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Falklands’ badminton team off to the Brazilian International Cup
A team of four are currently emerged in a training camp preparing for competition in Sao Paulo next week. Read full article
A team of four are currently emerged in a training camp preparing for competition in Sao Paulo next week. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGood luck guys!! You'll do yourselves proud. We'll all be cheering you on from home.
Sep 19th, 2012 - 10:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0good luck guys and gals
Sep 19th, 2012 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0KFC won't like this, I'm sure she'd like to put her little oar in. I wouldn't be surprised if she got on the phone for a bit of bitching and trouble making with Dilma.
Sep 19th, 2012 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0badminton is it a card game like playing canasta, pig goes, the broom of 15, the dirty assssss, chinchón, truco, brisca, etc???
Sep 19th, 2012 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Sep 19th, 2012 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Malen
Sep 19th, 2012 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Badminton is a game where you place a Malvinista over your knee and spank his tiny pink bottom until he squeals “I love the Falklands” like a little piggy. It's a popular game outside of Argentina.
@4 WTF are you talking about.
Sep 19th, 2012 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wonder if they'll do any better against Brazil as the Scottish football team? =)
Sep 19th, 2012 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good luck guys.
Sep 19th, 2012 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good Luck guys.
Sep 19th, 2012 - 05:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0malen//BK,
Sep 19th, 2012 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0why not just wish them good will,
they deserve that.
11 Briton
Sep 19th, 2012 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I just saw your post on another thread. I wasn't having a go at you mate. Dumb and Dumber is what I call Think and Dover.
joe,
Sep 19th, 2012 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0thats ok,
i never belived it anyway,
but you are correct,
dumb and dumber, need more rubber.lol.
thanks.
TWIMC
Sep 19th, 2012 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Badminton is a game were “Luck” doesn't help.......
Ms.Rebecca Pantaney may win some double sets and even some single matches at the the XXVII Brazil International Badminton Cup 2012....
The other three are placed waaaay over their league.....
I guess MLA Sawle will get yet another free trip to the tropes?
Anyhow my fellow Badminton players...
Keep the spirit up...
I hope that Brazil wipes them off the face of the map.
Sep 19th, 2012 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nice one guys!!! Well done and good luck!!
Sep 19th, 2012 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We will all be cheering you on
(15) ProRG_American
Sep 19th, 2012 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Brazilian will be the least of their worries....
The Chinese, the Indonesians, the Koreans or even the odd Dane on the contrary......
I hope that the Chinese, the Indonesians, the Koreans wipes them off the face of the map.
Sep 19th, 2012 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's not about winning, it's about participating, you mean American .... ;-)
Sep 19th, 2012 - 08:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@18
Sep 19th, 2012 - 08:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nobody ever got wiped off the face of a map. A map doesn't have a face.
Near native speaker standard, but not near enough.
18... Much like indiginous natives being wiped off the face of MODERN Argentina...shame on you RGs
Sep 19th, 2012 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Of course they'll be beaten but they'll be there. A Falkland Islands team in South America. How awkward for Argentina. How funny.
Sep 19th, 2012 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think is, of course, quite correct. It is not the winning, it is the taking part! A Falklands team taking part, is in itself, a win :-)
Sep 19th, 2012 - 11:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good luck -but dont train on Brazilian war memorials please, unlike other nationalities who are prone to do !
Sep 20th, 2012 - 02:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good Luck sunshines, take another T-shirt in case you have to change it!
Sep 20th, 2012 - 02:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0@23 The earlier and more significant win was getting the Falkland Islands recognised as a national federation within the pan American confederation in the first place (see http://www.badmintonpanam.org/site2012/). Participation in events as a FI team rather than as a British team follows from this less publicly acknowledged success.
Sep 20th, 2012 - 06:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Another small step towards independence? If we tolerate this then what next will these uppity ungrateful colonists do?
@26
Sep 20th, 2012 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Another small step towards independence? If we tolerate this then what next will these uppity ungrateful colonists do?”
What's to be done eh? Send in a gunboat perhaps?
With a little bit of luck the RG team will throw a hissy fit and walk out......
Sep 20th, 2012 - 09:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0@28 Frank,
Sep 20th, 2012 - 09:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hope they do.
Others might see then, how immature the RGs are!
Good luck FI Team.♥
(27) WestisBest
Sep 20th, 2012 - 11:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0“What's to be done eh? Send in a gunboat perhaps?”
Kelper humor at its (Westis)best.
Luuuuv it....
