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“Fortress Falklands” Spanish version of G. Bound latest book launched in Uruguay
“Fortress Falklands, life under siege in Britain’s last outpost”, Graham Bound’s newest book on the subject of the Falkland Islands has been published in Spanish in Uruguay, allowing Argentines to, “learn a thing or two that might surprise them,” Graham told Penguin News this week. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment ruleswhat a load of bollocks, and insulting,
Jan 28th, 2013 - 07:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0they should be dragged over the coals for this and sued.
well ?
...erm... who?... and ... why?
Jan 28th, 2013 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0[sorry]
Jan 28th, 2013 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Briton ya silly fool,
You miss read it,
It was abt good things not bad,
Yes im sorry, I miss read it.
Sorry guys,
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I think that Islanders emerge from the book as forward thinking, confident, and dynamic,
So just ignore number one, it was in genuine error, oops.
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When will see the first public burning of this book ?
Jan 28th, 2013 - 08:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Id be utterly amazed if this sells more than a 100 copies.
Jan 28th, 2013 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I find the title of the book somewhat misleading, especially to the audience its aimed at.
Jan 28th, 2013 - 09:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Its inferring the Falklands are the last British colony, which is not the case in 2013.
Wel I would like a copy Graham. Shadows of your stay in Estancia L a Negra “Yes please”
Jan 28th, 2013 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0well, at least it acknowledges that it is a british outpost. most believable indeed.
Jan 28th, 2013 - 10:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@6 If you're talking about free association and using United Nations definitions then no, they're no longer a colony.
Jan 28th, 2013 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Get back to cleaning your wet trousers and wee socks. Thanks.
Intresting.
Jan 28th, 2013 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.penguin-news.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&id=491:are-islanders-the-mapuches-of-the-south-atlantic
who cares what any backward thinking argentines think before or even after reading this book they have no claim to the Falklands and the surrounding islands than any other country in the world has, something argentina likes to forget that the islands population will always have the right to...
Jan 28th, 2013 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0SELF-DETERMINATION!!!!
3rd world translation: “autodeterminación”
@9 Shed-time:
Jan 29th, 2013 - 12:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks, - But I bet you would not have the balls to say that to my face.
Where are you by the way?
As in where are you located?
nice translation of the title
Jan 29th, 2013 - 12:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0@12 Of course I've got the balls to say it to your face. I'd say 'the UN definition of a territory being decolonised is based upon the territories choice to have amongst other things free association with the administering state' to any Argentinian's face; you can take that as a given.
Jan 29th, 2013 - 08:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0The question is, do they have the cognitive capacity to understand the details of what is being said. And of course the answer there is no. They will simply rant on about 45 nullified or non-existent GA resolutions that say the UK should give the Falklands to a renegade evil fascist state.
...to the doubters who attempt to portray another image of the modern Falklands, rush and purchase and accept the book as an attempt to show the Falklands as they are today, “in all their complexity, which is a million miles away from the way that the Argentine government would portray them. I think that Islanders emerge from the book as forward thinking, confident, and dynamic, notwithstanding the challenges they face”. Now that does say it all. Believe!
Jan 29th, 2013 - 09:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0El Think, if you are following, send me your mailing address, so I can send you a personal copy.
erm.. Shed-Time, your kinda off the rails, no reason at all to have a pop @ Crazy. Ease-off there.
Jan 29th, 2013 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Also, I happen to agree with him that the title is a bit weird.
The title isnt wierd. Its just marketing to get Argentines/anti anglos to buy the book as it deliberately plays up on the 'militarization' theme
Jan 29th, 2013 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0SELFDETERMINATION!? INTRUDERS SHAMELESS
Jan 29th, 2013 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0British falklanders=SELFDETERMINATION!?
Jan 29th, 2013 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentine, CFK = INTRUDERS SHAMELESS
12 Escoses Doido
Jan 29th, 2013 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you flexing your biceps and pretending to be hard at your keyboard??
What a muppet.
@18 Indeed you are. As a member of a population of murderers, genocides and war criminals, would you like to execute yourself? Or should we come down to do it because you're such cowards?
