mar 11th, 2015 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just remind me of the 'attractions' you argies have in your dockyards?
Ships turned turtle and the oil boom out of the water?
A 'submarine' [what a joke that is] being tugged over the reach, listing badly and showing really bad growth on the port front?
Argie 'veterans' [another HUGE joke] burning tyres at the dock gates?
Yes, I can see the 'attractions' are going to work: NOT!
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
@19 And if you want to impress the inhabitants of your slum by lying about being a pilot, an architect and a surfer, well, that's ok with me LOL.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Also, when will you be visiting my beautiful home? You said you would be here in a matter of weeks.
19 paulcedron
Mar 11th, 2015 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That isn't the way to impress other Islanders; almost everyone has been to another country.
There are ways to impress us, but I have to say that you aren't doing too well so far.
21
Mar 11th, 2015 - 07:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I do believe he said “a pair of months” which, I would imagine, equates to between 8 and 9 weeks...
lol
Mar 11th, 2015 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you dont even have a proper airport for high range commercial planes.
all you have there is 1 (one) flight per week (or per month) to the wonderful, splendorous, incredible, super cosmopolitan...punta arenas...LOL x 1 million.
now, try to use it, because in a matter of months it will be suspended.
@ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA You are so ignorant and stupid LOL. We have one LAN flight per week, two military flights per week and one charter flight operated by the oil companies per week. And I'm fairly certain that the runway at MPA could take any commercial aircraft, I believe an Antonov An-124 Ruslan landed there when it brought the Typhoons down but i could be wrong about that.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Punta Arenas is a stop off you idiot. But why diss a place that's nicer than where you live. lol
Also, when will you be visiting my beautiful home?
24 paulcedron
Mar 11th, 2015 - 07:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You know, the marvellous thing about planes is that they fly to one place, and then if you get back on them, they fly to another place.
And quite often in our case, they fly straight to the UK. I'd like to see you try to suspend either of those links. LOL
Damn i forgot to put @24, Paulys gonna make a point of that. lol
Mar 11th, 2015 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unfortunately, I've never had the pleasure of visiting the Falklands, but I know Punta Arenas well. Falklanders are well liked there and he city, has substancial services to offer, including a fully equipped hospital. They have some good restaurants that cater to an international clientele and very decent hotels.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So why are the trolls attacking this charming little museum that has been given such a nice award? Perhaps it is because they have no respect for what is good in the world. They degrade what's decent and have no respect for human kindness.
Paulie- you really do show yourself to be a thicker idiot every day - you really must be the champion thick idiot of the world who has never ever learnt to check his facts first!
Mar 11th, 2015 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mount Pleasant International Airport can handle:
747s
Russian Anatov heavy lift transports
USAF Galaxy Starlifters
Airbus A330s & A340s
The RAF flight that comes in twice weekly is a version of the A330, Monthly they also bring in a Starlifter freighter and Antanov,s as required.
The Oil Company Charter flight is an A340
Lan operate A320 and have also operates A340s here.
Chicureo- yes Punta is a fine place, a damn good hospital in Clinica Magallanes- lots of Argentines go there now as not much in Rio Gallegos! and lots of good restaurants and some good hotels and a friendly people.
dear islander1
Mar 12th, 2015 - 02:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0why your nickname is islander 1 (one)?
is it a reference to the number of neurones you have there in that diminute brain?
anyway, it seems you dont even know the features of that piece of shite you call port stanley “airport”, no??
that piece of shite is a stolport.
and the other pice of shite in mout pleasant is a ...military airport.
so basically you do not have a shite.
now you isleter 1 neurone, tell me: how many airlines fly to the islets?
1?
10?
100?
no imbecile.
just 1 4th class airline flies to the islets.
and the only one nonstop flight you have is to...punta arenas.
so the ultra cosmopolitan punta arenas is your conection with civilisation...LOL
benny-hillbillies
30 paulcedron
Mar 12th, 2015 - 09:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0LAN is not a '4th class airline'. Sorry, but it really isn't.
AA is a rubbish airline; that's why we don't want them to fly to the islands.
Stanley Airport is for local flights only, helicopters, and smaller planes flying to Antarctica and elsewhere. I'm surprised that you don't know that.