Should be fine as long as the Argentine team don't try to claim both sides of the court when playing the Falklands.
Sep 20th, 2012 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0@30
Sep 20th, 2012 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe you'll appreciate these examples of Kelper humour Think:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=231400100219331&set=a.231399923552682.80340.195625473796794&type=3
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=231400100219331&set=a.231399923552682.80340.195625473796794&type=3
@32 WestisBest,
Sep 20th, 2012 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Love it Westy!
Still giggling.
@26 Anything they want!
Sep 20th, 2012 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we really do think,
Sep 20th, 2012 - 01:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0that the turnip supervisor keeps its members in order,
18, do as your told and grow up,
its sport, not a bloody firing range silly boy,
@32
Sep 20th, 2012 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Funny as hell! I think a few people wouldn't mind that toilet paper as a christmas gift.
@27 Damn fine idea, if a little too late to be original....
Sep 20th, 2012 - 02:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/News-and-Events/Latest-News/2012/September/17/120917-Fire-in-the-hole
HMS Clyde - Protecting “our” Nation's Interests indeed! Not to mention HMS Dauntless.
Let's hope that Brasil isn't leant-on by other South American nations and has to politely reject the Falklands team.
Sep 20th, 2012 - 02:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This would be disastrous for World Cup/Olympics.
It would show that South American sport is 'politicised', with all that follows from that. The Moscow Games shows what can happen.
38 GeoffWard2
Sep 20th, 2012 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think if Brasil did refuse the FI team it would send all the wrong messages to those they are currently trying to get closer to, and that means NO LatAm countries.
Everything is crossed by the politics and economics Mr. GeoffWard2
Sep 20th, 2012 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@40 LatAm is just sh*te on a different, stolen landmass. Hispanics and other LatAms need to be expelled and the land returned to the real owners. “argies” need to be dropped in an ocean. Sink or swim. On second thoughts, sink!
Sep 20th, 2012 - 06:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh dear, he's got it bad this afternoon. Chip on his shoulder? Dumped by a Falklands lass perhaps? Refused a job in the Falklands at some stage? An Argie troll? I wonder why he's so bitter. Oh well, who cares.
Sep 20th, 2012 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chuckle chuckle.
Malvinas team ilegal overseas territory of british, should it be call, also in dispute
Sep 20th, 2012 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the only disput on here, is you and your head,
Sep 20th, 2012 - 07:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and you keep losing.lol.
43 malen
Sep 20th, 2012 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Falkland Islands please!!!! There is no such place as Las Malvinas
19 Think
It's not even about participating, it's about the ruthless and total crushing of your opponents and seeing their public humiliation....... What's all this rubbish about “sport” anyway? :-)
he plays tiddly winks, you knows lol.
Sep 20th, 2012 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 045 sorry this is southamerica and here we know them as Malvinas, and if you dont like it you can go away. There is no such place Flickinds in South America.
Sep 20th, 2012 - 08:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@47 Sorry .... this is an english language forum and it is Falklands. Just the same as it is Germany not Deutschland when speaking english. Don't they teach you RGs anything at school??
Sep 20th, 2012 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pro RG American....
Sep 20th, 2012 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well well good to see you've finally plucked up the courage to come back again Fernando...knew it was you you arsehole :) and congratulations on finally admitting your a Yank from Utah.....
Why do they embarrass themselves?
Sep 20th, 2012 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps is we started calling argentina by another name,
He may understand,
Falklands, it’s that simple, as you are,
Perhaps if and when they find ATLANTIS, malvinas will be there also ,lolol.
48 exactly, I agree with you. in english it is Flickinds, so if you go to UK call them Flickinds.
Sep 20th, 2012 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0as in Brazil and Argentina and SAm we dont speak english, it shall be called Malvinas
we dont speak english
Sep 20th, 2012 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so whats above then
scotts mist .lol.
Call the place whatever you want Malen. We, the Falkland Islanders, will continue to call it the Falklands and there's not a single thing you can do to change that. Anyone who visits the place is visiting the Falkland Islands, that's what's stamped in their passports when they pass though Immigration. The Malvinas is a place that no longer exists. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Sep 20th, 2012 - 09:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When we go to Malvinas, you stamp Flickinds
Sep 20th, 2012 - 09:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When you come to South America, we stamp Malvinas
Rules are rules everywhere, and are to respet them
a shame then, that you do not respect the falkland islanders,
Sep 20th, 2012 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so you talk rubbish,
but you will achieve nothing,
and get nothing, but people contempt.
