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Guess what? “in the (Falklands) Malvinas Islands they only speak English”
In the Malvinas Islands, guess what? They speak English according to Juan Antonio Agulles, mayor of the Argentine town of Malargüe, recently back from a trip to the Falkland Islands with a delegation of the so-called Rugby with out Frontiers. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI believe that through diplomacy and other tools the Falkland Islands will remain as they are. Thank you very much and goodbye.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 08:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0““When you walk around, visit different places, you witness a completely different idiosyncrasy, the language is English, housing belongs to an English village and not to any place in Argentina. I believe that through diplomacy and other tools we can manage to incorporate a territory which obviously we will always continue to claim”, underlined Agulles.”
Mar 24th, 2011 - 09:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0So, in other words you want to impose colonialism upon the peaceful people of the Falkland Islands. Seems that, unlike the UK, Argentina hasn't given up on its imperial past and continues to want to subject a people, who Agulles admits have a culture that is totally different to that of Argentina, to colonialism. Well Argentina, through Spain, does have a longer imperial history than the UK - so it must be harder for them to shake it off.
Be serious
Mar 24th, 2011 - 10:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think this is a fantastic idea I am very happy with this. It is great that all the kelpers start learning Spanish in our Argentina Malvinas Islands, Spanish as first language and English as second .... It is Great! Kelpers start right now, Please!!!!
Are the posts above really the face that Argentina wants to present to the world? No wonder the islanders are so hostile.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 10:26 am - Link - Report abuse 03 Not today thank you. Keep smiling or were you about to sneeze.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 04 I'm terribly sorry but your request has been formally declined. If you discover any other ideas please keep them to yourself. Have a nice day.
5 Idlehands,
Mar 24th, 2011 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is this garbage what Mercopress is all about?
I just can't believe they call themselves a “news agency”, they should do some research and some self-evaluating and ask themselves if they really deserve the title. Or are they perfectly content by lowering their standards to nothing more than some cheap gossip magazine.
I don't condone or support any of the comments above, be it by a either side.
Yet another article that deserves no attention, I only looked at it because I saw that comments were being made.
That's the answer to your question.
Kiwi - theres a flaw in your idead. The islanders do not want to be argentine, so why would they want to learn spanish.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 10:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0”I believe that through diplomacy and other tools we can manage to incorporate a territory which obviously we will always continue to claim”
Nah self determination will beat any diplomatic attempt to gain control of the islands, though the reference to use of other tools sounds like a threat to me questions is - is it military aggression or more economic aggression hes referring too? Though i don't suppose it matters, as am sure it would not take long to take out your air defences in argentina, just like in libya, then we will have full control of your air space. Though Tomahawks are perfectly capable of hiting kirchners palace if you push the islanders or the UK to far, weather by the economic aggression or military aggression.
Perhaps you argentines should start learning English now ready for when it will be your first language as an english sovereign territory, as that is more likely to happen than the falklands being argentine is.
Fine be stupid, all of you, Argentines and British.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0I am puzzled by his reference to always claiming us - sort of sounds like possibly a poor translation and maybe this guy was actually implying that it was not realistic for us to become Argentine because we are clearly not? Think - did you see what he really said in Spanish?
Mar 24th, 2011 - 10:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0The biggest blooper is that he let the cat out of the bag regarding the REAL reason for the visit. Not that any of us here were fooled by 'just want to play rugby' or 'we have no political agenda' which they were spouting before they arrived. Just goes to show - never trust an Argie.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Martin #9 - If we wish to comment on an article or respond to another persons comments on the same article, or both even, then we have every right to do so. Calling us all stupid for commenting in response to the article or others comments, says to me that you are the idiot here because of the following reasoning.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 11:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0If you feel the article is stupid and not worthing of being published then thats your opinion, but some how i think the editor is correct to publish it and it's relevent to the islanders, who know doubt would be very interested to learn what this idiot of an argentine mayor had to say. The only reason you think it's stupid is because it shows what idiot mayors and other politician's argentina has and just how much lack of knowledge some argentines have of the falklands islands and the islanders.
