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Falklands' visit of Uruguayan lawmakers delegation upsets Argentina
The visit of four Uruguayan lawmakers to the Falkland Islands is receiving ample coverage from the Argentine media particularly the intention of closer links between Montevideo and the Islands including the possibility of sending Uruguayan manpower as well as promoting trade, tourism, culture and social relations Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSo far it's been a good week. I have to say that all four Members appear very buoyant and if it's all an act it's an extremely convincing one. I spoke with all four today on more than one occasion (I serve drinks in one bar and wait tables in a restaurant. LOL!) and after a quick stop at one of the local gift shops they were sporting Falklands tie pins. I joked with a couple of them that they'd better take the pins off before they got back to SA in case the Argentines saw them and they had a big chuckle and said they'd gladly wear them in SA.
Feb 12th, 2014 - 11:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They are also planning further political visits and we chatted quite a bit about further links with our countries. I love the idea of an air link; their government has already demonstrated quite a willingness in that area of cooperation.
Hugo Swire's coincidental visit is also shaping up nicely. He has been saying all the right things and is taking lots of time, as all UK politicians do when they visit, to listen and learn.
As for TMBOA, if she is upset, well and good.
Chuckle chuckle
@1
Feb 12th, 2014 - 11:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I thought the Falklands stay in South America. Or SA means South Africa?
“Latam Unity” are you feeling it?
Feb 12th, 2014 - 11:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, I'm not feeling it. I'm feeling “South America Unity”.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 12:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good grief is that a tin sheet roof?.... My garage is better than that...
Feb 13th, 2014 - 12:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0“the good atmosphere between Argentina and Uruguay”
Feb 13th, 2014 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0WTF! That just goes to show that politicians are bare-faced liars.
@5
Feb 13th, 2014 - 12:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0The important thing is not luxury, but democracy that is exercised within that building.
@5. Idiot.... Jock wannabe.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 12:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's a Zinc lined roof you ignoramus, how the hell can you not tell the difference? Many, and i do mean many houses are now lined with it these days.
Idiotic nationalists, they really are the uneducated arsewipes of the UK. They also have the brains to boot.
yeah yeah...a tin sheet roof..as they are known...irrelevant what it's made of...
Feb 13th, 2014 - 12:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Cheap and nasty looking...Gilbert House...Gilbert Shed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rMsBsiGLns
Lol @ 5 and 9, its considered a luxury in many parts here in Arg to have any type of roof over your head. Added to that the middle class who are lucky enough to be able to buy a plot and build their own house, the majority put a tin roof on it lol Obviously you know nothing about Arg, tin roofs here have been around for generations and as common as pebbles on a beach. pmsl
Feb 13th, 2014 - 01:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ A_Voice ALL leaders of the main political parties state Scotland should not keep the £ and rightly so let the Scots under write their own debt IF and a big IF they get independence
Feb 13th, 2014 - 01:27 am - Link - Report abuse 010
Feb 13th, 2014 - 01:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Still nasty....
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Oh dear Andy come-lately...please keep up and tell me something I don't know....
http://en.mercopress.com/2014/02/10/scotland-independence-referendum-bbc-poll-suggests-economy-most-important-issue-for-voters#comment308104
@5 When Cristina the old hag speaks her voice has all the charm of possums fighting on a tin roof!
Feb 13th, 2014 - 01:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0You can't hear yourself think when it rains if you have a tin roof. Only any good for woodsheds or barns.
Whats the old grinder in the photo wearing a kilt? I thought on Scottish guys wore kilts? Is she a Tranny?
That's my 2 cents for the day, now back as you were.
Our recalcitrant government to the South has brought this on themselves.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 02:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0They ask Uruguay to fall in line with their desires, and then stick them over the loss of port duties income, which was significant.
So representatives from Uruguay wake up and see an opportunity for lost revenue. “ . . . . there are 300 Chileans working in the Falklands, why not Uruguayans also ?.” Why not indeed.
So to the current Argentine government I say Bem Feito ! ( Serves you right ! )
Historical archives of CD
Feb 13th, 2014 - 02:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Menem's visit to London in 1998
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orH6LIkEYXg
Really can't get my head around people over a 1000 miles away thinking of themselves as neighbours.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 02:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0But building business links can only be a good thing for both countries.
@3
Feb 13th, 2014 - 06:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'm feeling the German decision today. This is what they said, literally:
“Es reicht! Keine Rosinenpickerei mehr!”
If I may translate, in English that means: “The UK is screwed”.
@17 You clearly are a very intelligent observer of the UK! The most buoyant economy in Europe at the present time in spite of the weather problems we have currently!
Feb 13th, 2014 - 07:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0@17
Feb 13th, 2014 - 07:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Haha, the UK is doing just fine thank you as, unlike Germany, we don't have to underwrite Spanish, Irish, Portuguese, Cyprus and Greek debt.
Getting back to the issue at hand, what is now clear is that Kirchner lie machine is grinding to a halt and clearly, many people of influence in Uruguay have had enough of Argentina and are unafraid to show it.
Well, the day the rosaditos get the Presidency...