This line of argument is utterly brainless. You say the islands are useless, as we haven't got a x. We say 'yes we do'. You say 'ah yes, but it isn't a 'y'. Is that about it?
Just substitute anything for x and y and we're good to go. I'll start you off;
Paul; The islands are useless; you haven't got a football ground
Monty; We can play and watch football at the Community school
Paul; Useless stinky islets, stinking piece of shite, it's not exactly Wembly or Old Trafford is it, benny hillbilles.
You can use that for any thread.
Alternatively, you can just never go to the islands, and mind your own business. If it suits us, and it does, it is no concern of yours.
31 monty
Mar 12th, 2015 - 11:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0try to opine about the article,, you know, the main topic, and not about the posters.
got it?
benny-hillbillies lol
@32 It was you that changed the subject you retard.
Mar 12th, 2015 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Also, when will you be visiting my beautiful home? You DID say you would be coming here. Surely you didn't lie.
32 paulcedron
Mar 12th, 2015 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What, you mean like you do?
Looking at your post @30 and failing to find a single word that has anything to do with the main topic.
brainless
Mar 12th, 2015 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0i have already told you, the word “beautiful” and the islets or your shack, are completely incompatible, you dumbasshole.
anyway, i will be overflying the islets in 3 months, more or less.
but my plans there are to have a pair of romantic dinners with isolda and elaina.
you are totally excluded, of course.
so keep waiting.
@35 LOL No mate you are the dumb asshole. So all the tourists who have commented on the beauty of the islands are dumb assholes? All the tourists who travel here to see our wildlife are dumb assholes? Hmmmmmm surely they can't all be wrong, or maybe you are, but I suppose beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
Mar 12th, 2015 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So why are you coming here then? If you think it's such a shithole then why bother wasting your time if you won't even try to appreciate the place. Or are going to do the whole Malvinas bit and prance around in uniform and wave the Argentine flag?
Also, if you come in 3 months it's going to be winter and the winters are grim, but whatever, i doubt you are coming anyway.
36 brianF.I
Mar 12th, 2015 - 05:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Three months? He must be visiting for Liberation Day. The weather might be rubbish then, but there will be some good parties.
brainless
Mar 12th, 2015 - 06:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0all the tourists who travel there are just a bunch of old farts deluded by 4th class tourist companies.
luckily they do not remain there more than a pair of hours.
staying in the islets for more than a couple of hours could be unhealthy.
and i am going there to verify in person if the islets are indeed that pile of shite that many people told me.
take it as a sociological study and not as a tourist visit.
Everything you just said is a complete and utter lie, because you are a deluded moron who happily takes in all the propaganda forced on you. You are a Peronist retard. I look forward to your visit.
Mar 12th, 2015 - 06:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So who told you the Falklands is a pile of shit?
38 paulcedron
Mar 12th, 2015 - 06:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How are you going to visit for less than a couple of hours in the winter?
brainless
Mar 12th, 2015 - 09:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the whole world says they are a pile of shite.
from serious torism publications to some people i know.
do you want their names, brainless?
lol
Paulie0 yes come on - list the serious international tourism publications that say the Falklands are nothing but a pile of shite - come on then please - name them and provide links to their articles.
Mar 12th, 2015 - 10:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Then we can do likewise to you with the ones that say- from experience - that the Falklands are a high class unique experience.
Tell me-
Why do we- a very small place - receive over 60 cruise ship calls every summer?
Why do some of these vessels PRIORITISE their Stanley call OVER Puerto Madryn?
Look forward to hearing from you.
41 paulcedrondo
Mar 12th, 2015 - 10:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'you want their names?'
Yes, thanks. That would be helpful.
I think I'm going to find it easier to prove that the whole world does not think the islands are 'a pile of shite' than you are to prove that it does.
Toodlepip
M
let's see if you can understand a concept, or two.
Mar 12th, 2015 - 11:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0when you have a pair of remote islands isolated from everything, with one of the worst climates, windswept during the whole year, with no natural attractions (waterfalls, mountains, glaciers, beaches, jungles, you name the rest), with no urban or cultural life, without the possibility of practicing any sport (ski, surf, polo, paragliding, heli skiing, you name the rest), and when their popultaion is not prepeared to receive tourists, how would you consider them?
yes, a pile of shite.
probably with the same money you can go to las leñas, ushuaia, sint maarten, etc.
the choice is not that difficult, no?
