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Falklands ‘invasion broadcaster’ short listed for Commonwealth Sports award
Falklands’ news casting veteran Patrick Watts, known for his manning of the radio station during the Argentine invasion in April 1982, and an active promoter of the Islands worldwide, is on the shortlist for a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 29th Annual Commonwealth Sports Awards. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesIt is anticipated these will greatly assist the administration of future games.”and events such as Hurdling huge piles of cash when the oil money starts to come in
Oct 06th, 2010 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0OH! How interesting this article is!!! IT should be posted on all southamerican newspapers! NOT!!!
Oct 06th, 2010 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is more interesting than five blokes painting graffiti on a boat.
Oct 06th, 2010 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0THIMC
Oct 06th, 2010 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Islanders were delighted to hear in the past two days that their tiny team achieved a win in both badminton doubles over Uganda and……………….”
Wooooooooot????????????
WHHHHOOOOT??????
Uganda Strolls Over Falklands: Uganda 5 Falklands 0
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/30/734149
C’mon guys….. didn’t you steal enough from the Kaffers in Colonial Times?
It is still good to see Thunk continues to endear himself and his country upon the people of the Falkland Islands. Keep up winning those hearts and minds!
Oct 06th, 2010 - 05:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(5) Mate
Oct 06th, 2010 - 05:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I take my Badminton very seriously.............. and I suppose that so do the members of the Stanley Badminton Club.
To lie about sports results is “Not Cricket” Not here, not there, no where....
Such resentment from some of our other South American friends. Even to compete at an international event's not bad from a population of a couple of thousand. Well they've done no worse than Argentina did at the Winter Olympics. And to think Argentina lays claim to most of Antarctica.
Oct 06th, 2010 - 05:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(7) Alexei
Oct 06th, 2010 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No resentment at all……
Just setting the record straight…....
I'm positive that any of the players from your Badminton team would do the same….
By the way….Alexei…Falklands….Badminton…
Sofia’s father by any case?
Good player!
Congratulations to Patrick for his award and congratulations to all the Falklanders for competing.
Oct 06th, 2010 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sports and politics……………
Oct 06th, 2010 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Eyebrows were raised at the presence in New Delhi of a bowls team from the Falkland Islands – because there are no bowling greens in the Falklands.
Two New Zealanders who were born in the Falklands, and apparently still hold appropriate passports, have been entered in the men's pairs.
By contrast, Bowls Cyprus was denied the chance to enter a team, because their selected players – ex-pats all – were not deemed to be citizens of that Mediterranean island, which boasts four thriving clubs.
http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/sport/Bowls-club-throws-open-doors-wants-try-game/article-2725055-detail/article.html
Fair Play?
@10
Oct 06th, 2010 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You must do this for a living Think
Think Malvinas affairs Congreso de la Nación Argentina
that or you need to get out more
What would you know about kaffers Think? Haven't you forgotten, darkies are not allowed in Argentina, only whities?
Oct 06th, 2010 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I refer you to your own constitution. Article 25.
A 1973 article in Ebony asked, “what happened to Argentina's involuntary immigrants, those African slaves and their mulatto MULATTO. A person born of one white and one black parent. 7 Mass. R. 88; 2 Bailey, 558. descendants who once outnumbered whites five to one, and who were for 250 years 'an important element' in the total population, which is now 97% white?”
Oct 06th, 2010 - 09:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes I know I need to get out more
#13 see War of the Triple Alliance
Oct 06th, 2010 - 10:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'Kaffir' is an offensive word of Islamic origin used to refer, by Muslims , to those who do not share their religion. The term was adopted by Dutch settlers in South Africa to refer to indigenous Africans. Interestingly 'Negro' is a derogatory term widely used in Argentina to refer to anybody perceived to be of the lowest social status, or dark skinned.
Oct 06th, 2010 - 11:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Alexei, sometimes “negro” is rendered as “grone”. Thunk should know, he knows all about these things, particularly since he comes from a country which continues to discriminate on the basis of race in its constitution.
Oct 07th, 2010 - 08:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Think can't even spell Kaffir correctly and obviously doesn't know the word is/ was only used south of the Limpopo.
Oct 07th, 2010 - 09:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0He has previously demonstrated that his knowledge of Africa is limited to a short stay in the transit lounge at Jan Smuts while one his way to the Bangkok girlie bars...
Frank the Yank wrong again....
Oct 07th, 2010 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kaffer
Not exactly Tinky.
Oct 07th, 2010 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kaffir
Have you read Article 25 of your constitution yet? You seem a bit quiet about that...