Feb 13th, 2014 - 08:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0...
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That's not going to happen, is it?
1 Joe Bloggs
Feb 13th, 2014 - 08:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Morning Joe!!
It's stopped raining here and the wind has died down so you can actually stand up straight when you go outside!!
Glad to hear that the visit was such a successful one. If I am guessing right then this could be the start of a very good, very profitable friendship between Uruguay and the Falkland Islands. I have to say “Long may it continue”. It is all good if the Falklands can increase their standing and influence in South America while creating such friendships and business deals as well. Good for you!!!
Don't worry about the trolls, they have eaten so many sour grapes that their tummys are hurting and they are all in a bad mood!!
Goes to show that despite Argentina's tantrums other people are far more interested in what the Falklands have to offer than supporting petulant Argentina's expansionism.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 08:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0@9
Feb 13th, 2014 - 08:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0“yeah yeah...a tin sheet roof..as they are known...irrelevant what it's made of...
Cheap and nasty looking...Gilbert House...Gilbert Shed”
Aesthetics are secondary to the function of staying up and keeping the occupants dry ; )
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/construction-industry-experts-delivered-a-damning-verdict-on-the-scottish-parliament-building-five-years-after-the-official-opening-1-1230164
“added that Assembly members indicated there are 300 Chileans working in the Falklands, why not Uruguayans also?.”
Feb 13th, 2014 - 09:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Because let's face it, what is Argentina doing to provide their 'Sour Grapes supporters” with employment?
Even if workers do not agree with British sovereignty they will benefit financially, and the best way for Argentina to 'get back at the Falklands 'for not wanting Argentinian sovereignty, would be to trade with the islands to receive hard currency from the islands and provide their people with jobs .
These Uruguayans get it. There is money to be made by trading with the Islands, and employment prospects for Urugayans that Argentina cannot provide, that would benefit them, whether or not they agree with British sovereignty.
And if Argentina doesn't want to benefit financially, why not the Uruguayans?
Pete
Feb 13th, 2014 - 09:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0The opposition is just that. An opposition.
This one in particular, seems to have more influence in the islands than in Uruguay...
21 Morning Too Old.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 09:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'm glad to hear the rain has stopped but there is more on the way I believe. My friends in West Sussex and Surrey are truly sick of it but at least they haven't been flooded or suffered any damage.
The trolls amuse me. The more desperate they become the funnier they look. Tin sheds are a problem now; and that coming from the same deadbeat who bleats on about us being a burden on the UK tax payer. What would he say if the photo was taken in front of a huge palatial building with marble columns and an imported slate roof? One thing our politicians can't be accused of here is over-feathering their own nest with public money.
I've been to the majority of British OTs and sat in most of the buildings of their political leaders (waiting tables and serving bars can take you places!) and a couple of them spring to mind when I think about milking UK tax payers' money but the Falklands isn't one of them.
We all know why the UK has a small military garrison here and the only other thing the UK provides us- foreign diplomacy- it provides to all OTs regardless of how rich or how poor. The entire package that comes with that foreign diplomacy includes not only assistance but also obligations to conduct ourselves in a manner the UK expects from a British country.
As I've always said on here but no troll has ever acknowledged it- because let's face it, they're trolls- is that we look forward to the day when we may be able to afford our own defence against our bully of a neighbour.
Got to go because I'm on early lunch prep at the café.
Chuckle chuckle
Poor 2 Brasileiro, get an atlas or a globe.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 09:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0The British Falklands Islands are 450 km from South America.
Do notice that A_Meaningless_Noise, who in another thread was exposed as indisputably dishonest and a liar, is trolling at all times; nothing she writes can be taken at face value.
@25 Stevie
Feb 13th, 2014 - 10:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0If Uruguay and Argentina do not want to financially benefit from the Islands economy, someone else will.
The world is not limited to South America.
Great... What do you want me to say?
Feb 13th, 2014 - 10:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Free Energy” Stevie is upset with the “opposition” in Uruguay because they have the temerity to have an open mind regarding the Falklands.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 10:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0You can tell he is a wanabe Tupamaro by his lack of political tolerance and balance plus a wish to quash all free speech, well, speech against the illiterate Tupamaros anyway.
One day Stevie the people of Uruguay will wake up to the fact that the Tupamaros are no better than anybody else in the system, in fact they have been demonstrably worse. And that will be the end of them.
But not you because you are not here and will keep flying the flag from Sweden or wherever you move to but it won't be Uruguay!
Navy chief accused Argentina of 'unacceptable harassment'
Feb 13th, 2014 - 10:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0cruise liner he was travelling on after its crew were ordered to lower the British flag in Buenos Aires
the ship had basically been threatened with a very punitive fine - about 10,000 US dollars - and also told there would be 'trouble' in inverted commas
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/10634998/Former-Navy-chief-accused-Argentina-of-unacceptable-harassment.html
The British government will complain AGAIN for the millionth time.
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Please CFK don’t insult us, we will tell your mummy,
Please, we beg you; we will give you one of our carriers if you leave us alone,
We no longer have the backbone to stand up to you,
Please we beg you, leave us along, wail , ,wail, ,,
Eye say, when are we going to put a stop to this humiliation,.