So in otherswords you feel its a stupid article as it makes you and your fellow argentines look stupid to the rest of the world and as such wish it had not been published, hence why you trying to now save face by calling it stupid and making it clear you believe it should have never been published. Perhaps you have been taking a leaf out of Kirchners book of ttempting to block media groups/cooperations that paint a negative image when they are simply publishing the truth of what happened or what was said.
#12 Here here teaboy2 - couldn't agree more.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0If you try to see RSF tour as political motivated, probably you will find garbagge that reaffirm that.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As not everybody in Argentina thinks that political propaganda is truth, I hope that not everybody in the islands has lost their ability to critical thinking.
Here and there, just take a look on comments, the moment some understanding start to rise, immediately you will find haters trying their biz.
Rugby without ISSUES ... yeah, never believed it for a moment. Well at least one argy has seen that the islanders are in no way South American! South Atlantic yes, South American no!
Mar 24th, 2011 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well I've got to say I'm disappointed, I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Small wonder there was no welcome.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 12:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fiddling his expenses too. Tsk, tsk.
I'm disappointed also, what right has a mayor from Malargüe got to erect more monuments in the Falklands?
Mar 24th, 2011 - 02:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The whole Rugby Without Borders premise of not having any political motivation falls flat on its face when an elected politician from Argentina flies in to participate, and then gives a political speech on his return to Argentina regarding the bleeding obvious.
My apologies to the Falklanders for being suckered here, it seems that even in Rugby Union Argentina has to act dishonourably.
Shame on them.
Kiwi - Why would the Islanders wish to learn Spanish? The main languages of international business are emerging as English, Mandarin, Arabic and Hindi. The official languages of international diplomacy are English and French. Arguably the most important language of international business in South America is Portuguese?
Mar 24th, 2011 - 03:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It looks like are many other languages that would be more useful to learn that Spanish. You appear to speak English. I presume there was a reason you chose to learn this language?
May I say , why shouldn’t he say what he said, if Argentina owns the islands , then he had every right to incorporate the Falklands into Argentina , its like incorporating a bit of brickwork into the rest of the building, nothing wrong in that ,is there, BUT having said the above I must say where is the official reply from the Falklands government [silence] and the official reply from the British government [silence]
Mar 24th, 2011 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0should not these two be demanding an official apology or at the very least an official complaint, [why] because if the Falklands are British, perhaps he would not have said it, but I get the opinion that he thinks the Falklands belong to them, he came, he quoted ,now he wants to incorporate, WHY did not any official speak up and tell him or correct him. so he says it, and affectedly got away with it, I think the British and Falklands government should demand a retraction and an apology from the Argentineans‘, or next time an argentine government official may visit you with plans to build a new argentine government building, raise the argentine flag perhaps, [tell me im totally wrong] or that I have totally misunderstood the whole thing, but my simple opinion is that this man came to a piece of argentine territory , told them he can incorporate them, and no one says anything. if im wrong then im sorry, but if im right, and you demand not even an apology , then who knows what will happen next time, [sorry but that’s my simple opinion .
I guess the british illegal aliens really fooled him in Malvinas Argentina, in other words the english colony will be hard to hide.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(10) Islander1
Mar 24th, 2011 - 06:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You ask:
Think - did you see what he really said in Spanish?
I say:
The original article in Spanish:
http://www.diariouno.com.ar/edimpresa/2011/03/23/nota268336.html
Please find below a succinct translation to be compared to the tendentious version from MercoPress:
Malargüe’s Mayor, Juan Antonio Agulles, justified his last week’s trip to Malvinas saying he was invited by RSF to play a match in honor of the victims of the 1982 conflict and because he wants to raise a monument for the fallen in his jurisdiction.
He said that members of the foundation that perpetuates the memory of the deceased in the “Tragedy of the Andes” (Uruguayan rugby team which plane crashed in the Andes in the 70’s) invited him because he mentioned his intention of raising some “emblematic replicas” of the conflict as homage to the war veterans and the fallen.
To enter the Islands, Argulles had to use his passport, recognizing thereby British sovereignty; not a minor detail for our Country.
“To step on Malvinas soil, one must use a passport, a chocking thing for an Argentinean” said the San Juan native who rules the destiny of the Malargüinos.