Breaking Sports News
Oct 07th, 2010 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Where the heck is Papatoetoe?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10677824
No nasty mosquitoes in Malvinas!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10677824
There you go Think, incase you are too busy digging up Bad news Team Falklands
Oct 07th, 2010 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Argentina
“ If we have to build our population for our system of government, if we have to constitute our population to fit the system we envision rather than make the system fit the population, it is necessary to encourage Anglo-Saxon immigration. Anglo-Saxons represent steam, commerce, and liberty, and it will not be possible to instill these things in ourselves without the active cooperation of this progressive and civilized race”... Juan Bautista Alberdi
Oct 07th, 2010 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Frank the Yank
Oct 07th, 2010 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Did you sign the Prefectura papers before living to Malvinas?
Careful when returning to BA….. The fine can be hefty……
Nice boat on the Jety 2010-10-07 FKST 17:20:03
Yours by any chance?
http://www.webcams.horizon.co.fk/index.html
Oh Dear, the parrot is back.... you really are a drongo aren't you... lacking in all original thought
Oct 07th, 2010 - 10:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As I'm new on here, I thought I'd start with some good news; our bowling chaps had another excellent win today, against Guernsey this time.
Oct 07th, 2010 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh and nobody from the Falklands team is sick; it turns out they had our team muddled up with someone else.
And finally....Papatoetoe is in the Auckland area of New Zealand.
Nice one Monty, rather you didnt mention Guernsey,the malvinas mad hatters will be looking at claiming it for the Fatherland
Oct 08th, 2010 - 06:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0(25) Monty69
Oct 08th, 2010 - 10:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Actually, it would be great fun if those senior bowlers from ”Papatoetoe, in the Faukland area” did win a medal…
Front page in Penguin News and MercoPress :-)
At least, we would surely get a Bowling Green in Malvinas…
There's a relatively flat area we could use in Darwin to turn into a bowling green, just need to steam roller the bumpy bits...damn, I forgot, we've already designated that area as a soak away for the public urinals.
Oct 08th, 2010 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Steady on old chap, not sure there's any need for that.
Oct 08th, 2010 - 04:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anyway, I don't know anything about any 'Malvinas', but I'm fairly certain that there will be an all-weather bowling green when the oil money starts to come in, especially if the 'Ancient Kelpers' carry on doing well.
And Uncle George is definitely from here, born in a house very close to where I'm sitting in fact. Feeling very proud of all of our team.
(29) Monty69
Oct 08th, 2010 - 04:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Steady on old chap, not sure there will be any oil money for that.....
“Don't count your chickens until they're hatched”
By the way…….Kelpers, Nzelpers, Kafferpers, Ozelpers……. No sweat…….. They are all members of the same big, happy British family…
Think does like to use descriptive terms in a racial context doesn't he? Very sad indeed.
Oct 08th, 2010 - 04:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0To be honest it doesn't matter if there is oil there or not, it's still not going to change the fact that the UK will help the islanders in any way they require.
Oct 08th, 2010 - 06:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I reckon your comment (28) went right over think's head Wireless, guess that area outside Darwin doesn't mean that much to these Argie internet warriors.
Oct 08th, 2010 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Did I miss anything?
Oct 08th, 2010 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Common sence!
Oct 08th, 2010 - 07:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'big,happy British family'......you know I couldn't have put it better myself.
Oct 08th, 2010 - 11:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And I'm not counting on any oil money, soon or at all. I'm quite resigned to having to wait for the all weather bowling green.
Think about it....think.
Oct 08th, 2010 - 11:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I've mentioned it twice, once in this thread and once in another recent one, I don't think they use the technology, be interesting putting a sign on the urinal wall at Darwin in Spanish explaining how it works.
Oct 08th, 2010 - 11:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Technology?... explaining how an urinal works?.... In Spanish?.......
Oct 09th, 2010 - 04:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'm lost.?................
“I have always felt a great deal of pride in leading our teams to participate at the Commonwealth and Island Games as it sends a message to the world that we are British and Falkland Islanders and proud of it.”
Oct 09th, 2010 - 04:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes yes the whole world knows that you are British.....in the wrong island.
We are an island people Marcos .... in islands all around the globe !
Oct 09th, 2010 - 06:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0...and that you're Spanish....in the wrong island.
Oct 09th, 2010 - 06:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just becuase we have chosen not to kick our ancestral homeland in the teeth as Argentina did does not mean our position is invalid.
Not just in islands.... how many members of the Commonwealth of Nations these days? 54... including Mozambique... with more wanting to sign up...
Oct 09th, 2010 - 06:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0What does Argentina have... ?... 5 out of 6 pissed orf neighbours... never mind ... Chavez is their chum......
39 Think, you do know how a soak away works I take it?
Oct 10th, 2010 - 10:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Errr.....by soaking away?
Oct 11th, 2010 - 03:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0You can write your sign in Spanish: “”Sumidero Ciego”
My pleasure........
Go home, Spanish murderers!