Good neighbours....now there is a fine idea. Why didn't everyone else think of that ?
Feb 13th, 2014 - 10:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0We have been happy to host our traditional friends from Uruguay. I think some of them might even be wondering if they believe in the Argentine sovereignty myth any more. Step by step.
leave us along [ ALONE ]
Feb 13th, 2014 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0@2, 4 For a start, SA stands for “South Atlantic”. It's a crazy idea some latinos get that, somehow, distance makes a difference. What I have to convey to you now will be difficult for you to comprehend. But at least try to make an effort. There was no international agreement on “territorial waters” until 1958. And that didn't come into force until 1964. Until that time, countries could only apply the “cannon-shot rule” and only then if they actually had a cannon there. The distance involved was 3 miles. All other waters outside national boundaries were considered to be “international”. Can you see where I'm going with this? Imagine it's 1860. The Falkland Islands are magically transported to a position 4 miles of the coast of Brazil. They are in international waters. If they are in international waters, they can't be part of South America. The actual position and distances are, of course, quite different and larger. Taking the figure @27, the Falkland Islands are 155.34 miles from the coast of South America. And such Islands are deemed to have their own continental shelves. And thus, the Falkland Islands may be interested in, but not part of, South America. Q.E.D. If you want to see things differently, that's your affair. But it might be wise to go and tell your friends the Spanish. They might have some reservations about Ceuta, Melilla and a host of other islands off the Moroccan coast, including the Canary Islands. Then there's Ibiza, Majorca and Minorca.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0@17 It doesn't matter how many times you say “The UK is screwed”, it doesn't make it so. But what do you care? You want to be isolated. You will be.
@25 Clearly you don't understand how a parliamentary democracy works. Not surprising because you don't want one!
@31 Oh dear, argieland stuffs foot in mouth again. Wonder how this works? Argieland continually makes life difficult. More vessels avoid argieland. But doesn't argieland NEED hard currency?
@ 27 Don Alberto
Feb 13th, 2014 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the consensus is
Arseħole_Empty_Noise is a miserable tosser, totally exposed as a worthless and dishonest bum.
Lots of Empty_Noise spouting from the lower orifice of his digestive tract.
2.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it seems they need to go back to school and learn geography again.
on the other hand, all this noise because 4 (FOUR) lawmakers went to the islets?
lol
@13
Feb 13th, 2014 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You obviously need to go to Spectsavers, as the person wearing a “ SKIRT ” is a LADY, I would have thought that pretty obvious.
Poor Argentina, she will Bann trade with the UK next,
Feb 13th, 2014 - 12:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0she may need hard currency,
but she will end up with is soft toilet paper...lol
@36
Feb 13th, 2014 - 01:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”on the other hand, all this noise because 4 (FOUR) lawmakers went to the islets?
lol”
Quite. Establishing business links with the Islands so that South Americans can benefit from trade with the Falkland Islands,(i.e. earn hard currency and win jobs) is not a threat to Argentina or South America, it is an opportunity for them.
And, of course, a Consulate of Uruguay in Stanley will be needed in the near future.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Philippe
Oh my poor______. I didn't mean the UK was screwed on a globality, I meant your days in the EU are numbered, and not on your own terms.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0After the Swiss referendum (not even an EU member), the Germans have had enough. They are tired of “pingelig” cherry-pickers. Like the Swiss, who want to stop free flow of people but keep free flow of trade and bank secrecy.
The Germans made it very clear that they will tear up all banking agreements with the Swiss and their goods will have to pay tariffs, if they want their border controls back + quotas.
The same will be said to Britain: Cameron, no more cherry-picking. You don't want free flow of people, but do want 0 tariffs for your products? You don't want to bail out the Irish, Greeks, and Portuguese, but do want EU “stamp of approval” for your overseas territories?
DAS GEHT NICHT MEHR!
You will be shortly be demanded to be all in, or be all out. When Cameron chooses to be all out, he will push the British economy to a depression when suddenly their biggest export market evaporates.
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Feb 13th, 2014 - 02:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I can see why you are a barman....
“who bleats on about us being a burden on the UK tax payer. What would he say if the photo was taken in front of a huge palatial building with marble columns and an imported slate roof? One thing our politicians can't be accused of here is over-feathering their own nest with public money. ”
Burden on the UK tay payer...? are you suggesting the UK paid for that shed?
It looks too cheap and nasty for that...
How embarrassing to pose the visiting delegation in front of a shed...great international image....become economic partners with the Shed people...
£30 Grand is all it would cost to put a nice imported slate roof on that....
Suggest it to your Govt.....
What was the tie pin....a sheep or a penguin..?...chinese poundline import?
@ A_Voice, See the winging Scots on TV having tantrums after being told the rest of The UK WILL NOT allow them to keep stirling. So you piece of shit tell us all why Scotland fears having it's own currency and under writing it's own debts WHAT YOU AFFRAID OF?????
Feb 13th, 2014 - 02:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 043
Feb 13th, 2014 - 02:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What debts numbskull.....without monetary union there is no obligation on an independent Scotland to take any UK debt.....
