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Falklands resident and South Georgia Marine Officer awarded Polar Medals
Environmentalist, renowned sailor and Falklands resident Sally Poncet has joined an elite group of only eight women to have been awarded the prestigious Polar Medal this year. South Georgia Marine Officer Patrick Lurcock has also received the honor. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWTF is a “Polar medal” ?
Jan 17th, 2015 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A block of ice?
It seems to me that you, Klingdon, are a block of m----a!
Jan 17th, 2015 - 04:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1 It explains what it is in the article you spaz, but doubt you can even read and got your fat mother to write this for you, Bet you live in a slum in a tin shanty house and are to stupid to raise your standard of living
Jan 17th, 2015 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3 Listen up you toothless felcher.
Jan 17th, 2015 - 05:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am sure my house is much more desirable than the corrugated roof hut you are living in on the remote Islets. It looks like the rampant interbreeding is affecting you squatters more than people think.
The article doesn't explain what the medal looks like or is made of.
If you don't know what a felcher is, then Google it .
Hahaaha Klingon moved BACK to Argentina from New Zealand.
Jan 17th, 2015 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No wonder he thinks a medal would be a block of ice.
Argentinean education system!
I must admit I had never heard of the term but you seem to be cognisant with it.. Why would that be ? I presume it is a part of your everyday vocabulary.
Jan 17th, 2015 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would have thought that the description of the Polar Medal was explained in the text if you could be bothered reading it.
I decided to have a look at the Argentine system of decorations.
They are even more obscure.
Order of May ? There is an old English song which goes “here we go gathering NUTS in May”....anything to do with this ?
@5 And you interbred sheep molesters choose to live on that wind swept rock in the middle of no where.
Jan 17th, 2015 - 10:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is just an open air Alcatraz.
This is really forcing up facts. A medal awarded to a “Falkland resident”, not a “UK Citizen”? Indeed, she is Australian. Even violating Medal Award rules is admissible if making up reality is needed to show the impossible. This news is rubbish.
Jan 17th, 2015 - 11:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Sally Poncet, and her husband, Jerome, spend their time studying the bird and animal populations of the Antarctic Islands. The Poncets live on a sheep farm on Beaver Island, in the Falkland Islands, for six months of the year. During the remainder of the year, they take up residence on a yacht, Damien II, and voyage around the isolated island, South Georgia, located near the Antarctic. The Poncets have appeared as a feature in National Geographic and a BBC and National Geographic Explorer. Ms. Poncet, who was born in Triabunna, Tasmania in Australia, received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Tasmania.”
Must be the Argentine education system, but where in the above quote did it say that Sally Poncet WASN'T a UK citizen?
Jan 18th, 2015 - 02:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0The pettiness of the trolls is beyond belief! What idiots they are!
Jan 18th, 2015 - 08:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0@7
Jan 18th, 2015 - 09:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0If this is so, why are you all so disturbed it isn't yours?
8 Alejomartinez
Jan 18th, 2015 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ignorant fool. She was born in Australia, but she has Falkland Islands Status, so UK citizenship.
Thank you Monty69. That was EXACTLY what I needed you ignorant fool to say. If so, here vote or anyone in her status is INVALID in terms of the so-called referendum you made up. Unsuccessfully btw. No need for Uk to say if UK wants to remain UK. Same as Mrs Poncet, you are one of the two parties to the dispute. Like it or not. You can't force self determination and humiliate the poor peoples subjugated to your colonialism in Asia, Africa and Oceania. You are the colonialists, British or whatever you invent. Then, come to terms with reality and stop making use of a sacred principle the world defends against your (and Mrs Ponecet's) actions. Period
Jan 18th, 2015 - 12:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@13
Jan 18th, 2015 - 12:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can you provide an example anywhere of a poor people currently subjugated to British colonialism? I can give you an example of a people that Argentina wishes to Argentine colonialism if that helps.
13 Alejomartinez
Jan 18th, 2015 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is that supposed to make sense?
A British Overseas Territory isn't part of the UK. Falkland Islanders have British passports because we don't issue our own, because we aren't an independent country.
This has no bearing on the right to self determination, at all.
We have our own constitution that sets out clearly the conditions for any referendum to change our status. We can vote to become independent if we wish. Your opinion is not relevant. Who are you to comment on anyone's right or status?
Who is forcing anyone's self-determination? You're talking gibberish.
@13 Alejomartínez
Jan 18th, 2015 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why don't you do some research before you came out with your nonsensical interpretation of the Falklands/Malvinas situation? Your clearly brainwashed rhetoric is juvenile and proof that myths, fairy stories and lies prevail in your addled brain!
“No need for UK to say if UK wants to remain UK.”
Jan 18th, 2015 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes there is, because the United Nations recognises that voting is a form of self determination. And Argentina keeps saying that their opinions don't matter.
It isn't a secret that Falkland Islanders see themselves as part of the UK.
As per usual someone with an Argentinean education makes no sense.
Boy, these argies get worse with every blog.
Jan 18th, 2015 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@13 Alejomartínez
Jan 18th, 2015 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And, by the way, your English takes about 4/10. It is atrocious - even the English of paulcedron is better than your efforts.
(Y, a propósito, su inglés es muy soso 4/10. Es atrós - hasta el inglés de paulcedron(el mamarracho) es major que los esfuerzos suyos)
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