44 paulcedron
Mar 13th, 2015 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Let's see if you can understand a concept or two. Actually just one.
Not everyone is like you.
That's it really.
Some people like peace, solitude, 'wildness', wildlife, remote places and communities. If you don't then the Falklands are probably not the place for you. Other people like it though, they really do.
Are you asking me whether I'd rather go to Sea Lion Island or Ushuaia? No, the choice is not difficult.
Paul- Come on now - you promised us the names and the articles - not just a rant about rubbish.
Mar 13th, 2015 - 12:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Dumb tourist who comes to southern S America looking for a jungle and a beach to lay on!! Dumb one who comes to a small community looking for a big shopping mall - and skiing in summer?????
But then Paulie - lets agree - you are Dumb!
Oh and going back a bit - MountPleasant International Airport is what it,s name says- an International Airport. Civilian flights are operated by and handles on the ground by local civilian contractors who provide baggage and passenger handling , customs and security etc.
All the military do is provide emergency services and the guy on the apron with the bats who guides the plane to its stop position - all the rest is a civilian operation.
PuntaArenas- city of 130,00 but most people do NOT go there - they transit through the airport only -go through immigration and get back on same plane and fly to destination Santiago. Lan is a 1st World Airline - check the ratings. USA citizens favourite airline in the Americas if no American one flies there. Member of one of the top Int Airline Alliances.
Lan- RAF direct flights to England- Charter Flights direct to London and some oil company cargo flights to Houston via Brazil all operate from Mount Pleasant International Airport.
islander 1 neurone
Mar 13th, 2015 - 12:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0no, islander - 1 - neurone, it is not that a tourist that goes to southern south america is looking for a jungle or a beach.
it is that the islands does not have anything of interest.
read the list above and add all you want.
they have NOTHING.
now lets see what a british journalist says about the islands:
“Bald is the word to describe the landscape of the Falklands, and pretty much everything else there. There are no trees on the 760-island archipelago save for a few scattered, stumpy ones in the capital Port Stanley, where 2,200 people – or 85 per cent of the total island's population – lives, and on the British military base an hour away by road, where some valiant horticulturalist planted a dozen, all of them condemned to bend desperately sideways in the direction of the prevailing winds, like a row of umbrellas blown inside out.”
“Stanley is a long, thin rectangle of squat little Lego constructions by the sea with a couple of gift shops on the shoreline where they sell stuffed penguins made in the UK and, at the town's business hub, one general store where clothes are scarce and stubbornly unfashionable, where the range of chocolates and cigarettes is what you might expect to find at a medium-sized London Tube station, where fresh fruit and vegetables – practically all imported – are few and far between.”
“On the narrow streets there are no advertising billboards and no traffic lights, because there is no traffic to speak of. The only vehicles are four-by-fours, all amply served by the capital's one petrol station. An unmarked road of mostly gravel links Stanley to the Falklands' second city, Goose Green, a loose arrangement of 18 partially inhabited houses and half a dozen barns so bare, windswept and seemingly barren of human activity that the image comes to mind of a struggling pioneers' outpost in Idaho, circa 1842, after a visit by the Apaches.”
Paul- Then WHY is Tourism the fastest growing sector of the Falklands economy? Over 1300 Tourists due in for 10hrs tomorrow.Over 100 local people will be involved in showing them around as guides etc.
Mar 13th, 2015 - 02:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who was this old journalist? from the guardian? - You promised us serious Tourist Guides!
FACTS- I can go today into the 2 main supermarkets here and buy over THIRTY different locally grown salads vegetables and fruits. over TWENTYFIVE different imported Fruits and vegetables from Chile-Uruguay and Europe. Many Falklands Salads are sold to visiting cruise ships who ask for them in preference to the poor quality they get in Ushuaia.
Trees - in Stanley there are several thousands around peoples homes and some are over 40ft high(not quite stumpy are they!)- just east of Stanley a plantation of 1 hectare over 5000 trees , on several farms similar and larger plantations,one one farm I can walk in amongst trees 60ft high. At the Military Base there are over 1000 trees planted in the last 25 years. some now 6 metres high.