The UK has already guaranteed the debt will be paid by the UK...
Great start...no debt....the UK has all the debt....and no oil revenue and no tax revenue from Scotland....
Don't try and say Scotland can't do this...because it can...
@ A_Voice a percentage of UK debt will be yours IF you have the balls to vote yes. 60 million people do not want you to share our currency,think about it if the English voted today you would be independent tomorrow so they are hardly going to let you cherry pick. INDEPENDENCE MEANS INDEPENDENCE
Feb 13th, 2014 - 02:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 045
Feb 13th, 2014 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Get your facts right there is NO OBLIGATION TO TAKE ANY UK DEBT!!!
...and...Scotland will use remaining oil revenue to invest in renewables...
Hydro....there are already plans to use wind power as both storage and to power the pumping of water off peak back from the lochs to the dams at the likes of Cruachan Hydro...
There are countless other areas to create more Hydro schemes like Cruachan...
One thing Scotland is not short of....Mountains, Lochs and rain....
Scotland could easily become the Hydro capital of Europe....
Also 300 million investment at Grangemouth to take the US shale gas....
I'm sure they would also be happy to refine shale oil from the USA too....they are looking for European outlets....
Plan B the Scottish Pound....
Plenty of scope for investment in Scotland....and England has what exactly...?
Apart from a lot of debt and no means to pay it....
Ditch your liabilities like the Falklands....you can't afford them....;-))))
So whys fish face Nicola having a dizzy fit if the future looks so bright?
Feb 13th, 2014 - 03:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 047
Feb 13th, 2014 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For ease of transition....but if push comes to shove it's que sera sera...
No monetary union no debt....
England can't have it both ways....Scotland will be fine....England will have to carry the North..N.Ireland and Wales and all it's other liabilities.
Perhaps Scotland will keep one of the new carriers as England is already looking for a buyer and cannot afford it...It's already here so wouldn't have to go anywhere......;-))
48 A_Voice
Feb 13th, 2014 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh Think, think, think!!!! You do make me laugh!!!
You are a serious idiot if you think that anyone on here still thinks that A_Voice anything more than a sock puppet.
Can you say for certain what will happen in September? Can you?
You can't. No one can. So, until then, you are just p*ssing in the wind.
So please stop with your “Ditch your liabilities like the Falklands....you can't afford them....” 'Cos it is makes you look more of a moron than you were to begin with.
49
Feb 13th, 2014 - 05:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nope...no one can....
...but what I can say, is you has better start investing in Gondola's....
With all this climate change it looks like you are beginning to rival Venice...;-)
50 A_Voice
Feb 13th, 2014 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How is that Heat wave working out for you Think? I see that you have the power on...... for now.
Oh, and what about your economy going well is it?
Those riots, and that police strike....all very nasty, wouldn't you say?
Sound like you got yourself a “Summer of discontent” there son...
Oh, nearly forgot, do you know where your president is right now?
Brazzo, @2..“”I thought the Falklands stay in South America. Or SA means South Africa?“”
Feb 13th, 2014 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There's a quote from Abraham Lincoln, that goes something like this : “Sometimes it's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are an imbecile, that to open it and prove them right”.......Brasileiro, you'd do us all a favour if you shut your gob.
@42, Voicey...nothing is ever right for you, is it ?? If “it is”, it's because it is, if “it isn't”, it's because it isn't.....when your Mommy told you you were smart, that you knew everything, did you actually believe her ?
@49
Feb 13th, 2014 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“You are a serious idiot”
No he's not... He is just a very naughty boy.
As he says.
“How embarrassing to pose the visiting delegation in front of a shed...great international image....become economic partners with the Shed people...
£30 Grand is all it would cost to put a nice imported slate roof on that....”
Indeed, true - take the example of the fine Scottish Parliament building : )
http://clip2net.com/s/6ONmOz
53
Feb 13th, 2014 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Whose side are you on...?
If I remember correctly.......don't you have a horse in this race...?
Yeah that is a bit nasty...but not as impressive as this......
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Gilbert-House.jpg
Who the feck put that fence up...?
Look at the left entrance post to the right....different heights....
look at the pieces of wood nailed to the post....they don't even neatly reach the end...look at the rails at the other end...they don't even match the line of the other rails...
Don't they have any decent joiners over there....
If that doesn't look like a big Shed...I don't know what does....
Reminds me of a Scouts Hut.....
Is that a dirt track outside it...?
September guys,
Feb 13th, 2014 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0inpatients is a virtue not a right..
@54
Feb 13th, 2014 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It would be true to say that should Scotland become indepenence, I would qualify for tri-nationality, and I would like that. But as for horses in races - not my bag really.
As for tin roofs. Here is a pic I have taken of Alastair Darlings retreat - a black house (formally his Grandmothers home - can't say where it is, or I would have to kill myself). It would have originally had a turf roof, but now tin (as you would say). IMO Alastair was the best PM that the Labour Party never had - not that I have an affiliation.
But the point is - nothing wrong with a 'tin' roof whoever you are.
http://clip2net.com/s/6ONmOz
56
Feb 13th, 2014 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wrong pic....try again.....