Oct 11th, 2010 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I called the attention of many as 2,000 people underestimate to 40 million. I heard through d all comments of all the notes the most varied descriptions of the most diverse offenses. Perhaps intended as the first case in history in which 2,000 people change the way of life of 40 million Argentines. His disqualifying words about Argentina and the Argentine people causes me a great wake-up call about the kind of education and indoctrination based on ignorance, fear and hatred. Of which Mr. Patrick Watts is one of the biggest promoters. This is not good. The Islanders should ensure that their representatives are more moderate people. The large British community in our country, its progress, its traditions, lifestyle, in no case were affected by the mere fact of being in Argentina. You come to understand it? The facts are beyond the misinformation, fear and hatred. The large British community and the large number of tourists from Britain, do not feel the same as the islanders of the hard-line anti-Argentine.
Oct 11th, 2010 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0JPL
Oct 11th, 2010 - 06:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What utter b**locks you spout
The Islanders should ensure that their representatives are more moderate people.
Yes like the nice Argies,who invades your country,try at every turn to make their life difficult
education and indoctrination based on ignorance
http://www.argentina-rree.com/documentos/culture_escude.htm
Unbelievable
Please try to avoid disqualifying words. What other people think differently, not to say that is weak-minded, ignorant, etc. You is getting out of control.
Oct 11th, 2010 - 07:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0About Carlos Escude, i answer what I answered when you cite the testimony of Simon Jenkins: It is only the personal view of it (which differ from most of the intellectuals of the issue) shows Argentina's democracy, where everyone can have their personal opinion . His vision, in my opinion, is highly subjective.
When I speak of representatives, not just talk about the councilors, but also people in their community better known as Patrick Watts. Besides, who was to be directed to Cristina Kirchner as the “Queen of Botox” or “plastic face”? There was someone who represented the island community?
JPL, who gives a flying fcuk what you think anyway, go back to Spain.
Oct 11th, 2010 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0mmm...I see ... with bawdy comments, draw my conclusions
Oct 11th, 2010 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0JPL
JPL, you'll make up any old shite and nobody that matters will care, and since when was fcuk a bawdy comment, its quite a large business.
Oct 11th, 2010 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Oct 11th, 2010 - 10:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0OK, I see, also my comments on every note of this newspaper will continue despite the insults. I will refer always with respect and without using bad words as I ever did before.
Oct 11th, 2010 - 11:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0JPL.
There were 57 Sea Harriers built, JPL claims the FAA shot down 45 of them. 'nuff said.
Oct 12th, 2010 - 12:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Justin, what you say is wrong, I never said that, as is also wrong that I kicked out of Wikipedia (never wrote in wikipedia). Why do you hate me so much, Justin? that I made it to you? you think that a debate is accomplished anything disqualifying and repeating things that are wrong about me, you win something?
Oct 12th, 2010 - 12:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0JPL
Comment removed by the editor.
Oct 12th, 2010 - 09:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0what I am seeing, I'm not surprised, that is the democracy you are driving. You will deal more with emotions than with the reasoning, you prefer the vulgar insult when they have nothing intelligent to say, you would rather live with fantasy to see the facts. Well ... also, despite their vulgar insults, my postings will continue in all MercoPress notes. No posting of mine was insulting or degrading, Mercopress never blame a posting, because only express my ideas without insulting or harming someone. Good for MercoPress and bad for you.
Oct 12th, 2010 - 10:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0What's the matter with saying that JPL stands for Jet Propulsion Laboratory? Or that jets works by ejecting hot gases out of their rear? You Argentines are getting very touchy!
Oct 12th, 2010 - 01:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Jajja, the risk of seeming a bit rough, it must be that I just came with my family on the grid “el mangrullo” and I'm doing the digestion ...
Oct 12th, 2010 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe it can be opened in the capital of the islands a branch of the grill “el mangrullo”, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlGCPc1Tkag&feature=player_embedded
JPL
I think JPL thinks fcuk is a bad word, a vulgar insult, but fails to realise its a fashion business; which shows his insular latin american nature with regard to business interests, and poor grasp of the english language.
Oct 12th, 2010 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Complaining to Mercopress Comment Thread about your own stupidity won't win you any points JPL, try harder old man, or fcuk off, either will do.
From today, I will ask God and the Virgin in my prayers, have maturity, wisdom, its lighting, its language and culture, Mr.Wireless.
Oct 12th, 2010 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Greetings, and see you in another note.
JPL.
As a committed Athiest, Buddhist, and Scientist (I see no conflict), I have to say that you're on a hiding to nothing looking for divine inspiration, because it's all a load of bo......, ahem, nonsense.
Oct 12th, 2010 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(62) JPL
Oct 12th, 2010 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You English may not be the best……… but I very much like your positivistic approach to our British counterparts…….
