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Falklands joins Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee global celebrations
The Falkland Islands Government has set aside £3,000 for Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee events. Some of this funding is available to people who wish to organize community events and £500 has been allocated for events on the West. Read full article
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May 04th, 2012 - 09:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0“£3,000 for Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee events.”
That it is a really a big figure. Doesn’t it?
@1 Danny, they said £3,000 pounds, pounds are worth so much more than pestos.
May 04th, 2012 - 10:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Since there's are 3,000 islanders that amount should pave the way for a damned good knees up.
It's a pity all Argentina can celebrate is stealing someone else's property. :op
What a pathetic country your government have made you.
@2 LEPRecon,
May 04th, 2012 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0Love it! “pestos”
pest money for pest people!
Soon to be on par with the Zimbabwe Dollar.
@3 Isolde - spotted that did you? Yes the RG's are pests, and like all pests they are annoying but nothing more.
May 04th, 2012 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0They'd better be careful that someone doesn't call the exterminator! LOL
I hope you and your fellow Islanders have a good p!ss up to celebrate HMQ's 60 years on the throne.
I know I'll be knocking a few back on the 5th in celebration, perhaps a bit of dancing too - but only if I've drunk enough! LOL
@1
May 04th, 2012 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good luck to the Falkland Islanders. A people with honour. People you would like to meet, share a drink or two and make agreements with. Unlike some...
@1 Would anyone want Burgers at the Diamond Jubilee? So sad for argies. No history. Nothing memorable except defeat. No truth. No honesty.
May 04th, 2012 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0£3000 buys a lot of trifle, orange squash, chocolate wafers, pineapple and cheese cubes and several thousand sausages-on-sticks!
May 04th, 2012 - 01:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4LEPRecon
May 04th, 2012 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Me too and that also goes for the dancing.
Please like this page in order to force Argentina to return Misiones and Formosa Provinces to Paraguay, the country they were stolen from in 1870!
May 04th, 2012 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.facebook.com/pages/Misiones-y-Formosa-son-de-Paraguay/250980491652629
Misiones and Formosa Provinces are provinces of Argentina that were seized and annaxed by Argentina from Paraguay this page is dedicated to address Argentine hyporcacy and ensuring their return to Paraguay.
argies spend millions, and they have nothing, no respect, no nothing,
May 04th, 2012 - 06:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but at least the falklands are british and free .
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!!
May 04th, 2012 - 07:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I too will be burning a beacon in my back garden topped with a crappy blue and white flag with a sun on it.
First one off in 38 years!!!!!!!!!
May 04th, 2012 - 07:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am deffinately going to enjoy myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@12 - RC
May 04th, 2012 - 08:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If the weather's nice, I may decide to burn burgers, chicken and sausages. Then I'll raise a glass or 10 to the 'Boss' and strut my funky stuff, until the firework display later on. I'm not working the next day so I can get completely trolley'd!
A good day to be had by all. :o)
Protest Argentina offensive ad campaign insulting our forces and war dead, make sure Argentina is banned from the Olympics or stopped from making any more political capital out the games and causing more hurt to Falklands vetrans and their families. Sport is not about politics ban Argentina from the Olympics now - join the campiagn
May 04th, 2012 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-must-kick-argentina-out-of-the-2012-olympics-over-the-falklands/379501375425310
International Olympic Committee, Château de Vidy
Case postale 356
1001 Lausanne
Switzerland
@13 LEPRecon
May 04th, 2012 - 11:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Me too, wife keeps me away from barbie, think she has an aversion to carbon. Mind you, we are thinking of spending the day on the water. In the street, outside the house!!!!!
@LEPRecon &reality check
May 05th, 2012 - 06:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0“I may decide to burn burgers, chicken and sausages. Then I'll raise a glass or 10 to the 'Boss' and strut my funky stuff, until the firework display later on. I'm not working the next day so I can get completely trolley'd!”
“Me too, wife keeps me away from barbie, think she has an aversion to carbon.”
Don’t forget to put some kebabs and curry if you want a truly Brit celebration.
BTW how is the countryside up there?
@ hey Dany, feel free to celebrate with us. After all, there's not much for ordinary Argentinian people to celebrate lately.
May 05th, 2012 - 08:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'll even buy you a drink, flip you a burger, and I can make a killer lamb bhuna. :o)
So if you're in the UK at the begining of June, feel free to drop on by and join in.
@16DanyBerger,
May 05th, 2012 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Love kebabs & curry.
The hotter the curry, the better!
Burns your mouth & lips but does wonders for your libido ☺
@LEPRecon & lsolde
May 05th, 2012 - 10:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh! Thank you I will think about it but will you teach me to dance like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpIxt3IeH7g&feature=related
@19 - Dany, when I've had a few drinks, John Travolta's got nothing on me. ;o) Jealous?
May 05th, 2012 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0@19
May 05th, 2012 - 07:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh Danny boy, what ever happened to CFK's Belgrano football league?
@21 - 'Oh Danny boy, what ever happened to CFK's Belgrano football league?'
May 05th, 2012 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sank didn't it?
Oops! I'll get my hat and coat.
TAXI!
Argentina is a product of colonialism, conquered by the sword, most of the natives killed and infected by disease, their land taken from them and worked by imported African slaves, oversean by imported European colonials. The African's who made up 50% of the population would themselves completely disapear from Argentina between 1850-1900 in what could have been a chilling fore runner to the disareances of the Dirty War in the 1970's when an estimated 30,000 Argentines were raped, tortured and murdered, many more were held illegally in detention camps and tortured. The true figure for the dead could be as high as 100,000, no one knows because there is little official documentation and most bodies were dumped in the sea.
May 08th, 2012 - 02:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina took land from its neighbours in numberous wars , civil wars and land grabs - Paraguay, Uraguay, Chile. Today Argentina despite the changed political landscape is still a nation characterised by uber nationalism. The claim to the Falklands was surendered in 1850 but reserected in 1941 by a fascist junta, which inc Peron, they thought their friends the Nazi were going to win the war, the Falklands looked easy picking.
In 1982 Argentina was under the latest succession of a series of fascism military junta's. Their hold on power was looking precarious, in deperation they sort a war, Chile looked like a good victim, they already claimed lots of land and were ignoring the international tribunals that had ruled in Chile's favor. But then they changed their mind and invaded the Falklands. Today the war is romanticized by a nation ruled by a kind of cross between a Neo-Nazi uber nationalist and a Charvesta Revolutionary uber Marxist. The only thing missing is the land reform. Maybe that's for later? But as few natives remain, maybe they'll just ignore their rights... God knows they always have. An entire culture replaced by a European one. Entire languages destroyed.
Timmerman should take time to read about his country's history.
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