Billboards- we actually do not want them here! That is why there are none! Traffic lights - no need for them - other than the temporary mobile ones we have for roadworks. Clothing on sale - yes limited as we are in effect a village- bit the store that does clothing imports from a major high st chain in UK so all Modern and in fashion!
I do not know why mercopress called me 1 - but I have 8 Olevels-2Alevels and a College diploma and created and run my own business with a turnover of 1.3million pounds(2 million dollars)
Idiot Child/mamarrachoi/payaso/paulcedronb @ 47
Mar 13th, 2015 - 10:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Again you fail to tell us where you found this diatribe! Same old same old.
48 Islander1
Mar 13th, 2015 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Paul is selectively quoting from an article that appeared in the Independent.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/windswept-remotewho-would-want-to-live-in-the-falkland-islands-8577203.html
It is the opening section, setting the scene. It's a literary device- you say what's grim about something and then go on to explain that there is another way to view it. In this case, there are interviews with lots of Islanders. It's actually an interesting piece.
Unlike Paul, the writer has the wit and world knowledge to appreciate that although he might not like it in the Falklands, it is home for some for some of us.
The final paragraphs of the article:
The geographical proximity of the Falklands to Argentina, and the vast distance from Britain, makes the claim less ridiculous. Though it is very hard to imagine that, on the day after a hypothetical shift of sovereignty to Argentina, floods of people will come to settle the islands from Buenos Aires, or even from Patagonia. Argentine journalists in Stanley for the referendum were unanimous that not one of their compatriots would want to make the move.
The weather is appalling; the choice and quality of goods in the shops (or, rather, in the one general store) is worse than in Burkina Faso, where at least the sun shines; the entertainment is limited to pubs where one sees exactly the same people night after night; communications with the rest of the world are limited, with even the internet connections being poor.
To live here it has to be home, where one's sense of roots is and where one's friends and family live, or for those few visitors who choose to stay, there has to be a craving for isolation, maybe for escape, and if possible a passion for bald, wide-open spaces, for penguins and birds. Argentina says the Falklands are Argentine; Britain says they are British. But the truth is, really, that the Falklands are for the Falklanders.
@47 LOL Well done Pauly, you quoted 3 paragraphs out of context. Is that all you could find? You truly are the dumb ass here.
Mar 13th, 2015 - 12:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am well aware that not everyone likes the Falklands, it definitely splits opinion, some love it, some hate it. But just because what we have to offer doesn't interest you doesn't mean there is nothing here. You are clearly very arrogant and ignorant, probably something to do with the propaganda you force fed on a daily basis. Go on trip advisor and the vast majority of reviews are positive, and these are written by people of all ages and nationalities.
You will hate the Falklands, simply because you already have a negative view of the place, a view forced on you by your dictatorial government, and by people who you say have been here, other Argentines i imagine. Also, it will be winter, and winters here are pretty bleak lol. I only ask that you don't do the whole Malvinas flag waving, uniform wearing bullshit your compatriots are in to.
lets see:
Mar 13th, 2015 - 05:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0gordo tirapedos: you dont even deserve an answer, you flatulent fatso.
monty69
“It is the opening section, setting the scene. It's a literary device- you say what's grim about something and then go on to explain that there is another way to view it. ”
blablabla...yeah, right.
lol
brainless fy
wot?
out of context?
do you know what out of context means?
lol, blame the pork stanley community school.
#52
Mar 13th, 2015 - 06:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you for that posting. It is totally sympathetic to the Islanders. Did you actually read the whole article ?
52 paulcedron
Mar 13th, 2015 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'do you know what out of context means?'
Yes, but I think you're struggling with it a bit.
'Out of context' is when you quote something and..er..don't provide a context. Which is what you did. You used a quote, you didn't say where it came from, and you didn't say that it was part of a wider argument which, on the whole, really doesn't go your way. There. Out of context.
@47
Mar 13th, 2015 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“it is that the islands does not have anything of interest”
Which is why thousands of tourists visit the Islands.
So all these tourists visit the Islands because they are nto interested in them?