When questioned about the opposition charges of not having asked for permission to leave he said: “The same day I travelled, I spoke with Jorge Marenco and explained to him that he was now in charge of the municipality. We agreed that he would receive a written note on Wednesday or Thursday as the law requires.
He defended his trip and travel expenses saying that: “The benefits will be seen in the project we are working on. The travel expenses and all other costs incurred by me or any other functionary will be reimbursed without any problem. Most of the trip’s cost has been paid by RSF, they invited me.
The expenses were minimal compared with the benefits of the trip” he said.
......................Part II of the translated article will be send later, due to the “2000 character restriction”.......................
“the islanders are in no way South American! South Atlantic yes, South American no!”
Mar 24th, 2011 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Redhoyt, when are you going to stop acting like a complete idiot?
The Falklands is located in the sub continent South America (sub continent of America), where people speak English, Dutch, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
My god, British government schools are a total disaster.
.....................Part II of the translated article .......................
Mar 24th, 2011 - 06:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He said further: We were there a whole week. We gave Rugby clinic to the school kids because the Islanders that experienced the war are very suspicious about the Argentines. Even more so, since the measures implemented by our Government to restrict shipping.
He had a meeting with the British Governor, Mr. Nigel Robert Haywood, to whom he expressed his will to ”thighten links” to ”sustain another kind of relations, because the buy everything from Chile or Great Britain”
He was impressed by the ways of the islanders. “When visiting the different places one witness a total English idiosyncrasy, the language is English, the dwellings are typical of an English town, not an Argentinean.
I believe that through diplomacy and other “tools” it’s possible to be part of a territory that we, of course, will always continue to claim”, said Agulles.
Thanks for the translation.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 09:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm not really sure what to make of this. I wasn't taken in by the group's protestations of being apolitical, and was roundly castigated for it I seem to remember.
How can the mayor of an Argentine town have no concern with politics?
I'm interested in his will to 'tighten links'. How's he going to do that then? There aren't any links. Any how are we going to buy anything from Argentina? He'll have to row it across the pond himself, since his government have banned charter flights and shipping links.
Apart from that, I'm all in favour of anyone from Argentina visiting in a purely personal capacity. His visit seems to have given Mr Agulles something to think about and it will always be much harder for anyone to persecute people they've actually met.
If he really wants to pursue diplomacy and other tools to bring us closer he'd best start lobbying his government. Sadly, what he hasn't realised is that ”a territory that we, of course, will always continue to claim” is always going to prevent that becoming a reality.
Hmmm...I do appreciate mercopress for reporting on a relatively unreported part of the world, but this is shoddy journalism.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The headline seems to give the impression that this Juan Antonio Agulles character was reporting back home with genuine surprise that they speak English, but after reading the article and Think's link to the Spanish version, that doesn't seem to be the case....
Ifind it's generally a good idea to take articles with such journalistic gems as “, although in honour to the truth” with a pinch of salt.....
Frase,“The headline seems to give the impression that this Juan Antonio Agulles character was reporting back home with genuine surprise that they speak English, but after reading the article and Think's link to the Spanish version, that doesn't seem to be the case....”
Mar 24th, 2011 - 10:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Were you expecting anything else from this “Urufalkand MercoPress” ?
So it seems they I may of got it wrong, I did not read the spanish version.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0mmm I cant speak it anyway.
but im sorry if i got it wrong. but always worth keeping an eye out .
I just think that this sort of reporting is unnecessary.
Mar 24th, 2011 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you point it out when you see obvious bias the other way in the Argentine press?
thanks, Think, good job.
Mar 25th, 2011 - 01:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0:-)
Mar 25th, 2011 - 04:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Galtieri was a tool.