Please…….. Next time you go to Church, remember to lit a candle for those poor lost souls…..
They need some “light” :-)
Stick , that's quite some document you linked@ 48
Oct 13th, 2010 - 08:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Explains a lot about the argie character!
Bullshitted and brainwashed from the word go by the education system.
Strewth, just like N.Korea!!!!!!
65 Cadfael:
Oct 15th, 2010 - 12:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0typical ... the only argument is to denigrate another person who is not British, who call him a brainwashed, that we are victims of a system of education, blablabla ... all are simply personal opinions without any kind of factual support . Only comments full of resentment and ZERO evidence
Me curious mindset of 2,000 people who think that 40 million people are brainwashed. This is to underestimate the other, and overestimated yourself, do not you think?
JPL
JPL, you live in a flawed democracy, part of that reason is due to the systematic indoctrination of a false history, coupled with a political elite that massage the truth to support the brainwashing of the population.
Oct 15th, 2010 - 11:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0One day you'll all wake up and realise this, but it would take decades, if not hundreds of years before that wakening, because you know no different.
ok, I understand that you hold the hypothesis of our brainwashed in the view that you are the “enlightened” by the wisdom and truth, and we belong to the darkness of ignorance ... until hundreds of years in awaken from our slumber and we shall be as you are now ... ( !!! )
Oct 15th, 2010 - 12:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0zero factual evidence, one hundred percent subjective. This is evident to all readers ...
JPL
It's because your government does not rely on factual evidence. Axel is a school teacher who is telling us he teaches the Falklands history to his kids at school, and he does not even know what day it is. Teaching all his kids a warped version of history. Your kids are taught “las malvinas son argentinas” from a young age.
Oct 15th, 2010 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One message that is permanently present in Argentine education is that the country has been deprived of huge continental territories during the 19th Century. In the Argentine texts, the loss of the Falkland Islands is added to the loss of great territories allegedly forfeited to Chile and Brazil, and to the loss of Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay in their entirety: these countries supposedly should have been “inherited” by Argentina from Spain.
19th Century gains are transformed into losses, while in the 20th Century, when there were no true losses or gains, an imaginary territory is invented.
When asked in a poll “Do you think that, throughout its history, Argentina has won or lost territories?” 86% of people said yes, these were of a university education. When the truth is that Argentina was under half it's size when it first came into being.
Are we taught such things here in the UK? No. The history of the islands is not even taught in british schools, the war is barely mentioned.
In his view should be taught in our schools that the Malvinas were, are and will be British, and the personal and subjective vision Carlos Escude should be in all the history books? Maybe we should ask him to the board of councilors of the islands and Alan Huckle, or queen of England that we write the history of Argentina.
Oct 15th, 2010 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We have our expert historians, they studied the subject deeply, and expressed in his writings. That you do not like what they say is another matter.
Discredit underestimate our teachers and students do not lead anywhere. Today we have available to different sources, and can read and have our own opinions.
Unless you think that we are “mindless zombies”, what you said has no basis.
We aren't taught either way, every british poster here has came to his or her own conclusions. Some british people agree with the Argentinian point of view, Simon Jenkins for one.
Oct 15th, 2010 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are taught a biast point of view from your very childhood. Which is why most british posters view it as a form of Indoctrination.
48 stick up your junta
Oct 15th, 2010 - 07:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0f you use the correct terminology, the islands were not in the past a “country” and now are not. This is reality.
In Argentina on 2 April we celebrate the recovery of a territory, not the invasion of a country. A true patriotic gesture, which have not yet finished. Another reality.
That all depends on the definiton of country doesn't it. Usually a country consists of a soverign state, yet we have four countrys in the UK and only one soverign state.
Oct 15th, 2010 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It can also mean a smaller, political division. Which as the islands have there own local government would be classed as a country.
Unfortunately JPL, your historians all have a living to make, they will print and 'research' the falsehood to make it fit in with their market for books and careers, just like your politicians use the falsehood to fit their message, to remain in their jobs as politicians.
Oct 15th, 2010 - 09:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your whole country lives the lie, and you find it comfortable to believe the lie, this is why it is taught, and why it is preached on every stage.
Even your politicians know that Argentina will never wield World power, so repeating the same lie at International level will not injure any efforts to be one, all that happens is that your country looks stupid repeating the lies, as everyone can see through them.
Your political elite is carving itself out a nest egg, it ridicules International Financial Institutions because it defaulted its responsibilities, and knows it cannot use that bridge to recovery because its already burnt, so pours fuel on the fire to spite itself.
Frankly, Argentina is a joke, but few of its citizens see this, and that is because of your flawed democracy, it is too corrupt, and its people would rather put their heads in the sand or whine as victims than do anything about proving facts.
It is a sad state of affairs.
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