Of course the Falklands would have thousands more if they could divert the thousands of tourists that visit Argentina merely to see and photograph the thousands of CT scanners in Patagonia, and to buy souvenir replicas of the CT scanners that they can put on their mantelpieces when they get home.
And imagine thousands more flooding to the Falklands if they burned tyres on the docks as the Argentines do.
your opinion about the islets is, of course, irrelevant because it is totally biased.
Mar 14th, 2015 - 02:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0you, bunch of bennys, have demonstrated several times that you cannot be equable, objective, ecuánime in spanish, you bunch of monoglots.
now i want to emphasize some concepts of that english journo:
“Bald is the word to describe the landscape of the Falklands, and pretty much everything else there. There are no trees on the 760-island archipelago.”
“Stanley is a long, thin rectangle of squat little Lego constructions by the sea with a couple of gift shops on the shoreline where they sell stuffed penguins made in the UK“
”...at the town's business hub, one general store where clothes are scarce and stubbornly unfashionable...”
it is exactly what my acquaintances told me about the islets.
in other, not so elegant words, that they were a sad, inhospitable piece of crap.
@57 Your opinions about the Islands are, of course, completely irrelevant because, firstly, you have never been here, and secondly, you are force fed propaganda and have been indoctrinated from an early age about the Falklands.
Mar 14th, 2015 - 03:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Now, like i said earlier, the Falklands split opinion, if you like busy metropolitan life, then the Falklands is not the place for you. But if you like piece and quiet, little to no serious crime, the outdoors, bird watching/wildlife etc... then you will like the place. Liking our home does not make us stupid.
Also, the paragraphs you quoted WERE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT, the article (if you actually read all of it) is very well balanced, neither being overly negative or positive about the Falklands. For example there are these positives:
“But, in startling contrast to what we see in Europe today, unemployment is practically non-existent. It stands at 1 per cent, meaning 10 people, six of whom are physically or mentally unfit for work of any kind. Pensions for the old are generous and iron-cast; health care is free and so is education. Even for children who live in the second biggest island, West Falkland, which has a population of 100.”
Ohhh and about us never leaving the Falklands:
“The other surprising thing is to discover how many Falklanders have travelled, or even lived, abroad. A small number are recluses, practically hermits, who live alone with their sheep in some of the remotest, most inhospitable places on earth. But Stanley, where almost everybody lives, is more cosmopolitan than one might at first assume.”
Whats that Pauly? We never leave “Pork” Stanley? But the very journalist you quoted said we do. Strange that. lol
So you see Pauly, there are a lot of positive points in the article as well a negative, like I said, a well balanced article written from an outside perspective. And read the entire article next time, you are just making yourself look stupid.
I was recently in the Falklands and thought the museum was very impressive, considering the small size of the islands. Clearly a lot of effort has gone into it and they deserve to be nominated for this award.
Mar 14th, 2015 - 03:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0@56 Yes i know Pauly, I made a typo, I answered myself bla bla bla. At least now you can give a reasonable answer since I pointed out my own mistake.
Mar 14th, 2015 - 03:38 am - Link - Report abuse 056 paulcedron
Mar 14th, 2015 - 10:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0And why do you want to emphasise those paragraphs?
Because you're totally biased. You can't even comprehend the concept of a balanced discussion.
Of course we are biased in favour of the Falklands. It's our home. That's the whole point.
What interests me is why you think this helps the Argentine cause. All you have shown is that people from Argentina don't like the Falklands, they don't understand the value of them and they don't want to live there.
The good news is that you don't need to. Just don't. It doesn't matter whether you think the Falklands are 'a pile of shite' or really great. Forget the whole thing and go surfing. That's my advice.
brainless
Mar 14th, 2015 - 11:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0yes, you answered to yourself for the 10th time in a row.
now add to that all the grammatical / orthographic errors you have committed during this time.
the question is: what are you waiting to see a shrink?
monty
this has nothing to do with the argentine cause.
it is just an observation about the tourist capabilities of the islets.
they are nonexistent.
that's why i say that promoting tourism in the islets must be considered a crime.
anyway, you are right.
i have never been there, so i need to go to check all in person.
60 paulcedron
Mar 14th, 2015 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0' i need to go to check all in person'
No, you really don't. You've already said there is nothing in the islands that appeals to you. The Falklands are marketed to people who like wildlife, wilderness, and quirky off-the-beaten- track experiences. You already said you don't like those things, so don't go.