My memory never let me down...
Ah ha... a white settler...I might have guessed.....
I'm sure Alastair Darlings Grandmother's home is not a place where you would be entertaining foreign dignitaries....
Ah, white settlers, as Donald Stewart MP liked to refer.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 08:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As you previously picked up on 'my heritage is Hebridean'.
Yes, and for generations. Where I was born and lived, is not of issue.
Sorry about the link - try again.
http://clip2net.com/s/6OPOdh
Not exactly Marthas Vinyard, but worthy of any dignatory.
@5 yeah but you live in your garage
Feb 13th, 2014 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yeahhhhh.....
Feb 13th, 2014 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Those English Kelpers and their tin roofed houses.........
They could really learn something from us Patagonians........ ;-)
http://www.retiro.com.ar/assets/estanciastagriver.jpg
Phillippe
Feb 13th, 2014 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Remember to build a highway to the consulate, you'd want to avoid traffic jams...
We've learnt plenty from Patagonians Think. You make that sound like we think it would be out of the question. You just continue with your whine and cheese night while we keep negotiating deals with Argentina's neighbour, Uruguay.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm pleased the tin shed amuses you so much. Might I add that it's an extremely plain building inside as well and quite drafty. Now there's no way any South American politician would find themselves in accommodation like that is there. No sir! Not while there are so many homeless people living in shanty towns. Too right!
Tell me Think. Whenyou wish to respond to a post how do you choose which login to use? Do you simply toss a coin or is there some methodology involved? I mean now especially that everyone knows there's only one person behind all of the names.
Credibility check anyone?
Chuckle chuckle
@60
Feb 13th, 2014 - 09:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Sporran is both to cover your essentials, and contain your wealth. Not much to say for that one!
Try this ; )
http://clip2net.com/s/6OT6Lv
(62) Joe Bloggs....
Feb 13th, 2014 - 09:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wouldn't call Gilbert House a “shed”....
It's a pretty little house from the outside... (A bit boring inside, though.)
In my young days I detested our classical Patagonian tin houses... I learned to appreciate them later on... I like them very much nowadays...
63 I believe the Sporran is one of the possible names for Scotland's currency when they lose the right to use the pound IF they ever leave the UK.
Feb 13th, 2014 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Out of curiosity Think what was Gilbert House last used for before its current role? You know, when you used to frequent the islands.
You forgot to answer my question BTW. How DO you choose which login to use when responding to posts? Doesn't it become a bit too tedious logging on and off all the time? Or are you sporting multiple devises?
Chuckle chuckle
(65) Joe Bloggs
Feb 13th, 2014 - 10:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You ask...:
“Out of curiosity Think what was Gilbert House last used for before its current role? You know, when you used to frequent the islands. ”
I say...:
You mean..... In the good ol' days ....?
http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/4938/m5kt.jpg
I didn't think you'd know. Couldn't you even find it on Google?
Feb 13th, 2014 - 10:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Credibility check anyone?
(67) Joe Bloggs........
Feb 13th, 2014 - 10:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry to dissapoint you but......, contrary to what most Kelpers believe, Mr. El Think does NOT know everything...
Chuckle chuckle©
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Feb 13th, 2014 - 11:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0An alliterative Sheep Shearing Shed...?
PMSL
Feb 13th, 2014 - 11:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How predictable!
Think couldn't wait any longer for someone else to post so that he could come back in so he logged on in another name and posted.
Don't hide here Think. Let's hear what you have to say on the later posts about the types of cooperation being planned between Uruguay and the Falklands. Air links, trade, encouraging their aggressive neighbour to stop bullying. Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Credibility check anyone?
Delegation from the monster raving looney party....there was no one from the ruling party....so how can these...(only there for the free expenses paid trip) make any decisions about cooperation....
Feb 14th, 2014 - 12:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Don't you know when you've been had....stick to your drinks serving...and taxi driving...do they have taxis or is it sheep and cart...?
....did they get a free sheepskin...?
..and penguin on a stick...?
Seriously, what is there to do in the Falklands?
Feb 14th, 2014 - 02:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Looks to be the most boring place on earth. I guess you could walk the windswept cliffs to see some seagulls crapping on the rocks!
I have yet to see 1 pic of a good looking girl from there. Is it me or is the Falklands only populated by sheep and geriatrics?
They should welcome Argentine's to come and put an end to the interbreeding that is blatantly rampant, (sheep don't count).
Maybe then they would have some good looking girls like we have here on the motherland ;)
Good looking girls ?
Feb 14th, 2014 - 05:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry Amigo, but this is too cold for most Brasileiras, the most beautiful women in the world. But you are most welcome to come North to my country any time you want to.
Be advised that unlike Mar del Plata, our houses at the beach are not equipped with fireplaces. Our beaches, just like our people are warm and friendly year round.
Seriously, what is there to do in the Falklands?