54 Malen
Sep 20th, 2012 - 10:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If one flew into Rosario they may get “Malvinas” stamped in their passport but I doubt it. I can't be arsed to get my passport out of the drawer and have a look but I don't recall the airport name being included on the stamp. Just the city and “Argentina”.
Why have you started saying “Flickinds”? What's the signifance of you saying that you dumb bastard?
Like Westisbest said. Anyone and everyone who enters the islands we're talking about, be it by air or sea, gets “Falkland Islands” stamped in their passport. No exceptions. My friends in the Immigration Department love their stamps. I always plead with them not to stamp my passports because they never last their life before they are too full. They always refuse my request. I also know that they make sure Argentine passports get the heaviest, juiciest ink stamp they can muster up smack bang in the centre of a blank page. It's our way of saying “I love you”.
We love you too malvinenses.....Thats why
Sep 20th, 2012 - 10:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0when you come to SAm, we call them Malvinas.
57 Malen
Sep 20th, 2012 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Call them whatever you want. Everyone needs a fantasy. Visit them and you get a stamp that says “Falkland Islands”. Whenever I've visited Argentina I've never had the word “Malvinas” stamped, scribbled or written on my passport or on any landing card or travel document. So I'm not sure WTF you're talking about.
Here are two urban myths that I have tested several times and found never to be the case. At least not for me.
Urban myth #1. If you enter Argentina directly from the Falklands, Immigration won't stamp your passport because you haven't actually made an international flight.
I've done it twice and both times my passport got stamped and I was not subjected to any extraordinary treatment. I thought the name Falkland Islands may be crossed out on my landing card and replaced with Malvinas but it wasn't on either occasion.
Urban myth #2. If you call from a pay phone in Argentina to the Falkland Islands you only pay the national rate, not the international rate.
I've tried that several times from different cities and it's also simply not true.
Try something decent Malen. Get somebody with some clout on here for a change. We're getting bored.
58 read well 16 words...we CALL them Malvinas here, and that is true, a new coin of 2 $ has that name written and the isles too.
Sep 20th, 2012 - 10:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 059 Malen
Sep 21st, 2012 - 05:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your problem is that you're fanatical about it but you're not competent to do anything constructive. CFK knows what she's doing. She knows you'll never get your hands on the islands. She also knows that every time she goes off on one about it her poor voters all forget about the price of dulce de leche for a few days. It's like throwing a few scraps of bread into a sea of hundreds of sparrows. They all think they're about to get fed.
You can write it in the sky for all we care Malen but they'll still be called the Falklands where it counts, in the Falklands.
Sep 21st, 2012 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Do you notice, that MALEN fantasises about these Malvinas, as much as BK fantasises about CFK,
Sep 21st, 2012 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Related perhaps,
Or does CFK also live in this fantasy,
With her trusted lieutenants,
Still,
You can drag a horse to water,
But ya canny force him to drink,
Especially when it turns out to be a mirage .lol.
Malen
Sep 21st, 2012 - 11:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Are you really that stupid or do you think that your fantasies can become a reality just by reciting a name? Grow the fuck up!! I have entered British River Plate many times yet they keep stamping my passport, “Argentina”, never anything about Malvinas. You can't just keep on making up names to suit your skewed world view, last time I checked the Union Jack was flying proudly just off your coast, its been there for a long time so you might as well get used to it. Hope things are well in British River Plate, or as you call it in South America, Argentina!
@14
Sep 21st, 2012 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Anyhow my fellow Badminton players...
Keep the spirit up...”
Nice one Think.
They are there to compete and like their brothers in UK they will not be distraught if they loose as they will be adult enough to accept it.
But FIG is another matter= much better than Argentine government (25% of GDP spent by FIG on free education), fishing zone=2nd best run in the world.
They were actually allowed to participate in South America!! wow!!
Sep 22nd, 2012 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@65
Sep 24th, 2012 - 06:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah why wouldn't they, Arg Sunshine?
@66 So much for SA solidarity with Argentina.....
Sep 24th, 2012 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As long as they leave Argentina alone and avoid contact with us, good luck to them.
Sep 25th, 2012 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Brazilian hosts are reportedly just excellent and win or lose matches, the Falkland Islands flag is displayed along with the other 11 teams taking part in this competition ~ these include the USA, Canada, Sri Lanka, Norway, Peru, Guatemala, Israel, Cuba, Mexico, Scotland & England.
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