Personally, I hate nightclubs, crowds and heat. Therefore I'm not going to go to Ibiza for my holidays. It doesn't mean the place is a 'pile of shite'. It just isn't for me.
monty
Mar 14th, 2015 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0no.
i like wildlife, wilderness and blablabla.
the problem is none of that could be found in the islands.
in the islands you can find...penguins and sheep.
period.
as for you islanders traveling abroad, well, i do not recommend it.
taking in account your look, ability to understand, etc, you lot would be attracting policemen and sanitation officials as bitches in heat.
62 paulcedron
Mar 14th, 2015 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'm done with you. You're a complete idiot.
I admire it it a way. Everyone reading your posts (including other Argentines) reads them and thinks 'What a complete bellend'; you know this and you just don't care. You just carry on posting the same old drivel that can be instantly disproved by anyone with an internet connection. Most people have at least some degree of care not to appear to be a tool, but not you. Bravo.
Now do us all a favour and piss off.
#63
Mar 14th, 2015 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are probably correct,YOU could only find penguins and sheep.
I think you should have your eyes and cognisant abilities tested as they are sadly lacking. I can see why Monty69 is fed up but I am made of sterner stuff.
As I have grandchildren I am used to childish outbursts and tantrums and can usually treat them with equanimity but occasionally they have to be addressed.
wheretowatchbirdsandotherwildlifeintheworld.co.uk/falklands.html
A visit to this site should alter your abysmal ignorance on the subject of the Wildlife on the Falklands.
Read and digest, I may be asking questions later.
64 Clyde15
Mar 14th, 2015 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I admire your fortitude. I'm usually quite patient, but there comes a point where you have to just recognise the essential trollness of someone.and move on. For me, saying that there is no wildlife in the Falklands is that point. Utterly ludicrous, and a blatant wind-up. I wouldn't waste my time talking to someone that thick in real life, and I'm not going to do it here.
grandpa
Mar 14th, 2015 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you are answering to the wrong person.
the pills, grandpa....the pills.
monty
“I'm usually quite patient, but there comes a point where you have to just recognise the essential trollness of someone.and move on.”
good for you.
move on.
'#66
Mar 14th, 2015 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0OK, error on my part . Now I address it to you !
Or will you obfuscate in your usual manner.
@62 Paul
Mar 14th, 2015 - 09:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“like wildlife, wilderness and blablabla.
the problem is none of that could be found in the islands.”
Yes the wildlife in Argentina( that some class as humans) which eat 50,000 pies a day (Maximus Kircherneri ),throw stones and burn tyres are thankfully extinct in the islands.
Paul- when will you ever realise that only a complete Arse writes total rubbish and falsehoods without checking them first.
Mar 14th, 2015 - 09:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And it is a total dumb Arse who then tries to defend the trash they have written even when so many prove it to be wrong!
So only penguins and sheep? Well yes Penguins - 5 species of them - how many does Argentina have?
No mention of our Albatross colonies - umpteen other seabirds-landbirds-birds of prey etc.
Beyond your brain span I accept but many a wildlife photographer will come here for a week or more - just to get that“one” picture out of thousands that is “right” and they can sell to the journals and make money.
Others come just for peacefulness- open beauty and wild landscapes of the Islands - its whatever takes your fancy.
You clearly only rate as a holiday destination- 5 star hotels-jacuzzis- allnight clubbing and big shopping centres. Fair enough if that's what gets you - but why knock all those who fancy something else when the want a holiday?
Oh- and do get into that thick head of yours that there are TWO main grocery and goods stores in the Islands - well 3 if you count the smaller one that has 3 separate outlets spread around the town- giving little Stanley in fact FIVE grocery and general stores.
