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Falklands soil and pebbles were received by the Pope from Argentine governor

Wednesday, March 2nd 2016 - 06:55 UTC
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Soil and pebbles from the Falkland Islands together with letters from Tierra del Fuego residents were received by Pope Francis during the recent visit of an Argentine delegation that included president Mauricio Macri, several ministers and three governors, one of them, Ms. Rosana Bertone from the most austral of Argentine provinces. Read full article

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  • Skip

    Pathetic.

    Gads the desperation over a national myth is cringeworthy.

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 07:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • stick up your junta

    What a cunning plan! nicking the Falklands “One Piece At A Time”

    One day I devised myself a plan
    That should be the envy of most any man
    I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
    Now, I never considered myself a thief
    Kelpers wouldn't miss just one little piece
    Especially if I strung it out over several years
    I got it one piece at a time
    And it didn't cost me a dime

    Sorry to the late Johnny Cash

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 07:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HughJuanCoeurs

    I hope the pebbles had “A gift from the Falklands” written on them.

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 07:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • sceptic64

    Closest they'll get to it I suppose.

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 08:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    It od course would not have occurred to dumbo Bertone nor the old dithery vaticans that a basic EU Phystosanitary Biosecurity Law has been broken by the importation of soil from a country outside the EU without certification etc!
    Pathetic is indeed the word!

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 09:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    Little by little Argentina is getting the FALKLANDS back, but I fear it will take millions of years before ALL the landmass is in Argentina. LOL

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 09:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brit Bob

    Do hope that El Papa knows about that usurpation and all of those UN resolutions. Of course he does.

    https://www.academia.edu/21721198/Falklands_1833_Usurpation_and_UN_Resolutions

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Martin Woodhead

    The malvinas in argentina is the same as fox hunting in the UK majority of people dont really care or think its important one way or the other.
    But the Minority its the MOST IMPORTANT THING EVAH!!!!!!!!!!!!.
    And wont ever shut up about it .

    Have you visted the place its cold windswept and the people are all british and a bit odd nice but odd. Its like the back of otterburn training area with a few penguins added and minefields there was a theory its doesnt exsist its one of the shetlands they just fly you round and round in a tristar for ages.

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 11:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    8 Martin Deadwoodhead

    So you know sweet FA about the English country people as well as 'foxhunting' then?

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    So this business of the argentines being a pack of thieves from first to last is true? Stealing turf and pebbles as well as the little tablets in the public toilets they think are throat lozenges. Someone in Stanley is probably missing some spoons as well.

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Falklands soil and pebbles

    What a bloody insult,

    how much more crawling can one do to a corrupt regime,

    what do these twats think he is going to do with these pebbles and soil,

    and how did these thieves get this soil and pebbles,
    why is not the Falkland's government issuing a warrant for their arrest,
    and demanding the thieving pope return the stolen goods,

    is it not a criminal offence to receive stolen goods,
    an arrest warrant should be issued again the pope,

    but will anyone , anywhere do anything,
    I think not,
    still, it was worth the moan.

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    This is the answer to the dispute then-negotiations can begin on how much soil the Islanders can send to Argentina to shut them up over the claim.

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Room101

    A Holy Cause?
    Pope Francis joins the Team.

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    The Vatican has a long history of receiving stolen goods from South America.

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 04:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Let us all PRAY that the Dope of an Argie Pope thinks the pebbles are suppositories.

    ;o)

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 05:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Ha ha.

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Lord Lucan

    Stone the Pope. He's welcome down here… .

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Martin Woodhead

    #9 and care less. there are less 200 packs of hounds in the uk it should not be taking up valuable parliamentary time.
    much like Argentina should be concentrating or making argentina a good place to live rather than trying to enforce its will on islands that don't belong to it and never will.

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 09:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • screenname

    I always find it amazing that Argentineans that post here seem to look upon the UK's constitutional monarchy with derision, and yet seem intent on sticking their tongues as far up the bottom as possible of that absolute monarch, the pope.

    Their fawning over him is so sickening that I'm surprised they have not tried to gift him child pornography.

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 11:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anbar

    “”“The Vatican has a long history of receiving stolen goods from South America.”“”

    Oh aint that THE truth! :-)

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 11:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Don Alberto

    Falklands soil and pebbles - that means theft of Falkland Islands governmental property.

    Issue an international arrest warrant on the Argentine governor as a thief and on the pope as a fence.

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 02:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • VoiceOver

    @ 10 Marti Llazo: “Someone in Stanley is probably missing some spoons as well.”

    - and they ought to count their fingers if they shook hands with an arg governor.

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 02:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    @22 “- and they ought to count their fingers if they shook hands with an arg governor.”

    Or at least immediately wash their hands with Betadine or similar. Heaven knows where those filthy thieving hands have been.

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 03:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • downunder

    “Soil and pebbles from the Falkland Islands....”

    I wonder how the Pope felt about receiving stolen property?

    God these Malvinas Muppets are so pathetic!

