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Falkland Islands unravelled
By Alicia Dunkley-Willis, Jamaica Observer - What does a country with 3,000 people and nearly half a million sheep look like? After 18 hours of flying and trekking through four airports, I was determined to find out. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesodd little article!
Oct 09th, 2012 - 12:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thorny gorse shrub reigns supreme? I don't think so, thankfully.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 01:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0“What does a country with 3,000 people and nearly half a million sheep look like?”
Oct 09th, 2012 - 02:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Country? says who?
3000 people? Did the populatuion grow overnight?
2563.
This article has the length and feel of a Jamaican turning up in sandals and a sarong, taking one blast of the Falklands wind and turning straight round to go home. What suspension bridge is she talking about??
Oct 09th, 2012 - 02:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0“the oldest longest suspension bridge in the world”
Oct 09th, 2012 - 02:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0What the heck are you feeding visitors in Malvinas?
Population of the Falklands is 3,550 as of the last census poll, the approximately 1,000 strong garrison and 500 civilians employed at MPA were NOT included, contrary to Argentine propaganda - more properly labled insane lies.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 03:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0This suspension Bridge the most Southern (not longest) suspension bridge in the world:
http://veronicathepajamathief365project.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/bodie-creek-suspension-bridge-falkland-islands-500x375.jpg?w=529
6 row82
Oct 09th, 2012 - 03:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0”Excluding contractors at MPA, the true population figure of the Falkland Islands is 2,563 – indicating that the population has remained static since 2006.
Stanley is home to 2121 people, 75 per cent of the population, an increase of less than 1 per cent since 2006. The population in Camp (areas outside of Stanley) has declined by 3.3 per cent to 351 people”
http://www.falklands.gov.fk/news/2012/09/headline-results-of-2012-falkland-islands-census-released/
http://web.bethere.co.uk/bodiecreekbridge/index.html
Oct 09th, 2012 - 03:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0The bridge from start to finish
7- Its a small island , the clue is in the sentence
Oct 09th, 2012 - 07:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0A small island with 3000 people what's your massive problem with the number of people????
Is the new RG plan to wait until a population declines then walk in. Tried your normal method of invasion but the bigger boys taught you a lesson.
Humiliated in war and on the world scene the RG troll now roams the websites looking for lies to post, for a food parcel and some maximo dollar.
Falkland Islands unravelled eh? Wow, she really got to the heart of the place. Amazing how you can attain complete understanding of the Falklands by spending a week in Stanley and taking a few battlefield tours.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0To experiance the Falklands one has to first live here for a time not come for a few days. It is often those reporters with no idea of the Islands spread the most rubbish which is then pounced on by the halwit CFK clan.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 10:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0This story is completely and utterly false and designed to line someones pocket not tell the world the truth.
@3 “Country” says the nation that kicked your sorry little arses!
Oct 09th, 2012 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0@5 Roasted argie balls!
@7 Not your concern. And there are 62,261,999 Brits that say so. I discounted BK the Faggot.
Nice article. Submit to the Lonely Planet guide.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 12:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Hills are rare in this country”
Oct 09th, 2012 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Really? I found a lot when I walked around the islands, and a few mountains as well.
No mention of the shanties in the wilds covered with masses of honeysuckle or the trees on the west, the black berried Diddle dee between the Mount Adam range and Hill Cove.
What about the Vanilla daisies sending a strong smell of chocolate into the breeze in some locations?
And the not always expected variegated (yellow and green) Elder trees by some of the remote shepherds houses?
Glad to see the stone runs were mentioned.
There are some inaccuracies here, but I feel it's a nice article and the author seems to have developed a genuine warmth for the place. It's hard to get to know everything about anywhere in a week or however long it was. However it seems they have a better feel for the Falklands than a lot of the posters on here. Particularly the ones from across the water. Reducing it to petty squabbling about the exact population at one exact moment in time seems like a waste of your time and mine for reading it.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(10) WestisBest
Oct 09th, 2012 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say:
“Wow, she really got to the heart of the place. Amazing how you can attain complete understanding of the Falklands by spending a week in Stanley and taking a few battlefield tours.”
I say:
“And Sealed PR really got to the ”heart of the place” by using a 30 years old picture of an Argentinean canon........
Brainwash anybody?
Yes how bizzare of them to use a photo from 1982 to mention 1982.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 03:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(17) Benson
Oct 09th, 2012 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Article says:
“The remnants of the war fought in 1982 between the British and Argentina after the latter invaded the Islands are still very much a part of the epic brooding landscape....”
“The remnants of the war ......... are still very much......”
“Are still very much.....”
“Are still.....”
I say:
The choice of the old picture, by the Sealed PR squatterettes, is quite misleading. (At best)
Besides, this is NOT the pictures appearing at the original article...:
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Falklands-Islands-unravelled_12713878
Brainwash anybody?
we all know these islands don't worth a shit...
Oct 09th, 2012 - 04:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0no money no class
hey!.... folkloosers keep the islands you know where...
@19
Oct 09th, 2012 - 04:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hi Sussie - you can change your name as much as you want - but what comes out is always the same childish rubbish.