Mar 25th, 2011 - 07:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0In Argentina the children of primary school already are learning english,so I think argies will speak english before Falklanders speak
Mar 25th, 2011 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0spanish.By the way,when are they going to build a statue for Margaret Tatcher in Buenos aires? thanks to her the argies are living in democracy
Agulles is the biggest idiot I've seen this month :/
Mar 25th, 2011 - 05:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think, Many thanks indeed for the better transaltion and the link. I was interested to understand more his refwerence to our totally non Argentine culture and the bit about continuing to claim us - yes fair enough we realistically know that you always will. At least though he has seen and acknowledges that here is not really Argentina in lifestyle/traditions/culture etc - so maybe he also may start to look at the other reality - we never will want to be part of Argentina as such so maybe better to look for a way to get along together. Who knows, at least he came and saw!
Mar 25th, 2011 - 10:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As usual poor beef is about fifty years out of date.He's knocking Spanish in the week where the US census shows an incredible 40% increase in Spanish speakers I the US in ten years reaching over 50 million speakers.At the same time UNIVISION overtook NBC as the fourth most watched network.At this rate of change in the US it will become a majority Spanish speaking country by 2050.California and Tejas will be majority Spanish speaking by the next census.Worldwide Spanish is nearing 500 million native speakers far ahead of English.As for Brasil Spanish is now a compulsory subject in primary schools not English.Che amigo levantate vivimos en el siglo 21 APRENDA ESPANOL ES LA LENGUA DE ESTE SIGLO
Mar 26th, 2011 - 07:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well, it's a language of the 21st century, but I'm not sure what you're suggesting by saying it's THE language. There are more native Spanish Speakers than English, but there are more native Mandarin Chinese speakers than Spanish speakers so if that’s what you’re basing it on, 你会说中文吗?
Mar 26th, 2011 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0However, the total number (native and secondary speakers) of of English is 1.8 billion, one and a half times that of Mandarin speakers (1.2 billion) and 4 and a half times that of Spanish (400 million).
I've found that if Argentine companies (I'm guessing it's true elsewhere) want to do business with Non-English and Non-Spanish speaking countries, they usually communicate in English.
There's been a boom in the TEFL market, worldwide it would seem, a friend of a friend is teaching Spanish in Korea, so perhaps that market is growing too.
Always good to learn another language though....
“At this rate of change in the US it will become a majority Spanish speaking country by 2050.”
Mar 26th, 2011 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you suggesting that people can only speak one language? I think you'll find that the majority will become bilingual which isn't the same thing at all.
#34 - “US census shows an incredible 40% increase in Spanish speakers I the US in ten years reaching over 50 million speakers”
Mar 26th, 2011 - 01:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah and how many of them were illegal immigrants that came over the US/mexico Border? Ermm 35% of them? Lets say 35% were illegal imigrants, that would mean the numbers of natice sopansih speaking people in mexico and latin american countries at the sametime decreased by 35% when new births are not taken into account. So your claim is somewhat erroneous.
“English is 1.8 billion”
Mar 26th, 2011 - 01:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In addition to the 1 billion currently learning english.
”and a half times that of Mandarin speakers (1.2 billion)”
Mar 26th, 2011 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Also like to point out that this number is misinformation based purley on Chinas population. Mandarin is only spoken by just over half the Chinese population, there are many, many Chinese languages.
Mandarin, Shainghaiese, Cantonese, Fuzhou, Minnan, Xiang, Gan, Hakka and Sichuanese. Thousands of dialects.
Also, Half the world's population are projected to be speaking English by 2015.
“Also like to point out that this number is misinformation based purley on Chinas population.”
Mar 26th, 2011 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'd like to point out that it isn't misinformation.
As I said in the post, this is the number of native and secondary speakers. The number of native Mandarin speakers (according to our friend wikipedia) is 845 million.
Speak English and its the language of business and the educated classes.
Mar 26th, 2011 - 05:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Speak Spanish and people think you are either a mugger or suffering from a mental problem.
(34) O gara
Mar 26th, 2011 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You Paddies really know which buttons you have to press to activate the English inferiority complex ;-)))
41 - I think comments like that in any language will make people think you're terribly ignorant
Mar 26th, 2011 - 07:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 043 Think what you like, I believe in free thought and free speech.
Mar 26th, 2011 - 07:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not quite sure where free thought and free speech come into it, no one was telling you what to think or say.