@66
Mar 14th, 2015 - 10:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Paul, I have been struck over the last year and a half of reading the more outre' posts of some of your countrymen, that what Argentina really lacks is a Museum of Head Chopping. I mean seriously, look at all the paintings and engravings from the first 50 years of the republic showing heads on pikes. And what about all the famous “heroes,” Lavalle chopping Dorrego, Estanislao Lopez with Ramirez's head in a cage, Ardao displaying Acha's head on a pike, Rosas chopping and displaying hundreds of heads over his long term in “office” at Buenos Aires, and of course the ever popular Pablo Irrazábal doing in and beheading Chacho Penaloza? I can't think of a better venue to display Argentine history and Culture! ;)
http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b521/imoyaro/chopperlaff_zpsryuikyku.gif
imoyaro
Mar 14th, 2015 - 10:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you have some kind of pathological obsession with head chopping.
you should see a shrink.
do you have any in the islets?
no?
then you should be jailed.
just in case, vistessss?
@71
Mar 14th, 2015 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I just happen to like history, and Argentine history is very, very interesting. As in the Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.” You are living in Argentina now. Do try to keep your head about you as things fall apart. ;)
http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b521/imoyaro/chopperlaff_zpsryuikyku.gif
70 imoyaro
Mar 14th, 2015 - 10:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There already is a Museum of Head Chopping in Argentina. I went to it a couple of years ago, and I can honestly say it was the greatest cultural experience of my entire trip. And that's saying something because Argentina isn't short of museums and monuments celebrating murderers and psychopaths through the centuries I can tell you. Hell, they even have those dudes on their banknotes.
@73, Yep you are right, Rosas is on a bill, and so is Sarmiento, the guy who ordered Penaloza's assassination. ;)
Mar 14th, 2015 - 11:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b521/imoyaro/chopperlaff_zpsryuikyku.gif
74 imoyaro
Mar 14th, 2015 - 11:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They've just put that thug Antonio Rivero on the new one as well.
nabos
Mar 15th, 2015 - 01:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0do you understand why you type an @ and/ or a number before your answer?
do you understand that simple rule?
i guess not.
now the disturbing question is why.
smaller brain than that of the average human being?
poor education?
i guess both.
Just keep your hands on your head, Paul. Wouldn't want you to lose it. ;)
Mar 15th, 2015 - 01:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b521/imoyaro/chopperlaff_zpsryuikyku.gif
I find the whole banknote iconography thing quite interesting actually. What would we have on our notes in the UK if we wanted to do it the way the Argentines do? Famous outlaws and criminals? Dick Turpin perhaps? How about some well known heroes of the colonial era? Maybe Clive of India, or Kitchener perhaps.
Mar 15th, 2015 - 10:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0What we've actually gone for is Jane Austen.
@77 It's actually funny how stupid you are. Seriously, I think you should see a doctor, maybe they could scan you with one of Argentina's CT scanners. If they can get one to work lol. Do you actually think you are intelligent? Because you're not. In fact you make the those retards in Ushuaia look smart. Maybe instead of spending all your time trolling every single British news story, you could get an education, or a job, try to get yourself out of the slum you have never left and see the outside world.
Mar 15th, 2015 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 080
Mar 15th, 2015 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0brainless
let's see you genius.
“In fact you make the those retards in Ushuaia look smart.”
...the those retards?
and what the fuck does it mean?
you cannot even write your own language, you retard.
and then you do not want to be called retard...lol
funny.
and an isleter talking about...education (LOL) and jobs (LOL x 1 MILLION) is even funnier.
go back to school, you brainless.
but not to that piece of shite you have in the islets.
understood?
oh dear, paulcedron has completely lost the argument, yet again.
Mar 17th, 2015 - 02:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is this the only thing he is consistantly good at, losing arguments?
Will he ever learn?
Paulie, quite simply
a) you will never gain control of the Falkland Islands
b) The Brits are better than you are.
c) you know that both a) & b) are true, which is why you post here. Everybody knows that.
#82 c)
Mar 17th, 2015 - 06:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0NO ! The whole world does.
@83
Mar 18th, 2015 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Haha!
Very Good!
(and very true).
@81, I really don't care you stupid grammar Nazi, go get a life outside of your slum and try and make that dump Argentina a better place, if possible.
Mar 19th, 2015 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Also thought you might be interested in this:
http://www.south-atlantic-research.org/blog/my-two-weeks-with-the-falkland-islands/
So you see some people do enjoy the Falklands and what it has to offer, just a matter of opinion.
@85
Mar 20th, 2015 - 01:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks for that genuinely lovely linky.
:-)
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