Feb 14th, 2014 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The most popular reason to visit is for the scenic beauty and the flora and fauna
Bird and marine species five species of penguin, four species of seal, albatross, petrels, the Falkland Flightless Steamer duck (Logger Duck), other duck species, geese, hawks and falcons. The Striated Caracara (Johnny Rook) is a rare bird of prey found only on the Falkland Islands Porpoises and dolphins are often sighted with the occasional sighting of whales,
Museum - The Museum is situated on Holdfast Road
EAT
Meals in the Falklands are primarily traditional British. Fish and chips, roast beef, mutton and tea are standard fare
Pubs and lodges offer a wide selection, serving alcohol
And beers.
Sleep,
Accommodation in Stanley includes numerous bed and breakfasts as well as a handful of hotels. Buildings are generally older and the warm hospitality
Crime is relatively unknown in the Falklands
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Reasons to Visit the Falkland Islands
History
Penguins
People
Remoteness
Scenery
Wildlife
Fishing , what more can you ever want..
justa thought...
@71 Monster Raving Looney Party? Perhaps another good alias for you to adopt Voicey? On second thoughts perhaps Screaming Lord Such might better reflect the tone of some of your posts more faithfully
Feb 14th, 2014 - 02:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“£30 Grand is all it would cost to put a nice imported slate roof on that....”
Feb 14th, 2014 - 02:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a waste of £30 grand, you could reroof it 6 times with plastic coated galvinsed roofing for that. Personally I think practicality is more important than aesthetics.
“Looks to be the most boring place on earth”
If you don't like the outdoors then yes it would be but if you don't like rollercoasters and crowds then Disneyland would be the most boring place on earth.
Our slater (Isopoda oniscidea) , aka know as the wood louse seems to have emerged from under his wet rock
Feb 14th, 2014 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 075
Feb 14th, 2014 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How about Lord Haw Haw....;-))
A slater is exactly what they need...a nice bit of Welsh Slate would do nicely.....
76
“Personally I think practicality is more important than aesthetics.”
We can see that....by the Shed look.....
@78 Lord haw haw? Good idea. Lots of similarities between A Voice and William Joyce. But far be it from me to desire you the same end as he had
Feb 14th, 2014 - 04:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(78) A_Voice
Feb 14th, 2014 - 07:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Allow me to disagree about your choice of roofing material for Gilbert House...
Firstly, a slate roof would look wrong, almost pompous on such a light balloon framed tree construction...
(What next...? Glazed blue roof tiles...? ;-)
Secondly, a (heavy) slate roof would require expensive reinforcments of the supporting structure.... One could as well demolish the whole thing and build a Tudor Castle instead....
Thirdly, and most important, corrugated sheets of galvanised steel are an integral part of our Patagonian everyday, arquitecture and heritage...
That's yet another detail that makes them windblown Islands so very ours....
Actually corrugated iron was a British invention and a widely used roofing material in Australia. Indeed, to this day it is still an extremely common material on new homes.
Feb 14th, 2014 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Funnily enough it is also the roofing material of Australia's oldest Parliament House in Sydney.
Considering large swathes of inner cities throughout Australia use this material, together with a common language, shared culture and sovereign; almost seems that the Falklands would be a perfect fit as an Australian External Territory rather than subsumed into a state as foreign and anathema as Argentina.
Should the Islanders ever choose to change their BOT status that is.
And if roofing material makes up a large part of that decision of course.
“”“”If I may translate, in English that means: “The UK is screwed”.“”“”
Feb 15th, 2014 - 02:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah, they've said that a few times in the past .... get a history book and see how it played out for them...
“”“Good grief is that a tin sheet roof?.... My garage is better than that...”“”
your garage would not be better than that even if it were coated in gold and diamonds..... it would remain a figment of your own fevered imagination with no part of it residing within reality, but nonetheless an adobe of the self deluded and self-aggrandized, who has to spend most of his time trying to persuade others of his intellect...where anybody with such an intellect would not need to do so.
You're a fraud, morally and intellectually.
81 Anglotino
Feb 15th, 2014 - 10:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Further more, almost every building in the Falklands is a kit build. The earliest buildings circa 1830s all come out of a large catalogue book of buildings that were available throughout the British Empire. Several examples of buildings in Stanley can be found in Australia. The police station and the very first part of our Government house are the same building and that particular building features in several places in Australia also as police stations and court houses; that type of public building.
Poor old Think can't decide whether to take the line that we're 'scamming' the UK out of loads of cash at tax payer's expense or living in buildings we should be ashamed of. It's not the Falkland Islanders' way to live extravagantly (to which Think will reply 'that's obvious'). Some of the wealthiest people on these islands certainly don't show it by their houses. I have two neighbours in my street who (it is well known by all) are very wealthy people but they live in small, very unremarkable homes.
I do take Think's point about the fence and the car park outside of Gilbert House. Those things could do with a bit of a spruce up but I certainly wouldn't be in favour of replacing the building because it has a metal-clad roof. Having said that I doubt the Members will be in Gilbert House for much longer. Now that they are full-timers there isn't the space.