Mar 26th, 2011 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I too believe in free thought and free speech:
You're free to post nonsense
I'm free to point out that said nonsense makes you look ignorant and silly
Everyone's a winner! :)
“I'd like to point out that it isn't misinformation. ”
Mar 26th, 2011 - 08:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is, Wiki is often wrong.
There was a massive study done a while back that showed that only 53% of Chinese speak the language, some 660 million. Non native speakers are about 200 million.
The 1.2 billion number you mentioned is the often used number you see floating around the internet, this is including every Chinese language(Hundreds of them).
It's not just wiki that puts the total of Mandarin speakers at over a billion, estimates seem to vary. It has little bearing on what I was saying, and you seem pretty sure, so I'll take your point.
Mar 26th, 2011 - 08:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 045 Good to see you know about free speech but not sure you understand it. But then it hasn't been too long has it?
Mar 26th, 2011 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now, I merely wrote that you were entitled to your views and that I supported your right to say what you did.
Who could have a problem with that, unless they were completely stupid?
By the way, just so you are clear, that's me exercising my own free speech, so yeah everyone's a winner.
Keep the faith and keep flushing.
48 -
Mar 26th, 2011 - 09:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“But then it hasn't been too long has it?”
I'm English, so a similar amount to you I would imagine.
You seemed to be linking the language one speaks to some sort of moral compass, and I pointed out the absurdity of that suggestion.....
No I wasn't and I'm not English either.
Mar 26th, 2011 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You couldn't be more wrong.
Well, I guess we've both made erroneous assumptions about the nationality of the other then then.
Mar 26th, 2011 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So, what was your point then?
@42, l don't think he's lrish, Think
Mar 26th, 2011 - 10:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think knows that. It's just his little bit of fun.
Mar 26th, 2011 - 11:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(52) and (53)
Mar 27th, 2011 - 05:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0As a matter of fact, I believe O’gara to be of pure unadulterated Irish stock.
Such a deep insight of the gloomy depths of the oppressive English essence can only be attained through millennia aged ancestral genetic inheritance.
Nothing else matters……………
Curious about you two “Island ladies”……….
Did you know each other before or you just met here?
@53 Monty69--“don't tell him,Pike”-------from “Dad's Army”.
Mar 27th, 2011 - 07:43 am - Link - Report abuse 051 Wrong again, I made no assumption about your Nationality. That would have been impertinent.
Mar 27th, 2011 - 08:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0(55) Isolde
Mar 27th, 2011 - 08:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Don't tell him,Pike……….. :-)))
No problem.....Cher Nofishingwoman
Just a wrong assumption, after you called my favorite fishing (Brook trout) for “Girlish” fishing.
Girlish?,........ my left foot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvRXM0bfezI&feature=related
@57 Think, you've lost me. What am l have supposed to have said?
Mar 27th, 2011 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Certainly don't remember saying anything was “Girlish”
That would be a compliment from me.
(58) Isolde
Mar 27th, 2011 - 10:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Uuuuuupsss..........Sorry…. ……………
It wasn’t you!
It was the other “Island Lady” (how embarrassing :-)
http://en.mercopress.com/2010/12/07/european-countries-can-t-influence-uk-falklands-decisions-admits-spain
160 Monty69 Dec 14th, 2010
149 Think
'Throw in a couple of good brook trout waters and I'm in Heaven'
That's fishing for girls.
OK, Think, Isolde and I (as in me, Monty) are not the same person. We probably do know each other, but I'm not sure. I have given plenty of clues to my identity.
Mar 27th, 2011 - 12:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anyway, I've just been arranging a fishing trip for this afternoon. There's a 15 pound sea trout out there with my name on it. I'll even be doing my bit for the environment by helping to control an invasive species, although it has to be said that sea lions are very fond of trout as well.
Happy days ;-)
I know you are not the same person
Mar 27th, 2011 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not first time I “switch” my ladies
A 15 pounder you say?
Baby killer :-)
She's fishing in the sea around the Falkland Islands without permission of the Argentine Government, what you going to do about it?
Mar 27th, 2011 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 056 -
Mar 27th, 2011 - 03:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I made no assumption about your Nationality. That would have been impertinent.”