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 06:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • kelper 1

    Its pretty sad that they have to steal from a Country that is not theirs to give to the Pope....still as many have said before on above comments, the Pope is most likely used to receiving stolen goods..........

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 09:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Rufus

    “Soil and pebbles from the Falkland Islands”

    I'll just leave this here...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNHOTT3ZJ7U

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • brasherboot

    Soil and pebbles? And the pope can do ABSOLUTELY nothing

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    This pope guy, isn't he Argentine? Isn't that prima facie evidence of a congenital criminal nature?

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • screenname

    @28 Marti Llazo:

    He's ethnic Italian...like so many others found south of the River Plate.

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 08:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Has the argentine government lodged a claim on this soil and pebbles that is now in Italy, as argentine soil,

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 08:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HughJuanCoeurs

    Perhaps someone should send the Pope some Argentinean sh*t to go with their false claims.

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    @29 “He's ethnic Italian...like so many others found south of the River Plate.”

    Duh.

    ----------
    1. Argentines are Italians who speak Spanish [sort of] and think of themselves as French. (attributed to Octavio Paz)

    2. Argentines are Italians who speak Spanish [sort of] , expect North American salaries and want to live like Englishmen; like to give speeches like French communists but vote like the Sengalese; blather like leftists but live like the bourgeoisie; praise Canadian entrepreneurship but organise like drunken Bolivians; admire the orderliness of the Swiss but work like a Chinese fire-drill. ....

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • screenname

    LOL

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 11:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Hepatia

    The UK will return the Malvinas within 25 years.

    Mar 04th, 2016 - 03:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HughJuanCoeurs

    #34 Stop whining, grow up and go away. It ain't going to happen.

    Mar 04th, 2016 - 09:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • zathras

    34 Hepatia (#)

    Really !
    Nutters have been saying that for the last 5 years or so.

    Yet it is over 33 years since Argentina briefly controlled the Falkland Islands, against the will of the people living their peacefully.

    At what point will you realise the Falklands are not yours, never have been and never will be.

    Mar 04th, 2016 - 12:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • SebaSvtz

    That´s so clever !!!

    My dad traveled to Europe in the late 70s, spent some weeks in London, and brought back an British-made umbrella that he purchased, which has remained under our undisputed custody since then.

    By following malvinist´s logic ... I am entitled to a part of London !!!!

    Get ready, UK, I a taking this to court :o)

    Mar 04th, 2016 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    The stolen rocks will be returned to the Falklands within 25 years.

    Mar 04th, 2016 - 02:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Zaphod102

    Hepatia will have an involuntary bowel movement in the next 10 minutes.

    Did the Falklands soil and pebbles include any sheep sh1t?

    Mar 04th, 2016 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    34
    he only knows a few words,

    and neither is true.

    Mar 04th, 2016 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • La Patria

    I wouldn't be surprised if the pebbles and soil aren't really from the islands but are actually from Tierra del Fuego itself. How would the Pope know the difference?

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 04:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tim

    It is unlikely that either Bertone or any Argentine is aware that the Falklands are a mini tectonic plate that broke away from an area near Port Elizabeth in South Africa and geologically have nothing to do with Patagonia.

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 04:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Argentina territorial expansion knows no bounds.

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 10:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    Actually those items didn't come from the Falklands at all but instead from the sewer outfall near Puerto Madryn, and they are not “pebbles.”

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 01:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    It seems the RCCunts just cannot tell the truth, even when they KNEW what was going on:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/12181744/Cardinal-George-Pell-five-paedophile-priests-in-diocese-was-a-disastrous-coincidence.html

    I think it is time for the whole sorry lot of “The Holy Fathers” of this despicable so called Christian Faith to be castrated: they have proven they cannot control their urges.

    How many more young lives have got to be ruined for this bunch of pedophiles?

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    (5) Islander1
    You make a valid point but...
    Michelle from the Harbour Gift Shop made very clear that all necessary papers & permits were included in the 6.95£ price tag...

    Chuckle chuckle

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 08:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    @15 ChrisR

    “Let us all PRAY that the Dope of an Argie Pope thinks the pebbles are suppositories”

    He has to find his pleasures somehow now CFK doesn't visit every 5 minutes to 'light the candle.'

    Mar 06th, 2016 - 10:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • brasherboot

    Would the pope like some sheep poo too?

    Mar 07th, 2016 - 10:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    @48 It's said that the entire intellectual content of the vatican is largely sheep dags.

    Mar 07th, 2016 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 47 Pete Bog

    I think I could do better to 'deal' with his needs.

    Like sending him to see the chief sky fairy, no waiting needed.

    Mar 07th, 2016 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    @51 ChrisR
    He would enjoy that, “Saving sinners, just beginners, he'll help to get you there, when you die” (The Maninwhite, The Stranglers 1980).

    The withdrawal symptoms from CFK must test his 'faith' quite badly now.

    Mar 08th, 2016 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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