As for our visiting Uruguayans being nobodys. True, they aren't in the ruling party but they are all elected politicians; elected by the people of Uruguay. Let's see if their is a lynch mob there to meet them on the weekend when they get home. I mean if the 'whole world' (Marcos) is behind Argentina then surely these blokes will be disgraced when they get home. A couple of them are very established, well connected businessmen and they're the sort of politicians we want to talk with.
83
Feb 15th, 2014 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0joe
for the first time i enjoyed a post by an islander.
true that many of those prefabricated catalogue houses of the late xix and early xx century are wonderful and very well built.
we also have some good examples here.
now about contemporary houses, you don´t have to be rich to have a good house, most of the times is the opposite of a flashy one.
it is more a question of design than a question of money.
TWIMC (and Kelper Joe Bloggs)
Feb 15th, 2014 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please, do feel free to correct me if I'm wrong...
There are typically eleven Kelper rules in the Malvinas ”Law of Jante”...:
1. You're not to think you are anything special.
2. You're not to think you are as good as we are.
3. You're not to think you are smarter than we are.
4. You're not to convince yourself that you are better than we are.
5. You're not to think you know more than we do.
6. You're not to think you are more important than we are.
7. You're not to think you are good at anything.
8. You're not to laugh at us.
9. You're not to think anyone cares about you.
10. You're not to think you can teach us anything.
11. Perhaps you don't think I know a few things about you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
Though...., a late addition by the Kelpers Squidionaires says…:
12. You should see our mansions in the south of France!
Chuckle chuckle©
@85...Chuckle, chuckle..
Feb 15th, 2014 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and 13. You're not to think TMCOA is crazy...
Poor old Think can't decide whether to take the line that we're 'scamming' the UK out of loads of cash at tax payer's expense or living in buildings we should be ashamed of.
Feb 15th, 2014 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chuckle chuckle
87 Joe Bloggs
Feb 15th, 2014 - 09:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I hope you are enjoy the show the trolls are putting on for you!!!
Who would have thought it huh? a delegation of Uruguayan “Nobodies” visits the Falkland Islands and puts all the trolls into a flat spin!!!
It is a wonderful sight to behold!! and the best argument they can come up with?
The roof of “Government House”
“Good grief is that a tin sheet roof?”
P.s:- If you listen very carefully, that sound you hear? that's the sound of argentina's influence in SA being flushed down the u-bend.
Chuckle chuckle
(87) Joe Bloggs
Feb 15th, 2014 - 09:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wrong person again, Joe....
Your living quarters are nothing to be ashamed, lad...
But them urinals at the Racecourse could certainly use a loving hand...
http://www.urinal.net/stanley_racecourse/
88
Feb 15th, 2014 - 11:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Too Old
LOL! Yes, Uruguayan nobodies in sheds making deals with English squatters. It's so not going to achieve anything that I'm surprised the trolls even got out of bed to respond.
I have to say that I am disappointed that even the mention of Lord West wasn't enough to stir DoD from his slumber down at the Dover Legion. Pity.
89 Think.
Make a habit of hanging around men's urinals do you?
Are you rehearsing your next sock puppet yet? Can we make requests? I'd like to see you have a go at a Ben. You reckon you know so much about us why don't you see if you can pull that one off? A Ben who thinks the islands belong to Argentina.
Credibility check anyone?
Chuckle chuckle
90 Joe Bloggs
Feb 16th, 2014 - 06:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Notice that Think comes across as nothing but mealy-mouthed and insufferably condescending. Certainly very callous and unlikeable.
For the objective observer, he scores no points with his arguments, just comes across as a sh!t.
(90) Joe Bloggs
Feb 16th, 2014 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0You say...:
“Make a habit of hanging around men's urinals do you?”
I say...:
Not more than any of the other lads at the races...
Now; would you please clean those restrooms...
( By the way... Who' was the plumber... ? ;-)
http://www.urinal.net/stanley_racecourse/
@81 Anglotino,
Feb 16th, 2014 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0When l went to school in Australia, l used to sometimes stay on weekends on my cousins' farms in the Upper Murray district of Victoria.
Their large farmhouse had a corrugated iron(tin)roof & we used to lie in bed at night listening to the possums sliding down the roof & running back & forth.
Also there is nothing more satisfying that to snuggle down in the bedclothes on a wet & windy winter evening, listening to the rain drumming on the tin roof.
They are some of the things that l miss from my childhood.
Geeeeeeeeee...................
Feb 16th, 2014 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Forgot all about the presence of them Prude Squatter Ladies on this site.....
Please ladies.................. Don't open my shockingly filthy link above.... ;-)
@94 Think,
Feb 16th, 2014 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Who are the squatters, Cher Think?
Must be your neighbours in Patagonia.
Are they prudes also?
That must be terrible for you men….;-)))))))
(95) lsolde......, you little tease.
Feb 16th, 2014 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why is it that, everytime you flirt with me, I come to “Think” about this song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjjDmX9Tkss&feature=kp
;-)
Think is creeeeppyyyyy... !
Feb 17th, 2014 - 12:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0,,,,,pot calling the kettle there....you are the epitome of creepiness as I have mentioned on numerous occasions.....
Feb 17th, 2014 - 12:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0...especially where women are concerned....