“Good to see you know about free speech but not sure you understand it. But then it hasn't been too long has it? ”
“keep on flushing”
“Could 40 million Argentinians going to the toilet and flushing into the South Atlantic be part of the problem?”
“Speak Spanish and people think you are either a mugger or suffering from a mental problem.”
Upon that comment being labelled as ignorance
“You couldn't be more wrong.”
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(62)
Mar 27th, 2011 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I’ll wish for her to “break a leg”
63 You seem upset?
Mar 27th, 2011 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is there something wrong with you?
I appreciate your concern, but no, I'm not upset. On the contrary in fact, your responses have been rather amusing... :)
Mar 27th, 2011 - 06:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Juuuup Mr. Frase..... British Turnips are generally rather amusing :-)
Mar 27th, 2011 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6sfEAJ_yCI
66 Pleased to hear it. Keep smiling.
Mar 27th, 2011 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 067 - How very impertinent of you to make assumptions about his/her nationality. :)
Mar 27th, 2011 - 07:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My favourite turnip on these boards has to be 'I' though. His turnipidity shines brightly through his posts about 'Europids', and beheadings. Something he said the other day about sabotaging ships in the Falklands or something, put the delightful image in my mind of him Ramboing accross the South Atlantic (alternating between front crawl and backstroke) with a dagger between his teeth and a pocketful of grenades...
69 Ah and here's me thinking I was your favourite.
Mar 27th, 2011 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Never mind, plenty fish in the sea.
Or is there?
Don't get me wrong, you've exhibited some fine turnipry, and I appreciate your efforts, but the bar has been set rather high, I'm afraid
Mar 27th, 2011 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@59Think, thats alright, mon ami, we all mke mistakes. l've made a few bloopers myself just recently.
Mar 27th, 2011 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0lf you like sea fishing, Cher Think, then get yourself to lndonesia or the north-west coast of Australia. There are some monster sized fish there.
l hope you didn't mean it for Monty to “break a leg”. That would be ungallant of you Cher Think.
(72) Isolde
Mar 27th, 2011 - 09:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As you very well know....., it is not the size of the fish that is important.
About Monty69 and her pretty legs.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_a_leg
71 Don't get me wrong either but whats with all this turnip business. They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but there are limits before it becomes something entirely different.
Mar 27th, 2011 - 10:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ok, well good luck with that....
Mar 27th, 2011 - 10:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 075 Do you believe that the Falkland Islanders have a right to self determination?
Mar 28th, 2011 - 07:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0@73, well you live & learn. l've never heard that expression before!
Mar 28th, 2011 - 09:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0But l've never had anything to do with show business either.
Sounds a silly saying to me.
The colder the water the tastier the fish, they say.
76 - Yes
Mar 28th, 2011 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Guess what??
Mar 29th, 2011 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.flickr.com/photos/61199179@N06/5571670080/sizes/l/
: P
More post of linking to a screen shot of merco press posted on flicker in breach of copyright of the mercopress site owners and that of the posters whos comments are contained in the screen shot eh. Whats funny is the “all rights reserved” statement on flicker, when its clear you do not have any rights to mercopress website/work or comments posted by others.
Mar 29th, 2011 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seems to me like a desperate cry of attention from Martin.
Mar 30th, 2011 - 10:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He obviously reckons he's stumbled on some vast South Atlantic conspiracy, involving the Dolphin anti shipping suicide super men for the US with Darwin Clifton at its head, based in the Malvina Hotel and using in Murdoch style mercopress as their voice piece to....eer...umm, what exactly is the grand scheme here again Martin?
Actually, there are many places in Argentina, especially in Buenos Aires City and the province with the same name, where housing has an English look. These places are all where former “English managers” of companies in Argentina used to live with their families and sort of founded English communities, such as Belgrano R, parts in San Isidro, Hurlingham, Lomas de Zamora, Mar del Plata, Rosario (in Santa Fe), and others. By the way my own house was built by an “Anglo” (Anglo-Argentine, i.e. 1st to nth generation, bearing an English family name ) and shows that Victorian Tudor look (white n timber) that is so common in England. Apparently Agulles never left the place where he was born and read next to nothing about the English in Argentina.
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