What a worthless piece of crap article. Shame on Mercopress for publishing it. It is just a useless piece of non-journalism.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@19 adorrible sussie
Oct 09th, 2012 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sussie, you are the only one on here with a nonsense “rubbishy” post
@ 20 & 22
Oct 09th, 2012 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Isolde is working overtime this week...poor idiot! ....living in those islands....yaaaaak!
Viva Las Vegas!
Idlehands @ 8
Oct 09th, 2012 - 06:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I very much enjoyed the link you posted. Thank you.
@23 Adorrible
Oct 09th, 2012 - 06:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yup, it's sussie
@16 “an Argentinean canon”. Don't you want it? Genuine argie coward gun. Or is it a genuine argie paedophile priest? You can bet on an argie faggot to pick the latter!
Oct 09th, 2012 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@18 But it's an accurate picture of argie equipment! That is to say, it's crap. What's your problem? I remember the pictures of the British artillery. That was worth seeing and having. Thing about the argie crap is that the criminal, cowardly faggots liked to site it between civilian homes in direct contravention of the Geneva Convention. Remember, Twinky? Were you cowering in one of the buildings you had painted with Red Crosses? Also in contravention of the Conventions. Because you were, and are, a cowardly faggot!
@19 Another sussie alias. The cheap, diseased whore!
@21 Did you have a problem with the big words?
@23 Back to the crap comments between turning tricks, eh, Sussie?
@25 Of course it's sussie. Bereft of intelligence, abusive, stupid. Be reasonable. She's in a studio. She has computer access for the video. She's got her legs, and probably her mouth, open and she's getting humped! At the rate of 2, or 3, per hour. Could you think of an intelligent, educated, reasonable, meaningful comment? Don't forget that she's regularly taking it up the butt as well. Three at a time? That's where the money is. Argie slags have been known to get as much as US$15 per trick. Triples are cheaper because they like it!
Article says:
Oct 09th, 2012 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The oldest? longest? suspension bridge in the world”
I say:
The southernmost, rustiest suspension bridge in the world!
http://www.simo.ru/la2006/pic/la060317.jpg
For only the envious shout and spit insults,
Oct 09th, 2012 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And the jealous ,,green with envy throws distraction to cover up their own mess
They do say this Susie impersonator, changes her name more times than a golf ball gets into the rough.
Still, with all that sand paper she uses, perhaps the roughness has now smoothed it a bit,
Perhaps she will buy toilets paper and call it adorable.
(2) Monty69
Oct 09th, 2012 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say:
“ Thorny gorse shrub reigns supreme? I don't think so, thankfully.”
I say:
You are right.... it shares its throne with the earwigs and the sheep droppings ;-)
@28 briton
Oct 09th, 2012 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ugh? guess what
I'm briton
the one with the big arse
read my comments...
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just a thought
lol
like we said, rough,
Oct 09th, 2012 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0say no more..
@31
Oct 09th, 2012 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0jejeje
horse horse horse.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 10:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and its
ge ge ge .
Some argie kit was actually better than British kit.
Oct 10th, 2012 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0For instance the g wagons that were looted with intention of putting back into service unfrotunatly mercedes refused to service them because argentina hadn't paid for them.
The AA guns went back into service till the cold war ended
One of the chinooks is still flying
An argentine radar is still in use
The SAS used the agusta helicopters till they were worn out.
The armoured cars got used as target practice.
An argentine rifle that came to the uk got used extensivly till we switched over to 5.56 its now in the channel.
@29
Oct 10th, 2012 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“earwigs”
What earwigs?
(35) Pete Bog.........
Oct 10th, 2012 - 04:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This “Earwigs”, you turnip“....:
”Earwigs cause huge damage to garden crops (turnips etc.)”
http://www.epd.gov.fk/wp-content/uploads/9.1%20Biological%20control%20of%20Europrean%20earwig.pdf
Chuckle chuckle©
It seems that Stanley is riddled with earwigs. The environment committee has been considering a plan for biological control; wiggy's days are probably numbered. Earwigs are not that keen on turnips actually, nowhere to hide on a turnip.
Oct 10th, 2012 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Last I heard, sheep droppings were not counted as an invasive species.
(37) Monty96
Oct 10th, 2012 - 04:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe not a species, certainly invasive......, but dangerous as hell for Pom tourists that don't know that you are supposed to wash your hands before eating;-)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3541919/More-than-160-mountain-bikers-made-sick-by-sheep-droppings.html
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Oct 10th, 2012 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0well said
@33 briton
Oct 10th, 2012 - 06:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0.... oink..oink...oink ...and... your drip drip drip
40 adorable
Oct 10th, 2012 - 06:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0on the other blog you blame others for insulting you,
and what do you go and do.
seems to me, you need a rougher dand paper and a plumber,
all those drips.
@41 Briton
Oct 10th, 2012 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“... oink..oink...oink ”
That is how Abhorrible Sussie talks with CFK
all in the same sty together,
Oct 10th, 2012 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0poor argies .
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