98 A'roid
Feb 17th, 2014 - 01:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0As you are actually a “Think” sock puppet, I can't say I'm surprised to hear from you.
I seem to remember you sniffing around Elaine, looking for attention, but she dismissed you after a post or two of your characteristic rants - left you baying in the wilderness for a response... *chortles indulgently*
As to your Persona Prime, Thinky Dink, it's all too, in character' for him to post “filthy videos” for his favourite, Isolde, and when he gets no reaction, a YouTube ditty, for her pleasure, all the while oozing with creepy and demeaning 'endearments'.
I expect him to say any moment, “ but we were just playing a game, she likes it, I'm only kidding around... ”
uh, sure...
Wasn't Argentina that just decriminalised paedophelia, beating your wife, living off the avails, or something ????
Give it up, you're just a horny “keyboard puncher”
I'm still laughing at your humiliating defeat by Terence Hill, “Rumpole of Dunoon”
:-D
I didn't address anyone ...how did you know I was referring to you...?
Feb 17th, 2014 - 01:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Let's face it...you get really jealous of anyone talking to the female posters....you hover on the peripheral of the conversation...
With little snide remarks....like above...
As far as I can see Mr Think and Isolde have had a “thing” going for a very long time...
Sometimes it's insults and the next ....compliments. If she didn't like it she wouldn't reply.....
You are obviously jealous...
Which, on a forum......is VERY STRANGE and VERY CREEPY....
YOU ARE A CREEPY GUY ......PERIOD!!!
Yeah, sure, Think LOL!!
Feb 17th, 2014 - 01:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0I just finished showing you up for being a lying troll on the “RSF, Brazil is most dangerous for Reporters” thread, today.
From one humiliation to another, right??
Well, that's enough attention for you today.
Let me know when you want another slap down, you dysfunctional buffoon.
You'll have to go kick the dog for now.
...or do you 'spank the monkey'????
We're laughing at you.
....try and keep your jealousy under wraps...It's embarrassing
Feb 17th, 2014 - 01:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0...you belittle women by implying they are not capable of defending themselves.....
still laughing at you, little man
Feb 17th, 2014 - 02:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0:-D
@96 Think,
Feb 17th, 2014 - 09:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0l am not flirting with you m Think, nor am l teasing you.
Whats to tease? even if l wanted to(& l don't).
You called me a squatter & l turned it around on you because you ARE a squatter.
All you Argentines that live in Patagonia are squatters.
lf fact ALL you Argentines from anywhere in the country are squatters.
There was someone there before you, you just marched in & set up shop on someone else's land.
Ergo, you are ALL Squatters.
@103 Troy Tempest,
Thanks for your concern, Troy, but never fear, l can handle Think.
He is not as worldly or as smart, as he thinks he is.
l always get the better of him,
lf he is losing an argument, he just disappears for a few days(to lick his wounds).
As for being creepy……l'm sure that the Argentine Secret Service monitors these pages(l would, if l were them)& have dossiers on all of us.
Now that is creepy.
But then, maybe MI6 do it too.
104 lsolde
Feb 17th, 2014 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ohhhhhhh, yes you are...
*vomit
Feb 17th, 2014 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Try some ginger tea....
Feb 17th, 2014 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0xxx
Why? Does it cause memory loss?
Feb 17th, 2014 - 09:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If only lecherous old men could so easily be forgotten with ginger tea.
104 Isolde
Feb 17th, 2014 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Thanks for your concern, Troy, but never fear, l can handle Think.”
Ha ha, no doubt you can :-)
“Think/Voice” just wants attention.
His oily “charm” is bad enough, though, without his “filthy videos” LOL !!
Didn't I predict @99, what “Think/Voice” the misogynist stalker would say,
“I expect him to say any moment, “ but we were just playing a game, she likes it, I'm only kidding around... ”
and sure enough, here is
”Think/Voice @ 100
“...Sometimes it's insults and the next ....compliments. If she didn't like it she wouldn't reply..... ”
Oh, he's a textbook perv !
....there is only one creepy perv on here...
Feb 18th, 2014 - 12:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Look at what he asked me @101....
When does one guy ask another guy something like that.....
What a weird creepy perv....
Yes coz Think talking about Isolde flirting with him despite her denials and wishes to the contrary is so much creepier than Troy talking about choking the chicken.
Feb 18th, 2014 - 01:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Still boring A_Voice's perspective is now officially skewed. His conversion is almost complete. They always end up with blind support for Think.
Not at all...I might even support you if you were being ganged up on....
Feb 18th, 2014 - 01:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0BTW he was talking about my chicken....
Now that is very strange.....
(111) Anglolatino
Feb 18th, 2014 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You don't know much about women...., huhhhhhh?
111 Anglotino
Feb 18th, 2014 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They always end up with blind support for Think.
Tee, hee!!! Think's response at 113 proves it!!!
Your match, I do believe..........again!!!
111 Anglotino
Feb 18th, 2014 - 10:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh, gosh !!
Look closely at Thinks post at 113 !!
That ever so witty so & so has cleverly made fun of your name again too, Anglo-“Latino” !!!
*rolls eyes*
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