Jan 29th, 2013 - 03:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Falklands may develop so much in one hundred years they will end up capable to overrule argentina. The chance argentina has to develop in the short term is to be a British colony
Jan 29th, 2013 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina a British colony,
Jan 29th, 2013 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0mmmmmm
Sounds nice,
But,
A massive drain on our economy, think of the billions it would cost, just to bring them up to basic standard.
mmmm
To dear we thinks ??
Date please when Argentina will become a colony of UK.
Jan 29th, 2013 - 07:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That day I will setup a Kebab and pyjamas factory to become rich.
That day I will setup a Kebab and pyjamas factory to become rich
Jan 29th, 2013 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0proberbly arround the year 3765AD,
but dont hold us to that.lol
BTW what size are you?
Jan 30th, 2013 - 02:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Do you think that sleepers with the point rolled up will be a good business also?
@26 Dunny squatter I think outsize lav seats would be more your line of business
Jan 30th, 2013 - 03:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0@4 Agent99
Jan 30th, 2013 - 09:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nice one!
I did here Salmon Rushdie was penning a similar book.
@redpoll
Jan 30th, 2013 - 10:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0can you tell me WTF means “outsize lav seats” but in English please?
Expression from the countryside perhaps?
A toilette in the middle of nowhere perhaps?
definition please...
Ask snotty. He can look itup in his thesaurus. Still might be a good opening for you
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@24
Jan 30th, 2013 - 11:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Date please when Argentina will become a colony of UK.”
Not a colony of the UK, a province of an independent Falkland Islands, by 2113.
Or at least Patagonia will jump ship to become part of a prosperous society (as oppossed to a bankrupt one as will happen).
Ushaia ruled from Stanley.
Cool.
@DanyB
Jan 31st, 2013 - 08:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0outsized lav seats - lavatory seat for very large bum (bottom, behind, backside etc).
@Pete Bog
Jan 31st, 2013 - 09:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0O that would be really funny.
Then could we ask for self D?
Could we be allowed to call your head of state Cretina of Botox Queen?
Do we have to use Pyjamas, eat kebabs and drive to the left?
Language, we will be allowed to speak other languages or we all have to learn englihsssssssss?
Tell me more please how will be Argentina under kelper rule. Would you please?
@Musky
Oh! Well may be would be a good business after all if you invade Argentina.
Outsized lav seats for sale for just 10 quids made in Argentina colony of Falkland Islands super power...
Ha ha
A little jingle for Danny new dunny business
Jan 31st, 2013 - 12:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This bloody toilet is no good at all
The seat is too high and the hole is too small
To which one can add the obvious retort
Your rs is too big and your legs are too short
Brits, don't let Argentina into the Commonwealth. They'll be a basket case for ever.
Feb 02nd, 2013 - 07:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@34
Feb 03rd, 2013 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Then could we ask for self D?”
Yes, democracy is allowed by the Brits- But if Patagonia wanted independence that's better than being part of Argentina.
“Could we be allowed to call your head of state Cretina of Botox Queen?”
Yes, us Brits unlike some arrogant Argentines, can take a joke.
“Do we have to use Pyjamas, eat kebabs and drive to the left?”
Not if you don't want to. (Falkland Islands =democratic and listens to electorate). If you are used to driving on the right it would be stupid and expensive to change (this would be a result of common practical sense which FIG possesses and the Argentine government members don't).
“Language, we will be allowed to speak other languages or we all have to learn englihsssssssss?”
Spanish or English if you like, as it was the language of your European colonialists (as the Falkland Islands are a multi-cultural race)
“Tell me more please how will be Argentina under kelper rule. Would you please?”
1/- No state control of newspapers and no apoplexy if the newspapers wrote something that FIG disagreed with.
2/-The economy would be run properly without Patagonia getting into debt (Patagonia would therefore be more popular in the world(than Argentina) and more countries would trust them to do business with whilst the rest of Argentina loses out)).
3/-No BOUGHT/BRIBED elections.
4/-A more valuable currency (unless you insisted on keeping the peso).
5. More secure as the RAF. Royal Navy and an expanded FIDF /Patagonian Defence Force would be used to replace the joke that is the Argentine armed forces-therefore no one would mess with Patagonia.
6. The education would be of a higher standard with Patagonians flown free to study at UK Universities, rather than be subject to the educationally substandard Nazi/Soviet style indoctrination forced upon children now.
7. The local indigenous population (if any left) would be allowed self autonomy.
I'll continue my list later as I'm running out of text. :-)
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